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Evpithccia Boisd., Gen. Iud., 208, 1840. 



H.-Sch., Sohm. Eur., iii, 112, 1847. 

 Steph., List Lep. Br. Mus., 200, 1850. 

 Lederer, Verb. B. Z. Ges. Win,, 554, 1853. 

 Guen., Pbal., ii, 298, 1857. 

 Walk., Lep. Het. Br. Mas., sxiv, 1210, 1862 



Head with a short tuft of scales projecting between (lie palpi. Male 

 antenna 1 strongly ciliated. Palpi long, porrect, extending far beyond the 

 head, sometimes by a distance greater than the length of the head itself; the 

 miter half of the second joint projecting beyond the front; third joint long 

 and slender, half as long as the second joint; the palpus is either rather 

 slender or stout and bushy, the third joint slender and pointed. Fore wings 

 very long and narrow; the costa arched toward the apex, which is produced, 

 subacute, usually more rounded than in Petrophora; outer edge very oblique. 

 Hind wings small, short, the apex much produced, the inner edge much 

 shorter than the o\Aev edge, which is rather full. Venation: a single sub- 

 costal cell; the two discal venules together form a remarkably straight line, the 

 posterior not being oblique, in this respect differing from all the other genera 

 of the subfamily. The second subcostal venule co-originates with the fifth. 

 Hind legs as usual. Abdomen rather slender, usually slightly crested dorsally 

 and laterally. Coloration: gray, with numerous transverse wavy lines usually 

 present on the hind wings; prominent discal dots, with conspicuous costal 

 spots, and usually a black band at the base, of the abdomen. 



This extensive genus may be readily determined by the small size oi 

 the species, the long narrow fore wings, and by the short hind wings, which 

 are much elongated laterally toward the apex, and by the inner edge of the 

 small hind wings being much shorter than the full convex outer edge. 



The different species vary much in form, and considerably in markings. 

 C. subapicata has such long wings and unusual style of coloration that I mis- 

 took it for a Chesias, which it somewhat resembles. 



Larva "more or less short; raide ; keeled on the side, often marked 

 \vith dorsal chevrons, with a small and rounded head ; living on trees or low 

 plants". 



Pupa " slender, conical, pointed." — Guenee. 



Though Hiibncr's genera have been usually well indicated, in the present 

 genus he entirely tailed to establish a natural group, and his names should 

 accordingly tall into the rank of synonyms. 



