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Ephyra Dup., I-ep. Frame, viii (iv), 108, 1829; (v), 20, 1830. 



Boiud., Gen. hid., 220, 1840. 



II. -s.-li.. Sohm. Km., iii. 1847. 

 Ephyra Steph., Cat. Ur. Lop.. 178, 1850. 

 Zonoaoma Lederer, Verb. Bot. Zool. Gea. Wien, 194, 1853 

 Ephyra Gnen., Pbal., i, 405, 1857. 



Walk , Lep. II, it. Br. Mub., xxii, 624, 18G1. 



Head rather broad in front ; the front being sometimes shorter than 

 broad. Palpi long, acute, extending more than usual in front; third joint 

 long, acute. Antennas slightly peciinated on the basal two-thirds. Fore 

 wings much as in Acidalia, but scarcely subfalcate ; the costa straight; apex 

 acutely rectangular ; outer edge with an almost imperceptible angle. Hind 

 wings short, the outer edge not very convex, slightly bent. Venation much 

 as in Aciduliti, the subcostal cell and venules the same, except that the three 

 first subcostal venules are of the same length, the first arising remotely from 

 the subcostal cell. Abdomen long and slender. Hind legs long and slender; 

 tarsi nearly as long as the tibiae. The species are usually whitish or reddish- 

 brown, with large discal ringlets. 



This genus differs chiefly from Acidalia in the antennas being always 

 pectinated, in the much longer palpi, and the slightly different venation. 

 So closely allied is it to Acidalia that I see no reason for separating it, as 

 Guene'e does, from the AcidaUnce as the type of a separate "family". It has 

 no affinities with the Geometrince beyond the wide front and long palpi. 



Larva and pupa — "Caterpillars elongated, cylindrical, without tubercles; 

 head as broad as the prothoracic ring, flattened in front, and a little bifid at 

 the summit ; living exposed on trees and holding the body in repose folded 

 like a swan's neck. Chrysalids truncated anteriorly, regularly conical poste- 

 riorly, suspended in the air by an anal thread and attached by a transverse 

 line." — Guene'e. 



Hiibner, however advanced in his views of genera, evidently had little 



better ideas of the true generic relations of this group of species than of the 



genus Acidalia Lederer rejects Ephyra because he says that it has been 



pre-occupied as a genus of Acalephai ; but the name Ephyra of Pe*ron and 



Lesson (1809), was conferred on an early phase of Aurelia, and therefore 



may be retained. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



White, with four lines on tbo front wings K. pendulinaria. 



Light tawny-brown ; two rows of dark dots E. myrtaria. 



