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Euplocia Ilubiicr. 



Pliahwna Bumhyx, Cramer, Pap. Ex. III. p. 175 (1782). 



Etqiliina Hiibner, Vei-:. hcl: Schmetl. p. 172 (181C) : I5utl., Tr. Ent. Son. Lnnil. p. 327 (1875); 

 Snell., njihrlir. ,: Ent. XXXI. p. 118 (1888) ; Kirliy, Ccl. Lpji. Met. I. p. 390 (1891) ; Hamps., 

 Mollis of liulia I. ]). 495 (1892) ; Swinh., C<if. Lrp. 11,1. O.rf. I. p. 83 (1S92). 



rryiLsa. Group 3. Euphu-hi, Walker, Lfp. Hct. B. M. II. p. 447 (1854). 



Ayaiiah, Snellen, Tijils,-lii: r. Eiil. XXII. p. 77 (187'.t). 



As explained by Snellen, I.e. XXXI. p. 118 (1888;, tliis genu.s {.■^ distinguislied 

 in the neuration by veins 6 and 7 of the forewing being stalked together, by veins 

 4 and 5 of fore- and hindwing coming from a point, and by the very narrow areole. 



The antennae of the cJ rather resemble those of Neochera inops (Wlk.) and 

 Asota carlcae (F.). The terminal joint is a little longer than the preceding ones; 

 these are scarcely a fifth longer than (dorso-ventrallyj broad ; from the tenth joint 

 they become gradually broader than long, and are in the middle of the antennae 

 as broad as in Neochera tmtrmorea Wlk. The joints are compressed, without the 

 lateral impression found in most species of Asota, clothed with short hairs, which 

 are about a third the length of the middle joints ; the ventral and subdorsal bristles 

 are a little thicker than in Asota carlcae (F.), repre.sented on PL IV. fig. 5. 



The antennae of the ? are slenderer, and the apical joints therefore are 

 relatively longer. 



The genital armature of the 6 ditl'ers remarkalily from that of tlie other 

 Aganaidae. Tlie claspers (PI. 1\. fig. 27) are broad, and are ventrally before the apex 

 produced into a sharp triangular tooth : their inside is very thickly clothed \vith 

 elongate hairlike scales. The barpe consists of two almost fingerlike pieces : the 

 exterior one, situate along the clasper, is the longest ; it is .strongly chitinous, and 

 in its apical half somewhat curved away from tlie clasper towards the longitudinal 

 axe of the body ; the inner and more dorsal piece is less chitinous, rovmded at the 

 tip, and is from the middle, when viewed from the side, curved upwards. 



The cavit}' on the underside of the forewing near the abdominal margin is rather 

 deep and basally sharply limited ; the raised fold bordering it in front is very narrow, 

 and hears al)out five or six enlarged yellowish scales, one behind the other, which have 

 the breadth of the fold, are more chitinised than ordinary scales, and occupy only 

 the second fourth of the fold, while the basal fourth is clothed with smaller scales, 

 of which two or three lie beside one another, and of which the apices are rounded 

 (PI. IV. fig. 38) ; the apical half of the fold is covered with narrow, elongate, rather 

 acute scales, which are of the pale brown colour of the wing. 



The corresponding portion of the stridulating apparatus on the hindwing is a 

 patch of thick .scales which has the same i)Osition as in Xeocheni lib., but is less 

 defined, and the scales composing it are more elongate, being partly almo.st tongue- 

 shaped. Tlie patch is less conspicuous than in Xcochern, since its greater posterior 

 portion has the colour of the rest of the wing, and the smaller anterior portion is only 

 slightly, though distinctly, yellowish. 



Neuration; llanipson's statement. I.e., that Enplocia is devoid of an areole, is, 

 I think, erroneous. Snellen, I.e. p. 115, mentioned already the presence of an areole 

 in Euplocia. and I find that in all our specimens of Euplocia veins 10 and 8 are 

 connected by a liar, or, which will perhaps be more correct to say, veins 8 and 9 

 are anastomosed together to form an areole — vvhicli version is the correct one can, 

 of course, only be decided by examination of the growing wing in the chrysalis; 



