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LASIOCAMPINA 



[dkevana 



costa broadly suffused with orange -yellow ; first and second 

 lines yellowish. 



S. England to Derby, Cumberland, not common ; C. and S. 

 Europe, Asia Minor; 5, 6, 8. Larva brownish - ochreous ; 2-4, 

 12, 13, brown -suffused ; a dark brown lateral stripe, waved 

 upwards on 6 : on oak ; 6, 7, 9. 



3. D. cultraria, F. {unguicula, Hb.) 22-30 mm. Forewings 

 brownish-orange ; median band more brownish, edges darker, 

 anterior curved, posterior bent or abruptly curved near costa ; 

 a dark fuscous discal dot ; a darker brown terminal streak. 

 Hindwings orange ; median band brownish-tinged, edges darker, 

 obsolete towards costa ; indistinct brownish subterminal and 

 terminal streaks. 



S. England to Hereford and Norfolk, common ; C. Europe, 

 Asia Minor ; 5, 8. Larva ochreous-brown, marked with darker 

 reddish-brown; dorsal line darker; a whitish lateral line, suf- 

 fusedly edged beneath with dark brown, waved so as almost to 

 meet dorsally on 6 and 10 : on beech ; 6, 7, 9. 



2. ENDROMIDIDAE. 



Head densely rough-haired. Ocelli present. Eyes glabrous. 

 Tongue rudimentary. Antennae 

 under ^, in $ bipectinated to 

 apex. Labial palpi rather short, 

 densely hairy. Thorax densely 

 hairy above and beneath. Ab- 

 domen densely hairy. Femora and 

 tibiae densely hairy, posterior tibiae 

 without middle -spurs, end -spurs 

 very short. Forewings : lb simple, 



4 and 5 connate from lower angle, 



6 from near 9, 7 and 8 out of 10. 

 Hindwings without frenulum, 4 and 



5 connate from lower angle, 6 and 



7 connate, 8 connected by bar Avith 

 cell near base. 



Only a single species is known 

 in tliis family ; it appears to stand 

 remote from anything else, and must be a remnant of an 

 otherwise extinct branch. The imago is large, with rather 

 stout body, and rather elongate-triangular foi'ewings ; it flics 

 by day. 



Xeuration of Endromis versicohra. 



