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EYPREPIA RUSSULA. 



Clouded Buff Moth. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Arctiadae Leach. 



Type of the Genus, Bombyx Caja Linn. 



Etprepia OcJi., Curt. — Chelonia Goda. — Axctm Schr.,Lat. — BombyxF«5. 

 Phalsena Linn. 



Antennce inserted on each side of the crown, close to the eyes, bipec- 

 tinated to the apex in the males (1), the rays, short, close and pubes- 

 cent, with a bristle at the apex (la); somewhat serrated in the 

 females (2), each tooth furnished with a bristle (2 a). 

 Maxillce short, about as long as the head ; the filaments remote broad 

 and flat. 



Labial palpi slightly drooping and projecting, densely clothed, with 

 long hairs beneath (4) ; triarticulate, basal joint the stoutest, 2nd as 

 long, a little slenderer, 3rd shorter, ovate- conic (4 a). 

 Head small and hairy : eyes globose. Thorax thick and haii'y. Abdomen 

 stout, especially in the female. Wings slightly defexed, and forming a 

 triangle in repose, superior ovate-trigonate ; inferior siibovate : cilia all 

 short and even. Legs short and stout : tibiae, anterior short with an in- 

 tei'nal compressed spine ; the others short and clavate, with a pair of short 

 stout spurs at the apex, hinder with a pair also above the apex : tarsi 5- 

 jointed, basal Joint the longest : claws with an internal tooth : pulvilli 

 small. 

 Larvae hairy, with 6 pectoral, 8 abdominal and 2 anal feet. Pupae enclosed 

 in a silky cocoon. 



iRussuLA Linn. — Curt. Guide, Gen. 820. 3. 



; Male ochreous-yellow : superior wings with the costa towards the 

 apex, the interior margin, cilia, and a sublunate spot on the disc 

 rosy red, the latter fuscous below ; interior margin with a fuscous 

 edge ; abdomen and inferior wings yellowish- white, a broad fimbria 

 and an ear- shaped spot on the disc brown; cilia rosy red. Female 

 smaller than the male, ochreous-orange, superior wings with a brown 

 sublunate spot on the disc ; costa, interior margin, cilia and nervures 

 rosy-red ; inferior wings with a broad circle on the disc, cilia and 

 sometimes a narrow margin ochreous, leaving the base, abdominal 

 margin, a fimbria and an ear-shaped spot in the disc black ; abdo- 

 men banded with black. 



Li the Author's and other Cabinets. 



OcHSENHETMERhas Included Arctia, Callimorpha, and Lithosia of 

 Latreille, in his genus Eijprcpia^ but I have retained three species only 

 ot" the former under liis name, viz. E.lhissula, Caja and Fillica, all 

 of which ditler so much in the form of the palpi that ihev evidently 



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