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EUBOLIA CERVINARIA. 



The Mallow Moth. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Georaetridse. 



Type of the Genus, Phalaena Chenopodiata Linn. 



EuBOLiA Goda., Curt. — Larentia Treit. — Geometra Linn., Hiib., 

 Haw. 



AntenncB inserted on the crown of the head close to the eyes, 

 rather short, setaceous, bipectinated in the males, each joint 

 producing a pair of shortish clavate pubescent rays, with a 

 bristle at the apex of each (1) : pubescent beneath, with a few 

 bristles in the females (2). 



Maxillce as long as the antennae, slender and spiral (3). 

 Labial palpi porrected horizontally, a little beyond the head, 

 the points meeting and forming a beak, densely clothed with 

 scales (4) ; triarticulate, basal joint the longest and stoutest, 

 curved at the base, 2nd a little shorter, much slenderer and 

 nearly linear {a). 

 Head small ; eyes rather large and globose (7, the profile). Thorax 

 small. Abdomen longish, linear, the apex obtuse and tufted in the 

 males, conical in the females. 'Wings forming a triangle in repose, 

 superior semifolliform ; inferior ovate-trig onate ; cilia moderate. 

 Legs long and slender : thighs, intermediate the longest : tibiae, an- 

 terior short, with an internal spine, intermediate slender and clavate, 

 with a pair of short strong spines at the apex ; hinder longer and 

 stouter, with a pair of unequal stoutish spurs at the apex, and a pair 

 below the middle longer and slenderer : tarsi 5 -jointed, basal joint 

 long : claws and pulvilli minute. (Sf, the hind leg). 

 Larvae loopers, naked, with 6 pectoral, 2 abdominal and 2 anal feet. 



Cervinaria Hub. — Curt. Guide, Gen. 907. 1. 



Silky ; reddish brown, superior wings with a small space at 

 the base and a narrowish fascia across the middle, a Uttle dilated 

 at the costa, dark brown, the edges of both waved and bordered 

 with a whitish line, posterior margin dark with a serrated white 

 line and a dark streak at the apex : inferior wings pale fuscous, 

 the lower portion lighter, the margin dark reddish brown with 

 an indistinct whitish crenated line. 



In the Author's and other Cabinets. 



MoNS. DupoNCHEL has included in his genus Eubolia many 

 of my Zerynthiae (fol. 296), which, however artificial our ar- 

 rangement of the Lepidoptera may be, are readily distinguished 

 by the longer rays of the masculine antenna?, and these are 

 not armed at the apex with a bristle as in Eubolia. C. pro- 

 ■pugnata also forms a part of his group, an insect which belongs 

 to a different section, owing to the simple antennae of the 

 males ; it is a true Cidaria. Great confusion has also been 



