447. 



EPHYRA PICTARIA. 



The Kent Mocha or Grey Carpel. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Phalagnidae. 



Type of the Genus, Geometra punctaria Linn. 



Ephyra Godn, Curt. — Cyclopliora & Cleora Steph. — Cabera Treit. — 

 Geometra Linn., Haw. 



Antennae inserted on the crown of the head, short, bipectinated 

 in the males, the rays pubescent, a considerable portion of the 

 apex simple and only pubescent beneath (1); without rays in 

 the female (7?). 



Maailla: spiral and slender, considerably shorter than the an- 

 tennse (3). 



Labial Palpi slender, porrected obliquely and sparingly clothed 

 with scales (4); trijirticulate, basal joint a little the longest and 

 stoutest, curved, 2nd neaily as long and stout, 3rd shorter and 

 slender (4 a). 

 Sexe?, alike in size. Hend small : eyes globose. Thonix small. Ab- 

 domen short and slender, obtuse in the males. Wings spread when 

 at rest j superior elongate-trigonate, apex slightly falcated ; inferior 

 triangular but rounded. Legs slender : tibiee, anterior short, with 

 an internal spine ; posterior long slender and terminated by a pair of 

 short obtuse spurs in the mole ((5*8); slightly inflated in the female, 

 the apical spurs longer and unequal, with another pair a little above 

 them (8 9) : tarsi o-jointed. 

 Caterpillars loopers, attenuated towards the head, with 6 pectoral, 



2 abdominal, and 2 anal feet. — Fues. 

 Pupse either attached by the tail and the middle (Hiib.); or inclosed in 

 a thin web. — Fues. 



PicTARiA Thunb. ? — Curt. Guide, Gen. 910. 9. 



Female, grey with a slight reddish tint, freckled and glossy ; 

 the tufts down the back of the abdomen white : superior wings 

 slightly scabrous, with an indistinct dark line before and another 

 beyond the middle, waved and crenated, forming a fascia consi- 

 derably broader at the costa than below, with a spot of the same 

 tint near the disc, on the posterior margin is a line of undefined 

 pale spots on each of which is a black dot ; inferior wings dirty 

 white, the abdominal and posterior margins freckled with brown 

 and tinted with cinereous, a crenated line across the middle, 

 darkest on the anal margin and a line of dark brown spots on 

 the external margin : cilia cinereous, freckled with brown. 



In the Author s Cabinet. 



This pretty genus varies from all the family I have hitherto 

 illustrated in having a long terminal joint to the palpi ; and no 



