LITHOSIID.t:.— EULEPIA. 91 



and the imago appears towards the end of June and beginning of July: the 

 pupa is brown and acute ; it is enclosed in a stout web, composed of silk and 

 hairs. 



Not very abundant, but found in several places in the metro- 

 politan district ; especially near Darenth-wood ; and not very un- 

 comnion in a woody lane near Ripley, where I obtained several 

 specimens during the two last seasons. I liave also taken it at 

 Hertford, Highgate and Colney Hatch woods, &c. " York," — 

 W. C. Hezoitson, Esq. " CoXe^hiW'—Rev. W. T. Bree. 



Genus LXXXI. — Eulepia, Curtis. 



Falpi very short, bent upwards, slightly clothed with scales, obscurely triarticulate, 

 basal joint as long as the other two, incurved; the other joints equal in length, 

 rather more slender than the basal, the terminal one ovate-conic: maxillw 

 scarcely longer than the head. Antenna' bipectinated in the males, simple in 

 the females, each joint in the latter sex bearing two short setae : head small, 

 squamous: ii)/«^5 oblong, convoluted: /eg-j moderate, posterior with two pair 

 of spurs. Larva slightly hairy. Pupa obtuse, foUiculated. 



This genus was separated by me from the Eyprepise of Ochsen- 

 heimer, about twelve years ago ; the propriety of which is manifest 

 by its characters having been since published by the name which is 

 here retained. It differs principally from Deiopeia by having the 

 maxillse scarcely larger than the head, the two apical joints of the 

 palpi of equal length, and the antennae bipectinated in the males: 

 from the preceding genus by the form of its wings; and from 

 Lithosia by its three-jointed palpi. 



Sp. 1. grammica. Plate 17. f. 3. — Alls luteis ; anticis Jlavis nigro-striatis, 



posticis fascid ierminali lunuMque nigris. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 4 — 6hn.) 

 Ph. Bo. grammica. Linne. — Eu. grammica. Steph. Catal. No. 6047. 



Antenns luteous, with black radii : head black : thorax luteous, with three black 

 streaks : abdomen orange yellow, with five rows of black dots : anterior wings 

 pale luteous, longitudinally streaked with black, with a large spot of a 

 darker hue, behind the middle, near the costa, and a dusky streak between it 

 and the hinder margin, which last is bordered with black, and bears a bright 

 luteous fringe : posterior wings deep luteous, with the margins black, two 

 radiating streaks of a paler hue at the base towards the inner margin, and a 

 deep black lunule in the middle; fringe luteous. Female similar, but rather 

 brighter in colour. Like the following insect, this varies much. Caterpillar 

 brown, with a luteous streak on the back, having a white longitudinal line, 

 and a narrow longitudinal yeUow line on each side above the legs, which are 



