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4. (? witli breast and pleurae largely white ; $ with the face broadly bordered 

 with white along the eyes, and the apes* of the saw-sheath pilose or 

 pibeseent. (Antennae, according to Thomson [but see above], 9 14-articulate, 

 S 1 5-articulate) microcephala, Klug. 



— 9 with breast and pleurae black ; ? , generally at least, with the sides of the 



face black, apex of saw-sheath " neai-ly glabrous" (Thorns.). Also, according 

 to Thomson, the antennae in both sexes are shorter and have fewer joints 

 (9 10 — 12, S 11—12) vagans, Fall. 



Eeiocampoidks, Knw. 



The species forming this genus have been separated by Konow 

 from Eriocampa, Htg., and removed to the Roplocampides, because of 

 the situation of their " discoidal " (= basal) nerve in the fore-wing. 

 They are all very similar in general appearance — shining black insects, 

 with short broad bodies, and heavy-looking antennae, which are much 

 thicker in the middle than at the apices, and not, as in Phyllotoma 

 and HopJocampa, thin and filiform throughout. 



All my own specimens of Eriocampoides (and, I believe, all that 

 have reached me from other collectors) belong to one or other of the 

 four species tabulated below. I subjoin to the Table some remarks 

 as to the other species recorded as British in the Monograph, but, at 

 present, more or less enigmatical to me for various reasons. 



SYNOPTIC TABLE OF BRITISH ERIOCAMPOIDES spp. 



1. Clypeus truncate ; wings evenly (slightly) infuscated throughout; humeral area 



in hind-wing appendiculute — i.e., the humerus and brachius meet long before 

 the areal nerve enters the latter sethiops, F. (^ rosae, C). 



— Clypeus excised ; wings unequally infuscated ; humeral area in hind-wing not 



append iculate, but receiving the areal nerve into itself at (or a little before) 

 its apex 2. 



2. Hind tibiae black, not ringed with white at the base ; wings clear at base and 



apex, slightly clouded in the middle limacina, Retz. 



— Hind tibiae broadly ringed with white at the base 3. 



3. Wings with only a fuscous streak under the stigma, clear at base and apex. The 



cJ may be known at once by having hind-wings with " continuous external 

 neuration." (See Ent. Mo. Mag., 1903, p. 53) varipes, Kl. 



— Wings with dusky bases, their apices only clear ; ^ with neuration of hind- wing 



normal anntdipes, Kl. 



Further remarks as to British Eriocampoihs spp. — Of the three 

 remaining species described by Mr. Cameron under Eriocampa two, 

 viz.. cinxia, Klug, and testaceipes, C, are referred by Konow to the 

 n. g. Eriocampoides. 



* This character seems to be reliable, but it needs a good lens and a good light to see it 

 satisfactorily. 



