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Ephjjra Dup., Lep. France, viii (iv), 108, 1829; (v), 20, 1830. 



Boisd., Geu. Ind., 220, 1840. 



H.-Sch., Schiii. Eui-., iii, 1847. 

 liphi/ra St.-ph., Cat. Br. Lep., 178, 1850. 

 Zonosoma Lederer, Verb. Bot. Zool. Ges. Wieu, 194, 1853 

 Ephyra Giieu., Pbal., i, 40.-.. 1857. 



Walk , Lep. Hit. Br. Mus., xxii, 624, 1861. 



Head rather broad in iroiit ; the front being sometimes shorter than 

 broad. Palpi long, acute, extending more tlian usual in front ; third joint 

 long, acute. Antennae sliglitly pectinated on the basal two-thirds. Fore 

 wings much as in Acidalia, but scarcely subfalcate ; the costa straight; apex 

 acutely rectangular ; outer edge with an almost imperceptible angle. Hind 

 wings short, the outer edge not very convex, slightly bent. Venation much 

 as in Acidalia^ the subcostal cell and venules the same, except that the three 

 first subcostal venules are of the same length, the first arising remotely from 

 the subcostal cell. Abdomen long and slender. Hind legs long and slender; 

 tarsi nearly as long as the tibiae. The species are usually whitish or reddish- 

 brown, with large discal ringlets. 



This genus differs chiefly from Acidalia in the antennae being always 

 pectinated, in the much longer palpi, and the slightly different venation. 

 So closely allied is it to Acidalia that I see no reason for separating it, as 

 Guen^e does, from the AcidalincB as the type of a separate " family ". It has 

 no affinities with the GeomcfrincE beyond the wide front and long palj)i. 



Larva and pupa — "Caterpillars elongated, cylindrical, without tubercles; 

 head as broad as the prothoracic ring, flattened in front, and a little bifid at 

 the summit ; hving exposed on trees and holding the body in repose folded 

 like a swan's neck. Chrysalids truncated anteriorly, regularly conical poste- 

 riorly, suspended in the air by an anal thread and attached by a transverse 

 line." — Guenee. 



Hiibner, however advanced in his views of genera, evidently had little 

 better ideas of the true generic relations of this group of species than of the 

 genus Acidalia Lederer rejects Ephyra because he says that it has been 

 pre-occupied as a g(;nus of Acalephoi ; but the name Ephyra of P^ron and 

 Lesson (18(9), was conferred on an early phase of Atirelia, and therefore 



may be retained. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



White, with four liii«8 on (he front wing.s E. pendulinaria. 



lA'^ht tawny-brown ; two rown of dark dots E. myrtaria. 



