485 



with l)r()\vii, ])ul witli (lie large triangular costo-apical ii\nA present, thougli 

 the speeimen (from Clemens's collection) is too imperfect to l)c fartiier charac- 

 terized) has umisually-angulatcd wings, the hind wing being produced into a 

 decided tail. 



Length of body, 9, 0.55; of fore wing, 9, 0.70; expanse of wings, 1.45 

 inches. 



West Farms, N. Y. (J. Angus) ; Middle States (Ent. Soc.) ; Kansas 

 (Snow). 



EPIONE Duponchel. 



Euchlcena Hiibii. (in part), 29;!, 1818. 



Ennomos Treits. (iu part), Schiii. Eur., vi (i), 'i, 1827. 



Epionc Dup. (in part), Lep. Franco, vii (iv), 211, 1829. 



JSiadycpelcs Steph. (in part), Noinencl. Br. Ins., 44, 1829. 



Ennomos Boisil., Gtu. Inil., 182, 1840. 



Epionc Uup., Cat., 222, 1844. 



H.-Sch., Schm. Eiir., iii, 48, 1847. 



Lederer, Verb. Bot. Zool. Ges. Wien, 176, 1853. 



Guen., Plial.,i,95,1857. 



Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., sx, 117, 1860. 



Larva. — "Caterpillars ramiform, but without protuberances, with the 

 4th ring enlarged ; head small and flattened ; living exposed on trees. 

 Chrysalides moniliform, reddish brown, very lively, contained in a network 

 of silk between leaves.'' — (Guen^e.) 



Epione mollicularia Zeller. Plate 11, fig. 57. 



Epionc mollicularia Zeller ! ! !, Verb. Bot. Zool. Ges. Wien, 481, 1872. 



2 S. — Body deep yellow; head and palpi dull piidvisii. Fore wings 

 pinkish-brown on the basal third, limited by the inner line, wliicli is much 

 curved outward, but somewhat angular on the subcostal vein. The middle 

 of the wing is of a clear deep yellow, with no markings except the faint 

 discal dot. The extradiscal dark line, which bounds the yellow portion of the 

 wing, is oblique, slightly sinuous, and nearly parallel witii the outer edge of 

 the wing. Beyond this line the wang is dull pink, concolorous with the basal 

 third of the wing. The fringe on both wings is dark pink, concolorous with 

 the lines. Hind wrings of the same clear deep yellow as the middle of the 

 fore wings, with a distinct pink discal dot. The dark pink extradiscal line 

 is slightly curved outward opposite the discal dot, and beyond tiiis the wings 

 are i)ink. Bencalh much as al)i)ve, 1)m( the lines Jire darker lunl rather 



