io6 Lloyd's natural history. 



The larva is short, smooth, cylindrical, with a large head. 

 It feeds on trees. 



Pupa short, obtuse, subterranean. 



The Eurhipidm are a small family, though widely dis- 

 tributed. The only European species does not extend to 

 England. 



EUTELIA (?) RUFATRIX. 

 [Plate CXXIX., Fig. 3.) 

 Penicillaria (?) rufatrix, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 

 XV. p. 1775 (1858). 



This species inhabits Jamaica. 



" Red, mostly white beneath. Antennas stout, simple. 

 Tarsi with white bands. Fore wings with a few curved white 

 lines, with an oblique white band, which is widened towards 

 the interior border, with a sub-costal black streak, and a 

 black spot on the exterior border near the tip, which is 

 occupied by a testaceous white-bordered spot, and with a 

 black dot near the base of the interior border ; hind part of 

 the exterior border very oblique. Hind-wings white, with 

 broad red borders, which contain a short white line near the 

 interior angle ; interior border marked with black towards its 

 tip. Length of the body, 5 lines ; of the wings, i 2 lines " 

 ( Walker). 



This Moth stands in the British Museum under Etifelia, but 

 differs from the type of that genus in its much more angu- 

 lated fore-wings. A new genus should probably be formed for 

 its reception. 



GENUS VARNIA. 



Varnia, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. vii. p. 69 (1S63); 



Moore, Lepid. Ceylon, iii. p. 66 (1S84). 

 Dysodia, Hampson (nee Clemens), Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, i. 



p. 368 (1892). 



