BREPHOS. 195 



The pupa is shining greyish-green. 



London coal-cellars are perhaps the most likely localities to 

 search for this rarity. 



FAMILY BREPHID^. 



Larva. — Long, slender, with sixteen legs, but the first two 

 pairs short and unfit for use ; feeding on trees. 



Pupa. — Enclosed in a slight cocoon, among moss or bark. 



Imago. — Without ocelli ; antennae dentated and pubescent, 

 or ciliated ; palpi replaced by a tuft of hairs ; proboscis short. 

 Body moderately stout, downy, with the thorax short, and the 

 abdomen linear in the male, and thick and obtuse in the female. 

 Legs slender, tufted, with rudimentary spurs. Fore-wings broad, 

 triangular, thickly and coarsely scaled, with an appendiculate 

 cell, and the sub-marginal nervure forked at the base ; hind- 

 wings brightly coloured, provided with a frenulum, and the 

 costal nervure inflated, throwing off, and running parallel with 

 the sub-costal for some distance, the latter only bifurcating near 

 the outer angle ; cell closed ; lower discoidal nervule running 

 half-way between the upper median nervule, and the upper 

 discoidal nervule ; two sub-marginal nervures present. Guenee 

 makes this family, under the name oi FhalcetioidcB, the fifth sub- 

 family of his Jilinores, but many later writers have regarded it 

 as an independent family, which should be separated both from 

 the Nodi/a, and from the Geo^netrce. 



GENUS BREPHOS. 

 Hefnigeometra, Haworth, Lepid. Brit. p. 267 (1809). Nee. sect, 



typ. 

 Brephos, Hiibner. Tentamen, p. 2 (18 10); Ochsenheimer, 

 Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 96 (1S16); Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. 

 v. (3), p. 378 (1826); Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lepid. Noct. ii. 

 p. 264 (1852). 

 Archiearis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 280 (1822?). 



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