HEriALUS. 149 



Hepiolus, Uliger. Mag. Insekt. i., p. 138 (1802) ; Ochsenheimer, 



Schmett. Eur. iii., p. 103 (18 10) 

 Epialus^ Lederer, Verb. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien. ii., p. 73 



(185=.) 



Size small or moderate ; antennas short ; wings considerably 

 longer than broad ; hind-wings often as long as the fore-wings, 

 but usually narrower ; abdomen moderately stout, but not 

 very long ; flight crepuscular ; larvae feeding at or in the 

 roots of low plants. In the male, the hind tibi^ are strongly 

 tufted, and in some species the hind tarsi are absent in the 

 male. 



Hcpialus, though now restricted to the most typical species 

 of the Hepialidce, still includes a considerable number of 

 species, chiefly European, Asiatic, and North American. 



THE GHOST MOTH. HEPIALUS HUMULI. 



Nodua Jnamili^ Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i., p. 50S, no. 62 

 (1758); id. Faun. Suec, p. 305 (1761); Sulzer, Gesch. 

 Ins. Taf. 22, fig. I (1776); Esper, Schmett. iv. (i), p. 20, 

 Taf. 80, figs. 1-4(1786). 



Bovibyx humuli, Hiibner, Eur., Schmett. iii., figs. 263, 264 



(1804?) 



Hepiolus hiunu/i, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iii., p. 104 

 (1810). 



Hi'pialus humiili, Godart, Lepid. France, iv., p. 30, pi. i., figs. 

 1, 2 (1822); Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii., p. 6 

 (1828); Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Molhs, p. 115, pi. 26, 

 figs. 4 a, b (1880); Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Lepid. ii., 

 }). 131, pi. 30, fig. 3 (1887); Barrett, Le])id. Brit. Isl. 

 ii., p. 165, pi. 63(1894.) 



