2 68 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Genus 3. EUCLIDIA. 



Antennae simple, faintly ciliated ; palpi short, eyes naked ; 

 with short lashes at the back ; head small, depressed ; thorax 

 and abdomen narrow, smooth, not crested ; fore wings short 

 and very broad ; hind wings broad, the cross-bar slender and 

 placed unusually near to the base ; vein 5 consequently long, 

 joined close to vein 4, produced like the rest at the hind 

 margin. 



Larvae furnished with twelve legs, elongated, smooth, in 

 repose coiling the anterior segments ; on low plants. 



Pup.e in cocoons among moss. 



We have but two species — readily distinguished. 



A. Fore wings pale grey, marbled with grey-brown, and 



with white lines E. mi. 



A 2 . Fore wings hoary purplish-brown with chocolate 



bands E. glyphica. 



1. E. glyphica, L.— Expanse 1 to 1^ inch. Body not 

 stout, rather short ; fore wings short, very broad, hoary 

 golden-brown, with velvety-chocolate transverse stripes and 

 a similar spot before the apex. Hind wings orange-yellow, 

 clouded with black-brown. 



Antennas of the male simple, slender, minutely ciliated, 

 black-brown ; palpi small, nearly erect, slender, dark brown 

 dusted with ashy scales, apical joint minute, pointed ; eyes 

 rather small, naked, golden-brown ; head depressed, chocolate- 

 brown ; thorax narrow but not slender, fluffy with long scales, 

 dull chocolate ; fascicles obscure, pale golden-brown ; abdomen 

 dull black, slightly dusted with long paler scales ; lateral 

 tufts hardly perceptible ; anal tuft rather long, ashy white, 

 partially black above. Fore wings broad, squared, costa very 

 faintly arched, more so at the base and apex, which last is 

 very bluutly angulated ; hind margin below it straight and 



