BREPHIDES. y-1 



Family 7. BREPHIDES. 



Antennas of the males pectinated, or toothed like a saw ; 

 palpi small, but covered thickly with bristles projecting for- 

 wards ; ocelli absent ; eyes naked ; body slender, bristly ; 

 legs also hairy, the femora shorter than the tibias ; fore wings 

 oblong, very blunt behind, and the costa nearly straight ; 

 hind wings almost equally long, narrow, and scarcely folded 

 when at rest. 



Larvae half-loopers, the first two pairs of ventral prolegs 

 being short and almost useless. 



PuPiE long and very cylindrical. 



This family seems to contain but a single genus, and is 

 somewhat closely allied to the Geometrin". 



Genus 1. BREPHOS. 



Antennas pectinated or notched, not ciliated ; eyes naked, 

 without lashes, but much hidden by the thick mass of erect 

 hairs which covers the palpi and head ; thorax and abdomen 

 slender and hairy ; fore wings oblong-trigonate, blunt, thick 

 in texture ; hind wings narrow, long, with straight dorsal 

 margin ; vein 5 of the fore wings in the middle of the cross- 

 bar, in the hind wings much below it, but complete and full 

 at the margin. 



We have but two species, very similar, but in B. notha 

 the antennas of the male are pectinated, and the fore wings 

 triangular ; in B. parthenias they are more elongated, and 

 the antennas only ciliated. 



1. B. parthenias, L. — Expanse l\ to 1^ inch. Fore 

 wings long, blunt behind, reddish-brown banded with pale 

 brown and greyish-white. Hind wings long and narrow, 

 orange-red with a large dark brown basal blotch and black 

 margin ; antennas notched or almost simple. 



