36 EPICOPEIA. By A. Janet. — Ali)hal)itifal List. 



gust, 2 moths were obtained in the middle of September, the remaining 18 in the following April. The 

 larva resembles that of Geisha distinctissima Walk., and is light green, covered with a wax-like exudation 

 which is sometimes a white powder or consists of short threads; it lives on the plant called Yamakobashi 

 (Lindera glauca). It is short and compact in shape (about 25 mm long) and pupates in a cocoon formed 

 sinicaria. of a rolli'd-up leaf. .Japan, especially in the south (Shikoku, Gifu, Yokohama). — In sinicaria Leech the 

 whole forewing as far as the margin is lighter and the red apical spot of the hindwing is absent (among 

 about 40 specimens only one showed any signs of it). Central China, in the mountains above I-chang; 

 Tai-tu-ho, Siao-lu, Mupin, Yacheu, Tien-tsuen; according to Nagano also in North .Japan (Yezo). 



polydora. E. polydora Westw. This, the first-known species of the genus seems, to belong exclusively to 



excisa. India (Sikkim, Bhutan), but in the British Museum there is a specimen of the form excisa Btlr. (10 b), 

 which Savage-Landor brought from Tibet. In the shape and colour of the wings it resembles Papilio 

 elwesi and the 9 of rhetenor. Forewing smoky grey, veins and internervular folds black, base of the hind- 

 wing grey as far as a white triangular patch which extends across 5 or 6 cellules and of which the 

 larger portion lies proxinially to a line which would unite the tips of the costal and submedian veins. 

 Distally to this patch the hindwing is black. The hindmargin bears from the anal angle to the apex of 

 the tail a row of red spots which form ocelli near the tail, but are reduced to crescents or simple dots 

 near the anal angle. 



caroli. E. caroli spec. (?) nov. In Sikkim and Bhutan a number of Epicopeia occur which have been 



described by Moore and Butler under various names (cf. vol. 10 of Macrolepidoptera, p. 60, plate 9) 

 and which are obviously closely allied to philenora Westiv. Our ignorance of the early stages prevents us 

 from deciding whether polydora and phileiiora are distinct or only forms of the same species, caroli, of 

 which I have one specimen from Tseu-ku before me from the collection of M. Charles Oberthur, is 

 quite evidently intermediate between polydora excisa Btlr. and philenora caudata Btlr.; if philenora and 

 polydora are distinct species, the new form is also distinct, and I therefore name it caroli. Ground-colour 

 of the forewing smoky grey, the hindwing with blue metallic reflections, recalling the ^J of Papilio 'protenor. 

 But the characteristic sinus between the costal and subcostal gives the insect the appearance of a tailed 

 Papilio. The hindwing bears an almost triangular patch, as in excisa, which extends over 4 cellules; the 

 hindmargin of the hindwing is accompanied by pale red ocelli. In short, the moth has the shape and 

 colouring of philenora and the markings of polydora. The forewing bears at about ^/4 of the cell a red 

 costal spot. Body black, head and end of abdomen red. 



Alphabetical List 



of the Palearctic forms of Epicopeidae with a reference to the original descriptions. 



* denotes that the form is also figured in the place quoted. 



Macrolep. 2, p. 36. * 

 p. Het. B. M. 5, p. 46. * 

 haiiirsi I';pic. Holl. Trans. Amer. Ent. See. 16, p. 72. 



raroli Kpic. -hind, Seitz, Macrolep. 2, p. 36.* I nieneia F2pic. A/oore, Proc. Zool. See. Lend. 1874, p. 578.* 



pxcisa Kpic. Bull. 111. Lep. Het. B. M. 5, p. 46. * | sinicaria Ei)ic. Leech, Ann. Mag. N. II. 19 (1897), p. 181. 



