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SUB-FAMILY II.— CANEPHORID^. 



The male with moderately broad wings, rounded behind, and the hind-wings as broad as the 

 fore-wings ; body slender, with thin hairs, the abdomen extending to the anal angle ; pectinations 

 of tlie antennae rather short. 



GENUS I. — EPICHNOPTERVX (HUBN.). 



Wings semi-transparent, with hair-like scales, and short fringes ; fore-wings with ten or eleven 

 nervures, and hind-wings witli the discoidal cell divided, and seven nervures. The female is 

 worm-like, but with rudiments of legs and antenna;, which are sometimes jointed ; and some species 

 are also provided with an ovipositor ; but they never quit their cases. The larvae feed on grass. 



1. E. BombyccUa (W. V.). — Wings broad, pale ochre-yellow, fore-wings indistinctly reticulated 

 with darker. Female dirty yellow, with shining yellowish-brown plates on the 2nd and 3rd 

 segments, and a black one on the 4th. The antennae are articulated; and it possesses an ovipositor. 

 The variety Rotundclla (Bruand), from France and Switzerland, is unicolorous, and not reticulated. 

 The male expands three-quarters of an inch. It inhabits Southern and some parts of Central 

 Europe in June. The case is cylindrical, and covered with stalks of grass, arranged lengthways. 



2. E. Undiilclla (Rossi.). — Rather less than E. Pulla ; head brown ; abdomen ochraceous ; 

 antennae with slender yellow pectinations. Wings yellowish-white, tesselated with brown transverse 

 lines, and with brown nervures. It inhabits Hungary and South Russia. 



3. E. Rcticulattila (Bruand). — Brownish-grey ; antennae with slender pectinations, wings 

 rounded, shining, with brown borders, the fringes white and shining. Fore-wings pale whitish- 

 grey, tesselated with transverse brown stripes; hind-wings semi-transparent. It inhabits Dalmatia 

 and Turkey. (^E. Raiblcnsis, Mann, from Carinthia, is one-fourth larger, with longer and more 

 thinly scaled, and paler fore-wings, finely and less sharply reticulated. It is found in June and 

 July.) 



* 4. E. Reticclla (Newm.). — Smaller than ReticulatcUa (expands under half an inch), and more 

 transparent ; antennae with fewer pectinations ; wings whitish, reticulated with brown ; the veins 

 spotted with brown at the extremity; body black, clothed with white hair. Found in June in the 

 south-eastern counties of England. 



5. E. Pcctinclla (W. V.). — Wings broad, yellowish-grey, with shining yellowish fringes ; body 

 blackish, abdomen with pale hairs at the tip ; the pectinations of the antennae short. It is found 

 in Austria. (E. Suriens, Reutti, also from Austria, differs from Pcctinclla in the dark grey colour 

 of the wings and abdomen, and in the much longer pectinations of the antennae.) 



6. E. Pliunclla (Ochs.). — Wings rather long, brownish-grey, with shining yellowish fringes ; 

 body black, the abdomen thinly clothed with grey hairs, and the pectinations of the antennae 

 long. Expands about half an inch. Female reddish-white, slightly brownish above on the 

 thoracic segments, with rudimentary legs and antenna, and an ovipositor surrounded with white 

 wool. It is found in sunny places in the south and centre of France and Germany from May to 

 July. The case is tube-like, narrower behind, and is brown, covered with grains of earth and sand. 



7. E. Nudclla (Ochs.). — The wings are rather long ; pale grey, with whitish shining fringes ; 

 body black, and the pectinations of the antennae shorter. Size of Pliunclla. It inhabits South 

 Germany. The case, which is slender and cylindrical, and narrow behind, is brown, covered 

 with particles of earth. {E. Nigroliicidella, Bruand, from France, is darker, with thicker nervures, 

 and the antennae as in E. Pulla. E. Sappho, Mill., from Hungary, resembles 0. Hirsntella in 

 colour, but is darker ; and in shape it resembles E. Pectinella, though it is twice as large.) 



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