2IO LEPIDOPTERA 



Larv« — where known — tapering, clivided at the anal ex- 

 tremity. 



PUP^ — also where known — plump, thick, and tapering ; 

 with long wing cases, and a flat spike at the anal extremity. 



Among grass stems, close to the ground. 



1. E. epiphron, Knock; Cassiope, i^.— Expanse, 1| 

 to IJ inch. Dark brown, haiiy looking, with a narrow indis- 

 tinct reddish band, dotted with black, on each wing. 



Wings much rounded, dai-k brown with a dull, hairy or 

 velvety appearance, arising from an abundance of long hair- 

 scales, part of which are of a lighter brown. Beyond the 

 middle of the fore wings is a transverse, incomplete, rather 

 indistinct, tawny band or patch, divided by the brown nervures 

 into a series of ovate blotches, each of which usually contains 

 a black dot or round spot. Hind wings with a somewhat 

 similar band, composed of three or four tawny blotches, each 

 also enclosing a black spot or dot. Cilia of all the wings 

 rather long and loose ; pale brown dashed with darker. 

 Female similar but with the tawny blotches or bands a little 

 paler. 



Under side very similar to the upper, but rather paler and 

 more dull in texture, and with the tawny band of the fore 

 wings broader. 



There is considerable variation in the size and distinctness 

 of the bands of tawny blotches and of the contained black 

 dots. In the form originally described under the name of 

 ejnjjJiroii, these black dots are enlarged, and commonly con- 

 tain white centres or pupils. 1 am not familiar with this 

 form, but Dr. F. Buchanan White states that specimens from 

 Perthshire possess this character in the female. This certainly 

 is not universal even in that district, since in a long series 

 collected for me, by Mrs. Fraser, on the mountains of Perth- 

 shire, I find no trace of the white centres to the black spots 

 in either sex. The variation among them is rather in the 

 opposite direction — to obliteration of the black dots — so that. 



