240 LEPIDOPTERA. 



In Ireland it is widely, and perhaps generally, distributed. 

 I have seen it as far north as the coast of the County Down. 

 Abroad, in the southern area of its distribution it is said 

 to be on the wing throughout the year, the first emergence 

 taking place in February. It is found throughout temperate 

 Eurojje, the North of Africa, Asia Minor, and Armenia. 



Genus 5. EPINEPHILE, 



Antennffi rather long, with a slight club. Wings rounded; 

 hind wings slightly scalloped, especially near the anal angle ; 

 fore wings with the sub-costal and median nervures dilated 

 near the base. Males generally with a dense patch of scales 

 in the middle of the fore wings. 



Larvae elongated, downy, with globular head, and two 

 points at the hinder extremity. 



PUP^E rounded, rather slender, suspended by the tail. 



1. E. Janira, L. — Expanse, H to 2i inches. Male dark 

 brown, with an ocellated spot near the apex of the fore wings ; 

 female brown with a large yellowish orange blotch enclosing 

 this ocellated spot. 



Wings broad, with the costa of the fore wings much 

 arched, and the hind margin nearly straight, or even faintly 

 hollowed out in the middle ; hind wings with the hind 

 margin slightly scalloped or undulating, and the anal angle 

 sharply defined. Male dark brown, more blackish-brown 

 towards the bases of the wings, and with a soft, satiny gloss ; 

 below the middle of the fore wings, occupying a large space 

 bounded above by the median nervure, is a patch of densely 

 crowded, blackish, glossy scales ; beyond the middle, towards 

 the apex is a round, white-centred, black spot, sometimes in a 

 faintly fulvous ring; and below this are, sometimes, two or three 

 faint fulvous clouds between the nervures. Hind wings with- 

 out mai-kings, but with the nervures darker than the ground 



