of a Lepidopterous Insect. 523 



The general appearance of tliis moth approaches nearest 

 to the Arctiidce; its habits are, however, far removed from 

 those of any knov^-n species of that family. As a Avax 

 feeder it agrees with the Galleries, but its general cha- 

 racter removes it far from that group. The EiqAocnmi 

 amongst the Tineidcp, which contains a mnnber of sack- 

 bearing s]iecies, have the antenna3 bipectinated, but their 

 general character is equally removed from that of Epipy- 

 rops. The sack-bearing habits of the Psy chides may 

 indicate a nearer approach to this insect, which has, how- 

 ever, very little of the habit of that group. The arrange- 

 ment of the veins of the fore-wings is interesting, the 

 median vein having apparently lour branches, as in 

 Papilio, and the postcostal vein has apparently only four 

 branches, but the normal number of branches to these 

 veins exists — namely, five branches to the postcostal, and 

 three branches to the median, with two intermediate veins 

 (or rather branches) which correspond with the upper 

 discoidal vein of E. Doubleday (which I consider normally 

 to belong to the postcostal system) (fig. 15, b 5*), and the 

 lower discoidal of E. Doubleday (which I consider nor- 

 mally to belong — as here seen — to the median system) 

 (fig. 15, c 3*). 



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