48 Mr. Children's Abstract of the Characters of 



Genus 35. HEPIOLUS, IlUg., Hiibn. 



Hepialus, Fab. Latr. Schrank. (Steph.) 



Legs^ tibiae unarmed. 



Wings oblong-lanceolate, sub-equal. 



Ayitennce much shorter than the thorax, subfiliform, or moni- 



liform, sometimes pectinated or serrated. 

 Palpi obsolete. 

 Head small ; thorax woolly ; abdomen rather stout, elongate, 



the apex tufted in the males. 

 Larva subterranean, radicivorous. 

 Pupa elongate, rather stout, obtuse, with two parallel rows of 



spinous processes : changes in a web amongst the food of 



the larva.* 



Species. Icon. 



1. H. Humuli, Linn.f ... Ernst, V. PI. CXCI. f. 248. a— k. 



2. — Velleda, Hubn.f . Hubn.Bomb.Tab.50.f.212.(mas.) 



Tab. 54. f. 233. (mas.) 234. 

 (foem.) 



3. — Camus, Fab.f . ... Ernst, V. PI. CXCIII. f. 251 . d. e. 



4. __ Si/lvinus, Och.t ... Ernst, V. PI. CXCII. f. 249. a— g. 



Curtis, Brit. Ent. IV. PI. 185. 

 f, sup. c? f. inf. ? . 



5. — Gamia, Hiibn. ... HUbn.Bomb.Tab.50.f.215.(mas.) 



6. — Ltipidinus, Fab.f. Ernst, V. PI. CXCIII.f.252.a—d. 



7. — Hectus,Yixh.\ Ernst,V.Pl.CXCIII.f.251.a— c. 



Genus 36. PHYCIS, Fab., Latr. 

 EuPLOCAMUS, Latr. 



Legs, posterior with the tibias armed with spines. 



Wings small ; posterior margin rounded. 



Antenna; very strongly pectinated. 



Paljn with the second joint hairy, with very numerous elon- 

 gated scales, produced into a fasciculus ; the third nearly 

 naked, ascending. (Latr.) 



Larva naked, except a few scattered hairs on the body ; in- 

 liabits rotten wood. 



Pupa elongated; the hinder part armed with fine hamuli; 

 changes in a delicate closed web, formed in the cavities 

 inhabited by the larva. 



* Generic characters from Stephens {IHust. Brit. Ent. Haust. 11. p. 4.), 

 who divides the genus into two sections ; the first (A) having the antenna; 

 simple in both sexes, the second (B) having them pectinated or serrated. 



t Steph, Sect. A. 1 Steph. Sect. B. 



1. V.Bo- 



