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XLIV. An Abstract of the Characters of Ochseuheimer's 

 Genera of the Lepidoptera of Europe ; with a List of the 

 Species of each Genus, and Reference to one or more of their 

 respective Icones. By J. G. Children, F.R.S. L. S, E. 

 F.L.S. S^c. 



[Continued from p. 1 93.] 



Genus V3. EYPREPIA, Ochs* 



Arctia, Schrank, Latr. Hypercomp^, Hiibn. 

 Callimorpha et Lithosia, Latr. 

 Eyprepia, Eulepia, Spilosoma, Deiopeia, Curtis. 

 Arctxa, Euthemonia, Nemeophila, Hypercompa, 

 Pheagmatobia, Diaphora, Spilosoma, Eulepia, 

 Deiopeia. Stephens. 



AntenncB bipectinate, or setose, and very slightly ciliated ; cilia 

 scarcely visible. 



Wings deflexed. 



Haustellum very short. 



Abdomen spotted on the hinder part. 



Larva with hairy tubercles on every segment of the bodyf. 



Pupa robust; changes in a soft web, of unequal texture, above 

 ground. 



Obs. Ochsenheimer appears to have been as much too fearful 

 of creating new genera, as many of our modern naturalists, 

 not merely in entomology, are too fond of it. He has in 

 this°group, as in the last, adopted divisions into families, 

 and' also, except in one instance, given distinctive cha- 

 racters to each, but no names. — "We are no friends to 

 loading natural history with unnecessary words, but great 

 groups like the present must be divided ; and those divi- 

 sions are better discriminated as genera, with appropriate 

 names, than as families with the unmeaning A, B, C, &c. 

 prefixed. All arrangement is artificial, and its great ob- 

 ject is to assist the memory ; and, therefore, well-chosen 

 names are better than letters and asterisks ; and system, 

 by bringing together those subjects which have more or 

 less resemblance to each other, impresses their forms and 

 qualities more firmly on the mind, than the individuals 

 could do, separately ; as great masses strike the attention 

 more forcibly than minute. But we should never forget 

 that nature knows nothing of our systems; indispensable 



• 'Rvit^fxtict, decor cximius. 



t Hence called Burcnraupen — Larva: unina: — Uear-CatcrpiUars. 



