290 Mr. Children's Abstract of the Characters of 



Species. Icon. 



6. E. Russula, Linn.*... Ernst, IV. PI. CLV. f. 201. a— i. 



Curtis, Brit. Ent. PI. 21. <? & ? . 



7. — Plantaginis, Linn.f Ernst, IV. PI. CXLV. f. 191. 



a— k. PI. CXLVI. f. 191. 

 1— u. PI. CXLVII. f.l92. 

 a— k. 



8. — Lappojiica, Thunb.. Hiibn. Bomb. Tab. 57. f. 247. 



(mas.) Tab. 53. f. 230. (fcem.) 



* Eyprepia, Curtis. 

 To the above slender materials for distinguishing a genus (for these A.B. C. 

 families are iri fact genera), I think the reader will thank me for add- 

 ing the characters of Eyprepia, as given by Curtis, who includes under 

 this genus three species; Russula, Caja, and Villica. Stephens does not 

 adopt Eyprepia, but has created the genus Euthemonia to receive the 

 present species, placing Caja and Villica under Schrank's genus Arctia, 

 which he restores. " Ey. Antemus setaceous, composed of many 

 joints, covered with scales above, naked beneath, bipectinated and 

 ciliated in the males, each branch having a bristle at its apex ; rather 

 serrated in the females, each serrature being terminated by a bristle. 

 Labrum and Mandibles small and obscure. MaxillcB about the same 

 length as the head, composed of two separate filaments, distant, broad 

 and flat. Labial palpi 2, porrected, covered with long hairs, three- 

 jointed. Wings trigonate, deflexed, undivided. Anterior tibia with 

 a compressed spine in the centre of its internal side. Caterpillars 

 hairy, with 16 ket."— Curtis, Brit. Ent. I. PL 21. 



The genus Euthemonia {iv&nf^au, concinnus) is characterized by Stephens 

 as follows : 

 "Palpi porrected, moderate, slightly hairy, triarticulate ; the basal joint 

 shorter than the second, the terminal rather slender : maxilks short. 

 Antennce rather short, slender, bipectinated in the males, serrated in 

 the females : head small, pilose : thorax and abdomen rather slender ; 

 the former hairy, the latter with a small tuft at the apex, and annu- 

 lated : wi7igs deflexed, densely squamous, trigonate : legs rather slen- 

 der, the anterior with a compressed lobe on the inner edge, the pos- 

 terior with spines at the apex : females smaller than the males. 

 Larva with short, closely set fascicles of hair; pupa rather elongate, 

 with a spine at the apex." — Steph. Illust. Brit. Entom. Haust. II. p. 68. 



f Nemeophila, Steph.' 

 " Falpi extremely short, enveloped in the hairs of the front, triarticulate, 

 the joints of nearly equal length, subglobose, the basal largest ; the 

 terminal smallest, and slightly compressed : maxillcB very short. An- 

 tennce rather slightly bipectinated in the male, the pectinations short- 

 ening towards the apex, serrated and ciliated in the female : head 

 small, very pilose : thorax and abdomen rather slender, the former with 

 elongated hairs in the male, the latter stoutest and acute in the female, 

 tufted at the apex in the male : wings deflexed, opaque, scaly : legs 

 rather short : anterior tibia with a spine on the inside ; posterior with 

 spurs at the apex. Larva cylindric, slightly tuberculated, each tubercle 

 |)roducing a fascicle of hair : pupa with a truncate projection." — 

 Steph. Illust. Brit. Ent. Haustell. II. p. 72. 



N'MOf nemus, (piM^ amicus. 



9. E. Do- 



