3641 Mr, Children's Abstract of the Characters of 



Fam. B. c. Anterior wings broad, short, with faint, wavy 

 markings. 

 Species. Icon. 



\S. C^XQ. Saliccti, HUbn. Ernst, VI. PI. CCXL. f. 352. 



— a. Larva. — b. Pupa. 

 14-. — Co7igener, Hiibn. Hiibn. Noct. Tab. 135. f. 617. 



(foem.) 

 15. — Scoriacea, Esper. Ernst, VII. PL CCLXXXIV. 



f.469. 



Genus 48. EPISEMA, Ochs. [Steph.) 

 Graphiphor^, HUbn. Heteromorph^e, HUbn. 



Legs very hairy ; tibics with spurs. 



Wings elongate ; anterior with the hinder margin entire, de- 

 flexed ; cilia long. 



Antennce rather elongate, not curved, bipectinated to the apex 

 in the males, simple in the females : head exserted, not 

 very small : thorax slightly crested with transverse fascia; : 

 abdomen rather stout, with a simple tuft at the apex. 



Palpi elongate, very pilose, biarticulate, the basal joint large, 

 the terminal very slender, elongate, acute, scaly : maxilla: 

 short. 



Larva cylindric, very fleshy and robust, not tuberculate; the 

 hinder legs perfect. 



Pupa folliculated *. 



Species. Icon. 



1. Y.^.Ca:ruleocephala,Unu.'Emsi, V. PL CLXXXVI. f.242. 



2. — /. cifictum, HUbn. Hiibn. Noct. Tab. 30. f. 144. 



(mas.) 



3. — Trimacula, HUbn. HUbn. Noct.Tab.SO.f. 141. (mas.) 



142. (focm.) 



4.— T^rsa, HUbn HUbn. Noct.Tab.f-i0.f. 140. (foem.) 



5. — Graminis, Linn.f Ernst, VI. PL CCLVII. f. 395. 



Genus 

 * Characters chiefly from Stephens. 

 f Char^eas, Steph. 

 " Faljn very short, triarticulate, the two basal joints densely squamous, the 

 terminal sligiitly exposed, the basal joint shorter and stouter than the 

 following, which is stout at the base and gradually attenuated to the 

 apex, the terminal slightly elongate, acute, or ovate acuminate : inaxillcc 

 long. AntemiiB simple in the females, more or less [jcctinated in the 

 males: AcrtcZ small, squamous : /Aorax robust, not crested : Zior/y short, 

 slightly cannated on the back ; the apex of the males with a tuft : 

 ■wings generally denticulated on the hinder margin, sometimes rounded ; 

 posterior not very large, ovate-triangular, usually whitish in the males, 

 fuscous in the females. Larva naked, radicivorous : pupa subter- 

 raneous."— S/qiA. I//ii.';f. r,rit. Enl. Haiisl. II. 108. 

 The British species which Stephens inserts in this genus, are: Noct. 



ccspilis, 



