﻿PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 

 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Vol. 102 Washington: 1952 No. 3308 



MOTHS OF THE GENUS EPEIROMULONA, A NEW GENUS 

 OF LEPIDOPTERA 



By William: D. Field 



The genus treated in this paper (Arctiidae, Lithosiinae) has for- 

 merly been represented by a single species originally described as 

 phelina by Druce and doubtfully referred by him to the genus Auto- 

 ceras Felder in the text of his description ^ and placed in the genus 

 Melania Wallengren on the plate accompanying this text.^ Subse- 

 quently Hampson ' placed it in Mulona Walker and Forbes,^ recog- 

 nizing that it did not belong with Mulona,, ti'ansfen-ed it tentatively to 

 the genus Gaudeator Dyar. In reality it belongs to quite a distinct 

 and new genus. 



A study of the 75 specimens from the collections of the United States 

 National Museum, the British Museum (Natural History), and Cor- 

 nell University discloses the fact that the genus contains 7 species (one 

 of these with 3 subspecies) , all but 1 being new. 



EPEIROMULONA, new genus 



Type. — EpeiroTmdona lephina^ new species. 



Labial palpus upturned, short, barely reaching above lower margin 

 of frons. 



Antennae of male and female filiform and gi'adually more slender 

 to the tip; each subsegment heavily setose underneath. Each sub- 

 segment with a pair of bristles arising from middle of ventrolateral 



' Biologia Centrali-Americana, Insecta, Lepidoptera-Heterocera, vol. 1, p. 139, 1885. 

 = Ibid., vol. 3, pi. 13, fig. 13. 1885. 



' Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum, vol. 2, pp. 386-387, 

 1900. 



*Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 85, p. 183, 1939. 



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