EULEPIDOTIS. 101 



I.NOCTILE SERICE^E. 



These are pretty little moths, almost confined to tropical 

 America. They are divided into two families, the Palindiida, 

 slender-bodied moths, with short and broad wings, with trans 

 verse lines or metallic markings, and angulated or sub-caudate 

 hind-wings, with a black spot near the middle of the hind 

 margin; and the Dyopsidce, which have stouter bodies, and 

 darker coloured and longer wings, with an ocellated spot near 

 the anal angle of the hind-wings. I have figured a represen- 

 tative of each of these families. 



FAMILY 



GENUS EULEPIDOTIS. 



Eukpidotis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 291 (1822 ?). 

 Palindia, pt. Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lepid. Noct. ii. p. 274 



(1852). 



The head is small, and the antennae and ascending palpi are 

 long and slender ; proboscis slender and rather short. The 

 abdomen is smooth, slender, and rather pointed. The legs 

 are long, with the hind tibiae somewhat thickened. The wings 

 are broad, entire, with the hind margin of the fore-wings nearly 

 straight, and the hind-wings broad, and more or less angulated. 



EULEPIDOTIS DETRACTA. 



(Plate CXXIX., Fig. I.) 

 Palindia detracta^ Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xii. 



p. 847, no. 7 (1857). 



The following is Walker's description of this Brazilian 

 species : 



"Female. White. Head and pro-thorax pale brown. Abdo- 

 men slightly luteous towards the tip. Wings with a glaucous 

 tinge along the exterior border ; cilia pale brown. Fore-wings 



