io6 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



The larva is short, smooth, cylindrical, with a large head. 

 It feeds on trees. 



Pupa short, obtuse, subterranean. 



The EurhipidcB are a small family, though widely dis- 

 tributed. The only European species does not extend to 

 England. 



EUTELIA (?) RUFATRIX. 

 (Plate CXXIX., Fig. 3.) 



Penicillaria (?) rufatrix, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 

 xv. p. 1775 (1858). 



This species inhabits Jamaica. 



" Red, mostly white beneath. Antennae stout, simple. 

 Tarsi with white bands. Fore -wings with a few curved white 

 lines, with an oblique white band, which is widened towards 

 the interior border, with a sub-costal black streak, and a 

 black spot on the exterior border near the tip, which is 

 occupied by a testaceous white-bordered spot, and with a 

 black dot near the base of the interior border ; hind part of 

 the exterior border very oblique. Hind-wings white, with 

 broad red borders, which contain a short white line near the 

 interior angle ; interior border marked with black towards its 

 tip. Length of the body, 5 lines ; of the wings, 1 2 lines " 

 (Walker). 



This Moth stands in the British Museum under Eutelia, but 

 differs from the type of that genus in its much more angu- 

 lated fore-wings. A new genus should probably be formed for 

 its reception. 



GENUS VARNIA. 



Varnia, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. vii. p. 69 (1863); 



Moore, Lepid. Ceylon, iii. p. 66 (1884). 

 Dysodia, Hampson (nee Clemens), Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, i. 



p. 368 (1892). 



