EUDIOPTIS. 267 



This genus includes moderate-sized Moths, with compara- 

 tively stout bodies, tufted at the tip, and white, transparent, or 

 yellowish wings, the pale colour being more or less restricted 

 by brown costal and apical borders. They are all tropical or 

 sub-tropical, but inhabit both hemispheres. 



EUDIOPTIS INDICA. 

 (Plate CLIIL, Fig. 2.) 



Eudioptis indica.) Saunders, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (2), 

 i. p. 163, pi. 12, figs. 5-7 (1851) ; Moore, Lepid. Ceylon, 

 iii. p. 324 (1886). 

 Phakellura gazorialis^ Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lpid. Delt. et Pyr. 



p. 297 (1854). 

 Phakellura indica^ Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xviii. 



p. 514, no. ii (1859). 

 Glyphodes indica, Hampson, Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, iv. p. 360 



This Moth is widely distributed in the tropical regions of the 

 Old World. It expands about an inch. 



The wings are semi-transparent pearly- white and opalescent, 

 with a broad dark brown band along the costa of the fore-wings, 

 and along the hind-margins of all the wings, gradually attenuated 

 on the hind-wings, and ending at the anal angle. 



The larva lives on cotton and other plants. It is pale grass- 

 green, with a yellow head. The pupa is dull chestnut-brown, 

 and is enclosed in a portion of leaf which has been drawn 

 together with silk threads. 



The paper in which the name Phakellura originally occurs, 

 ''The Natural History of Petrophila, a Lepidopterous genus, 

 in its larva state inhabitating rivers, and furnished with 

 branchiae"; by the Rev. Lansdown Guilding, B.A., F.L.S., &c. 

 was read before the Linnean Society of London, on February 2, 

 1830; but for some reason was never published, except in the 



