108 EPICOPIIDJE. 



Larva covered with long processes of white efflorence exuded 

 from the skin, and said to " mimic " a colony of the larvae of an 

 Homopterous insect (Dudgeon), 



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Fig. 54. Larva of Epicopia polydora. \. 



Genus EPICOPIA. 

 Epicopeia, Westw. Arc. Ent. i, p. 17 (1845). 



Type, E. polydora, "Westw. 



Range. The Himalayas and Assam. 



Antennae with the branches short, and in the female dilated at 

 extremities. Fore wing with veins 8, 9, 10 stalked. Hind wing 

 with the apex much excised ; the outer margin more or less tailed or 

 lobed ; vein 5 from middle of discocellulars ; 6 and 1 much curved. 



3017. Epicopia polydora, Westw. Arc. Ent. i, p. 19, pi. 5, fig-. 1; 



C. # S. no. 358. 

 Epicopeia philoxencea, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 799; C. 8f S. 



no. 357. 



Epicopeia diphilsea, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 800 ; C.8? S. no. 352. 

 Epicopeia excisa, Butl. III. Set. v, p. 46, pi. 88, fig. 5 ; C. $ S. 



no. 353. 

 Epicopeia caudata, Butl 111. Het. v, p. 47, pi. 88, fig. 8 ; C. % S. 



no. 351. 

 Epicopeia lidderdali, Butl. III. Het. v, p. 47, pi. 88, tig. 6 ; C.fy S. 



no. 354. 

 Epicopeia maculata, Butl. Ill Het. v, p. 47, pi. 88, fig. 7 ; C. % S. 



no. 355. 



c? . Head and collar crimson ; thorax and abdomen black above, 

 crimson below ; the abdomen w 7 ith lateral black spots and ventral 

 bands. Fore wing fuscous ; the veins, margins, and streaks between 

 the nervules black. Hind wing black shot with blue; two or 

 three white spots beyond the cell, which may be either small and 

 rounded, or long streaks, or an incipient angulated band ; along 

 the margin of the tail are some crimson spots, which may be almost 

 entirely obsolete or may consist of a streak at anal angle and four 

 marginal ring-spots, the upper portion of which may be white. 

 Underside ; fore wing with a crimson spot on the costa, near end 



