PHOCEEDINGS 01' THE THIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 9/^ 



may be found and reared out. The caterpillar, however, does not 

 seem common and further repeated search for other examples failed 

 to discover any. 



74.— INDIAN EPIPYROPID.E. 



By T. Bainbrigge Fletcher, R.N., F.L.S., F.E.S., F.Z.S., Imperial 

 Entomologist. 



(Plate 163.) 



The genus Epipyrops, with type anomala, was first described by 

 Westwood in Trans. Entom. Soc. London, 1876, p. 522, tab. 7, from 

 examples reared at Hongkong by J. C. Bowring from larvae found upon 

 Fulgora candelaria. In the Transactions for 1877, pp. 434-435, Profes- 

 sor Westwood mentions an Epipyrops larva found by Lieut-Colonel 

 Godwin- Austen on the body of a species of Aphcena (Fulgoridse) in the 

 Dillrang Valley, and also figures (Tab. X, C.) another larva found upon 

 Eurybrachys spinosa, presumably somewhere in Madras, as the specimen 

 belonged to the Madras Museum. It is, however, no longer in existence 

 there, as Dr. Henderson informs me. Nevertheless, these records are 

 of interest as indicating that species of Epipyrops had been observed 

 to occur in India more than forty years ago, although apparently the 

 moths were never reared from the larvse. _ 



Epipyropidae, however, are by no means confined to the Oriental 

 Region. In 1883 G. C. Champion noted {Proc. Ent. Soc. London, 1883, 

 p. xx) that he had often observed larvse attached to some of the 

 smaller Fulgoridse in Central America, but apparently in this case 

 also no moths were bred out. In 1902 H. G. Dyar described (Proc. 

 Ent. Soc. Wash., V. 43-45) Epipyrops barberiana reared from a larva 

 attached to a Fulgorid in New Mexico, and two years later W. J. Holland 

 recorded (Entl. Neivs. XV 344-345) this same species from Texas on 

 another species of Fulgorid. Finally, in 1905 R. C. L. Perkins described 

 (Hawaii Svgar Planters' Assocn., Entl. Bull. No. 1, pt. 2, pp. 75-84, 

 figs. ) three new genera and seven new species of Epipyropidse 

 from Fulgorids, Jassids and Delphacids in Queensland and New South 



The first definitely described species of Epipyrops recorded from 

 the Indian Region was E. poliograpka, from Mankulam and Yatiyantota 

 in Ceylon, described by Sir George Hampson in the Bombay Natural 

 History Society's Journal in 1910. In the following year I took a single 

 specimen, apparently belonging to an undescribed species, a% light at 



