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fields, Darenth-wood, &c. " Allesley and Coleshill."— i?et>. W. T. 

 Bree. " Epping." — Mr. Doubledaij. " Weston on-tlie-green." — 

 Rev. A. H. Matthews. 



Genus CXCIII. — Epione, Dupanchel. 



Palpi very short, slightly ascending, porrected beyond the head, densely 

 squamous, subclavate, the terminal joint nearly concealed ; triarticulate, the 

 basal joint slender, short, curved, the second longer, stouter, subclavate; 

 terminal minute, subglobose : maxillce long. Antennce bipectinated to the 

 apex in the males, the pectinations short, especially on the terminal joints, 

 each joint producing one on each side; simple in the females: head small: 

 thoj^ax slender, velvety : wings slightly extended during repose ; anterior with 

 the hinder margin produced in the middle, the superior apex acute ; posterior 

 with the outer margin more or less emarginate towards the apex : abdomen 

 slender, stouter and rather acuminated in the females. Larva attenuated 

 anteriorly, not tuberculated, covered with distant hairs ; head small, quadrate : 

 pupa enveloped in leaves united by a silken thread. 



If outline be in any manner characteristic of generic distinctions 

 in the Lepidoptera, doubtless the genus Epione of Duponchel must 

 find a place in our systems ; the contour of the wings being totally 

 dissimilar to those of Bradyepetes and Eurymene, with which genera 

 I inadvertently associated this genus in my Catalogue, and in which 

 particular I have been partly followed: the anterior wings are 

 acute at the anterior tip, with the hinder margin repanded; but the 

 posterior are rounded, and emarginated or sinuated towards the 

 apex of the hinder margin, the structure of the palpi is dissimilar, 

 and the antennae of the males are pectinated to the apex. 



Sp. 1. apiciaria. Alis repandis luteis, anticis supra strigd baseos angulatd rnfo- 

 fusca, altera intermedia fused obligud in apicem excurrente, limbo acutangulo 

 cinereo-rufescente. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 1—4 lin.) 

 Ge. apiciaria. Wien. Verz. — Br. apiciaria. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 128. No. 6527. 

 Ph. Ge. vespertaria. Don. vii. part 233. f. 3. 



Luteous, with minute reddish lineols, anterior wings with a rectangular red- 

 brown striga before the middle, and a second repanded fuscous one arising at 

 the apex, common to all the wings, the space from thence to the cilia of a 

 dark red-brown or cinerascent red ; between the strigaj, and on the disc of the 

 posterior, a small round black dot. Female similar in colour. 



Slightly variable; the base of the anterior wings is sometimes dark; and at 

 others the marginal fimbria is more or less obliterated. 



Caterpillar grey, with a white streak on the back, and spots of the same colour 



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