﻿BRITISH DELTOIDS, PYRALIDES, AND CRAMBT. 335' 



Epischnia bankesiella. (PI. IV. fig. 7.) 



BRIT. REF. I — 



Epischnia bankesiella, Richardson, Ent. Mo, Mag. xxv. p. 63 ; 

 Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist. Soc. x. p. 193 (col. fig.); E.M.M. 

 xxvi. p. 256. 



"The expansion of the wings in the female is 1 inch 1 line; 

 in the male it is slightly less. The breadth of the fore wings is 

 almost exactly one-third of the length. The costa in the male is 

 regularly curved ; in the female it is much curved at the base and 

 less so near the tip, whilst the intermediate portion is nearly 

 straight. The tip is blunt, and the hind margin convex. The 

 colour of the fore wings is light cinereous grey, clouded with dark 

 grey, especially on the basal half of the wing. There is an 

 inconspicuous narrow light greyish ochreous patch, extending 

 about one-third of the way along the inner margin. The veins 

 are streaked with dark grey. Several dark grey lines cross the 

 wing from the costa to the inner margin ; but they are all very 

 indistinct, and only traceable with difficulty, owing to the wings 

 being clouded with the same colour. The most distinct are two 

 lines, one of which starts from the costa near the middle and 

 runs towards the anal angle as far as the centre of the wing, 

 where it turns nearly at right angles towards the base, and when 

 at a short distance from the inner margin turns again at right 

 angles before it reaches it. This line is double at the costa, and 

 the two branches gradually approach each other and meet on the 

 inner margin. The other line is one which runs from the costa 

 near the tip, parallel to the hind margin, to a point near the anal 

 angle, where it turns sharply outwards to the anal angle. There 

 are slight traces of two other lines, one between the two above 

 mentioned and one near the base ; but it is difficult to follow 

 their course, owing to the clouding of the wing. A patch of the pale 

 ground colour, less clouded than the rest, extends obliquely from 

 the tip to the inner margin. The fringes are of the pale ground 

 colour, intersected by a dark grey line. The hind wings are very 

 pale brownish grey, with a darker shade close to the margin; the 

 fringes still paler, almost white." 



Introduced by Mr. Nelson M. Richardson, August, 1888. 



Note.— Mr. and Mrs. Richardson each captured a specimen 

 on the same evening, some time about the middle of July, 1887. 

 They each took a specimen again in 1889 ; and Mrs. Richardson 

 added one more specimen to her score this year. 



The figure (PI. IV. fig. 7) is from a very beautiful drawing by 

 Mrs. Richardson. If anyone is desirous of seeing a coloured 

 figure of E. bankesiella, he should obtain a copy of the ' Pro- 

 ceedings ' of the Society referred to above. 



