100 BRITISH MOTHS 



irregular black border. The caterpillar is pale-leaden colour, with black and red dots. It feeds on various 

 plants, including the field mouse-ear (Myosotis arvensis). The moth hasbecn taken in this country in September 

 and October, but Boisduval gives June as the time of its appearance. It is extremely rare in this country, 

 but has been taken near Brighton and Christcliurch as well as in Yorkshire. The species is very widely 

 distributed. I have received it from the island of ^Mauritius ; and Col. Hearsey reared great numbers of 

 specimens from caterpillars found on the ]\Iarvel of Peru, in his garden, at Saugor, in the centre of India, although 

 the moth had not been seen there before that plant was introduced into the garden. It is also stated to be 

 a native of America, but probably some other species has been mistaken fur it. 



EULEPIA *, Curtis. EMYDIA, Boisduval. 



This genus is at once distinguished by having the antennas bipectinated in the males, as well as by the 

 short spiral tongue and the very short palpi, with the two terminal joints of nearly equal size. The fore 

 wings are long and narrow, and ornamented with numerous black markings. The caterpillar does not 

 materially differ from those of the Lithosire. 



SPECIES 1.— EULEPIA GRAMMICA. Plate XX., Fig. 3, 4. 



Synonymes. — Phttlaim (Bomb.) grammica, Linn. ; Haworlh ; 

 Ochsenheiuier; Godart ; Donovan, vol. 13, pi. 450. Slepliens lUustr., 

 2, pL 17, fig. 3. (Eulepia gr.) Wood, Ind. Ent. pi. 8, fij. 93. 



Bombyx striata^ Borkhausen (variety). 

 Bombyx 7iielannj)tera, Brahm. (variety). 

 Spiris grammica, Ilubuer ; Verz. bek. Schmett. 



This very rare and handsome species measures rather less than 1^ inch in expanse of the fore wings, which 

 are of a yellow clay colour, with blackish radiated stripes, and a darker transverse spot at the extremity gf 

 the discoidal cell. The hind wings dark orange, with a broad blackish border composed of spots more or less 

 confluent, and the base dark. The thorax is clay-coloured, with black streaks, and the abdomen orange, 

 with several rows of black spots. As noticed in the synonymes, the species is liable to considerable variation in 

 the spots of the wings. The caterpillar is dark brown, with an orange dorsal line, a white line on each side, 

 and reddish tubercles emitting bundles of hairs. It feeds on Festuca duriuscula, Hieracium Pilosella, Artemisia 

 vulgaris and canipestris, Prunus spinosa. Erica vulgaris, and various other plants, in Blay, and the moth is stated 

 by Boisduval and Ochsenheimer to appear in June and July. It is extremely rare in this country, but specimens 

 have been taken in September and October at Windsor and in the Isle of Anglesea. 



SPECIES 2.— EULEPIA CRIBllUM. Plate XX., Fig. 5. 



Synonymes. — Plial. (Bomb.) cribrum, Liun.; Hiihner ; Esper ; Borkli. ; Ocliscnli. ; Curtis, Brit. Ent. pi. 56 ; Wood, Ind, Ent., pi. 8, fig. 91. 



Coscinia cribrum, liUbner, Verz. bek. Sclimett. 



This pretty species measures rather less than H inch in the expanse of its fore wings. It is of a pale grey 

 white, the fore wings vi'ith five curved fascise formed of black spots running across the wings, with two 

 longitudinal black lines, and several spots along the apical margin of the wing. The hind wings dark brown, 

 with the disc paler ; the body spotted with black ; the apex of the abdomen yellowish. 



The species has been found on heaths in Hampshire, (Parley Heath and Ringwood,) by Messrs. Bentley and 

 Dale. 



* Deiived from the Greek, in allusion to the pretty disposition of the scales in the fore wings. 



