108 EPICOPIIDA. 
Larva covered with long processes of white efflorence exuded 
from the skin, and said to “‘ mimic” a colony of the larve of an 
Homopterous insect (Dudgeon). 
Fig. 54.—Larva of Epicopia polydora. }. 
Genus EPICOPIA. 
Epicopeia, Westw. Arc. Ent. i, p. 17 (1845). 
Type, £. polydora, Westw. 
Range. The Himalayas and Assam. 
Antenne 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 7 much curved. 
3017. Epicopia polydora, Westw. Arc. Ent. i, p. 19, pl. 5, fig. 1; 
C. & S. no. 358. 
Epicopeia philoxencea, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1865, p. 799; C. & S. 
no. 397. 
y Epicopeia diphilea, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 800; C.§ S. no. 352. 
Epicopeia excisa, Butl. Ill. Het. v, p. 46, pl. 88, fig. 5; C. & S. 
no. 309. 
'  Epicopeia caudata, But?. Ill. Het. v, p. 47, pl. 88, fig. 8; C. gS. 
no. 36. 
Epicopeia lidderdali, Butl. Ill. Het. v, p. 47, pl. 88, tig. 6; C.& S. 
no. 304, 
Epicopeia maculata, Butl. Lil. Het. v, p. 47, pl. 88, fig. 7; C.§ S. 
no. 300. 
$. Head and collar crimson ; thorax and abdomen black above, 
crimson below; the abdomen with 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 
