NEPHOPTERYX. — EPICROCIS. 85 



Larva a dull bronze-black ; the skin wrinkled and folded 

 transversely ; the dorsal lines indistinct ; the head black ; the 

 stigmata and a large ocellated patch on 1st somite black, with 

 narrow white rings. Feeds on Lotus, Hippocrepis, Trifolium, &c. 



Hob. Europe ; Syria ; Siberia ; Japan ; China : Dharmsala. 

 Exp. 24-32 millim. 



Genus EPICEOCIS. 



Epicrocis, Zell. Isis, 1848, p. 878. 

 Canthelea, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1726 (1866). 

 Gabra, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1727. 

 Candiope, Rag. Nouv. Gen. p. 14 (1888). 



Type, E. festivella, Zell. 



Range. Ethiopian and Oriental regions to Australia. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 3rd 

 well developed and acuminate ; frons roughly scaled ; tibiae thickly 

 scaled, the outer spurs about half the length of inner. Eore wing 

 with the apex rectangular ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 well 

 separated at origin ; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with vein 2 from 

 before angle of cell ; 3 approximated to 4, 5 for some distance ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle. 



Sect. I. Maxillary palpi of male filiform ; hind wing with 

 vein 7 anastomosing with 8. 



A. (Canthelea). Antennce of male thickened, flattened, 

 and simple. 



4375. Epicrocis aegnusalis, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 905 ; Rag. Mon. Phyc. 

 p. 234, pi. ix, fig. 11 ; C. 8f S. no. 4570. 

 Hornoeosoma gratella, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 26. 

 Homceosoma derasella, Sivinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 877, pi. 57, fig. 19 ; 

 C. $ S. no. 4607. 



Pale olive-brown ; the head and shoulders suffused with pink. 



Eore wing with a diffused pink 

 fascia from base, curving round 

 to inner margin before middle ; 

 an obliquely curved antemedial 

 pink band more or less ob- 

 solescent towards costa, and 

 ¥- often conjoined in the cell to 



Fig. 53.— Epicrocis (sgnusalis, tf . {. the pink discocellular patch, 



which sends an oblique pink 



fascia to the apex and another to the irregular marginal pink bana 



at outer angle : cilia tinged with pink towards apex. Hind wing 



ochreous ; the apical area suffused with fuscous. 



