290 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Epipyrops fulvipunctata, sp. n. (fig. 1). 



Head, thorax, and anterior wings somewhat shining black ; 

 abdomen and posterior wings pitchy-black, and more opaque ; 

 anterior wings with an ochraceous spot near middle ; the scales 

 of the anterior wings have a distinctly rugose appearance ; 

 margins of the abdominal segments narrowly and obscurely 

 ochraceous, more distinct beneath than above. 



Exp. $ 19, ? 23 millim. 



Hab. Natal ; Durban (Bell-Marley). 



I have placed all the specimens figured in the illustration, 

 and which were sent to me by Mr. Bell-Marley, in the collection 

 of the British Museum. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



In the compilation of this Bibliography I have been kindly 

 assisted by Sir G. F. Hampson and Mr. J. H. Durrant. 



The genus Epipyrops has been located in several families by 

 different entomologists : Westwood (1) having placed it in the 

 Arctiida ; Kirby (Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 490 (1892)) listed it under 

 the Liparida ; Dyar (4) and Rothschild (9) among the Tineids ; 

 but Hampson and Sharp consider it to rightfully belong to the 

 Limacodidce. 



(1) Epipyrops anomala, Westw., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 

 1876, p. 522. — Hong Kong. This description is contained in a 

 paper entitled " Notes on the Habits of a Lepidopterous insect 

 parasitic on Fulgora candelaria." 



(2) " Notes on the Parasitism of certain Lepidopterous 

 Insects," by Prof. J. 0. Westwood (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1877, 

 p. 433). — This communication refers to a species of Epipyrops 

 found on the Fulgorids, Aphcena sp., and on Eur ybrachis spinosa ; 

 both species found in British India. 



(3) G. C. Champion (Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. xx. 1883) states 

 that " he had not infrequently found larvae attached to and 

 feeding on the white cottony secretion so abundant about some 

 of the smaller Fulgoridce " in Central America. 



(4^ Epipyrops barberiana, Dyar, Ent. Soc. Washington, v. 

 p. 43 (1902). — New Mexico. Perkins (Hawaiian Sugar Plant. 

 Assoc, Bull. No. 4, p. 59 (1907)) records that Koebele found 



