domina. 
muscosa. 
vulncrata. 
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EPIA. By Dr. W. Schaus. 
Key to the genera of Epiinae. 
A. Forewing with apex rounded. 
a. Vein 10 absent. 
a 1 . Vein 3 of forewing well before lower angle. 
b 1 . Vein 3 of forewing close to or from lower angle. 
b. Vein 10 present. 
B. Fore wing with apex not rounded. 
a. Forewing with apex produced. 
b. Fore wing with apex acute. 
ah Abdomen not extending beyond hindwing and without tufts. 
a 2 . Veins 3 and 4 on forewing from cell. 
b 2 . Veins 3 and 4 on forewing stalked. 
b 1 . Abdomen extending beyond hindwing and with tufts. 
Epia. 
Colla. 
Arolros. 
Quentalia. 
Anticla. 
Cheneya. 
Tamphana. 
1. Genus : Epia Hbn. (=Anthocroca Btlr.) 
Male: Palpi short, upturned, smoothly scaled. Antenna bipectinate. Legs and base of tarsi hairy; 
hind tibia with two terminal spurs. Fore wing: costa straight; apex usually rounded; termen slightly inbent; 
vein 2 from middle of cell; 3 well before angle; 4 from lower angle; 5 from above middle of discocellular; 6—9 
stalked; 10 absent; 11 from cell. Hindwing rounded; anal angle faintly acute; vein 2 from middle of cell: 3 well 
before angle; 4 from lower angle; 5 from just above middle of discocellular; 6 and 7 stalked; 8 connected with 7 
near base. 
Type : E. domina Cr. 
E. domitia Cr. Female: Body and wings cinnamon. Forewing slightly darker at base, and traces of a 
medial fascia below cell; postmedial line double, the inner broad, broken by veins, the outer fuscous from costa 
to vein 4 preceded by a white line, followed by large white spots reaching vein 3. Hindwing brighter at anal 
angle; a well marked postmedial line. The underside according to Cramer dark yellow with four transverse 
brownish red, outcurved lines. Expanse: 69 mm. Surinam. The figure shows distinctly the characters of 
venation present in the other species placed in Epia. 
E. muscosa Btlr. (A = cuneifera Btlr.) (89 a). Male: Forewing vinaceous drab, vinaceous fawn or pale 
olive ocher; antemedial line fine, black, outcurved with some olive ocher on either side at inner margin; a large 
elongated pale olive ocher spot on costa from before middle to close to postmedial line, edged behind with 
fuscous; an oblique mottled spot from inner margin postmedially to above vein 2, sometimes enclosing a round 
greenish white spot at vein 2, and edged with hazel or chestnut brown; postmedial line almost vertical, fine, 
black, partly edged outwardly with white and followed from vein 5 to costa by a narrow fuscous shade; termen 
usually from vein 2 to costa pale olive ocher, frequently with darker olive mottling. Hindwing variable as on 
forewing; the postmedial lines approximated at inner margin, the outer line with a small yellow angled line 
and brazil red suffusions above anal angle which has some terminal yellow scaling. Fore wing below very much 
as above, but the costal spot diffuse, not dark edged behind, its outer edge continued as a first postmedial line. 
Hindwing below variable in colour, medial pale olive ocher fascia to vein 4 inwardly defined by a long black 
line on discocellular, outwardly by the postmedial line; some similar colouring at anal angle and slightly at 
middle of outer margin. Female: Forewing largely ochraceous tawny, the termen except towards apex cinnamon 
brown; costa, end of cell, medially below cell, and subterminally from vein 5 to near apex oil yellowy antemedial 
line fine, army brown, outcurved; postmedial line faint sinuous, bifurcating at vein 4, the inner part inbent to 
inner margin near antemedial, followed from costa by a fine fuscous vertical line partly edged with pale quaker 
drab. Hindwing vinaceous cinnamon suffused with English red above and beyond a yellowish spot on termen 
at anal angle; inner margin mottled with white scales and black lines; the outer lines fuscous, wide apart, 
converging near inner margin, with a yellow spot near it. Wings below mostly mustard yellow. Fore wing: 
space between outer lines and termen except near apex onion-skin pink. Hindwing: a fuscous and purplish 
streak at inner margin expanding to outer line. Expanse: Male 40 mm; female 56 mm. Guatemala to Bolivia; 
Amazons; French Guiana. 
E. vulnerata Fldr. (89 a). The species I have identified as vulnerata is very similar to picta, and the 
chief difference is its smaller size and the white shading at the anal angle of the hindwing on the underside. 
Felder’s figure shows a much paler form, the subbasal angled line double and a small spot on costa at apex 
as in my specimens; in pic-la there is no apical spot on costa and the subbasal line is broad and diffuse. In 
madeira the angled line is single and there is no apical spot, otherwise it approaches vulnerata in colour. Expanse: 
33—35 mm. Amazons: French Guiana; Peru. 
