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1314 EPIPOMPONIA; PROTACRAGA; ANOPYROPS. By Dr. Herbert Sick. 
E. cucuilata C. Heinrich is a small blackish grey species hardly discernible from harberiana except by 
the genitals. Forewing and hindwing of the same colouring. Head and thorax somewhat darker. The tegumen 
of the J genitals is enlarged and cucullate. Expanse: 10 mm. Type found in Port au Prince, Haiti. 
2. Genus: Epipompoiiia D^/ar. 
Hindwing with 8 veins. 7 and 8 of the forewing separated; 8 of the hindwing connected with the sub¬ 
costal vein by anastomosis. 
E. multipunctatum Drc. .(168 g) was described as Cossus (?) by Druce. Forewing deep black, £ densely 
striped with small blue spots; hindwing uniformly smoky black; both wings beneath lustrous brownish black. 
Costal margin of forewing densely speckled with blue spots: head, thorax and legs black. 32 mm. Forewing 
of $ metallic greennish blue, veins and numerous transverse streaks bluish black with a slight lustre on the 
upper surface of the forewing. Body somewhat more lustrous than the hindwing. 
E. elongata Jordan. The $ is oily bluish grey, bluish green scales along the costal margin of the fore¬ 
wing above and near the base form indistinct spots, a thin marginal line and part of the fringes likewise lustrous 
metallic, but more golden green. Frons as broad as both eyes, somewhat concave in the middle before the 
antennae which are more roughly scaled than in multipunctatum. The distal part of the antennae exhibits a 
comb of scales. 12 joints bipectinnate. the longest branches as long as three diameters of the shaft. Forewing 
almost three times as long as it is broad; 10 veins from the cell, radial veins 1 and 2 more separated than in 
multipunctatum. Hindwing likewise elongated, more than twice as long at it is broad. Expanse: about 31 mm. 
3. Genus: Protacraga Hopp. 
Originally regarded as a genus of the Dalceridae by Hopp who, however, later on recognized it to 
belong to the Epipyropidae . though the only species of the genus may belong to the Epi pomponia. Median vein 
and that longitudinal vein which separates the accessory cell from the cell it may be considered as a second 
media — very feeble. Hopp presumes the accessory cell to have been produced phylogenetic-ally by an anasto¬ 
mosis of the basal parts of the second media and of the radius, not. by the ramification of the radius. Veins 
2 and 3 arise from the posterior edge of the cell, 4 and 5 nearing each other from the posterior cell-angle, 6 is 
the continuation of the 1st media, 7 arises from the cross-vein somewhat nearer to 6 than to 8, 8 shortly before 
the second media, 9 from the cross-vein of the accessory cell, nearer to 8 than to 10, If) and 11 separated from 
the distal part of the anterior edge of the cell, 12 freely from the base, thickened at the bottom. Hindwing: 
la. 1 c present, 2 and 3 from the posterior edge of the cell: 3 nearer to 4 than to 2, 4 and 5 from the posterior 
cell-angle, 0 shortly above the media. 7 is the prolongation of the anterior edge of the cell. Head small, porrect. 
Legs thin, hind tibiae without spurs or only with very small spurs; antennae short, short in the $ but distinctly 
pinnate. 
P. micans Hopp (198 g $). 5 head, thorax, legs, abdomen and wings blackish brown with partly greenish 
lustrous scales: antennae black. Apex of forewing and fringes white with a number of bright green lustrous 
scales behind. Hindwing at the distal margin and anal margin with white fringes passing over into greenish 
towards the inner margin. Beneath as above, but the greenish reflection is less intense. Length of forewing: 
17 mm. "Brazil' (Bescke). 
4. Genus: Anopyrops Jordan. 
<3 $ frons one third as broad in the middle as both eyes together (seen from in front). In the proximal 
half of the $ forewing the costa is connected with the cell by an anastomosis in a distal direction from the 
cell; in the $ the anastomosis is rudimentary. 
A. corticina Jordan. <$ antennae with 12 bipectinate joints, the longest tufts as long as 6 diameters of 
the shaft. Body and wings dark greyish brown. Frons, antennae, head beneath and body beneath, interior mar¬ 
gin of hindwing above, base and anal margin of forewing beneath and the hindwing beneath except the costal 
area white. Thorax above mixed with grey. Forewing very broad, round, with the full number of veins, sub¬ 
costal vein 2 of forewing nearer to subcostal vein 1 than to 3; a feeble subbasal fold on the hindwing connects 
the costal vein with the cell. $ much larger than <$; distal margin of forewing more convex, hindwing more 
rounded, anastomosis between the costa and cell of the forewing well developed, either subbasal or near the 
centre of the cell. Longest tufts of the antennae as long as 3 diameters of the shaft. Dark brown; fore wing 
above with numerous small white dots, inner margin on both wings suffused with white. Subcostal vein 2 of 
the forewing nearer to subcostal vein 3 than 1. Length of forewing: <$ 8.5 mm, 9 13.5 mm. French Guiana: 
St. Jean de Maroni. £ type. Surinam: Aroewarwa Greek. Maroewym Valley, May 1905, 2 9? (S.M. Klages). 
