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C. ornata Wkr. Dark ochreous. Abdomen brown, ash-grey at the base and end. Eorewing ash-grey, ornaia. 
with a purple tint, strewn with small black spots, three red zigzag transverse lines which are edged with whitish 
and black, the first being subbasal, the second antemedian and the third postmedian. Distally to them a series 
of lancet-shaped blackish longitudinal streaks, beyond which there are whitish crescentiform spots edged with 
red and black, a red longitudinal streak edged with whitish is between the second and third transverse lines. 
Hindwing greyish-brown. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. Moreton Bay. 
2. Subfamily: Epipyropmae. 
Separated from the genuine Limacodinae by the absence of the terminal spurs of the tibiae and the 
radial sector in the cell of the forewing arising from the anterior margin of the cell and defining an anterior 
part of the discal cell, which it divides besides by a non-forked discocellular vein. All the veins mostly arise 
from the cell, sometimes some are stalked or coalescent. Vein 8 of hindwing may be connected with the cell 
by a bar, 7 may arise separately from the base, or it may be absent. Of the buccal organs only a two-jointed 
appendage is present, ending with a hair-tuft. Ocelli and chaetosema absent, frenulum plain in both sexes. 
The species are sometimes propagated parthenogenetically. The larvae live on Homoptera (Psyllidae, Jassidae, 
Cicadae) and feed from their wax-secretions, though some species also seem to suck sweet saps. The first stage 
of the larva is campodeiform, whereby it resembles certain, most primitive, wingless insects, later on the larva 
almost looks like a shield-louse. It can let itself down from the infested animal on a silky thread. Sometimes 
several individuals live on one host, in which case, however, only one seems to develop. The species are very 
much alike, the genera are only separated by the neuration which is often very inconstant here, so that the 
position of some species will probably have to be corrected later on. 
Table of Genera: 
1. Hindwing with 8 veins, 7 and 8 of forewing separated.2. 
— Hind wing with less than 8 veins, 7 and 8 of forewing close together or coalescent . . 3. 
2. Vein 8 of hindwing separated . 1. Epipyrops 
— Vein 8 of hindwing connected with the anterior edge of the cell by a bar . ... 2. Epipomponia 
3. Vein 7 of hindwing separately from the base, forewing with 12 veins. 3. Palaeopsyche 
— Vein 7 of hindwing arises from the discal cell, forewing with less than 12 veins . . 4. 
4. 7 -j- 8 of forewing (vein 9 is absent) on a long stalk or coalescent.4. Agamopsyche 
—- 7 and 8 (9 is absent) arise from the same place at most . 5. Heteropsyche 
1. Genus: Epipyrops Ww. (Microlimax Hmps.) 
E. anomala Ww. Brown, some parts dusted with whitish. Eorewing brown, dusted with whitish in anomala. 
some places, a dense row of whitish spots at the costal margin, the spot at the apex being the largest, more 
indistinct white spots after the cell-end, a row of white marginal spots. Hindwing blackish, with whitish fringe. 
Expanse of wings: 30 mm. — Larva on Pyrops Candelaria. China. 
E. poliographa Hmps. (90 h). Body dark olive brown, mixed with grey. Eorewing dark olive brown, poliographa. 
uniformly marked with silvery grey reticulations. Hindwing very dark olive brown. Expanse of wings: 
16—26 mm. Ceylon. 
E. pallidipuncta Hmps. Dark brown, dusted with grey. Eorewing dark brown, dusted with light grey, pallidi- 
a whitish oblique band between veins 2 and 1 right after the centre. Expanse of wings: 10 mm. Ceylon. punda. 
E. atra Pagenst. Forewing monotonously olive brown, partly with silvery scales, especially in the aim. 
disc. Expanse of wings: 10 mm. New Pomerania. 
2. Genus: Epipompoiiia Dyar. 
Separated from the preceding genus by the presence of a cross-vein between 8 and the anterior edge 
of the cell on the hindwing. 
E. nawai Dyar. I have had no access to the description of this species published in a Japanese journal, nawai. 
3. Genus: Palaeopsyche Perk. 
Distinguished from all the other genera by vein 7 of hindwing arising separately, only 4 veins arising 
from the cell, 12 veins in the forewing, 7 and 8 not stalked. 
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