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100 BRITISH MOTHS 
irregular black border. The caterpillar is pale-leaden colour, with black and red dots. 
It feeds on various 
plants, including the field mouse-ear (Myosotis arvensis), 
The moth has been taken in this country in September 
and October, but Boisduval gives June as the time of its appearance. It is extremely rare in this country, 
but has been taken near Brighton and Christchurch as well as in Yorkshire. The species is very widely 
distributed. I have received it from the island of Mauritius; and Col. Hearsey reared great numbers of 
specimens from caterpillars found on the Marvel of Peru, in his garden, at Saugor, in the centre of India, although 
the moth had not been seen there before that plant was introduced into the garden. It is also stated to be 
a native of America, but probably some other species has been mistaken for it. 


KU LEPIA *, Curtis, EMYDIA, Borspuvat. 
This genus is at once distinguished by having the antenne bipectinated in the males, as well as by the 
short spiral tongue and the very short palpi, with the two terminal joints of nearly equal size. The fore 
wings are long and narrow, and ornamented with numerous black markings. The caterpillar does not 
materially differ from those of the Lithosiz. 
SPECIES 1.—KULEPIA GRAMMICA. Puare XX., Fie. 3, 4. 
Synonymes.—Phalena (Bomb.) grammica, Linn.; Haworth; Bombyz striata, Borkhausen (variety). 
Ochsenheimer; Godart; Donovan, vol. 13, pl. 450. Stephens Illustr., Bombyx melanoptera, Brahm. (variety). 
2, pl. 17, fig. 3. (Eulepia gr.) Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 8, fig. 93, Spiris grammica, Hiibner 3 Verz. bek. Schmett. 
This very rare and handsome species measures rather less than 14 inch in expanse of the fore wings, which 
are of a yellow clay colour, with blackish radiated stripes, and a darker transverse spot at the extremity of 
the discoidal cell. The hind wings dark orange, with a broad blackish border composed of spots more or less 
confluent, and the base dark. The thorax is clay-coloured, with black streaks, and the abdomen orange, 
with several rows of black spots. As noticed in the synonymes, the species is liable to considerable variation in 
the spots of the wings. The caterpillar is dark brown, with an orange dorsal line, a white line on each side, 
and reddish tubercles emitting bundles of hairs. It feeds on Festuca duriuscula, Hieracium Pilosella, Artemisia 
vulgaris and campestris, Prunus spinosa, Erica vulgaris, and various other plants, in May, and the moth is stated 
by Boisduval and Ochsenheimer to appear in June and July. It is extremely rare in this country, but specimens 
have been taken in September and October at Windsor and in the Isle of Anglesea. 

SPECIES 2.—EULEPIA CRIBRUM. Puare XX., Fie. 5. 
Synonymes.—Phal. (Bomb.) cribrum, Linn.; Hiibner ; Esper ; Borkh.; Ochsenh. ; Curtis, Brit. Ent. pl. 56 ; Wood, Ind. Ent., pl. 8, fig. 94, 
Coscinia cribrum, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. 
This pretty species measures rather less than 14 inch in the expanse of its fore wings. It is of a pale grey 
white, the fore wings with five curved fasciz formed of black spots running across the wings, with two 
longitudinal black lines, and several spots along the apical margin of the wing. The hind wings dark brown, 
with the disc paler; the body spotted with black ; the apex of the abdomen yellowish. 
The species has been found on heaths in Hampshire, (Parley Heath and Ringwood,) by Messrs. Bentley and 
Dale. 
* Derived from the Greek, in allusion to the pretty disposition of the scales in the fore wings. 

