Seitz:

89. Genus: Episcepsis Btlr.
Species of medium to big size, with a preponderantly dim colouring of the wings, usually with metal- colours on the abdomen. The forewings, being rather broad, exhibit the usual neuration, the hindwings mostly show in the a long hair-tuft in an anal fold of the proximal angle being here often extended to a point. The Cu2 vein rises far from the lower cell-angle, Cu1 and M2 from it, M2 distinctly from above it. The base of the abdomen is covered with long hair.


Cat. Lep. Ph. Brit. Mus. Key:

- HW Cu2 well before cell angle
- HW M2 present
- Abdomen with 2nd segment not constricted
- Antenna shaft not fringed with hair
- Abdomen without lateral tufts
- FW with Cu1, Cu2 from cell, M3 from lower angle
- Palpi upturned, 3rd joint erect
- HW with M2 from above cell angle
- HW R and M1 from cell, rarely very shortly stalked
- HW M2 and M3 from cell, very rarely stalked
- Abdomen dorsally clothed with rough hair at base
- FW M2,3 not approximated
- FW M1 from cell angle
- HW Cu2 from about middle of cell which is 2/3 of wing.