Three New Species of The Genus Hepialus From yunnan and Xizang,China (Lepidoptera:Hepialidae)

In the present paper,three species of the genus Hepialus are described as new.The types of 3 new species were collected from the snow mountains of alpine meadow.Three species of the larvae can be parasitized by a kind of fungi,Cordyceps,to form the Chinese insect herb,a precious ingredient of traditional Chinese medicine.The types of 3 new species are kept in the Kunming Institute of Zoology,Academia Sinica,Kunming,China.