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THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



I venture to propose a new generic term for this species, to be 

 provisionally referred to the Megalopygid^e. 

 Brachycodion, n. gen. 



Male antennje broadly pectinate for less than basal half, the rest 

 short serrate ; of female, simple. Head sunken, eyes large, palpi short, 

 porrect, not reaching the front ; legs siibequal, the tibiae slightly shorter 

 than the femora, the tarsi very slightly longer than the femora, smooth ; 

 no epiphysis ; anterior tibiae unarmed, the middle and posterior with a 

 pair of very short apical spurs. Venation as in the figures. [Venation 



of Brachycodion amanda, Stoll. 

 Rt. = retinaculum of the frenulum in 

 ^ . Figs. 2 1 and 22.] 



'rt. Retinaculum of the frenulum in 



male a long fold from vein 12 and a 

 ?.h6.D shorter reversed one from vein 1 c ; 

 in female, only the latter fold ; fren- 

 ulum well-developed. Body robust. 



Fig. 21. t. J 1 



the thorax in width almost equalling one-third of the length of the costa, 

 as long as wide ; clothed with dense, short, suberect scaly hairs. 

 Abdomen exceeding secondaries in male, scarcely so in female. The 

 wing scales are soatulate with evenly-rounded 

 ends or rounded triangular, conspicuously striate, 



on the secondaries produced into long hairs. (___ -j^ — ^^-i^/ 



The following synopsis of genera has been 

 revised and enlarged from that which I have 

 previously given : — 

 Vein 7 arising nearer base than vein 9. fig. 22. 



Vein 10 on a stalk with 11 ; male antennte pectinate at 



base Brachycodion. 



Vein 10 on a stalk with 7-9 ; male antenn* pectinate to i\^.EuJ>oeya. 

 Vein 7 arising beyond 9. 



Veins 3-4 of secondaries stalked or from same point Carama. 



Veins 3-4 of secondaries not stalked, separate. 



Veins 4-5 of primaries short stalked Mesocia. 



These veins not stalked. 



Vein 8 of secondaries united to 7 to outer third of cell or 

 less. 



Large species ; primaries produced Podalia, 



