118 JOHN B. SMITH. 



Antenufe fusiform, with a long recurved book, or only a slightly curved tip. 



Abdomen obtuse, form heavy, wings wide PMCliylia. 



Abdomen more slender, pointed ; wings narrower ; form more graceful. 



Phi lam pel us. 



Anteunse short, not recurved at tip, wings more sinuate, legs weak, head more 



retracted Anipelopliaga. 



.I:L.L.0P0S Hiib. 

 Verzeichniss 131. 



Body depressed, fusiform, iintufted ; vestiture smooth. Head 

 broad, prominent, obtuse ; palpi closely applied, stout, reaching to 

 the middle of the front and there appearing to form part of the head, 

 pointing it off neatly. Tongue moderate in length, reaching about 

 to end of thorax, strong, corneous. Eyes lenticular, not at all promi- 

 nent. Antennte slightly thickened toward tip, forming a somewhat 

 indistinct club, with a short, recurved, but not spiniform tij). Legs 

 moderate, not spinose, becoming gradually longer and stouter poste- 

 riorly ; middle tibiffi with short terminal spui'S, posterior with two 

 pair of spurs, the upper ]>aii' short. Aljdomen with a fan-like tuft 

 of long, flattened hairs at tip, and laterally on the sixth segment. 

 The lower edges of the segments spinulose. Primaries with eleven 

 veins, venation of the usual type. Secondaries with three and four 

 from the same point, five midway between four and six ; six and 

 seven from the end of the subcostal. Primaries comparatively 

 small, apex acute, outer margin very oblique, even, inner margin 

 very little sinuate, and about three-fifths as long as costa. Seconda- 

 ries small, slightly produced at the anal angle, else entire. 



This genus is a very readily recognizable one. The somewhat de- 

 pressed, fusiform body, broad head, snuill wings and fan-shaped anal 

 tuft are distinctive. The abdomen exceeds the secondaries by more 

 than half its length, and the primaries are inserted in thorax about 

 two-fifths from the head. 



The genus is a tropical one, and the two forms in our catalogue 

 are aberrant members of our family — rather emigi-ants who have a 

 precarious sort of a footing and make occasional journeys northward 

 than as natives. The species have been found as far North as Mas- 

 .sachusetts and grow commoner Southward. Their true home, how- 

 ever, is in subtropical America. Two species aj)pear in our cata- 

 logue, — titan and tantalus, the first described by Linnaeus, the other 

 described by Cramer. Walker united them, and so did Clemens. 



