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Genus XIX. — Tiiy.mele, Fubrkins. 



Palpi rather long, thickly clothed with hair ; the terminal joint somewhat obtuse, 

 projecting rather beyond the hirsuties. Antennw a little elongate, witli a 

 curved fusiform club, not terminating in an acute hook : unfirior win'(s short, 

 broad, triangular, rounded posteriorly; pnsfcri„r broad, rounded-triangular, 

 entire, or slightly denticulated. Larm naked. Ch' y salts with the head-case 

 notched. 



Thymele differs from Pamphila by the comparative brevity of 

 its wings, and their rotund form: the antennae arc considerably 

 more elongate, and their capitulum is incurved, and not furnished 

 at its extremity with a iiook : the palpi are longer and more hairy : 

 the costa of the anterior wings is rounded at the base, and in the 

 males it has a longitudinal fold, as in many of the Tortricidie. 

 The species are generally distinguished by tints of black or dusky, 

 spotted more or less with white, or pale colours. 



Sp. 1. Alveolus. Alls nigj'is albo niaculatis punctatisquc, jmsticis subtiis vircs- 

 centibus, viaculis punctisque aliis, ciliis albis nigrisque. (Exp. alar. 10 — 14 hn.) 



Pa. Alveolus. Hiibner. — Pa. Malva;. Leivin, pi. i6. f. S, 9. — Th. Alveolus. 

 Stej)/i. Cat a/. 



Above black or dusky, with numerous white or cream-coloured quadrangular 

 notched spots, the black ground thickly irrorated with whitish ; the posterior 

 wings with the white spots in the centre, forming an interrupted band : all 

 the wings with a wliite or cream-coloured fringe barred with black : beneath, 

 the anterior wings are pale greenish-gray, with white spots, as above ; the 

 posterior wings are yellowish or grayish-green, with the ncrvures paler, and 

 spotted as above, but the spots rather larger : fringe with the black bars 

 narrower than on the upper surface. 



Var. 0. Steph. Caial. With an oblong white or cream-coloured blotch on both 

 sides in the centre of the anterior wings towards tlie anterior margin, which 

 is frequently doubled by the confluence of two contiguous spots ; the rest of 

 the white spots on the anterior wings are more oblong and larger than in var. «. 



Both the above varieties are subject to still other variations: the lirst frequently 

 occurs with all the spots on the anterior wings very minute, while tiiosc of the 

 posterior are remarkably large, and vice versa. Again, var. /3 occurs with the 

 upper wings nearly all whitish or cream-coloured, witli a single whitish spot 

 alone in the centre of the posterior, while others have a central and marginal 

 fascia of spots. It may be added that var. B has been considered a-s a distinct 

 species, and is apparently synonymous with the Ilespcria Lavatenc of Fa- 

 bricius; but I have most satisfactory proofs of tlie insect in (juostion being a 

 mere variety of Th. Malv;r, one of my specimens having the character of var. « 

 on one anterior wing, and of var. /B on tlie other; anil I possess a scries gra- 

 dually varying from the confluent to the simple spots on all the wings. 

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