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SELIDUSEMA Lederer. Phitc 2, tig. Hi. 



ndonia Trcils. (in iiart)- ><clini. Eur., vi (i ), '-'(rJ, 18vl7. 



Dup. (in pail). J-i'l). France, viii (iv), 407, IH-^y. 

 Boisel..(in part), Gen. Iml., 11)0, 1840. 

 ruiuiiia ami Iloarmia II.-8cli. (in part), Schui. ICnr., iii. 7(1, 84. 1847. 

 fiihmia Stepli. (in jiart), t'at. lirit. Lcp., 158, IS.'iO. 

 .SV/(rf(>«-Hi(i Lcilercr, Vi'i'li. Bot. Zool. Ge.s. Wieii,'-':W, 18.-.:!. 

 C.nou., Plial., ii, 14."), 18')7. 

 Walk., List l.i-'p. Hct. Br. Mils.. .\xiv. hllV,, iMi;-.'. 



Body rat her sloiit. Male abdomen long and slender, tip wiin .>;])readiiig 

 hairs. Heat! of moderate size. Palpi very long and slender, porrect, some- 

 times extending beyond the head l)y a distaiiee as great as the length of the 

 head: third joint nearly as long as the seeond. A pointed tutt of short hairs 

 between the palpi. Antenncie with nnusually long i)ectinations, the tip sud- 

 denly simple. Fore wings acute, tip pointed and square, or a little rounded; 

 costa arched a little, slightly sinnous: outer edge convex, not angled. Hind 

 wings a little produced toward the apex, the outer edgi^ not very convex, 

 sHghtly scalloped. Venation much as m EiiKitiii:^!', \n\\ the subcostal venules 

 are much shorter, and there are .three subcostal veins instead of two, the 

 second and third very short and equal in length There is no subcostal areole, 

 the first subcostal not joining its main vein again, as in Ematurga and Lozo- 

 gramma. Tli(> discal veins are as in Ematurga. Hiiul legs very long and 

 slender; hind tibia; long, not swollen; tibiis as long as the tarsi. Coloration 

 light ochreous-gray, irroratcd with l>rown, with a single incomplete extra- 

 discal line. 



These characters have l)een drawn up from N. Ju/un/aria ami the Eu- 

 roiiean erketana (plnmaria) alone. The Califoinian species has more pointed 

 wings than the European, while the. latter has very short pal|u, but the pecti- 

 nations of the antennaj are twice as long as in the other species, and tiie hind 

 tibiie are shorter and thicker. It need not be conlbunded with i^//;;a/«A- or 

 Fido7iia, or its allied Ibrms Ematurga, &c. It has tiie bod}' of L,ozogiamma 

 and Thamnononia, but dillers from them in the plumose antennfc. The vena- 

 tion 1 do not regard as liiu- Cjimatophora (Boannia), as stated by Lederer. 

 ']'he species are of large size. 



Larva. — "Caterpillars cylindrical, neither attenuated nor carinated ; 

 without any tubercles; head globular; living ou low plants. Chrysalides 

 subterranean.'' — ({uenee. 



