BOMBYCOID^. 3 



branch at nearly one-half before the end; snbraodian slightly curved: hindwinjr 

 narrow, costa almost straight, exterior margin oblique, convex, waved ; costal vein 

 slightly bent near the base, extending to apex, subcostal touching the costal at the 

 angle near base, two subcostal branches from end of the cell ; discocellular slightl\- 

 bent below the middle, the radial from the angle; middle median from angle near 

 end of the cell, lower median at nearly one-third before the end ; submedian and 

 internal vein straight. Body somewhat slender ; palpi ascending, second joint thick, 

 long, laxly squamose, rising to level of vertex, third joint slender, lanceolate, more 

 than half length of second; antennae simple; legs thickish, tibiffi stout, clothed witli 

 hairy scales, middle tibias with two, and hind tibia? with four spurs. 

 Type, B. glandifera. 



BRYOPHILA SEMIPAES. 



Brtjophila semipars. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. Brit. Miis. xv. p. 1647 (1858). 



"Testaceous-cinereous: forewings thickly speckled with black, excepting the 

 middle third part, which is slightly speckled with black, has a zigzag black line on 

 each side, and contains a brown costal spot and the reniform mark, which is distin- 

 guished by a deep black transverse streak ; basal, interior, and submarginal lines 

 testaceous-cinereous, zigzag, and distinct : hindwings cinereous-brown, with a pale 

 denticulated line along the exterior border. Thorax thickly speckled with black ; a 

 black band along the fore border. 



" Expanse 12 lines." 



Family BOMBYCOIDJE. 



Imago of moderate size ; body thick and hairy, sometimes crested above. Larva 

 with the ordinary spots warty, and more or less tufted with hairs. {Stai7doii..) 



Genus DIPHTHERA. 

 Diphthera, Hiibner, Tentamen, p. 1 (1806) ; Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 63 (1816). 

 Pwcilia* (part), Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii. 2, p. 157 (1802); Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 204 



(1818-25). 

 Moma, Lederer, Noct. Eur. p. 76 (nee Hiibner). 



Male. Forewing elongated ; costa almost straight, exterior margin oblique, 

 posterior margin slightly recurved; cell long, extending three-fifths the wing; first 

 subcostal emitted at one-half before end of the cell, second at one-fifth, trifid, fifth 

 from end of the cell and slightly touching third near its base ; discocellular bent near 

 upper and lower end, radials from the angles ; middle median from angle close to end 

 of the cell, lower at one-third before the end ; submedian slightly recurved : hindwino- 



* Previously used for a genus of Fishes. 

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