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one-tliird before the end ; submedian recurved : hindwing short, apex convex ; two 

 subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular slightly concave, bent below the middle, 

 radial from the angle ; two upper medians from end of the cell, lower at one-third ; 

 submedian and internal vein straight. Body moderately stout ; palpi ascending, 

 second joint reaching level of the eyes, loosely clothed, third joint short, cylindrical ; 

 antennae setose ; legs stout, spurred. (D. pinastri.) 



DYPTEEYGIA STJBCURVA (Plate 145, Fig. 8). 



Iladena subcurva. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xi. p. 592 (1857), tj. 

 Hadena postica, Walker, id. p. 594, J. 



Male : forewing blackish purplish-ferruginous ; crossed by subbasal and ante- 

 medial outwardly oblique sinuous duplex black lines, and similar discal lines which 

 are outwardly angulated at the median vein ; a submarginal series of longitudinal 

 black streaks which are most distinct on middle of the exterior border ; two marginal 

 rows of indistinct ferruginous dots ; between the lines across the middle are two 

 indistinct less sinuovis blackish lines ; orbicular and reniform spots indistinct : hind- 

 wing cuprescent-brown, paling to cinei'eous at the base ; cilia edged with cinereous- 

 white below the apex and at anal angle. Body blackish-ferruginous, sides of abdomen 

 cinereous-brown; legs with pale bauds. Female paler : forewing with a ferruginous- 

 white broken patch at the posterior angle, and some speckles along the exterior 

 margin. 



Expanse li^ inch. 



Genus LAPHYGMA. 



Laphygma, Guenee, Noct. i. p. 156 (1852). 



Tdmia (part), Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 227 (1818-25). 



Male : forewing elongated, narrow ; cell extending two-thirds the length ; first 

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

 from end of the cell, ascending and slightly touching third near its base ; disco- 

 cellular concave, radials from upper and near lower end ; middle median from angle 

 close to end of the cell, lower at one-fourth ; submedian recurved : hindwing rather 

 long, narrow, apex convex, exterior margin obliquely recurved; two subcostals from 

 end of the cell ; discocellular concave, radial from below the middle ; two upper 

 medians on a footstalk beyond end of the cell, lower at about one-third before end 

 of the cell ; submedian and internal vein straight. Body moderately slender ; palpi 

 thick, ascending, squamose : apical joint minute, conical ; antenna slender, minutely 

 ciliated ; legs slender, long, middle and hind tibige with long spurs. {L. exUjua.) 



LAPHYGMA OBSTANS. 



Laphygma obslans, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. p. 653 (1865). 



"Male. Ferruginous-brown: forewings blackish-brown, with black broadly 

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