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scales beneath, extending from base to beyond middle, wliicli covers a pencil of 

 fine hairs ; cell half the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-half before end of the 

 cell, second and third close to the end, third bifid, fifth from the end ; discocellular 

 very obliquely concave, radials from the ends ; middle median from angle close to 

 end, lower at one-fifth ; submedian bent upward near the base, with a lower 

 recurved slender branch extending to one-third its length : hindwing longer than 

 broad, triangular, exterior margin slightly convex ; cell nearly two-fifths the lengtli ; 

 subcostals from the end, upper partly joined to costal ; discocellular outwardly 

 oblique, slightly concave, radial from lower end ; two upper medians from end, 

 lower at one-fourth ; a submedian and two internal veins. Body moderately stout ; 

 abdomen long, tufted at the apex ; frontal tuft ridged at the sides ; labial palpi 

 long, porrect, rostriform, pointed in front, third joint concealed ; maxillary palpi 

 dilated with dense scales at the tip, truncate ; antennfe stout and flattened at the 

 base, filiform, base of shaft excavated on inner side facing an erect projection of 

 scales from basal joint ; antennae in female simple ; legs finely squamous, inner spurs 

 long, slender, outer short. 

 Tijjie, P. psittacalis. 



PACHYARCHES PSITTACALIS. 



Parotis psittacalis, Hiibner, Saraml. Exot. Schmett. iii. p. 30, No. 262, figs. 523-4 (lS2o). 



Margarodes psittacalis, Guenee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 308 (18ol). 



JMargaronia jisittacalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xviii. p. 529. 



Paclii/arches psittacalis, Lederer, Pyral. Wien. Ent. Monat. vii. p. 39S ; Meyrick, Trans. Enf. Soc. 



Lond. 1884, p. 296. 

 Margaronia maliferalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxxiv. 1363 (1865), J'. 



Apple-green. Both wings with a slight black dentate spot at end of the cell, 

 ])ut which are obsolete in the female ; cilias cinereous-ochreous : forewing brownish- 

 ochreous along edge of the costa. Palpi above brighter brownish-ochreoas, white 

 beneath ; anal tuft in male dark brown ; legs -white above, greenish beneath ; fore 

 femora and tibise with ochreous baud ; middle femora with ochreous knee and tibiae 

 ■with basal streak ; basal tuft of autennaj in male tipt with ochreous. 



Expanse, c? 2 , 1 a> to l^u inch. 



PACHYARCHES POMONALIS (Plate 182, Fig. 7, $). 



Margarodes poinonalis, Giu-uee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 309 (1854). 

 Margaronia pomonalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. SI. xviii. p. 530. 

 Pachyarches pomonalis, Lederer, Pyral. Wien. Ent. Jlonat. vii. p. 398. 



Pale apple-green, tinged with yellow; costal edge of forewing white. Cilia of 

 both wings white, with a slender yellowish inner line. Palpi green above, white at 

 the base ; legs entirely white ; anal tuft in male black. 



Expanse, $ ? , 1 tV to Iju inch. 



