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vules and radial nervule extremely slender ; internal nervure very long, 

 running not far from inner margin, terminating at anal angle. Legs of 

 moderate size, first pair smaller tlian rest ; tibiie of first pair very short, 

 without appendage ; tibise of hind ])air usually with two pairs of spurs, 

 but in some species (several I'ahearcLiu and three South- African, viz., 

 WiUcmi, j^gijmn, and Mcninx) with the terminal pair only, — no ^ tuft 

 in any species ; tarsi stout and rather long, especially first joint, and 

 usually more or less finely spinulose beneath. 



AMomcii long (in ^ very slender), and extending as far as or a 

 little beyond anal angle of hind-wings), tufted at tip ; basal half more 

 or less hairy. 



Larva. — Moderately slender {Morplicus) or stout (Pakcmon) ; head 

 smaller than usual in this Family. 



Pupa. — Slender, elongate, very narrowly acuminate posteriorly ; 

 frontal spine long, straight, projecting horizontally {Morpheus). 



(These characters of the larvie and pupa of the European species 

 named are from figures by Duponchel and Guenee, and by Boisduval, 

 Eambur, and Graslin.) 



I do not think that Carteroecphalus can be held distinct from 

 Cyclopides, the only peculiar characters being the slightly lower origin 

 of the lower radial nervule of the fore-wings, and the longer discoidal 

 cell of the hind-wings; for, as Sj^eyer {Stctt. Eat. Zeif., 1878, p. 181) 

 points out, the absence of the second pair of spurs on the hind-tibise — 

 upon which Lederer chiefly relied — is an unstable distinction, occurring 

 in Ci/cl. ornatus, Breni. This want of the second pair of spurs also 

 characterises (as mentioned in my diagnosis above) the South-African 

 Willemi, uEgipan, and Mcninx, and these three species are further 

 linked by the short first subcostal nervule of the fore-wings runnin'^ 

 into the costal nervure ; but these forms are very unlike in facies and 

 pattern of markings. The most aberrant of the known species seems 

 to be Lcpcleticrii, Godt., in which the club of the anteunce ends in an 

 acute point, the palpi are rather longer, the fore-wings more pointed, 

 and the abdomen is thicker ; but in all these features it is approached 

 by Tsita and Inornatus, Trim., which also resemble it in their un- 

 spotted plain brown colouring. The South-African conspicuously 

 yellow-spotted species are Metis, Or., and Malgacha, Boisd. ; those more 

 faintly and sparsely spotted are WiUemi, Wallgrn., Syrinx, Trim., and 

 the $ of jEgipan, Trim. ; the little Meninx, Trim., is gaily yellow- 

 spotted along the hind-margins on the under-side, and it. Syrinx, and 

 Lepcleticrii alike have two longitudinal white stripes on the under side 

 of the hind-wings. WiUcmi presents on the under side of the hind- 

 wings a very peculiar pattern of black neuration and cross-streaks on 

 a pale yellow-ground. 



The prominent distinguishing characters of this genus are the 

 absence of any appendage to the fore-tibia3, the not infrequent absence 

 of tlie secom-l or middle pair of spurs on the hind-tibia3, the slender- 



