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Localities of Pz/rr/us Tuciosa. 



I. South Africa. 

 E. Natal. 



h. Upper Districts. — Estcourt (./. M. Ilutclunson). 

 K. Transvaal.— (//. Barber). 



Genus TIIYMELICUS. 



rampkila, Westwood (part), Gen. Diurn. Lcp., ii. p. 521 (1S52). 



Pampliila, Trimeii (pari), Khop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 297 (1866). 



Thiimelirus (Iliibner, 1816), llerricli-Scliall'., Corr.-lJlatt. Zool.-Miu. A^er. 



Kegensb., 1868, p. 44. 

 TliijmeUcm, Speyer, Stett. Eiit. Zeit., 187S, p. 182, and 1879, p. 4S8. 

 Thymelkus, Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1884, p. 284. 



Imago. — Head with usual small tuft of hairs close to origin of each 

 antenna : palpi long, — the second joint densely hairy, — the third 

 long, ascendant or erect, or horizontally porrected, clothed with short 

 appressed hairs ; antenna short, with a gradually-formed sub-cylindrical 

 club, thinner and slightly curved towards tip (which is blunt). 



Thorax robust and hairy. Wings with neuration as in Pampliila, 

 Fab. Fore-ivings more or less pointed apically ; discoidal cell about 

 three-fifths the length of the wing, its very slender closing nervules 

 forming an inwardly oblique line ; ^ in some species with a lower 

 discal linear groove running obliquely from second median nervule near 

 its origin to submedian nervure before middle. Hind-iuings small, 

 bluntly rounded, usually rather prominent (sometimes much so) anal- 

 angularly ; discoidal cell very short, from one-third to less than half 

 the length of the wing, — its closing nervule angulated inwardly in the 

 middle. Legs rather short and thick ; femora (especially hind ones 

 superiorly) more or less hairy ; appendage to tibias of first pair incon- 

 spicuous, often with difficulty perceptible among the scaly hairs ; tarsi 

 spinulose beneath. 



Abdomen rather long, — in ^ laterally compressed and slightly tufted 

 at extremity. 



Larva. — Slender, gradually attenuated anteriorly, rather abruptly 

 pointed posteriorly ; head small ; no hairs on tubercles. 



Pupa. — Slender and elongate ; frontal spike of head short ; ex- 

 tremity of abdomen very attenuated and acute ; case of haustellum 

 extending freely to about half the length of abdomen. 



(These characters are those of the early stages of Thaumas (Linea) 

 and Lincola (European species), as figured and described by Hlibner, 

 Duponchel, and Boisduval.) 



There is little to distinguish this genus from Pampliila, Fab., 

 except the blunt unhooked club of the antenna?, and the much longer 

 and usually more erect terminal joint of the palpi. In the former 



