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three sub-median, and usually seven other, nervures. Body 

 slender. Legs long, and strongly spurred. 



The Pyrales include a large series of moths of small size 

 and delicate structure. Guenee's "Deltoides et Pyralites" (1854, 

 cf. vol. iv. pp. XXX. 166), treated only of the typical Pyrales ; 

 the Cravibi^ which most authors now include in the same main 

 group, being omitted. He divided the former into a number of 

 families, chiefly based on European species. His arrange- 

 ment was severely criticised by Lederer, who published a 

 valuable series of papers on the Fyralidie, very fully illustrated, 

 in the "Wiener Entomologische Monatschrift," vol. vii., for 

 1863. Lederer established some new families for foreign species, 

 but placed almost the whole of Guenee's series of genera in 

 a single family. Since then, entomologists have more or less 

 combined or rearranged Guenee's families, and various new 

 ones have been proposed for foreign species. In the case of 

 the Micro-Lepidoptera, it would be impossible for us to deal with 

 the families so fully as in the case of the Macro-Lepidoptera, 

 and we shall therefore only give a selection of some of the 

 more important genera, and indicate the families to which 

 they belong. 



GENUS CHRYSAUGE. {ChlJsaugidcU.) 



Chrysauge, Hiibner, Saraml.Exot. Schmett. ii. pi. 156 (1824?) ; 

 Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 367 (1854); 

 Lederer, Wien. Ent. Mon. vii. p. 331 (1863). 



These are comparatively large and stout South American 

 moths, with short up-curved palpi, and rather broad black and 

 yellow wings. On the costa of the fore-wings of the male is a 

 rounded prominence, filled with hair beneath. 



Walker extended this genus to include the family which we 

 have already discussed under the name of Cyllopodidce {a>itca, 

 vol. iii. p. 186) 



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