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with the hind-wings deeply concave on the hind margin, and 

 curved outwards below into a broad obtuse lobe, sinuatcd be- 

 tween the anal and outer angles, and with a sub-marginal row 

 of five ocellated spots between the nervures, along thispart of 

 the wing, centred with black, and ringed with red. 



FAMILY XI. THYMARID^.. 



Under this name we may include a few small Indian and 

 African Moths, with pectinated antennae, no frenulum, closed 

 and divided discoidal cells, while the hind-wings are produced 

 or even wholly modified into a long filiform tail. The fore- 

 wings are generally more or less transparent, and the hind-wings 

 are opaque, clothed with hair-like scales. The neuration of 

 the latter is sometimes almost obsolete, at other times it is 

 as simple as in many Tinece. The Moths are more or less re- 

 lated to several different Families ; and those interested in the 

 subject may consult the various references in my "Synonymic 

 Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera," i. pp. 60, 61, and Mr. 

 H. J. Elwes' paper on Moths allied to Himaniopterus^ in the 

 " Transactions of the Entomological Society of London " for 

 1890, pp. 328-338, pi. I. Since then Sir G. llampson (Faun. 

 Brit. Ind. Moths, i, p. 288) has referred them to the Subfamily 

 Phnudincc of the Zy^ce?iiihc^ but adds the information that '* they 

 are degraded forms which have arisen from an ancestral type." 



GENUS THYMARA. 



Thymnra, Doubleday, Zoologist, i. p. 197 (1S43); Walker, 

 Libt Lepid. Ins. liiit. Miis. ii. p. 383 (1854). 



Hind-wings half as broad as long, with the anal angle well 

 marked, and a filiform tail, longer than the wing. 'I'hcrc is a 

 long bisected cell, ending at the base of the tail, wliich is tra- 



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