PTEROPHORID.'E-MIM.^SIOPTILUS:. 37J 



abroad is very little known, and only recorded from Ger- 

 many. 



C4enus (J. MIMiESIOPTILUS. 



Antenna? simple, short ; palpi also short, blunt ; head and 

 face smooth ; fore wings cleft to one-third their length, the 

 segments moderately broad, the anterior pointed, and at the 

 hinder edge rather angulated, the other more distinctly so ; 

 tips not di-ooj^ing ; dorsal margin not toothed ; hind wings 

 fully divided, the middle lobe spoon-shaped, hinder lobe very 

 narrow and without a dark tuft ; when at rest the fore wings 

 are a little wrapped round the hind ; legs long and slender 

 but rather plain. 



We have four species, not difficult of recognition. 



A. Pore wings chestnut-red or red-brown. 



B. A yellow cloud before the fissure. J/. pUnodnctijlus. 

 W-. Two small black dots before the fissure. 



M. ptcrododjih'n. 

 A'-. Fore wings grey-brown. 



C. Edge of the costa before the apex narrowly white. 



M. zophodactyh's. 

 C'. Edge of costa dark brown. M. hipiMididacfylva. 



1. M. phaeodactylus, Huh. — Expanse ^ inch (21-23 

 mm.). — Fore win^s rather broad, the lobes blunt and coarsely 

 ciliated ; red-brown with a large, crescent-shaped, yellowish 

 cloud before the fissure. Hind wings darker red-brown. 



Antennae slender, simple, red-bi'own faintly ban-ed witli 

 white ; palpi very small, thread-like, brown ; head, thorax, 

 and abdomen reddish-brown, the latter whitish-brown at 

 the base. Fore wings not very narrow, and but little 

 broader behind, the lobes almost rounded and heavily ciliated ; 

 costa arched over the anterior lobe ; ape.x bluntl}^ pointed or 

 almost rounded ; hind margin not excavated ; dorsal margin 

 only a little concave ; rather silky, red-brow-n ; before the 



