BOARMID.E—ODONTOPTERA . 5 1 



perate portions of Northern Europe, Northern Italy, Sicily, 

 Bulgaria, Southern Eussia, and Japan. Probably also over 

 some portions of Central Asia. 



Genus 10. ODONTOPTERA. 



Antennae of the male shortly pectinated ; palpi small ; 

 head rough ; thorax thick, very fluffy with raised soft scales; 

 abdomen moderately stout, smooth, short. Fore wings large, 

 pointed, hind margin provided with numerous long points 

 and rounded hollows ; hind wings crenulated. 



We have only one species. 



1. O. bidentata, Z.— Expanse If to 1^ inch. Wings 

 ample, scalloped behind, and the fore wings there running 

 out into several tooth-like projections ; colour of all the 

 wings pale yellowish-brown or olive-brown ; the discal spot 

 and two transverse lines of the fore wings edged with black. 



Antenna3 of the male pectinated with short, thick, blunt, 

 and densely ciliated teeth nearly to the apex, light brown ; 

 palpi slender, dark brown ; head and thorax rough, and the 

 latter fluffy with abundance of long soft raised scales, pale 

 Ijrown ; abdomen of the same colour, thick, smooth, and 

 rather glossy; lateral tufts rather large; anal tuft small. 

 Fore wings ample; costa scarcely arched; apex very acute; 

 hind margin conspicuously toothed and crenulated behind, 

 the nervures all running out into points and the spaces con- 

 cave between, but the strongest projections being at the tips 

 of veins four and six ; anal angle blunt ; dorsal margin a 

 little rounded; texture rather silky; colour drab-brown, 

 olive-brown, or yellow-brown, faintly dusted with umbreous ; 

 first line erect, but sinuous and throwing out an angle upon 

 the median nervure, dull black ; second line oblique, toler- 

 ably direct, but indented at every nervure, dull black, each 

 indentation emphasised by a white dot, that upon the costal 

 margin rather the largest ; discal spot of the ground colour, 



