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the pinch they had received under the thorax." However 

 it may have been fifty years ago, there is no reason to 

 suppose that this species has at any more recent period 

 inhabited this country). 



Genus 3. HYPOGYMNA. 



Antennae short; fore wings of the male short and very 

 broad, of the female long and rather ovate ; hind wings 

 rounded; thorax and abdomen of male slender, of female 

 very stout. 



1. H. dispar, L. — Expanse of male 1| to If inch; of 

 female If to 2^ inches. Male, body slender, wings broad, 

 pale brown clouded with dark brown and having rippled 

 lines ; female, body stout, wings long, whitish with rippled 

 lines and a central black V-mark. 



Antennge of the male short, stiff, inclining forward, 

 curiously curved with the tip pointing downward or backward, 

 strongly pectinated with solid, long, curved teeth, each tooth 

 densely ciliated with fine hairs and tipped with longer 

 bristles, the two rows of teeth being placed more than 

 ordinarily close together ; brown, the shaft sometimes rather 

 paler. Head, and slender thorax, dark brown covered with 

 rather long, loose, raised scales ; abdomen slender and taper- 

 ing, dark brown with a rather long brown anal tuft. Fore 

 wings short and very broad with rounded costal and hind 

 margins, blunt apex, and nearly straight dorsal margin ; pale 

 umbreous or whitish-brown, almost covered with a clouding 

 of dark brown and rippled dark-brown lines; nervures 

 usually darker brown ; at the base is generally a brown or 

 black dot or two, followed immediately by a transverse row 

 of brown dots, beyond which is the usual first line, dark 

 brown or black, irregular and undulating ; the second line is 

 also dark brown, rippled, curved, and scalloped throughout, 

 and precisely imitated by another transverse line placed half- 



