the Gcometrina of the Euroj^e. in fauna. Gl 



Inner marginal furrow without hair tuft . , 5. Bessophoha. 



28. Thorax hairy beneath ; pali^i with long rougli 



hairs -..34. Dasyuris. 



Thorax glabrous ; palpi with projecting scales 29. 



29. Fore wings in ^ with hair-pencil beneath along 



vein lb 21. Eustroma. 



Fore wings in ^ without hair-pencil on vein 1 b 30. 



30. Fore wings in ^ with streak of spreading hairs 



clothing submedian fold beneath , . . . 20. Lasiooma. 



Fore wings in ^ without submedian streak of 



hairs . . . . . . . . . , . . 31. 



31. Abdomen in ^ with anal claspers extremely large, 



exserted I9. Philerejie. 



Abdomen in ^ with anal claspers normal . . 32. 



32. Face flat, smooth . . . . . . . . . . 33. 



Face rounded, with more or less projecting scales 34. 



33. Hind wings in ^ with vein 3 absent . . . . 7. Lygranoa. 

 Hind wings in ^ with all veins present , . 26. Asthena. 



31. Abdomen with segmental crests throughout . . 13. Eucymatoge. 

 Abdomen not crested, or at most on one or two 



basal segments 24. Hydriouexa. 



1. Sparta, Stgr. 

 Face smooth. Palpi porrected. Antennae in <? bipectinated to 

 apex. Thorax glabrous beneath. Posterior tibife with all spurs 

 present. Fore wings with areole double. Hind wings in ^ much 

 reduced, with inner marginal lobe forming a pocket ; 2 in ^ absent, 

 8 connected to cell by bar, cell short. 



A development of Lobophora ,- it appears to have dis- 

 tinct affinity with the South American Dyspteris. It 

 contains only one South European species. 

 paradoxaria, Stgr. 



2. Trichopteryx, lib. 

 Face smooth. Palpi short or long, porrected, rough-scaled. 

 Antennae in g- filiform, shortly ciliated. Thorax glabrous beneath. 

 Abdomen sometimes crested. Posterior tibite in both sexes with 

 median spurs absent, in <? sometimes with long hair-pencil. Fore 

 wings with areole double. Hind wings in ^ with folded lobe on 

 inner margin, neuration more or less distorted ; G and 7 sometimes 

 separate, 8 in ^ connected by bar with cell near apex, or rarely 

 with 7, or as in ? , in ? anastomosing with cell from near base to 

 beyond middle, or rarely as in $ . 



A limited genus, immediately developed from Lobo- 

 phora; it occurs througliout the temperate regions of 



