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with the girdle is evident, the tegumen being ample and broad 

 at the base, tapering slowly to a pointed apex ; the harpagones 

 are exceedingly broad, slightly reduced at the apex, which is 

 well and evenly excised, thus making the upper and lower 

 apices to be somewhat pointed; the harpago is very deeply 

 excised just below the upper margin forming a longish very 

 narrow apophysis at that point ; the sedoeagus is of but 

 moderate size, straight, with the apex shortly tapered. 



Dicyclodes hieroglyphica, Warr., 



is perhaps the most interesting Lepidopteron in one respect 

 that I have yet examined, as it shows the sternite and tergite 

 sections {i. e. the reproductive and the anal armature) quite 

 distinct and apparently unconnected with each other — this 

 appears to be a vestige of a very ancient character. The 

 cingula is confined to the tergite, being at the dorsum a well- 

 developed hood, suddenly reduced and descending to the 

 articulation of the two sections, where a pair of longish cone- 

 shaped apophyses meet the two lateral arms and appear to 

 be fused with them, not articulated; the apophyses are 

 edged with a very short and fine upright fringe of hairs ; the 

 tegumen, articulated to the dorsal hood, is a single strong 

 curved horn-shaped process; the anus lies between the 

 laterals of the hood. The harpagones are very large and 

 broad, irregularly waved in outline, with the upper margin 

 developed into a fairly long broadish lobe, the two harpagones 

 are united together along their costa by a deeplj^ hollowed 

 chitinous curtain that forms the support to the excessively 

 large sedceagus, which is furnished at its upper apex with two 

 longish stout curved horns, below and to the rear of which is 

 the vesica, armed entirely with very short teeth, its internal 

 area being also armed with a copious covering of teeth, whilst 

 a long horn-like apophysis, probably in the ductus ejacula- 

 torius, is very prominent. 



Odezia atrata, L., 



has the cingula excessively large and broad with a small 

 saccus and with no trace of sectional articulation ; it is pro- 

 duced forwards below the dorsum into a pair of broad lateral 

 lobes, between which the basal part of the tegumen is articu- 



