Ochsenheimer's Genera of the Lepidoptera uf Europe. 119 



of their greatest activity : and whilst we allow that intervals 

 of long repose were necessary for the operations of deposit 

 and formation, we must also confess that they have given 

 place to paroxysms of perhaps not immeasurable activity. 



An act like the elevation of the anticlinal line, which 

 formed the basins of London and Hampshire, or the subsi- 

 dence of these basins, would be alone sufficient to raise a wave 

 that would drown the habitable parts of half a hemisphere. A 

 few such actions coming into play contemporaneously, or in 

 quick succession, aie cause sufficient for a deluge. The sa- 

 gacity of a living geologist has shown that such a deluge was 

 universal; and a little further research only is sufficient to 

 show, that we need not leave our own planet for secondary 

 causes adequate to the purpose : to show also, that the flood 

 which left us the " Reliquiaj Diluvianae," was the flood of 

 denudation ; and that that flood (denudation being in many 

 cases ruled by disruption and devastation from below) went 

 and came upon the earth many days. 



Pulborough, Jan. 1, 1829. 



XIX. Aji Abstract of the Characters o/' Ochsenheimer's Genera 

 of the Lepidoptera of Europe ; 'with a List of the Species of 

 each Genus, and Heferencc to one or viore of their respective 

 Icones. By J. G. Children, F.R.S. L. S,- E. F.L.S. &)C. 

 [Continued from page 51.] 



Genus 38. PSYCHE, Schrank, {Steph.) 

 Canephor.e, Hiibn. Bombyx, Fab., Latr. 



Legs slender, transparent, scarcely pilose; posterior tarsi with 

 very short spurs at the apex. 



Wifigs in the male elongate, rounded posteriori}^, very trans- 

 parent, slightly hairy; wanting in the females. 



Afitcwue— of the male rather short, bipectinated, the pectina- 

 tions twisted and very pilose : — of the female very short, 

 simple, submoniliform, the two basal joints very large and 

 robust, the rest small. 



Palpi and maxilUe none, replaced by a loose tuft of hair. 



Head and thorax scarcely pilose, shining : abdomen of the male 

 rather robust, thickly pilose ; — of the female naked, rather 

 glossy above, with a woolly mass at the apex : ovipositor 

 exserted, subtruncate *. 



Larva inclosed in a cylindrical case, composed of blades of 



• Characters from Htci)licns. Illiisl. Brit. Knl. II. llmist. \u 7i». 



grass, 



