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Head tufted on the crown : eyes rather small and oval. 



Body, thorax quadrate, thickly clothed with scales: abdometi 

 large, robust, angulated, tufted on the back near the base, 

 ovate conic in the females. 



Whigs slightly deflexed ; superior large, the posterior margin 

 and cilia crenate ; inferior rather small. 



Legs strong, anterior the shortest : _/^?Kora thickly ciliated: 

 tibicv, anterior thickly clothed with scales, concealing the 

 internal spine, middle and posterior spurred, the latter 

 having a pair above the apex, one being very short: tarsi 

 5-jointed, basal joint the longest, as long as the tibia in 

 the anterior pair : claws distinct, bifid : jmlvilli small. 



Larva, head and jiectoral segments depressed, penultimate 

 gibbous or tuberculated *. 



Species. Icon. 



1. Mis. Conspersa, Hlibn. Ernst,VI.Pl.CCXXX.f.332.c.g. 



2. — Compta, Hiibn.... Ernst, VI. PI. CCXXX. f. 332. 



a. b. 



3. — Albimacula,'Borkh. Ernst, VI. PI. CCXXX. f. 331. 



4. — Gemmea,Treitsch.-f 



5. — Culta, Fab Ernst, VI. PI. CCXXIX. f. 329. 



6. — Serpenti na,Treitsch.X 



7. — Oleagina, Fab.§... Ernst, V. PI. CLXXXVI. f. 241. 



8. — Orbicidosa, Esper. Esper. Schm. III. Th. Tab. 93. 



f. 8. 



9. _ Oxyacanthce, Linn. Ernst, VI. PI. CCXXIX. f. 328. 



1 0. — Bimaculosa, Linn. Ernst, VI. PI. CCXXIX. f. 327. 



Curtis, Brit. Ent. IV. PI. 177. 

 Imago et Larva. 



11. — Aprilina, Linn.... Ernst, VI. Pl.CCXXVIILf. 326. 



Genus 58. POLIA, Treitsch. {Curtis.) 



PoLi^, Hubner. 



jhiteiincc inserted close to the eyes on the crown of the head, 

 setaceous, rather stouter in the males, composed of nu- 



• Characters from Curtis, Jhit. Ent. IV. 177. 



f Mis. alis anticis fuscis flavo aiboquc variis, niaculis ordinariis albis, 

 lineistjiie transvcrsis arciiatis atris; posticis cincrcis, lunula iiicdiu fusciiicjuc 

 tcrniinali fuscis. — Ochs. Triilsch. V. pars I. 3y.3. 



X Mis. alis anticis viridesccnti fuscis, nigro iinilatis, maculH rcnifonni 

 albil; poslicis maris niveis nigrocinctis, focniina; cincrco adspersis.— Oc/w. 

 Ticihch. V. pars I. :VM. 



§ Curtis rejects this species, as incompatible witli the pi-nus, on account 

 of its ;;tronply pectinatcil nntenna\ Fabricius clashes it with the Uombyccs. 



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