14i Mr. Children's Abstract of the Characters of 



merous transverse joints, covered with scales above, pube- 

 scent beneath, each joint producing a bristle. 



Maxilla; setaceous, spiral, not longer than the antennae, fur- 

 nished with tentacula at the apex. 



Labial palpi porrected obliquely, thickly clothed with scales, 

 which are longest beneath and very short on the terminal 

 joint; triarticulate, basal joint short, slightly curved, 

 2nd twice as long, slightly attenuated, and acuminated 

 at the superior angle of the apex, 3rd rigid, compressed, 

 ovate and acuminated, having a longitudinal groove on 

 the side. 



Head thickly clothed with shortish scales : eyes globose : ocelli 

 two. 



Body, thorax subquadrate, slightly crested and trilobed : ab- 

 domen long, robust, sometimes tufted down the back, ob- 

 tuse, dilated at the apex in the males, somewhat tapering 

 in the females. 



Wings deflexed ; anterior long, sublanceolate. 



Legs strong, anterior the shortest : femora thickly ciliated : 

 tibice, anterior thickly clothed with scales, concealing the 

 internal spine, the others spurred, and furnished with a 

 brush of scales on the outside near the middle, the po- 

 sterior with two pair of unequal spurs : tarsi with the 

 basal joint very long, having series of bristles beneath : 

 claws bifid *. 



Larva smooth, cylindrical, feeds on low plants. 



Pupa foUiculated ; metamorphosis subterranean. 



Fam. a. — General colour greyish white, the wings rather 

 short, and rounded. Larva greenish, usually becoming 

 greyish-brown before it changes to the pupa state. 



Fam. B. — General colour brown, the wings longer. Larva 

 dark coloured, dusky. 



Fam. C. — Anterior wings rounded, and dark coloured ; po- 

 sterior yellow, with black margins. Larva whitish- 

 gray coloured. 



Fam. a. Species. Icon. 



1. Pol. Cappa, Hiibn Hiibn. Noct. Tab. 95. fig. 44.7- 



(foem.) 



2. — Chi, Linn Ernst, VL PL CCXLL f. 354. 



3. — Sere7ia, Fab Ernst, VLPl.CCXL. f 352. c— f. 



4. — Dysodea^Hnhn... Ernst, VL Pl.CCXXXIX.f.350. 



5. — Filigrama, Esp... Ernst, VI. Pl.CCXXXIX.f. 350. 



* Characteib from Cuilis, Biil. Ent. VI. 248. 



6. Pol. 



