lO* Mr. Children's Abstract of the Characters of 



at the base, the terminal joint not very distinctly exposed ; 

 the basal joint the length of the terminal, subconic ; the 

 following as long again, more slender than the basal, sub- 

 cylindric, a little bent, and slightly attenuated at the tip, 

 which is obliquely truncate ; terminal elongate-ovate : 

 maxillcB rather long, 



Antennce elongate, rather slender, simple in both sexes, each 

 joint producing a short bristle on each side, ciliated be- 

 neath in the males. 



Head rather small, forehead densely crested : eyes rather large, 

 globose, pubescent. 



Thorax subquadrate, with a bifid dorsal crest. 



Abdomen moderate, crested on the back, the apex with a small 

 tuft. 



Larva naked, varied. 



Puj)a subterranean.* 



Species. Icon. 



l.Mam. Pisi, Linn Ernst, VI.Pl.CCLXXXVII.f.477. 



2. — Splendens, Hiibn. Hlibn.Noct.Tab. 85. f.400.(foem.) 



3. — Oleracea, Linn.... Ernst, VIL PI. CCLXXXVIIL 



f. 4-79. 



4. — Suasa, HUbn Ernst, VIL PI. CCLXXXVIL 



f. 478. 



5. — Aliena, Hubn.f... Hiibn. Noct. Tab. 94. f. 44L 



6. — Ntgrica?is,Yievfeg. Hiibn.Noct.Tab.ll6.f.539.{fcem.) 



7. — Chenopodii, Yah. Hiibn. Noct. Tab. 18. f. 86. (mas.) 



8. — Albicolon, Hiibn. Hubn.Noct.Tab.ll7.f.542.(mas.) 



9. — Brassic£e,lAnn.... Ernst, VIL PI. CCLXXIX.f.456. 



10. — Furva, Hiibn Ernst, VII. PI. CCLXXXVI. 



f. 474. c. 



11. — Persicarice, Linn. Ernst, VI. Pl.CCXXXII.f.335. 



12. — RubrirenaX, Treitsch. — — — 



Genus 62. THYATIRA, Ochs. Treitsch. (Curtis.) 



Legs, anterior ; tibice with a compressed spine on the inside ; 

 middle and posterior tibice with a pair of spurs at their 

 apex, one very small, the posterior pair with also two 

 spurs below the middle. 



Wings, deflexed, superior slightly hooked at the posterior an- 

 gle ; inferior large. 



Ante?m<r, alike in both sexes, rather short, clothed with scales 

 above, with short hairs beneath. 



* Characters from Stephens.— Haust. II. 191. 

 t Hama. Stcpli. — Hatist. III. 4. 



\ Mam. alls anticis nigris, maculis strigisque ordinariis rubescentibus ; 

 posticis nigro-griseis, — Ochs., Treitsch. V. /j«rf II. p. 159. 



Palpi 



