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XXVIIL An Abstract of the Characters of Ochsenheimer's 

 GeneraoftheLepidoptera of Europe; 'with a List of the Species 

 of each Gemis, and Reference to one or more of their respec- 

 tive Icones. By J. G. Children, F.R.S. L, 8)- E. F.L.S. 4-c. 

 [Continued from page ] 07.] 



Genus 66. CARADRINA, Ochs., Treitsch. 



(Steph.)* 



Legs rather short, not very stout : femora with moderate fas- 

 cicles of hair. 



Wings sbghtly deflexed, entire, very glossy; anterior with 

 strigae and distinct stigmata. 



Palpi rather short, somewhat porrect, a little ascending, 

 squamose, the terminal joint exposed at the apex ; triar- 

 ticulate, slender, basal joint reniibrm, about one-third the 

 length of the second, which is very long, slightly bent, 

 and a little narrowed towards the apex; terminal minute, 

 ovate-obtuse : maxillce not longer than the antennae. 



Antennce slender, more or less ciliated in both sexes. 



Head small, densely squamose : eijes small, naked : thorax 

 moderately stout, obsoletely crested. 



Larva naked. 



Pupa subterranean t. 



This genus is divided into four families, by Treitschke, ac- 

 cording to the markings on the wings. 



Fam. a. Species. Icon. 



1. Csir. Glareosa, Esp. ... Ernst, VII.Pl.CCLIV.f.4.16. 



* In his 29th Number, which had not appeared when our last went to 

 press, Mr. Stephens has adopted Ochsenheimer's genus Calyptra, (Caipe, 

 Treitsch.) with the following characters : 



" Palpi elongate, ascending, clothed with short capitate scales, which are 

 rather longest in front of the two basal joints; the terminal joint 

 scarcely less robust than the preceding; the basal joint shorter than 

 the apical, rather stouter than the second, which is twice the length 

 of the first, and a little acuminated at the apex, terminal joint nearly 

 as long as the second, linear, its apex a little turned : maxillce rather 

 short. Antenna; rather short, robust, bipectinated to the apex in the 

 males, the pectinations very short at the tip, subserrated and pubescent 

 in the females : head transverse, with a tuft of scales on the forehead : 

 eyes rather small, globose, naked ; thorax stout, with a short acute 

 crest anteriorly; abdomen rather stout, somewhat depressed, obtuse 

 at the apex, the male with a subquadrate tuft : rvini^s deflexed during 

 repose; anteiior deeply emarginate, and dentate on the hinder margin ; 

 posterior slightly denticulate: legs stout, woolly; two basal joints of 

 ^G posterior tarsi with long fascicles of scales, especially in the male. 

 Caterpillar slender, naked: /j!y;a folliculate." — Steph. Jllust. Brit. 

 Ent. Haust. III. 49. 



Only one British species. N'o. lihatrix, Linn, 

 t Characters from Stephens. Hauit. II. p. 154. 



2. Car. 



