26 ON THE GENUS CHARAGIA OP WALKER, 



Maxilla obsolefcfB. Abdomen elongatum, alas posticas superans, 

 lateraliter moclice compressum, omnibus partibus ejusdem mag- 

 nitudinis, apice flabellatum. Pedes excalcariti/ anterioi'es magni, 

 validi, tibiis tarsisque dense pilosis ; postici parvi, graciles, tibiis 

 hirsutis, in maribus externe scopatis ; tarsi 5-articulatis, fere 

 glabris. Larva carnosa, cjlindrica, ad caput incrassata ; capite 

 segmentoque anteriori corneis ; in ligno habitans, plerumque 

 librivora. Pupa lactiflorea, antice squamosa, postice mollis, 

 elongata, annulis serratis. 



Wings long, moderately broad, slightly falcate, pointed at the 

 tips and much rounded at the hinder angles. Head projecting. 

 Byes large and prominent. Antenna minute, somewhat monoli- 

 form, delicately ciliated. Labial palpi distinct, porrected in front, 

 3-jointed. Maxillee obsolete. Body elongated, reaching beyond 

 the wings, slightly flattened laterally, nearly of an equal thick- 

 ness throughout, with the extremity fan-shaped. Legs spurless,^ 

 anterior and second pairs large and powerful ; tibi^ and tarsi 

 densely pilose ; posterior pairs, small, weak, with long hairs on 

 the tibiEe, forming in the males a large brush exteriorly ; tarsi 

 5-jointed, almost naked. Larva fleshy, elongated, cylindrical, 

 stoutest anteriorly, with head and first segment horny ; living in 

 the interior of trees and subsisting principally upon the bark. 

 Chrysalis yellowish- white, anterior portion squamose, abdominal, 

 soft and elongated with serrated corneous rings. 



Mas Alse anticse virideo argentes, nonnunquam aureo, fasciatas. 



Ate posticjB subcasruleaa. 



-rn A 1 i.- • • 1 £■ • ( virescens, Douhleday. 



Jt<oem.. Alse anticse virides lerruffmeo \ o j.^.- -A 



n ■ , i fecotti, Kamsaii. 



lasciatas ) -,. . y- •'. 



\ lignivora, Lewm. 



AT ,• • •-, , f Ramsayi, Scott. 



Alee antiCEe virides argfenteo \ ■ , i\r t 



o • , ° < scripta, MacLeay. 



lasciatse j • • \ a j^ 



(^eximia r bcott. 



»i ,. . .-,. . ( Lewinii, Stephens. 



Alae anticas purpureee viridi varise <, , i A^ ,. 



^ ^ ( splendens, Scott. 



Alae posticEe rubicund ulas. 



1 Mr. Walker, in the British Museum Catalogue, p. 1569, states that the 

 hind tibise have two very minute apical spurs ; these have been repeatedly 

 looked for, but hitherto unsuccessfully. 



