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with the hind-wings deeply concave on the hind margin, and 

 curved outwards below into a broad obtuse lobe, sinuated be- 

 tween the anal and outer angles, and with a sub-marginal row 

 of five ocellated spots between the nervures, along thispart of 

 the wing, centred with black, and ringed with red. 



FAMILY XI. THYMARID^E. 



Under this name we may include a few small Indian and 

 African Moths, with pectinated antennae, no frenulum, closed 

 and divided discoidal cells, while the hind-wings are produced 

 or even wholly modified into a long filiform tail. The fore- 

 wings are generally more or less transparent, and the hind-wings 

 are opaque, clothed with hair-like scales. The neuration of 

 the latter is sometimes almost obsolete, at other times it is 

 as simple as in many Tinea. The Moths are more or less re- 

 lated to several different Families ; and those interested in the 

 subject may consult the various references in my " Synonymic 

 Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera," i. pp. 60, 61, and Mr. 

 H. J. Elwes' paper on Moths allied to Himantopterus^ in the 

 " Transactions of the Entomological Society of London " for 

 1890, pp. 328-338, pi. i. Since then Sir G. Hampson (Faun. 

 Brit. Ind. Moths, i, p. 288) has referred them to the Sub-family 

 Phandince of the Zygcenidce^ but adds the information that " they 

 are degraded forms which have arisen from an ancestral type." 



GENUS THYMARA. 



Thymara^ Doubleday, Zoologist, i. p. 197 (1843); Walker, 

 List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 383 (1854). 



Hind-wings half as broad as long, with the anal angle well 

 marked, and a filiform tail, longer than the wing. There is a 

 long bisected cell, ending at the base of the tail, which is tra- 



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