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on the hind tibiae. The wings are rather long, and marked 

 with oblique lines; the fore-wings are rather pointed at the 

 base. 



To the seven genera which Guenee placed in this Family 

 Walker added eight, some of which, however, are now referred 

 to the Bombyces. Later authors have added other genera, 

 some of which hardly appear to belong here. A species 

 belonging to one of Guenee's genera is here figured. 



GENUS MONOCTENIA. 

 Monoctenia, Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lepid. Uran. et Phal. i. p. 183 



(1857)- 



Antennae long, pectinated in the male and dentated in 

 the female on one side only ; the abdomen depressed in the 

 male, and pointed in the female. The hind margins of the 

 wings are rather convex above the middle. 



MONOCTENIA OBTUSATA. 

 (Plate CXLVL, Fig. 5.) 



Monoctenia obtusata, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xxi. 

 p. 279, no. 2 (1860). 



This Moth is a native of Australia. 



" Pale cinereous. Head and legs reddish, varied with 

 testaceous. Abdomen minutely black-speckled ; anterior seg- 

 ments with a blackish point on each side. Wings irregularly 

 brown-speckled, the speckles here and there confluent ; 

 under side with an exterior broad, irregular, interrupted, pale 

 ferruginous band. Fore-wings acute, with a few black points ; 

 costa very slightly concave exteriorly ; exterior border trun- 

 cated along one-third of the length, very oblique from thence 

 to the interior angle ; under side with a large blackish discal 

 patch. Length of the body nine lines ; of the wings twenty- 

 four lines " ( Walker). 



