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fore wings, with paler transverse waved markings, and a large 

 red blotch on the hind wings. 



FAMILY V. Castniidce. 



Size moderate or large ; wings generally broad and brightly 

 coloured ; antennse considerably thickened ; abdomen as long or 

 longer than the hind wings ; body stout. 



The genus Castnia, Fabr., is confined to tropical America, and 

 includes a number of large day-flying moths which were long 

 classed with the butterflies. C. Licus, Drury, is one of the com- 

 monest species. It is brown, with a yellow band on the fore 

 wings, and a broad white one on the hind wings, which are also 

 marked with a row of orange sub-marginal spots. The species differ 

 considerably in shape ; one, 0. Linus, Stoll, about four inches in 

 expanse, has long, rather narrow, rounded wings, and is black, 

 with yellowish hyaline spots, and much resembles some of the 

 larger transparent American Danainw. 



The Australian genus Synemon, Doubl., though placed here, has 

 strongly-clubbed antennse, and resembles the Hesperiidce in its 

 general appearance. The type S. Sophia, White, is dark brown, 

 with yellow spots on the hind wings : it expands nearly two 

 inches. 



Cocytia D'Urvillii, Boisd., is a pointed-winged insect, with a 

 stouter and more obtuse abdomen than Castnia. The wings are 

 transparent, with black borders, reddish nervures, and a red space 

 at the base of the fore wings. It inhabits New Guinea. 



SUB- SECTION II. Bombyces. 



Antennse often pectinated, especially in the males, or filiform, 

 rarely thickened ; body generally stout ; wings ample ; hind wings 

 not differing much from the fore wings in texture, often gaily 

 coloured ; larva with sixteen legs ; pupa enclosed in a cocoon. 



FAMILY I. Agaristidce. 



Antennse long, slightly thickened; fore wings moderately 

 broad, not much longer than the hind wings; abdomen of moderate 

 thickness, and tufted at the extremity. 



A family of handsome moths, which has no representative in 

 Europe, if we except the Cinnabar Moth (Callimorpha Jacobcece, 

 Linn.), which Guenee was inclined to refer to it. This is a moth 

 with blackish fore wings, marked with a broad scarlet stripe, and 



