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The usual type of the Micro's is to be found everywhere, but in 

 all groups niodifioations in place as well as in number of setae occur. 



From this point of the series Fracker passes on to the Pyra- 

 lidoidea^ which Handlirsch places before the Thyrididae and 

 after the (ieomeiridae. 



Handlirsch on the contrary goes on to the Zygaenidae, and I 

 therefore prefer to insert the ZYGENOID SERIES of the NON- 

 ACULEATA in this place, with the observation that IIan'dliksch dis- 

 cusses the family of the Meyalopyyidae,he\ong'mg to it, a little earlier. 



Family Chalcoaidae and 



Family Dttlceridae were not examined by Fracker (1915). 



Family Pyromorphidae. Fracker (1915, p. 95) finds that these 

 larvae form the transition from a typical Micro into a Slug-cater- 

 pillar. These larvae possess verrucae to wit : r. dorsal is grown 

 together with v. subdorsalis. According to Fracker's fig. 59 be- 

 side these large verrucae occur : r. supr(istigtnali'<j v. infrastigmalis, 

 V. basalis, r. pedalL'i. 



The pattern reminds us a little of the Saturnidae or the 

 LymaHtridae. 



In the various genera there is some difference in the arrangement. 



Family Epipyridae. Fracker says on p. 96 that there is no 

 sign of verrucae and that secondary setae are sparsely scattered 

 over the entire body. In this respect the family differs very 

 much from the former. 



Family Megalopygidae. Fracker (1915) considers this family 

 as the transition from the Zygaenidae to the Cochlidiidae. 



There are cernicae, on the abdomen: v. dorsalis united with 

 V. subdorsalis, v, poststignialis consolidated with v. infrastigmalis, 

 r. basalis and besides on abdomen 1 also one v. propedalis and 

 V. postpedalis. The thorax is a little diflFerent. 



Family Cochlidiidae. Dyar (1899) has given a synopsis of the 

 Slug-caterpillars. 



Fracker (1915, p. 97) only says that the verrucae some- 

 times have the form of scoli and that some of the genera are 

 entirely smooth. 



