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III + IV or two «. suprustitjuMles^ )>erhap8 «. dursulattralis is united 

 with I or III, V is doubltHl with a secondary seta = s. prostig- 

 malin, moreover a secondary seta over the wing-rudiment; two 

 s. bwiales, s. itednlis. 



StenoptUin jtrliiioiiactyla Stein (I.e. fig. 10) agrees with it in 

 so far as I + II together form a verruca, as also do III and IV. 

 There is mortH)ver a secondary verrucu over the wing-rudiment. 



I do not understand why we are to accept a doubling for V 

 and a consolidation for I + II. 



In both cases there are two sotac in the place where usually 

 there is one; if one couple is interpreted as a consolidation, 

 the same ought to be done for the other. 



Family TkyndUiae. 



The place of this family seems to be very uncertain. Packakd 

 considered it in 1895 as a very primitive side-branch of the 

 SrohpUlopteru far from the BomhycitM (p. 83) but in 1905 (p. 46) 

 he could derive the Xutodontulae directly from them. 



Sharp places it (1901, II) between the Meijalopygulae and the 

 Lasiocampidae which last group he sharply separates from the 

 Bombyces^ whilst Fracker (1915) ranges it between the Liparidae 

 and the Xotodontitlae. 1{ani)LIR.sch thinks that its place is just in 

 front of Hesperid<ie and PapUionidae s. 1. together with the Pyra- 

 lidae, Pterophoridae and 0nte4>nidae. 



This short account which might be enlarged a great deal, shows 

 at least that the family has a rather primitive character. 



In the coll. Kall. is a beautiful, full-grown specimen of Thy- 

 ris fenestrella of which the drawing is to be found on PI. IV, 

 fig. 11, 12, 13. 



Thyiis fenestrella Linn. 



Prothorcur. A paired prothoracic shield with s. dorsalis, s. sub- 

 dorsalis, s. suprastiymalis, two s. prostig males ^ of which the last is 

 perhaps s. infrastigninlis^ two s. basales on one tubercle, s. prope- 

 dalis, s. postpedalis and one median s. ventralis. 



Mesothorax and nietathorax. S. dorsalis, s. dorsolateralis together 

 with s. siqn-a^figtnalis on one tubercle, on the place of s. pro- 



