connecting Tincegeria with Eretmocera. 5 



observed that they all differ from them in their longer 

 recurved palpi. 



First, it should be remarked that the structure of the 

 antennae is approximately uniform throughout the series 

 here noticed ; the variation occurs in the nature and 

 amount of scale -clothing only. Butler's observations 

 as to the long hairy second joint in the antennas of 

 Tincegeria and Exodomorpha are incorrect, inasmuch 

 as not the second joint only, but the whole basal portion 

 of the antennas to near or beyond the middle, consisting 

 of from thirty to forty joints, is thickly clothed, more 

 densely in the female than in the male, no one joint 

 being noticeably longer than the others. 



The amount of transparency in the hind wings is 

 most noticeable in Tinageria, gradually diminishing in 

 Snellenia, confined to the extreme abdominal angle in 

 (Edematopoda, and barely traceable in Eretmocera. 



The scaling of the legs and spurs reaches its highest 

 development in Snellenia latipes, originally placed by 

 Walker in Tincegeria ; it is also very noticeable in 

 (Edematopoda ; the spurs of (E. clerodendronella are so 

 thickly clothed as to have been taken for tufts of scales 

 by Stainton when describing the species. This character 

 almost disappears in Eretmocera, but "the spurs are well- 

 developed, and the structure of the legs sufficiently 

 resembles those of CEdematopoda to point to the con- 

 clusion that its habit of elevating them above the body 

 may be the same as described in the case of clerodendro- 

 nella. The flattened structure of the abdomen is 

 approximately uniform throughout the genera. The 

 lateral scaling is traceable in Tinageria, somewhat more 

 developed in (Edematopoda and Snellenia, and strongest 

 in Eretmocera ; the anal tuft is always well-developed. 



We now come to the shape and neuration of the wings, 

 a character in which a gradual change is also noticeable. 

 The narrow elongate fore wings are present throughout 

 the group, but the neuration differs perceptibly, and the 

 form of the hind wings is not entirely consistent ; 

 Tincegeria, as here limited, standing somewhat apart 

 from the other genera, except Pseudcegeria, in having the 

 abdominal margin of the hind wing bulged towards the 

 middle, giving the wing a wider appearance, and agreeing 

 in this respect with the genus Dasycera, which also 

 possesses the narrow fore wings, clothed antennas, and 

 slender recurved palpi characteristic of this genus. I 



