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tremity as to deviate but slightly from that shape. 

 The palpi are placed close together, ascending, and 

 clothed with scales, the terminal portion narrow and 

 very much compressed : abdominal margin of the 

 inferior wings curved downwards, and forming a 

 deep groove for receiving the body. Discoidal cell 

 of the posterior wings open behind ; claws bifid. 

 The caterpillars vary in form, as well as the chry- 

 salides, and may probably, if more fully known, 

 enable us to subdivide this family into more natural 

 groups. 



