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metamorphosis it obviously approaches to Psyche, 

 but the appearance of the perfect insect is very dis- 

 similar. Guilding conjectured that it might be 

 allied to Zeuzera; Mr. Westwood considers it as 

 forming the connecting link between the Hepialidte 

 and the remainder of the Bombycida3, and certainly, 

 if we put out of view the metamorphosis, there can 

 be no doubt about its affinity to the former. 



CRYPTOTHELEA * MACLEAYI. 



PLATE IX. Fig. 6. 



Lansdown Guilding, in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 371. 



Mr. Guilding has described this species in the 

 same paper as the last, and under the same generic 

 name. But the slightest examination of his beau- 

 tiful figures at once shews that the characters he 

 assumes as specific possess a generic value. Nay, 

 in an artificial arrangement, the two genera must be 

 widely removed from each other ; for while Oiketi- 

 cus, in the perfect form, shows an obvious affinity 

 to the Hepialida?, the moth in question makes a 

 near approach to Psyche. Although we notice it, 



* K§t/5T"roc concealed, and Bnhia, female. 



