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would be at once to erect the group into a distinct genus, as I do 

 not conceive that the progress of science is likely to be so much im- 

 peded by such a proceeding, and the consequent imposition of a new 

 name to indicate an intermediate type, as by a withholding of truth 

 and misrepresentation of facts, in order to diminish the extent of 

 one's labours; though in this, as in several other instances, I have 

 merely called attention to the points, without proceedmg to de- 

 signate such discordant insects by a new generic name; leaving that 

 open for my successors. 



Genus CXXXV. — Gortyna, Ochsenheimer, 



Palpi shortj slightly ascending, the basal joints clothed with long hair-like scales, 

 theterrainal exposed, ovate obtuse, thebasaljoint curved upwards and attenuated 

 at the apex; the second elongated, somewhat attenuated, the terminal rather 



. short, subovate, obtuse : mnxiUce slender and very short. Antennae simple in 

 both sexes, pubescent beneath: head rather small, with a dense tuft before tl)u 

 antennae : eyes globose, naked : thorax subquadrate^ with a compressed acute 

 crest in front : abdomen elongated, the sides producing fascicles of scales, ro- 

 bust in the females, and obtuse at the apex, which is rather broad, and has a 

 subquadrate tuft in the males : wings deflexed when at rest; anterior triangular, 

 slightly emarginate at the apex; cilia of all a little indented. Caterpillar 

 fleshy, sUghtly hairy, radicivorous : pupa internal. 



The elongated robust abdomen of this genus, with the short 

 palpi and maxillae, the broad, triangular, slightly indented, anterior 

 wings, and the dissimilar palpi, are good characters of discrimination 

 from the preceding, from which the habits of the larvai (which ai'e 

 either internal feeders or radicivorous) also remove them. 



Sp. 1. micacea. Alis anticis rufescentibus, stigmatibus fascidque externa dilu- 

 iiorihus ; posticis albidis, strigd pone medium fused. (Exp. alar. 1 una. 3 — 7 

 fin.) 



No. micacea. Esper. — Go. micacea. Curtis, vi. pi. 252. Steph. Catal. part ii. 

 p. 99. No. 6326. 



Head and thorax rufescent, sometimes with a rosy tinge ; anterior wings the 

 same, with an undulated striga at the base ; a second before the middle, an- 

 gulated towards the costa ; and a third oblique one behind the middle ; the 

 space between the two last being of a deeper or fuscous hue, and bearing the 

 stigmata, which are paler, and have their margins faintly edged with fuscous; 

 the hinder margin of the vnng, from the third striga, is paler than the rest, 

 and has a very obscure waved fuscescent striga, with a paler exterior margin ; 

 and the margin of the wing itself has a slender brownish line ; cilia ashy- 



