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emarginato. Lingua e lobis duobus tenuissimis rotundatis formata. 



Palpi labiales breves, tri-articulati, conici, scapo parvo basali 



transverse- insidentes. 

 Pronotum transversum, antice emarginatum, postice sensim dilatatum, 



lateribus curvatis, versus angulos anticos incisis (pro receptione 



antennarum), angulis posticis rotundatis, setis longis instructis. 

 Sterna tria elevata, plana, cornea, sensim magnitudine decrescentia, 



(haustellum magnum tri-articulatum simulantia), lateribus setis 



longis instructa. 

 Pedes robusti, compressi, cursorii, spinosi (an saltatorii ?) ,eoxis magnis ; 



tarsi quinque-articulati, unguibus duobus robustis terminati. 

 Alee anticse elytriformes, coalitse, angulis posticis rotundis, sutura recta, 



Alee posticse obsolete. 

 Abdomen semi-ovale, planum, sex-articulatum. 



PLATYPSTLLVS CASTOBINUS, 910V. Sp. 



Luteo-fulvus, nitidus ; capite utrinque punctis duobus (loco oculorum, margi- 

 num lateralium medium versus), sulco profundo utrinque cum margine laterali 

 parallelo, margine postico pectinato ; pronoto utrinque serie punctorum ex angulis 

 anticis scutellum versus extensa, alteraque cum margine pronoti postico sinuato 

 parallela ; abdominis segmentis dorsalibus linea spinarnm plurimarum, marginem 

 posticum versus, ut in Pulice, armatis. 



Long. corp. lin. 1^=4 mill. 



Habitat parasitice in Castorem canadensem. 



Oxford, September, 1869. 



A NOTICE OF THE SKANDINAVIEN S FJADEBMOTT OP 

 H. D. J. WALLENGREN. 



BY E, C. E. JOEDAN, M.D. 



Through the kindness of Herr Pastor "Wallengren, I have received 

 a copy of bis monograph on the Swedish plume-moths, and the diagnoses 

 of the different genera there given have seemed to me of sufficient 

 interest to make a notice of them worthy a place in this magazine. 

 Unfortunately, I can only guess at the Swedish part of the monograph 

 in a very imperfect manner, but the Latin diagnoses give details of 

 generic characters, which, in the case of the present group, have been 

 very imperfectly studied by English Entomologists, and therefore 

 cannot fail to be extremely useful. 



The Swedish plume-moths consist then of the following genera 

 and species : — 



