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Family COSSIDiE. 



"Wings long, mostly narrow. Antennse bipectinated to tip or broadly bipectinated 

 at base in male, and serrated in female ; abdomen long, stout ; ovipositor exserted. 



Larva elongate, naked, or with a few fine short straggling hairs ; with a horny 

 plate on second segment. Feeds in the wood of trees or stems of reeds. Pupates 

 within the cell or bore of the larva. Pupa with short segmental spines. 



Genus HINN^YA. 



Wings and body more laxly scaled than in Chalcidica (C. Mineus, Cram.). 

 Forewing long in both sexes, comparatively broader across the disc, the apex more 

 pointed, and the exterior margin straight ; venation similar ; cell longer at upper 

 end; first subcostal emitted further from end of the cell; discocellulars shorter, the 

 angles of both upper and lower equidistant : hindmng also comparatively broader ; 

 apex more pointed; venation similar, except that the upper discocellular is dis- 

 connected from the subcostal vein ; discocellulars erect, angles equidistant. Body 

 stouter, thorax longer ; palpi porrect, slender, smooth, extending to front of the eyes, 

 pointed at tip ; antenna deeply bipectinated at base, serrated at end. 



Type, H. Strix (Phal. Noct. Strix, Linn.). 



HINN^YA LETJCONOTA (Plate 142, Fig. 3, 3a, $ q). 

 Zeuzera leuconota, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. vii. p. 1537 (1856). 



Forewing pale vinous greyish-brown, with short black irregular strigge between 

 the veins, those beyond lower end of the cell forming a lengthened quadrate black 

 spot, and others across the disc are more or less confluent and form an ill-defined 

 discal band, which is mostly apparent in the female ; the posterior border and apex 

 is irregularly greyish- white, on which the black strigse are more strongly seen : 

 hindwing pale vinous greyish-brown, with black strigee between the outer veins, the 

 strigse being thickly contiguous in the male ; a greyish- white patch along middle of 

 exterior border. Thorax above greyish- white ; abdomen dark greyish-brown, tip 

 and lateral spots greyish-white ; front of thorax, head, palpi, and legs dark greyish- 

 brown. 



Expanse, $ 4-|, 2 6 inches. 



Genus ZEUZERA. 



Zeuzera, Latreille, Hist. Nat. des Ins. xiv. p. 175 (1802). 

 Latagia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 196 (1818-25). 



Forewing elongated, narrow ; costal and subcostal veins very close together at 

 the base ; cell long, extending two-thirds the wing ; subcostal five-branched, first 



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