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Genus 5. EUGLYPHIA. 



Corpus sat gracile. Proboscis b re vis. Palpi sat graciles, por- 

 recti, vix pilosi, caput non superantes; articulus 3us minutus, 

 conicus. Antennae sat breves. Abdomen alas posticas superans. 

 Pedes breviusculi, sat graciles ; tibiae posticas calcaribus quatuor 

 mediocriter longis. Alas latiuscula? ; anticae apud costara subrectae, 

 apice rotundatae, margine exteriore sat obliquo. Mas. — Antennae 

 serratae, ciiiatae. Fcem. — Antennae vix serratae. 



Bombyx, p., Fa br. ; Oliv. 

 Diphthera, Hubn. Exot. Schmett. 

 Euglyphia. Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 203. 

 Noropsis, Guen. Noct. i. 117. 



Body rather slender. Proboscis short. Palpi rather slender, 

 porrect, hardly pilose, not extending beyond the head ; third joint 

 minute, conical. Antennae rather short. Abdomen extending for 

 nearly one-third of its length beyond the hind wings. Legs rather 

 short and slender; hind tibiae with four moderately long spurs. 

 Wings rather broad. Fore wings almost straight in front, rounded 

 at the tips, rather oblique along the exterior border; second inferior 

 vein a little nearer to the first than to the third ; third hardly twice 

 further from the fourth than from the second. Male. — Antennae 

 ciliated, distinctly serrated. Female. — xlutennae hardly serrated. 



1. Euglyphia hieroglyphica. 



Pallide fiava ; thorax vittis tribusnigris metallicis iridescentibus ; 

 abdomen nigricans ; alee anticce striga basali vittisque duabus 

 (una costali, altera obliqua angulata) nigris, metallico irides- 

 centibus ; posticaz nigricantes, ciliis albis. 



Phalaena hieroglyphica, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. 81, pi. 147, f. D. 

 Bombyx festiva, Fab. Sp. Ins. ii. 194, 109 ; Mant. Ins. ii. 127, 157 ; 



Ent. Syst. iii. 1, 463, 177. Oliv. Enc. Meth. v. 85, 207. 

 Phalaena-Bombyx festiva, Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2425, 540. 

 Diphthera festiva elegans, Hubn. Samml. Exot. Schmett. i. Lep. 



iv. Noctua, i. Bombycoides, ii. Diphtherce, A. Eestivce, a, f. 



1—4. 

 Euglyphia elegans, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 203, 2048. 

 Noropsis fastuosa, Guen. Noct. i. 117, 186. 



a. Brazil. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



fe, c. St. Domingo. From Mr. Tweedie's collection. 



d, e. Jamaica. 



