LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1097 



Genus 76. PTILOPHORA. 



Corpus pilosum, sat validum. Caput antice pilosissimum. 

 Proboscis brevissima. Palpi minimi. Antennas corporis dimidio 

 longiores. Abdomen cristatum, alas posticas vix superans. Pedes 

 graciles ; tibiae posticas calcaribus duobus minutis apicalibus. Alae 

 mediocriter latae ; anticae p.pud costam rectae, apice rotundataa, mar- 

 gine exteriore obliquo subconvexo. Mas. — Antennae latissime plu- 

 mosae. Fcem. — Antennae simplices, graciles. 



Ptilopbora, Steph. III. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. 29. 



Bombyx, p., Fabr. Wien. Verz. ; Hubn. ; God. ; Herr.-Schceff. 



Notodonta, p., Ochs. ; Boisd. ; Duponch. 



Odontosia, p., Hubn. 



Body pilose, moderately stout. Head very pilose in front. 

 Proboscis very short. Palpi very small. Antennae more than half 

 the length of the body. Abdomen hardly extending beyond the 

 hind wings. Legs slender; hind tibiae with two minute apical 

 spurs. Wings moderately broad. Fore wings straight along the 

 costa, rounded at the tips, oblique and slightly convex along the 

 exterior border ; interior angle much rounded ; discal areolet inter- 

 sected by a fold or secondary vein ; three inferior veins ; second 

 about twice further from the third than from the first. Male. — An- 

 tennae extremely deeply pectinated. Female. — Antennae slender, 

 simple. 



1. Ptilophora variegata. 

 Ala ochraceo-ferruginea?, striga arcuata flavescente. 



Ptilophora variegata, Sieph. III. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. 29, 1, pi. 14, 



f. 1. 

 Bombyx plumigera, Wien. Verz. 61. Fam.P.2. Fabr. Mant. Ins. 



ii. 127, 154. Ent. Syst. iii. 462, 174. Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 



24,25,537. Illig. N. Ausg. dess. i. 136, 2 : Mag. ii. 63, 2. Esp. 



Schmett. iii. 254, pi. 50, f. 6, 7. Schwarz, Beytr. 85, pi. 13, 



f. 1—10. Fuessl. A. Mag. ii. 1, 104 ; N. Mag. ii. 377. Borkh. 



Eur. Schmett. iii. 445, 171. Vieweg, Tab. Verz. i. 48, 36. 



Oliv. Enc. Meth. v. 84, 204. Hubn. Bomb. 105, 8, pi. 4, f. 



13 ; pi. 58, f, 250 ; Larv. Lep. iii. Bomb. i. Sphing. C. b. c, 



f. 1. God. Lep. de France, iv. 205. 



, Pap. d'Eur. v. 91, pi. 195, f. 257. Naturf. iii. 3, 



pi. 1, f. 2. 

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