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are rather darker than elsewhere. Hiud wings a little paler than 

 the fore wings. Length of the hody 11 lines ; of the wings 24 

 lines. 



Genus 18. BOEOCEEA. 



Caput minimum. Proboscis nulla. Oculi parvi, vix promi- 

 nentes. Antennae sat graciles, vix pectinatae, apud medium extus 

 curvatae. Thorax villosus, rotundatus. Abdomen alis anticis lon- 

 gius. Alae reverse. Pedes pilosissimi. Fcemina mare triplo 

 major. 

 Borocera, Boisd. Faune Ent. Mad. Bomb, et Maur. Lep. 87. 



1. BOEOCEEA MADAGASCAEIENSIS. 



Alee maris fusco-cinnamomece ; alee fceminae corticince vel cinna- 

 momece ; anticce striga basalt sinuata ; macula media reni- 

 formi strigaque obliquafuscis. 



Borocera Madagascariensis, Boisd. Faune Ent. Mad. Bomb, et 

 Maur. Up. 88, pi. 12, fl 5, 6. 



Tamatava, Madagascar. 



Genus 19. TOLYPE. 



Corpus crassum. Palpi pilosissimi, caput non superantes. 

 Abdomen alas posticas paullo superans. Pedes validi, pilosissimi ; 

 tibiae posticae calcaribus duobus apicalibus minimis. Alae medio- 

 criter latae ; anticae apud costam rectae, apice rotundatce, margine 

 exteriore subrecto valde obliquo. Mas.— Antennae thorace paullo 

 longiores, mediocriter pectinatse, basim versus latissime pectinatae. 

 Abdomen apice longe pilosum. Fcem. — Antennae subpectinatae, 

 thorace non longiores. Abdomen apice dense lanuginosum. 



Phalaena-Bombyx, p., Stoll. ; Abbot and Smith. 

 Tolype, p., H'ubn. Verz. Schmett. 189. 



Body thick. Palpi very pilose, not extending beyond the head. 

 Abdomen extending for full one-fourth of its length beyond the hind 

 wings. Legs stout, very pilose ; hind tibiae with two very minute 

 apical spurs. Wings moderately broad. Fore wings straight along 

 the costa, rounded at the tips, nearly straight and very oblique 

 along the exterior border ; second inferior vein almost contiguous 

 to the first ,* third remote ; fourth remote from the third. Male. — 

 Antennae a little longer than the thorax, very deeply pectinated for 



