870 CATALOGUE OF 



Body stout, thickly clothed. Front tufted. Proboscis very 

 short. Palpi very stout, porrect, pilose, extending rather far beyond 

 the head; third joint cylindrical, about half the length of the 

 second. Antennae more than half the length of the body. Thorax 

 crested. Abdomen slightly crested, extending somewhat beyond the 

 hind wings, with two ihick tufts at the tip. Legs very stout; hind 

 tibiae with long spurs. Wings rather short and narrow. Fore 

 wings straight in front, rectangular at the tips ; exterior border 

 slightly angular in the middle and slightly denticulated. Male. — 

 Antennae moderately pectinated For full half the length, minutely 

 ciliated from thence to the tips. 



1. Phlegetonia Catephioides. 



Nigra; abdomen apud medium fusco rufescente varium ; alee 

 anticce cinereo fuscoque varice, fasciis lineisque conspicuis, 

 macula apicali ci?ierascente, reniformi albo notata ; posticee 

 albee, nigro late marginatee. 



Phlegetonia Catephioides, Guen. Noct. ii. 301, 1107. 



South Africa. 



2. Phlegetonia? Carbo. 



Nigra ; alee anticce lineis transversis duplicatis subparallelis sub- 

 undulatis atris, squamis nonnullis albis, reniformi vix con- 

 spicua ; posticee albee, opalince, venis apice margineque nigris, 

 squamis nonnullis apud angulum exteriorem cinereis. 



Phlegetonia Carbo, Guen. Noct. ii. 302, 1108. 



Australia. 



Genus 2. PENICILLARIA. 





Corpus robustum. Proboscis mediocriter longa. Palpi 

 validi, porrecti, caput longe superantes ; articulus 3us linearis, 

 2i dimidio non longior. Antennae simplices, validae, subpubes- 

 cent.es, corporis dimidio paullo longiores. Abdomen alas posticas 

 dimidio fere supevans. Pedes validi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus 

 longis. Alae breviusculae, sat angustae, apud marginem exteriorem 

 mbdenticulatae et subangulatae ; anticae apud costam rectas, apice 

 subangulatae, margine exteriore subobliquo. 



Penicillaria, Guen. Noct. ii. 302. 



