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branches decreasing in length from near the base to the tips. Ab- 

 domen slightly tapering from the base to the tip, not extending 

 beyond the hind wings. Legs slender ; hind tibiae with no middle 

 spurs, their apical spurs very small. Wings rather long and broad ; 

 four superior veins and four inferior, first and second inferior almost 

 united at the base ; submedian and internal veins parallel. 



Allied to Chalcosia. 



1. PlNTIA METACHLOEOS. 



Obscure fusca ; antenna: virides ; palpi et pedes subtus albi ; abdo- 

 men subtus testaceum ; alee anticce basim versus virides, subtus 

 striga basali fasciaque subarcuata discali albidis ; postica* 

 virides, subtus areolarum discis ex parte albidis. 



Dark brown. Antenna? green. Palpi and legs white beneath. 

 Abdomen testaceous beneath. Fore wings tinged with green to- 

 wards the base, especially beneath, where there is a whitish streak 

 towards the base, and an oblique slightly curved discal whitish band 

 beyond the middle. Hind wings bluish green with brown borders ; 

 under side with most of the disks of the areolets more or less 

 whitish, which hue may be slightly traced above. Length of the 

 body 5^ lines ; of the wings 17 lines. 



a. Java. From Mr. Walker's collection. 



Genus 3. CTENUCHA. 



Palpi triarticulati, capite longiores, breviter squamosi ; articuli 

 lus et 2us aequales ; 3us paullo brevior. Antennae maris late pecti- 

 natae, fcem. subpectinatae. Anus fasciculatus. Alae plana? ; anticae 

 incumbentes, oblougae, angulis apicali et anali rotundatis ; posticae 

 plicatiles. Tibiae poslicae medio et apice bicalcarata?. 



Family Ctenuchidae : Genus Ctenucha, Kirby, Fauna Bor. Amer. 



iv. 305. 

 Glaucopis (Ctenucha), Harris, Descr. Cat. N. Amer. Sphing. 38. 



Antennae pectinated on both sides in the male, thickened in the 

 middle with extremely short pectinations in the female. Tongue 

 moderate, spirally rolled. Palpi slender, rising beyond the cly- 

 peus, nearly cylindrical and obtuse, covered with small close scales, 

 somewhat hairy at the base. Wings in some species rather narrow, 

 in others widened and rounded at the tips; discal areolet of the 

 hind wings closed by an angulated vein. Body nearly cylindrical, 

 enlarged a little behind in the female, with a few minute tufts at the 

 sides of the segments, obtuse and slightly tufted at the tip ; first 



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