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Genus 4. LYCOMORPHA. 



Corpus lineare, gracile, subcylindricum, non metallicum. 

 Palpi breves, validi, porrecti, capite multo breviores; articulus 3us 

 conicus, 2i quadrario non longior. Proboscis thorace paullo longior. 

 Antenna? biserratae aut subpectinatae, corpore paullo breviores. 

 Alae angustae, subfusiformes. Abdomen alas postieas vix superans. 

 Pedes sat validi ; tibiae anticae non dentals ; tibiae posticae calcari- 

 bus mediis nullis, apicalibus sat longis. 



Lycomorpha, Harris, Amer. Journ. Sci. 8c Arts, xxxvi. 2. 



Body linear, slender, nearly cylindrical, not metallic. Palpi 

 short, stout, porrect, not near the length of the head; third joint 

 conical, not more than one-fourth of the length of the second. 

 Proboscis a little longer than the thorax. Antennae biserrated or 

 minutely pectinated, a little shorter than the body. Wings narrow, 

 nearly fusiform ; discal areolet long, rounded at the tip ; discal fold 

 distinct in the discal areolet ; four distinct inferior veins; third a 

 little more remote from the second than the second from the first ; 

 fourth twice further from the third than the third from the second ; 

 two superior veins, the second forked ; subcostal vein emitting four 

 oblique veinlets in front. Abdomen hardly extending beyond the 

 hind wings. Legs rather stout; fore tibiae not dentate; hind tibiae 

 with no middle spurs but with two moderately long apical spurs. 



Lycomorpha, Harms, Descr. Cat. N. Amer. Sphin. (Amer. Journ. 



Sci. Sf Arts, xxxvi. 2), 37. 

 Glaucopis, p., Westw. 

 Zygaena, p., Fabr. ; Gmel. 



1. Lycomorpha Pholus. 



Atra ; ala quatitor basi lutece. 



Zygaena Pholus, Fabr. Sp. Lis. ii. 166, 49 ; Mant. Ins. ii. 107, 61 ; 



Eat. Syst. iii. I, 406, 7. 

 Sphinx Pholus, Drury, Ins. ii. pi. 28, f. 3. 

 Sphinx Zygaena Pholus, Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2399, 155. 

 Lycomorpha Pholus, Harris, Amer, Journ. Sci. fy Arts, xxxvi. 2. 

 Glaucopis Pholus, Westiv. ed. Drury, ii. pi. 28, f. 3. 



a, b. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



c. United States. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



d. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman's collection. 



