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tion. The posterior branch has three articulations, sending off one 

 long seta from the first and second, and three from the last ; these ar- 

 ticulations are somewhat serrated on the edges, and the long setae are 

 all finely plumose and jointed about the middle of their length. The 

 antennae are very large and long, projecting straight out from the beak, 

 and terminated by several short setae. The tail terminates in a sort 

 of articulation at the extremity, which has eight short spines on its 

 under edge, and two long stoutish claws at its extremity. The two 

 setae on the tail are long, plumose and jointed. This species is not 

 so very active as some others of the genus, owning perhaps partly to its 

 form. It has a great many young. W. Baird. 



Notes on Lepidopterous Insects, By Edw. Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S. 



(Continued from p. 1 12). 



Genus. — Thymara. 



Antennae rather long, clothed exteriorly with appressed setae, bi- 

 pectinate, the pectinations long, 

 and fringed with delicate setae. 

 Palpi (?). Eyes large, prominent. 

 Anterior wings trigonate ; costal 

 nervure straight, attaining the cos. 

 ta considerably beyond the mid- 

 dle ; subcostal nearly parallel with 

 the costal nervure, bent down- 

 wards beyond the middle, so as 

 partly to close the discoidal cell, 

 from which portion two nervules 

 are thrown off to the outer margin, 

 whilst the third proceeds in a di- 

 rect course to the costa just be- 

 fore the apex; median nervm^e 

 four-branched, the nervules at- 

 taining the outer margin at about 

 equal distances : discoidal cell 

 divided longitudinally by a false 



nervure, which bifurcates at its extremity, one fork striking the 

 disco-cellular curve of the sub- costal, the other the median nervure 

 above and beyond the point where the second nervule from the 

 base is thrown off, thus closing the discoidal cell : radial nervure 



Thymara Za'ula. 



