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small vitreous dot near the apex, while in maia (Klug) the ocellus is ovate and with a large 

 vitreous center. The second transverse black band crossing the fore wings is contiguous to 

 the ocellus and quite straight, while in maia (Klug) it is zigzag and well away and separate from 

 the ocellus. The third transverse band is reduced to an almost obliterated hair-like black line, 

 while in maia (Klug) it is a well-developed double black and white band. Beyond this third 

 transverse band in wcstwoodi there is a very broad pale buff band three-quarters of an inch 

 wide, while in maia (Klug) it is barely half so wide and orange buff powdered with black and 

 having a broad chocolate bar running down the center. Outer margin drab-gray instead of 

 black brown as in G. maia (Klug). 



"Hind wings; these show the same differences from those of 6. maia (Klug) as do the fore 

 wings, while the pupil of the ocellus is black and twice as large as in G. maia Klug." 



"Expanse 6 inches=153 mm." 



Geographical distribution. — "Taveta, East Africa." 



GYNANISA ETHRA (Westwood). 



The male has a short tail, and must represent another genus. 



Rothschild reports G. ethra from Maube, W. Africa. 



[Sonthonnax (1903) has described other species as G. albescens, G. semialba, and G. gigas.] 



LOBOBUNAEA Packard. 



Bunaea Hubneb [(in part.)] 



Bunaea Rothschild. Novitates Zoologicae, II, 1886. 



Bunaea Kirby, Syn. Cat. Lep. Het., I, p. 751, 1S92. 



Lobobunaea Packard, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, IX, p. 191, Dec. 1901. 



Imago. — Head wider than in Bunaea. Antennae not so wide as in Bunaea, and the end is 

 subfiliform, with very short pectinations for a distance nearly equal to width of the entire 

 antenna; joints short and thick, two pairs of pectinations to a joint, and those of the distal 

 pair are as long as the basal ones. Palpi larger and longer than in Bunaea and the third joint 

 reaches to the front, passing slightly beyond it. Thorax with a definite collar, the prothoracic 

 squamation being more distinct than usual. Forelegs long and stout, tibia of <? with a naked, 

 probably odoriferous, sack, like that present in certain Deltoid moths, on the under side two- 

 thirds as long as the tibia itself, and the scales separate from it, leaving it naked and easily 

 seen from beneath. Fore wings large and broad, costa straight on the basal half, but beyond 

 much curved, so that the wing is falcate; outer edge more deeply excavated than in Bunaea. 

 Hind wings much more rounded at the apex and inner edge distinctly produced into a rounded 

 lobe, which projects slightly inward. The hind wings do not reach the end of the abdomen, 

 having nearly the same relative length as in Bunaea. 



Venation : The present genus differs remarkably from Bunaea in vein II 1 (first subcostal) 

 arising opposite the middle of the discal cell, and within the origin of the common stalk of veins 

 Mi, III 2 (or subcostal branches 5 and 6). In the hind wings the discal cell is shorter and wider 

 than in Bunaea, and the hind edge of the wing is much more elongated, as also vein VII. There 

 Are minor differences in the venation, which can only be shown by figures. 



Markings: A very small half round transparent discal spot on the fore wings; on those of 

 the hinder pair a very large ocellus, which is nearly opaque, and larger than in Bunaea. The 

 discal spots of both wings are representee! beneath by a sort of rosette. 



Larva. — Body very thick, segments unusually convex, somewhat as in Telea, Tropaea, and 

 Aniheraea; the tubercles very much reduced; the median dorsal tubercle low, minute, either 

 very slightly double (L. phaedusa) or with no trace of its double origin (L. tyrrhena); a pair of 

 silvery white spots on second abdominal segment (in L. tyrrhena) apparently wanting in L. 

 phaedusa. Suranal plate short, broad, triangular, with minute granulations. 



Penultimate stage. — The median tubercle on eighth abdominal segment slightly divided at 

 end; a pair of silvery spots on second and third thoracic and also on second and sixth and 

 seventh abdominal segments. The tubercles and setae more developed than in the last stage. 



