LEUCANIIDjE 7 



Genus AXYLIA. 



Axylia, Hiibner, Yerz. bek. Schmett. p. 242 (1818-25). 



Forewing elongate, narrow, exterior margin slightly oblique ; cell long, extending 



to two-thirds the wing ; first subcostal emitted at one-half before end of the cell, 



second at one-fifth, trifid, the third from below second at one-half from its base, and 



fourth at nearly one-half from base of third, fifth from end of the cell, extendino- 



upward and touching the third near its base ; discocellular concave, bent at its lower 



end, upper radial emitted from below fifth subcostal at some distance beyond end of 



the cell ; middle median from angle close to end of the cell, lower median at one-third 



before the end; submedian much curved from the base: hindwing broad, exterior 



margin convex, waved ; costal vein straight, extending to apex ; subcostal slightlv 



joined to costal near its base, two subcostal branches on a footstalk beyond end 



of the cell ; discocellular deeply concave in the middle, radial from below the middle ; 



cell broad, extending to half the wing ; two upper medians from a footstalk beyond the 



cell, lower median at one-fourth before end of the cell ; submedian straight, internal 



curved. Body moderately stout, short ; palpi porrect, extending half beyond the 



head, third joint short, stout, conical ; autennjB minutely ciliated ; legs short, thick, 



compactly clothed, middle tibiae with two, and hind tibice with four spurs. 



Type, A. putris, 



AXYLIA FASCIATA (Plate 144, Fig. 6). 

 Axijlia fasciata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 341. 



Forewing pale brownish-ochreous, with a longitudinal blackish fascia extending 

 through the lower part of the cell to outer margin, the area below it being shghtly 

 greyish ; a black streak below the cell ; median veins grey speckled, the second and 

 upper median branch white with black intervening lines ; discal area above the fascia 

 and the posterior margin suffused with reddish-ochreous, and white below the fascia ; 

 orbicular and reniform marks formed of interrupted black spots with an almost 

 confluent black interspace ; some indistinct black dots obliquely across the disc : 

 hindwing ochreous-white ; outer border slightly dusky ; marginal Hne black. Head 

 and thorax brownish-ochreous, abdomen whitish-ochreous ; a hoary collar on thorax. 



Expanse 1 {--^ inch. 



Genus SESAMIA. 



Sesamia, Guenee, Noct. i. p. 95 (1852); Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. ix. p. 114. 



Male : forewing elongated ; costa straight, exterior margin very slightly oblique, 



posterior angle rounded; cell long, extending nearly two-thirds the wing; first 



subcostal emitted at two-fifths before end of the cell, second at one-eighth, trifid, 



fifth from end of the cell and touching the third above end of the cell ; discocellular 



