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comparatively nearer the end of the cell: hindwing more convex externally; cell 

 broader ; discocellular more erect. Thorax more compactly clothed ; palpi smaller, 

 second joint of uniform lateral width, third joint very short and thick ; antennte in 

 male of the normal form and more minutely bipectinate ; legs less pilose. 

 Type, M. Latreillii. 



METHORASA THWAITESII (Plate 151, Fig. 2). 



Pale greyish violaceous-brown : forewing with a black zigzag streak from base 

 of the costa, a streak below base of the submedian vein, a transverse black antemedial 

 sinuous duplex line, a recurved postmedial sinuous duplex line, with its costal end 

 contiguous to a distinct black reniform spot ; across the outer disc is a series of 

 short black longitudinal streaks, which form an irregular broad dentated submarginal 

 band ; along the outer margin is a row of small black dentate spots, the fourth and 

 fifth from the apex being confluent and extend inward to the submarginal band : 

 hindwing and abdomen pale violaceous-brown. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs pale 

 greyish violaceous-brown ; palpi and legs with dark blackish bands. 



Expanse Irlr inch. 



Family EURHIPIIDiE. 



Forewing often angular and generally denticulated on the exterior border. 

 Abdomen with small more or less divergent lateral tufts. {Walker.) 



Larva with sixteen feet, glabrous, smooth, attenuated anteriorly. Pupa sub- 

 terranean. 



Genus PENICILLARIA. 



Penicillaria, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 302 (1852); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. sii. p. 870. 

 Forewing elongated, narrow, costa almost straight, apex pointed, exterior margin 

 slightly angular below the apex and at the middle, and obhque hindward, posterior 

 margin convex towards the base ; cell long, narrow, extending more than half the 

 length ; discocellular slightly concave, i-adials from the upper end and near lower 

 end ; first subcostal emitted at more than one-half before end of the cell, second at 

 one-sixth, trifid, fifth from end of the cell and touching the third near its base ; 

 middle median from angle immediately at end of the cell, lower at two-fifths before 

 the end ; submedian very deeply curved from the base : hindwing very short, apex 

 convex, exterior margin slightly angular at end of the lower median ; two subcostals 

 from end of the cell ; discocellular concave, radial from near lower end ; two upper 

 medians from end of the cell, lower at one-third before the end ; submedian and 

 internal vein straight. Body stout, thorax very stout, crested; abdomen in male 



