HEMICERID^. 



cinereous-wliite wavy strigfe, which are more or less continued across the wing; an 

 obhque ochreous-brown line with white outer border extending from the apex to 

 middle of the posterior margin before the lobe ; across the wing are also four or 

 five oblique brownish flxscisB ; and a submarginal and marginal row of black ])oints : 

 hindwing and abdomen cinereous-brown, the outer border darkest. Thorax, head, 

 palpi, and fore legs cinereous-brown, with whitish-cinereous strio-ge. 



Expanse 1 J inch. 



Larva olive-grey ; with a subdorsal row of black-bordered yellow spots and dots, 

 and a sublateral row of small yellow spots ; a sublateral pale pinkish-bordered black 

 line enclosing the spots from fifth segment; stigmata black ; head ochreous-yellow 

 with a black cheek-spot ; legs pale pink. Pupa dark purplish-red. 



" Feeds on Cocculus macrocarpus, &c." (Thioaites.) 



Family HEMICERID^. 



"Wings shining ; posterior border of forewings often excavated. Body smooth. 

 Larva with sixteen feet, thick, notodontiform. Pupa subterranean. (Gueiiee.) 



Genus WESTERMANNIA, 



Westermannia, Hiibner, Zutrage, Samml. Exot. Sch. ii. 23, 162, fig. 323-4 (1823); Verz.bek. Schmett. 



p. 250 (1818-25) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xii. p. 975. 

 Plusiodes, GuL-nee, Noet. ii. p. 386 (1852). 



Male : fore wing elongated, triangular, glossy, pointed at the apex, exterior 

 margin very oblique, slightly convex, posterior margin convex towards the base ; 

 first subcostal emitted at nearly one-half before end of the cell, second at one-sixth, 

 trifid, fifth from end of the cell and touchiug third close to its base ; cell extending 

 three-fifths the length ; discocellular bent near each end, concave in the middle, 

 radials from the angles ; middle median from angle close to end of the cell, lower at 

 one-third before the end ; submedian much curved : hindwing short, apex and exterior 

 margin very convex ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular very obhquely 

 concave, radial from close to lower end ; two upper medians from extended end of 

 the cell ; lower at one-fourth before the end ; submedian and internal vein straight. 

 Body moderately stout, thorax stout, smoothly clothed, abdomen attenuated towards 

 the tip ; palpi long, slender, ascending to vertex, second joint curved, third joint 

 cylindrical, nearly as long as the second ; antennEe slender, setose ; legs squamose, 

 tibi« moderately stout, middle and hind tibice spurred. 



