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the cell ; discocellular very slender, deeply concave, radial from near lower end ; 

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

 submedian and internal veins straig-ht. Body very robust, densely clothed above ; 

 palpi large, long, ascending ; second joint clothed with short adpressed hairy scales, 

 third joint slender, long, slightly clavate, and with a slight hairy tuft above ; antennjE 

 long, filiform, thickened at the base ; fore femora and tibi^ thickly pilose beneath ; 

 middle and hind legs less pilose, with spurred tibiae and spined tarsi. 

 Ty])e, 0. FuUonica. 



OTHREIS FULLONICA. 



Phahvna Noctua FuUonica, Liunjeus, Syst. Nat. ii. p. 812 (1767); Clerck, Icones, pi. 43, fig. 1, 2. 

 Ophiderc'i FuUonica, Gueuee, Noct. iii. p. Ill ; Walker, Catal. Lop. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1222. 

 Othreis FuUonica, Moore, Trans. Zoo). Soc. xi. p. 64, pi. 12, fig. 1, 1«, pi. 13, fig. 1, la (1881), $ $. 

 Noctua Dioscorem, Fabricius, Syst. Eut. p. 593 (1775); Spec. lus. ii. p. 212; JNlaut. Ins. ii. p. 137; 



Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 16, ?. 

 Phal. Noct. Pomona, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 77, fig. C (1779), ? . 

 Othreis Pomona, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Sehmett. p. 264. 

 Ophidcres Cajeta, Walker, Catal. Lap. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1223, $ {nee Cramer). 



Male : forewing dark ferruginous-brown or vinous-brown, numerously covered 

 with either ochreous, dark olive-green, or greyish strigfs, those on the exterior border 

 forming irregular fascifB and terminating in a straight streak to the apex ; an antemedial 

 and a postmedial oblique transverse darker brown line, the interspace being glossy 

 and generally with transverse purplish-brown fascia3 ; a small oval orbicular spot, 

 and the reniform mark being more or less unglossed : hmdwing orange-yellow, with 

 a broad black angulose-bordered apical marginal baud, and row of pale yellow cilial 

 spots ; a large broad curved black discal band. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs above 

 dark brown; abdomen orange-yellow; legs and abdomen beneath paler; a yellow 

 spot on tibijB and tarsal joints ; palpi black tipt. Female : forewing brighter 

 coloured, mottled with grey and brown; strigse paler grey; medial area and fascijB 

 on exterior border cbalybeous-grey ; postmedial hue irregularly sinuous, with a 

 prominent white dentate spot on its middle and narrow lunules below it ; reniform 

 mark triangularly bent and more or less black ; orbicular spot minute, black : hind- 

 wing and body as in male. 



Expanse o to 4j iuches. 



Larva semi-looped, cylindrical, sparsely covered with minute hairs ; with sixteen 

 feet, but the first pair of ventrals rudimentary ; eleventh segment thickened at the 

 dorsal extremity and surmounted by a tubercular spot. When at rest holds the bead 

 up and also the last segments ; frequently curling the anterior segments up in front. 

 Changes to pupa in a canopy of growing leaves fixed together and lined with a net- 

 like web, pupa fastened by the tail. 



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