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lateral bands on middle segments ; a transverse dorsal irregular black streak ending 

 in a lateral spot on fifth segment, tlae streak being anteriorly bordered by yellow and 

 by a pale lateral spot, the latter spot being continued along the fourth segment ; 

 head yellowish, black speckled. Pupa thick, truncated in front, dark purplish-red. 



Genus NAXIA. 

 Naxia, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 254 (1852); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. j). 1403. 



Male and female: forewing short, broad, costa slightly arched, apex acute, 

 exterior margin very slightly oblique ; cell extending half the length ; first subcostal 

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

 sixth from base of second, fourth at two-thirds from base of third, fifth from end of 

 the cell and slightly touching third near the base ; discocellular inwardly oblique, 

 concave, bent at each end, radials from the angles ; middle median from close to 

 end of the cell, lower at two-fifths before the end ; submedian recurved : hindwing 

 broad, somewhat quadrate, apex convex, exterior margin slightly angular at end of 

 lower median ; cell extending two-fifths the length ; two subcostals from end of the 

 cell ; discocellular concave, i^adial from near lower end ; two upper medians from end 

 of the cell, lower at one-fourth; submedian and internal vein straight. Body stout; 

 palpi stout, ascending, second joint laxly squamose, reaching to level of the vertex, 

 third joint short, thick and conical in male, more slender in female ; antennse 

 setaceous ; legs stout, clothed in the male with dense woolly hair, base of posterior 

 tarsi also hairy. 



Ty2Je, N. absentimaoula. 



Larva elongated, slender; semi-looped; with the first and second pair of middle 

 legs imperfect ; two narrow dorsal tubercles on twelfth segment. 



NAXIA ABSENTIMAOULA. 



Naxia absentimacula, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 255 (lb52); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1404. 



Male and female : forewing pale umber-brown ; crossed by an outwardly-oblique 

 slender lilacine-grey bordered darker brown subbasal line, an antemedial line, and 

 a medial line, the two former almost straight, the latter undulated, followed by a 

 similar inwardly-oblique discal line, which is also slightly undulated and angled 

 outward below the costa ; beyond is a submarginal indistinct pale-bordered sinuous 

 brown fascia with white-tipt points on the veins ; the transverse medial area, and 

 outer border is suffused with lilacine-gi^ey : hindwing pale dusky brown, with an 

 indistinct lilacine-grey discal band, and speckled fascice from anal angle ; cilia paler. 

 Body, palpi, and legs umber-bi'own. 



Expanse 1| to 1-^ inch. 



