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vein slightly cui'ved. Body slender ; palpi ascending, rather slender, laxly squamosa, 

 not reaching to level of the eyes, third joint minute ; antenna3 setaceous, with fine 

 short slender lashes ; legs long, femora and tibice pilose, middle and hind tarsi also 

 pilose at the base above ; tarsi very long, middle and hind tibial spurs extremely long. 



ARASADA PYRALIFORMIS (Plate 172, Fig. 1,^, lu, larva). 



Male and female. Pale brownish-ochreous, with a lilacine tinge in some lights ; 

 sparsely speckled with minute black scales : forewing with an indistinct ochreous- 

 yellow waved transverse antemedial lunular line, and a similar inwardly-oblique 

 postmedial line, both lines being devoid of black scales ; two black-speckled spots at 

 end of the cell, the upper one being small; a marginal row of prominent black 

 dentate spots, three or four parallel but less distinct spots below the apex, and also 

 three or four on the costa before the apex : hindwing with a transverse medial 

 ochreous-bordered white wavy baud, two small black-speckled spots at end of the 

 cell, and a marginal row of black dentate spots. Body pale brownish-ochreous, 

 abdomen with brown dorsal bands ; palpi and front legs brown. 



Expanse Ittj to lA inch. 



Larva with twelve legs ; head large and projecting vertically above the anterior 

 seo-ments ; colour green, with a dorsal yellowish band, lateral streaks, and spiracles ; 

 head and sides of anterior segments black speckled ; second segment also with lateral 

 purplish-brown streaks ; a blackish line dividing the fifth and sixth segments ; some 

 blackish lateral marks also on posterior segments ; legs streaked with purplish-brown. 

 Pupa within rolled portion of leaf ; green, with reddish segmental bands. 



Family REMIGIID^. 



Wings broad, velvety ; hindwings sometimes pubescent beneath. Body generally 

 stout ; palpi ascending ; antennsB long, slender, often filiform ; legs of male very 

 pilose ; hind pair lauuginous ; hind tarsi often with dense compressed tuft. 



Larva semi-looped ; with twelve legs ; cyhndrical. Pupa without cocoon in the 

 earth ; efflorescent. 



Genus REMIGIA. 

 Eemigia (group 1) Gueuee, Noct. iii. p. 312 (1852). 

 Remigia (part), Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1493. 



Male : forewing triangular, rather broad, costa slightly arched towards the end, 

 exterior margin slightly obhque and convex; cell extending more than half the 

 length ; first subcostal emitted at two-fifths before end of the cell, second at 

 onet fifth, trifid, third at about one-third from base of second, and fourth at one- 

 third from base of third, fifth from end of cell and slightly touching third at its base ; 



