TIIERMESIID.E. 20!) 



Larva with 12 legs ; oclireous-brown. Pupa reddish, enclosed in a small dark 

 brown cocoon. 



MESTLETA LUNIEERA (Plate 17.5, Fig. 3, g ). 



Pale vinous-brown, minutely black-speckled : forewing with a broad pale 

 vinaceous costal band, which also crosses the extreme base of the hindwing, where 

 it is almost of a white colour : forewing also with some indistinctly formed transverse 

 black-speckled sinuous lines, a discal angulated line, a prominent pale vinous sub- 

 marginal line, the upper end of the latter being red before it reaches the costal band, 

 and is there bordered within by a pure white curved streak ; a marginal row of Ijlack 

 dots ; apex below the band and adjacent cilia dusky-brown : hindwing with indistinct 

 blackish-speckled discal sinuous line, a prominent pale vinous angular discal line 

 with bordering black-speckled spots, the spots being more distinct towards anal 

 angle ; a marginal row of black dots. Thorax, base of abdomen, and front of head 

 pale vinous-brown. 



Expanse 1^^^ inch. 



MESTLETA INTERRUPTA (Plate 175, Fig. 7). 



Pale brownish ochreous-white, the outer border suffased with pale ochreous- 

 brown : forewing with a few minute ochreous-brown scales scattered over the basal 

 area ; crossed by a prominent inwardly-oblique discal ochreous-brown band, which 

 is diffused on its inner border, and is cut before the ajDex by an inwardly-oblique 

 white line to the costa, and has a contiguous subapical black spot ; beyond the band 

 is a row of very minute black dots, followed by a submarginal indistinct sinuous 

 line ; some black streaks on the costal edge : hindwing with a short ochreous-brown 

 band above the anal angle, and a marginal row of blackish speckles. Thorax, head, 

 palpi, and forelegs ochreous-brown ; abdomen ochreous-white 



Expanse j~j inch. 



MESTLETA IRRECTA (Plate 174, Fig. 1 (?, la larva). 



Selenis irrecta, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 1066 (1865). 

 Selenis niviapcx, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 1069 (1865). 



Ferruginous-brown : forewing with a broad white-speckled costal band, which 

 also crosses the extreme base of the hindwing, the band being most shai'ply defined 

 along its posterior edge ; crossed by a slender white discal line, which is bent inward 

 to the costa beyond end of the cell; a submarginal white lunular line, and a marginal 

 row of white-bordered black dots ; a short white-bordered black streak obliquely 

 before the apex : hindwing crossed by a slender white undulated line, a submarginal 

 blackish-spotted lunular line, and a marginal row of white-bordered black dots. 

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