GONODONTA. II7 



In this genus the fore-wings are rather pointed, with two 

 teeth on the inner margin, and the hind-wings are rounded, and 

 most frequently black and yellow. The antennae are rather 

 long and thick, and very slightly ciliated. The larvce are 

 rather short, with a large head, and sixteen very long legs, 

 especially the claspers. The pupa is obtuse, and is enclosed 

 in a cocoon among leaves or moss. 



GONODONTA ACMEPTER.\. 

 {Plate CXX/X., Fi^. 8.) 

 Fhahtna acmeptcra, Sepp, Surin. Vlind. i. pi. 49 (1848). 



This species is found in Surinam. It expands an inch and 

 a half. 



Fore-wings rich brown, purplish on the marginal area, which 

 is bounded within by some indistinct zig-zag light and dark 

 lines ; there is a broad yellowish-white costal band, ceasing 

 before the tip ; towards the base it tapers below, the space 

 between it and the costa being ferruginous. Hind-wings 

 orange, with a broad black border^ and yellowish-white fringes. 

 The head and the long, broad, compressed palpi are snow- 

 white, and the thorax is purplish-grey, with the abdomen 

 yellow, and spotted with black on the back. 



The larva has fourteen legs, and is black, with numerous 

 transverse lines and small spots, which are white in the young 

 larva, and yellow in the full-grown larva. On the abdominal 

 segments are two lateral rows of large spots, which are yellow 

 in the young larva, and deep orange-red in the full-grown larva, 

 in which those of the lower row are very large and irregular in 

 shape. The larva forms a cocoon of leaves lined with silk. 

 It feeds on the lower shoots of Bnaisfelsia undulata, hiding 

 itself under the leaves, and dropping down at the least touch. 



