240 Lloyd's natural history. 



extending all round the fore-wings, which are usually marked 

 with oblique stripes and longitudinal bands of the same colour. 

 The legs are rather stout, and the hind tibice are armed with 

 apical spurs. 



The Moths are remarkable for the gregarious habits of the 

 larvce, which feed on trees, and form large nests several 

 inches broad and long, in which tliey assume the pupa state, 

 each nest containing from 80 to 300 pupas. 



The larvae are very abundant, frequently stripping the trees 

 on which they feed of their leaves, but they are exposed to the 

 attacks of a variety of parasites, belonging to different orders 

 of insects. The larvae are provided with barbed hairs, like 

 those of the Processionary Caterpillars of Europe, which are 

 likewise gregarious, though they do not form nests \\V^ A7iapJie, 

 and are clothed with hairs which are irritating in the highest 

 degree. 



ANAPHE VENATA. 



{Plate XCV. Fig. 3.) 

 Anaphe venata, Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. (5) ii. p. 459 (1878). 



The species which we have figured is a native of Old Cala- 

 bar, and has an expanse of 2^ inches. 



"Wings cream-coloured; primaries with the veins, margins, 

 and a central belt bright chocolate-colour ; secondaries with 

 an apical fringe slightly brownish, and with bright chocolate 

 dots at the ends of the veins ; head, inner fringe of tegulae and 

 thorax red-brown, collar and outer border of te2;ulae cream- 

 coloured ; abdomen pale red-brown, the segments whitish in 

 front ; antennae black ; under surface with the markings less 

 distinct than above." {Butler.) 



GENUS HETEROMORPHA. 

 Heteromorpha, Hiibncr, Tentamen, p. i (1810). 

 Episema^ Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iv. i^. d^ (18 16); 



