tOMBYX. 63 



THERINIA rODALlRIARIA. 



{Plate CXL, J'ig. I.) 



Aslhema podaliriaria, Westwood, Jardine's Nat. Libr., Exot. 



Moths, p. 209, pi. 29, fig. I (1841). 

 Asthenidia podaliriaria, W'estwood, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. 

 X., p. 515, pl- Y\ fio^- 10 (1879; neuratlon). 



" The general ground colour of A. podaliriaria is very pale 

 cream-colour, the fore-wings having three transverse narrow 

 brown bars across them, the first before the middle, the second 

 behind the middle (interrupted inwards towards the posterior 

 margin), and the third close to the outer margin ; the apex of 

 the wings is marked by a large blackish patch. In the hind- 

 wings the three bars are also continued across the surface, 

 meeting at the anal angle; the first straight, the second 

 angulated over the tail, and the third forming an arch over 

 the base of the tail, which has two black spots, the outer one 

 with an external orange stripe, the tail slender and curved. 

 The antennce are black. Expansion of the wings, one inch 

 and three-quarters. This species is from Rio de Janeiro, the 

 specimen figured being in the collection of the Rev. E. W. 

 Hope." {Westwood) 



This si)ecies is the type of Westwood's genus Asfhenia or 

 Asthenidia. The type of Therinia is T. hutudna (Cramer), 

 which is found in Surinam. It much resembles T. podaliriaria, 

 but has cream-coloured wings, without the black apical patch 

 on the fore-wings, and with three black spots towards the base 

 of the tail on the hind-win 



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GENUS B0MI5VX. 



Bomhyx, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.), i., p. 49^ (175^); 

 Schrank, Eauna Boica, ii. (2), p. 150 (1802); Hiibner, 



