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collection) the moth does not seem to me to be put in its proper place by Staudinger and Rebel. 

 It may have affinities with the following genus, but would better be placed among the Noctuo-Phalaenids. 

 Body very delicate; head broad; eyes small, widely separated by the broad frons. Forewing with the 

 costa strongly curved behind the base, very pointed, outer margin obliquely truncate; hindwing obtusely 

 triangular, comparatively much smaller than in the preceding genus. 



P. oranaria Luc. (13 i). Mouse-grey above; forewing dusted with earth-grey; from the apex a dark oranaria. 

 shadowy band runs to the middle of the inner margin, the disc being slightly yellowish before the latter. 

 The costa shaded with a darker colour. Hindwing above mouse-grey, with scarcely darker discal dot, not 

 easily distinguished. Beneath, both wings lighter grey; forewing in the outer marginal portion with 2 short- 

 ened transverse bands, hindwing beyond the centre with a dark simple curved line, and before it a dark 

 discal spot. The ^ is not inconsiderably larger than the $. The species is apparently widely distributed, as its 

 name is derived from Oran in Western Algeria, but has also been found at Bone in the extreme east of Algeria. 



37. Genus: Kerala Moore. 



Following Staudinger and Rebel's catalogue, we interpolate a second species, though its 

 position here does not to us appear to be very natural. The shape, the palpi and the boat-shaped cocoon, 

 all point to a certain affinity with the Cymbalidae or Nolidae, to which Staudinger would not, however, 

 agree. Formerly the same author placed the moth with the Noctuids, in agreement with a suggestion by 

 Snellen, where it had perhaps best have remained. As its position is at least uncertain, we leave it in 

 the place assigned to it in Staudinger-Rebel's catalogue, where it can at all events be most easily found. 



Head large, frons broad, separating the small eyes. Palpi extending far beyond the frons. Tongue 

 strong. Antennae filiform, with exceedingly short ciliae in the cj. Head and thorax smoothly scaled, the 

 latter broad and short. Legs fairly long, smoothly scaled, hindtibia with 2 pairs of short spurs. Ab- 

 domen slender and very short, smoothly hairy, without real anal tuft. Forewing very long and linear 

 with the costa excurved directly behind the base, and the costal and inner margins almost parallel. Hind- 

 wing very broad and long, tightly folded, without markings. 



K. macroptera Oberth. (13 i). About the same shape as Cymaiophora; forewing light grey, darker macroptera. 

 at the costa; basal third separated from the rest of the wing by a grey band narrowly edged on both 

 sides with black; a second grey shadowy band before the outer margin. A black comma-shaped spot 

 before the apex of the cell. In Amurland and on Askold, in Mongolia and Western China, in June, on 

 branches of oak. 



38. Genus: Caiiii)toloiiia Fldr. 



Very remarkable small moths, conspicuously coloured and stoutly built, which are distributed from 

 Eastern Asia to Further India. Head fairly small, somewhat hidden beneath the large dome-shaped 

 thorax. Palpi moderately long, thin, porrect. Antennae setiform in both sexes. Tibiae with long spurs. 

 Forewing triangular, the costa strongly curved near the base. The colour is yellow, the scheme of marking 

 very peculiar. Two species are known: the genotype from Japan and East China, the other, very similar 

 one, from Assam. The position of this genus is doubtful. In structure the moth strongly resembles 

 certain Liparidae, especially Thaumaiopoea, whose systematic position is likewise nor yet certain. We may 

 also mention here that according to Pryer the larvae of Camptoloma live gregariously in compact nests, 

 which are attached to chestnut trees, on the leaves of which the larvae feed. 



C. interiorata Walk. (131). Forewing blight lemon-yellow, hindwing orange-yellow, end of abdomen inlcriorala. 

 red. Forewing with G l)lack lines which traverse the wing longitudinally, obliquely and transversely: the 

 wing is orange-red at the inner margin and above the inner angle. Larvae gregariously on chestnut; the 

 nests on the bark. Near Yokohama, not common, also near Shanghai. 



39. Genus: Taucrea Pwtg. 



This genus only contains one extraordinary species from Central Asia. While the $ so closely 

 resembles the $ of Ocnogyna Corsica that it can only be distinguished by the shorter hairs, the (J, which 

 is slender and has the body pointed, has almost the facies of Orgyia duhia, which it also resembles when 

 on the wing. It is distinguished from Ocnogyna by the more elongate forewing, the less distinct inner 

 angle and the silky, not woolly, covering of hair. On the first abdominal segment laterally there are 

 beneath two cavities. Antennae of S ^nd '^gs of both sexes short. 



T, pardalina Piing. {^ 14 b, ? 16 a). ^ light bright yellow with black spots. In the anal area 'pardnlina. 

 of the hindwing 2 dark rays extend from the base. $ dirty ochreous, the wing-remnants fawn. From the 

 Ili-river in Turkestan. 



