344 CANIA; mRESA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 



the apex of the cell. The fore tibia of the (J has a vivid white spot at the tip. — Distributed from China over 



a large portion of India to Java. The larva green or yellow, with prominent pale doi-sal line; at each side of 



this line and at the sides of the body rows green processes 2 mm long with red tips. The cocoon ovate, 



brown-grey. 



sericea. T. sericea Bull. Butler has described two not very dissimilar moths under the same specific name, 



the present species being named by him AspJiendala sericea, although there was already a Phrixolepia sericea 



Bull., which has already given rise to confusion of various kind. This is the more easily understood, as his 



genus Aphendala has no legs to stand upon, Hampsox having already united it, as well as the so-called 



Anzabe, with Thosea. The moth described as "Aphendala sericea" is said to have ochreous forewing with 



the transverse band crossing the posterior median area curved, not elbowed as in Phrixolepia. But it is doubtful 



whether the species belongs to the Limacodidae. There are altogether no less than half a dozen Limacodidae 



which bear the name of sericea, mostly with Butler as author, viz., a Scopelodes, a North Indian Cania, 



a species from South America and one from ^Madagascar, in addition to the above. — The Japanese sericea 



is said to occur on Hondo and in the Hokkaido. The species is not before me. 



11. Genus: Caiiia Walk. 



Near the preceding genus and Altha; apex of forewing strongly rounded, hmdwmg with very long fringes. 

 In the forewing subcostal 1 almost from middle of cell, 2 far before cell-apex, 3 and 4 stalked. — Only 

 a few species, nearly all from India. 

 hilinea. Q. bilinea Walk. (= sericea Walk., Miresa mollis Walk., Nyssia malaccana Walk., Aspidiotus bicarina- 



tus Walk.) (.50 c). The moth varies very much in size as well as colouring. Sometimes lighter brown, someti- 

 mes dark, so variable that Walker placed the species into 4 different genera. Recognised by 2 parallel pale 

 oblique liiaes with dark proximal borders. The brown colour of the forewing either more reddish or more yellow- 

 ish or more grey; head and collar with a tone of yolk-colour. Hindwing ochreous, sometimes paler, someti- 

 mes duller or darker. — The moth occurs in China as well as ui Kashmir on Palearctic territory, and is probably 

 found throughout Southern Tibet, being moreover widely distributed in India. 



12. Genus: Miresa Walk. 



Palpi abnormally long in one of the species, in the others short, porrect, but so small that they do not 

 extend beyond the brush of the frons. Antenna of ^ long-bipectinate to two-thirds, short-bipectinate in apical 

 third. Apex of forewing rounded, but the wing nevertheless more triangular than the oval wing of Cania; 

 subcostal 1 before apex of cell, 2 at apex, 3, 4, 5 stalked; discocellular strongly angulate, the cell-vein 

 terminating between the two radials. In the forewing the cell is divided into 2 almost equal parts, in the hind- 

 wing into a smaller upper portion and a larger lower one. — The extent of the genus is very different accord- 

 ing to the views of the authors; it comprises noM'adays about 20 forms, Monema jlavescens Walk., which 

 deviates in its long palpi, being included in this number. 

 albipuncla. M. albipuncta H.-Schdff. (50 b). Forewmg uniformly red-brown, paler towards outer margin, before 



apex of cell a glossy white discal dot which is traversed by an outwardly concave dark line; a second line 

 commences before the middle of the costa and runs to the hind margin, which it meets soon beyond the base. 

 Hindwing and abdomen pale yolk-colour. The Kashmirian form is rather small. The species is widely distri- 

 (juUifera. buted in India, but the Burmese form is considerably darker according to Hampsox. — guttifera Walk, is larg- 

 er, has a prominent, more distmctly double central dot on the forewing, and the transverse lines may be diffuse 

 or absent. — Larva green, dorso-laterally 2 rows of spiny warts and another row of shorter ones above the 

 spiracles. A brown spiracle-line, and a lateral one below which the ground-colour is paler. 

 inornata. M. inornata Walk. Very similar to the preceding, but duller red-brown. The white spot and the 



dark median line are absent ; on the other hand, a dull indistinct submarginal line is developed. — In Japan, 

 China, Kashmir; also in the North of non-Palearctic India. 



flavidorsalis. M. flavidorsalis Stgr. (49 k). Can hardly be united with the preceding species, as Staudixger suggested. 



Recognised by the basal portion of the hind marginal area being bright yolk-colour, this area being bounded 



fuicicostalis.hy a pale curved presubmarginal band. — fuscicostalis Fixs., which is a distinct species according to 

 Graeser, has the yellow colour extended over the whole fore\ring with the exception of the costal margin as 

 far as apex of cell. — Amurland, North and Central China, and Corea, in July, not rare m some places. 

 pMivitla. M. pallivitta Moore. This form, described from Shanghai, perhaps belongs to the very variable previous 



species. I have not been able to find it at Shanghai and know it only from Moore's description. According to 

 this the forewing is light ashy grey, the hindwing greyish brown. 

 flavescens. M. flavescens Walk. (50 c). This common East Asiatic species belongs certainly not here, as is abun- 



dantly proved by the abnormally developed palpi, which point to a genus near Hyphorma. The cocoon being 



