Heterocerous Lepidoptera frovi Madagascar. 13 



pale flesh colour, witli red-brown markings, thorax white; abdo- 

 men cream colour, darker towards the anal extremity ; antennte 

 with sandy -yellowish pectinations; under surface pinky-white; 

 primaries of the female sericeous creamy-white, tinted v/ith 

 sulphur-yellow along the borders ; the markings dark olive- 

 brown; secondaries with the basal two-thirds pale rose-pink, 

 fading into sericeous- white on the external area; the margin 

 spotted with Ijrowu (a cliaracter wanting in our male example); 

 fringe pale sulphur-yellow; thorax cream colour, yellowish in 

 front, the markings olive-brown; abdomen greyish-white; iinder 

 surface pale sulphur-yellow; wings Avith brown discocellular 

 luuule, three squamose arched dentated discal broAvn stripes 

 and a marginal series of l)lack dots. Expanse of wings, $ 35 

 mm., 9 46 mm. 

 Ankafana. 



There is also a female which seems to be a variety of this 

 species, in which the primaries and thorax above are entirely 

 pale sulphur-yellow, with the brown markings less defined 

 above, slightly less irregular and almost obliterated on the 

 under surface; the brown marginal spots of the secondaries are 

 also less numerous. 



From L. rosea this species differs entirely in the shape of the 

 primaries; that insect l:)eiug more like L. pusilla in shape. 



28. Calliteara elegans^ n. sp. 



$ Allied to C. ahietis, of Europe ; primaries above snow- 

 white, coarsely speckled with black scales, especially upon the 

 basal thii-d, which is limited by an angulated brown stripe ; veins 

 excepting upon the centre of the costal area, brown ; an oblique 

 post-median zigzag black line immediately followed by a costal 

 patch of black scales, and below this by an increasing irregular 

 brown band, its inner edge inarched ; a dentate-sinuate i)lack 

 discal stripe united at its upper extremity to the first angle of 

 the zigzag black line; the l:)lack s-peckhng of the external border 

 indicating a marginal series of rounded white spots; fringe sandy- 

 brown, spotted with Avhitish; secondaries ochreous, deepest on 

 the abdominal border, greyish in the central longitudinal area, 

 and with an imperfect dusky external border ; fringe ti]iped 

 with Avhitish ; head Avhity-brown ; palpi black, banded with 

 whity -brown at the extremities ; antennaj Avhite, black speckled 

 and with brown pectinations; thorax tawny, white-speckled, 



