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LYMANTRIID^. 



Genus CHENUALA. Gen. Nov. 



3 Palpi porrect, short and slender, antenna; bipectinated, the 

 branches nearly even throughout, mid and hind tibicC with short 

 terminal pairs of spurs. Fore-wings with veins 2, 3, and 4 at even 

 distances before end of cell, 5 from the angle, 6 from upper angle, 

 9 rising from 10 and anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, which 

 is very long. Hind-wings with veins 2, 3, and 4 at even distances 

 before angle of cell, 5 from the angle, discocellulars angled, 6 and 7 

 from upper angle, 8 remote from 7 and connected with it by a bar 

 near the base. 

 Type (C. ru/a) Swinhoe. 



Genus Chenuala. 



997. Chenuala rufa : n. sp. 



6 Orange red, shafts of antennae brownish with orange tips, thorax 

 and fore-wings of a uniform orange red, with a pale brownish tinge. 

 Fore-wings with a small black spot at the end of the cell and indica- 

 tions of a pale thin sinuous grey band before the middle, and two 

 similar bands near each other across the disc ; these bands can only 

 be made out in certain lights. Hind-wings bright orange red, 

 unmarked. Underside, uniform in colour, duller and paler than 

 the colour of the fore-wings above ; fore-wings with a brown spot 

 in centre of cell and another at the end, and with the transves'se 

 bands more or less visible. 



Expanse of wings 2/tj inches. 

 a. Queensland (type). 



