.Vis 



PSYCHE. 



[October 1S93. 



Catarctia divisa, Walk., J . 



collection. The female i.s in the collection of 

 Mr. Herbert Druce of London, and is also 

 represented in my collection by numerous 

 specimens. The insect' is a true notodont. 

 as is shown by the neuration. 



18S. C. divisa, Walk. $. Differs from 

 the male in the much broader expanse of the 

 primaries, and in the almost complete 

 obscuration of the transverse lines and mark- 

 ings of the primaries which appear in the 

 male. The primaries in the case of the 

 female are almost uniformly dull fawn on the 

 upper surface, and are market) with a minute 

 black spot at the base and similar minute 

 black spots on the margin upon the intraneural 

 interspaces. The secondaries are broadly 

 pink, except upon the costa, where they are 

 pale whitish fawn. On the under side, the 

 primaries are broadly pink with the margins 

 narrowly fawn. The secondaries are as in the 

 male, but more broadly laved with pinkish. 



LASIOCAMPIDAE. 



Prodonestis, gen. nov. 



Closely allied to Odonestis, Germ., from 

 which it differs in the form of the primaries, 

 which do not have the outer margin evenly 

 rounded as in Odonestis, but produced at the 

 outer extremity of the lower radial nervule. 

 Furthermore, in the secondaries veins three, 

 four, and five spring from a common stalk, 



whereas in Odonestis, they spring directly 

 from the cell. The accessory costal veinlets 

 in the secondaries are few and incomplete, 

 none of them reaching the costal margin, 

 whereas in Odonestis they are well defined 

 and reach the costal margin. The palpi are 

 also much shorter than in Odonestis, scarceh' 

 being produced beyond the front. The 

 female is much larger than the male. The 

 antennae in both sexes diverge widely and 

 are then bent backward about one-third of the 

 distance from their insertion. Type P.fulva, 

 Holland. 



Neuration of Prodonestis fulva, Holl., g . (Cf. Hamp- 

 son, Moths of India, v. i, p. 425, for neuration of 

 Odonestis.) 



189. P.fulva, sp. nov. $. Lower side 

 of palpi and antennae pale fulvous; upper 

 side of thorax and legs moderately dark ful- 

 vous; lower side of thorax and entire ab- 

 domen pale fulvous. The upper side of the 

 primaries is fulvous, slightly paler than the 

 upper side of the thorax, and fading into pale 

 fulvous-cinereous on the outer margin. 

 There is a bright elongated discal cluster of 

 silvery white scales at the end of the cell. 

 The middle of the wing is clouded from the 

 costa to the outer angle by dark brown. A 

 similar patch of clouding covers the apex and 

 does not quite reach the outer margin. Be- 

 tween these dark cloudings there is a narrow 

 clouded band running from the costa trans- 

 versely toward the outer margin, gradually 



