106 Mr. A. G. Butler's additional notes on 



Psetidocerura thoracica, n. s. 



Primaries above dark granite-grey, crossed by two 



widely-separated blackish-edged pale lines, undulated, 



reversed, and divergent towards the costa, enclosing the 



ordinary spots, which are as follows : " orbicular " 



rounded, pale buff, with a black central dot and black 



margin; " reniform " subquadrate, slightly constricted 



in the centre, buff, with black margin ; a diffused buff 



crescent, with black lower edge below the "orbicular" 



spot ; base, costal border, and external area buff, spotted 



with grey and dotted with black ; a dentated blackish 



submarginal line, followed by an almost marginal series 



of well-defined small spots ; secondaries sericeous-white, 



greyish on abdominal area ; a grey spot at end of cell, 



and a marginal series of black lunules : thorax clothed 



with green-tipped white scales, giving it a pale green 



colour ; abdomen greyish brown, with whitish anal tuft ; 



under surface sericeous-white ; wings with intense black 



marginal spots ; primaries irrorated with blackish scales, 



and with a black subapical diffused patch ; costal border 



alternately ferruginous and white ; a blackish spot with 



an oblique blackish dash above it at the end of the cell ; 



fringe spotted with blackish ; secondaries with blackish 



basi-costal area ; a spot in the cell and a second at the 



end of the cell black ; an arched discal series of short 



slender grey lunules ; front of pectus blackish ; venter 



slightly greyish ; expanse of wrings, 41 mm. 



" Larva found September 21st, on ' Boldu ' ; entirely 

 pale yellowish green, almost transparent, and covered 

 sparsely with minute yellow dots ; head shiny ; dorsal, 

 subdorsal, and spiracular lines pale yellow ; a pointed 

 hump on the twelfth segment ; a yellow oblique line 

 extending from the point to near the spiracular line on 

 each side ; sixteen legs. When alarmed it throws back 

 its head until it touches the centre of its back." — T. E. 



Edmondsia, n. g. 



Allied to Lophwptcriix, but with broad Noctuiform wings, 

 with deeply undulated outer margins similar to those of 

 Calicula and Siipna of the Old World ; the inner margin 

 of the primaries with a subbasal lobe of long projecting 

 scales ; body very robust, coarsely scaled ; antennae rather 

 short, thick (especially in the male), flattened, with the 

 anterior surface slightly but scarcely perceptibly setose. 



