new or little known Heterocera from Madagascar. 591 
Fam. LASIOCAMPIDAE. 
Gonometa ferox, n. sp. (Plate XXXI, fig. 12.) 
Head, antennae, palpi, and front of thorax, fiery orange: legs 
and thorax black, abdomen black ringed with pale orange, tuft 
orange. Wings dull black semihyaline without markings. 
Exp. 70mm. 1 3. 
A striking insect. 
Gonometa attenuata, n. sp. (Plate XXXI, fig. 13.) 
Head, palpi, and underside of thorax, dull orange; antennae, 
legs, thorax above, and abdomen, dark chestnut. F.w. dark 
chestnut with a white lenticular mark at end of cell. H.w. smoky 
brown with paler hairs at base. 
Exp. 46mm. 1 ¢. 
Lerodes vulpicolor, n. sp. (Plate XXXII, fig. 18.) 
Head, palpi, legs, antennae, thorax, and abdomen foxy red. 
F.w. foxy red, a black spot with white centre at end of cell; a dark, 
postmedian, very oblique line, followed by a line of black crescents, 
the convex side being outwards. H.w. uniformly red-brown. 
Underside red-brown, with a very faint central line in both wings. 
Exp. 32 mm. 
Lerodes albolunatus, n. sp. (Plate XXXII, fig. 19.) 
Head, legs, palpi, antennae, and thorax, below pale ochreous. 
Thorax above, and abdomen reddish fuscous. F.w. smoky chestnut 
fading into ochreous towards outer margin; a sharply defined 
oblique white patch at end of cell, touching the outside of this 
is an oblique dark straight line, and this is followed by a curved 
series of dark dots becoming faint near the apex. H.w. smoky 
fuscous. Underside uniformly fuscous. 
Exp. 30 mm. 
Lerodes albosparsatus, n. sp. (Plate XXXII, fig. 17.) 
Head, legs, antennae, palpi, and thorax dark brown; abdomen 
dark brown with a coppery tinge. F.w. dark brown fading into 
pale ochreous at outer margin; along the inner margin are some 
patches of white scales. A curved basal, median, and postmedian 
dark line. H.w. ochreous, shaded with darker; a transverse faint 
darker line. 
Exp. 30 mm. 
