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III. New or little-known Heterocera /row Madagascar . By 

 Sir Geo. H. Kenrick, F.E.S. 



[Read May 2nd, 1917.] 



Plates I-VI. 



^In continuation of a paper read before the Society on 

 November 5th, 1913, I now submit a further list of insects 

 taken in Madagascar by Mr. FeUx B. Pratt in 1910. 



There still remain the Geometriclae to be described, and 

 among them there appear to be many interestiiig forms. 



I have again to thank Sir George Hampson and 

 his assistants for their very kind help in the work of 

 identification . 



I wish that it had been possible to compare the insects 

 with types to be found in Continental cabinets before pub- 

 lishing these descriptioiis, but as that is out of the question 

 for the present, I let these go out as they are. 



NOTODONTIDAE. 



Stauropus malgassica, sp. n. Plate I. 

 Head, thorax, base and shaft of antennae, upper part of palpi 

 white ; base of palpi and fringes round eyes dark brown ; antennae 

 chestnut ; legs white, tarsi blackish ; abdomen, base and last two 

 segments white, remainder grey. Fore-iiing white; an oblique 

 basal black line from costa to cell; followed by an antemedian 

 black line, oblique with strong angulation in the cell, and a thicken- 

 ing at irmer margin, which in the female develops into a round 

 spot; the median line is faint and not visible beyond the middle 

 of the cell; the postmedian line has three distinct angulations 

 and the subterminal is composed of 6 V-shaped marks; there are 

 4 dark dots on the costa beyond the postmedian line. Hind-icing 

 white, slightly fuscous towards the inner margin, with a dark 

 subterminal line. Exp. 50 mm. 



Stauropus lllacina, sp. n. Plate I. 

 Head, thorax, and legs pale grey; tibiae darker, antemiae dark 

 brown, abdomen grey, the two last segments lighter. Fore-wing 

 TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1917. — PART I. (nOV.) 



