On new Species of Heterocerous Le^pidoptera. 83 



Mr. Moseley also describes the slime-glands as " a series of 

 elongate ramified tubes," Avliile I describe them as a single 

 branched tube. These glands in P. novce-zealandice are cer- 



teinly verj unlike Mr. Moseley's figure (pi. Ixxii. fig. 1). 



Ihey may be difierent in the two species; but Mr. Moseley 



does not mention it when pointing out the diiFerences between 



them. 



^ In conclusion I wish to thank Mr. Moseley for his courtesy 

 in telling me exactly what I saw, what I did not see, and what 

 1 imagmed I saw ; but he will, I hope, excuse me if I still con- 

 tniue to use my own eyes in preferencTe to looking through his. 



I am, &c., 

 Otago Museum, Dunedin, N.Z. F. W HuTTON 



March 20, 1877. 



XII.— iVew Species of Heterocerous Lepidoptera of the Tribe 

 Bombyces, collected hy Mr. W. B. Pryer chiefly in the 

 District of Shanghai. By FREDERIC MoORE, F.Z.S. 



Fam. .ffigeriidae. 



^geria howqua. 



Wmgs hyaline ; anterior and posterior margins, apex, nar- 

 row discocellular band of fore wing, and veins of both wings 

 black. Ciha cmereous brown. Body blue-black ; collar and 

 three narrow segmental bands on abdomen yellow, the bands 

 on alternate segments from the base; anal tuft broad and 

 slightly yellow-fringed. Palpi black above, white beneath. 

 Body beneath streaked with white. Legs black : tibi« and 

 tarsi white-streaked. 



Exp. I inch. 



Bab. Shanghai. In coll. W. B. Pryer. 



SORONIA, n. gen. 



Fore wing long, narrow; subcostal vein five-branched, first 

 second, and third arising before end of the cell, fourth and 

 tilth beyond ; cell long ; discocellulars sinuous ; two radials • 

 median vein two-branched, the branches short; submedian 

 extending along hind margin. Hind wing long, trigonal, apex 

 pointed exterior margin very oblique, straight, anal angle 

 rounded ; subcostal vein two-branched ; median vein three- 

 branched the branches arising together before end of the cell 

 discocellular straight; submedian and internal veins joined 

 together near the base. Body short, stout, naked ; abdomen 

 pointed. Legs short ; tibiaj thickly pilose above, aimed with 



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