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Genus M^NAS. t. 



Type. 



Mmiias, Iliiba. Verz. p. 167 (1827) mcuLa. 



Lemyra, Wlk. vii. 1690 (1856) cxtensa. 



Savara, Wlk. .Yxxi. 320(1864), nee Wlk. 1862 simplex. 



Jiorseha, Wlk. x.xxi. 318 (1864) sargens. 



//?«•««, Wlk. XXXV. 1983 (1866) simplex. 



Paliistra, liar, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (o) iii. p. 300 (1873) luhoulheiii. 



Carbisa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 41 (1879) veiiosa. 



EuUenia, Wllgr. (Efv. Svensk. Akad. Foi-h. xxxii. (1) p. 102 



• (1876), nee Thorns. Col. 1857 .., scapiUom. 



Proboscis aborted, minute : palpi ixjrrect, not reaching beyond the frons ; 

 head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with rough woolly hair; antonnix; of male 

 bipectinate with long branches, of female with short branches ; tibiae clothed 

 with rough hair, the spurs short, hind tibite with the medial spurs absent ; 

 abdomen of iemale with thick flocculent anal tuft. Fore wing with vein 3 

 from towards angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 

 10 stalked ; 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from 

 just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



Larvce of S. American species clotlied with two fascicles of long hair on 

 each somite, with dorsal brushes of shorter hair on somites 5-10 finely plumose 

 and clear red, the rest of the hair black. Tiiey live in water on aquatic plantSj 

 breathing the air retained among the plumose hairs appearing as large bubbles ; 

 they leave the water to spin a cocoon. 



A. Fore wing with the ground-colour white. 



a. Fore wing with brown fasciic on median nervure and 



vein 1. 



a^. Fore wing with spots on basal half of costa vocula. 



6'. Fore wing without spots on basal half of costa arhorifera. 



b. Fore wing without brown fascire. 



rt'. Fore wing with two postmedial maculate bands iiiaculifascia. 



6'. Fore wing with postmedial series of small spots. 



a-. Fore femora orange above malayensis. 



b'^. Fore femora crimson above vestalis. 



c^. Fore wing without markings albescens. 



B. Foi'e wing with the ground-colour orange extensa. 



C. Fore wing pale brownish ochreous simplex. 



D. Fore wing brown or blackish. 



a. Fore wing without transverse lines or series of spots. 

 a}. Fore wing fuscous. 



a?. Fore wing with the costal edge fulvous fumipennis. 



Ir. Fore wing with ochreous spots ou costa beyond 



middle venosa. 



b\ Fore wing pale brown, with white streaks on the 



veins sur(/cn.<. 



h. Fore wing with two obscure postmedial lines. 



«'. Fore wing pale rufous ; the anal tuft white laboulhcni. 



/>'. Fore wing dark rufous ; the anal tuft fulvous Imrmeisferi. 



e*. Fore wing black-brown ; the anal tuft black-brown . bilinea. 



c. Fore wing witli obscure maculate subterminal line. 



a'. Fore wing willi the disk whitish on underside ; hind 

 wing with the inner area not clothed with orange 

 hair juruana. 



bK K(jro wing with the disk brown on underside ; hind 



wing with the inner area clothed with orange hair . a^olhe. 



d. Fore wing red-brown with series of black spots brcviti. 



