ESTIGMENE. 



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black at sides ; branches of antennas blackish : femora orange above ; 

 fore tibi;e and the tarsi streaked with bhick. Fore wing with 

 antemedial black point below median nervure ; medial points below 

 Bubcostal ncrvnre, two below^ medial nervure, and one above vein 1 ; 

 points at angles of cell; a postmedial point above vein 6, an 

 obliquely-curved punctiform line between veins 5 and 2 and a point 

 above 1 ; an oblique series of short streaks on each side of the 

 veins from apex, and a subterminal series from vein 5 to inner 

 margin. Hind wing immaculate. 



Ab. l/athena. Antennae with the shaft black-scaled. This is 

 unknown to me and may be a distinct species. 



Bah. U.S.A., Atlantic fStates to Rockies, Georgia, ] J type 

 conyrua. Exp. 44 millim. 



Larva. Tack. J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iii. p. 170. 



Stage 1. Head with two dark spots, later becoming dark ; body 

 white ; the llattened sctiferous tubercles dusky ; ])rothoracio plate 

 divided ; the dorsal and lateral tubercles of abdominal somites with 

 single hairs which are tinely spinulate and long. 



Sect. II. {Eajendra). Antenute of male with extremely short branche3. 



A. Fore wing with maculate white patches ceylonensis. 



B. Fore wing with white fascia. 



a. Fore wing with the white fascia bent below end of cell, 

 then running to apex. 

 a^. Fore wing with the upper edge of the fascia slightly- 

 excised beyond lower angle of cell irregiolaris. 



fA. Fore wing with the upper edge of fascia not excised 



beyond the cell perrotfeti. 



h. Fore wing with the fi\scia regularly curved to apex vittata. 



C. Foi-e wing black with hardly a trace of the fascia nigricans. 



1872. Estigmene ceylonensis, n. sp. (Plate XLVII. fig. 0.) 



5 . Head and thorax dark brown ; palpi crimson at base ; vertex 

 of head white, with brown spot ; tegulie white, with brown spots 

 and slightly edged with crimson ; patagia with the lower half 

 ■white, -with brown spots on shoulders ; femora whitish towards 

 base, crimson above; abdomen crimson above, with dorsal, Literal, 

 and sublateral series of brown spots, the ventral surface white with 

 brown bands on terminal segments. Fore wing dark brown, with 

 irregular white marks at base and small pink marks on inner 

 margin, the basal marks conjoined to two irregular white ante- 

 medial conjoined spots extending from middle of cell to vein 1 : 

 two con joined, curved, postmedial bands from lower end of cell 

 to vein 1, with a small spot below them on iimer margin and 

 another above their outer extremity ; points beloAv middle of costa 

 and on discocellulars ; two postmedial points from costa and three 

 obli()uely placed from just before apex ; a curved series of six spots 

 on terminal area between veins (J and l,and soine])oints on termen. 

 Hind wing crimson ; the costal area brown to beyond middle, with 



