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16. SPILOSOMA COGNATA. Mas. Alba, capitis lateribus fuscis, 

 palpis nigris porrectis caput non superantibus, abdomine roseo nigro 

 quinque fasciato, femoribus roseo variis, alls puncto discoidali fusco. 



Male. White. Head brown on each side between the eyes. Palpi 

 black, porrect, hardly extending beyond the head. Antennae with 

 black branches of moderate length. Abdomen rosy red, with five 

 black bands, a little shorter than the interior border of the hind 

 wings. Femora with some rosy hairs. Wings with a brown point 

 at the end of the areolet. Length of the body 6 lines : of the wings 

 18 lines. 



Most allied to S. rhadophila, from which it is distinguished by the 

 black bands on the abdomen and by the wings, which have no stripes 

 nor streaks. 



17. ANTHEUA EXTENUATA. Mas. Pallidissime flava, subtus alba, 

 capite pilis longis erectis vestito, antennis luteis, alis anticis fusco 

 subconspersis apice subrotundatis apud marginem exteriorem albidis 

 margine exteriore recto sat obliquo, alis posticis subflavescente 

 albidis. 



Male. Very pale yellow, white beneath. Head clothed with long 

 erect hairs. Antennae luteous, stout, smooth. Legs stout : femora 

 and tibiae fringed. Fore wings with a few minute brown speckles, 

 whitish towards the exterior border, slightly rounded at the tips; 

 exterior border straight, rather oblique. Hind wings whitish, with a 

 very slight yellowish tinge. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 

 24 lines. 



Most allied to A. simplex. 



18. ECPANTHERIA AKNULiFASciA. Fcem. Albido-cinerea, fronte 

 obscure cinerea nigro marginata, thoracis tegulis anticis nigro quadri- 

 lineatis, abdomine obscure cinereo alas posticas sat superante vittis 

 tribus e maculis luteis nigro submarginatis vitta ventral! e maculis 

 cinereis nigro marginatis, pedibus nigro fasciatis, alis anticis fasciis 

 obliquis e maculis obscure cinereis nigro marginatis fascia marginal! 

 e guttis cinereis nigro marginatis, alis posticis albis semihyalinis 

 gutta apud angulum interiorem nigra. 



Female. Whitish cinereous, white beneath. Front of the head 

 dark cinereous, bordered before and behind with black. Proboscis 

 obsolete. Palpi extremely short. Antennae slightly serrated. Fore 

 tegulas of the thorax with four black lines, which are united in front 

 and diverge hindward ; hind part with eight black lines, of which two 

 are on each of the hind tegulae, and of these lines the outer one is 

 undulating. Abdomen dark cinereous, extending rather beyond the 

 hind wings, with three stripes of luteous partly black-bordered spots ; 



