On new Species of Heterocerous Lepid&ptera. 83 



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

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

 branched tube. These glands in P. novcs-zealandim are cer- 

 tainly very unlike Mr. Moseley's figure (pi. Ixxii. fig. 1). 

 They may be different in the two species ; but Mr. Moseley 

 does not mention it when pointing out the differences 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 

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

 tinue to use my own eyes in preference to looking through his. 



I am, &c., 



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



March 20, 1877. j 



XII. — Neio Species of 'Heterocerous Lepidoptera of the Tribe 

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

 District of Shanghai. \ By Fredeeic Moore, F.Z.S. 



Fctm. .ffigeriidse. 



jEgeria howqua. 



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

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

 black. Cilia cinereous 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 ; tibiae and 

 tarsi white-streaked. 



Exp. f inch. 



Hah. 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 

 fifth 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 ; tibiae thickly pilose above, aimed with 



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