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Antennae simple ; palpi ascending, scaly, rather long, and 

 pointed at the tip. Body very stout and hairy. Abdomen conical, 

 extending beyond the hind-wings. Wings small in comparison 

 with the size of the body, with small transparent spots ; fore- 

 wings oblong, hind-wings oval. An East Indian genus, referred 

 by some authors to the Thyridida. 



VARNIA IGNITA. 

 (Plate CLV., Fig. 6.) 



Varnia ignita. Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xxxiii. 



p. 825 (1865). 

 Dysodia ignita> Hampson, Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, i. p. 368, 



fig. 249 (1892). 



" Deep red, very stout, brown beneath. Head and fore 

 part of the thorax reddish-brown. Palpi smooth, stout, 

 obliquely ascending, larger than the breadth of the head ; third 

 joint lanceolate, about one fourth of the length of the second. 

 Abdomen extending rather beyond the hind-wings. Wings 

 minutely reticulated with black ; a dark reddish oblique 

 irregular band ; fringe with a few whitish streaks ; exterior 

 border slightly and irregularly dentate. Length of the body 

 8 lines; of the wings 16 lines. Hab. Silhet" (Walker). 



FAMILY PLUSIID^:. 



Passing over the family Placodidcz^ which includes a few 

 pretty Palsearctic and American species, most of which are 

 tinged with purple or rosy, we arrive at the Plusiida, one of 

 the most extensive and best-known families of the Quadrifida. 

 Several species are here described and figured. 



