ESTIGENA. ODONESTIS. 



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wing ochreous or red-brown ; t<he inner area paler ; three indis- 

 tinct waved lines, which are obsolete on inner half ; a large 

 ochreous patch may be present below the costa. 



$ apparently never has the ochreous patch on the hind wing. 

 Sab. Arabia ; throughout India and Ceylon ; Nagas ; Mergui ; 

 Andamans ; Java. Exp., $ 38-48, $ 70-76 millim. 



Genus ODONESTIS. 

 Odonestis, Germar, Prod. p. 49 (1811). 



Type, 0. potatoria, Fabr., from Europe. 



Range. Palasarctic and Oriental regions ; Australia. 



Palpi very long and slender. Antennae with branches shorter 

 in female than male. Legs with the spurs very minute. Fore 

 wing long, the apex acute ; the outer margin obliquely rounded ; 

 veins 6 and 7 stalked ; the stalk of veins 9 and 10 short. Hind 

 wing with veins 4 and 5 from cell or stalked ; 8 curved, and met 

 by a bar from 7 ; the accessory costal veinlets numerous and 

 prominent. 



SECT. I. Fore wing with vein 8 from the angle of cell 

 in both sexes. 



942. Odonestis laeta, Wlk. Cat. vi, p. 1416 ; C. fy S. no. 1453 j Moore, 



Lep. E. I. Co. pi. xii a, figs. 7, 7 a. 



Lasiocampa decisa, Wlk. Cat. vi, p. 1441 ; C. $ 8. no. 1489. 

 Lasiocampa inobtrusa, Wlk. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) i, 1862, p. 85 ; 



C. $S. no. 1494. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen rather pale red-brown. Wings 

 red-brown ; fore wing with an indistinct antemedial waved line ; a 

 large whitish patch at lower end of cell suffused with reddish 



Fig. 296. Odonestis Icsta, ' $ . \. 



brown and with a small spot above it ; a very oblique dark line 

 from near the apex, curved downwards to centre of inner margin ; 

 a waved submarginal line ; hind wing with the costal area darker. 

 In the male the ground-colour of the whole insect may be dusky 

 brown, with the head and collar darker. In the form of the male 



