From the ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY, 

 Ser. 6, Vol. x., November 1892. 



Description of a new Moth of the Genus Anaphe from 

 Madagascar, with a Note on the Natural Position of the 

 Genus. By ARTHUR G. BUTLER, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



THE following new species, together with its long fusiform 

 social cocoon (not unlike that of Hypsoides bipars) t was 

 obtained by the Rev. J. Wills in the forest of East 

 Imerina : 



Anaphe aurea, sp. n. 



Wings above uniform pale silky golden buff, the males 

 th the basal half of the costal margin slenderly edged with 

 ick ; below, the borders of the wings are more ochraceous 

 than above. Body above testaceous, with the head and collar 

 more or less deeply orange ; antennae and eyes black : body 

 belojv deep ochreous, the inferior edge of the palpi, a few 

 hairs at the front of the pectus, and the tarsi of all the legs 

 black ; the tibiae of the anterior and middle pair black, fringed 

 with ochreous, those of the posterior pair blackish at their 

 distal extremity ; anal tuft of female silvery above, otherwise 

 coffee-brown. 



Expanse of wings, $ 51, ? 62 millim. 

 Forest of East Imerina, Madagascar. 

 Four males and two females were sent with the cocoon. 

 The position of the genera Anaphe and Hypsoides has long 

 been debated by Lepidopterists. Thus Walker (Lep. Het. 

 iv. p. 856) described Anaphe as a genus of the family Liparidae, 

 whilst Herrich-Schaffer in the same year referred it to the 

 Notodontidae under the generic name Arctiomorpha ; whereas 

 Dr. Boisduval (Voy. de Delegorgue, 1847) seems to have 

 imagined that it was an Arctiid. In his article on Anaphe 

 (Trans. Linn. Soc. 1885) Lord Walsingham speaks of some 

 of its characteristics as shared by Cnethocampa, and 

 M. Mabille, speaking of his genus Ccenostegia (a synonym of 

 Hypsoides], says that it belongs to a special division of 

 Bombyx approaching nearly to the European Cnethocampa 

 (Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1890 (published 1891), p. cxlvi). 



Mr. G. F. Hampson, who has recently made a careful 

 study of the families of the Lepidoptera, has pointed out to 

 me that under the so-called Lasiocampidae of authors two 

 very distinct families are confounded, one of which (the true 

 Lasiocampidae) has the lower radial vein of the anterior wings 

 emitted from the posterior angle of the cell ; the other 

 (Eupterotidse, Hampson) emits this vein from the centre of 



