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crossing the wings at irregular intervals ; a ninth less distinct line near the outer margin ; fringe 

 smoky brown, with three or four whitish ?pots on the apical half: secondaries smoky brown ; 

 abdominal border creamy whitish, clothed sparsely with brown hairs; costal border cream- 

 coloured ; fringe with whitish spots on apical half: thorax green, brown in the centre; a 

 curved streak on each side towards the back of the collar and a lunule on each shoulder 

 browu ; antennae brown, the base above white; abdomen brown. Under surface cream- 

 coloured ; the primaries, excepting at the base, along the costal margin, towards the outer 

 and inner borders, washed with brown, but most strongly in the discoidal cell ; front of palpi, 

 pectus, and anterior femora brown. Expanse of wings 57 millim. 

 Silhet (Aryetit) ; Darjiling (IAdderdale) . 



The genus Somtra appears to belong to the same group as Stauropus. 



NADATA, Walk. 



Nadata niveiceps. (Plate CIV. fig. 8.) 

 Trabala niveiceps, Walker, Cat. Lep. Hit. Suppl. ii. p. 55-1 (1865). 



Primaries flesh-coloured; a yellow-centred darker rounded spot at the end of the cell 

 and two slightly darker but indistinct bands beyond the cell, the outer one angulated ; a 

 slender ferruginous marginal line, fringe white : secondaries pale stramineous, the interno- 

 median area clothed towards the base w T ith long ochreous hairs ; an irregular flesh-coloured 

 band beyond the cell, but not reaching the margins of the wing : head snow-white ; antenna; 

 ferruginous, white at base; pectus pinky white, the tegular, as usual, forming a prominent 

 crest, their edges flesh-brown ; abdomen ochreous, sides and anus white. Primaries below 

 with the basal half pale ochreous, becoming quite white at the base, and shading off into the 

 external half, which is of a pale pinky flesh-colour; a diffused rust-red stripe beyond the 

 middle : secondaries creamy white, with the outer and inner margins slightly ochreous : body 

 below white. Expanse of wings 101 millim. 



North India. 



Nearest to N. crista ta of Japan. 



The larva of the allied N. gibbosa is figured by Abbot, who recognizes the moth as a true 

 Notodontid. 



PORSICA, Walk* 

 Porsica ingens. (Plate CIV. fig. 9.) 

 Porsica ingens, Walker, Cat. Lej). Ilet. Suppl. v. p. 1823 (] SGG). 



Primaries above testaceous ; the central belt indicated by two reversed dentate-sinuate 



* Without rearing this genus it would be difficult to decide with certainty its natural position, but 

 in the structure of the antenna; it seems to agree best with members of the Notodontid®. 



