60 NOTODONTID.E.— SESllD^. 



Netria cauescens *, Hmpsn. (Plate CLX. fig. 6.) 



Expanse $ 2 inches. 



Female. Fore wing dark iron-grey, ^yith patches of grey scales along the costa leaving 

 five dark sti-eaks from the costa ; a grey patch at end of cell ; an indistinct lunulate post- 

 median dark hand, heyond which the area is suffused with grey scales ; a very indistinct sub- 

 marcrinal dark band. Hind wing uniform fuscous. Underside paler, especially the hind 

 wino- which is whitish and traversed by an indistinct straight median dark band. Head and 

 collar brown ; antennae fulvous ; thorax grizzled ; abdomen chestnut-brown, grey beneath, 

 with a preanal segmental brown band. 



Peridia dentataf- (Plate CLX. fig. 11.) 



Expanse 2^ inches. 



Female. Fore wing pale grey-brown, suffused and marked with dark brown ; a paler 

 streak along the subcostal nervure ; a double antemedial line, indistinct towards the costa and 

 with two long inward denticulations towards the inner margin ; a small spot at the upper 

 end of the cell continued downwards as a streak on the discocellulars ; an indistinct dentate 

 postmedial line with two distinct denticulations on the disk ; a denticulate submarginal line 

 with the denticulations strongest towards the costa ; a waved antecilial line. Hind wing and 

 underside uniform fuscous. 



Allied to H. [Phalera) tenebrosa, Moore, but much paler and with the denticulate lines 

 differently shaped and much more strongly marked. 



SESIIDiE. 



.ffigeria J flavipes. (Plate CLVII. figs. 19, 20.) 



Expanse, (? f » ? hJ ™ch. 



Male. Fore wings transparent ; a black band shot with dark metallic blue along the costa ; 

 median nervure and inner margin black ; a black band across the end of the cell, followed by 

 a small transparent area, the three nervules crossing which are black ; apical and outer areas 

 black, with narrow golden-yellow streaks between the nervules. Hind wing transparent, 

 with veins and margins black ; cilia of both wings black. Antennae, head, thorax, and anal 

 tufts black, shot with metallic blue ; slight golden-yellow bands to the abdominal segments ; 

 legs golden-yellow, the tarsi of mid and hind jiairs black. On the underside the palpi, costa 

 of fore wing, base of hind wing, and parts of tJie ajjiccs and cilia of l)otli wings, sides of 

 abdomen, and anal tufts are golden. 



* Lymantria mnescms on Plate. This may lie the female of Stawopus {Netria) yriseus, Hmpsn., 

 111. Het. viii. p. 59, pi. 141. fig. 16. Netria is a section of the genus Stauropus with pectinated antenna. 

 t This should be placed in the genus Hypawschra, liutl. 

 t Sesia has priority over JE(/eria. 



