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1217. Odonestis intemerata. 



Opsirhina intemerata. Walker: xxxii. 557 (1865). 

 Type. Moreton Bay, in B. M. 

 a. Queensland. 



1218. Odonestis directa : n. sp. PL vi. f. 4. 



Brown, reddish brown in parts, antennas reddish brown, pectus, 

 head, and thorax with some reddish brown hairs. Fore-wings with 

 two prominent pure white spots at end of cell one above the other, 

 the upper the smaller, a brown outwardly curved line outwardly 

 edged with whitish from the apex to the first median vein in its 

 centre, beyond this line the wing is paler in colour, and between 

 the line and the outer margin is an indistinct sinuous reddish brown 

 band. Hind- wings, abdomen, and underside of a uniform pale 

 brownish grey without markings except for an indication below on 

 the fore- wings of the apical line, abdominal tuft pale, marginal line 

 of both wings reddish brown, cilia pale and interlined. 



Expanse of wings i/^ inches. 

 a. Japan (type). 



Allied to O. albomaculata, Bremer; Bull, de 1'Acad. Pet., 1861, 

 p. 42, pi. 4, f. 6 <?. 



GENUS ESTIGENA. Moore : Cat. Lep., E. I. C, ii. p. 426 (1859). 



1219. Estigena pardale. 



Megasoma pardale. Walker : vi. 1453 (1855). 



Estigena pardale. Moore: Cat. Lep. E. I. C., ii. p. 426, pi. 13 a, f. 1 6, 



ia?(i85 9 ). 



Snellen and Piepers : Tijd. voor Ent., 1879, p. 124. 

 Estigena nandina. Moore: Cat. Lep. E. I. C., ii. p. 427 (1859). 

 Walker: xxxii. 568 (1865). 

 Moore : Lep. Ceylon, ii. p. 149, pi. 142, f. I, I a 



(1882). 

 Cotes and Swinh. : Cat. Moths of India, ii. 218. 1499 



(1887). 



Swinhoe: Trans. Ent. Soc., Load., 1890, p. 197. 

 Gastropacha abstracta. Walker: xxxii. 551 (1865). 

 Lebeda scriptiplaga. Walker: xxxii. 569 (1865). 

 Type. Java, in B. M. 

 Type (nandina). North India, in B. M. 

 Type (abstracta). Ceylon, in B. M. 

 Type (scriptiplaga). Ceylon, in coll. Layard. 



a. Java (3) (Horsfield). b. Bombay (2). c. Ceylon (Thwaites). 

 d. India (4). e. Poona. 



GENUS METANASTRIA. Hiibner: Verz. Schm., p. 186 (1816). 



1220. Metanastria hyrtaca. 



Phafana hyrtaca. Cramer : Pap. Exot., iii. 97, pi. 249, f. E (1782). 

 Bombyx hyrtaca. Olivier : Enc. Mcth., v. 53. 103 (1789). 



