398 Mr. A. G. Butler on a new Moth. 



XLIV. — Descrijition of a neio Moth of the Genus Anaphe 

 from Madagascar^ with a Note on the Natural Position of 

 the Genus. By Aethur G. Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



The following new species, together with its long fusiform 

 social cocoon (not unlike that of Ilypsoides hipars), was 

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

 Imerina : — 



Anaphe aurea, sp. n. 



Wings above nniforra pale silky golden buff, the males 

 with the basal half of the costal margin slenderly edged with 

 black ; 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 

 below 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 tibise 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, (J 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 Hy2)soides has long 

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

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

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

 Notodontidse 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 Coenostegia (a synonym of 

 IJypsoides)j says that it belongs to a special division of 

 Honibyx 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 Lasiocampida; of authors two 

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

 Lasiocampidffi) has the lower radial vein of the anterior wings 

 emitted from the posterior angle of the cell ; the other 

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



