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arched before the apex, thence abruptly descending and forming an 

 acute apical poiut ; exterior margin oblique, recurved, not scalloped ; 

 first subcostal veinlet four-branched, the second, third, and fourth 

 branches starting at one third their length from each other, the 

 second subcostal veinlet starting from the juuction of the first with 

 the discocellular, the discoidal veinlet crossing the discocellular and 

 extending within the cell to one third its length : hind wing pro- 

 duced, anterior angle extended beyond the posterior margin of fore 

 wing ; exterior margin rounded, very slightly scalloped ; anal angle 

 not acute, abdominal margin slightly grooved. Antennas very 

 short, bipectinate to the tips. Body ample ; abdomen with a longi- 

 tudinal dorsal crest extending its whole length. 

 Allied to the genus Bombyx and Theophila. 



Norasuma javanica. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 6.) 



Female. Fore wing greyish brown, with a whitish-grey patch 

 above and below the apex ; four equidistant, very indistinct trans- 

 verse discal undulating blackish lines, the outer line with a pale 

 exterior border, the two median lines the darkest, all terminating 

 abruptly inward on the costa ; numerous fawn-coloured freckles 

 scattered on the disk : hind wing greyish brown at the base, dark 

 fawn-colour exteriorly ; veins indistinctly paler ; an indistinct trans- 

 verse pale discal line : abdominal margin blackish, with grey streaks ; 

 thorax and abdomen greyish brown, abdomen with very narrow 

 indistinct whitish rings ; antennae and legs brown. Underside 

 darker ; apex of fore wing dark brown ; hind wing freckled with 

 numerous dark brown and white scales near aual angle ; two short 

 discal bands extending from abdominal margin. 



Expanse 2| inches. 



Hab. Java (Wallace). In Coll. W. W. Saunders. 



Genus Theophila, Moore. 



Theophila mandarina. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 5.) 



Female grey : fore wing with a well-defined antemedian curved 

 transverse brown band, and a transverse postmedian suffused 

 brown line, beyond which is a submarginal white-bordered recurved 

 narrow line, outside of which is a suffused brown patch below 

 the apex ; discocellular mark indistinct : hind wing brown, with 

 a whitish submarginal line, and two white spots on abdominal 

 margin : thorax brown ; waist-band grey ; antennae fuliginous, shaft 



grey. 



Expanse If inch. 



Hab. Neighbourhood of Shanghai (Mr. Fryer). In Coll. F. 

 Moore. 



" Larva feeds on mulberry, and spins a white silk cocoon about 

 three quarters of an inch long." — E. Iloldsworth. 



Allied to T. huttoni from the North-west Himalayas ; but the 

 wings in this species are less scalloped, and it is a much smaller 

 insect. 



