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of points on each somite brownish ; a brown stij^matal line emittinj^ 

 lateral bands on 10th and 11th somites. Food-plants : Glycine 

 and Walnut. The larva reposes with its back hunched, the 1st 

 pair of prolegs smaller than the others. 



Genus ANDREUSIA. 

 Andrewsia, Grote, New Check-List, p. 41 (1882) .. 



Type. 

 messalina. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 Tertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd joint short ; frons smooth, with 

 slight ridge of hair; eyes large, round; antennte of male ciliated; thorax 

 clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests; tibite moderately 

 fringed with hair, the raid tibiae spined, the hind tibiae spined between the 

 medial and terminal pairs of spurs, the mid tibiae of male dilated with a fold 

 containing a tuft of long hair ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. 

 Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenu- 

 late ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the 

 cell nearly half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed 

 from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



7326. Andreusia messalina. 



Catocala messalma, G-uen. Noct. iii. p. 107 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. 



Am. p. 330. 

 Catocala helfragiana, Harvey, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 281 (1875). \ 

 Catocala jocasta, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 107 (1875). 



Fig. 9. — Andreusia messalina, c?. \. 



Head and thorax grey- white mixed with brown ; palpi with the 

 2nd joint blackish towards extremity ; sides of frons blackish ; 

 tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen grey, dorsally tinged with 



