304 KOCTUlDiE. 



Hah. Mozambique ; Bkchuanaland, Lake Wgdan.\{Lagard), 1 S , 

 1 2 ; Natal, Estcourt {HutcJiinson), 1 J , Maritsburg (Burnup), 

 1 2 . Exp. 38-50 millira. 



Genus DONUCA. t. 



Type. 



Donuca,Yv"\k. xxxiii. 925 (18()5) spectalnhs. 



Eucyclommu, Butl. Entoin. xxvi. p. 292 (1893) castalia.. 



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

 of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd uhort; frons smooth; eyes large, 

 round ; antenna3 of njale typically bipectinate with long bi'anches to two-thirds 

 length, the apex ciliated ; thorux clothed with hair only and without crests; 

 all the tibife spined, tlie fore femora and tibice fringed with long hair, the mid 

 and hind tibiie moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with some rough hair 

 at base but without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the teruien 

 evenly curved and sligiitly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 (■) from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with the cell less than half the length of wing ; veins 3, 

 4 from angle of cell ; 6 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antenna; of male bipectinate with long branches to two-thirds length. 



A . Abdomen crimson at sides castalia. 



B. Abdomen with the terminal segments yellow. 



a. Hind wing without white a pical patch xaniliopyga. 



b. Hind wing with white apical patch. 



ci}. Coxffi and fore femora and tibia; on inner side clothed 



with crimson and yellow hair s-pectabilh. 



h^. Legs without crimson and yellow hair memorabUis. 



7475. Eonuca castalia. (Plate OCX. fig. 10.) 



Bomhyx castalia, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 569 (1775). 

 Calliodes saturaiior, Wlk. xiv. 1318 (1858). 



Head and thorax deep red-brown, the latter irrorated with 

 white- antennae brownish white in male ; pectus brownish white; 

 legs brown, the fore femora and hind femora at extremities fringed 

 with crimson hair, the tibite at extremities and tarsi ringed with 

 white ■ abdomen crimson with dorsal brown patch slightly irrorated 

 Avith white, broad at base and narrowing to penultimate segment, 

 the extremitj^ ochreous in male, brown in female, the ventral 

 surface ochreous white with sublateral series of black spots. Pore 

 wing red-brown tinged with purple and irrorated with bluish white, 

 the terminal area paler ; a dark subbasal line, excurved below 

 costa and ending at submedian fold ; the antemedial area with a 

 dark shade ; antemedial line dark brown, oblique, waved ; a round 

 discoidal ocellus, olive-green defined by black, its centre with trifid 

 black mark defined on inner side by silvery blue ; an oblique rather 

 diffused brown medial line ; postmedial line brown defined on outer 

 side by whitish and white points at the veins, slightly excurved 

 at vein 7, then minutely waved, oblique below vein 4 and angled 



