370 CATALOGUE OF 



Genus OKETA, Walker. 



Oreta, Walker, List Lep. Set. Brit. Mus. pt. V. p. 1166 (1855). 



903. ORETA EXTENSA, Walker {Plate XIa, fig . 2,?). 



$ Oreta extensa, Walker, List Lep. Set. Brit. Mus. pt. V. 



p. 1166 (1855). 

 ? Oreta suffusa, Walker, id. p. 1167 (1855). 



a. b. c. d. J ? . Java. From Dr. Horsfield's Collection. 



The larva and pupa of Oreta extensa are figured on Plate XVIII. 

 figs. 3, Ba, from Java. " Feeds on a species of Iccora, bearing the 

 native name of Sikattan. April and May. Not very common." — 

 (Horsfield, MS.) 



Section II. 



Larva with fourteen legs, naked, the segments smooth, with an 

 anterior dorsal prominence, or with several acute dorsal prominences ; 

 the anterior legs very long ; anal pro-legs obsolete, replaced by two 

 projecting tails : has the peculiarity of holding the posterior, oi 

 both anterior and posterior segments erect when at rest. Metamor- 

 phosis : — Cocoon generally of a hard texture. 



The perfect insect has long and somewhat narrow wings ; flies by 

 night ; antennae bipectinated in both sexes, or only so in the male, 

 with the tip filiform, and the female filiform throughout ; proboscis 

 very short, or invisible ; legs densely pilose. 



Bombtces {Larva S. Furcate), Lenis et Scliiefferrnuller, Wien. 



Verz.p. 63 (1776). 

 Bombyx,^. Haworth, Lep. Brit. p. 76 (1803). 

 Bombycites, div. Legitime, pt. Latreille, Gen. Crust, et Ins. IV. 



p. 217 (1809). 

 Notodontid^e, Stephens, III. Brit. Ins. Haust. II. p. 10 (1828) 



id. Catal. Brit. Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 37 (1850). Walker, List 



Lep. Set. Brit. Mus.pt. IV. p. 977 (1855). Stainton, Manual 



Brit. Lep. pp. 107, 114 (1856). 

 Bombtcida, pt. Luncan, in Brewster's Edino. Encycl. IX. p. 131 



(1833). 

 Notodont^:, pt. Neioman, Sph. Yesp.p. 42 (1832). 

 Notodontites,^. Newman, Entom. Mag. II. p. 383 (1834); id. Hist. 



