372 CATALOGUE OF 



a. b. $ . Java. From Dr. Horsfield's Collection. 

 c. cT • Canara. Presented by S. N. Ward, Esq. 



The larva and pupa of St. alternus are figured on Plate XVIII., 

 figs. 4, 4<a, from Java. " Feeds on a species of Mangifera, bearing 

 the native name of Ingas, and on Tamarindus. March. Scarce." — 

 (Horsfield, MS.) 



The larva of this species is also figured among the drawings of 

 E. L. Layard, Esq., from Ceylon. 



Genus NETBIA, Walker. 

 Neteia, Walker, List Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. pt. VI. p. 1504 (1855). 



907. NETRIA VIRWESCENS, Walker {Plate XIa, fig. 3). 



$ Netria viridescens, Walker, List Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. 

 pt. VI. p. 1504 (1855). 



a. b. c. S ? • Java. From Dr. Horsfield's Collection. 



Section III. 



Larva with sixteen legs, elongate, attenuated anteriorly, naked, or 

 subpilose, with or without a single or double conical dorsal promi- 

 nence on the twelfth segment, or with a conical dorsal prominence 

 on the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and twelfth segments : some have 

 the peculiarity of holding the posterior segments erect when at rest. 

 Metamorphosis : — Cocoon slight, sometimes subterranean. 



The perfect insect has long but somewhat broad wings, the inner 

 margin of the fore-wing being in some dentate ; flies by day or night ; 

 antennae bipectinated in the male, less so or simple in the female ; 

 proboscis very short, medial, or invisible ; legs densely pilose. 



Bombtces {Larvae A. pt. et E. Sphingtfobmes et Gibbos-s), Denis 

 et Sehieffermuller, Wien. Verz. pp. 48, 62 (1776). 



Bombyx, pt. Haworth, Lep. Brit. pp. 76, 95 (1803). 



Notodontid^i, pt. Stephens, III. Brit. Ins. Haust. II. p. 10 (1829) ; 

 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). 



NoTODONTiE, pt. et Notodontites, pt. Newman, Sph. Vesp. p. 42 

 (1832) ; JSntom. Mag. II. p. 383 (1834) ; id. Hist, of Ins. 2nd 

 ed.p. 213 (1841). 



