HAREISTMEMNA. 



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Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate with short branches. 



3539. Harrisimemna trisignata. 



Grammophora trisignata, Wlk. ix. 29 (1856); Grote, 111. Essay, 1882, 

 p. 49, pi. 1. f. 3 ; Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 181 ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 47. 



Notodonta sexguttata, Harris, Ent. Corresp. 1869, p. 174, ff. 24-23. 



§. Head white; palpi black with some white at base and at 

 extremity of 2iid joint ; frons with black bar and black point 

 above, vertex of head with black bar ; tegulse white at base with 

 strong black line near base and large red-brown patches, the tips 

 Avhite; patagia and thorax red-brown with a few black scales; 

 pectus and legs white, the tibiae and tarsi banded with black ; 

 abdomen white dorsally irrorated with black and with black 

 segmental lines, the crest on 4th segment red-brown. Fore Aving 

 silvery white; some slight black marks at base and an oblique 

 streak from base of costa ; a double waved black subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold with black spot below its extremity 

 and slight black markings on base of inner area, a round chocolate- 

 brown patch beyond it on costa; antemedial line, black, double, 

 waved, angled inwards in submedian fold and on vein ], the lines 



rather widely separated ; the medial area irrorated with black ; 

 orbicular and reniform incompletely defined by black and with 

 slight black centres, almost confluent, the former round; three 

 black striae from medial part of costa ; postmedial line double, 

 the lines widely separated, waved, oblique from costa to vein 4, 

 angled outwards on veins 4, 3, then strongly incurved and angled 

 outwards on vein 1, a large round chocolate-brown patch beyond it 

 on costal area and another round patch below vein 3, and short 

 curved black streaks above and below vein 5 and submedian fold ; 

 subterminal line absent; a terminal black band, its inner edge 

 angled inwards at veins 5, 4, 3, and with a terminal series of 

 black lunules defined by white lunules ; cilia chequered white and 

 black. Hind wing whitish suff'used with red-brown ; a terminal 

 series of blackish lunules slightly defined by whitish ; cilia white ; 

 the underside white slightly irrorated with red-brown, the base of 

 costal area suffused with red-brown, a rather difi^'used red-brown 

 antemedial line, blackish discoidal spot, postmedial line excurved to 



