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EXPLANATION OF PLATE XI L 

 Venation of Helice pallidochj-ella Chambers. 

 " " Cacelice permolestella BusCK. 



" " Eioneyrickia triniaculella FiTCH. 



" " Babaiaxa deliiella Fernald. 



" " Holcoccra maligeinmella MURTFELDT. 



" " Mai-tyringa laiipennis Walsingham. 



" " RIoinpha sex7iotella Chambers. 

 " " [Plutella) i?tii//iwaculena Cn.\-s\\\^K?.. 



TWO NEW GENERA OF BUNiEININE AFRICAN 



MOTHS. 



By a. S. Packard. 



The two genera here proposed are founded on species heretofore 

 referred to the genus Nudaurelia. This latter genus is an African one, 

 and was originally separated by Rothschild from the Asiatic and Aus- 

 tralian genus Anthercra, with which the species were by the older 

 authors confounded. As regards the adult or imaginal stages the 

 Bunceinse of the Ethiopian realm are convergent types closely mimick- 

 ing the genuine Saturniidae. Their larvse are very spiny, and their 

 subterranean pupas, with their large cremasters, are sphingicampid in 

 form and structure. 



Acanthocampa, gen. nov. 



Sa/uniia Westwood, Proc. ZooL Soc. London, 1849, p. 41. 



Anlhereea Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Br. Mus., v, p. 1241. 1855. 



Nu/aurelia Rothschild, Novitates Zool., p. 41. 1S95 ; Sonthonnax, Annales 

 Lab. d' Etudes Soie, x, p. 24, 1 900-1901. 



Ivtago. — $ and 9- Head in front moderately wide, narrowing slightly toward 

 the palpi ; squamation not shaggy as in Thyello, but moderately close. Palpi de- 

 pressed, reaching beyond the front, though they are short and small ; the terminal 

 hairs are long and are confused with those of the face ; end of the palpi rather broad, 

 the hairs uneven, so that the third joint can not be distinguished ; when denuded 

 (Fig. 4) they are seen to be small, 3-jointed, the second joint nearly twice as long as 

 the first, and the third button-shaped, no longer than thick. Antennae of $ sub- 

 plumose, with 35 joints ; well bipectinated nearly to the subfiliform tip, of which only 

 the last six joints bear minute vestigial pectinations ; the other pectinations are long, 

 slender, only a little shorter than in Thyella, with long dense ciliee.* Antennae of 9 



*"The male antennae are 35-jointed with fifty-six rays on each side, the rays 

 rather long ; the two basal rays of each joint are obliquely porrected, so that the rays 

 form four series instead of all being on the same plane " (Westwood). 



