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crimson above, femora pale oclireous beneath, fore and middle tibise and tarsi brown 

 streaked above. 



Expanse 2^ inches. 



Larva green, slightly hairy, with a subdorsal and lateral row of small black 

 spots ; spiracles brown ; head yellow. Pupa purple-brown. 



" Feeds on Beaumontia." (Thwaites.) 



Genus CYCNIA? 

 Cycnia sparsigutta, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxi. p. 296 (1864). 



"Male and female. Pale luteous. Wings slightly and minutely speckled with 

 brown, more speckled beneath ; a discal point, which is black in the forewings, brown 

 in the hindwings, brown and larger on the underside. Forewings with a very oblique 

 submarginal row of brown dots, which are composed of speckles. Hindwings paler. 

 Length of the wings 13 — 22 lines. Ceylon. In Mr. B. L. Layard's Collection." 



Not having seen the specimens above described by Mr. Walker as Cycnia 

 sparsigutta, we are unable, from his description, to determine the genus to which it 

 belongs. 



Family LIPARIDiE. 



Wings mostly broad in the male, longer in the female, or in some genera only 

 rudimentary in the female. Body of male slender, in female large, and generally 

 with an anal tuft ; antenna bipectinated ; forelegs very hairy. 



Larva hairy, mostly arranged in tufts or fascicles, some of which are short, 

 dense, disposed along the back and limited to certain segments, while others are 

 more lengthened and project anteriorly and posteriorly ; in some genera these 

 fascicles are replaced by short hairs arising from separate tubercles. 



Cocoon soft, of a slight silken and hairy texture. 



Genus ORGYIA. 



Orgyia, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iii. p. 208 (1810). 



Notolophus, Germar, Prod. ii. p. 35 (1812). 



Gynmphora, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 161 (1818-25). 



Male : forewing short, broad, triangular ; first subcostal emitted at one-half 

 before end of the cell, second at one-fifth, trifid, fifth from end of the cell, ascending 

 upward and touching third near its base ; discocellular concave, radial from end of 

 the cell in a line with subcostal ; cell wide, extending to more than half the wing ; 

 two upper median branches from angles above end of the cell, second branch at a 

 short distance before the end, first or lower at one-third before end of the cell; 

 submedian widely separated from the median, curved downward from its base : 



