LIPARIDjE. 85 



ARTAXA DIGRAMMA (Plate 112, Fig. 1, la, $ ?). 

 Bomhyx digramma, Boisduval, Icones Eeg. Aniin. Ins. pi. 86, iig. 4 (1829-38). 

 Artaxa digramma, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. ii. p. 350, pi. 16, fig. 5, 5a. 

 Artasca guttata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Hat. B. M. iv. p. 795 (1855), $. 



Male and female. Yellow : forewing crossed by an antemedial and a postmedia 

 pale waved line, the intermediate area somewhat ochreous-yellow ; two small black 

 subapical spots : hindwing pale yellow. 



Expanse, c? 1, ? 1-| inch. 



ARTAXA FEATEENA. 



Dark yellow. Male : forewing with the basal and discal area more or less 

 ochreous-yellow and speckled with brown scales ; crossed by an indistinct antemedial 

 and a postmedial oblique waved pale line ; a pale circular mark at end of the cell ; 

 two small black subapical spots and a spot at posterior angle, the latter sometimes 

 being broken in two : hindwing paler yellow. Female : forewing more uniformly 

 coloured ; crossed by the indistinct pale lines ; the black spots as in male. Body 

 dark yellow ; tuft in male pale yellow, darker in female. 



Expanse, ^ |, ? If inch. 



AETAXA APICALIS (Plate 111, Fig. 4, 4a, <? ?, 45, larva). 

 Arna apicalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1177 (1855), $ . 



Male and female. Dark brown : forewing with the costal border, apex, and a 

 triangular space above the posterior angle ochreous-yellow, the inner area of the 

 wing being dark brown irrorated with blackish scales ; two black spots before the 

 apex ; the cilia at apex and posterior angle yellow : hindwing paler brown ; cilia 

 ochreous-yellow. Body brown ; front of thorax, head, palpi, antenna and legs, and 

 abdominal tuft ochreous-yellow. 



Expanse, ^ f , ? If inch. 



Larva slender, very sparsely covered with delicate hairs ; colour olivaceous- 

 green, with a broad dorsal reddish band traversed by a thin dorsal black line ; a 

 black dorsal tubercle on fifth and sixth segment, and one on twelfth segment ; head 

 reddish. Cocoon reddish-olivaceous. Pupa olivaceous-red. 



" Feeds on Terminalia." (Thiuaites.) 



ARTAXA CITRINA (Plate 112, Fig. 2, 2a, ^ ? ). 

 Artaza citrina, Moore, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 344. 

 Male and female : pale yellow ; forewing in male brighter yellow, and with a 

 short oblique series of blackish- speckled spots from middle of hind margin to beneath 



