LIPAEID^. 87 



middle of abdomen oclireous-browiij front of thorax, liead, palpi, antennse, legs, and 

 abdominal tuft yellow. 



Expanse, ^ 1, ? 1^ inch. 



Larva sparsely covered with fine hairs, those on the anterior and anal segment 

 projected forward ; a dorsal red line bordered by a subdorsal yellow band, below 

 which is a yellow lateral band ; a dorsal white- speckled tubercle on fifth and sixth 

 segment, and two lateral rows of smaller similar tubercles above the yellow band. 

 Cocoon fusiform, pale purplish-brown. Pupa pale olivaceous-red, naked. 



" Feeds on Gynurus, &c." (Thwaites.) 



SOMENA SUBNOTATA (Plate 111, Fig. 1, la, $ ^ , lb, larva). 

 Orvasca suhnotata. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. p. 502 (1865), $ . 



Closely allied to 8. scintillans. Differs in the forewing being comparatively 

 more sparsely irrorated with dark brown scales, and in the three marginal yellow 

 spots being smaller and narrower. 



Expanse, ^ f, ? 1 to li inch. 



Larva covered with fine hairs, which project over the head and anal segment ; 

 a red-speckled dorsal tubercle on fifth, sixth, and twelfth segments ; a dorsal yellow 

 lunular band from seventh segment, and a lateral white band from fourth segment, 

 the latter with red spots ; head reddish ; above the lateral line is a row of indistinct 

 red-speckled tubercles. Cocoon purse-shaped, pale olivaceous-brown. Pupa pale 

 ochreous-brown, hairy. 



" Feeds on Gycas circinalis, &c." {Thwaites.) 



SOMENA IRRORATA (Plate 111, Fig. 2, $). 



Male. Allied to S. suhnotata : forewing darker ochreous-brown, and more 

 densely irrorated with black scales, the lobate outer border being most sharply 

 defined and thickly speckled with silvery scales, the lobate portions of the border not 

 extending to the extreme margin of the wing, as in 8. suhnotata and 8. scintillans, 

 the extreme border and the cilia, as well as the costal edge, being bright yellow : 

 hindwing bright yellow. 



Expanse |- inch. 



Genus BEMBINA. 



Benibina, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. p. 505 (1865). 



Female : forewing elongated, triangular, costa arched ; first subcostal vein 



emitted at one-sixth before end of the cell, second from end of the cell, trifid ; radial 



from end of the cell ; discocellular extremely concave ; cell broad, extending more 



than half length of the wing ; upper median from angle above end of the cell, two 



