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Euproctis in the forewing being more regularly triangular, the costa more arched, 

 the two upper median veins emitted together at end of the cell. The hindwing is 

 also shorter and broader, and has only three median branches (Euproctis always 

 having four). The body is stouter, and the thorax more laxly pilose. 



PORTHESIA STJBDITA (Plate 112, Fig. 5, 6a, $ ?). 

 Euproctis suhdita, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 400. 



Male. TJpperside white : hindwing with the costal border and apex thickly 

 irrorated with dusky-brown scales. Underside : forewing with the costal border 

 dusky-black : hiudwing with the costal border narrowly speckled with dusky-brown. 

 Body and legs white ; anal tuft bright yellow ; antennae dusky -brown, shaft white. 

 Female white above and beneath. 



Expanse, ^ 1, S 1-^ inch. 



Genus EUPROCTIS. 



Euproctis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 159 (1818-25), 

 Arctornis (part), Germar. 

 Porthesia (part), Stephens. 



Male : forewing slightly elongated, triangular ; first subcostal emitted from 

 immediately before end of the cell, second from the end, quadrifid, the fifth from 

 below second at nearly one-half from its base ; discocellular concave ; radial from 

 upper end of the cell ; three upper medians from equidistant angles at end of the 

 cell, first or lower at nearly one-half before the end ; submedian straight : hindwing 

 short, exterior margin obhquely convex ; costal vein arched at the base, extending 

 to apex ; subcostal arched in middle of the cell and slightly touching the costal, two 

 subcostal branches on a footstalk one-third beyond end of the cell; discocellular 

 bent inward near the middle ; upper median from angle above end of the cell, two 

 middle medians on a footstalk beyond the cell, fixst or lower at one-third before end 

 of the cell ; submedian and internal vein recurved. Thorax stout, abdomen tufted 

 at anal end ; thorax and head densely and laxly pilose ; legs and tarsi laxly pilose, 

 hind tibi^ with four spurs ; palpi small, slender, porrect, projecting beyond the head, 

 first and second joints laxly pilose beneath ; antennae broadly bipectinated. Female. 

 Wings slightly longer ; abdomen thick and very densely tufted at anal end. 



Type, E, chrysoirhcea, Linn. 



EUPROCTIS BIMACUIATA (Plate 112, Fig. 6, ^, 6b, larva). 

 Euproctis iimaculata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. iv. p. 836 (1855), ? . 



Male : forewing pale whitish-ochreous, with a large triangular black spot at end 

 of the cell : hindwing whiter. Body whitish-ochreous. Female : forewing paler, 

 the cell spot larger than in male : hindwing white. - 



Expanse, $ 1^, $ 2t!j inch. 

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