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MANATHA ALBIPES (Plate 118, Fig. 4, $, 4a, larval case). 

 Manatha albipes, Moore, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 347. 



Male : wings brown ; body fuliginous-brown. Antennae and legs darker brown ; 

 tarsi pure white. 



Expanse i^ inch. 



Larval case conical, small, silky, slighiiy covered with pieces of thin bark or 

 lichen, the specimen under examination having the heads of six (or more) young (?) 

 larvge protruding from the upper end, one (the largest) from an extended sac in the 

 middle, the others from separate sac-like openings below and around the upper one ; 

 from the lower end of this same example protrudes the empty pupa case from which 

 the perfect insect (? female) had escaped. 



Genus METISA. 

 Metisa, Walker, Catal. Lap. Het. B. M. iv. p. 957 (1855). 



Male. "Wings small, semi-transparent, very slightly clothed with short fine 

 hairy scales : f orewing short, broad, apex rounded ; costal vein very slender ; first 

 subcostal branch emitted at one-third before end of the cell, second at one-sixth 

 before the end, trifid ; cell broad, obliquely convex at its end ; discocellular convex, 

 shghtly bent outward in the middle ; a forked discoidal veinlet emitted within the 

 cell from the angle and lower end ; radial from angle in middle of the discocellular ; 

 two upper median branches from angle at end of the cell, two lower branches from 

 angles obliquely below end of the cell ; submedian slightly bent downward at one- 

 third and upward at two-thirds its length, and emitting a very short lower spur from 

 its basal angle : hindwing short, broad, apex and exterior margin very convex ; 

 costal and subcostal vein confluent to end of the cell, from the upper angle of which 

 two branches are emitted ; cell broad, acutely angulated at its end ; discocellular 

 bent near upper end and acutely inward below the middle, emitting a forked veinlet 

 within the cell ; radial from upper angle of discocellular ; two upper median branches 

 from outwardly oblique angles at end of the cell, two lower branches at inward 

 angles before the end. Body very small, short, and slender, almost bare ; antennae 

 short, broadly bipectinated to tip, branches pubescent ; legs very slender, almost 

 bare. 



METIS A PLANA (Plate 118, Fig. 9, ^). 

 Metisa plana, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. iv. p. 958 (1855). 



Male. Wings semi-transparent ; fuliginous-brown. Body black ; antennge 

 brown. 



Expanse i^ inch. 



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