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its base ; median vein four-branched, the two upper from angles at end of the cell ; 

 a submedian and internal vein running parallel with hind margin : hindwing elongated, 

 anterior margin arched at base, apex slightly produced upward, exterior margin 

 convex ; costal vein recurved and extending to apex ; subcostal bent at end of the 

 cell and thence straight to below the apex ; discocellulars very oblique ; radial from 

 their middle ; cell short, broad ; a single discoidal veinlet emitted within from middle 

 and extending to base of the cell ; median vein four-branched, the two upper on a 

 footstalk beyond the cell ; a submedian and an internal vein, short. Antennae short, 

 slender, minutely plumose ; legs slender, minutely pilose ; thorax finely pilose ; 

 abdomen attenuated, finely pilose ; anal tuft densely pilose. 

 Type, A. Machwoodii. 



APRATA THWAITESII (Plate 118, Fig. 7, ^, la, larva case). 



Upperside dark purple-brown, longitudinally black streaked : forewing with a 

 pale yellow apical transverse band traversed by a marginal row of black dots ; a pale 

 yellow narrow patch on middle of hind margin, streaked with red and inwardly 

 bordered by a white spot ; cilia brown on forewing, yellowish on hindwing. Body 

 yellow, head and front of thorax, and a spot on middle of thorax, red; abdomen 

 with, blackish bands ; antenna and legs brown. 



Expanse ro inch. 



Larva five-tenths of an inch long, pale yellow, tinged with pink above ; the head, 

 the second segment, a lateral row of dots, and forelegs black ; third and fourth 

 segments with a medial black line. Constructs a small flattened heliciform case. 



"Feeds on Eugenia (Syzygium) caryophyllceum." (Thwaites.) 



APRATA MACKWOODII (Plate 118, Fig. 8, ^). 

 Wings dark purplish, cupreous-brown. Head, thorax, and antennge black ; 

 abdomen and tarsi golden-yellow ; anal tuft silky white. 

 Expanse H inch. 



Family NOTODONTIDJE. 



Subfamily DICRANURIN^. 

 Wings somewhat long and narrow. Antennee bipectinated in both sexes, or 

 only so in male, with the tip filiform, and the female filiform throughout ; legs 

 densely pUose. 



Larva with fourteen legs, naked, with an anterior dorsal prominence, or with 

 several acute dorsal prominences ; anal prolegs obsolete, being replaced by two 

 projecting appendages. When at rest the posterior, or both anterior and posterior 

 segments, carried erect. Cocoon generally of a hard texture. 



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