NOTODONTID^. Ill 



two inwardly oblique antemedial lines and tliree postmedial lines, the medial area 

 between the inner and outer lines being darker coloured ; a marginal slender sinuous 

 line : hindwing brown, palest at the base. Body brown, thorax and abdominal 

 segments fringed with greenish-brown ; front of head, palpi, and legs greyish-brown. 



Expanse 1\ to 3 inches. 



Larva naked, somewhat thickened in the middle ; head large ; anal segment 

 bifid. Colour green, with a dorsal purple hne, oblique subdorsal indistinct whitish 

 streaks ; spiracles white ; a sublateral yellow line ; cheeks, forelegs, and middle 

 claspers purple. Pupa purplish-black. 



"Feeds on Sapotacese." (Thiuaites.) 



Genus ANTHEUA. 

 Antheua, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. iii. p. 687 (1855). 



Forewing elongated, triangular ; first subcostal emitted at one-third before end 

 of the cell, second from close to the end, trifid, the third from beyond half its length, 

 fifth from end of the cell and joined to second by a short spur at two-thirds from its 

 base ; cell extending beyond half the wing ; discocellular concave, bent in the 

 middle ; upper radial emitted from fifth subcostal at some distance beyond its base, 

 lower radial from angle in middle of discocellular ; middle median at a short distance 

 before end of the cell, lower at one-third before the end ; submedian slightly recurved : 

 hindwing short ; costal vein recurved, extending to apex ; subcostal running close to 

 costal to end of the cell, two subcostal branches on a footstalk at one-third beyond 

 end of the cell ; discocellular obliquely concave, radial from the middle ; two upper 

 medians from angles at end of the cell, lower at nearly one-third before the end ; 

 submedian and internal vein nearly straight. Body stout, thorax woolly, abdomen 

 extending beyond hindwings, apex tufted in male ; palpi short, porrect, pilose ; 

 proboscis exserted ; antennse bipectinated, the branches short and ciliated ; legs 

 densely pilose, hind tibiae with four spurs. 



ANTHEUA EXANTHEMATA (Plate 104, Fig. 2, ?). 



Forewing deep ochreous-yellow, flecked with purple-brown scales ; a triangular 

 discal patch of purple-brown scales below end of the cell ; a suffused narrow marginal 

 band and the cilia purple-brown : hindwing in both sexes ochreous purplish-brown, 

 darkest in the female ; cilia in male ochreous. Body deep ochreous-yellow ; thorax 

 purplish-brown, abdomen with two lateral rows of black spots ; palpi, antennse, and 

 legs purphsh-brown. 



Expanse, S If, ? If inch. 



Differs from A. servula in the forewing: beinsf of a much darker ochreous colour 

 and more distinctly flecked with purple-brown scales ; the hindwing also, in both 

 sexes, is much darker coloured. 



