LIMACODIDJE. 131 



Genus SUSICA. 

 Susica, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1113 (1855). 



Wings very short, broad, laxly scaled. Cilia long, spatular at tips : forewing 

 somewhat elliptic ; cell long, extending along the middle of the wing ; costal vein at 

 a wide distance from subcostal ; first subcostal branch emitted at one-third and 

 second from immediately before end of the cell, third from the end, trifid ; discocellular 

 bent in middle, emitting a slender discoidal veinlet within the cell, and upper radial 

 from the angle, lower radial from near lower end ; first or lower median at one-fourth 

 and middle median at one-eighth before end of the cell ; submedian curved upward 

 towards median ; internal vein forked at the base : hindwing short ; two subcostal 

 branches on a footstalk one-third beyond the cell ; cell short ; discocellular bent 

 outward before the middle, emitting a discoidal veinlet within the cell from the 

 angle ; radial from near lower end of discocellular; three medians, a submedian, and 

 two internal veins. Body somewhat slender; palpi porrect, thick, second joint 

 projecting half its length beyond the head, third joint short, conical in male, 

 cylindrical in female ; antennse bipectinated to tip in male, simple in female ; femora 

 and tibisB compactly pilose, hind tibiss with two pair of long spurs. 



Type, S. pallida. 



SUSICA SIGN ATA (Plate 131, Fig. 1, la, c? ? , 15, larva). 



Pale brownish-ochreous. Male : forewing ochreous-brown, sparsely black scaled ; 

 with a pale-bordered black scaled spot at end of the cell, a less defined similar spot 

 beneath it, and a transverse discal black scaled band with pale outer border. Forelegs 

 and tarsi with black bands. Female : forewing ochreous-brown, with less distinct 

 and more sparsely disposed blackish scales, and an indistinct transverse discal 

 blackish-scaled line and spot at end of the cell. 



Expanse c? to, 2 Ito inch. In Coll. F. Moore. 



Larva onisciform, yellowish-green, or in adult tinged with purple ; some linear 

 marks along the back ; a subdorsal row of short slight red tipped spinous tubercles, 

 and a sublateral row of larger whiter tubercles, of which the spines are very short, 

 the anterior and posterior tubercles lengthened, the two posterior being the longest. 

 Cocoon small, oval, purple-brown. 



" Feeds on Arbutilon, Ficus, &c." {Dr. Thwaites.) 



STISICA FRATEENA (Plate 131, Fig. 2, ? , 2a, larva). 

 Female. Pale ochreous-brown : forewing very sparsely irrorated with minute 

 dark brown scales, and with a transverse submarginal dark brown line. Body and 

 legs ochreous-brown. 



Expanse to inch. In Coll. F. Moore. 



s 2 



