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end of the cell, second bifid at one-tliird from its base, fiftli and sixth on a footstalk 

 at a short distance beyond end of the cell ; discocellular extremely slender, visible 

 only under magnifying power ; median four-branched, first or lower at one-third, 

 second at one-half, and third from an angle immediately before end of the cell ; 

 submedian with a short slender lower basal branch : hindwing with very oblique 

 costal margin, exterior margin convex ; cell triangular ; costal vein much arched to 

 about one-half its length ; subcostal widely separated from costal, three-branched, 

 first branch at one-fourth before end of the cell, bifid at one-third from its base, the 

 first branch emitting a short oblique cross branchlet which joins the costal at its 

 middle ; discocellular very oblique, recurved, visible only under magnifying power ; 

 four medians, first or lower at one-half, second at one-fourth, and third from angle 

 immediately before end of the cell ; a submedian and an internal vein. Body extending 

 beyond hindwings, laxly pilose ; palpi porrect, densely pilose, thick in front ; antennae 

 broadly bipectinated ; legs pilose. Female : forewing elongated : hindwing also 

 longer ; exterior margin very convex. 



Type, L. vittata (Lasiocampa vittata, "Walk. Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. vi. p. 1440). 



LENODOE.A SUBC03TALIS (Plate 137, Fig. 3, 3a, ^ ?, U, larva). 

 Miresa subcostalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. p. 476 (1865). 



Male. Dark ferruginous-red : forewing with a slender longitudinal whitish 

 streak extending from base through the cell and along the lower subcostal veins. 

 Female dull ferruginous-red, the longitudinal streak on forewing less distinct. 



Expanse, S 1\, ? If inch. 



Larva with sparse tufts of fine pale brown hairs ; colour purple-black above, pale 

 purplish-brown beneath ; anterior segments dorsally divided by pale bands ; a sub- 

 lateral series of black irregular oblique streaks and small dots ; head black streaked ; 

 claspers with black dots ; on the fifth to twelfth segment is a subdorsal tuft of short 

 white hairs. Cocoon subfusiform, purplish-grey. Papa purplish-red. 



"Feeds on GramineEe." (Thioaites.) 



Genus TRABALA. 



Amydona* Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. vi. p. 1413 (1855). 

 Trabala, Walker, id. vii. p. 1785 (1856). 



Male. Forewing short, broad ; cell narrow, extending to one-third the wing ; 

 subcostal six-branched, first branch emitted at two-thirds and second at one-half 



* Previously used by Walker for a genus of Lepidoptera (v. p. 1110). 

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