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medians, first or lower from close to base, second nearly at one-balf and third at one- 

 seventh before end of tlie cell ; submedian curved : hindwing short, narrow, ovate, 

 the costa very much arched at the base, exterior margin straight to the middle, where 

 it is produced and bluntly angular, abdominal margin short ; cell extending in middle 

 to half the wing; costal vein at a wide distance from the margin, and with six curved 

 branchlets ascending at nearly equidistances, upward to the costal margin ; subcostal 

 two-branched, the first at one-fifth before end of the cell and with an upper branchlet 

 from near its base which is joined to the costal beyond the sixth branchlet; disco- 

 cellular oblique, angled above the middle ; four medians, the first at one-sixth before 

 end of the cell, second, third, and fourth on a footstalk beyond end of the cell ; 

 submedian and internal vein long, submedian curved. Body long, extending one- 

 third beyond hindwing, robust in female ; palpi long, porrect, laxly squamose, second 

 joint very long, extending half its length beyond the head, obtusely pointed at the 

 tip ; head pointed in front ; antennae bipectinated, broadly at the base and graduated 

 to the tip, shaft curved abruptly hindward in the middle ; legs short, thick, pilose. 

 Female with broader but similar shaped wings. 

 Type, E. pardale. 



ESTIGENA NANDINA (Plate 142, Fig. 1, la, S %)■ 



Estigene Nandina, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. ii. p. 427 (1858-9), $ . 

 Gastropacha abstracta, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. p. 551 (1865), ? . 

 Leheda sci'iptiplaga. Walker, id. p. 569 (1865), ^ . 



Male. Ferruginous : fore wing with three indistinct black- speckled transverse 

 sinuous lines, and a minute black dot at end of the cell : hindwing paler on abdominal 

 border ; upper part of wing yellowish, with indistinct black-speckled sinuous lines, and 

 two black dots above end of the cell. Female darker ferruginous, the black speckles 

 more dispersed over the wing and forming less defined sinuous lines. Thorax and 

 head with a longitudinal indistinct black streak; palpi beneath blackish; antennge 

 with blackish-ferruginous branches. 



Expanse, $ If, 9 2-| inches. 



Genus ODONESTIS. 

 Odonestis, Germar, Bomb. ii. p. 49 (1813) ; Stephens; Walker. 

 Male. Forewing broad; costal margin slightly arched towards the end, apex 

 pointed, exterior margin slightly oblique, convex, posterior margin convex before the 

 base; cell narrow, extending to half the wmg; subcostal six-banched, first subcostal 

 emitted at two-thirds and second at one-third before end of the cell, second bifid at one- 

 third from its base, fourth from close before end of the cell, fifth and sixth on a short 

 footstalk beyond end of the cell ; discocellular inwardly oblique, concave ; four median 

 branches, first or lower branch emitted at three-fourths, second at one-half, and third 



