LASIOCAMPID^. 151 



extending slightly beyond the head, squamose, second joint obtuse, third joint small 

 and rounded in front ; antenna long, recurved backward, bipectinated to tip ; legs 

 short, thick, pilose. Female with more ample but similar shaped wings. Body 

 stouter ; antennse with shorter branches. 

 Tyije, L. nobilis. 



LEBEDA VAEIEGATA (Plate 139, Fig. \, S). 

 Lebeda variegata, Moore, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 347. 



Male. Upperside dark dull ferruginous-brown ; cilia greyish : forewing with 

 a broad basal and a discal ochreous band, the former with zigzag border and 

 variegated with brown wavy markings, a large oval upper patch, and a small pure 

 white spot ; the discal band with lunular brown inner border and zigzag black-spotted 

 outer border, the interior being traversed by ferruginous lunular lines ; middle of the 

 wing and posterior angle suffused with grey. Thorax and front of head grey ; palpi, 

 pectus, and legs blackish-ferruginous ; anal tuft blackish. Underside darker fer- 

 ruginous-brown ; both wings with two indistinct dusky oblique bands. 



Expanse 2| inches. 



Genus SUANA. 



Leleda (group 8, part), Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. vi. p. 1462 (1855). 

 Suana, Walker, id. p. 1502 (1855). 



Male : forewing long, very narrow ; costa very slightly arched towards the end, 

 apex very acute, exterior margin extremely oblique, posterior margin very short and 

 convex ; first subcostal emitted at one-half before end of the cell, second and fourth 

 from end of the cell, second bifid at two-thirds from its base, fourth trifid ; cell 

 narrow, less than one-third the wing ; discocellular inwardly oblique, concave ; first 

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

 and fourth from angles at end of the cell ; submedian arched at the base : hindwing 

 very short, triangular ; costa convex at the base ; costal vein situated at a distance 

 from the margin, arched at the base, with two basal spurs ascending obliquely 

 upward towards the margin ; subcostal two-branched, first curved upward from half 

 before end of the cell and slightly touching the costal ; cell short, extending along 

 middle of the wing ; discocellular outwardly oblique ; first median emitted at one- 

 third before end of the cell, second and third from the end, third bifid ; a submedian 

 and an internal vein. Body very long, abdomen extending more than half its length 

 beyond hindwings, attenuating to the tip, which is tufted ; thorax and head conical 

 in front ; palpi porrect, thick, obtusely pointed in front ; antennae bipectinated to 

 tip, broadly at the base ; femora and tibi» pilose. Female : forewing larger, similarly 

 shaped, but broader : hindwing longer, with almost straight costal border, the apex 

 rather pointed, exterior margin very oblique. Body very robust ; antennas biserrated. 



