50 aectiid^;. 



The form nigrovenosa from Ceylon has veins 3 and 4 of the hind 

 wing black, and the spots of the postmedial band of fore wing 

 smaller. 



Larva hairy ; purple, the anterior somites yellowish ; each 

 somite black, marked with short dorsal and lateral white streaks. 



Pupa yellow, spotted with black. 



Hnb. Assam ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Malacca ; Java ; Ceram. Exp. 

 50-58 inillim. 



Genus SECUSIO. 

 Secusio, Wlk. Cat. ii, p. 558 (1854). 



Type, S. strigata, Wlk. 



Range. E. Africa ; Natal ; Aden ; S. India. 



Palpi long and porrectly upturned. Antennae bipectiuate in 

 male, ciliated in female. Fore wing with vein 3 from before 

 angle of cell, 5 from above it ; 6 from upper angle ; 7 from after 

 the areole, which is very short and gives off 10. Hind wing with 

 vein 2 from before angle of cell, 5 from above it ; 6 and 7 stalked ; 

 8 from after middle of cell. 



1272. Secusio strigata, Wlk. Cat. ii, p. 559. 



Secusio parvipuncta, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 46, pi. 139, fig. 6. 

 Nyctemera hymensea, Gerst. Arch. f. Nat. xxxvii, p. 360 ; and Van 

 d. Decken, Reisen, iii, (2) p. 377, pi. xvi, fig. 1. 



S • Head and collar orange, the former with a fuscous mark on 

 vertex, the latter with two fuscous spots ; thorax fuscous, streaked 

 with white near the base ; a medial series of four white spots, 



Fig. 23 



which are larger in the Natal form strigata than in parvipuncta 

 from E. Africa, Aden, and S. India. Abdomen and hind wing 

 orange. 



2 with an extra white spot in the series on fore wing between 

 veins 3 and 4. 



Hal. Natal; E.Africa; Aden; S.India. Exp., <$ 40, $ 32- 

 40 millim. 



Genus ARGINA. 

 Argina, Hilbn. Verz. p. 167 (1818). 



Type, A. cribraria, Clerck. 



Range. Africa; Mauritius; China; throughout India, Ceylon, 

 and Burma ; Andamans ; New Guinea ; Australia. 



