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1. Carea varipes. 



Mas. Miniata ; antennce fuscce ; pectus ex parte album; abdo- 

 men ferrugineG-rufum, apice nigricans ; pedes subtus albi, 

 tibiis tarsisque supra fuscis , alee anticce fascia subarcuata 

 angusta subpurpurascente fusco marginata ; posticce pallidiores, 

 margine interiore testaceo subtus albido. 

 Male. Red-lead colour. Antenna? brown. Pectus partly 

 white. Abdomen ferruginous-red, blackish at the tip. Legs white 

 beneath ; tibiae and tarsi brown above. Fore wings with a slender 

 lilac brown-bordered very slightly curved band, which extends from 

 four-fifths of the length of the costa to the interior angle. Hind 

 wings paler than the fore wings, testaceous above and whitish be- 

 neath along the interior border. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the 

 wings 18 lines. 

 Malacca. In Mr. Wallace's collection. 



Genus 21. EPISPARIS. 



Mas et foam. Corpus sat validum. Proboscis mediocriter 

 longa. Palpi oblique ascendentes; articulus 3us minimus. An- 

 tennae subpectinatoe, ram is dense ciliatis. Abdomen alas posticas 

 vix superans. Pedes validi ; tibiae posticee calcaribus quatuor lon- 

 giusculis. Alae longiusculse et latiusculae ; anticae apud costam 

 recta?, apice angulata?, margine exteriore integro mediocriter obliquo 

 apud medium subangulato; posticae margine exteriore apud medium 

 distiucte angulato. Mas.— -Abdomen sexualibus maximis. 



Slightly resembling some of the Saturniidce. 



Body moderately stout. Proboscis moderately long-. Palpi 

 ascending obliquely ; third joint very small, not more than one- 

 sixth of the length of the second. Antennae slightly pectinated in 

 both sexes ; the branches thickly ciliated. Abdomen hardly extend- 

 ing beyond the hind wings. Legs stout ; hind tibiae with four 

 rather long spurs. Wings rather long and broad. Fore wings 

 straight in front, angular at the tips, exterior border entire, mode- 

 rately oblique, slightly angular in the middle. Hind wings with 

 the exterior border distinctly angular in the middle. Male. — Ab- 

 domen with very large apical appendages ; lateral valves pilose. 



