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NOTODONTID^E. 



lines the orbicular and reniforru spots elongate ; a dark lunulate 

 submarginal line incurved below the costa. Abdomen and hind 

 wing fuscous brown. 



Bab. Madras. Exp. 104 niillim. 



Genus NADATA. 

 Nadata, Wlk. Cat. v, p. 1062 (1855). 



Type, N. gibbosa, Abb., from N. America. 



Range. ~N. America ; Japan ; Himalayas. 



Palpi with the first two joints thickly fringed with scales, the 

 third naked and very short. Antennae with the branches short, 

 stiff, and reaching two thirds of length. Thorax with a long 

 upright tuft of hair on the vertex. Fore wing with the outer 

 margin crenulate or irregular ; vein 6 given off beyond the cell ; 

 9 and 10 anastomosing with 8 to near apex ; a tuft of scales on 

 inner margin. Hind wing with veins 6 and 7 stalked, 8 running 

 close along 7 before end of cell. 



Fore whig with outer margin more irregular in the Indian 

 species than in the typical American and Japanese forms. 



213. Nadata niveiceps, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 554 ; C. # S. no. 1189. 



$. Head, thorax, and fore wing very pale grey-brown ; abdomen 

 orange-yellow above. Fore wing with an indistinct brown mark 



Fig. 76. — Nadata niveiceps, § • i- 



at end of cell and faint traces of a postmedial line ; cilia in the 

 emarginarions white. Hind wing pale yellow. 

 Bab. N.W. Himalayas. Exp. 100 m'illim. 



