MACEOGLOSSA.— ^'ETEIA. 
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Macroglossa gilia, Herr.-Schaff. (Plate CLXXV. fig. 6.) 
Macroglossa gilia, H.-S. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. pi. 23. fig. 107. 
Larva (adult). Bright green ; a pale medio-dorsal strij^e ■\vitli brownisli median line; a 
pale dorso-lateral stripe^ edged above ■with reddish brown^ the space between, this and the 
medio- dorsal stripe speckled with minute brownish spots ; stigmata black ; 8-9 brownish 
diagonal stripes alternating with the spiracles ; below the medio-dorsal line minutely speckled 
with white ; horn black, with yellow tips. Legs pink ; claspers brownish. 
There is a j^aler variety of the larva in wliieh the red-brown markings are replaced by 
olive-green. 
Feeds on Ruhiacecs. 
Pvjja dull yellowish brown ; stigmata enclosed in large blackish spots ; anal spine black. 
Mr. Butler's figure (Trans. Zool. Soc. 1876, pi. 90. figs. 9, 10) is of a young larva of 
M. pyrrhosticta from Japan, from a drawing by G. Lewis, and not M. gil'ia. 
NOTODONTID^E. 
Eamesa luridivitta. (Plate CLX. fig. 12.) 
Expanse 1-1 inch. 
Male. Fore wing fuscous, with reddish streaks from the upper end of cell to apex, and 
from origin of the first median nervule to outer margin, both broad externally ; a series of 
black specks on small white spots on the margin. Plind wing pale fuscous. Antennee pale ; 
head and thorax smokj" black ; abdomen fuscous. 
A dark race of R. tosta, Wlk., the fore wing with no postmedial series of specks. 
Netria viridescens, Wlk., var. griseata, Hiiips/i. (Plate CLX. fig. 14.) 
Netria viridesceus, TT'7/,'. Cat. vi. p. 1504. 
Expanse ? 2|^, inches. 
Female. Fore wing with a basal greenish patch, bounded externally by two irregularly 
sinuous black lines, followed by a broad whitish band ; then a broad median brownish band, 
bordered internally by an irregularly sinuous and a dentate black line and externally by 
two dentate lines and an irregularly sinuous line ; outer area whitish fuscous, with a sub- 
marginal irregularly dentate black line. Hind wing and underside pale fuscous. Antenna; 
ochreous. 
Very much paler than typical N. viridescens, Wlk. 
