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J^OTODONTID.^:. — SESllD^. 
Netria canescens *, Hmpsn. (Plate CLX. fig. 6.) 
Expanse ? 2 inches. 
Female. Fore wing dark iron-grey, with patches of grey scales along the costa leaving 
five dark streaks from the costa ; a grey patch at end of cell ; an indistinct lunulate post- 
median dark band, beyond which the area is suffused with grey scales ; a very indistinct sub- 
marginal dark band. Hind wing uniform fuscous. Underside paler, especially the hind 
wing, which is whitish and traversed by an indistinct straight median dark band. Head and 
collar brown ; antennse fulvous ; thorax grizzled ; abdomen chestnut-brown, grey beneath, 
with a preanal segmental brown band. 
Peridia dentata t- (Plate CLX. fig. 11.) 
Expanse 2^ inches. 
Female. Fore wing pale grey-brown, suffused and marked with dark brown ; a paler 
streak along the subcostal nervure ; a double antemedial line, indistinct towards the costa and 
with two long inward denticulations towards the inner margin; a small spot at the upper 
end of the cell continued downwards as a streak on the discocellulars ; an indistinct dentate 
postmedial line with two distinct denticulations on the disk ; a denticulate submarginal line 
with the denticulations strongest towards the costa ; a waved antecilial line. Hind wing and 
underside uniform fuscous. 
Allied to H. {Plialera) tenebrosa, Moore, but much paler and with the denticulate lines 
differently shaped and much more strongly marked. 
SESIIDiE. 
.ffigeria % flavipes. (Plate CLVII. figs. 19, 20.) 
Expanse, S %> ii^ch. 
Male. Fore wings transparent ; a black band shot with dark metallic blue along the costa ; 
median nervure and inner margin black ; a black band across the end of the cell, followed by 
a small transj^arent area, the three nervules crossing which are black ; apical and outer areas 
black, with narrow golden-yellow streaks between the nervules. Hind wing transparent, 
with veins and margins black ; cilia of both wings black. Antennae, head, thorax, and anal 
tufts black, shot with metallic blue ; slight golden-yellow bands to the abdominal segments ; 
legs golden-yellow, the tarsi of mid and hind pairs black. On the underside the palpi, costa 
of fore wing, base of hind wing, and parts of the apices and cilia of both wings, sides of 
abdomen, and anal tufts are golden. 
* Lymantria canescens on Plate. This may be the female of Staurojnis {Netria) griseus, Hmpsn., 
111. Het . viii. p. 59, pi. 141. fig. 16. Netria, is a section of the gsiius Stauroj^us with pectinated antennae, 
t This should be placed in the genus Hijjyereesclira, Butl. 
t Sesia has priority over ,/Egeria. 
