74 LASIOCAMPID^. — LYMANTEIID^. 
Estigena purpurascens *. (Plate CLX. fig. 10.) 
Expanse J" 2 inches. 
Male. Antennae ochreous ; head and thorax dark purplish red. Fore wing purplish red, 
with a dark red spot at end of cell, and an obscure dark line from the apex to centre of inner 
margin. Hind wing with the apical area purplish red ; the remainder of the wing and 
abdomen pale purplish pink. 
LYMANTRIID^. 
Aroa maxima. (Plate CLIX. fig. 9.) 
Expanse ^ 2 inches. 
Male. Fore wing dark fuscous, irrorated with lighter brown scales ; a pale speck beyond 
the end of cell, and traces of a waved inwardly-oblique line from near apex to inner margin ; 
cilia chequered brown and fuscous. Hind wing fuscous, with a greyish suff'usion ; a pro- 
minent dirty white streak from near base of cell to halfway between it and outer margin ; 
cilia greyish. Underside suffused with grey, except costal and apical black si)ot at 
end of cell of each Aving. Antero-lateral part of shaft of antennae grey. 
Aroa major. (Plate CLIX. figs. 3, 5.) 
Expanse, S 1^, ? 2 inches. 
Diifers from A. plana in both sexes being half an inch more in expanse. 
The two species are found together throughout the year, but Mr. Green states that he 
has bred both, and the larvae are different and the species certainly distinct. 
Aroa sulmotata, Wlk. (Plate CLIX. fig. 1.) 
Lacida subnotuta, Wlk. Cat. iv. p. 803. 
Expanse J* lyW inch. 
Male. Dark red-brown. Fore wing with an ochreous patch at end of cell, with a black 
speck on it ; an indistinct submarginal series of specks. Hind wing with a reddish-ochreous 
fascia from the origin of vein 2 to the outer margin. Underside with large ochreous patches 
on disk of fore wing and disk and inner area of hind wing. 
Lselia cardinalis. (Plate CLVIII. figs, 29, 30.) 
Expanse ^ IX inch. 
Male. Antennae, head, thorax, and fore wing varying in tone from brilliant scarlet to 
* This should be placed in Odonestis, and it is probably the male of 0. divisa, Moore. 
