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LTMANTEIID.5:.— ARCTIID^. 
Macrauzata* fenestrata. (Plate CLX. fig. 16.) 
Expanse c? I2 inch. 
Male. Sandy red. Fore wing with a ferruginous spot beyond the upper extremity of 
cell ; a large transparent patch covering the outer half of the cell and the area beyond it 
from the radial to just below the first median nervule^ the outer edge of the patch lunulate ; 
a transparent spot in the interspace above the last subcostal. Hind wing with a transparent 
patch covering the end of the cell, and extending a little above, below, and beyond it in the 
interspaces above the median nervules. Underside paler, with dark lines round the outer 
edges of the trans2)arent patches on both wings. 
The scales on the transparent area are small, far apart, and bifurcate. 
Caviria cygna, Moore. (Plate CLIX. fig. 6.) 
Caviria cygna, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. GOl. 
Expanse 1§ inch. 
Male. Fore wing : the basal and inner areas covered with silvery-white scales from the 
costa one-fourth from base to the inner margin at outer angle ; the remainder of the wing 
transparent and covered with perfect scales about one-tenth the size of the normal scales, 
a few of which ai'e scattered over the transparent area, more especially in the lines of the 
bands of the female. Hind wing uniformly pure white. Tarsi of legs orange; antennae 
fuscous. 
Female exactly like tlie type from the Andamans ; the bands are considerably more erect 
than in C. argyrophila, Wlk. 
ARCTIID^, 
ARCTIIN^. 
Spilarctia subfascia, Wlk. (Plate CLXXV. fig, 5 (larva).) 
Spilarctia subfascia, Wllc. Cat. iii. p. 678. 
Larva (adult) . Dull pale green, the head black ; on each somite a transverse band of 
from four to eight prominent metallic steel-blue tubercles, each giving rise to a fasciculus of 
long blackish hairs and a few scattered white hairs. 
Spins a cocoon among fallen leaves on the sui'face of the ground. 
Feeds on Musscenda, Trema, and other plants. 
The larvae are at first gregarious, and spin dense webs over the plants on which they 
feed ; the colonies break up when the larvae are about three-fourths grown. 
* This should be placed in Leucoma, Steph. 
