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GEOMETRID^. 
species of the genus, the scales shining white ; large ferruginous olive-brown patches 
irrorated with silvery scales at the base of fore wing and on the inner margin of both wings 
near the outer angle ; both wings with the black blotches of the underside showing through 
the white ground-colour, and a series of black streaks along the outer margin. Fore wing 
with a black ring-spot in end of cell ; a blotch on the costa above it, another more towards 
the apex. Underside white, with numerous spots and blotches of black of all sizes and 
shapes. 
Larva. Head shining black ; the first somite orange, with an irregular black lateral 
spot ; the second and third somites yellowish, with irregular transverse black bands ; fourth 
to ninth somites black, with narrow white bands at the junction of the somites, and a similar 
band across the middle of each somite terminating above the spiracular line ; tenth to twelfth 
somites yellow, with broad black bands. The whole body is covered with a varnish-like 
glaze. The larva has a slight musky scent. 
Pupa bright red, toned down by a thin whitish bloom. 
Abraxas sordida. (Plate CLXIX. fig. 12.) 
Expanse 1^^ inch. 
Male. Collar and abdomen orange, the latter spotted with black ; head, thorax, and 
wings dull olivaceous fuscous. Fore wing Avith an irregular white spot before the middle 
of the costa and another beyond the middle ; a medial white streak from the middle of the 
interno-median interspace to the inner margin. Hind wing with a similar streak from the 
median nervure to inner margin. 
Nearest to A. ostrina, Swinh. 
EUSCHEMINjE. 
Cusuma flavifusa. (Plate CLXVIII. fig. 17.) 
Expanse 2j inches. 
Male, Allied to C. vilis. Fore wing brownish wholly suffused with golden yellow ; 
the spots yellow, the spot in the end of the cell extending below it ; the postmedial irregular 
maculate band more complete and reaching the outer angle. Hind wing golden yellow, 
but of a duller tint than in C. vilis ; the two outer dark bands completely separated by a 
lunulate yellow band. Underside wholly sufi'used with golden yellow. Abdomen duller 
yellow than in C. vilis; the lateral tufts of hair in the male not nearly so strongly 
developed. 
