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BOMBYCID^. — NOTODONTID^. 
series of lunulas outlined in black across the disk, followed towards apex by an oblique irregular 
blackish-edged grey stripe and below this by two or three linear black markings ; a marginal 
series of black dots ; terminations of nervures blackish : secondaries with pale greyish-brown 
broad external border, and parallel to and near its inner edge a stripe of the same colour ; veins 
beyond the cell blackish ; fringe black, spotted with white : body greyish white, the thorax 
and posterior half of abdomen spotted and barred with blackish and dark grey ; antennae with 
blackish pectinations. Under surface white, clouded and banded with grey. Expanse of 
wings 62 millim. 
Silbet. 
BOMBYCID^. 
PEISMOSTICTA, Butl. 
Prismosticta fenestrata. (Plate CVI. fig. 5.) 
Prismosticta fenestrata, Batter, Ann. Sf- Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 08. n. 13 (1880). 
Clay-coloured, washed with olivaceous, the secondaries towards apex and anal angle washed 
with red ; two continuous nearly approximated pairs of dark brown lines, the inner one of the 
primaries incurved towards the costal margin, the outer one nearly straight and running to 
apex, near which it forms an inner boundary to a triangular hyaline spot ; a dark brown 
litura on the discocellulars ; primaries with the apical border chocolate-brown ; body 
testaceous, tinted with olive ; antennae whitish. Under surface fulvous ; the primaries with 
the external half and the secondaries with the external border washed with orange ; markings 
as above ; a greyish submarginal diffused stripe. Expanse of wings 48 millim. 
Darjiling [Lidderdale). 
NOTODONTIDiE. 
This family as originally formed contained a mixed assemblage of genera referable to 
three distinct groups — the Phaleridae (a group allied to the Lasiocampidte), the Ceruridse (a 
family allied to the Drepanulidse), and the true Notodontidte (which hold a middle position 
between the Bombyces and Noctuites) ; until quite recently no attempt has been made to 
separate these families. 
SOMERA, Walk. 
Somera viridifusca. (Plate CIV. fig. 7.) 
Somera viridifusca, Wallcer, Cat. Lep. Bet. iv. p. 882. n. 1 (1855). 
Primaries above grass-green, with a large patch in the middle and two or three ill-defined 
smaller patches on the disk greyish brown; eight deatated and zigzag blackish lines in pairs 
