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Rinaca thibeta externa (Butler). Fig. la, male; lb, female; lc, cocoon; Id, pupa shell. A.11 bred from cocoons taken 



at Ghoon, November 10. 1910. 

 Eriogyna pyretorum (Westwood |. Fig. 2a, male; 2b, female; 2c, eggs; 2d. pupa; 2e, 21'. run ions; of subspecies pearsoni 



(Watson). Bred from cocoons obtained in mountains of interior of Hainan. 

 E. pyretorum luctifera Jordan. Fig. 2g, male; 2h, female. Both bred from larvae taken by Rev. •;. F. Francke at 



Ching-tu, West China, on a tree resembling mountain ash (Pyrus). Spun up at end of May. hatched December, 



L911. 

 Dictyoploca simla (Westwood). Fig. oa. male; 3b, female; 3c, male pupa; 3d. cocoons. All bred from cocoons from 



Khasia Hill.-. Assam. Hatched September, 1911. Rev. G. F. Francke, who was stationed in West China (Chang- 



tu), tells me that there lie lias found the cocoons on the shady side of trunks and branches of trees. The cue, ions I 



have usually luul from Assam are loosely enveloped in Saliz leaves. I have reared the larva- on Saliv fragilis. 



The larva of Dictyoploca (?) cachara (Moore) is very unlike that oi D. simla and D. japonica. 

 All in collection of J. II. Watson. — J. II. Watson. 

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