THE MOTES OF INDIA. 1#> 



993. Thiacidas postica. 



Larva. 1'3". Head red with white V-mark ; body pale yellow-green with 

 broad white dorsal stripe edged by faint black crenulate lines ; a lateral series 

 of black spots ; six red tubercles on each somite from which arise long grey 

 hairs. Food plant — Zizyphus jujuba. (W. H. Campbell.) 



1004a. Dasychiracerebosa, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc, 1903, p. 483 (PI. D^ 

 £.23). 



Head, thorax and abdomen brown mixed with grey ; antennae of male with 

 the branches rufous. Forewing grey, thickly irrorated with brown ; an in- 

 distinct curved sub-basal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double waved 

 antemedial line ; discoidal lunule defined by brown ; postmedial line minutely 

 dentate, slightly angled outwards below costa and at vein 4, then incurved ; an 

 indistinct diffused waved subterminal line. Hindwing pale brownish ; the 

 underside greyish thickly irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot and diffused 

 postmedial line. 



Habitat.— Punjab, Simla. Exp. $ 44, 9 50 mill. 



10146. Dasychira magnalia, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7), xxii, p. 198 (1903) 

 (PI. D, f. 24). 



$ Head, thorax and abdomen dark brown mixed with grey. Forewing dull 

 reddish-brown suffused with fuscous and slightly irrorated with grey ; an ill- 

 defined rufous patch below base of cell irrorated with large dark scales ; an 

 erect waved black antemedial line ; an ill-defined lunulate ochreous discoidal 

 patch with its centre defined by black, a dentate postmedial line angled 

 outwards at veins 7 and 4, then strongly incurved ; an ill-defined pale rufous 

 subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7, inwards at discal and submedian 

 folds and excurved at middle. Hindwing reddish fuscous brown ; the underside 

 with discoidal spot, postmedial line angled outwards at discal fold and indistinct 

 diffused subterminal line. 



$ Rather uniformly darker, the lines of forewing less distinct. 



Habitat.— Assam, Khasis. Exp. 42 mill. 



1030a. Lymanteia mcesta, Swinh., Trans. Ent. Soc, 1903, p. 484 (PI. D, f. 22). 



$. Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; abdomen brownish grey. 

 Forewing brownish grey, thickly irrorated with fuscous ; an indistinct antemedial 

 line angled outwards below costa ; an oblique black streak on lower disco- 

 cellular with a diffused oblique fuscous striga above it on costa ; an indistinct 

 dentate subterminal line slightly angled outwards at veins 7 and 4, then incurved. 

 Hindwing pale brownish. 



$ Wings rather greyer. 



Habitat.— Punjab, Kasauli, Kangra Valley. Exp. $ 38, £ 44 mill. 



1031. Lymantria obsoleta, insert Bombyx serva, Fabr. Syst. Ent. 3, i, p. 474 

 (1793) which has precedence. 



1049. Gazalina chrysolopha insert, (syn.) Gazalina intermixta, Swinh. 

 A. M. N. H. (7) 6, p. 306. 



1057a. Euproctis yirgo, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc, 1903, p. 393 (PI. D, f. 2G). 



