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942a. Odonestis fossa, Swinh., A. M. N. H. (6) xrx., p. 410. (PI. D, f. 14.) 



<£. Dark red-brown. Forewing with indistinct antemedial line angled 

 outwards below costa ; a small dark-edged white discoidal spot ; a straight 

 oblique dark-brown line from apex to inner margin before middle ; an indistinct 

 oblique strongly dentate subterminal line. Hindwing with traces of a slightly 

 incurved line from apex to tornus. 



9 . Yellower brown ; forewing with the oblique line very slightly curved 

 towards inner margin. 



Habitat. — Assam, Jaintia Hills. Exp. <£ 52, $ 66 mill. 



LyMANTRIADjE. 



971. Aroa pyrhochroma, insert Orgyia melaxantha, Wlk., xxxiii., 324 

 (1865) which has precedence ; the type must have come from India, not 

 Cape Colony. 



975a. Aroa campbelli, n. sp. (PI. D, f. 8 ). 



$. Head and thorax olive-brown ; abdomen grey mixed with fuscous, 

 Forewing pale olive thickly suffused and irrorated with fuscous brown ; some 

 diffused white on basal inner area ; a pale olive medial striga from costa ; an 

 oblique white band irrorated with brown from costa beyond middle to middle of 

 inner margin towards which it expands widely, slightly incurved to costa and 

 with its outer edge indented at vein 5. Hindwing pure white with terminal 

 olive fuscous band, moderately wide at apex, narrowing to a point at tornus. 



Habitat.— Madras, Palni Hills, 6000'. (Campbell.) Exp. 26 mill. Type— 

 inB. M. 



982. L&lia exclamationis, insert (syn.) Lcalia adalia, Swinh. A. M. N. H, 

 (7), vi, p. 305. A large form from the Jaintia Hills. Exp. $ 42, $ 50 mill. 



976. LuELIA SUFFUSA. 



Larva. Black clothed with rather long whitish hairs and with tufts of long 

 spatulate black hairs on each side of 1st somite and in middle of 11th somite ; 

 four brown dorsal pencils of hair on 4th-7th somites ; round whitish dorsal 

 tubercles on 9th and 10th somites ; a broad subdorsal yellow line and lateral 

 yellow striations obscured by the hairs ; a sublateral yellow line. Head and 

 legs pale brown or black. Food plant — grasses.. 



Pupa in a rather loose pale buff or brownish cocoon. (Dudgeon.) 



983. L^ELIA TESTACEA. 



Larva. Dark buff with a paler dorsal stripe with dark medial line ; neck 

 canary-yellow ; each somite with prominent tuft of brown hairs ; very thick 

 tufts of umber-brown hairs on somites 4, 5, 6 and 7 ; head glabrous, brown. 



989a. Pantana ocHROTA ; n. sp. (PI. D, ff. 33-34). 



<£. Head and thorax fulvous yellow, the branches of antenna? blackish \ 

 abdomen dark fulvous brown. Forewing fulvous yellow, the costal half 

 suffused by red-brown, at termen extending to vein 2 ; a yellowish discoidal 

 lunule. Hindwing with the costal half fuscous brown, the inner half fulvous, 



$. Uniform ochreous, the abdomen more orange. 



Habitat.— Travancore, Pirmad (K. S. Imray). Exp. $ 38, $ 52 mill. 



