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884a. Cania notodonta, insert 891a. Narosa uniformis, Swinh., which has 

 priority. 



885a. Cania plumbifusa, n. sp. (PI. D, f. 7). 



g. Antennae bipectinate to apex. Head, thorax and abdomen ochreous 

 tinged with brown ; palpi, frons and forelegs fuscous. Forewing ochreous 

 suffused with leaden silvery especially on costal area ; an ill-defined waved 

 rufous line on discocellulars, then retracted to origin of vein 2, then to before 

 middle ; subterminal line blackish, bent outwards below costa ; then punctiform 

 to vein 5, then obsolete and represented by some black scales above tornus. 

 Hindwing ochreous, the cilia dark at tips, at apex and towards tornus. The 

 underside with the costal half of forewing suffused with black ; a blackish 

 discoidal spot. 



Habitat. — Assam, Khasis. Exp. 20 mill. Type — in B. M. 



894. Belippa ferruginea is a distinct species ; B. laleana is the 9 of 896 

 B. Apicata and it, as also the $ of B. lohor, is indistinguishable 

 from the same sex of B. ferruginea, whilst the males are quite 

 distinct. 



Lasiocampid^;. 



901. Taragama dorsalis. 



Larva. l - 85". Reddish-brown with long buff-colored hairs hanging down from 

 head and sides, erected when the larva moves or is disturbed ; head covered 

 with hairs ; the 2nd and 3rd somites with a sort of hood covering a band of 

 deep umber-brown ; each somite with a prominent dorsal red tubercle with 

 short black hairs and a smaller red tubercle behind it ; the l'Zth. somite with 

 two very prominent black tubercles with black hairs -, a lateral series of buff- 

 colored tubercles from which the long hairs arise. 



Food plant various Acaccias. (W. H. Campbell.) 



938a. Lenodora crenata, Hmpsn. 



#. Head, thorax and abdomen pale ochreous brown ; anal tuft rufous. 

 Forewing red-brown, an ochreous white streak on subcostal nervure from base 

 to just beyond upper angle of cell ; a dull ochreous band beyond the cell 

 between veins 8 and 2, diffused on inner side, its outer edge very oblique 

 and crenulate. Hindwing pale red-brown, the costal area and cilia rather 

 darker. 



Habitat.— Ceylon, Horton Plains G-7000'. Exp. 42 mill. 



940&. Lenodora tiyalomel^na, n. sp. (pi. D, f. 9). 



<£. Head, thorax and abdomen mauve-grey ; palpi and sides of face, pectus, 

 legs, and ventral surface of abdomen pale yellowish. Forewing fuscous black ; 

 the co3tal edge pale yellowish ; an oblique semihyaline white band from 

 below apex to above inner margin near base where it is met by pale hair at 

 base ; some white hairy scales on termen and in cilia. Hindwing hyaline ; the 

 veins, costal area and termen fuscous black ; cilia white at tips. 



Habitat.-- Madras, Palni Hills, 7000'. (Campbell.) Exp. 38 mill. Type— 

 inB. M. 



