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ft. Brownish grey ; palpi and frons dark brown ; abdomen tinged with red- 

 dish brown. Forewing irrorated with a few dark scales and tinged with reddish 

 brown, especially on inner and terminal areas ; two black points near base ; 

 antemedial black points on costa and below cell ; an indistinct postmedial 

 crenulate curved line with black points on the veins and a fuscous mark on it 

 beyond lower angle of cell joined by an oblique streak from apex ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hindwing strongly tinged with fuscous brown. 



$ . More rufous. 



Habitat. — W. China, Pu-tsu-fang, Moupin ; N.-W. Himalayas, Kangra 

 Valley 4500' (Dudgeon). 



Exp. $ 42, 9 48 mill. 



241. Pydna sikkima, insert (syn.) Pydna essa, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6), 

 XVII., p. 360. 



262a. Stauropus mioides, n. sp. 



$. Head and thorax grey-white tinged with green ; branches of antennae 

 red-brown ; palpi black at sides ; abdomen whitish, dorsally fuscous, except at 

 extremity. Forewing whitish tinged with green, especially towards base and 

 thickly irrorated with dark-brown ; a small dark spot below origin of vein 2 and 

 another at lower angle of cell placed on a fine indistinct line excurved from 

 below costa to vein 5, then bent inwards to lower angle of cell ; a subtermind 

 series of dark-brown spots, those below costa and above vein 5 displaced in- 

 wards ; a series of oblique dark strios on termen. Hindwing dark reddish 

 brown ; the costal area whitish tinged with green and irrorated with dark brown 

 and with diffused dark postmedial and subterminal bars ; inner margin and cilia 

 white ; the underside white. 



Habitat. — Assam ; Khasis, Exp. 46 mill. Type in B. M. 



280. DlCRANURA HIMALAYANA. 



Larva pale green ; the dorsal area whitish ; the 3rd somite produced to a 

 Somewhat pointed hump ; a subdorsal white line angled upwards below the 

 hump ; stigmata ringed with black ; anal somite produced to two long flagellate 

 tails, whitish granulated with black, the terminal halves crimson. Food planx 

 willow (G. C. Dudgeon). 



307. Spatalia argentifera £=309 S. coskdis 9 . Specimens of both sexes 

 bred (T. R. Bell). 



317a. ICHTHYURA TRANSECTA. 



Larva. Grey-brown with a broad dorsal dirty white line interrupted by a 

 dark brown patch at 4th somite which is slightly humped ; lateral and sub- 

 lateral series of yellow-brown tubercles ; a pale line above the lateral series of 

 tubercles ; 4th somite with two pale red tubercles on a red patch in the centre 

 of the brown one and with two white patches on each side of it ; a similar 

 red patch with tubercles on 11th somite. Head dark brown clothed with 

 whitish hair similar to that arising from the tubercles. 



Food plant salix babylonica. 



Pupa red in a slight cocoon formed of the leaves. 



