50 LOED WALSINGHAM ON A NEW GENUS 



Legs, tibiae clotlied with long scales ; tarsi rather slender. 



The ? is usually a little larger than the 6 . 



Larva with sixteen legs ; the foixr pairs of abdominal claspers situated on segments 

 7, 8, 9, and 10. Living in colonies, in strong silken cases, of which several are woven 

 together. 



Ca5X0D0MUS HOCKINGI, n. sp. 



Head and face fuscous. 



Antennce : <s hipectinate for two thirds of their length, with a pair of erect cinereous 

 tufts arising from a hollow sac on the enlarged basal joint; 2 simple, but with the 

 basal joint globose ; pale cinereous inclining to ochreous. 



Labial palpi black. 



Toiiffiie pale cinerous-ochreous. 



Thorax fascous mixed with cinereous ; on the underside dark fuscous, almost black. 



Fore wings brownish grey, mottled and banded witb cinerous, dark fuscous, and white, 

 with tufts of raised brownish-cinereous and fuscous scales. The costal margin from the 

 base to near the apex is very dark fuscous with an iridescent hue, interrupted about the 

 middle by two narrow oblique lines of white scales, which become blended below the 

 fuscous margin, and form an ill-defined whitish fascia, which has a pink iridescent tinge in 

 a strong light. A similar slender waved line of white scales extends from the costa near 

 the apex in the direction of the anal angle. Before the white fascia is an oblique raised 

 l)rovvnish-cinereous streak margined with fuscous ; and beyond the fascia the space 

 preceding the waved whitish outer line is pale brownish cinereous. The chief accumu- 

 lations of raised scales on the fore wing are immediately preceding the whitish fascia, on 

 the basal portion of the diseal cell and on the fold below it ; besides a conspicuous brown 

 tuft below the middle of the costa between the lines of white scales forming the upper 

 part of the fascia, and a smaller one immediately beyond it, at about the same distance 

 from the costal margin, which are both tipped with white ; there is also a small tuft 

 above it and before the anal angle. 



Underside shining pale greyish cinereous, the costal margin inclining to fuscous ; a 

 U'w pale fuscous and whitish streaks and mottlings showing through both pairs of 

 wings from the upperside. 



Hind wings, the general colour is brownish grey, with whitish and fuscous mottlings. 

 < )n the hind wings the only tuft of raised scales is placed below the middle of the wing 

 near to the abdominal margin. 



Legs fuscous, touched with pale cinereous. 



Ahdomen cinereous at the base, inclining to fuscous beyond it ; the anal tuft cinereous, 

 mottled with fuscous. 



Exp. al. 6 38 millim., ? 42 millim. 



First received from Eev. J. H. Hocking, from the Punjab, India, in 1880. 



The larva has the head deep, dark brown ; on the second segment is a yellowish-ivory 

 coloured chitinous plate, not divided in the middle, and reaching well over to the spiracles 

 on each side ; this is flecked with about twelve small pale brown spots above and has two 



