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(May, 



PsEUDODOxiA. LiMULUS (Rghfr.), Drnt., imago nov. 



(Leptocer idee— genus ?, sp. ?). McLach., Ent. Mo. Mag., 1, 125-6, 

 figs. 1-3 (1864) \ 



Fumea ? Umulus, Rghfr., Sitzb. Z.-B. Ges. Wien, XXXIX, 60-1, 

 figs. (1889)=' ; McLach., Eut. Mo. Mag., XXV, 362 (1889) ^ 



The following is a description of the imago, for the discovery of 

 which we are indebted to Mr. Green : — 



Antenna, greyish-ochreous. Palpi, ocliveous, second joint suffused with fuscous 

 externally. Head, ochreous. Thorax (denuded), apparently fuscous. Fore-wings, 

 clay-ochreous, more or less irrorated with fuscous scales, with three black spots ar- 

 ranged triangularly ; the first on the disc at one-third, almost round, the second at 

 the end of the cell, also round but slightly smaller, the third more elongate, in the 

 fold below the first ; a marginal row of small black spots at the terminations of the 

 Teins ; cilia slightly more cinereous than the wings, with an indistinct darker line 

 running through them. Exp. al., 19 mm. Hind-wings, pale fuscous, cilia ochreous. 

 Abdomen, fuscous, anal tuft ochreous. Hind-legs, ochreous, the long hairs on the 

 tibice paler. 



Type, ^. Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah. : Ceylon' — Kandy-, Pundaloya (Green, four specimens, 

 Mus. Wlsm.). 



Larva, "of a fleshy-pink colour, the apex of the head black, truncate, concave, 

 forming an operculum to the tube." (Green MS.). It may be well to add that in 

 Green's figure the head of the larva is black, the thoracic segments reddish-pink, the 

 first six abdominal segments pale brownish, the remaining three being yellowish. 

 The anterior segments of the larva are figured bv Rogenhofer^. 



Case, " composed of minute fragments of 

 moss, sand and lichens. The anterior end is 

 diluted into a shield-like hood, which hides 

 and protects the head of the larva when 

 fi filing. The materials worked into the under- 

 surface of the hood and tube are very fine, and 

 in the specimen under examination are com- 

 posed entirely of minute fragments of mica." 

 (Green MS.). 



Life-history. — "The larva when 

 disturbed retires completely into the 

 * » 2 tube. It feeds upon small mosses 



and lichens upon rocks and trees. Before pupating, the larva folds 

 down the edges of the hood over the mouth of the tube, like an 

 envelope, fastening them with silk. The case is fixed to the rock or 

 other support, and hangs there until the moth appears." (Green MS.). 

 Larva in January. — Rogenhofer*. 



