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A. nivea Walk. (= Belgoraea subnolata Walk.) (50 a). Snowy white, 011 the forewmg indications of nivea. 

 thin transverse lines and greenish brown small spots in and below the cell. • — India, north-westwards to Kulu. 



9. Genus : ]^ata<la Walk. 



About 12 species are known of this genus, among which are the largest and heaviest forms of the whole 

 family. These latter are not unlike in facies to Scopelodes, but have, in contradistinction to them, very short 

 palpi, which only slightly project from under the hair of the frons. Antenna of ^ usually with very short pecti- 

 nations to the apex. Hind tibia with 2 pairs of spurs. The cell of the forewing broad and its apex two-point- 

 ed an account of the angulate cross-veuis; the wing itself rounded. — The genus is predominantly Indian, 

 and must not be confounded with the Notodont genus Nadata. 



N. velutina Koll. (= rugosa Walk.)(50 a). The largest Limacodid, being somewhatlarger than the spe- velulina. 

 cies of Scopelodes and even surpasses in size the large American Sibine. The strongly rounded forewing 

 very dark red-brown, with a silky gloss m places where the scales are erect, these places having "the 

 appearance of ruffled seal-skin" (Hampson). The apical line from near apex to the hind margm near base 

 dark, pale-bordered on outer side and curved below costa. — Kashmir, throughout the Himalayas and 

 North India, one of the commonest Limacodids; m the spring until May and agam in August and Septem- 

 ber, from 1000 to 5000 ft. 



N. nararia Moore (= cosmiana Swinh., suffusa Moore, fraterna Moore) (50a). Light brownish yellow, nararia. 

 The transverse line of the forewing separates the outer third from the basal two-thirds, the latter more reddish. 

 — From Kashmir to Southern India. In Ceylon occurs a race whose forewdng is suffused with a dark 

 tone and bears sometimes a dark cell-spot. — ■ Larva above greenish yellow, below pink; with a light yel- 

 low, sometimes reddish dorsal band M'hich is divided by a green stripe ; dorso-laterally and laterally rows of 

 green processes, the upper ones \\itli red tips, and the anterior and posterior ones longer than the others. 

 The cocoon ovate, purple-brown or yellowish brown, rather irregular according to the only figure published 

 of it. 



N. conjuncta Walk. (= neutra Swinh., fimbriares Walk., cuprea Walk.) (50 b). Thorax and forewing conjuHcto. 

 dark red-brown, with a coppery or silky gloss ; forewing with short raised lines of scales ; at apex of cell a blackish 

 dot; a band constricted in centre, widened in front and behmd, coppery before the outer margm. Hindwing 

 light brown. — In the Himalayas, southward to Siam and extending northward, in Northern China, into 

 the Palearctic Region. 



10. Genus: Thoi^ea Walk. 



About a dozen moderately small moths are united under this name, which were formerly spread 

 over the genera Aphendala, Anzaba, Parasa, etc. Most of them are rather uniformly brown or grey, with bi- 

 pectinate antennae in the cJc? either to the apex or only beyond the centre. Head depressed, thorax robust, 

 abdomen stout, only a little reachmg beyond the anal angle. Forewing broad, with almost rectangular 

 apex, subcostals 3, 4, 5 stalked; the discocellular obtusely angulate, the apex of cell being divided into two 

 lobes, of which the lower one is longer on the hindwing. — The genus is distributed in China and India. The 

 larvae are known of several species. 



T. transversata Walk. (50 b). This Kashmirian moth has on the forewing a dark greyish brown h&saX transversaUi. 

 area which is separated from the dirty light brown outer area of the wing by a whitish oblique band proximally 

 dark-bordered and outwardly diffuse; the marginal area is traversed by a dark, distally light-edged transverse 

 line. — In the Indian Himalayas (Dalhousie, Murree) an ochreous form occiirs, and in Soiithern India and on 

 Ceylon a mouse-grey race (= T. cava Walk.) — The larva green with yellow dorsal stripe, shorter small warts 

 dorso-laterally, and longer ones laterally; the spiracles with light borders. On deciduous trees. Kulu, in May 

 and August. The species occurs up to 4000 ft. 



T. tripartita Moore. Very similar to the preceding species, but the basal area of the forewing dark MparlHa. 

 brown, and the line which separates it from the pale outer area is steeper; the submarginal line is more oblique 

 and curves towards the outer margm above the hind angle. — The larva green, like the preceding; with shorter 

 warts at the sides of the back and longer ones above the spiracles; on the back and at the sides rows of 

 blue spots. — Dharmsala, Kashmir, also distributed over a large portion of India. 



T. fasciata Moore (49 k). Larger than the previous, dirty earth-brown; from the costa to the hind mar- fasdala. 

 gin 3 shadowy bands, whose position is shown in the figure. — • Kashmir; larva not known. 



T. sinensis Walk. (= loesa 3Ioore) (50 e). Forewing w-ith produced apex, being slightly incurved below sinensis. 

 it, grey, with a strong ochreous tone in the basal area and beyond the oblique line, the latter running from 

 before two-thirds of the costa almost parallel with the distal margin to beyond the centre of the hmd margin. 

 The hindwing entirely ochreous, with the distal margin and the fringe grey. The forewing bears a black dot at 



