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Xoctuid moth. According to Mr. Atkinson it attacks and destroys 

 the Tusser silkworms feeding in tlie open (lud. Mus. Notes, i, 

 p. 126, ii, p. 105). 



393. Canthecona tibialis, Dist. A. M. N. H. {o) iii, p. 46 (1879). 



Head brassy-black, very thickly punctured, with an obscure basal 

 linear luteous spot ; antenucie pale brownish, third and fourth joints 

 blackish with their bases brown, fifth black with basal third luteous; 

 prouotum brassy-black, coarsely punctate, slightly rugulose, 

 with a central longitudinal line and irregular luteous markings 

 which faintly indicate four longitudinal striie ; lateral angles pro- 

 duced into short, black, obtuse spines, strongly emarginate at apex ; 

 scutellum with the basal aiva brassy-black, thickly punctate, apical 

 area paler and more sparingly punctate, \\ith a small central basal 

 spot, a large rounded spot in each basal angle, a small irregidar and 

 indistinct mark beneath these, and the apex broadly luteous; 

 corium luteous, thickly blackly punctate, on the underside at apex 

 is a large reddish spot; membrane fuscous, \^ith two large whitish 

 marginal spots : body beneath and legs luteous ; sternum and 

 lateral abdominal areas thickly blackly punctate, and a large central 

 black spot on apical segment ; apices of femora, the anterior tibiae, 

 bases and apices of intermediate and posterior tibias, and the an- 

 terior tarsi black ; anterior tibiiu moderately dilated. 



Var. a. Colour brownish in place of brassy -black. 



Length 14 to 17 ;. breadth bet\^een pronotal angles S to 9 

 miliim. 



Hah. Kh;isi Hills (Chennell). Burma ; Bhamo (Fca). 



3!J4. Canthecona binotata, Bisif. A.M.N.H. (.5) iii, p. 47 (1879). 



Luteous, thickly punctured with brown ; lateral lobes of head 

 thickly puncturecl with brassy-black ; antennae with the first and 

 second joints luteous, third and fourth fuscous, luteous at base ; 

 rostrum luteous with the apex reddish ; pronotum considerably 

 deflected from base towards head, with a central raised longitudinal 

 line continued throughout the scutellum, lateral margins with an 

 indistinct, obscure, violet submarginal fascia and some indistinct 

 striae of the same colour on disk, lateral angles produced into short 

 obtuse black spines, emarginate and luteous at apices : scutellum 

 more thickly and darkly punctate at basal area; corium with a 

 subcostal blackish spot a little beyond the middle ; membrane 

 blackisli, with the apical half whitish : body beneath and legs pale 

 luteous ; sternum with a violaceous streak on the lateral area of 

 each segment, latei'al abdominal margins with a series of subquad- 

 rate green spots, a submarginal series of narrow transverse waved 

 dark lines, and a large suba])ical blackish spot ; anterior tibiae 

 moderately dilated, their apical halves and bases and apices of 

 intermediate and posterior tibiae blackish. 



Length 15 ; breadth between pronotal angles 7k miliim. 



Hah. Naga Hills (ChenneU). 



