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medial waved line ; the postmedial line, the spots, and outer waved 

 line prominent. 



Nilgirica is without the postmedial waved line. 



Larva of the form mollifera is whitish speckled with black; 

 dorsal tufts of black hairs on each somite arising from a whitish 

 hump ; a dorsal blue-black band ; a subdorsal pinkish band tra- 

 versed by a grey line ; a series of small lateral black spots ; sub- 

 lateral area purplish grey with long hairs ; stigmata and legs pink ; 

 head black. 



Hob. Throughout S. India and Ceylon. Exp. 64-84 millim. 



71. Eupterote flavicollis, Guer. Voy. Deless. Hist. Nat. p. 94, pi. 27, 



fig. 1 ; C.8f8. no. 1415. 

 Bombyx collaris, Guer. Voy. Deless. Hist. Nat. p. 95 ; C. $ S. 



no. 1414. 

 Bombyx adolphsei, Guer. Voy. Deless. Hist. Nat. p. 96 ; C. % S. 



no. 1413. 



S . Differs from typical mollifera in the thorax being red-brown. 

 Fore wing with five or six waved lines before the postmedial line, 

 which is curved ; the grey spots take the form of a complete waved 

 band and are further from the postmedial line ; between the line and 

 grey band is a conjoined series of dark spots, those towards inner 

 margin largest. Hind wing with a single postmedial curved line, 

 and sometimes medial and outer lines. Underside with medial, 

 postmedial, and outer waved lines. 



$ . Eeddish brown ; the collar not yellow ; abdomen brown ; 

 both wings with an indistinct postmedial line ; fore wing with the 

 submarginal grey band nearly straight. 



The form adolplicei is dark brown, the collar yellow 7 , the fore 

 wing suffused with grey ; flavicollis is yellowish grey-brown ; 

 collaris paler and redder. 



Hub. Nilgiri plateau. Exp., 3 60-72, $ 75 millim. 



72. Eupterote diffusa, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 374 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii, 



pi 135, fig. 2; C. 8r S. no. 1382. 



c? . Differs from mollifera in having the head brown ; the thorax, 

 abdomen, and wings vary in colour from greyish white to dull 

 ochreous brown ; the postmedial line single, curved on both wings, 

 and much nearer the margin ; the waved lines fairly distinct or 

 obsolescent, as are the spots and outer waved line ; cilia brown. 



Bob. Ceylon. Exp. 66 millim. 



73. Eupterote primularis, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 371 ; 

 C. $ S. no. 1421. 



c? . Differs from diffusa in being very pale primrose-yellow ; 

 both wings without waved lines near the base; a well-marked 

 medial line, which is curved and waved on the fore wing, waved 



