402 LASIOCAMPID.E. 



latber with a white bar across each ; thorax grey, abdomen 

 ochreous. Fore wing ochreo us ; an oblique medial dark line; a 

 similar line from the apex to inner margin beyond the middle ; 

 inner area suffused with grey, which is diffused along the lines 

 towards the costa and along outer margin towards apex; cilia 

 fuscous. Hind wing uniform ochreous. 

 Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 52 millim. 



Species formerly recorded as Indian whicfi are omitted. 



Aphendala conspersa, Butl. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 673 = Miresa quadri- 

 notata, Moore, C. & S. no. 1315 A, is an Acontid. 



Limacodes yrisea, Hinpsn. 111. Het. viii, p. 63, is an Acontid. 



Pronecafola, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 194, pi. vi, fii;. 8, 

 is a Hypogrammid. 



RaUla frontalis, Wlk., C. & S. no. 1300, is a Leucanid. 



Natada basalts, Wlk., C. & S. no. 1272. Type lost ; description 

 unrecognizable. 



Family LASIOCAMPID^E. 



A family of moths mostly of large size. Palpi porrect and 

 generally large ; proboscis absent ; eyes small ; antennae bipectinate 

 in both sexes ; legs generally with minute terminal pairs of spurs 

 to mid and hind tibia3 and rather hairy. Fore wing with vein 1 a 

 not forked with 6 ; 1 c rarely present ; the cell medial in position ; 

 veins 6 and 7 from the angle ; veins 9 and 10 always stalked and 

 from before the angle. Hind wing with two internal veins ; 6 and 7 

 arising very near the base ; 8 curved and almost touching 7 or 

 connected with it by a bar, thus forming a precostal cell ; accessory 

 costal veinlets generally present. Frenulum absent. 



Larva with lateral downwardly-directed tufts of hair, and often 

 subdorsal tufts or dorsal humps on anterior somites thickly clothed 

 with hair. 



Cocoon closely woven of silk and hair. 



Fig. 278. Larva of Suana concolor. 



Key to the Genera. 



A. Hind wing with vein 8 running close along 

 7 ; no bar between them ; few, or no, 

 accessory costal veinlets. 

 a' The cell of both wings closed. 



