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958. Varmina indica, Wlk. Cat. v, p. 1039 ; C. 8f S. no. 1177 



c? . Head and thorax black, clothed with grey and brown hair ; 

 abdomen black. Fore wing blackish, thickly sprinkled with orange 

 spots ; black spots on a grey ground at middle and end of cell ; an 

 irregular marginal grey area with a subinarginal series of black 

 spots. Hind wing black. 



$ . Head clothed with white hair ; collar and abdominal tuft 

 ochreous white; the wings paler. 



Fig. 301. : Varmina indica, tf . ^- 



Larva black, speckled with white and with dorsal and lateral 

 tufts of hair arising from fulvous tubercles ; the thoracic and anal 

 somites with reddish tufts, the medial with grey ; 4th and llth 

 somites with long dorsal black tufts. 



Hob. N.W. Himalayas. Exp., 3 32, $ 42 millim. 



Genus LACHANA. 

 Lachana, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 397. 



Type, L, ladacensis, Moore. 



Range. Kashmir ; Ladak. 



Palpi short, hairy, porrect and hidden by the long hair from the 

 frons ; antennae with the branches short ; thorax and abdomen 

 hairy; mid and hind tibiae with minute terminal pairs of spurs. 

 Fore wing with vein 9 arising from 10 and anastomosing with 8 

 to form a short areole. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 stalked ; 5 

 from above angle of cell ; 6 and 7 from upper angle. 



959. Lachana ladacensis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 398 ; Eutl. Ill 

 Het. vii, pi. 121, fig. 6 ; C. Sf S. no. 1071 A. 



Fig. 302. Lachana ladacensis, Q. \. 



(S . Head clothed with grey hair ; thorax and abdomen with 

 brown and black hair. Fore wing pale brown irrorafed with dark 



