436 LYMANTJUIID^E. 



scales ; an indistinct antemedial line and postmedial band excurved 

 beyond end of cell ; an ill-defined marginal fuscous band. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown ; tbe marginal area black-brown ; cilia 

 greyish. 



Hob. Kashmir ; Ladak. Kvp. 28 millim. 



Genus ORGYIA. 



Orgria, Ochs. Schmett. Ear. iii, p. 208 (1810). 

 Notoloplms, Get-mar, Prod, ii, p. 35 (1812). 

 Gynrephora, Hiibn. Verz. p. 161 (1818). 



Type, 0. antiqua, Linn., from Europe. 



Range. Universally distributed, except the Neotropical region. 



c? . Flight diurnal. Palpi short, porrect, and heavily fringed 

 with hair ; antennae with the branches long and with long spines 

 at extremities; legs heavily fringed with hair; abdomen with a 

 dorsal tuft on 2nd segment. Fore wing with vein 9 arising from 

 10 and anastomosing with 8 to form an areole. Hind wing \vilh 

 veins 3 and 4 from angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 6 and 

 7 stalked. 



$ with the palpi and legs less hairy; antennae serrate ; wings 

 aborted, scale-like, and covered with hair ; abdomen covered with 

 hair and immensely dilated when full of eggs. 



960. Orgyia postica, l\'lk. Cut. \\. j>. >.-; ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii, pi. 100, 



figs. 1, 1 a, b (larva) ;* C. $ S no. 875. 

 Orgyia ceylanica, Nietn. Ed. New Phil. Jour, xv, 18<! p. :; I : C. # S. 



no. 874. 

 Orgygia ocularis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 44 ; C. $ S. no. 868. 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen brown. Fore wing brown, with 

 an indistinct oblique subbasal line ; waved antemedial and post- 

 medial lines which approach each other at lower angle of cell, the 



area between them slightly tinged 

 with bluish grey and with a waved 

 dark line edged with white on each 

 side of the discocellulars ; two in- 

 distinct waved submarginal lines; 

 the apex slightly tinged with grey 

 and with some subapical dark streaks. 

 Fig. 303. Orgria postica, J . \. Hind wing dark brown. 



$ with aborted wings. 



Larva. Yellowish, sparsely clothed with brown hair ; one dorsal 

 and two lateral brown bands ; paired tufts of long brown hair on 

 1st and llth somites projecting forward and backward; lateral 

 tufts of grey hair from 4th and 5th somites ; dorsal tufts of yellow 

 hair on 4th-7th somites ; the head red. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Nagas ; Formosa : Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Burma ; 

 Borneo; Java; New Guinea. Krjp. 24-28 millim. 



