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Larva black, with ochreous dorsal and black lateral hairs ; long 

 anterior and posterior tufts ; thick dorsal tufts of rufous hair on 

 4th to 7th somites, and smaller tufts on 9th and 10th somites ; 

 subdorsal and lateral series of greenish spots and lateral greenish 

 line ; head and legs crimson. 



Hob. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Java ; Australia. 

 Exp., rf 34, 50 millim. 



Genus MARDARA. 



Mardara, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 402 (1865). 

 Mahoba, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 52 (1879). 



Type, M. caligramma, Wlk. 



Range. Simla ; Sikhim ; Nagas ; Manipur. 



Palpi porrect and rather slender ; antennae with the branches 

 long in male, shorter in female ; legs with the spurs long. Shape 

 and neuration as in Dasychira, except that the fore wing is more 

 rounded and vein 10 anastomoses with 7,8,9 to form the areole; 

 hind wing with veins 6 and 7 from cell. 



SECT. I. Palpi reaching beyond the frons ; fore wing with 

 vein 10 given off shortly after areole. 



1016. Mardara plagidotata, Wlk. Ca*.xxv,p. 1483 j Moore, Lep. Atk. 

 pi. iii, fig. 6 ; C. 8f S. no. 1058. 



Head and collar black powdered with white ; palpi orange ; 

 antenna3 black ; thorax and abdomen white powdered with fuscous; 

 abdomen with the terminal segments orange. Fore wing white 



Fig. 310. Mardara plagidotata, $>. }. 



hickly irrorated with fuscous ; a brown lunule at end of cell ; brow r n 

 patches on the costa before the middle, at middle, and near apex ; 

 a brown band on' outer margin from apex narrowing to vein 2. 



