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and with a pair of pale-ringed black spots ; tegulae with two pairs 

 and vertex of thorax with one similar spot ; abdomen crimson, with 

 a series of short dorsal black bands and lateral spots. Fore wing 

 fuscous brown, with very numerous pale-ringed black spots in the 

 interspaces. Hind wing crimson, with antemedial, medial, post- 

 medial, and marginal bands and more or less conjoined blotches. 



The variety clavatus has the hind wing orange, whilst in zerah it 

 is yellow. 



Larva dark brown speckled with white, and with dorsal and 

 ateral tufts of long dark hair. 



Hal. Throughout India and Ceylon. Exp., <$ 33-50, $ 60-68 

 millim. 



1207. Arctia transversa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 398; C. $ S. 

 no. 853. 



c? . Pale brown ; thorax spotted with black. Fore wing with 

 two black spots below base of costa ; an antemedial angulated 

 series of spots ; a medial angulated band broken at middle ; a 

 postmedial maculate band ; a submarginal series, the spots from 

 veins 2 to 6 almost obsolete ; a marginal series. Hind wing pale 

 brown, with a spot at end of cell and submarginal series. (Head 

 and abdomen of type wanting.) 



Hob. " N.W. India." Exp. 38 millim. 



Genus OCNOGYNA. 

 Ocnogyna, Rambur, Lep. And. p. 255 (1858). 



Type, 0. hemigena, Grasl., from Europe. 

 Range. Europe; Kashmir. 



Differs from Arctia in the head being clothed with long hair , 

 the palpi extremely minute and buried in hair. 

 Female with the wings aborted. 



1208. Ocnogyna postflavida, n. sp. 



cJ . Head, thorax, and abdomen black grizzled with white ; ab- 

 domen fringed with yellow hair 

 towards extremity. Fore wing 

 very dark red-brown, with an in- 

 distinct subbasal oblique whitish 

 line joining a curved medial ob- 

 solescent band on vein 1 ; a post- 

 medial curved band joined at 

 Fig. 5. middle to a dentate submarginal 



Ocnogyna postflavida, <$ . {. line. Hind wing orange irrorated 



with dark scales, the inner area 

 blackish ; a broad marginal black band interrupted by a streak 



