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Larva dull violet-brown, with a few fine dorsal hairs ; a few 

 scattered grey dots and a sublateral pale olivaceous band from 

 fourth somite; head and legs violet-grey, the former small; anal 

 somite conical. Pupa dark red. Food-plant Emilia. 



Fig. 151. Arcilasisa plagiata, $. J-. 



Hob. Sikhim ; S. India ; Ceylon ; Borneo ; Java. Exp. 44-60 

 millim. 



Genus AUCHMIS. 



Auchmis, Hilbn. Verz. p. 243 (1818). 



Cloantha, Bdv., Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. viii, p. 509 (1839). 



Type, A. polyodon, Clerck, from Europe. 



Range. N. America; Europe; 8. Africa; Amur; Japan; 

 throughout India and Ceylon. 



Eyes naked and without lashes ; proboscis fully developed. 

 Palpi porrect, the 2nd joint evenly scaled, the 3rd prominent ; 

 antennae ciliated in male. Thorax without tufts ; abdomen with 

 small dorsal tufts on proximal segments ; mid tibiae very rarely 

 spined. "Wings with the cilia crenulate ; hind wing with vein 5 

 obsolescent. 



1941. Auchmis intermedia, Brem. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 53. 



Auchmis sikkimensis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 49, pi. 6, fig. 15; 

 C. $ S. no. 1652. 



Head and thorax whitish, marked with red-brown and dark 



Fig. 152. Auchmis intermedia, rf . }. 



brown ; abdomen pale, with a pinkish ochreous tinge. Fore wing 

 whitish ; costal area suffused with brown and pinkish ; cell with 

 fine dark streaks in it ; a prominent black fascia below the cell and 



