117 



Palpi upturned, thickly scaled, and hardly reaching vertex of 

 head ; the 2nd joint in male hollowed out to receive the brush- 

 like maxillary palpi ; antennae of male bipectinated to two-thirds 

 length with long branches decreasing distally, and with a process 

 fringed with hair from basal joint ; tibiae and tarsal joints fringed 

 with hair. Fore wing with the apex rounded ; veins 3, 4, 5 from 

 close to angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 

 10, 11 free ; a large antemedial ridge of long hair from below the 

 cell to inner margin and a tuft at upper angle. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4, 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 free ; tufts of long hair near Icwer angle of cell. 



SECT. I. Antennas of male with the process from basal joint short. 



4451. Ccenodomus hockingii, Wlsm. Trans. Linn. Soc., Zool v, 1889, 



p. 49, pi. 5 ; C. 8f S. no. 4504. 

 Alippa anomala, Aurivillius, Ent. Tids. 1894, p. 176. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with grey, black, and rufous 



hair. Fore wing grey irro- 

 rated with fuscous brown, 

 which is the prevailing colour 

 on the costal and basal areas ; 

 the tufts of long hair rufous 

 with black tips; a slightly 

 curved antemedial line; a 



w ao j T 7 .... . highly sinuous pale rufous 

 Fig. 68. Ccenodomus hockmqii, <$ . \. ', *j- i i f j 11 



postmedial band edged by 



black lines. Hind wing grey thickly irrorated with fuscous 

 brown ; the tufts near lower angle of cell rufous tipped with 

 black ; a pale rufous sinuous postmedial band edged by waved 

 black lines. 



Larva. Yellowish white ; head dark brown ; 1st somite with a 

 large chitinous dorsal plate marked with about twelve pale brown 

 spots and two brown lateral stripes ; 2nd and 3rd somites with 

 five or six brown spots ; the 4th, 5th, and 6th each with two pairs 

 of spots; 7th to 11 somites fuscous brown. Food-plant, Eugenia 

 jambolana, Lam. The larvae are gregarious and live in strong tubes 

 composed of two layers of silk with excrement between them, from 

 three to fifteen in each colony ; the tubes are open at each end 

 and the larvae emerge as far as the 6th somite from either end to 

 feed; the colony is attached to its food-plant by silken threads,, 

 but is able to move about from one part of the plant to another. 



Hob. Simla ; Kangra ; Sikhim ; Calcutta ; Vizagapatam ; Java. 

 Exp. 9 <J 35-40, $ 36-50 millim. 



4452. Ccenodomus rotundinidus, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 127, pi. 154, 

 fig. 16. 



<P . Differs from IwcTcingii in being much greyer and less 

 irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing with the antemedial line 



