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angled below the cell; both wings with a prominent lunulate 

 rufous postmedial line, incurved below vein 3, before the post- 

 medial band ; a crenulate dark marginal line. 



The larvae feed on a tree of the Laurel tribe and turn to pupae 

 in a round ball, of about three inches diameter, made of the leaves 

 and web spun together, about six larvae to each colony. 



Hob. Nilgiri plateau. Exp. 44 millim. 



SECT. II. Antennae of male with the process from basal joint 

 reaching to end of metathorax. 



4453. Ccenodomus dudgeoni, n. sp. 



3 . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous and fuscous ; wings 

 leaden coloured. Fore wing with ill-defined sinuous black-edged 

 white ante- and postmedial lines, the latter with some olive beyond 

 it ; the tufts of hair on basal area, discocellulars, and beyond the 

 postmedial line blackish with a few white hairs. Hind wing with 

 sinuous whitish postmedial line with olive patch beyond it at anal 

 angle ; tufts of black and white hair near base, end of cell, and 

 beyond postmedial line. 



Hob. Bhutan (Dudgeon). Exp. 32 millim. Type in B. M. 



Genus LOCASTRA. 



Locastra, Wlk. Cat. xvi,p. 158 (1858). 

 Taurica, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1268 (1865). 



Type, L. crassipennis, Wlk. 



Range. Brazil ; China ; N.E. India ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Borneo. 



Palpi upturned and reaching vertex of head, the 2nd joint in 

 male fringed with long hair at base, 2nd and 3rd curved forward, 

 in the female the 2nd joint is tufted with hair at extremity, the 

 3rd minute and upturned ; maxillary palpi dilated with scales ; 

 antennae of male minutely serrate and fasciculate ; tibiae and tarsi 

 fringed with very long hair. Fore wing with vein la strong ; 



3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 

 stalked ; tufts of raised scales below middle of cell and on 

 discocellulars. Hind wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 



4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 often connected with 8 

 by a bar, or in one specimen vein 8 is connected with the end of 

 the cell by an additional vein showing the bar to be the remains of 

 one of the lost subcostals ; male with the inner area clothed with 

 long hair on upper and under sides. 



SECT. I. Antennae of male with a process from basal joint ; fore 

 wing with a glandular costal lobe at two-thirds from base, with 

 the subcostal nervules bent round it. 



A. (Locastra). Male with a very large recurved triangular process 

 from basal joint of antennce clotJiedwith long rough scales; hind 

 tibia extremely thickly clothed with rough curved scales to near 



