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of outer area fuscous ; the inner half olive suffused with fuscous ; 

 cilia chequered with black. Hind wing fuscous ; the cilia rufous ; 

 underside with indistinct medial curved line. 



The larvae live as colonies in webs in cases formed of their own 

 excrement. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Ceylon ; Borneo ; Java. Exp. 32 millim. 



4473. Orthaga molleri, n. sp. 



c? . Olive-green, variegated with yellow and black. Tore wing 

 with subbasal black mark on costa; an ill-defined double-waved 

 antemedial black line ; some black suffusion below lower angle 

 of cell ; a dentate postmedial line excurved beyond cell ; 

 marginal and cilial series of dark spots. Hind wing pale fuscous, 

 with paler postmedial band with crenulate edges ; a marginal line 

 and series of specks on the cilia. 



Hab. Sikhim, 7000 feet (Holler). Exp. 28 miliim. Tvpe 

 in B. M. 



4474. Orthaga auroviridalis, n. sp. 



Golden olive ; frons and thorax marked with white ; abdomen 

 irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing with a white subbasal speck on 

 costa ; a white mark before the black tuft of scales below the cell ; 

 the medial area irrorated with black ; an oblique white medial 

 mark from costa ; some black scales in the discocellular tuft ; a 

 submarginal crenulate black line excurved from veins 6 to 2 and 

 with white outer edge ; a marginal series of black specks. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown. Underside with indistinct crenulate sub- 

 marginal line to both wings. 



Hob. Sikhim; Bhutan (Dudgeon). Exp., <$ 26, $ 34 millim. 

 Type in B. M. 



B. Male with the 2nd joint of palpi hollowed out to receive 

 the brush-like maxillary palpi. 



4475. Orthaga onerata, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv, p. 447. 



Head and thorax clothed with olive-green and grey scales, the 

 abdomen with white and black scales. Eore wing with the base 

 olive-green, with a diffused grey line on it and a black mark at 

 middle ; the medial area grey, with traces of a waved olive ante- 

 medial line ; a prominent black speck at end of cell ; the outer 

 area suffused with black and irrorated with grey towards margin ; 

 u curved crenulate postmedial line with grey outer edge ; a 

 marginal series of black specks ; cilia chequered pale rufous and 

 black. Hind wing pale fuscous ; the cilia pale, with a dark line 

 through them; underside with curved, slightly crenulate post- 

 medial line. 



Japanese specimens are rather browner than the female from 

 mmtdn. 



JI<tl>. Japan ; Bhutan ; Java. Exp. 24 millim. 



