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detachable substance with slight creamy tinge below ; the hairs 

 white except five or six long black hairs on thoracic somites ; head 

 buff, marked with brown striae ; a dorsal black mark on 1st somite, 

 partly hidden by the head-bearing tuft which after the last moult 

 bears five head-skins. The larva progresses with a jerky motion ; 

 it forms a flap-like cocoon by biting off pieces of rotten wood and 

 bark and interlacing them with its long hairs which are left pro- 

 jecting ; before fastening down the flap it rubs its head against 

 it for a long time, and with much difficulty detaches the tuft and 

 head-skins and attaches them to the side of the cocoon. 



1547 a. Selca ruficostata, n. sp. 



$ . Grey, thickly irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing with the 

 costal area chestnut to beyond middle, including almost the whole 

 of the cell, in which are three tufts of raised scales and two on the 

 discocellulars ; traces of an irregular dark antemedial line ; a post- 

 medial line excurved between veins 6 and 3, then very oblique ; an 

 irregularly and highly dentate submarginal line. Hind wing dark 

 fuscous. 



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



AGAKISTID^E. 



Vol. II, p. 149. In the genus Eusemia transfer all, except 

 Sect. HI, to Chelonomorpha. 



NocTunm 



1605 a. HeliotMs hyalosticta, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 298, 

 <5 . Grey. Fore wing irrorated with brown ; traces of a waved 

 subbasal line ; some dark specks on costa ; a spot on discocellulars ; 

 a postmedial curved series of specks on the veins and a marginal 

 series. Hind wing paler ; a dark discocellular lunule ; an indistinct 

 curved postmedial line ; the outer area slightly darker. Underside 

 with the discocellular spot of fore wing deep black. 

 Hob. Karachi. Exp. 22 millim. 



1616. Transfer Arsiloncha roseana, Swinh., and the locality Bhamo, 

 Burma, to 1615, Chariclea irrorata. 



P. 180. Raghuva. Male with glandular swelling at middle of costa 

 of fore wing. 



Genus TRICHANARTA, nov. 



Type, T. ladakensis, Eeld. 



Range. Himalayas. 



Palpi porrect, fringed with long hair below and reaching just 

 beyond the large frontal tuft ; eyes hairy and with long lashes ; 

 antennae ciliated ; tibiae strongly spined ; thorax and abdomen 

 without tufts. Pore wing with the outer margin non-crenulate. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from cell. 



