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series of lunules outlined in black across the disk, followed towards apex by an oblique irregular 

 blackish-edged grey stripe and below this by two or three linear black markings ; a marginal 

 series of black dots ; terminations of nervures blackish : secondaries with pale greyish-brown 

 broad external border, and parallel to and near its inner edge a stripe of the same colour ; veins 

 beyond the cell blackish ; fringe black, spotted with white : body greyish white, the thorax 

 and posterior half of abdomen spotted and barred with blackish and dark grey ; antennae with 

 blackish pectinations. Under surface white, clouded and banded with grey. Expanse of 

 wings 62 millim. 

 Silhet. 



BOMBYCID.E. 



PRISMOSTICTA, Bull. 



Prismosticta fenestrata. (Plate CVI. fig. 5.) 

 Prismosticta fenestrata, Butler, Ann. <j- Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 68. n. 13 (18S0). 



Clay-coloured, washed with olivaceous, the secondaries towards apex and anal angle washed 

 with red ; two continuous nearly approximated pairs of dark brown lines, the inner one of the 

 primaries incurved towards the costal margin, the outer one nearly straight and running to 

 apex, near which it forms an inner boundary to a triangular hyaline spot ; a dark brown 

 litura on the discocellulars ; primaries with the apical border chocolate-brown : body 

 testaceous, tinted with olive ; antennae whitish. Under surface fulvous ; the primaries with 

 the external half and the secondaries with the external border washed with orange ; markings 

 as above ; a greyish submarginal diffused stripe. Expanse of wings 48 millim. 



Darjiling (Lidt/erdale). 



NOTODONTID^. 



This family as originally formed contained a mixed assemblage of genera referable to 

 three distinct groups — the Phaleridre (a group allied to the Lasiocampidfe), the Ccruridse (a 

 family allied to the Drepanulidse), and the true Notodontidce (which hold a middle position 

 between the Bombyecs and Noctuites) ; until quite recently no attempt has been made to 

 separate these families. 



SOMERA, Walk. 



Soniera viridifusca. (Plate CIV. fig. 7.) 



Somera viridifusca, Walter, Cat. L.ji. II, t. iv. p. b:>2. u. 1 (1S55). 



Primaries above grass-green, with a large patch in the middle and two or three ill-defined 

 smaller patches on the disk greyish brown ; eight dentated and zigzag blackish lines in pairs 



