36 LIPAEED^. 



Prussian blue ; the base, costal area, and external margin dark brown shot with purple ; fringe 

 white towards anal angle, spotted with white between the anal patch and the apex ; body 

 much blacker than in T. sericea, but the male with whitish collar. Under surface blackish, 

 tinted with purple : primaries with a large, quadrate, oehreous patch in the cell and 

 a broad irregular oehreous band beyond it ; apical portion of costal borders and fringe 

 rcularly spotted with whitish ; fringe at external angle white : secondaries shot with 

 blue on abdominal half; two very oblique blue-black stripes from costa to first median 

 branch, where they are united, the outer stripe being continued to anal angle ; fringe as 

 above : ventral surface of body dull blackish grey. Expanse of wings, d 09 mdlim., 

 5 73 millim. 



Dharmsala; at sugar in August. 



"The pair, a male and female, caught on one evening: the only specimens met 

 with." 



This beautiful species was evidently regarded by Mr. Hocking as one of the Noctuites, 

 with which he associated it in his boxes ; consequently it was not discovered until the 

 Bombyces of tlie collectiou had been worked out and the plates prepared. It bears some 

 resemblance to the American genus Hypogramma ; but structurally it corresponds more 

 nearly with the Liparid genus Trisula, to which there is no doubt of its affinity. In 

 Trisuhides the proboscis is well developed (as, indeed, it is in many Bombyces), and therefore 

 the fact of its having been obtained by sugaring is not surprising. 



CHAKNIDAS, Walk. 



Charnidas umbrina. (Plate CXXIII. fig. 8.) 

 Procodeca umbrina, Moore, Pi-oc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 398. 



d . Allied to C. exclamationh and uchracea. Primaries vinous brown ; an angular series 

 of black-centred spots slightly paler than the ground-colour across tlie disc : secondaries 

 thinly scaled on the basal two thirds (giving the wing a greyish appearance), smoky brown, 

 slightly vinous on the fringe : thorax dull rufous brown ; abdomen dark smoky browu. 

 Under surface smoky brown; veins and borders of the wings paler, inclining to buff: palpi, 

 tibiie and tarsi of front pair of legs and tarsi of other legs oehreous. Expanse of wings 

 34 millim. 



Kulu. 



"Larvae under stones, March 22nd, on which date were found larva, pupa, and imago." 

 According to Mr. Moore Chariitdus li/iira was confounded witli it. 



The genus Procodeca was founded by Mr. AValkcr for the reception of his supposed new 

 species P. fjvadrata, which consisted of three examples of Ltclia ccenosa and eight poor 

 specimens of L. obsoleta. 



