120 ARCTIID^. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF LARV.E. 



The following larvte have been selected for illustration, from the large series preserved by 

 Mr. Hocking, cLiefly on account of tlieir not having been previously figured. 



ARCTIID^. 



Alpenus multiguttatus. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 9.) 



Larva green : head dull orange, mouth-parts bordered with black ; each segment with a 

 greyish dorsal patch heavily mottled with black, divided by a central longitudinal green line 

 and widely interrupted by a transverse oblong shield covered with reddish-orange woolly tufts 

 emitting stiff divergent black hairs ; the third and fourth segments with a subdorsal longi- 

 tudinal black dash, forming part of the subdorsal stripe, which is otherwise pale yellow, and 

 encloses a series of small reddish warts emitting three or four black hairs : spiracles small, 

 transverse oval, pale yellow edged with black ; one or two small orange warts emitting black 

 and white hairs either in front or behind each spiracle; subspiracular stripe pale yellow; a 

 ventral series of pale orange warts, bearing numerous silky white hairs, just above the legs; 

 legs tipped with shining reddish brown. Length of preserved larva 42 millim. 



" Dharmsala, 7000 feet. Food-plant unknown." 



Aiidala unifascia. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 11.) 



Larva deep purplish brown, paler between the segments : head shining black, the face 

 and mouth-parts mahogany-reddish; a cream-coloured longitudinal dorsal line running from 

 betweeu the eyes to near the middle of the third segment, the back part of it almost divided 

 into three spots ; from this point to the front of the eleventh segment it is represented by two 

 unequal cream-coloured spots, the larger one at the back and the smaller at the front of each 

 segment ; a similar scries of spots along each side ; spiracles very small, blackish edged with 

 yellowish ; every segment encircled by a zigzag series of nine to twelve small black tubercles 

 bearing tufts of stiff radiating dirty-white hairs; prolegs and claspcrs mahogany-brown. 

 Length of preserved larva 35-39 millim. 



Kaiigra district; 12th May, 1879. 



No note as to the food-plant accompanies the larvae, and therefore it would appear to 

 have been unknown to Mr. Hocking. 



