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Spilarctia lacteata. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 2.) 



Larva dull lilack, mottled with vclvet-hlack ; purplish between the segments : head orange- 

 chestnut ; spiracles transverse, ellipticalj crcaiu-wiiite; the second, third, and fourth segments 

 with two, and the remaining segments with four, dorsal warts arranged in the form of a tra- 

 ])eziam and bearing long black and short radiating white hairs, the anterior tubercles of the 

 third and fourth segments also with a very long central white hair; the posterior tubercles 

 of the eleventh, and ;ill the tubercles of the twelfth and thirteenth, segments with bright ferru- 

 ginous hairs ; two lateral series of tubercles bearing radiating \\ hite hairs ; [)rolegs aiul claspers 

 mahogany-red. Length of preserved larva 35-lo millim. 



Dharmsala; 20th April, 1878. 



No note as to the food-plant. The perfect insect was not in the collection ; it was 

 probably sent off for identification when reared. 



Thyrgorina dorsalis. (Plate CXXXVIIL fig. 4.) 



Larva with the dorsal region vinous brown varied with paler striie; a central longitudinal 

 interrupted cream-whitish stripe, the third and fourth segments with four, and the remaining 

 segments with two, shining purple dorsal tubercles bearing black hairs : head bright mahogany- 

 red, blackish in front ; sides cream-coloured, obliquely striated on each segment with purplish- 

 brown speckles; the second segment with a black subdorsal and a yellow tubercle; the third 

 and fourth with two, and the remaining segments with four, yellow tubercles bearing white 

 hairs; spiracles extremely small, white; ventral surface cream-coloured, the anterior segments 

 with a central blackish dot ; legs and claspers amber-yellow. Length of preserved larva 

 27 millim. 



Dharmsala ; " July 1884 ; on cberrv at G200 feet, gregarious." 



Seirarctia quadriramosa. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 1.) 



Larva smoky brown with a velvety-greyish sheen: head and legs shining pieeons; 

 spiracles small and black ; the segments encircled by eight black tubercles bearing numerous 

 shining mahogany-red spine-like radiating bristles. Length of preserved larva 57 millim. 



Dharmsala; 4th IMarch, 1878. 



Eajendra pannosa. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 8.) 



Larva dark brown: head shining blackish; lower half of eyes reddish; a well-defined 

 longitudinal dorsal stripe and a double lateral stripe cream-coloured ; a slender subdorsal 

 pale brown line ; each segment with three shining tubercles, bearing short radiating black 



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