122 ARCTUD.E.— L1PAE1D.E. 



bristles, upon tlie dark brown subdorsal area, and tluee lateral reddisb tubercles bearing 

 white hairs and forming a zigzag series with the subdorsal tubercles ; ventral surface cream- 

 coloured; legs pale shining chestnut-red. Length of preserved larva 29 niillim. 

 Dharmsala; 13th November, 1878. 



Hypercompa principalis. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 3.) 



Larva black : head shining, base of antcniue and mouth-parts wliitish ; tubercles and 

 bristles upon them similar to those of the preceding species ; a narrow orange and yellow 

 dorsal stripe, whitish between the segments; a mottled white lateral stripe, and below it au 

 irregular whitish band composed of partly confluent transverse striie ; legs shining amber- 

 yellowish. Length of preserved larva 52 millim. 



Dharmsala; March Gth : on plantain. 



L1PAHID.E. 



Chcerotricha vitellina. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 13.) 



Larva dull black : head shining, piccous at the back ; an imperfect dorsal series of white 

 dots and a few scattered white lateral dots ; each segment encircled by eijilit woolly foxy-red 

 tubercles emitting whitish hairs ; tubercles small and inconspicuous, as on the two [)receding 

 species; legs dull shining amber-yellowish. Length of preserved larva 37-17 niillini. 



Dharmsala, 4000-7000 feet ; on Lotus coniirnlatus. 



Chcerotricha plana. (Plate CXXXVIII. lig. 5.) 



Larva (lull black, covered with irregular velhjwish edged red strise : head bright shining 

 red ; each segment encircled l)y eigiit red tubercles, but those of the four dorsal series almost 

 concealed by testaceous wool, and emitting short woolly whitish hairs; those of the lateral 

 s( ries dotted with small oval pearl-white processes and emitting white hairs; the dorsal series 

 on the second, tliird, and fourth segments less woolly and dotted with white processes similar 

 to those of the lateral series; the two central series elongated on the fifth, si.\th, and tweit'tii 

 segments; spiracles inconspicuous; legs shining red. Length of preserved larva 4G-(50 

 miiliin. 



Kangra valley ; May, lOOO feet. 



'I'he niotli is said to have been fouiui about the base of the "I'apul tree" (Fiats rclii/iosa) 

 in June. 



