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Artaxa scintillans. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 10.) 



Larva, anterior segments greyish brown, middle and [)osterior segments blackish flecked 

 w ith vellow : head shining blackish or bro« n, with the iiioiitli-|)arts yellow ; second segment 

 with the anterior half yellow, and with two large subdorsal scarlet tubercles bearing long grey 

 hairs and small carmine lateral tubercles bearing short white hairs ; a trapezoidal transverse 

 yellow dorsal patch on the fourth segment, traversed by a series of small subconflueut carmine 

 tubercles which extends downwards to a lateral yellow stripe which extends to the last segment, 

 and is regularly interrupted by conspicuous scarlet tubercles bearing white hairs ; the third 

 segment with grey-brown tubercles, the fifth and sixth segments woolly, prominent, brown, 

 with long hairs, and encircled by a yellow line; the dorsal tubercles on the remaining segments 

 much less prominent, blacker, and separated by a broad double longitudinal yellow band ; tlie 

 subdorsal tubercles on the tifth and following segments black edged with yellow, the first two 

 with one, and the succeeding series with two, white spots, which give them the appearance of 

 raised ocelli; below the lateral yellow stripe is a broad greyish band mottled with yellow and 

 interrupted behind the claspcrs by an oblong blackish spot on each segment ; ventral surface 

 occupied by an irregular yellow band spotted down the middle with grey ; anal segment banded 

 in front with yellow, encircled by a series of small carmine tubercles bearing grey hairs; legs 

 shining amber-yellowish. Length of preserved larva .30 millim. 



Dharmsala; 6200 feet, iu June : on wild barberry. 



Charnidas exclamationis. (Plate CXXXVIIL fig. G.) 



Larva blackish : head pale buff; two dorsal stripes of contiguous yellow and red spots 

 interrupted on each segment by a whity-browu spot or tubercle bearing long hairs, on the 

 Hfth to eighth segments these tubercles are very large, promincut, and woolly, and bear long 

 hairs ; those on the thirteenth segment are not prominent, but bear long tapering pencils of 

 hair; the tenth and eleventh segments bear a small central dorsal carmine tubercle; an 

 imperfect rose-pink stripe bearing tubercles of the same colour emitting pale brown hairs ; a 

 broad lateral rose-pink band, on and below which are small tubercles bearing white hairs ; 

 ventral surface yellow, streaked in front and at the sides with black; legs shining vermiliou- 

 red. Length of preserved larva 28 millim. 



Dharmsala ; March 187'J : food-plant unknown. 



Parorgyia dalbergiae. (Plate CXXXVIIL fig. 12.) 



Larva pale smoky brown : head shining chestnut-red, labrum yellow ; each segment 

 encircled by brown tubercles bearing long hairs; the second segment with six arranged in 

 the form of a triangle on each side, the anterior of the three tubercles bearing a long curved 



