66 PSTCHID^. 



Monda rhabdophora *. (Plate CLIX. fig. 22 & Plate CLXXVI. fig. 10.) 



Expanse J 4 inch. 



Male. Antennae bipectinated, with long plumose branches decreasing in length distally. 

 Head, thorax, and abdomen slender and black. Fore leg with a long tibial spine. Wings 

 long and narrow. Fore wing with the two internal veins not anastomosing; the lower 

 sending a spur to the inner margin ; the cell short ; the upper radial present ; the second, 

 third, fourth, and fifth subcostals stalked together, covered with black hair-like scales, the base 

 whitish. Hind wing pure white, with the lower subcostal absent ; the cell short. Veinlets 

 in the cell of both wings single. 



Female. Whitish, with brown dorsal plates on the thoracic segments ; no trace of limbs 

 and the mouth-parts rudimentary, though on the pupal skin the appendages of the head and 

 thoracic segments arc indicated. 



Larva pale yellowish white ; the thoracic somites guarded by horny plates with brown 

 blotches. Feeds on tea and cinchona. The male larva- and pupa-cases are suspended by a 

 silken cord from the food-plant when the insect is not feeding; the female case is attached 

 directly to the leaf, the posterior extremity of the larva-case (the anterior of the pupa-case) 

 tapering to a three-valved point. 



The cases built by the males are of rougher material than those of the female. 



This species is local but abundant in some parts ; on an estate near Nawala-pittia the 

 tea-bushes were covered with the cases and the leaves completely riddled by the larvse. 



Babula griseata f. (Plate CLIX. fig. 13.) 



Expanse ^ 1 inch. 



Male. Antennse with the branches decreasing in length distally. Head, thorax, and 

 abdomen dark brown and slender. Fore wing dark brown, with a large blue-grey patch 

 beyond the lower extremity of the cell diffused towards the outer angle ; the two internal 

 veins anastomosing, the lower sending a branch to inner margin ; the upper radial present ; 

 the third and fourth subcostals stalked. Hind wing blue-grey, irrorated with dark brown 

 scales ; the margins brown, widest at apex; the lower subcostal absent; a liar between the 

 costal and subcostal nervures ; veinlct in cell single. Underside brown, paler towards inner 

 margin. Fore leg with no tibial spine. 



Babula fuscaf. (Plate CLIX. fig. If. & Plate CLXXVI. fig. 10.) 

 Expanse ^ ]-i inch. 



Male. Uniform dark smoky brown ; structure as in (jriseata. 

 Larva-case rather short, quadrangular, and formed of short transverse pieces of stick. 



* This should ))e placed in Amicta, Heyl. 



t Those three species should be placed in Ilajlaertsia, Hmpsn. 



