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costa, where there is an obscure brownish spot on it, then minutely 

 dentate and slightly detined by white scales, the area between it 

 and the slightly waveil subterminal line browner. Hind wing dark 

 brown, paler towards base ; cilia greyish. 

 1 $ ; February. Exp. 22 mm. 



30. Tarache olivacea, Hmpsn. : 111. Het. B.M., viii, p. 63, 

 pi. H2, fig. 9. 



1 (J ; February. 



Distn'b. — Shanghai, Naga Hills, Nilgiris ; a closely allied species 

 in Abyssinia. 



31. Earias chromataria, "Wlk., xxvii, 204. 



I 5. Fore wing with the dark terminal band very broad ; hind 

 wing tinged with fuscous. 



Distn'b. — Africa, Japan, India, Ceylon, Burma, Andamans, 

 Suia, Java. 



Family LYMANTRIAD^. 



32. Porthesia pulverea, sp.n. (PI. IX, Fig. 9.) 



(J. "White; head and thorax strongly or slightly tinged with 

 yellow brown ; antennae with the branches brownish ; abdomen 

 with the anal tuft orange. Fore wing strongly or slightly irro rated 

 with large yellow-brown scales ; more or less prominent brown 

 medial and postmedial lines excurved from costa to median 

 nervure. Hind wing white, the termen and cilia, often tinged 

 with brown. 



9- The anal tuft pale yellow or brownish ; fore wing much 

 less irrorated with brown, the lines hardly traceable, or quite 

 obsolete. 



•JO (J, 8 9 ; December-March. Allied to P. irrorafa, Moore, 

 from Java. 



33. Orgyia postica, "\Ylk., iv, 803, 



1 (^ ; Janxiary. 



Distrih. — Formosa, India, Ceylon, Biu'ma, Borneo, Java, New 

 Guinea, Queensland. 



Family SPHINGID^. 



CHiEROCAMPIN^. 



34. Cligerocampa erotus. Cram. : Pap. Exot., ii, pi. 104 b. 



10 (5", 4 9 ; July-Januaiy. 



Diatrih. — Andamans, Queensland, Solomons, Tonga. 



