1884.] LEPIDOPTER\ FROM KURRACHEE. 515 



Var. THYTER, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 361. 



Examples of this variety were taken in the Hubb by me in 

 November 1879 ; and in the month following in company with the 

 above ; it is the common form in Beloochistan and Southern Afghani- 

 stan. I got many examples in the Bolan in June, at Quetta in May 

 and September, and one example at Kandahar in November 1880. 

 Types of all these varieties have been examined and identified by 

 Mr. A. G. Butler. 



LlPARID^. 



13. Artaxa pygm^a, Moore, Pub. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Atkinson 

 Col. p. 48; P.Z. S. 1883, p. 156. 



Kurrachee, February 1880, May, July 1879. Common. 



14. GoMENA suBNOTATA, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. 

 p. 502. 



Kurrachee, February 1880, August, November 1879. 



Lasiocampid^. 



15. Taragama ganesa, Lefebvre. 



Taragama ganesa, Lefebvre, Zool. Journ, iii. p. 211 (1827); 

 Moore, Cat. Col. E. I. M. ii. p. 427. 



Kurrachee, May and September (1879-80). 



Larva 3^ inches long, hairy, with down quite close to the skin ; 

 colour grey ; feeds on Acacia arabica. They are night-feeders, hiding 

 during the day in the crevices of the bark. Larval stage 50 to 56 

 days; pupal stage 21 to 24 days. Spins in a twig of any small 

 plant near foot of the food-tree, or on a neighbouring wall ; I have 

 found many cocoons, but never one on the food-tree. 



CossiD^. 



16. Brachylia acronyctoides, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 411, 

 pi. 34. f. 4. 



Kurrachee, May. 



NOTODONTID^. 



17. Thiacides postica, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het.B. M. v. p. 1028. 

 Kurrachee, May and September 1879. 



18. Phragmat^cia f^da, n. sp. (Plate XL VII. fig. 1.) 



Kurrachee, January and February. 



Colour ashy grey ; thorax and abdomen covered with long grey 

 hairs, the latter conical, extending far beyond the wings. Antennae 

 of the male moderately pectinated throughout, of the female simple. 

 Fore wings with a reddish testaceous band along the costa, extending 

 along the outer border and inner margin, making a complete circle 

 of the wing, and a band of the same colour from the base ex- 



