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Head and thorax brown tinged with purplish fuscous; pectus, legs and 

 abdomen pale ochreous, the fore legs tinged with fuscous. Forewing reddish 

 brown suffused with purplish fuscous ; an oblique rufous antemedial line with 

 ill-defined dark spot on its outer side in cell, and outwardly defined by blackish 

 towards inner margin ; a slight obliquely curved rufous postmedial line defined 

 by blackish on inner side ; a punctiform blackish subterminal line, slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved at discal and submedian folds ; cilia 

 dark-brown with slight whitish tips. Hindwing ochreous white, the veins and 

 terminal area tinged with brown. 



Habitat— Ceylon, Uva, 3500' (Alston). Exp. 22 mill. Type in B. M. 



1510. Eakias cheomatabia. 



Larva dark slate grey with dull white dorsal line obsolete towards head 

 and anal somite ; a sublateral whitish line from 1st to 5th and 10th to 12th 

 somites ; the 2nd to 11th somites with subdorsal transverse orange oblong 

 patches each bearing two black spots on their upper edge and one black spot 

 on their lower. Head and legs fiery. Food plant the rolled up young leaves 

 of Salix babylonica. 



Pupa in a close fitting cocoon with conical projection at anterior end where 

 it opens for moth to emerge, formed of brown cilia (Dudgeon). 



2211. a. Labanda vieidalis, Swinh., A. M. N. H. (7), xv., p. 156 (1905). 



Head and. thorax sap-green mixed with fuscous, tegulse with tufts of 

 ochreous white hair below ; pectus and legs brownish white, the apex with tufts 

 of ochreous hair, the tarsi fuscous banded with ochreous ; abdomen whitish 

 thickly irrorated with fuscous, greenish towards extremity, the dorsal crests 

 dark, of male very long and slender. Forewing sap-green irrorated with white 

 and a few black scales; the basal area, the middle of costal area, the postmedial 

 area to vein 4 and the apical part of costal area suffused with black ; subbasal 

 line waved, from costa to submedian fold, on a diffused green band ; an 

 oblique waved antemedial line with some white between it and the dark basal 

 area ; a prominent black discoidal lunule ; postmedial line minutely dentate, 

 oblique from costa to vein 4, then inwardly oblique and angled inwards in 

 submedian fold ; some white points on costa towards apex ; subterminal line 

 oblique from costa to termen below apex and defined by white above, a small 

 dentate black mark below vein 7 and larger mark below 6, then interrupted, 

 waved and angled inwards in submedian fold ; a terminal series of blackish 

 points ; cilia chequered fuscous and brownish. Hindwing dull brown. 



Habitat. — Assam, Khasis ; Malacca, Dinding I. Exp. 28-32 mill. 



2328. a. Tympanistes flavescens, Swinh., A. M. N. H.(7), xv., p. 158 (1905). 



$. Head and thorax ochreous tinged with olive brown ; abdomen pale red, 

 the ventral surface whitish. Forewing ochreous irrorated with pale red, the 

 costal area greenish irrorated with fuscous ; an ill-defined antemedial line 

 oblique from costa to median nervure when it is angled, terminating at sub- 

 median fold ; a discoidal point ; a dentate postmedial line, bent outwards below 

 costa, angled inwards in discal fold and incurved between veins 4 and 1 ; a 



