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scales, the antemedial and medial lines incurved to costa, the postmedial line 

 double, the outer line without silver scales, oblique from costa to vein 6 and 

 slightly incurved at discal and submedian fold ; subterminal line with more 

 prominent silver striae on it, defined by fiery red on inner side incurved to 

 costa and produced to minute dark streaks on the veins ; a series of fine black 

 lunules just before termen and a fine waved terminal line ; cilia purplish red. 

 Hindwing orange irrorated with red-brown ; the antemedial and postmedial 

 lines irrorated with silver scales, arising from below costa, the former oblique- 

 ly curved, the latter double, waved, the outer line without silver scales ; sub- 

 terminal line with more prominent silver ;spots, defined by fiery red on inner' 

 side and produced to short streaks on the veins on outer ; a series of fine black 

 lunules just before termen and a fine waved terminal line. Underside yellow, 

 the forewing except inner area and the costal and terminal areas of hindwing 

 suffused with red. 



Habitat. — Assam, Khasis ; Singapore. Exp. 32 mill. 

 2421. Polydesma vetusta belongs to Homoptera, Sect III. 

 2432. Polydesma bipormis. 



Larva 1*3" — 1*5". Head glabrous, red ; body black irrorated with white and 

 covered with grey hair ; a very broad dorsal white stripe interrupted at 5th,. 

 7th, 11th and 12th somites by thick tufts of buff-colored hair ; a series of red 

 lateral tubercles with a narrow white stripe below them with fine crenulate red 

 line on its upper edge ; prolegs all present, reddish ; when mature the buff 

 hairs beco'me black and there are grey lines on the dorsal stripe. Forms a 

 cocoon among leaves (W. H. Campbell). 

 2432. a. Polydesma prasina, Swinh., A.M.N. H. (7)., xii, p. 99(1903). 

 $ . Head and thorax bright apple-green mixed with a few brown scales ; 

 antennae brown with pale ridges of scale above ; palpi brown ; the extremities 

 of 2nd and 3rd joints pale ; pectus and legs pale and brown, fore femora and 

 tibiae with tufts of green hair, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous 

 white irrorated with brown, the dorsal crests green, the anal tuft fulvous. 

 Forewing bright apple green ; an irregular triangular brown subbasal patch on 

 costa extending to submedian fold ; a rather indistinct waved antemedial line 

 angled inwards on median nervure ; orbicular a small round whitish spot ; 

 reniform indistinctly defined by white ; an irregular triangular brown patch on 

 middle of costa ; an irregularly waved postmedial line with a diffused waved 

 band of brown scaling before it from vein 5 to inner margin ; a minutely 

 waved subterminal line, incurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique and angled 

 inwards on veins 2 and I, a large patch of diffused dark scaling beyond it on 

 apical area, some subterminal marks and a small patch in submedian fold ; a 

 waved terminal line ; cilia brown mixed with green. Bindwing fuscous, the 

 inner area paler, a subterminal and serios of slight white mark cilia ochreous 

 white with a dark line through them ; the underside pale suffused and irrorated 

 with fuscous, a slight discoidal lunule and diffused postmedial and subterminal 

 bands. 



