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penultimate motilt is purplish-brown, marked with greenish-yellow 

 laterally, and there are two blunt spiny prooesses behind the head ; these 

 are lost in the last moult, when the upper part of the first somite 

 becomes scutellate, and a lateral white ocellus appears on the eighth 

 somite. Before pupating the bright green colour, which the larva has 

 adopted, becomes suffused with crimson from the legs gradually upwards* 

 The cocoon is formed of comminuted fragments of bark cemented 

 together, forming a hard shell. 



Genus Damata, Wlk. 



278. D t longipennis, Wlk. 

 Sikhim, 7,000 to 9,000 feet. This is apparently a common species 

 at light in Darjeeling in July. I have it only from 9,000 feet. 



Genus Metaschalis, Hmpsn. 



281. M. disrupta, Moore. 

 Sikhim. I have not seen this species. (I have only one specimen 

 from Sikhim where it is rare. — H. J. E.) 



Genus Pheosia, Hiibn. 

 283. P. fasciata, Moore. 

 Sikhim. I have never seen a specimen. (Bred from pupse found 

 under cakes of mud at a low elevation by Knyvett. — H. J. E.) 

 284. P. pulcherrima, Moore. 

 Sikhim, 7,000 feet. The only specimen I have seen was taken by 

 Dr. Pilcher at light in Darjeeling. (I took a female of this at 

 Darjeeling at light in July. — El. J. E.) 



285. P. excurvata^ Hmpsn. 

 Sikhim. I do not know this species, the type of which is in 

 Mr. Knyvett's collection. 



287. P. strigata, Moore. 

 Sikhim, 3,000 feet. My only specimen was bred from a larva found 

 at Badamtam. The larva was green with the anterior somites slightly 

 marked with purplish dorsally, the three terminal somites broad, 

 flattened and oval, having the appearance of a leaf when seen from 

 behind, terminating in two short points. Last pair of prolegs wanting. 

 The pupa is formed in a cocoon similar to that of C. liturata^ Wlk., 

 and is dull blackish with a sharp process on the front of the head. My 

 specimen is in the British Museum, 



