83 



THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 



SUPPLEMENTARY PAPER TO THE VOLUMES IN 



"THE FAUNA OF BRITISH INDIA." 



SERIES IV, PART I. 



By 



Sir G-eorge F. Hampson, Bart., p.z.s., f.e.s. 



( With Plates F. and G.) 



BOMBYCID^. 



The genera Bombyx and Mustilia have the frenulum aborted and 

 minute, the other genera have it fully developed. 



41. Gunda Sikkima insert, No. 43, Bombyx lugubris which has precedence. 



45a. Mustilia PHiEOPERA, n. sp. (Plate F., f. 1), 



Head, thorax and abdomen rufous, the shaft of antennae and a band 

 between their basis white. Forewing rufous with a greyish tinge, the apical 

 area from middle of costa to termen at vein 3 chocolate brown tinged with 

 grey towards costa ; antemedial line brown, excurved below costa and oblique 

 below submedian fold ; a rather diffused medial line excurved in cell and below 

 submedian fold ; postmedial line excurved below costa, then waved, incurved 

 to vein 2, then excurved; cilia pale yellow. Hindwing pale greyish rufous, the 

 terminal area broadly chocolate brown from vein 6 to tornus ; two oblique 

 minutely waved lines from middle of costa to tornus ; cilia pale yellow ; the 

 underside greyish with the costal area suffused with rufous ; two obliquely 

 curved postmedial brown lines. 



Habitat— Assam, Khasis (Badgley). Exp. #54, 970 mill. Type in B. M. 



Larva. — Draws in its head when alarmed nearly to a level with its 

 shoulders, its body wide and flattened at the shoulders, narrowing and cylindri- 

 cal at extremity, the anterior segments protrusible ; a horn on anal segment ; 

 16 feet, naked, leathery brown, darker on dorsum with a dark olive spade- 

 shaped patch towards extremity ; lateral patches of yellow, the whole body 

 dotted with green ; five small grey patches dotted with black on back, two 

 yellow lines on the neck and two yellow spots on the spade-shaped patch ; 

 the ventral surface with a yellow patch on each segment, legs pink ; prolegs 

 with bright yellow dot on outer side. Food plant : Camellia caudatu. 



Cocoon.— Strong, silky, dull brown, pointed at one end and truncate at the 

 other (Badgley). 



47a. Andraca albilunata, n. sp. (Plate F., f. 2). 



Forewing with the termen strongly excised below apex, angled outwards at 

 vein 4, then strongly crenulate ; hindwing with the termen slightly excised 

 below apex and strongly crenulate from vein 4 to tornus, the inner margin 

 not excised, 



Head, thorax and abdomen dark red-brown mixed with grey, the tarsi with the 



