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g. Uniform fuscous brown, the tarsi whitish. 



Habitat.— Sikhim. Exp. 30-34 mill. 



Larva. — Food plant : Tea, the larva-case formed of fragments and whole 

 leaves attached to a rather soft case. 



645 a. Mahasena poliotricha, n. sp. 



Forewing with veins 4'5 from angle of cell. 



g. Head and thorax clothed with long silky whitish grey hair mixed with 

 some fuscous ; abdomen fuscous, the ventral surface whitish grey ; wings 

 greyish fuscous, the cilia white. 



Habitat. — Punjab, Kangra Valley, 4,500' (Dudgeon). Exp. 34 mill. Type 

 in B.M. 



Larva.— Case formed by short pieces of the stems of grasses arranged in a 

 whorl with three or four twists. It has a Hymenopterous parasite of the 

 gi a us Chalcis. 



Arbelid/E. 



675 b. Arbela Campbelli, n. sp. (PL F., f. 7). 



£. Head, thorax and abdomen dark brown mixed with grey : antennse 

 with the branches rufous. Forewing grey thickly irrorated and striated with 

 dark brown, the veins and submedian fold streaked with white ; some white at 

 base of inner margin ; antemedial line formed of white stripe, from subcostal 

 nervure to inner margin ; two white discoidal strise and a striga below extremity 

 of cell ; postmedial stria? between veins 6 and 3, and vein 2 and inner margin ; 

 a curved subterminal series of strise placed somewhat in echelon : terminal 

 oblique stria? from just above vein 3 to tornus ; cilia white, tinged with brown 

 at base and with dark line at middle. Hindwing white suffused and irrorated 

 with brown ; cilia brownish at base, white at tips ; the underside white 

 striated with brown forming ill-defined lines, a terminal series of small brown 

 spots. 



Habitat. — Madras, Horsleyhonda (Campbell). Exp. 36 mill. 



The larva tunnels in the stem of Oclma squarrosa (W. H. Campbell). 



676 b. Arbela theivora, n. sp. (PI. G-.. f. 1). 



$ . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; abdomen fuscous mixed 

 with grey, the basal crest blackish ; pectus, legs and ventral surface of abdomen 

 whiter. Forewing dark brown slightly irrorated with grey ; the costal area . 

 cell and vein 1 tinged with rufous ; a faint blackish discoidal spot ; the 

 terminal area with faint dark striations. Hindwing fuscous brown slightly 

 irrorated with grey, the cilia whitish at tips. 



9. Much greyer ; forewing with numerous dark reticulate striations. 



Habitat. — Assam, Sylhet, G-azipur (Antram). Exp. $ 18,9 22 mill. Type 

 in JB. M. 



Larva. — Bores in the bark of Tea and the smaller branches of the Mango, 

 feeding under a web. 



676 c. Arbela minima, n. sp. (PI. F., f. 24). 

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