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yellow lines ; sides green with yellow lines and a series of brown dots ; ventral, 

 surface semi-transparent yellow. In the young larva the red and yellow- 

 markings on back are absent. Food plants : Andromeda ovalifolia, Photima, 

 eugenifolia and Camellia caudata. 



Cocoon. — Oval, slight, dark red-brown. 



Pupa.— Short, rounded, light brown with paler rings on dorsum of abdomen,, 

 the shoulders shining (Badgley). 



836a. Natada fulvidorsia, n. sp. (Plate F.. f. 9). 



$. Head and thorax fulvous, vertex of head, patagia on outer edge and 

 at extremity with some black scales : abdomen fuscous brown ; pectus, legs, 

 and ventral surface of abdomen pale fulvous, Forewing fuscous brown, 

 slightly tinged in parts with grey ; a few fulvous scales below costa and on 

 medial area below r the cell. Hindwing fuscous brown : both wings with fine 

 pale line at base. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Maskeliya (de Mowbray). Exp. 26 mill. 



8366. Natada ftjlvimixta, n. sp. (Plate F., f. 21). 



£. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with pale fulvous ; antenna; 

 whitish : abdomen fuscous brown ; pectus, legs and ventral surface of abdomen 

 ochreous. Forewing dark brown slightly irrorated with greyish and faintly 

 tinged with fulvous in parts ; an oblique whitish line defined by black on inner 

 side from just below apex to inner margin beyond middle. Hindwing fuscous 

 brown ; both wings with fine pale line at base of cilia. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Paltipolla (Alston). Exp. 30 mill. 



847a. Tetraphleps ferreogrisea, n. sp. (Plate F., f. 10). 



$. Head, thorax and abdomen iron-grey mixed with black-brown espe- 

 cially at tips of tegulpe and patagia. Forewing iron-grey irrorated with black- 

 brown ; an oblique black subbasal line, arising below costa and bent outwards 

 to inner margin, emitting a streak below the cell to the oblique sinuous black 

 antcmedial line ; a black discoidal lunule : a brown shade from below end. 

 )f cell to tornus ; an incurved black line from costa towards apex to termen 

 at vein 2, and a black shade on terminal area from just below apex to vein 4 :: 

 cilia chequered grey and black- brown. Hindwing grey suffused with broWn. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Mankulam (Mackwood). Exp. 24 mill. Type in B. M. 



853a. Miresa thermistis, n. sp. 



Forewing with vein 10 from well before end of cell. 



Head and thorax bright rufous, the vertex of head and tegulas yellowish : 

 pectus and legs with some yellowish hair ; abdomen deep rufous with seme 

 yellowish hair at base and on ventral surface. Forewing bright rufous, "bhe 

 interspaces of discal area thinly scaled ; a diffused brownish patch beyond end 

 of cell and a faint curved postmedial line. Hindwing rufous tinged with 

 brown. 



Habiiat.—A^AU, Khasis (Badgley). E.rp. 24 mill. Type in B.M. 



Larva. — Slug-like with short stinging hairs ■ head retractile, usually con- 

 cealed under collar when feeding, the hairs from small prominences : gregari- 



