TEE MOTES OF INDIA. 109' 



medial area bright green ; the terminal area pale chocolate brown with darker 

 curved line on its inner edge, slightly incurved in submedian interspace 

 Hindwing pale chocolate brown. 



Eabitat.— Ceylox, Ohiya (de Mowbray). Exp. 28 mill. Type in B. M. 



G-enus. Epipyeops. 



Epipyrops, Westw., Proc. and Trans. Ent. Soc., 1876, pp. xxiv Type 

 and 522 anamola. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi extremely minute ; frons smooth ; eyes large 

 antennae bipectinate with long branches in both sexes ; tibiae without spurs. 

 Forewing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly 

 curved ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4'5 from angle ; 6"7*8-9-10-ll from 

 cell. Hindwing with vein 3 from before angle of cell, 5 from above angle : 

 6 from below upper angle. 



The larvte and pupae are covered with masses of floculent white waxy 

 secretion. 



873a. Epipyrops poliogeapha, n. sp. (PI. F. ; f. 12). 



$. Head, thorax and abdomen very dark olive brown mixed with grey. 

 Forewing very dark olive brown thickly and evenly reticulated with indistinct 

 silvery grey markings. 



Hindwing uniform very dark olive brown. 



Eabitat. — Ceylon, Maukulam (Mackwood), Yatiyantota (Green). Exp. 16-26 

 mill. Type in B. M. 



879a. Ceeatoxema pusca, Swinh., A M. N. H (7), XV., p. 498 (1905). 



Head rufous suffused with fuscous ; thorax and abdomen ochreous tinged 

 with rufous. P'orewing rufous, the costal half suffused with purplish fuscous 

 to the postmedial line ; the terminal area pale ochreous tinged with rufous and 

 irrorated with large fuscous scales ; the postmedial line diffused incurved at 

 discal fold and more strongly at submedian ; cilia pale at base, dark at tips. 

 Hindwing pale ochreous. 



Eabitat. — Sikhim ; Assam, Khasis. Exp. $ 22, $ 26 mill. 



8805. Ceeatoxema caustiplaga, n. sp. 



$ . Head and thorax deep chestnut-red glossed with silvery scales : 

 abdomen pale red-brown. Forewing chestnut- brown suffused with purplisl. 

 silvery scales ; a bright chestnut-red patch between veins 5 and 2 with an 

 oblique band from its inner edge to inner margin ; a chestnut-red apical patch 

 Hindwing red-brown, the cilia greyer with a brown line near base. 



Eabitat.— Assam, Khasis (Badgley). Exp. 28-34 mill. Type in B.M. 



Larva. — With long spines bearing stinging hairs ; pale yellow green with 

 diagonal yellowish marks at sides ; a blue-edged white dorsal line with an 

 orange-red band on each side of it ; the anterior spines and the spines or 

 shoulders and tail pink, with two black dots between the pair on shoulders :. 

 hairs on spines black with yellow tips or yellow with black tips. Food plants : 

 Andromeda ovalifolia .Euryja japonica^ Viburnum punctatum and Simlax ovalifolia 



