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Habitat. — Sikhim. Exp. 40 mill. 



1036a. Lymantria postfusca, Swinh.,A. M.N.H. (7), XVII, p. 546 (1906). 



g. Head and thorax white ; palpi and antennas black ; tegulae and patagia 

 edged with black ; pectus yellow and black ; legs black with some white spots, 

 abdomen yellow with dorsal and sublateral series of black spots, the anal tuft 

 black. Forewing white with subbasal black band from costa to submedian 

 fold, angle outwards in cell, a point beyond it above vein 1 and oblique striga 

 above inner margin ; a waved antemedial line expanding into a spot on costa, 

 excurved at median nervure, then incurved ; a small spot in middle of cell and 

 discoidal spot ; two dentate postmedial lines, bent outwards below costa, in- 

 curved at discal fold and below vein 5 ; a dentate subterminal line ; a terminal 

 series of black lunules. Hindwing whitish suffused with fuscous, leaving a 

 whitish postmedial patch between veins 4 and 2 and a streak in submedian 

 fold ; a lunulate white terminal band from below apex to vein 2 with black 

 points on termen. 



9. Forewing with the subbasal marks above and below vein 2 absent, the 

 antemedial and two postmedial lines conjoined by two streaks below cell and 

 a patch on inner margin. Hindwing whitish, the basal area tinged with yellow ; 

 a broad terminal blackish band with sinuous inner edge and some white spots 

 on termen. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Kandy. Exp. $ 48, 9 64 m:M. 



1098a. Ecproctis xanthoceps, n. sp. (Plate F.,f. 31). 



$. Head and legs pale yellow ; antennas whitish with rufous branches ; 

 thorax and abdomen red- brown with a greyish tinge. Forewing uniform red- 

 brown, the cilia pale at tips. Hindwing fuscous brown, the cilia pale at tips. 

 Underside of forewing with the costa yellowish. 



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



1105«. EuPROCTIS DIPLAGA, U. sp. 



$. Head, thorax and abdomen chocolate brown mixed with yellowish ; 

 the pectus, legs and ventral surface of abdomen yellow. Forewing yellowish, 

 almost wholly suffused with chocolate brown ; a large quadrate antemedial 

 deep chocolate patch defined by yellowish white from cell to vein 1 and follow- 

 ed by the curved brown antemedial line ; a brown postmedial line excurved 

 from costa to vein 6, then dentate and oblique to submedian fold ; an elliptical 

 deep chocolate patch from vein 7 to below vein 6 before the subterminal line 

 which is whitish and excurved round its outer edge, then indistinct, brown, 

 waved, oblique ; a slight yellowish terminal line with small brown spots before ■ 

 it from apex to vein 4. Hindwing dark chocolate brown with the base and 

 costa to beyond middle orange-yellow ; cilia yellow at tips ; the underside 

 orange-yellow with the terminal area suffused with chocolate brown. 



Habitat.— Assam, Khasis (Badgley). Exp. 24 mill. Type in B. M. 



Eggs. — Spheroidal ; smooth, shining pale dull green ; laid in lines with dark 

 dull greenish-grey hair. 



Larva. — Solitary ; cylindrical ; pubescent with a few long grey hairs ; black 

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