1888.] FROM THE HIMALAYAS. 397 



thirds the margin ; subcostal five-branched, first and second branches 

 arising before end of the cell, third trifurcate beyond the cell ; disco- 

 cellulars inwardly-oblique ; cell shortest hindward ; radial starting 

 from middle of discocellulars ; two discoidal veinlets emitted from 

 lower discocellular, coalescing in the middle and extending to base of 

 the cell ; median vein four-branched, the two upper branches on a 

 footstalk beyond end of the cell, lower branches wide apart ; sub- 

 median vein with an inner branch to the base, from below which 

 starts a short, outwardly-oblique spur. Hind wing bluntly ovate ; 

 exterior margin slightly convex ; subcostal vein two-branched, first 

 branch before end of the cell ; cell short and broad ; discocellulars 

 angled in the middle ; radial from their angle ; two discoidal veinlets 

 within the cell, as in fore wing ; median vein four-branched, the two 

 upper branches from end of the cell ; a submedian and two internal 

 veins. Body small ; abdomen short, slender ; antennae bipectinate, 

 finely plumose ; legs nearly naked, fore tibiae with a long parallel 

 spur. 



Dasaratha himalayana, n, sp. 



"Wings sparsely clothed with short fuliginous- brown delicate hairy 

 scales : body fuliginous-brown ; thorax blackish above ; antennae 

 brown ; legs yellow. 



Expanse JL. inch. 



Hub. Dharmsala. In coll. British Museum. 



" A case-bearing larva ; on oak (Q. alba), May, 6200 feet. Moth 

 emerged June 16." {Hocking.) 



Mahasena hockingii, n. sp. 



Male. "W^ings dark fuliginous-brown ; hind wing blackish pos- 

 teriorly ; thorax fuliginous-black in front, the lower part slightly 

 ochreous-brown ; abdomen and anal tuft clothed with longish 

 laterally -divergent black hairs. Fore wing beneath ochreous-grey 

 broadly along posterior border. Antennae fuliginous-brown, shait 

 ochreous ; femora and tibiae clothed with brown hairs. 



Expanse ly^^ inch. 



Hab. Dharmsala. In coU. British Museum. 



" July, 4000 feet. On Toon tree ( Credela toona). When the larva 

 changed, the pupa had the power of moving up and down the silky 

 passage in which it had lived. When the moth was coming out, it 

 projected the tail-end of the pupa and let itself down by a silken 

 thread, in the chrijsalisy from which it then emerged and to which 

 it clung with two pairs of legs until the wings expanded and dried, 

 whilst the first pair of legs held on to the silken thread by which it 

 hung from the leafy case." {Hocking.) 



Fam. LiPARiD^. 



Lachana, n. g. 



Male. Fore wing elongate, narrow ; costal vein extending two 

 thirds the margin ; first subcostal emitted at one half and second at 

 one fifth before end of the cell, second trifurcate ; third starting at a 



