£6 LEPIDOFTERA INDICA. 



lower medians, and two black spots within the submedian interspace, the inner spot 

 largest, the outer one more or less distinct, or formed by sparsely disposed black 

 speckles or sometimes obsolescent ; outer margin broadly black and traversed by 

 two ill-defined ochreous marginal lunular lines edged inwardly by a blue-speckled 

 line and outwardly at ends of the veins by blue-speckled spots, Hindwing with a 

 large irregular-shaped black patch from the middle of costa decreasing in width to 

 the radial veinlet, the discocellulars defined by two black-speckled lines ; outer 

 maro-in broadly black, and traversed by a prominent continuous series of blue 

 lunules, and two outer ochreous lines, the angled ends of the veins also blue-speckled ; 

 abdominal margin greyish-brown. Underside ochreous, densely covered with darker 

 brown and black slender strigse ; the basal half and outer margins almost black ; 

 sinuous cell marks and outer marginal lunules with dull dark bluish-grey centres ; 

 base of wings clothed with numerous long fine hairs, some of which on the forewing 

 project from front of the costa. Body and palpi above olivescent ochreous-brown, 

 beneath and legs pale ochreous-brown ; antenna black above and annulated with 

 white, beneath and tip reddish ochreous. 



Expanse, c? 2^% to 2i^o. ? ^1% to 3 inches. 



Lakva. — Cylindrical, slightly hairy. Head subquadrate, vertex sharply indented 

 in front, slightly hairy, front and cheeks with several small pointed tubercles. 

 Third to last segment armed with a dorsal row of short spines and three lateral rows 

 of long rigid branched-spines. Colour dark purpurescent-brown, almost black, 

 palest beneath ; with two dorsal slender yellowish macular lines and a single similar 

 lateral line, the subdorsal and sublateral area longitudinally speckled with numerous 

 irregular-shaped yellow dots. Spines black ; head black. Reared on willow. 

 (Described from preserved specimen, Coll. Hocking.) 



Habitat. — E.Europe; W.Himalayas; C.Asia; Corea; Japan. 

 DiSTEiBUTiox.— " In India this is a rare species, and appears to be confined to 

 the "Western Himalayas. In Simla and Kulu it appears on the wing in the early 

 summer for a very short period just after it has emerged from the pupa, it then 

 disappears till the following spring, when the eggs are laid and the early stages of 

 the insect rapidly passed through. Dr. T. C. Jerdon took a single specimen at 

 Goolmurg in Kashmir. I have taken it near Dalhousie. Mr. A. Graham Young 

 has bred it in Kulu on the ' Kukkurree ' Pistachia integerrima, the ' larva being 

 gregarious, under a loose web whilst feeding, when about to change to pupge they 

 desert the food-plant and disperse amongst low herbage ' " (de Niceville, Butt. Ind. ii. 

 235). " It is by no means a common insect, I have taken a few at Simla, again at 

 Kujeah, near Dalhousie, in May, and at Ulwas, near Pangi, a little later on " {id. 

 Indian Agriculturist, January, 1880). " It occurs at Goolmurg, Cashmere, in July 

 and August. It is taken in the Simla district, where, however, it is not common " 



