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commercially important, and Government is solicited to institute 

 experiments regarding its productive powers. (Vide Madras Journal, 

 March, 1857, p. 268.) 



Remark. — After examination of typical specimens of B. Huttoni, 

 and comparing them with the descriptions of Dr. Heifer's B. religiosa, 

 I am inclined to believe that they are one and the same species. 



911. BOMBYX HORSFIELDI, Moore {Plate XIa,fiff. 5). 



Bonibyx Horsfieldi, n. $p.^-Female,,brownish-grey ; fore-wing with 

 two transverse slightly-curved brown bands, — the first one-third from 

 the base, the other one-third from the apex, the latter having undu- 

 lated margins ; between the two bands is a grey-centred brown discal 

 spot, a brown streak immediately below the apex, its inner margin 

 pale : Mnd-wing pale ferruginous at the base, a narrow curved sub- 

 marginal pale line, the veins also pale ; abdominal margin with two 

 blackish-brown spots, — one being near its base, the other about its 

 middle. Expanse 2f in. 



a. ? . Java. From Dr. Horsfield's Collection. 



Genus OCINARA, Walker. 

 Ocinaea, Walker, List Lep. Set. Brit. Mus. pt. VII. p. 1768 (1856). 



912. OCINARA DILECTULA, Walker. 



$ Ocinara dilectula, Walker, List Lep. Set. Brit. Mus. 

 pt. VII. p. 17 Q% (1856). 



a.b.c.d. $ ? . Java. From Dr. Horsfieldi Col- 

 lection. 



The larva and cocoon of Ocinara dilectula are figured on Plate 

 XVIII., figs. 6, 6«, from Java. " Feeds on a species of Mcus, bearing 

 the native name of Weringin. April. Not very abundant." — 

 (Horsfield, MS.) 



913. OCINARA LIDA, Moore. 



Ocinara Lida, n. sp. — Male, whitish, wings semi-hyaline ; fore-wing 

 with a transverse blackish undulated line one-fourth from the apex, 

 the upper portion being dotted with black, its inner margin having 

 a suffused band of very pale greenish-brown, which colour is also 

 suffused below the apex ; some indistinct transverse sub-basal zigzag 



