LIMACODIDJE. 133 



Larva limaciform, naked, pale green, convex above, -with an indistinct dorsal 

 and lateral rows of bluish-green dots and longitudinal lines, and a sublateral row of 

 white dots. Cocoon whitish, oval. 



" Feeds on Bauhinia, &c." (Dr. Thivaites.) 



Genus CANDYBA. 



Candyba, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. vii. p. 1760 (1856). 

 BelgorcBa, Walker, id. xxxii. p. 496 (1865). 



Allied to Narosa : forewing in both sexes longer. Venation similar, except that 

 the internal vein of forewing has only a short lower spur near the base. Body- 

 stouter; palpi porrect, stouter, and' conical at tip in both sexes; legs and tarsi 

 thickly pilose ; antenna thickly bipectinated to one-third length in male, simple in 

 female. 



CANDYBA PUNCTATA (Plate 132, Fig. 4, $). 



CandyJia punctata. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. vii. p. 1761 (1856); Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. 



E. L C. ii. p. 418 (1858-9). 

 Belgorcea subnotata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. p. 497 (1865). 



Pure white, shining. Both wings with two minute black subapical marginal 

 spots ; forewing with a black dot at lower end of the cell. Branches of antennae 

 pale ochreous. 



Expanse, ■^ 1, 2 If inch. 



Genus CHEROMETTIA. 



Male: forewing elongate, narrow; costa arched towards end, exterior margin 

 oblique ; cell long, narrow ; first subcostal emitted at one-third before end of the 

 cell, second and third from end of the cell, fifth from below third at one-third from 

 its base ; upper discocellular bent inward in the middle, lower very oblique and bent 

 near lower end ; a discoidal veinlet emitted within the cell from middle of discocellulars, 

 and upper radial from its upper angle, lower radial from angle of lower discocellular ; 

 lower median at nearly one-third, and middle median at one-sixth before end of the 

 cell; submedian arched; internal vein with a lower veinlet at one-third from its 

 base : hindwing short, triangularly oval ; cell extending to nearly half the wing ; 

 two subcostals on a footstalk at one-fifth beyond the cell ; discocellulars bent inward 

 in the middle, lower bent slightly outward, the radial from its angle, and a discoidal 

 veinlet emitted within the cell from the middle ; a submedian and two incernal veins. 

 Body stout ; thorax and abdomen crested above ; palpi porrect, squaraose, second 

 joint extending to front of the head, third joint small, conical ; antennae in male 

 closely bipectinated to one-third from the base and serrated to tip ; legs stout, very 



