No. 1.] Miscellaneous Notes. 15 



The caterpillars that were received were put in a breeding cage 

 and duly supplied with plum leaves up to the 8th of July, when they 

 began to pupate, forming cocoons constructed partly of hair and 

 partly of a kind of silk-like brown thread. 



On the 1 8th instant moths commenced to emerge, which, however, 

 appeared to be unrepresented in the Indian Museum collection, 

 so specimens were submitted to Mr. F. Moore, who has kindly 

 examined them and identifies them as belonging to the species 

 Thiacidas posti'ca, Walk, (group Bombyces, Fam, Lymantriidse). 



The following is Mr. G. F. Hampson's description of the moth : 



Thiacidas postica, Wlk. Cat. V, p. 1028; Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885: 

 pi. 21, figs. I, la, 2 ; C. and S. No. 1060. 



Drymonia denotata, Wlk. Cat. XXXII, p. 414; C. &, S. No. 1165. 



Heterocampa nigroscripta, Wlk. Cat. XXXII, p^ 423. 



Cnethocampa curvata, Wlk. Cat. XXXII, p. 429, C. & S. 

 No. 1046. 



Cnethocampa basifurca, Wlk. Cat. XXXII, p. 430; C. & S. 

 No. 1044. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish brown. Fore wing greyish 

 fcrown, with obliquely curved subbasal and antemedial black double 

 lines angled below median nervure ; a double postmedial line 

 excurved round end of cell and bent inwards below the cell with 

 some streaks from it to outer margin. Hind wing with an indistinct 

 curved postmedial line ; a brown patch at anal angle with a dark 

 streak on it; some strigse on margin. 



Hab. — Throughout India and Burma. Exp., male 38, female 44 

 miUim. 



HYPSA ALCIPHRON, Cram. 



Plate IJ, Fig. 4, a moth, b chrysalid, c caterpillar. 



On the 28th June 1894 specimens of a Bombycid caterpillar 

 found defoliating " Dumar " tree {Ficus hispida, Linn.) were col- 

 lected by one of the Museum collectors and reared in the Indian 

 Museum. 



The caterpillars, when full fed, rolled themselves into leaves so as 

 to form a kind of protective covering in which they pupated on the 7th 

 July. Moths began to emerge on the i6th idem, which, on comparison 

 with the Museum collection of moths, proved to be identical with 

 Hypsa alciphron, Cram. 



