l8i Indian Museum Notes. [Vol. IV. 



Female. — Abdomen and fore wings with a very slight testaceous 

 tinge. Length of the body 5-7I lines ; of the wings 12-18 lines. 



Hab. — Nepaul, Hong Kong, India. 



Euproctis postica, Wlk. $. White. Palpi porrect, smooth, hardly 

 extending beyond the head; third joint conical, not more than one- 

 fourth of the length of the second. Antennae very broadly pecti- 

 nated. Abdomen brown above ; apical tuft, small, white. Legs pubes- 

 cent ; hind tibiae with four long slender spurs. Wings rather short. 

 Fore-wings rounded at the tipes ; exterior border convex, very 

 slightly oblique. Length of the body 6^ lines ; of the wings 14 

 lines. 



Hab, — Hindostan. 



Euproctis abdominalis, Moore, $ and $ . Cream-white ; abdo- 

 men blackish ; anal tuft ochreous ; legs white. 



Expanse, <J iyV> ? ^A ^"ch. 



Hab. — Dharmsala. 



Allied to E. postica. Wings comparatively longer and narrower. 



2. Thosea cervina, 'Moove. 



(Sub-ord. Heterocera, Fam. Limacodidse.) 



Plate XIV, /fg. 2 — a and b, larva dorsal and side views ; c, cocoon 

 d and e, moths $ & ^ . 



Thosea cervina, Moore An. Mag. Nat. His, XX. 1877, p. 348; id. Lep. Ceyl. 

 II, pi, 129, figs. 2, 2a (larva) ; C. and S. No. 1275 

 Hamp, Fauna B. Ind. Ceyt. and Burm. Moths, Vol. 1 

 p. 379, No. 832. 

 „ duphxa, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. II, p. 130, pi. 131, fig. 3 ? ; C. and S. 

 No. 1276. 

 In July 1894 '^ were received from Messrs. Finlay, Muir & Co. 

 specimens of live cocoons, the caterpillars of which were reported to 

 have done a good deal of damage to tea plants on the Rungamuttee 

 garden in Jalpaiguri. 



From the cocoons, two moths, a male and female, were success- 

 fully reared in the Museum ; these, however, proved to be unrepre- 

 sented in the Museum Collection, but they were so far identified as 



^ The account of this pest should have appeared in the preceding number of 

 Indian Museum Notes, but owing to the delay in ascertaining the identity of the species 

 it was withheld. —Ed. 



