183 Indian Museum Notes. [Vol- IV. 



From the cocoons, several moths emerged in the latter end of the 

 month. They appeared to be new to the Museum collection and were 

 forwarded to Sir G. F. Hampson who determined them as belong- 

 ing to the species Thosea divergens, Moore, = Ap/iendala divaricata* 

 Moore. 



As the Museum Library does not possess Mr. Moore's descrip- 

 tion of T. dtvergenSf it is not printed here, the description of 

 A. divaricata^ however, is quoted below. 



Aphendala divaricata, $ . Upper-side pale purplish, brownish- 

 ochreous, Forewing with a slender dark ochreous-brown band curv- 

 ing upward from posterior margin at one-third from the base to 

 one-third before the apex, and from which a straight erect similar 

 band extends from its costal end to the posterior angle. Body dark 

 ochreous-brown. Expanse if inch, 



//«<5.— Silcuri, Cachar. 



4. JSelippa loJior, Moore, 



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



Plate XIV, ^g. 4 — a, cocoon ; b and c, moths $ &" % . 



■Belippa lohor, Moore, Lep. E. I, Co., p. 430, pi. xiiia, fig. 3 ; Hamp. Faun. 

 Brit. Ind. Bur. Ceyl. Moths. I, p. 400. No, 897. 



In March 1897, Mr. W. J. Fleet forwarded to the Museum several 

 living specimens of a cocoon, with the statement that he had collected 

 them from the Salonah Tea Estate, Assam. About the same time 

 similar (live) cocoons were also sent to the Museum through Dr. G. 

 Watt, Reporter on Economic Products to the Government of India 

 as infesting tea plants in the Doom Dooma Tea Gardens, Dibrugarh 

 Assam. 



The samples of cocoons were separately confined in a breedino- 

 cage, from which, after a lapse of a week, moths began to emerge. 

 These on examination proved to belong to the genus Belippa j the 

 species being new to the Museum collection. 



On submitting specimens of the moth to Sir G. F, Hampson for 

 identification, he pronounced it to be identical with Belippa lohor, 

 Moore, the female being almost indistinguishable from that of 

 Belippa laUana, Moore, and hitherto unknown to entomologists. 



Mr. Moore describes the male, as deep ferruginous; fore-wino 

 with patches on the disc, and a small patch at the apex, black hind- 



