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1. Trypanophora semihyalina, Kollar. Family Zygsenidse. PI. x, 

 figs. 40 and \b, larvae at two stages x 4 ; \c, cocoon with the 

 anterior half of the pupa after the moth has emerged projecting 

 therefrom x 2 ; 4, female moth x 2. 



This moth has been recorded from Hong-Kong in China, Burma, 

 Sikkim, Calcutta, and the Western Himalayas. 



2. Parasa lepida, Cramer. Family Limacodidse. 



This moth occurs throughout India and in Ceylon, also in Java. 

 Both sexes of the moth and its larva are figured in " Indian Museum 

 Notes, vol. iii, n. 4, p. 13 (1896). The larva is recorded as defoliat- 

 ing tea and coffee bushes in Ceylon, mulberry trees in Calcutta, also 

 found on the " Ashphal " tree {Nephelium Longana, Camb., Natural 

 Order Sapindaceoe) in Calcutta. 



3. Trabala vishnu, Lefebre. Family Lasiocampidse. 



Found in China, all over India, Ceylon, and Burma, also in Java. 

 The larva is recorded in "Indian Museum Notes, vol. iv, p. 136 

 (1895), as eating the leaves of the castor-oil plant {Ricinus commu- 

 nist Linn. Natural Order Euphorbiaceas) ; and in vol. v, p. 33 (1900) 

 as destructive to the sal tree (Shorea robusta, Gcertn. Natural Order 

 Dipterocarpese). The male moth is figured on plate vi, fig. 2, the 

 female fig. 2a } the larv r a fig. 2b, the cocoon fig. 2c. The larva is sub- 

 ject to the attack of a dipterous parasite, as recorded in " Indian 

 Museum Notes," vol, iv, p. 136 (1899), the Crossocosmia sericarex of 

 Rondani. It is figured on plate xvi, fig. 2, and its pupa fig. 2a. The 

 larvae now bred were found to be parasitized by two hymenopterons, 

 which have been identified by Colonel C. T. Bingham as Mircrodus 

 tuber culatus, Cameron, and Microdus fumipennis, Cameron, the 

 latter Ichneumon-fly is figured on plate vii, fig. 1, twice enlarged. 

 M. tuberculatus appear to differ frbm the latter only in having the 

 abdomen entirely yellow. 



4. Anthersea paphia, Linnaeus. Family Saturniidse. 

 The "Tussur Moth" is found in China, throughout India and 

 Ceylon. References to it under its synonymic name Anther&a 

 mylitta, Drury, will be found in " Indian Museum Notes/' vol. i, pp. 

 157 — 162, pi. x, male, female, cocoon, and larva and n. 4, p. 211, 

 where a tachinid parasite is mentioned as attacking the larva (1899), 

 vol. li, n. 2, pp. 77, 79, 80 and 86 (1891), vol. iii, n. i, p. 16, 27, n. 5, 

 p. 9, where the tachinid fly is named Crossocosmia sericarise, Rond., 

 again referred to on p. 42 (1896). The caterpillar is not uncommon 

 on the country-almond tree, but no parasites have been reared from 

 them. 



