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Figs. 8 a, larva, drawn from a spirit specimen ; 8 b, pupa ; 8 imago } 

 all life-size. 



Mr. Moore's original description of this moth as Acosmetia nebu- 

 losa is as follows : — " Upper side pale ochreousbrown. Fore wing 

 darkest, with several transverse indistinctly darker waved narrow 

 fasciae, some pale spots on the costal edge near the apex. Under side 

 paler. Expanse : 1 inch. Habitat : Darjiling." The figure given is 

 of but small help in making the identification of this insect possible. 

 The description quoted above is republished verbatim in "Desc. Lep. 

 Ins., Coll. Atkinson." Sir George F. Hampson thus describes the 

 moth : — "Male : Uniform pale brown ; fore wing with slightly darker, 

 evenly disposed mottling. Habitat : Sikkim. Expanse : 24 millim," 

 In freshly bred specimens the forewing on the upper side shows three 

 perpendicular equidistant and parallel almost straight black bands in 

 both sexes, which are alike. Larva, a semi-looper. With the usual 

 three pairs of thoracic legs, four pairs of pro or abdominal legs on 

 the 7th-ioth segments, and anal pair of claspers ; cylindrical, of 

 equal breadth throughout ; the head rather large, a little smaller only 

 than the second segment ; the constrictions between the segments 

 slight but distinct ; coloration pale emerald green, with a narrow later- 

 al white line on each side ; all the legs and the abdominal area pale 

 emerald green. Head with about twenty rather long black bristles, 

 each bristle springing from a small black spot ; the second segment 

 with two rows of similar bristles, six in each, the anterior row 

 further apart than the posterior row, owing to the place of the pos- 

 terior bristle on each side in the anterior row being occupied in the 

 posterior row by the spiracle of that segment, thus crowding up the 

 bristles anterior to the spiracle ; the third to twelfth segments bear 

 on each side two bristles placed close together just anterior to the 

 lateral white line, and four posterior to the line arranged in the 

 form of a reversed Y ; on the anal segment are numerous black 

 bristles of various lengths. Length, when full-grown, 1 inch. 



Of all the caterpillars found by me in the kunties in August and 

 September at Seeraha this was by far the commonest. Though it is 

 small it must by force of numbers reduce the produce considerably. 

 It is remarkable that this insect which occurs in myriads in Behar, 

 should only have hitherto been recorded from one locality, and that in 

 the hills of the Eastern Himalayas. 



14. Hypena sp., prox. mistaca/is, Guenee. Sub-family Deltoidime. 

 Family Noctuidse. Plate xiii, Fig. 9, imago X 2. 



Mr. G. C. Dudgeon, to whom I sent specimens of this pretty 

 little moth, is unable to identify it, and says that it is probably 

 undescribed. It is rather common ; I bred about a dozen specimens 



