1444 CATALOGUE OF 



31. Lasiocampa? Buddha. 



Alee integrce, maris, subjlexuosce pallide rufo-fuscce ; antica 

 macula fusco-rubea, area ad medium albo nitente margineque 

 obscuriori. 



Bombyx Buddha, Lefebvre, Zool. Joum. iii. 209. 



Length of the wings 18 lines. 



Madras. 



32. Lasiocampa? Ganesa. 



Ala integrce, maris, ruf& ; anticce, maculis duabus obscurioribus, 

 antica quadrangulari paululum margine superiori, postica 

 oblonga, ad medium arcu albo nitenti inscripta ; fasciis albi® 

 valde sinuatis transverse signatis ; posticce utrinque albidce, ad\ 

 angulum an% nigro signatce ; anus barbatissimus. 



Bombyx Ganesa, Lefebvre, Zool. Joum. iii. 211. 



Length of the wings 18 lines. 



Madras. 



Genus 14. MALACOSOMA. 



Corpus robustum, pilosum. Palpi breves, porrecti, pilosi, 

 caput paullo superantes; articulus 3us minutus, conicus, acumina- 

 tus. Abdomen alas posticas triente superans. Pedes validi, pilosi. 

 Alae breviusculae, sat angustae, apice rotundatae, margine exteriore 

 perobliquo. Mas. — Antennae late pectinatae. Abdomen gracilius. 

 Fcem. — Antenna; serratae. 



Bombyx, p., Fabr. ; Wien. Verz. ; Oliv. ; Hubn. ; Esp. ; God, 



Boisd. ; tyc. 

 Phalaena-Bombyx, p., GmeL 

 Gastropacha, p., Ochs. ; Herr .-Schcejf . 

 Malacosoma, p., Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 192. 



Body stout, pilose. Palpi short, porrect, pilose, extending 

 little beyond the head; second joint longer than the first; thin 

 minute, conical, acuminated. Abdomen extending for one-third o 

 its length beyond the hind wings. Legs stout, pilose. Wing 

 rather short and narrow. Fore wings straight along the costa 

 conical in outline towards the tips, very oblique along the exterio; 

 border ; second inferior vein about thrice further from the third than 



