402 lasiocampid^e. 



latter with a white bar across each ; thorax grey, abdomen 

 ochreous. Fore wing ochreous ; an oblique medial dark line ; a 

 similar line from the apex to inner margin beyond the middle ; 

 inner area suffused with grey, which is diffused along the lines 

 towards the costa and along outer margin towards apex ; cilia 

 fuscous. Hind wing uniform ochreous. 

 Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 52 million. 



Species formerly recorded as Indian which are omitted. 



Aphendala conspersa, Butl. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 673 = Miresa quadri- 

 notata, Moore, C. & S. no. 1315 A, is an Acontid. 



Limacodes grisea, Hmpsn. 111. Het. viii, p. 63, is an Acontid. 



Proneca fola, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 191, pi. vi, fig. 8, 

 is a Hypogrammid. 



Rahila frontalis, Wlk., C. & S. no. 1300, is a Leucanid. 



Natada basalis, Wlk., C. & S. no. 1272. Type lost ; description 

 unrecognizable. 



Family LASIOCAMPID^. 



A family of moths mostly of large size. Palpi porrect and 

 generally large ; proboscis absent ; eyes small ; antenna bipectinate 

 in both sexes ; legs generally with minute terminal pairs of spurs 

 to mid and hind tibiae and rather hairy. Pore wing with vein 1 a 

 not forked with b ; 1 c rarely present ; the cell medial in position ; 

 veins 6 and 7 from the angle ; veins 9 and 10 always stalked and 

 from before the angle. Hind wing with two internal veins ; 6 and 7 

 arising very near the base ; 8 curved and almost touching 7 or 

 connected with it by a bar, thus forming a precostal cell ; accessory 

 costal veinlets generally present. Prenulum absent. 



Larva with lateral downwardly-directed tufts of hair, and often 

 subdorsal tufts or dorsal humps on anterior somites thickly clothed 

 with hair. 



Cocoon closely woven of silk and hair. 



Fig. 278. — Larva of Suana concolor. 



Key to the Genera. 



Hind wing with vein 8 running close along 

 7 ; no bar between them ; few, or no, 

 accessory costal veinlets. 



'. The cell of both wings closed. 



