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LASIOCAMPID^. 



Genus BHIMA. 

 Bhima, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 403. 



Type, B. undulosa, Wlk. 



Range. Himalayas ; Khasis ; Manipur. 



Palpi slight and porrect. Antennae with the branches becoming 

 abruptly short at middle in male. Legs without spurs. Fore 

 wing long and narrow; veins 6 and 7 from angle of cell ; 8, 9, 10 

 stalked. Hind wing with veins 4 and 5 stalked ; 8 almost touching 

 7 ; slight accessory costal veinlets. 



900. Bhima undulosa, Wlk. Cat. vi, p. 1477 ; C. $ S. no. 1509. 



S • Frons ochreous white ; antennas, head, thorax, and abdomen 

 very dark red-brown. Both wings very dark red-brown, irrorated 

 with ochreous scales ; fore wing with two pale waved indistinct 



Fig. 279. — Bhima undulosa, $ . \. 



antemedial lines ; a white spot at end of cell ; two oblique waved 

 postmedial lines ; a highly-dentate submarginal line ; outer area 

 pale ; hind wing with the submarginal dentate line indistinct. 



2 with the frons red-brown ; the abdomen with a very large 

 pale terminal tuft ; the wings more suffused with ochreous. 



The Kangra female is much suffused wdth grey ; the abdominal 

 tuft is white ; the markings of wings whitish ; the hind wing 

 crossed by two waved lines just beyond the middle. 



Cocoon formed of brownish hairs. 



Hab. Kangra ; Nepal ; Khasis ; Manipur. Exp., 3 52, § 82- 

 92 millim. 



Genus TABAGAMA. 

 Taragama, Moore, Lep. E. I. Co. p. 427 (1859). 



Type, T. siva, Lef. 



Range. Spain ; Bagdad ; throughout India and Ceylon ; Philip- 

 pines ; Borneo ; Java. 



Palpi broad and obliquely porrect. Antennas w r ith the branches 

 becoming abruptly short at middle in male ; short throughout in 

 female. Legs without spurs. Pore wing long and narrow ; veins 

 6, 7, 8 stalked ; the stalk of 9 and 10 long. Hind wing with 

 veins 4 and 5 stalked ; 8 almost touching 7 ; slight accessory costal 

 veinlets. 



