428 LASIOCAHPID.E. 



Hind wing rather paler. Underside with two postmedial indis- 

 tinct dark lines on both wings. 

 Hab. Sikhhn. Exp. 80 millim. 



Genus GASTROPACHA. 



Gastropacha, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iii, p. 239 (1810). 



Type, G. quercifolia, Linn., from Europe. 



Range. Europe ; Japan ; China ; Himalayas. 



Palpi very long, the 3rd joint slender. Antennae with the 

 branches short, especially in female ; mid and hind tibiae with 

 minute terminal pairs of spurs. Fore wing long, the apex acute, 

 outer margin crenulate ; veins 6 and 7 stalked ; the stalk of veins 

 9 and 10 long. Hind wing with part of the costa and outer 

 margin crenulate ; veins 4 and 5 from cell ; 8 curved and met by a 

 bar from cell ; accessory costal veinlets numerous and prominent. 



950. Gastropacha undulifera, Wlk. Cat. vi, p. 1395 ; C. fy S. no. 1451. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen very pale brownish grey. 

 Wings pale brownish grey, slightly irrorated with fuscous ; an 

 indistinct dark antemeclial waved line ; a dark streak on disco- 



Fig. 297. — Gastropacha undulifera, §. \. 



cellulars ; two indistinct waved oblique postmedial lines close 

 together; the crenulations of both wings dark at the projections, 

 pale at excisions. 



Cocoon formed of pale silk loosely woven. 



Hab. Dharmsala. Exp. 70 millim. 



951. Gastropacha sinuata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 76 ; C. $ S. no. 1448. 



3 . Pale reddish ochreous ; antennae black. Pore wing with two 

 indistinct antemedial waved lines ; a black spot at end of cell ; two 

 postmedial and one submarginal indistinct waved lines ; a series of 



