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958. Varmina indica, Wlk. Cat. v, p. 1039 ; C. $ S. no. 1177 



c? . Head and thorax black, clothed with grey and brown hair ; 

 abdomen black. Pore wing blackish, thickly sprinkled with orange 

 spots; black spots on a grey ground at middle and end of cell; an 

 irregular marginal grey area with a submarginal series of black 

 spots. Hind wing black. 



2 . Head clothed with white hair ; collar and abdominal tuft 

 ochreous white; the wings paler. 



Fig. 301. — Varmina indica, tf . \. 



Larva black, speckled with white and with dorsal and lateral 

 tufts of hair arising from fulvous tubercles ; the thoracic and anal 

 somites with reddish tufts, the medial with grey; 4th and 11th 

 somites with long dorsal black tufts. 



Hah. N.W. Himalayas. Exp., S 32, $ 42 millim. 



Genus LACHANA. 

 Lachana, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 397. 



Type, L. ladacensis, Moore. 



Range. Kashmir ; Ladak. 



Palpi short, hairy, porrect and hidden by the long hair from the 

 frons ; antennas with the branches short ; thorax and abdomen 

 hairy; mid and hind tibia? with minute terminal pairs of spurs. 

 Pore wing with vein 9 arising from 10 and anastomosing with 8 

 to form a short areole. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 stalked ; 5 

 from above angle of cell ; 6 and 7 from upper angle. 



959. Lachana ladacensis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 398 ; Butl. III. 

 Het. vii, p]. 121, fig. 6 ; C. 8f S. no. 1071 a. 



Fig. 302. — Lachana ladacensis, q. \. 



J . Head clothed with grey hair ; thorax and abdomen with 

 brown and black hair. Pore wing pale brown irrorated with dark 



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