436 LYHANTIUIDJE. 



scales ; an indistinct antemedial line and postmedial band excurved 

 beyond end of cell ; an ill-defined marginal fuscous baud. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown ; the marginal area black-brown ; cilia 

 greyish. 



Hah. Kashmir ; Ladak. Exp. 28 millim. 



Genus ORGYIA. 



Orgyia, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iii, p. 208 (1810). 

 Notolophus, Gennar, Prod. ii, p. 35 (1812). 

 Gynasphora, Hiibn. Verz. p. 161 (1818). 



Type, 0. antiqua, Linn., from Europe. 



Range. Universally distributed, except the Neotropical region. 

 S • Flight diurnal. Palpi short, porrect, and heavily fringed 

 with hair ; antennae with the branches long and with long spines 

 at extremities ; legs heavily fringed with hair ; abdomen with a 

 dorsal tuft on 2nd segment. Pore wing with vein 9 arising from 

 10 and anastomosing with 8 to form an areole. Hind wing with 

 veins 3 and 4 from angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 6 and 

 7 stalked. 



2 with the palpi and legs less hairy ; antennas serrate ; wings 

 aborted, scale-like, and covered with hair ; abdomen covered with 

 hair and immensely dilated when full of eggs. 



960. Orgyia postica, Wlk. Cat. iv, p. 803 ; Moore, Lep. Ceijl. ii, pi. 109, 

 figs. 1, 1 a, b (larva) ; C. $ 8 no. 875. 

 Orgyia ceylanica, Nietn. Ed. Neiv Phil. Jour, xv, 1862, p. 34; C. fy S. 



no. 874. 

 Orgygia ocularis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 44 ; C. Sf S. no. 868. 



S • Head, thorax, and abdomen brown. Tore wing brown, with 

 an indistinct oblique subbasal line ; waved antemedial and post- 

 medial lines which approach each other at lower angle of cell, the 



area between them slightly tinged 

 with bluish grey and with a waA r ed 

 dark line edged with white on each 

 side of the discocellulars ; two in- 

 distinct waved submarginal lines ; 

 the apex slightly tinged with grey 

 andwith some subapical dark streaks. 

 Fig. 303.— Orgyia postica, J. r- Hind wing dark brown. 



5 with aborted wings. 

 Larva. Yellowish, sparsely clothed with brown hair ; one dorsal 

 and two lateral brown bands ; paired tufts of long brown hair on 

 1st and 11th somites projecting forward and backward; lateral 

 tufts of grey hair from 4th and 5th somites ; dorsal tufts of yellow 

 hair on 4th-7th somites ; the head red. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Nagas ; Formosa : Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Burma ; 

 Borneo ; Java ; New Guinea. Exp. 24-28 millim. 



