264 F. Moore — On some Indian Psychidae. 



gular ; costal margin convex, apex acute, exterior margin convex ; 

 costal vein slender, subcostal reaching to the apex ; cell broad ; discoi- 

 dal veinlet slender, straight, emitted within the cell from lower angle 

 of the upper discocellular veinlet and extending to base of the cell ; 

 a radial veinlet emitted from upper angle of the discocellular and ter- 

 minating below the apex, lower discocellular oblique, straight ; median 

 vein long, three-branched, the branches at equal distance ; submedian 

 vein and internal veins long, extending to the margin. Antenna? broad- 

 ly bipectinated, the branches plumose to the tip ; thorax thick, round, 

 plumose ; head and palpi inconspicuous, hidden in dense plumose hairs ; 

 abdomen very long, extensile and mobile, densely covered with long 

 plumose hairs, and ending in a naked point which is either concealed 

 by the long hairs extending like a tail beyond the abdomen, or exposed, 

 the plumose hairs parting and curling outwards and upwards ; legs 

 nearly naked ; forelegs very long, tibia with a long spur ; first joint of 

 tarsus as long as all the rest ; middle legs shorter ; hindlegs shortest 

 and more slender. 



MOFrATiA plumicauda (Moore).— Wings hyaline, fuliginous, very 

 spai'sely covered with minute hair-like scales, not sufficiently numerous 

 to detract from the perfectly vitreous appearance of the wings ; costal 

 margins and the cilia fuliginous-black ; veins distinct and black. An- 

 tennae black, bipectinated, the branches plumose to the tip; thorax and 

 head covered with dense black plumose hairs ; abdomen of a reddish- 

 yellow where naked, but appearing densely black from the long black 

 plumose-hairs which cover it ; anal point naked or concealed by long 

 plumose-hairs like a tail, the hairs parting and curling outward and 

 upward ; legs black. Expanse 1 inch. 



Habitat. Upper Kunawar, N, W. Himalaya. (In Coll. Col, A. M. 

 Lang and F. Moore). — "Larval case fusiform, about \\ inch in length, 

 formed of tough silk covered with short sticks of dry grass. The larva 

 feeds with the three anterior segments protruded from the portable case. 

 The pupa before emergence of imago inverts its position within the case, 

 and the imago emerges from the upper pointed end, the lower, blunter 

 end is closed by a film of silk firmly attached to some rock. The imago 

 is observed basking on rocks, and flies off, when disturbed, with very 

 rapid and devious flight, more like a wasp or bee than a moth. It is 

 seen flying from morning till 4 p. M., chiefly on cliffs, from end of Octo- 

 ber and November." (Lang's MS., notes.) 



