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CBEUEID^.— NOTODOJ^TID^. 
This species, according to Mr. Hocking, lies flat on the exposed side of a leaf, a habit 
rather suggestive of affinity to the group of Geometrites, with which M. Guenee associated 
the genus ; the genera Auzata and Macrocilix nevertheless seem to link Problepsts to the 
DrepanulidcE, ot which it is certainly the most Geometriform genus. 
CERUEID^. 
DICRANUEA, Latr. 
Dicranura himalayana. (Plate CXXV. fig. 3.) 
Cerura himalayana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 400. 
Nearly allied to D. menciana of China; the black markings even more indistinct, some 
of them almost obsolete ; the ground-colour of the wings scarcely darker than in D. felina of 
Japan ; the prothorax darker, the black spots on the thorax small ; the abdomen black, with 
white edges to the segments, dorsal, lateral, and anal tufts. Expanse of wings, 6 58 millim., 
$ 75 millim. 
Dharmsala. Larvae on willow. 
The pattern of the wings is practically the same in all the species of the D. vinula group ; 
in the present species the lines are formed as in D. menciana, the two deeply zigzag discal 
lines being much nearer together than in D. xnnida ; the third imperfect line between the 
above and the cell is, however, wholly wanting in D. h'malayana. 
NOTODONTIDiE. 
STAUROPUS, Germ. 
Stauropus berberisae. (Plate CXXV. fig. 4.) 
Stauropus berberisuB, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 400. 
Closely allied to S. alternus. The primaries darker, with a pale-edged, black, oblique, 
zigzag, subbasal line ; discoidal spots black-edged ; spots across the disc and marginal spots 
black, edged with white, instead of brick-red : thorax darker. Expanse of wings, S iO millim., 
$ 67 millim. 
Dharmsala. Larva on Berberisa and wild pear, July and August. 
Mr. Moore records the altitude as 6200 feet. 
