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LIPAEID^. 
Prussian blue ; the base, costal area, and external margin dark brown shot with purple ; fringe 
white towards anal angle, spotted with white between the anal patch and the apex : body 
much blacker than in T. sericea, but the male with whitish collar. Under surface blackish, 
tinted with purple : primaries with a large, quadrate, ochreous patch in the cell and 
a broad irregular ochreous band beyond it ; apical portion of costal borders and fringe 
regularly spotted with whitish ; fringe at external angle white : secondaries shot with 
blue on abdominal half; two very oblique blue-black stripes from costa to first median 
branch, where they are united, the outer stripe being continued to anal angle ; fringe as 
above : ventral surface of body dull blackish grey. Expanse of wings, 6 69 mUlim., 
? 73 millim. 
Dharmsala; at sugar in August. 
"The pair, a male and female, caught on one evening: the only specimens met 
with.^^ 
This beautiful species was evidently regarded by Mr. Hocking as one of the Noctuites, 
with which he associated it in his boxes ; consequently it was not discovered until the 
Bombyces of the collection had been worked out and the plates prepared. It bears some 
resemblance to the American genus Hypogramma ; but structurally it corresponds more 
nearly with the Liparid genus Trisula, to which there is no doubt of its affinity. In 
Trisuloides the proboscis is well developed (as, indeed, it is in many Bombyces), and therefore 
the fact of its having been obtained by sugaring is not surprising. 
CHAENIDAS, Walk. 
Charnidas umbrina. (Plate CXXIII. fig. 8.) 
Procodeca umbrina, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 398. 
d . Allied to C. eocclamationis and ochracea. Primaries vinous brown ; an angular series 
of black-centred spots slightly paler than the ground-colour across the disc : secondaries 
thinly scaled on the basal two thirds (giving the wing a greyish appearance), smoky brown, 
slightly vinous on the fringe ; thorax dull rufous brown ; abdomen dark smoky brown. 
Under surface smoky brown ; veins and borders of the wings paler, inclining to buff : palpi, 
tibiai and tarsi of front pair of legs and tarsi of other legs ochreous. Expanse of wings 
34 millim. 
Kulu. 
" Larvae under stones, March 22nd, on which date were found larva, pupa, and imago." 
According to Mr. Moore Charnidas litura was confounded with it. 
The genus Procodeca was founded by Mr. Walker for the reception of his supposed new 
species P. quadrata, which consisted of three examples of Lcelia canosa and eight poor 
specimens of L. obsoleta. 
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