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Spilarctia lacteata. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 2.) 
Larva dull black, mottled with velvet-black ; purplish between the segments : head orange- 
chestnut ; spiracles transverse, elliptical, cream-white ; the second, third, and fourth segments 
with two, and the remaining segments with four, dorsal warts arranged in the form of a tra- 
pezium and bearing long black and short radiating white hairs, the anterior tubercles of the 
third and fourth segments also with a very long central white hair ; the posterior tubercles 
of the eleventh, and all the tubercles of the twelfth and thirteenth, segments with bright ferru- 
ginous hairs ; two lateral series of tubercles bearing radiating white hairs ; prolegs and claspers 
mahogany-red. Length of preserved larva 35-45 millim. 
Dharmsala; 20th April, 1878. 
No note as to the food-plant. The perfect insect was not in the collection ; it was 
probably sent off for identification when reared. 
Thyrgorina dorsalis. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 4.) 
Larva with the dorsal region vinous brown varied with paler stria;; a central longitudinal 
interrupted cream-whitish stripe, the third and fourth segments with four, and the remaining 
segments with two, shining purple dorsal tubercles bearing black hairs : head bright mahogany- 
red, blackish in front ; sides cream-coloured, obliquely striated on each segment with purplish- 
brown speckles ; the second segment with a black subdorsal and a yellow tubercle ; the third 
and fourth with two, and the remaining segments with four, yellow tubercles bearing white 
hairs; spiracles extremely small, white ; ventral surface cream-coloured, the anterior segments 
with a central blackish dot ; legs and claspers amber-yellow. Length of preserved larva 
27 millim. 
Dharmsala; " July 1884; on cherry at G200 feet, gregarious." 
Seirarctia quadriramosa. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 1.) 
Larva smoky brown with a velvety- greyish sheen : head and legs shining piceous ; 
spiracles small and black ; the segments encircled by eight black tubercles bearing numerous 
shining mahogany-red spine-like radiating bristles. Length of preserved larva 57 millim. 
Dharmsala ; 4th March, 1878. 
Rajendra pannosa. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 8.) 
Larva dark brown: head shining blackish; lower half of eyes reddish; a well-defined 
longitudinal dorsal stripe and a double lateral stripe cream-coloured ; a slender subdorsal 
pale brown line ; each segment with three shining tubercles, bearing short radiating black 
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