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AECTIID^. — LIP AEID^. 
bristles, upon the dark brown subdorsal area, and three lateral reddish tubercles bearing 
white hairs and forming a zigzag series with the subdorsal tubercles ; ventral surface cream- 
coloured; legs pale shining chestnut-red. Length of preserved larva 29 niillim. 
Dharmsala; L3th November, 1878. 
Hypercompa principalis. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 3.) 
Larva black : head shining, base of antcnnie and mouth-parts whitish ; tubercles and 
bristles upon theni similar to those of the preceding species; a narrow orange and yellow 
dorsal stripe, whitish between the segments; a mottled white lateral stripe, and below it an 
irregular whitish band composed of partly confluent transverse strite ; legs shining amber- 
yellowish. Length of preserved larva 52 millim. 
Dharmsala ; March 6th : on plantain. 
LIPARID^E. 
Chcerotricha vitellina. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 13.) 
Larva dull black : head shining, piceous at the back ; an imperfect dorsal series of white 
dots and a few^ scattered white lateral dots ; each segment encircled by eitjht woolly foxy-red 
tubercles emitting whitish hairs ; tubercles small and inconspicuous, as on the two preceding 
species ; legs dull shining amber-yellowish. Length of preserved larva 37—17 millim. 
Dharmsala, 4000-7000 feet ; on Lotus coniicnhiius. 
Chcerotricha plana. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 5.) 
Larva dull black, covered with irregular yellowish-edged red striae: head bright shining 
red ; each segment encircled by eight red tubercles, but those of the four dorsal series almost 
concealed by testaceous wool, and emitting short woolly whitish hairs ; those of the lateral 
scries dotted with small oval pearl-white processes and emitting white hairs ; the dorsal series 
on the second, third, and fourth segments less woolly and dotted with white processes similar 
to those of the lateral series ; the two central series elongated on the fifth, sixth, and twelfth 
segments ; spiracles inconspicuous ; legs shining red. Length of preserved larva 46-60 
millim. 
Kangra valley ; May, 4000 feet. 
The moth is said to have been found about the base of the ''Papul tree'' [Fkus religiosa) 
in June. 
