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Artaxa scmtillans. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 10.) 
Larva, anterior segments greyish brown, middle and posterior segments blackisli flecked 
with yellow : head shining blackish or brown, with the mouth-parts yellow ; second segment 
with the anterior half yellow, and with two large subdorsal scarlet tubercles bearing long grey 
hairs and small carmine lateral tubercles bearing short white hairs; a trapezoidal transverse 
yellow dorsal patch on the fourth segment, traversed by a series of small subconfluent carmine 
tubercles which extends downwards to a lateral yellow stripe which extends to the last segment, 
and is regularly interrupted by consjiicuous scarlet tubercles bearing white hairs ; the third 
- segment with grey-brown tubercles, the fifth and sixth segments woolly, prominent, brown, 
with long hairs, and encircled by a yellow line; the dorsal tubercles on the remaining segments 
much less prominent, blacker, and separated hy a broad double longitudinal yellow band ; the 
subdorsal tubercles on the fifth and following segments black edged with yellow, the first two 
with one, and the succeeding series with two, white spots, which give them the appearance of 
raised ocelli ; below the lateral yellow stripe is a broad greyish band mottled with yellow and 
interrupted behind the claspers by an oblong blackish spot on each segment ; ventral surface 
occupied by an irregular yellow band spotted down the middle with grey ; anal segment banded 
in front with yellow, encircled by a series of small carmine tubercles bearing grey hairs ; legs 
shining amber-yellowish. Length of preserved larva 3U miliim. 
Dharmsala ; 6200 feet, in June : on wild barberry. 
Charnidas exclamationis. (Plate CXXXVIIL fig. 6.) 
Larva blackish : head pale buff; two dorsal stripes of contiguous yellow and red spots 
interrupted on each segment by a whity-brown spot or tubercle bearing long hairs, on the 
fifth to eighth segments these tubercles are very large, prominent, and woolly, and bear long 
hairs ; those on the thirteenth segment are not prominent, but bear long tapering pencils of 
hair; the tenth and eleventh segments bear a small central dorsal carmine tubercle; an 
imperfect rose-pink stripe bearing tubercles of the same colour emitting pale brown hairs ; a 
broad lateral rose-pink band, on and below which are small tubercles bearing white hairs ; 
ventral surface yellow, streaked in front and at the sides with black ; legs shining vermilion- 
red. Length of preserved larva 28 miliim. 
Dharmsala ; March 1879 : food-plant unknown. 
Parorgyia dalbergias. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 12.) 
Larva pale smoky brown : head shining chestnut-red, labrum yellow ; each segment 
encircled by brown tubercles bearing long hairs ; the second segment with six arranged in 
the form of a triangle on each side, the anterior of the three tubercles bearing a long curved 
