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PSYCHID^. 
Monda rhabdophora *. (Plate CLIX. fig. 22 & Plate CLXXVI. fig. 10.) 
Expanse ^ inch. 
Male. Antennse bipectinated, with long plumose branches decreasing in length distally. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen slender and black. Fore leg with a long tibial spine. Wings 
long and narrow. Fore wing with the two internal veins not anastomosing; the lower 
sending a spur to the inner margin ; the cell short ; the upper radial present ; the second, 
third, fourth, and fifth subcostals stalked together, covered with black hair-like scales, the base 
whitish. Hind wing pure white, with the lower subcostal absent ; the cell short. Veinlets 
in the cell of both wings single. 
Female. Whitish, with brown dorsal plates on the thoracic segments ; no trace of limbs 
and the mouth-parts rudimentary, though on the pupal skin the appendages of the head and 
thoracic segments are indicated. 
Larva pale yellowish white ; the thoracic somites guarded by horny plates with brown 
blotches. Feeds on tea and cinchona. The male larva- and pupa-cases are suspended by a 
silken cord from the food -plant when the insect is not feeding; the female case is attached 
directly to the leaf, the posterior extremity of the larva-case (the anterior of the pupa-case) 
tapering to a three-valved point. 
The cases built by the males are of rougher material than those of the female. 
This species is local but abundant in some parts ; on an estate near Nawala-pittia the 
tea-bushes were covered with the cases and the leaves completely riddled by the larvae. 
Babula griseata f. (Plate CLIX. fig. 13.) 
Expanse 1 inch. 
Male. Antennae with the branches decreasing in length distally. Head, thorax, and 
abdomen dark brown and slender. Fore wing dark brown, with a large blue-grey patch 
beyond the lower extremity of the cell diff'used towards the outer angle ; the two internal 
veins anastomosing, the lower sending a branch to inner margin ; the upper radial present ; 
the third and fourth subcostals stalked. Hind wing blue-grey, irrorated with dark brown 
scales ; the margins brown, widest at apex ; the lower subcostal absent ; a bar between the 
costal and subcostal nervures ; veinlet in cell single. Underside brown^ paler towards inner 
margin. Fore leg with no tibial spine. 
Babula fuscaf. (Plate CLIX. fig. 14 & Plate CLXXVI. fig. 16.) 
Expanse (J |^ inch. 
Male. Uniform dark smoky brown; structure as in griseata. 
Larva-case rather short, quadrangular, and formed of short transverse pieces of stick. 
* This should be placed in Amicta, Heyl. 
t These three species should be placed in Heylaertsia, Hmpsn. 
