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AECTIID^. 
steel-blue tubercles, partially covered with a sliort^ black, velvety pile and long, scattered, 
white hairs. 
From the position of this and other cocoons of the same species it is probable that the 
larva feeds on lichens. 
(Eonistis entella. Cram. (Plate CLXXV. fig. 8 (larva).) 
Phalsena entella, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 208 d. 
Larva (adult) . Head red-brown ; ground-colour ochreous, streaked and mottled with 
black dorsally and brown laterally and ventrally ; numerous tufts of grey and brown hairs ; 
the first somite with short dorsal and lateral tufts projecting forwards; the second somite 
with a very long pair of dorsal tufts, and a shorter pair of lateral tufts, and a quite short 
latero- ventral pair ; the third somite has the dorsal tufts arising from a crimson excrescence 
and rather long, as are the lateral pair, while the latero-ventral pair are very short ; on all the 
other somites the dorsal tufts are short and arise from orange excrescences, except on seventh 
somite, where the excrescences are crimson ; the lateral tufts are long and the latero-ventral 
short ; the anal somite has one dorsal tuft arising from a large median excrescence. 
The three pairs of legs, four pairs of prolegs, and anal claspers are brown. 
The larva has a very Arctid appearance, but feeds on lichens. 
Katha punctifera. (Plate CLVIII. figs. 21, 22.) 
Expanse, J* f , ? 1 J- inch. 
Male. Both wings rather short and square. Fore wing ochreous chestnut ; a black spot 
at each end of cell. Hind wing pale yellow. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous. 
Female. Both wings longer thau in male and the fore wing paler ; no black spot at end 
of cell and not suffused on the underside. 
Katha intermixta, Wlk. (Plate CLVIII. fig. 1.) 
Katha intermixta, Wlh. Cat. xxxi. p. 229. 
Expanse, (J 1^, ? 1^ inch. 
Male. Both wings rather shorter and squarer than in the female, and generally greyer in 
tone. 
Systropha fuscipes. (Plate CLVIII. fig. 23.) 
Expanse $ \^ inch. 
Female. Antennae, head, thorax, and fore wing golden fawn. Hind wing very pale yellow. 
Fore legs brown ; abdomen mouse-grey, yellowish posteriorly. 
