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LIPAEID^. 
Euproctis bifascia. (Plate CXLI. fig. 8.) 
Expanse 1 inch. 
Female pure white. Fore wing with two orange-yellow bands, the first antemedial 
slightly inwardly oblique and waved^ the other submarginal and consisting of spots in the 
interspaces, growing slightly smaller towards costa, and bent inwards a very little at second 
median nervule. Anal tuft pale brown. 
Mardara feminula. (Plate CXLI. figs. 1, 7.) 
Expanse If inch. 
Male. Allied to M. bhana, Moore. Fore wing with the markings less distinct; the 
ochreous spot at end of cell almost obsolete ; the series of submarginal black lunules further 
from the outer margin. Hind wing darker. Underside with the whole disk of fore wing 
dusky black. Hind wing with the black spot at end of cell larger and lunulate, not round ; 
the parallel submarginal bands wider and nearer the margin. An antecilial black line to both 
wings. 
Female. Much smaller and quite distinct from that sex of M. bhana. Fore wing 
violaceous grey, irrorated with dark scales ; three irregular waved brown bands crossing the 
wing — the first medial, the second beyond the end of cell, and anastomosing with the first at 
inner margin, the third submarginal ; a double lunula at end of cell. Hind wing paler and 
immaculate ; cilia darker. Underside uniform dusky grey. Head and thorax clothed with 
long iron-grey hairs. Abdomen paler. 
Dasychira nilgirica. (Plate CXLI. figs. 13, 14.) 
Expanse, J* If, ? 31 inches. 
Male. Fore wing : basal area white, powdered with black scales ; medial and outer areas 
pale dusky brown ; a subbasal in-egular obsolescent black transverse line ; two medial in- 
wardly-oblique lines forming an irregular band, the costal portion of which is in the white 
area, the inner portion in the dusky large reniform spot outlined with black ; a waved 
transverse black line beyond it ; a series of obscure white submarginal lunules. Hind wing : 
basal and abdominal areas tawny, outer and apical areas dusky brown ; an indistinct spot at 
end of cell ; an obsolescent submarginal band, more distinct on underside. Antennae red-brown 
with white shaft. Head and thorax white ; abdomen tawny above, white below. Legs white. 
Female. Wings white ; head, thorax, and fore wing irrorated with black scales, the latter 
crossed by three indistinct bands — antemedial, postmedial, and submarginal. Tibiae and tarsi 
of legs spotted with black above. 
A pair bred from larvse feeding together. 
Nearest to D. horsfieldii and D. kasaulia, the foi'e wings of which are more uniformly 
coloured, the bands less distinct and differently situated. The outer area of hind wing of 
latter species is white. 
