PORTHESIA XANTHORRHCGE4, 
KOLL. 
References:—Koll. Higel’s Kaschmir, iv, p. 470; C.& S. no..958 Euproctis 
subdita, Moore, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 400; id. Lep., Ceyl. i, pl 
112, figs. 5, 5a; C. & S. no. 930. Euproctis: virguncula, WIk. 
Cat. ‘iv, p. 836; Moore, Lep. E. I. Co., pl. 16, figs. 3, 3a 
(larva); C. & S. no. 932. Euproctis marginalis, Wlk. Cat. vii, 
p- 17313; Butl. Ill Het. V, pl. 89, fig. 12; C. & S. no. Q29- 
Euproctis subnigra, Moore, Lep. Atk., p. 48; C. & S. no. 931- 
Euproctis flavonigra, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 400, pl. 32, fig. 
11; C.&S. no. 939. Hmpsn. Faun. Br. Ind. Moths, I, 485) 
no. 1100. 
Classification :—Order, LEPIDOPTERA. Sub-order, HETEROCERA. Fami- 
ly, Lymantriide. 
Description. 
The /arva is black, with head etaned with white; the first 
segment with a crimson band; a dorsal series of yellow spots 
with a crimson line through them on the second, third, and sixth 
to tenth segments ; first segment with long forwardly-projecting 
tufts of black hair; the other segments with Shorter tufts. 
Moth. &. White with a very slight fuscous tinge. Palpi 
long, slender, and obliquely pointed: the branches of antennz 
long and brownish, and tuft orange; the whole apical and 
outer areas of hind wing on upperside, and the underside of 
both wings, except the outer margin, suffused with black. See 
PLeV, hig an ano: 
In the form vzrguncula (which is the form as identified by 
Sir G. Hampson, Bart., to which the present note on the 
life history applies) the only trace of black suffusion on either 
wing is on the underside of costa of fore wing; in flavonigra 
the fore wing is bright ochreous, the hind wing black with the 
base white, the cilia ochreous; all the intermediate stages 
occurring. Expanse of wings 28 millim, ¢ without any black 
vad 
suffusion, [xpanse of wings 37 millim. 
