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ACRONYCTA ANAZDINA,! 
BUTL. 
References :—Butl. Trans, Ent. Soc, 1881, p.- 19. Trizna maxima, Moore, 
P. Z.S. 1881, p. 333; C. &S. ‘no. 1771. Hmpsn. Faun. 
Br. Ind. Moths, II, p. 240, no. 1813. 
Classification :—Order, LEPIDOPTERA. Sub-Order, HETEROCERA. 
Family, Noctuide, 
Description, 
The /arva is a hairy caterpillar, blue-black in colour, with 
short tufts of blue-black hair on each segment of the body. In 
between these short tufts arise long pencil tufts of bright 
canary yellow hairs which stick out all round the insect, giving 
it a very woolly appearance. See PI. Il, fig. 4, a. 
The pupa is stout, dark chestnut coloured, and about 1} 
inch in length. 
The moth has a general greyish appearance and is thus 
described :— 
6. Whitish grey; palpi black at sides ; thorax clothed with 
hair and scales; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing with some fus- 
cous blotches on costa ; a waved black fascia in interspace from 
base to below the orbicular; the antemedial double lines very 
faint; the orbicular and reniform black-edged, with a black 
streak between them, which is sometimes obsolete; the inner 
border of reniform double; the postmedial curved double lunu- 
late line prominent, filled in with white and with a black streak, 
and sometimes a second one, crossing it; a marginal series of 
black spots. Hind wing fuscous white, with a postmedial line, 
the cilia whitish. Underside of both wings witha cell-spot 
and curved postmedial line. 

1 The notes on the life history of this insect are from observations made 
by Mr. B. B. Osmaston, F.C.H., who discovered it doing damage in the 
Jaunsar forests in 1899, and from others recorded by myself from specimens 
sent me by Mr. Osmaston and kept under observation. 
2 This description is made from a coloured drawing by Mr. Osmaston. 
