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Show 1888.] FROM THE HIMALAYAS. 395 lateral spots, and in female with dorsal spots; anal segments in female white. Expanse, o* 1-TT.J 2 ^ T V to Wo mc^- Hab. Dharmsala. In coll. British Museum. This has much the appearance of Spilosoma rubidorsa (Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 808), but differs in the narrower and more elongated form of fore wing. Larva pale yellowish cream-colour, with a broad dorsal purple-brown band; each segment laterally with finely-speckled purple-brown oblique streaks, the segments also with sparse dorsal tufts of fine brown and grey hairs and lateral tufts of grey hairs, the dorsal tufts springing from glossy purple-black tubercles ; dorsal band with a central row of linear yellowish spots and slender transverse segmental streaks ; head red ; legs yellow. "Feeds on cherry; July 14; gregarious whilst young; many hundreds together in a web ; afterwards spreading over the tree and devouring all before them. Pupa, July 28 ; imago, August 16." CHALLA QUADRIMACULATA, n. Sp. Allied to C. bimaculata. Ochreous-yellow ; fore wing comparatively broader and more regularly triangular in form; with a prominent black spot at upper end of the cell, and a less distinct similarly disposed spot on the hind wing. Palpi black-tipped ; legs blackish above. Expanse 1| inch. Hab. Palampore. In coll. British Museum. Fam. PSYCHID_F:. A K E S I N A , n. g. Wings somewhat elongated, oval ; semitransparent; sparsely clothed with very short slender hairy scales. Fore wing very convex at the apex; costal vein extending to near the apex; cell long, extending beyond two thirds the wing; first subcostal emitted at one eighth before end of the cell, bent upward and anastomosing with the costal for a short distance and terminating before the apex; second and third branches on a footstalk beyond end of the cell; discocellular twice-angled, the angles at equal distances, upper angle directed slightly outward, lower angle directed very obliquely inward, radial from upper angle ; a discoidal veinlet emitted within the cell from lower angle and extending to base of cell; two upper median veins from angles at end of the cell, middle median from one third and lower median from one half before end of the cell; submedian nearly straight and apparently looped at the base. Hind wing very convex externally; subcostal vein running very close along the margin, arched at the base aud thence straight to apex, the branch emitted closely before end of the cell; discocellular, radial, and discoidal veinlet as in fore wing; two upper median veins at wider angles from end of the cell, middle median at one third and lower at one half before end of the cell; submedian and internal vein |
