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Show 1888.] FROM THE HIMALAYAS. 397 thirds the margin ; subcostal five-branched, first and second branches arising before end of the cell, third trifurcate beyond the cell; discocellulars inwardly-oblique; cell shortest hindward; radial starting from middle of discocellulars; two discoidal veinlets emitted from lower discocellular, coalescing in the middle and extending to base of the cell; median vein four-branched, the two upper branches on a footstalk beyond end of the cell, lower branches wide apart; sub-median vein with an inner branch to the base, from below which starts a short, outwardly-oblique spur. Hind wing bluntly ovate ; exterior margin slightly convex; subcostal vein two-branched, first branch before end of the cell; cell short and broad ; discocellulars angled in the middle ; radial from their angle ; two discoidal veinlets within the cell, as in fore wing; median vein four-branched, the two upper branches from end of the cell; a submedian and two internal veins. Body small; abdomen short, slender ; antennae bipectinate, finely plumose; legs nearly naked, fore tibiae with a long parallel spur. DASARATHA HIMALAYANA, n. sp. Wings sparsely clothed with short fuliginous-brown delicate hairy scales : body fuliginous-brown ; thorax blackish above; antennae brown ; legs yellow. Expanse J9-J inch. Hab. Dharmsala. In coll. British Museum. " A case-bearing larva; on oak (Q. alba), May, 6200 feet. Moth emerged June 16." (Hocking.) MAHASENA HOCKINGII, n. sp. Male. Wings dark fuliginous-brown ; hind wing blackish posteriorly ; thorax fuliginous-black in front, the lower part slightly ochreous-brown; abdomen and anal tuft clothed with longish lateraliv-divergent black hairs. Fore wing beneath ochreous-grey broadly along posterior border. Antennae fuliginous-brown, shaft ochreous ; femora and tibiae clothed with brown hairs. Expanse ly2^ inch. Hab. Dharmsala. In coll. British Museum. " July, 4000 feet. On Toon tree ( Credela toona). When the larva changed, the pupa had the power of moving up and down the silky passage in which it had lived. When the moth was coming out, it projected the tail-end of the pupa and let itself down by a silken thread, in the chrgsalis, from, which it then emerged and to which it clung with two pairs of legs until the wings expanded and dried, whilst the first pair of legs held on to the silken thread by which it hung from the leafy case." (Hocking.) Fam. LIPARID,*:. LACHANA, n. g. Male. Fore wing elongate, narrow; costal vein extending two thirds the margin ; first subcostal emitted at one half and second at one fifth before end of the cell, second trifurcate; third starting at a |