Moths . s. Larva. Yellowish white; head dark brown; 1st somite with alarge chitinous dorsal plate marked with about twelve pale brownspots and two brown lateral stripes ; 2nd and 3rd somites withfive or six brown spots ; the 4th, 5th, and 6th each with two pairsof spots; 7th to 11 somites fuscous brown. Food-plant, Eugeniaiambolana, Lam. The larvae are gregarious and live in strong tubescomposed of two layers of silk with excrement between them, fromthree to fifteen in each colony ; the tubes are open at each endand the larvae emerge as far as the 6th somite from either end tofeed; the colony
Moths . s. Larva. Yellowish white; head dark brown; 1st somite with alarge chitinous dorsal plate marked with about twelve pale brownspots and two brown lateral stripes ; 2nd and 3rd somites withfive or six brown spots ; the 4th, 5th, and 6th each with two pairsof spots; 7th to 11 somites fuscous brown. Food-plant, Eugeniaiambolana, Lam. The larvae are gregarious and live in strong tubescomposed of two layers of silk with excrement between them, fromthree to fifteen in each colony ; the tubes are open at each endand the larvae emerge as far as the 6th somite from either end tofeed; the colony is attached to its food-plant by silken threads,,but is able to move about from one part of the plant to another. Eab. Simla ; Kangra ; Sikhim ; Calcutta; Vizagapatam; , <S 35-40, § 36-50 millim. 4452. Ccenodomus rotundinidus, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 127, pi. 154, fig. 16. <P. Differs from Tiockingii in being much greyer and lessirrorated with fuscous. Fore wins: with the antemedial hue. 118 PYfiALID^!. angled below the cell; both wings with a prominent lunulaterufous postmedial line, incurved below vein 3, before the post-medial band ; a crenulate dark marginal line. The larvae feed on a tree of the Laurel tribe and turn to pup®in a round ball, of about three inches diameter, made of the leavesand web spun together, about six larvae to each colony. Hab. Nilgiri plateau. Exp. 44 millim. Sect. II. Antennae of male with the process from basal jointreaching to end of metathorax. 4453. Ccenodomus dudgeoni, n. sp. S. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous and fuscous; wingsleaden coloured. Fore wing with ill-defined sinuous black-edgedwhite ante- and postmedial lines, the latter with some olive beyondit; the tufts of hair on basal area, discocellulars, and beyond thepostmedial line blackish with a few white hairs. Hind wing withsinuous whitish postmedial line with olive patch beyond it at analangle; tufts of black and white hair near base, end of cell, andbeyond postm
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