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Show 1893.] SPECIES OF MOTHS FROM INDIA. 359 3rd median nervules filled up with black, the nervules themselves ochreous; a cloudy ochreous-brown oblique fascia from its lower end to the inner margin, and a small cloudy space on the costa above it- a sinuous, somewhat diffuse, ochreous exterior fascia, and a subterminal one consisting of interrupted dark grey cloudy spots; fringe white. Hind wings with a broad ochreous fuscous fascia, continued from the fore wings and almost obliterating the dark ocellus; exterior fascia greyer, broader and less sinuous than in fore wings. Underside with costa, ocelli, and exterior fascia all strongly marked, fuscous grey. Head, face, palpi, and vertex blackish ; thorax and abdomen white ; antenna? brownish. Differs from all other species by the dark markings of the underside. Expanse of wings 44 millim. Hab. Sikkim. [Though the general aspect of this species might lead to its being mistaken for P. deliaria, it seems very distinct. I have one specimen only, from the interior. -H. J. E.] SOMATINA LAPIDATA, sp. n. (Plate XXXII. fig. 7.) 5 . Fore wings pale stone-colour, suffused with darker, and irrorated with dark grey atoms and strigae ; a dull oblique basal line, and a thicker exterior line, bluntly angulated beneath the costa, can be traced ; cell-spot small, dark ; hind margin broadly dark olive-grey, with an aggregation of dark transverse strigae. Hind wings with the basal third thickly dappled with dark grey atoms, the outer § with dark grey transverse strigae, leaving a narrow pale curved space between the two darker portions, corresponding to a like paler space on the fore wings between the exterior line and the sub-marginal shade ; fringes of both wings dark grey, with two paler lines and a black basal line. Face, palpi, vertex, and coilar dull olive-green; patagia and thorax whitish grey ; abdomen stone-colour mottled with dark grey. Underside pale ochreous, the veins yellower, with all the markings by contrast darker; a distinct dark cell-spot in both wings. Expanse of wings 34 millim. Hab. Naga Hills (Boherty). This species is smaller than, and has a slightly dissimilar facies from, the others of the genus. LIPOMELIA, gen. nov. Fore wings with costa straight from the base, and gradually convex towards apex, which is bluntly rounded ; hind margin obliquely curved. Hind wings ample, with hind margin rounded and inner angle square. Antenna? of 3 thick, shortly ciliated ; head broad; forehead flattened; palpi short, porrect, or slightly upturned ; tongue present; hind tibiae of 3 flattened and curved ; hind tarsi reduced to a short, hardly perceptible point. Neuration normal. Scaling fine and smooth. Type, Lipomelia subusta, sp. n. |
