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Show 1893.] SPECIES O F M O T H S F R O M INDIA. 403 SPILOPERA UMBRATA, sp. n. 3 . Ground-colour pale straw, dusted with dark atoms ; an irregular, curved, basal line, only distinct towards the costa, and not reaching the inner margin ; a blackish costal blotch just beyond the middle; 2nd line starts just before the apex as a red-brown spot, forms another smaller one just below, and is just discernible as a faint curved brownish-grey shade, which vanishes before the inner margin; it is followed by another similar submarginal shade; fringe from apex to the central angle dark browm, preceded by a red-brown patch ; a minute blackish cell-spot; hind wing with dark cell-spot, and 2 faint greyish parallel fascia? beyond centre. Underside brighter straw-colour, with larger, stronger, reddish-brown freckles ; distinct black cell-spots and strong submarginal fascia?, the inner of the two broadly bright reddish brown. Abdomen straw-colour; face darker; collar and base of costa pale brownish. Expanse of wings 32 mdlim. [A single male taken at Margarita in Upper Assam by Doherty in May.-H. J. E.'] OPISTHOGRAPTIS MOLLERI, sp. n. (Plate XXXI. fig. 12.) 3. Wings straw-yellow, with a pale brownish line from before the apex of fore wing to the middle of the inner margin of the hind wing; on the costa itself this is dark brown, and is followed by a small brown spot at the extreme apex itself; a large semicircular chestnut-brown blotch on the discocellular, dark-edged internally on the convex edge, and externally emitting a fine brown spike along the radial; a red-brown quadrate costal blotch above it touching the top ; 3 small brown clots on the costa near the base ; a small brown dot at the end of the 2nd and 3rd median and 2nd subcostal nervules. Head, thorax, abdomen, and fringes all straw-yellow. Underside rather duller, with the markings reproduced; the hind wings with traces of a second dentate line towards the hind margin. Expanse of wings 54 millim. Hab. Sikkim. The palpi in this species and in 0. ablunata, Guen., are shorter than in the rest, and these insects will perhaps have to be removed to a separate genus. [I have only seen two males of this fine and very distinct species, which m y collectors brought from the interior.-H. J. E.'] OPISTHOGRAPTIS LONGIPENNIS, sp. n. 3. Fore wings canary-yellow, faintly suffused with tawny, and with 2 oblique, paraUel, reddish-tawny lines, one from 3 of the inner margin to f of the costa, the other from § of the inner margin to the apex; fringes yellow. Hind wings very pale lemon-yellow, with a small dark cell-spot and faint traces of a curved submarginal fascia. Head and thorax canary-yellow ; face and abdomen lemon. Underside yellowish straw-colour, mottled with tawny-brown spots; costal region of fore wings at base and 2nd line |