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Show 1893.] SPECIES OF MOTHS FROM INDIA. 409 AOHROSIS QUADRARIA, Sp. D. 2. Fore wings yellowish ochreous, tinged with fulvous ; towards the base and apex with traces of 2 blackish transverse lines, which are each represented by a blackish blotch on the costa, and 2 round blackish spots on the inner margin placed obliquely one over the other; below the first costal blotch is a smaller blackish dot. Hind wings tawny yellow, with a composite blackish blotch at the anal angle and a blackish spot in the angle of the hind margin. Head absent; thorax and abdomen concolorous. Underside fulvous yellow, without markings. Expanse of wings 36 millim. Hab. Bhotan. [A very fresh 3 from Sikkim, sent by Moller, agrees exactly in the markings, but has the colour of fore wings brighter.-H. J. E.~\ PRIONIA OBLIQUILINEATA, sp. n. o*. Fore wings pale liver-colour, tinged with olive towards the base and irrorated throughout with reddish-brown atoms ; 1st line at 5 starts from the costa as a reddish-brown, outwardly oblique, short blotch, then runs obliquely inwards with an irregularly sinuous course; 2nd line, also red-brown, runs straight from the inner margin, shortly before anal angle, to the apex, just before reaching which it is deflected and forms a curved, oblique, costal blotch; extreme apex with a small blackish blotch and another shortly before it on the costa. Hind wings as in squalidaria, Hiib. Head, thorax, abdomen, and antenna? concolorous. Underside wholly dull orange-tawny, with a small blackish costal dash before the apex of both wings, and a distinct blackish cell-spot on the fore wings. Expanse of wings 28 millim. Hab. Naga Hills. Distinguished from its allies by the straight, distinct, second line. [Dohertv sent only one male of this, which was taken at about 4000 feet.-H. J. E.) EURYTAPHRIA, gen. nov. Fore wings ample ; costa curved at base and before apex, which is distinct; hind margin entire, obliquely curved. Hind wings ample, with well-rounded hind margin, faintly indented opposite the cell. Palpi shortly rostriform ; tongue present. Antennae of 2 simple, of 3 pectinated: the pectinations fine, distant, and nearly at right angles with the shaft; legs moderate, hind tibiae not thickened, with two pairs of spurs. Neuration:-Fore wing : first subcostal nervule anastomosing with the costal; the other 4 subcostal nervules on a common stem, which starts at f of the cell, at which point the subcostal itself is bluntly angulated; the 4th subcostal nervule runs into the apex, the 2nd and 3rd being given off from it at | and f respectively, the 5th at |; the first median nervule starts at f, the second just before the lower end of cell where the median vein is inclined upwards, the thi^d from the end; lower |
