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Show 1893.] SPECIES OF M O T H S F R O M INDIA. 433 ELPHOS PR.EUMBRATA, sp. n. 2 . Fore wings strawT-colour, with a yellow suffusion, sprinkled pretty thickly with round dark atoms; 1st and 2nd lines black, exactly like those of E. hymenaria; ocelloid cell-spot obsolete above, with a vertical black costal spot exactly above it, whereas in E. hymenaria this spot is obliquely nearer the base ; a dark blackish smoky suffusion occupies the whole apical portion of the wing, except the extreme apex itself; the edge of the suffusion running obliquely from the costa at the origin of the 2nd line to the hind margin shortly above the anal angle. Hind wings like fore wings, with the apical portion only slightly and diffusely smoky. The whole of the wing-surface much clearer yellow, and not dusted and suffused with smoky bluish-grey atoms and shades as in E. hymenaria. Underside clear white, with dark grey mottlings, and the smoky apical suffusion of the upperside exactly reproduced in black. (En hymenaria the disk of both wings is suffused with cinereous, and the margins have a broad black fascia.) Head and thorax dark mottled; abdomen yellowish, with blackish markings above on each segment; clear yellowish below. Expanse of wings 80 millim. Hab. Perak. [A single specimen only of this very fine species was taken by Doherty.-IT. J. E.~] EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. PLATE XXX. Fig. 1. Photoscotosia atromarginata, 3> p. 13(50. 2. Cidaria exquisita, 3 > P- 375. 3. intertexta, 3, P- 374. 4. dentistrigata, 8, P- 374. 5. Amozbe niveopicta, 2> p. 372. 0. Gagitodcs olivacea, 2. P- 382. 7. Paralophia pustulata, j,p. 371. 8. Eurypeplodes irambata, §, p. 382. 9. Deinotrichia scotosiaria, 3 > p. 420. 10. Plwtoscotosia multilinea, 3, p. 369. II. fulguritis, 3 , p. 370. 12. Paricterodes (?) violacea, 2, p. 391. 13. Arichanna rubrivena, 3> P- 424. 14. Loxaspilates clispar, §, p. 413. 15. Abraxas alpestris, 3 > P- 394. 16. Perizoma lacteiguttata, 8, p. 378. 17. variabilis, 21 P- 377. 18. interrupta, 2 > P- 380. 19. apicistrigata, 8'. P- 378. 20. fasciata, $,p. 379. 21. Eupithecia costipicta, 2 , p. 383. 22. rubrinotata, 3» P- 384. 23. albispumata, 2 > P- 384. PLATE XXXI. Fig. 1. Comostola ccerulea, 8, P- 354. 2. Microloxia efformata, 3, p. 354. 3. Hemistola rubrimargo, 3< V- 354. |