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Show 1890.J NEW MOTHS FROM INDIA. 385 much brighter in colour, being bright cherry-red instead of dull reddish pink, the yellow spots, even in worn specimens, much brighter and larger. The body is black as in C. desgodinsi, with a row of 6 large yellow spots on the sides and under surface of the abdomen separated by black bands. The underside of the tibiae in all the legs is bright yellow, the tarsi and feet black. This seems to be the case also in C. desgodinsi, though m y specimen is not so fresh. M. Oberthiir informs me that a similar form occurs in Yunnan. Besides the species of Campylotes above referred to, the following only are known to me :- C A M P Y L O T E S ATKINSONI, Moore, Descr. Atk. Coll. i. p. 17 (1879). A rare species, from high elevations in Sikkim, without any yellow markings. CAMPYLOTES PRATTII, Leech, Ent. 1890, p. 109. From Central China. A species allied to C. desgodinsi, but easily distinguished from it and from all other described species by the transverse black band near the base of the fore wings. CYCLOSIA? OCHREA, n. sp. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 4, $ .) This very curious little insect agrees well with no genus known to me nor with any in the British Museum, if its size, colour, and aspect are regarded ; but its antenna? and the ovipositor-like projection from the abdomen in the §, as well as the neuration, show that it belongs to the Chalcosiidae, where it would come between Herpa and Cyclosia panthona, Cr. It is probably nearly allied to Arbudas bicolor, Moore, Atk. i. p. 20, t. 2. I 9, which, though placed by Mr. Moore in the Nyctemeridae, is also, 1 think, a Chalcosid Moth. 6" $ . Fore wings ochreous yellow without markings; hind wings the same, but paler and brighter, with darker abdominal border. Beneath, plain dull yellow-ochre. Head and body brown ; antennae black; legs and underside of body yellowish. Expanse 24 to 26 m m. Described from a single male and three females taken by Mr. Doherty in the Naga Hills at about 5000 to 7000 feet elevation. SORITIA ? MOLLERI, n. sp. (Plate XXXII. fig. 13.) I know of no insect in the family at all resembling this, and believe it will form the type of a new genus; but I have only seen two specimens, of the sex of which I cannot be certain with the help of a strong lens, and as I do not wish to destroy them, I must leave it uncertain for the present, though they seem to agree in venation and general appearance with Soritia (LTeterusia) circumdata, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 121. Colour black, with the inner half of both wings white except at the base, the veins of fore wing and a bar at the end of the cell vitreous; four black spots in the white part of the fore wing. Beneath, the white is tinged slightly with bluish. Head, thorax, |