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Show 1890.] NEW M O T H S F R O M INDIA. 389 the last joint. The antennae are filiform, with minute setae at the joints. Expanse 23 m m. Described from a single specimen (? female) taken by Mr. Dudgeon at about 5000 feet, near Darjeeling, M ay 15, 1887. SETINA? PUNCTATA, n. sp. (Plate XXXII. fig. 18, ? .) This species is nearly allied to S. dasara, Moore, which I have from the Naga Hills and Sikkim, and which also occurs in the Northwest Himalaya. It is also less nearly allied to 5. nebulosa, Moore, of which I have both sexes from Sikkim, but distinguished from both these by having no bands across the wings. From S. dharma, Moore, and 8. punctilinea, Moore, it is also distinct, as I have compared these species in Mr. Moore's collection. It comes nearest to S. discisigna, Moore, from the Khasi Hills, but differs from it in having no purplish brown on the hind wing, no black spots on the head or thorax, abdomen and legs yellowish instead of purplish brown. Described from two females, one from Sikkim, and one from the Naga Hills. I doubt whether the Indian species are congeneric with Setina of Schrank, in S. nebulosa at least the male antennae are pectinate ; but I leave them so at present as m y series is not sufficiently good to rearrange them. LYCLENE SIMPLIFASCIA, n. sp. (Plate XXXII. fig. 19,$.) This species is nearly allied to L. nubifascia, Walk., of which I have numerous specimens of both sexes, but differs in the following particulars :-The double row of spots across the fore wing is not bent outwards at the hind margin, and except in very fresh specimens is hardly visible. The fore wings are much deeper in colour. The dark bands across the fore wings are very faint, often quite invisible on the upper surface, and always narrower, especially in the female. If I had not several fresh specimens of both sexes I should not have ventured to separate it, but finding that both Mr. Moore, Col. Swinhoe, and Mr. Butler have separated it iu their collections without naming it, I have decided to do so. I took this species as well as L. nubifascia commonly at light at Darjeeling, on Tonglo, also on the top of the Rishilah in West Bhotan, from June to August. The antennae of the male are pectinate as in L. nubifascia. Genus BIZONE, Walk. Cat. Het. ii. p. 548 (1854) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. 60. Chionama, H.-S. Aus. Schmett. p. 21 (1858). In order to identify the numerous species of Bizone I have from India, and before describing any new species, I was obliged to revise the whole genus, and have carefully gone through the specimens in the British and Oxford Museums and in the collections of Messrs. Druce, Moore, Leech, Col. Swinhoe, and Dr. Staudinger, all of whom P R O C . Z O O L . Soc-1889, No. XXVII. 27 |