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Show 1890.] NEW MOTHS FROM INDIA. 395 addition to the triangle of black spots between these bands, the male has a fourth close to the costa outside or partly in the third band. The fringe of the fold is very narrow, and the lappet beneath the wing small. Underside and hind wings pure white, the black dots showing through, and on the hind wing a small blackish lunule at the end of the cell, which is not visible in the Plate, but which distinguishes this species from any other. Described from two males and a female taken by Mr. Doherty at Mao, on the Manipur side of the Naga Hills, in August 1889. I have a single female agreeing perfectly with them from Moller's collection, taken in 1888, in Sikkim. c3. 2 spots only within the bands in c* • 19. B I Z O N E M O L L E R I , n. sp. Very near the last species, but distinguished by the absence of the dark lunule on the hind wing, by the male having two only instead of three spots in the disk, by the somewhat smaller size, and differently shaped lappet below the wing. I think it is a perfectly good species, as I have 1 61 and 2 $ from Sikkim, and have compared a male from Cherra Pungi in the Khasia Hills, in the Atkinson collection, which perfectly agrees. This species may be distinguished from B. guttifera by the much larger black spots, the pure white hind wing, and larger costal fringe. c4. With pale yellow hind wings. 20. B I Z O N E GUTTIFERA, Walk. Cat. vii. p. 1779. Smaller than the last, with smaller black spots, and the hind wings in fresh specimens bright yellowish fawn-colour, which in worn or old specimens fades towards the base. Agrees with type in the British Museum, which came from the North-west Himalaya. Seems common in the interior of Sikkim, and brought from Chumbi by native collectors, but not found, so far as I know, near Darjeeling. A pair from the Naga Hills agree perfectly. In the British Museum and Moore's collection some specimens which may belong to B. sikkimensis are mixed with it, but fourteen specimens in Moller's and m y collection, of which four are males, are constant in the colour of the hind wing and other characters. c5. Pure white, with 3 yellow bands, the terminal one wanting. 21. B I Z O N E SIKKIMENSIS, n. sp. (Plate XXXII. fig. 6 6, 5 $ .) 8 2 • White, with orange-buff bands on the thorax and tegulae, and three orange-buff bands across the fore wing as in the figure. The male has two round black spots between second and third bands, and a black streak on the third band, the outer angle of which is partly concealed by the costal fold. The fold appears to be much shorter and differently shaped to those of B. signa or B. molleri and seems more like that of B. guttifera, whilst the lobe below is shorter and single. |