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Show 400 ON SOME NEW MOTHS FROM INDIA. [May 6, another of the same species in Mr. Druce's, which I received some years ago from Capt. Graham Young, and which was taken in the Mandi or Kulu district of the N.W. Himalaya. The sex cannot be determined with certainty, but both specimens seem, on account of the simple frenulum, to be males. I took m y specimen at Darjeeling in August. It may be described as follows:- Form and venation of Notodonta trepida, but twice as large. Fore wings brown, mottled with grey and reddish brown ; a dark line inside the outer margin and a broad grey patch along the middle part of the costa. A distinct fringed lobe in the centre of the hind margin, resembling that found in the genera Notodonta and Lopho-pteryx, but not found in Phalera. Hind wings fawn-colour, with dark veins and long dense brown hairs at the base. Beneath, fore wings brown, with dense hairs clothing the basal part of the wing; hind wing paler, the costa reddish brown. Head and thorax grey-brown. Abdomen dark brown, with yellow projecting tufts along the sides and yellow bands below. Extremity of abdomen yellowish brown. Fore legs densely covered, as in Notodonta trepida, with reddish-brown hair. Palpi short. A dense tuft of hair between the eyes and at base of the antennae, which are very minutely ciliated. Expanse 125 mm., length of body from eyes 41, length of hind wing 38, antennae 21 m m. Genus SINNA, Wlk. Sinna, Walk. Cat. Het. xxxii. p. 641 (1865). Teinopyga, Feld. Reis. Nov., Atl. p. 9 (sine descr.) (1868). SINNA DOHERTYI, sp. nov. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 5.) This genus contains four or five species, which are all represented in the British Museum, and from all of which m y species differs. It most resembles S. calospila, Wk., from Java, but differs in having the ground-colour of the fore and the whole of the hind wing pure shining silvery white instead of pale buff. From S. extrema, Wk., from Shanghai (probably identical with Teinopyga reticularis, Feld.), and $. fentoni, Butler, from Japan, which is also very nearly allied, it differs in having the markings of the fore wing red instead of yellow. T. clara, Butler, from Japan has no black at the tips of the wings. The markings of the fore wing above are too intricate for a description that would be intelligible ; but the colour in fresh specimens is brighter than shown in the Plate. Beneath it is silvery white, with smoky black instead of red and yellow markings. The thorax is white with yellow hands; the abdomen white with two black spots on each side of its end. Legs white, with some black spots. Described from two specimens taken in the Naga Hills by Mr. Doherty. I should have been disposed to place this genus uear Chasmina among the Nocture, but it is arranged in the British Museum with the Lithosiidre between Setina and Camptoloma, and Felder suggests its affinity to the genus Halias. |