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Show 1893.] SPECIES OF MOTHS FROM INDIA. 343 (damaged) mouse-colour with a pink tinge ; face deep red-brown head clear, pale ochreous ; thorax and abdomen olive-ochreous mixed with darker ; abdominal crests tinged with red. Underside dull mouse-colour, dusted with grey, and without distinct markings. Expanse of wings 24 millim. Hab. Naga Hills. Subfam. ORTHOSTIXIN^E. N A X A ORTHOSTIGIALIS, sp. n. Fore wings dull whitish, semitransparent, with all the veins blackish, and the costa smoky grey; basal transverse line marked by 3 black, lengthened spots lying on the subcostal, median, and submedian veins ; exterior and subterminal lines denoted by similar spots on all the veins; a larger dark oblong cell-spot, and dots on the veins below it. Hind wings like fore wings, but without the basal clots. Underside, with cell-spots and two outer rows of spots only distinct, but these more so than above. Expanse of wings, 2 52 millim., J 48 millim. Hab. Sikkim: Bhotan. [Taken by m e at Darjiling in July.-H. J. E.~\ PSILONAXA, gen. nov. Orthoslixis, Motsch. Bull. Mosc. 1866, p. 196. Orthostixis, S. & W . Cat. 2241. Zerene, de l'Orza, Cat. Lep. Jap. p. 48, no. 113 (1869). The species of this genus agree with Naxa, Wlk., in the shape of the wings, the scaling, and all points of structure except the antennae, and herein they agree with Orthostixis, Hiib., which likewise has simple antennae in both sexes. Type, P. taicoumaria, de l'Orza (Zerene). PSTLONAXA OBLITERATA, sp. n. (Plate XXXI. fig. 10.) 2 • Like P. taicoumaria, de l'Orza, but smaller and feebler; all the spots reduced to mere dark dots ; the two lower ones of the basal row nearly absent. Hab. Bhotan; Naga Hills. Two worn specimens in Mr. Moore's collection marked linteata, M., may be the same ; they are o* 2 from Darjiling. [This was taken at about 7000 feet by Doherty near Mao, Mani-pur, in August.-H. J. E.'\. CRYPTOLOBA, gen. nov. Larentia, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 654. Lygranoa, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5. vi. p. 228 (1880). Fore wings with costa convex, hind margin obliquely curved ; hind wings rounded ; both wings elongate ; hind wing in d with a peculiar chitinous lobe attached to the base of the abdominal margin. Antennae rather long, strongly pectinated in the <S, |