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Show 1893.1 SPECIES OF MOTHS FROM INDIA. 345 the anal angle; fringe iron-grey chequered with pale olive. Hind wings dull whitish, speckled with grey at the base ; the outer half, the inner margin, and a large discal spot dark grey. Head and thorax olive-ochreous ; abdomen grey. Underside pale straw-colour, which in the fore wing is almost wholly suffused with iron-grey; patches along the costa, hind margin, and inner margin alone remaining pale. The hind wings have a broad dark marginal band and discal spot. Expanse of wings 22 millim. Hah. Sikkim. [The type, which is unique,was taken by Moller's native collectors at about 7000 feet.-H. J. E.~\ ISOLOBA, gen. nov. Like Cryptoloba, Warr., but with the $ antennae not plumose, but mondiform ; the antennae shorter, with finer and longer lateral branches; wings glossy, with two straight brown transverse lines, and without the silvery metallic spots and streaks that characterize Cryptoloba. Type, Isoloba bifasciata, sp. n. ISOLOBA BIFASCIATA, sp. n. (Plate XXXII. fig. 18.) o" 2 • Fore wings glossy straw-colour, finely and irregularly dusted with black atoms ; 1st and 2nd lines at ^ and § respectively, thick, brown, nearly straight, being slightly recurved only towards the costa; the 1st immediately followed, in the centre of the wing, by a thicker cluster of black atoms ; the 2nd by a still larger blackish blotch; 3 small oblique black dashes on the costa before apex, and 2 black flecks, in an oblique line, from the apex to the black blotch beyond the 2nd line ; fringes straw-colour, broadly chequered with black at the ends of all the veins. Hind wings duller straw-colour, scarcely dusted with darker, with the dark chequering of the fringes much narrower and less conspicuous. Head, palpi, and thorax the same colour as the brown transverse lines ; the abdomen mottled straw-colour and brown. Underside of both wings bright straw, mottled with dark atoms, and with a diffuse dark grey shade beyond each of the 2 lines on the front wing; the black chequering of the fringes visible also beneath. Expanse of wings 26 millim. Hab. Sikkim. [Not rare from Tonglo to Sundukpho on the Nepal frontier, 10,000-12,000 feet.-H. J. E.~] LOBOGONIA, gen. nov. Closely related to Cryptoloba and Isoloba, with which it agrees in neuration and scaling, but characterized by the angulation in the hind margin of both wings. Type, Lobogonia ambusta, sp. n. |