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Show 1893.] SPECIES OF MOTHS FROM INDIA. 351 SPHAGNODELA, gen. nov. Fore wings rather lengthened; the costa gradually curved throughout; hind margin evenly rounded. Hind wings with hind margin rounded, the inner angle rather prominent. Forehead shelving, slightly prominent; vertex with erect hairs ; thorax and patagia hairy; abdomen with segmental crests; palpi not long, porrect, ascending, the third joint inconspicuous ; tongue present; antennae of o* pectinated, the pectinations short, curved, and directed slightly forward ; legs and underside of thorax hairy. Neuration: cell half as long as wdngs ; discocellular angulated; lower end of cell wedge-shaped; 1st submedian at §, 2nd at |-, 3rd from end of cell; lowrer radial from above the angulation of discocellular; upper from the upper angle; 3rd, 4th, and 5th subcostals on a common stem ; 1st and 2nd the same. Hind wings: costal running near subcostal for a short distance ; two subcostals on a short stem ; the rest as in fore wings. Type, S. lucida, sp. n. SPHAGNODELA LUCIDA, sp. n. (Plate XXXII. fig. 13.) o*. Fore wings bright moss-green, varied with paler yellowish green and thickly dappled with coarse blackish dots ; lines blackish, denticulate, first at |, vertical; second at f, sinuous, approaching the first line by a sinus above the inner margin ; submarginal line composed of a curved series of black spots, each followed by some silvery-white scales ; some irregularly scattered white scales also follow the second line, and are dusted over the disc ; cell-spot large, dark ; fringes olive-green, with black spots at the ends of the veins, and an indistinct dark festooning containing paler scales. Hind wings yellowish ochreous, tinged with green, especially towards the hind margin, and thickly mottled with black transverse strigae ; fringes yellowish green. Palpi dark brownish green; face and vertex pale yellowish green ; thorax and abdomen olive-green ; antennae pale yellowish, with a white basal joint. Underside pale ochreous, dappled with fuscous cinereous, the fore wing almost entirely suffused with cinereous except along the hind margin. Expanse of wings 48 miUim. Hab. Sikkim. This species differs from usneata, Feld., not only in its smaller size but in the absence of any definite lines and markings on the hind wings; it is altogether a much brighter, gayer-looking insect. [Not an uncommon species on the Nepal frontier of Sikkim, where I have taken it at from 10,000 to 13,000 feet in July.-. H. J. E.] Subfam. GEOMETRIN^E. CHLORODONTOPERA, gen. nov. Odontoptera, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 621. Fore wings elongate ; costa nearly straight ; apex blunt; hind margin with 2 deep excavations beneath apex, with a prominent 24* |
