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Show 1893.] SPECIES OF MOTHS FROM INDIA. 353 ochreous. Underside pale bluish white, with the discal dots visible costa and basal fringe-line distinct, as on the upperside. Expanse of wings 26 millim. Hab. Sikkim. GELASMA GRISEOVIRIDIS, sp. n. (Plate XXXI. fig. 6.) 3 . Fore wings dull sea-green, tinged with grey, with two whitish undulating lines, the first at 1, oblique outwardly; the second at f, parallel to the hind margin; costa faintly and minutely speckled with yellow and purple ; hind wings with the exterior line only; both wings with a darker green linear cell-spot: head and thorax green; abdomen ochreous (?faded). Underside pale silvery green. Expanse of wings 24 millim. Hab. Naga Hills. [Taken by Doherty at 5000-7000 feet.-H. J. E.~\ HEMITHEA RUBRIPICTA, sp. n. 3. Fore wings pale yellowish green, most probably deeper green when fresh ; costa brick-red, dotted with black ; discal spot large, black; 1st line indistinct, partly represented by red spots on the veins; 2nd line, parallel to hind margin, represented by linear red spots on the veins, that on the inner margin swelling out into a more distinct spot. Hind wings the same ; fringes of both wings concolorous, with no darker basal line. Vertex and thorax con-colorous with ground-colour of wings ; abdomen brown-red, with the 2 antepenultimate segments of the wing colour ; face, palpi, and antennae brick-red. Underside pale yellowish, rather glossy, with the costa reddish ; discal dot of the fore wing alone visible; legs beneath washed with reddish. Hah. Sikkim. Also in M r . Moore's Collection unnamed. HEMITHEA NIGROPUNCTATA, sp. n. (Plate XXXI. fig. 4.) 3 . Wings pale grass-green, thinly scaled, with two whitish lines, the exterior the more distinct and edged internally with dark green ; a small black cell-spot in each wing ; costa of fore wing ochreous, with dark dustings. Underside pale whitish green, without any markings. Expanse of wings 30 millim. Hab. East Pegu. [Taken in spring by Doherty.-H. J. E.~\ HEMISTOLA, gen. nov. Fore wings with costa weak and gradually curved; apex blunt; hind margin slightly oblique, hardly convex; anal angle squared. Hind wings kite-shaped, with a decided but not acute tooth in the centre of hind margin. Palpi short, ascending obliquely in front of forehead, which is slightly prominent; antennae of 3 distantly pectinated, the pectinations themselves curved, beginning and ending short; the apex filiform ; hind tibiae slightly thickened, with 4 short spurs; hind tarsi abbreviated ; discocellular strongly |