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Show 1893.] SPECIES OF MOTHS FROM INDIA. 355 fringes and extreme hind margin yellow, preceded by a purple festoon, which runs in a short distance along the inner margin ; at | of the costa a funnel-shaped purple marking obliquely curved outwards to the radial, and reappearing on the inner margin before anal angle as a small cone-shaped spot. Hind wings similar; but without any costal markings. Head and palpi reddish; antennae yellowish, touched with red ; abdomen ochreous, with red dorsal "markings ; thorax azure. Underside paler azure, with costa of fore wings and fringes yellowish. Expanse of wings 26 millim. Hab. Sikkim. [I have only seen two males of this very distinct species, both taken by natives.-H. J. E.~] ULIOCNEMIS, gen. nov. Fore wings broad, triangular ; costa gradually arched throughout; apex blunt; hind margin rounded, hardly oblique ; anal angle well marked. Hind wings broad, with the interior angle rounded and the anal angle produced and square ; hind margin variously rounded, sometimes cut off squarely. Palpi porrect, in 3 quite short, in 2 much longer. Antennae of 3 with long pectinations, which are themselves pubescent; in § also pectinated, but much less strongly than in 3 • Fore tibiae of 3 with a tuft of hair underneath. Neuration normal. Scaling delicate, fine, and silky. Type, Uliocnemis cassidara, Guen. The tuft of hairs on the fore tibiae of the male is often difficult to be made out, and is liable to be worn off. ULIOCNEMIS ALBIMARGINATA, sp. n. 2 . Wings pale grass-green ; fore wings with two white vertical transverse lines ; the first slightly curved outwards at -|-; the second at f, sinuous from costa to the 3rd median nervule, then straight towards the anal angle, before reaching which it is diverted rectangularly inwards, including at the angle a small brown patch ; an indistinct, irregularly sinuous, submarginal whitish line; the green space between the exterior and the submarginal line is interrupted below the costa by a suffused white patch; nervules towards the hind margin whitish ; fringes whitish green, a minute black-brown dot at their base between the nervules ; 2 larger ones at the anal angle beyond the brown patch; discal dot small, brown. Hind wings with the discal marking linear, brown; exterior line indistinctly white, starts from the costa level with the extremity of the exterior line of the fore wing, runs vertically to the lower subcostal, along which it goes nearly to the hind margin, then curves along the hind margin, widening in its course to above the anal angle ; space between this line and the hind margin filled up with black-brown from the costa to the radial; thence white, more or less tinged with green in the middle. Head, thorax, and abdomen (probably) green; underside of abdomen white. Underside |
