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Show 1893.] SPECIES O F M O T H S F E O M INDIA. 361 of o* beset with long pencil o£ hairs, concealing spurs, if present. Neuration :-Fore wing : cell barely half the length of wing; discocellular obliquely curved; 1st median nervule at -J; 2nd and 3rd from end of cell; lower radial from centre of discocellular ; upper from top end of cell; areole double ; 4th and 5th subcostals from end of areole, widely diverging; 2nd and 3rd shortly out of 4th. Hind wings with the two subcostal nervules very shortly stalked; the rest as in fore wing. Type, Tanaotrichia trilineata, sp. n. TANAOTRICHIA TRILINEATA, sp. n. (Plate XXXII. fig. 2.) o*. Fore wings reddish ochreous or reddish, dusted with fine deeper red atoms ; basal half of costa blackish; 3 red-brown transverse lines ; the first fine, at i bent beneath the costa, then vertical; the second thicker, oblique, slightly wavy, from | of the costa to f of inner margin; the third submarginal, straight at first from the costa and inclined slightly outwards, forms a sinus outwards towards the anal angle; fringes concolorous with darker red base. Hind wings like fore wings, but without the basal line; face and palpi red-brown; vertex whitish ; collar reddish ; thorax, patagia, and abdomen concolorous with wings. Underside paler, without irrorations ; all the lines visible except the basal; the cell-spot of the fore wings also shown. Expanse of wings 38 millim. Hab. Sikkim. [Taken by Mr. Gammie at about 3000-5000 feet.-if. J. E.~] ANISODES ARGENTISPILA, sp. n. 2 • Fore wings dull brick-red, with faintly darker markings ; an indistinct fascia near base; a similar dark discal ocellus, with a faintly darker shade beneath it; a curved, slightly denticulate fascia at §; a subterminal one between the last and the hind margin, which appears as if interrupted below the middle ; a marginal series of minute black dots between the veins; fringes concolorous. Hind wings like fore wings, but with a large irregular silvery-white discal spot, surrounded with dark grey; palpi and face brick-red ; vertex whitish ; thorax and abdomen pale pinkish ochreous. Underside dull pink, without markings. Expanse of wings 32 millim. Hab. Naga Hills. PERIXERA OBSCURATA, sp. n. (Plate XXXII. fig. 20.) 3. Wings sandy ochreous, dusted with greyish ochreous and with all the markings grey; inner, exterior, and subterminal line all irregularly dentate-sinuous; beyond the subterminal the wings are suffused with grey; costa of fore wings dark grey; discal spot present in both wings. Thorax, abdomen, and antenna? all sandy ochreous. Underside pale straw-colour, with all the markings dull rosy and a rosy blotch along the centre of the disk. Expanse of wings 32 millim. Hab. Sikkim. |