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Show 1893.] SPECIES O F M O T H S F R O M INDIA. 365 sandy yellow, with no basal line, but with a series of purplish-black spots between the veins. Hind wings the same, but with no traces of any lines. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous. Underside pale straw-colour, with the marginal spots distinct: fore wings with the costa brownish, the costal spots prolonged into streaks, and a diffuse discal blotch; hind wings with a small discal dot, and a costal one above it, black. Expanse of wings 30 millim. Hab. Sikkim. [Three specimens were taken by me, along with those of the last species, at 10,000 feet in July.-H. J. Ef\ [I have examples of another species, perfectly distinct from both the last, which I took abundantly at Tonglo in July, and which Mr. Warren has also marked lilacina and for which I propose the name of HYDRELIA SIKKIMENSIS, sp. n. Fore wings dull pinkish grey, traversed by 5 distinct inner transverse lines, and 3 double darker outer ones, the two series separated by a broad pale band including a discal spot. Hind wing pale grey with a discal spot and three marginal and one internal darker transverse lines. Beneath dull piukish grey, with discal spot on both wings, with one distinct transverse band and a marginal line of spots.-H. J. E.~] AUTALLACTA, gen. nov. Fore wings broad; costa gradually arched throughout; apex distinct, minutely subfalcate; hind margin oblique, with a scarcely perceptible blunt elbow in the middle. Hind wings broad, with a distinct elbow in middle of hind margin. Palpi very short, not reaching beyond face ; face rounded, protuberant; antennae in § simple, in 3 subserrate. Neuration as in Asthena. Type, A. subobliquaria (Timandra), Moore. Ar/TALLACTA LINEATA, Sp. n. 3. Fore wings pale straw-colour, with rust-coloured lines, 4 curved near the base, one straight oblique in the centre, and 3 slightly wavy and irregular towards the hind margin; fringe straw-colour, with a rusty basal line. Hind wings with only the central and 3 submarginal lines. Underside rather darker ; the fore wings with the basal lines not represented; head, abdomen, and legs all straw-coloured. Expanse of wings 28 milhm. Hab. Sikkim. This can hardly be an aberrant form of subobliquaria. The fore wings are decidedly concave from apex to middle of hind margin. _ [I have seen only one specimen of this insect, which is very distinct. Mr. Warren has included under the name of A. subobliquaria two other species which I took at much higher elevations and believe to be distinct, but I will not now describe them.-H. J. E.~\ PROC ZOOL. Soc-1893, No. XXV. 25 |