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Show 1893.] SPECIES OF MOTHS F R O M INDIA. 369 PHOTOSCOTOSIA, Warr. Trichopleura, Staud. (nom. prseoc). Photoscotosia, Warr. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 327. Lasiogma, Meyr. Tr. E. S. 1892, p. 70. Type, P. miniosata, Wlk. (Scotosia). PHOTOSCOTOSIA ATROMARGINATA, sp. n. (Plate XXX. fig. 1.) o*. Fore wing with the ground-colour a mixture of dull olive and bronzy violet; a dark, curved, broadish, pale-edged line near the base; central band dull bronzy red, with the two lines that bound it black; the first, broad at the costa, concave basewards, but forming a sharp tooth pointing inwards between the two concavities on the median nervure ; the second is likewise darker at the costa, beneath which it forms two small projections, between which a small tooth of the paler exterior ground-colour runs in ; it reaches the inner margin with 5 small rounded waves, and the band itself is 3 times as broad on the costa as on the inner margin; marginal third a mixture of olive and dull reddish; an indistinct oblique blackish apical dash; a distinct black line at base of fringes. Hind wings white, slightly grey along the inner margin, and with the inner half of the hind margin narrowly sooty black. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark fuscous, tinged with olive. Underside of wings glossy greyish white ; the fore wings darker along the disk and with the fringes much darker ; both wings with a central curved denticulated dark grey line; hind wings with a distinct blackish cell-spot. Expanse of wings 36 millim. Hab. Sikkim. Distinguished at a glance, independently of its smaller size, by the white hind wings with their sooty blotch. [I took a single specimen of this distinct species at about 12,000 feet on Sundukpho in July.-H. J. E,~] PHOTOSCOTOSIA MULTILINEA, sp. n. (Plate XXX. fig. 10.) o*. Fore wings fawn-colour, varied with grey and reddish brown; extreme base reddish grey, followed by a reddish-brown fascia, succeeded by a mottled grey and white fascia, and this by reddish-brown lines, which deepen externally into a rich red-brown fascia, the edge of which is slightly sinuous, and distinctly contrasted with the paler central space; discal spot dark brown, linear, just beyond the line ; exterior line preceded on costa by a red-brown patch, forms two sharp teeth below the costa, and crosses the wing as a series of denticulate sinuations ; it is followed on the costa and inner margin by a pale grey space crossed by numerous sinuous dark lines; rest of the wing dull reddish brown or reddish grey; hind wings smoky fuscous, with costal region whitish. Underside paler, with dark central costal spot; tuft of hairs black, with base tawny ; hind wings dull grey. Expanse of wings 54 millim. Hub. Sikkim. [Taken by Mdller's collectors in the interior.-H. J. E.~\ |