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Show 370 MR. W. WARREN ON NEW GENERA AND [Apr. 18, PHOTOSCOTOSIA FULGURITIS, sp. n. (Plate XXX. fig. 11.) 2 . Fore wings dark fuscous, with a tawny undertone; 1st line at |, pale grey, forming a large bidentate process outwards on the median vein; the basal i paler than the central, and crossed by darker lines shaped just like the pale first line, and by a straight pale line in the centre; exterior line at §, white, very slightly indented below the costa, very slightly wavy to below the median vein, where it forms a single blunt tooth, then turns inwards with two curves to the inner margin; an indistinct, interrupted pale subterminal line, and a white oblique streak from the apex, crossing it and all but reaching the exterior line ; fringes fuscous, with darker base. Hind wings with the costal region broadly whitish; the rest of the wing smoky fuscous, darker towards the hind margin, where there are traces of sinuate pale fascia?. Head, thorax, and abdomen all dark fuscous. Underside of fore wings whitish, with a thick black line from the costa beyond the middle, and a broad dark cloud beyond it; costa yellowish ; apex white ; tuft of hairs black ; cell-spot dark, linear. Hind wings whitish, much mottled with cinereous, with dark cell-spot and fuscous median band. Expanse of wings 48 millim. Hab. Sikkim. [Several specimens were taken by m e at 10,000-12,000 feet on the Nepal frontier in July.-H. J. E.~] EUSTROMA, Hiib. Verz. p. 335. Type, E. reticulata, Schiff. Distinguished by the long black tuft of hairs along the underside of the inner margin of the fore wings of the 3 from Lygris, Hiib., in which the tuft is short and pale yellow. EUSTROMA VENIPICTA, sp. n. 3 2 • Fore wings fuscous, with paler, more reddish markings; basal patch and central fascia dark fuscous, the former with a paler line along its centre ; the latter with a darker, paler-edged centre; the basal patch is edged with a double dull tawny line; the central fascia is edged internally by an angulated, irregular tawny fascia; the space between this and the edging of the basal patch being filled in with dark fuscous; the median nervure, the 3 median nervules, and the submedian all strongly tawny, interrupting the darker markings ; the central fascia is edged externally with a fascia formed of 3 pale and 2 dark lines, followed by a series of fuscous blotches, which are broader and wedge-shaped towards the costa, but gradually decrease towards the inner margin, and are bordered by a sinuous fine whitish line, wdiich becomes broad and white above the inner margin ; a similar whitish oblique line from the apex separates a small costal fuscous blotch from a larger triangular subapical one along the hind margin; fringes fuscous, with |