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Show 1893.] SPECIES O F M O T H S F R O M INDIA. 375 and a chocolate mottled central space; its outer edge is marked by a pale, round lobed, and somewhat dentated line, and it is partially interrupted below the middle by pale mottlings along the median nervules ; following the pale line come 3 or 4 dark fuscous lines separated by similar paler ones, then a denticulate pale sub-terminal line; hind margin wholly olive-green; fringes mottled. Hind wings dull fuscous, with faint traces of a darker central fascia. Head, thorax, and abdomen mixed with olive-green and drab. Underside of fore wings dull cinereous, with the costa, a large ocelloid patch beyond the central fascia, and a chain of spots representing the subterminal line, yellowish. Hind wings yellowish white, dusted and suffused with fuscous, with traces of 2 dark lines and a cell-spot. Expanse of wings 28 millim. Hah. Sikkim. CIDARIA EXQUISITA, sp. n. (Plate XXX. fig. 2.) o*. Fore wings with the basal third and central fascia rich olive-brown ; basal patch crossed by a bluish-silvery line and separated from the central fascia by a narrow rusty-ochreous space, edged externally by a zigzag bluish silvery line ; central fascia edged externally by a similar line, and with 2 or 3 indistinct silvery lines down the middle from the costa; a bright fulvous patch beyond the centre of the central fascia; a costal subapical brown patch ; an oblique bluish line from the apex ; fringes olive-brown, chequered with bluish. Hind wings wholly dull grey, but with chequered fringes. Underside dull fuscous ; the hind wings with bluish fasciae and markings; all the fringes mottled with bluish. Expanse of wings 30 millim. Hab. Sikkim. Taken at Tonglo in July, at 10,000 feet. EPIRRHOE, Hiib. Verz. p. 328. Type, E. biriviata, Borkh. Male antenna? scarcely pubescent. EPIRRHOE (?) LATIFASCIATA, sp. n. 2 • Fore wings brownish fuscous, with a reddish tinge in certain lights; basal patch edged with 2 curved whitish lines close together, but separated by a browm line of same width; a similar single white line across its centre; central fascia broad, edged externally by an irregularly dentate white line which forms a rather large sinus inwards above the inner margin; marginal area fuscous, more mixed with white, so that the white submarginal line is not particularly distinct; the hind margin itself with 3 brown blotches-one apical, one just above the middle, the third above the anal angle ; space on each side of the central one whitish ; fringes brownish, with pale base and a blackish basal line ; a rather large, bent, black cell-spot. Hind wings whitish grey towards base, fuscous beyoud, |