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Show 1893.] SPECIES O F M O T H S F R O M INDIA. 385 with dark grey and blackish along the inner margin. Head and thorax fawn-colour ; abdomen more mixed with grey. Underside pale grey, slightly glossy, with alternate light and dark grey bands ; both wings with black cell-spot. Expanse of wings 26 millim. Hab. Khasia Hills. Subfam. ORTHOLITHIN^;. O R T H O L I T H A DUPLICATA, sp. n. o*. Fore wings pale cream-colour; the costa broadly and suffusedly greyish fuscous; basal patch also greyish fuscous, its outer edge oblique, darker, not nearly reaching the costa; inner edge of central fascia represented by a long, curved, dark brown tooth, not quite reaching the cell-spot, which is linear and dark brown ; outer edge, by a similar but longer and more curved fascia-form marking, reaching only to the subcostal; space between them pure cream-colour ; the narrow pale space between the basal patch and central fascia traversed by a grey line, thickening upwards; beyond the central fascia a pale curved fascia of the same width as the dark exterior margin of the central fascia, traversed by 2 somewhat geminated brownish lines; hind margin brownish, the inner half the darker, with a pale line down the middle; fringes fuscous. Hind wings creamy white, slightly darker towards the fringes. Head, thorax, and antennae greyish fuscous; abdomen lighter. Underside ochreous, almost entirely suffused with pinkish grey, with the upper markings showing through. Expanse of wings 38 millim. Hah. Chumbi. [My native collectors brought a few examples of this distinct species from the Tibet frontier in 1883, and I have since had one from Moller ; I believe it occurs at great elevations.-II. J. E.~] Subfam. URAPTERYGIN^E. SlRINOPTERYX RUFILINEATA, Sp. n. 3 2 • Larger and brighter than rufivinctata, Wlk., and with the 2 transverse lines also reddish like the costa and fringes. Hab. Khasia and Naga Hills ; Sikkim. [The type specimen of this, which I took in September in the Khasia Hills, and which agrees with a Naga Hill specimen, is distinct enough, but some other Naga and Sikkim specimens show that the characters on which Mr. Warren has relied are not very constant, and I a m unable at present to confirm his opinion. -H. J. E.] SlRINOPTERYX UNDULIFERA, Sp. 11. o*. Fore wings pale canary-yeilow, more or less thickly strewn with coarse rusty, or rusty-brown, atoms, which are finer and denser along the costa, the base of which is brownish ; 2 oblique rusty-brown lines, one from j oi the inner margin to the costa beyond |