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Show 1893.] SPECIES O F M O T H S F R O M INDIA. 391 wings clear ochreous or ochreous white, with larger flecks of darker and with the central spot and middle band plain. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with fore wings. Underside of abdomen like bind wings. Expanse of wings, $ 52 millim., 3 48 mdlim. Hab. Sikkim. A smaller and paler species than commixta, distinguished by having the fringes of the hind wings chequered as in the fore wings, and by the silvery lustre of the pale spots. [Not uncommon on the Nepal frontier from 10,000 to 12,000 feet, where I took it in June and July.-H. J. E.] PARICTERODES (?) VIOLACEA, sp. n. (Plate XXX. fig. 12.) 2 . Fore wings olive-tawny, thickly dusted with dark brown atoms, with 4 transverse black-brown bands, all more or less geminated, the 1st and 3rd evidently so ; the second includes the dark central spot; the 4th or submarginal consists of dark wedge-shaped blotches lying between the veins, each followed by a brighter, pale spot; a dark apical and subapical blotch beyond; fringes chequered brown or pale tawny, the dark spaces twice as broad as the lighter; a row of roundish black spots before the basal line. The transverse dark fascia? are interrupted across the 3 submedian nervules, along which a distinctly clearer tawny patch runs from near the base to the hind margin. When viewed obliquely, the intervals between the lines and the paler spaces which divide their geminations are seen to be purplish violet. Hind wings dirty grey, with only a faint trace of central spot, and still fainter of a curved fascia. Underside: fore wings blurred cinereous, with only the extreme costa ochreous, spotted with darker; hind wings clear pale ochreous, thickly dusted with cinereous, with distinct blackish central spot and central fascia, this latter decidedly angulated in the middle. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark, mottled brown and tawny; the abdomen with less mixture of dark than the head. Expanse of wings 38 millim. Hab. Sikkim. Possibly the 2 °i Micrabraxas subolivacea described later on. [Two specimens taken at Sundukpho at about 12,000 feet by me in July ; others from native collectors.-H. J. E.~] PERCNIA SUBMISSA, sp. n. 3. Wings greyish white, with a slight pinkish tinge; spots as in belluaria, but reduced in size, and rounder, more dot-like; in the submarginal row the 3rd and 4th from the costa are nearer each other than each is to the one above and below; underside the same ; abdomen white, with two black spots on each segment. Expanse of wings 44 millim. B. M., Dharmsala. Hab. Sikkim. [Not uncommon in April and M a y in the valleys of the interior.- H. J. Ef\ |