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Show 1893.] SPECIES OF MOTHS FROM INDIA. 401 Expanse of wings 28 millim. Hab. Naga Hills. [The type is unique, and was taken by Doherty at about 8000 feet in July.-H. J. E.) ISCHALIS, Wlk. xxvi. p. 1749. Type, /. incaria, Guen. (Epione). ISCHALIS COLORATA, sp. n. (Plate XXXII. fig. 26.) o*. Fore wings pinkish ochreous, but the ground-colour is almost wholly overrun by a suffusion of tawny, the pale interspaces being likewise dappled with spots of the same tint; no 1st line ; exterior line at |- pale silvery lilac, nearly parallel on the whole to the hind margin, forming a small sinus outward below the costa, and a similar one inwards above the inner margin ; this line is followed immediately by a dull olive-green fascia, which is succeeded by a paler, narrower, somewhat interrupted fascia of the ground-colour, beyond which the whole marginal area is tawny; the nervules beyond the exterior line are themselves marked with the same tint of silvery lilac, dotted in places with dark brown ; the whole basal 5 is dark tawny, divided on the costa by a small paler space ; a narrow tawny blotch lies on the costa in the middle; cell-spot diffuse, roundish, dark brown. Hind wings like fore wings, but the basal area only dappled sparsely with tawny spots, with the commencement on the inner margin of an irregular rust-coloured line. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous suffused with tawny. Underside like upper, but more brightly coloured-the tints of ochreous, tawny, and green much more brightly contrasted. Expanse of wings 48 millim. Hah. Sikkim. [Brought by m y native plant-collector from Jongri in the interior, where he took it at 13,000 feet in September. I have seen one other specimen only.-H. J. E.~\ PRIONODONTA, gen. nov. Fore wings with costa slightly convex at base and before apex, slightly concave between ; apex subacute ; hind margin subden-tate, with a decided elbow in the middle, beneath which it is oblique; anal angle distinctly expressed; inner margin visibly incurved just before it. Hind wings with costa outlined as in fore wings, shouldered before apex; hind margin dentate, the teeth at the end of the 2 subcostals and 3rd median most prominent. Forehead slightly protuberant; palpi horizontally porrect; 2nd joint broad, loosely scaled, 3rd much shorter, smooth, subconical ; tongue present. Antenna? of 3 more than half as long as fore wings, bipectinate, the pectinations themselves short and stout, pubescent, becoming gradually smaller, so that the apex is subdentate only. Fore tibiae short, with a tuft of hairs beneath |
