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Show 1893.] SPECIES OF MOTHS FROM INDIA. 407 included space is broader; likewise deflected to the costa before the outer arm, the inner deflection being twice as long as the outer; a brown-edged round ocellus in the disk; the 2 edges of the 2nd line are dark brown, and the included space deep tawny; hind margin shaded with fulvous. Hind wings like fore wings, with a straight, brown-edged, tawny band, broader, and with its outer edge angulated towards the costa. Underside more thickly and coarsely dusted with fuscous dots, and showing on both wings an irregularly zigzag submarginal row of black dots on the veins, which towards the costa of the fore wings develop into a sinuous submarginal line. Head, thorax, and abdomen sandy yellow. Expanse of wings 36 millim. Hab. Sikkim; Bhotan. The 3 being at present unknown, the reference of the species to Leptomiza is only doubtful. [A male taken by myself at Cherra Punji in the Khasias in September, and another from the Karen Hills, show that M r . Warren's generic determination is correct. The species, though so wide-ranging, seems rare in all localities.-H. J. E.~] LEPTOMIZA FUSCOMARGINATA, sp. n. 2 • Fore wings rather bright yellowish ochreous, irrorated with coarse fuscous atoms; basal line dark brown, bent on the subcostal, thence vertical; cell-spot round, diffuse, brown, with a minute pale centre; 2nd line black-brown from close to apex to before the anal angle, finely edged externally with lilac-white, and preceded by a dark-brown shade, the inner edge of which is irregularly scalloped ; 2 small dark brown costal spots before it; marginal area wholly blackish-brown, with a slightly paler patch below the elbow; fringes brown-black, with faintly paler interspaces. Hind wings like fore wings, but with no basal line. Head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish straw-colour, dusted with darker ; the segments of the abdomen with pairs of dark dots. Underside duller throughout, the lilac outer line dotted with blackish on the veins. Expanse of wings 32 millim. Hab. Darjiling. [Taken in July by myself at 7000 feet.-H. J. E.~\ OMIZA MUSCICOLOR, sp. n. (Plate XXXII. fig. 25.) 2 • Fore wings pale mouse-colour, slightly tinged with ochreous olive; no actual lines, their places being taken by mere change of tint; 1st very indistinct at 3, parallel to hind margin to just before the costa, where it is recurved basewards; 2nd, from § of inner margin, runs obliquely and slightly wavy towards apex, before which it appears to be, like the 1st, retracted basewards ; space between the lines filled up with ochreous olive, and with a darker, slightly tawny shade beyond the discoidal spot, which is paler; space beyond 2nd line paler, somewhat pinkish, with an olive shade down the centre; fringes also olive. Hind wings a little paler than fore wings, and sparsely sprinkled with black |