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Show 1893.] SPECIES OF MOTHS FROM INDIA. 417 dense dark freckling; no basal line, and the largest marginal olive blotch in the central prominence. Face and forehead white; thorax white with strong black markings ; abdomen the same. Underside an exact reproduction of upper. Expanse of wings 60 millim. Hab. Sikkim. [I have two males of this very striking species, one of which I took at light at Darjiling in July, the other from Moller's collection. It must be very rare.-H. J. E.~] Subfam. ASCOTIN,E. Fam. Boarmidoz, Guen. Phal. i. p. 213, part. MEDASINA QUADR1NOTATA, Sp. n. 3. Fore wings light wood-colour, dusted with fine brown transverse stria?, and with all the markings black-brown ; costa broadly and densely shaded and mottled with brown-black; beneath this costal suffused dark streak, a pale broad streak of the ground-colour, without any admixture of darker, runs from the base of the inner margin to the hind margin below the apex ; it is bounded towards the inner margin by a curved black-brown line running obliquely outwards, and forming the lower half of the basal line; beyond it and a little beyond the middle of the inner margin, a black doubly curved line rises vertically and nearly touches the end of the first line, where it disappears at the edge of the pale streak ; it is followed by a narrow pale space and then a deep black blotch ; submarginal line pale ochreous, rather glossy, forming 2 or 3 undulations near the costa where it crosses the pale space, and then running with one slight indentation, parallel to hind margin; space beyond it pale ochreous, with distinct black transverse striae ; fringes darker, preceded by a row of shallow black lunules ; the submarginal line below the pale space is broadly edged internally with blackish brown, and the whole space between the sub-marginal line and the pale space, forming altogether an obtuse-angled triangle, is diffusely shaded with blackish brown ; cell-spot black, somewhat lost in the costal suffusion ; some indistinct traces of the two lines can be detected on the costa. Hind wings with the extreme base whitish ochreous, the whole basal half beyond being brown-black, gradually shading off towards the centre of the wing to the ground-colour and containing a large black cell-spot; just beyond the centre is a black line, slightly curved for | from the inner margin, then forming 2 largish teeth on the subcostal veins ; this line is followed by a broadish brown-black shade; submarginal line pale, distinct, irregularly wavy, bordered with darker brown on its inner side; submarginal space as in fore wings; fringes paler. Head, palpi, face, and collar dark; thorax and base of abdomen lighter; abdomen dark brown, with a distinct slender black ring at its base. Underside cinereous brown with a reddish tinge, with a broad dark brown |