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Show 1893.] SPECIES OF MOTHS FROM INDIA. 425 men mottled fuscous and tawny. Antenna? rust-coloured. Underside dull cinereous, with darker markings showing through ; hind wings thickly mottled with rather large darker grey speckles. Expanse of wings 46 millim. Hab. Sikkim. [I have only seen the type, which was from Moller's collection.- H. J. E.] ARICHANNA SUBALBIDA, sp. n. (Plate XXXII. fig. 15.) o". Fore wings olive-green, dusted with darker, extreme base dark; basal line blackish, curved, preceded by a darker fascia, and starting from a black costal spot; central shade fine, undulating, also starting from a black spot on the costa ; cell-spot dark, but indistinct, being apparently lost inside the central shade; exterior line starting at f of the costa, finely denticulate, nearly touching the central line above the inner margin; submarginal line irregular, blackish from the costa, beyond the cell followed by a blackish blotch, and preceded by 2 white spots ; above the inner margin preceded by a large semicircular white blotch, and followed by 3 smaller ones; a pale oblique subapical space; fringes slightly chequered, preceded by a dark festoon-shaped line. Hind wings dull whitish; with 2 indistinctly marked dark lines, one central, the other submarginal; fringes white, their basal line scalloped, with a dark dot between each vein. Head, face, thorax, and abdomen all olive-green ; shaft of antenna? dotted with black. Underside: fore wings whitish ochreous, the inner half whitish and unspotted, towards the costa and apex irregularly dark-speckled; hind wings ochreous, freckled sparsely with darker. Expanse of wings 36 millim. Hab. Sikkim. [Several specimens, which agree, were taken by Moller's collectors, and I have one from the Naga Hills.-H. J. E.~\ ARICHANNA TRANSFASCIATA, sp. n. 3 . Fore wings dark olive-green, peppered with darker atoms ; a dark brown spot at the base; basal hne creamy-white, slightly sinuous, rather oblique, darker edged on both sides ; exterior line creamy-white, evenly but slightly curved outwards, with dark fuscous atoms on its inside edge ; a large dark ocelloid cell-spot, and between it and the exterior white fascia a black bluntly-denticulated transverse line. Submarginal line irregularly sinuous, white, internally dark-edged; an oblique white streak from the apex, crossing the submarginal line to the exterior line ; from the base of the wing a fine white longitudinal line rises, becoming broader beyond the basal white line, and running right through along the median vein into the fringes, which are preceded by black lozenge-shaped spots. Hind wings yellowish-ochreous, with a dark grey cell-spot, a dark central curved line, paler edged externally; hind margin tinged with dark grey, and traversed by an indistinct paler submarginal line. Head, palpi, face, and collar pale ochreous |