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Show 1893.] SPECIES OF MOTHS FROM INDIA. 427 Expanse of wings 42 millim. Hah. Sikkim. [Taken at Sundukpho, about 12,000 feet, by m y native collectors in July.-H. J. E.~\ MlORABRAXAS (?) INCOLORATA, sp. n. 2 . Fore wings white, densely dusted with a profusion of dark grey atoms, which are congregated more thickly in places, so as to form indistinct transverse fascia-form blotches; one close to the base, the second curved, representing the first line ; the third, also curved and slightly sinuous, beyond the discal spot, which is large and black; subterminal line more distinct as a line, forming a double black blotch at the costa, and opposite the cell; hind margin crenulate, edged with black, and with a large black drop at each vein; fringes whitish. Hind wings dull whitish, with faint cinereous atoms. Face white, thorax and abdomen mottled black and white; antenna? white at base, irregularly white and black along the shaft. Underside cinereous, mottled with darker; the hind wings rather paler than fore wings. Expanse of wings 48 millim. Hab. Sikkim. In the absence of the 3, the location of this species must be considered provisional only. [I only have this from m y native collectors, but specimens from Gnatong on the Thibet frontier, at 12,000 feet, are in Knyvett's collection.-H. J. E.~\ PCECILALCIS, gen. nov. Cleora, Guen. Phal. i. p. 232; Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 629. Selidosema, Wlk. xxiv. p. 1029. Gnophos, Wlk. xxxv. p. 1597. Scotosia, Wlk. xxxv. p. 1687. Boarmia, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 631. Arichanna, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 658. Pseudocoremia, Moore, Lep. Coll. Atk. p. 241. Type, P. nigridorsaria, Guen. (Cleora). The genus Pseudocoremia was formed by Mr. Butler (Cist. Ent. ii. p. 496; P. Z. S. 1877, p. 394) for a small group of N ew Zealand insects, one of the characteristics of which is an excessive proneness to variation. Misled by a superficial resemblance, Mr. Moore referred a group of E. Indian forms to the same genus. But the constituents of this group do not vary inter se, and are otherwise separable from the N e w Zealand genus. The margins of both wings are scalloped, whereas in Pseudocoremia they are without exception simple. POSCILALCIS (?) LATIFASCIATA, sp. n. 2 • Fore wings whitish ochreous, tinged with tawny, and thickly dusted with dark brown short strigae; basal half of the wing almost wholly covered with confluent dark fuscous atoms, which are densest at the edge, where they include the blackish central |
