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Show 428 MR. W. WARREN ON NEW GENERA AND [Apr. 18, spot; the curved basal line can just be seen through the centre of this patch; submarginal line thick, black, wavy, finely edged with paler, immediately preceded by a tawny shade, the central area between this shade and the basal patch being paler, whitish ochreous, only dusted with dark grey along the costa, at the centre, and slightly along the inner margin; submarginal area tawny, more or less filled up with dark fuscous, of which there is one large patch below the apex, and another above the anal angle ; a marginal row of black lunules before the fringes, which are mottled light and dark. Hind wings dull pale ochreous, dusted with grey striga?, especially towards the base and hind margin, with a dark grey cell-spot; a row of narrow dark lunules before the pale fringes. Head, thorax, aud abdomen mottled fuscous and olive. Underside yellowish ochreous, mottled with grey, with the basal half and submarginal area of the fore wings suffused with dull grey ; the central fascia showing decidedly paler, and unmottled except along the costa; cell-spots large and distinct on both wings. Expanse of wings 30 millim. Hab. Sikkim. [A common species at 7000 to 10,000 feet in the rainy season.- H. J. E.-] MYRIOBLEPHARA, gen. nov. Scotosia, Wlk. xxxv. p. 1685. Cleora, Moore, Lep. Coll. Atk. p. 239. Arichanna, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 659. Type, M. rubrifusa, sp. n. Fore wings with costa very slightly convex; apex blunt; hind margin obliquely curved, slightly scalloped. Hind wings rounded. Palpi shortly porrect, the terminal joint pointed, somewhat drooping; 2 antennae simple, 3 curling, with dense long cilia, which also have a tendency to curl. Allied to Pcecilalcis, but distinguished at once by the 3 autenna?, MYRIOBLEPHARA ALBIPUNCTATA, sp. n. Fore wings ( 3 ) greyish fawn-colour, finely dusted with darker; lines dark grey ; first at |, slightly curved; second at f, sinuous, approaching first on inner margin, and nearly touching an indistinct dark central line, which forms an outward bend round the blackish linear discoidal spot; subterminal line evenly and bluntly denticulate, preceded by a broad grey edging, and interrupted in the middle by a pale white triangular blotch; fringes greyish ochreous, with a row of black dots at their base between the veins. Hind wings like fore wings, but with a fulvous suffusion along the middle; the extreme base white; the first line thick, black, preceded by blackish scales; the second distinct, blackish, angulated in the middle, near the first, and enclosing the discal dot. Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish, tinged with grey and ochreous. |