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Show 1893.] SPECIES OF MOTHS FROM INDIA. 429 Underside dull pearly, with the lines and discal spots distinct. Wings in 2 whitish, dusted with ochreous grey, with all the lines and markings subdued aud indistinct; underside as in 3 • Expanse of wings, 3 26, $ 24 millim. Hab. Sikkim ; Naga Hills. At first sight the $ might be supposed to belong to another species; owiag to the white ground-colour, the white triangle which so conspicuously interrupts the subterminal line iu the middle is hardly noticeable ; but the similarity of the underside, with its fine scaling and pearly gloss, is conclusive as to their identity. [Taken in May and June by Moller in Sikkim and in the Naga and Karen Hills by Doherty, but seems to be scarce in Sikkim.- H. J. E.] MYRIOBLEPHARA ENORMIS, sp. n. o* 2 • Fore wings greenish testaceous, with a fulvous tinge, dusted with fuscous, and with olive-fuscous blotches ; a small one on the inner margin near base ; a curved fuscous 'ascia beyond; a sinuous fuscous fascia representing 2nd line; submarginal line consisting of blotches, one on the costa, another below, extending to hind margin; discal spot black, distinct, with a small costal dot above it; fringes mottled, pale olive-tawny and fuscous, preceded by a series of blackish lunules. In the 3 the whole wing is more or less entirely suffused with fuscous, only the submarginal line showing distinct. Hind wings dull whitish grey, in the 2 yellow tinged, with the spot and a faint line beyond it darker, but indistinct; some dark fuscous mottling along the hind margin and the inner margin. Head, thorax, and abdomen olive-tawny. Underside duller ; fore wings with the outer third darker ; hind wings with central line distinct. Expanse of wings, 2 30, 3 28 millim. Hab. Naga Hills. [Taken in September by Doherty at about 6000 feet.-H. J. E.] MYRIOBLEPHARA RUBRIFUSA, sp. n. o* 2 . Fore wings pinkish grey, suffused with deeper pink; all the lines darker pink, thicker on the costa, the 1st forming an angle outwards on the costal vein, the 2nd one beyond the cell; no cell-spot, but a red costal spot above; subterminal line bluntly denticulate ; a row of pinkish dots at base of the fringes. Hind wings with a basal, a geminated central, and a sinuous subterminal line dark pink. In the 3 the basal and marginal areas in both wings are suffused with deeper pink or brick-red, so as more or less to obscure the lines, and leaving the central fascia on each wing paler. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous. Underside dull pinky, with only the 2nd line distinct; this is pinky brown and much straighter than on the upperside. Expanse of wings 40 millim. Bab. Sikkim. [A rare species, wdiich I took only once on Tonglo at light at Paoc. ZOOL. SOC.-1893, No. X X I X . 29 |