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Show 1893.] SPECIES OF MOTHS FROM INDIA. 431 resemble Alcis, have simple 3 antenna?, and for these I propose the generic name Psilalcis. PSILALCIS ATRIFASCIATA, sp. 11. 3. Fore wings testaceous grey, with fulvous suffusion and very finely dusted with dark atoms ; 1st line blackish, very much curved outwardly, with slight denticulations on the veins; 2nd line thick, black, denticulate outwardly, and forming a very decided angulation just above the centre of the wing; space between the lines filled up with purplish black, with a darker denticulate central shade in the middle ; submarginal line more or less regularly cuneiform, preceded and followed by fulvous, dusted with greyish silvery; costal space between 2nd and submarginal lines diffusely fuscous ; a diffuse dark fuscous blotch from the angulation of tbe 2nd line runs obliquely to the hind margin; inner margin, from base to anal angle, pale fulvous; fringes chequered, preceded by a row of shallow- black lunules. Hind wings much paler, with very indistinct markings, but with distinct discal spot. Head, antenna?, thorax, and abdomen (greasy) fuscous. Underside as above, but much duller. Expanse of wings 28 millim. Hab. Sikkim. [I have seen only two males of this rare species, taken by Moller's collectors.-//. J. E.~\ PSILALCIS DENTILINEA, sp. 11. 8 . Fore wings whitish ochreous, sparsely dusted with irregular fuscous atoms, with a longitudinal yellowish stripe along the median, extending to the fringes ; 1st line fuscous, indistinct, interrupted, forming 2 curves concave basewards and 3 teeth pointing to the base on the subcostal, median, and submedian veins ; this line is edged internally by spaces of pale ground-colour, entirely without dark atoms, most broadly in the 2 curves ; 2nd line, which is twice as far from the 1st on the costa as on the inner margin, also denticulate outwards on the veins, and forming a series of small curves between them and one larger one above the inner margin, approaching the lower of the two curves of the 1st line; discal spot dark fuscous; space between the 2 lines much dusted with fuscous, especially towards costa and inner margin, and sometimes almost suffused with fuscous ; the 2nd line is followed by a series of pale spaces similar to those before the 1st line; submarginal line formed of interrupted fuscous blotches, wedge-shaped externally, and followed by an interrupted pale denticulate line ; hind margin itself fuscous in places ; fringes chequered, fuscous and ochreous. Hind wings like fore wings, but with the central band almost obsolete; the discal spot distinct, with a broad fuscous margin in the 8 ,and almost white in the 2 - Face pale ochreous ; antennae and thorax dark fuscous ; abdomen ochreous, suffused with fuscous, paler in 2 than in 8 . |