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Show 432 MR. AV. WARREN ON NEW GENERA AND [Apr. 18, Underside like upper, but with the darker tints stronger, especially in tbe 3. Expanse of wings 26 millim. Hab. Sikkim ; Naga Hills. [One male taken by myself at light at the Bangbi bungalow near Darjiling, about 5500 feet elevation, on June 7th, and one 8 by Doherty in September at 3000 feet.-//. J. E.'j Subfam. SCOTOFPERYGIN^. Fam. Boarmidce, Guen. Phal. i. p. 213, part. SCOTOPTERIX PERMUSCOSA, Sp. n. 8 . Fore wing greyish ochreous, with a pinkish tinge, slightly dusted with darker, and suffused with pale brick-red and olive-brown ; basal line blackish, thicker on the costa, forming an obtuse subcostal angulation and a rounded sinus above the inner margin, preceded by a more indistinct brownish line; basal area irregularly suffused with darker; exterior line blackish, fine, forming a largish curve outwards beyond the cell, then running obliquely to the inner margin with one or two slight inequalities ; it is followed immediately by an interrupted reddish-grey shade ; cell-spot dark, with a dark costal blotch above it; subterminal line indistinctly paler, forming 2 prominent wedge-shaped markings, filled up with blackish, below the costa and above tbe inner margin; base of the fringes convexly scalloped; the veins before the fringes blackish; the whole costa is finely, and the hind margin broadly, darker than the rest of the wing. Hind wings with the exterior line and hind margin as in the fore wings ; the basal half paler, without markings. Underside clear pale ochreous, with distinct dark cell-spots and a broad submarginal brownish fascia, paler towards the fringes. Expanse of wings 38 millim. Hab. Bhotan. [Specimens from Sikkim are smaller than the type. I have it also from the Naga Hills and East Pegu.-H. J. E.~] SC'OBOPTERIX ALBISTELLARIA, sp. n. 3 2 • Wings dull leaden grey, plentifully irrorated with reddish scales; the central fascia is preceded and followed by a narrow band of the ground-colour; the central fascia is darkened by blackish scales, and contains a whitish, black-ringed ocellus; beyond the central fascia are two narrow undulating fascia? of mingled red and blackish scales, followed by a third paler fascia of the ground-colour, which is itself succeeded by an interrupted reddish fascia ; fringes leaden grey, with a series of dark spots at base. Hind wings similar. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark grey, tinged with reddish. Underside pale glossy grey, with hardly any markings. Expanse of wings 24 millim. Hab. Khasia Hills. [Taken by m e in September at about 6000 feet.--H. J. E.] |