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Show minutely waved; subterminal line whitish slightly defined by black on outer side, angled outwards at vein 7 and to termen at veins 4, 3, incurved at discal and submedian folds ; a terminal series of slight black lunules; cilia whitish and brown with a blackish line through them. Hind wing white strongly tinged with ochreous; the basal area suffused with fuscous ; a black discoidal lunule ; a terminal fuscous band, rather broad at costa, narrowing to a point at tornus; some black striae on termen ; cilia pure white; the under side ochreous white, the costal area slightly irrorated with fuscous, a slight discoidal lunule and diffused subterminal band. Hab. Sikhim, Tungu, vii. 03. 1 J , type. Exp. 28 millim. The mid and hind legs are missing, but the small reniform hairy eyes and the close resemblance in pattern to A. potccnini Alph. from ?W. China, and cliodonta Pling. Iris, xix. p. 80 (1906) from Lob-nor, makes it practically certain that it belongs to the genus Ancirtomorpha Alph. (1892) - Ala Staud. (1882) nec Lock. Crust. (1877) = Trichanarta Hmpsn. (1896). * C h lo r id e a transluc ens Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 108. f. 49 (1874); Moths Ind. ii. p. 176. T ib e t , Gyantze, vi. 04 (H. J. Walton). 1 3 . * C h l o r id e a n a n n a , sp. n. (Plate XXXYI. fig. 1.) <3. Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with fuscous and sometimes tinged with rufous ; palpi at base, pectus, and legs white, the fore tarsi banded with fuscous; abdomen ochreous dorsally suffused and irrorated with fuscous black. Fore wing pale ochreous, sometimes tinged with rufous, the basal area suffused with grey and irrorated with fuscous; an indistinct antemedial line, oblique from costa to vein 1, then bent inwards to inner margin; a medial fuscous or rufous band, diffused on outer side, incurved from costa to median nervure, where it is strongly angled outwards, then again incurved ; reniform blackish, rather diffused and with grey lunule in centre; postmedial line brown, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, the postmedial area from just beyond it fuscous or rufous, its outer edge forming the subterminal line, slightly angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle, then incurved ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing ochreous white ; the basal area suffused with black, leaving a pale streak below median nervure; a large black discoidal lunule; terminal area broadly black, its inner edge curved inwards between veins 4 and 1 and leaving some ochreous on termen between veins 3 and 1; cilia ochreous white. Under side of both wings ochreous white, with large black discoidal spots and black postmedial line excurved at middle and with dark suffusion beyond it, slight on fore wing, broad on hind wing. Hab. T ib e t, Khamba Jong, vii. 0 3 . 2 6 , type. Exp. 28 millim. Allied to C. dipsacea. 1906.] ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE TIBET COMMISSION. 487 |