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THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 



SUPPLEMENTARY PAPER TO THE VOLUMES IN 

 " THE FAUNA OF BRITISH INDIA." 



SERIES II. PART IX. 



By Sir G. F. Hampson, Bart., f.z.s., f.e s. 



(Continued from page 659 of Vol. XIV.) 



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Moths of India — 5a. 



Schcenobian^e. 



Genus Goniopalpia, nov. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi with the 2nd joint porrect and extending about 

 twice the length of head, the 3rd upturned and dilated at extremity : 



maxillary palpi filiform ; antennas 



laminate ; tibiae with the spurs long. 



Forewing with vein 3 from before 



angle of cell ; 4*5 from angle ; 6 from 



below upper angle ; 7 from angle, 



straight ; 8'9*10 stalked ; 11 free ; the 



Goniopalpia delicatalis $ f termen somewhat excised from apex 



to middle. Hindwing with veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6*7 from 



upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8 ; the termen strongly excised from apex 



to middle and again towards tornus. 



4240a. Goniopalpia delicatalis, n. sp. 



$. White; palpi with the 1st and 2nd joints black at sides and the 3rd 

 joint near extremity ; fore tibiae blackish above, the tarsal joints ringed with 

 black. Forewing with the base of costal area tinged with fulvous ; traces of a 

 curved antemedial line ; a slight fuscous discoidal lunule ; the veins beyond 

 the cell streaked with fulvous yellow and the interspaces suffused with 

 fuscous ; a subterminal white line from costa to vein 2, incurved at lower 

 extremity, slightly edged by black on inner side and strongly on outer side 

 and with some fulvous yellow suffusion beyond it ; the termen yellow with 

 fine black line on its inner side ; cilia white with fine blackish line through 

 them and the tips blackish. Hindwing with the terminal half slightly tinged 

 with fulvous yellow. 



Habitat. — Khasis. Exp. 14 mill. Type— In Coll. Rothschild. 



4254a. Patissa fulvidorsalis, n. sp. 



$. Palpi not extending beyond the frons ; silvery white ; legs tinged with 

 golden fulvous on inner side ; abdomen dorsally fulvous yellow except the 

 1st two and terminal segments. 



Habitat,— Sikhim, 1800' (Dudgeon). Exp. 36 mill. Type— In B. M. 



