THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 21 



Head, thorax and abdomen pale grey-brown, mixed with black. Forewing 

 pale grsy-brown, irrorated with black, thickly on costal half, a diffused black 

 discoidal spot ; a terminal series of points. Hindwing pale, tinged with 

 brownish, especially towards costa ; a fine terminal line. 



Habitat.— Khasis. Exp. 30 mill. Type— In B. M. 



2315&. POLYOCHA ORNATELLA, n. Sp. 



$. Antenna? of male with long uniseriate branches; forewing with veins 

 4'5, approximated for some distance ; 10 from cell ; hindwing with vein 

 3 from cell. 



Head and thorax pale yellowish-brown ; abdomen ochreons. Forewing 

 with the costal area crimson, suffused with purplish-fuscous ; a white sub- 

 costal stripe ending on costa at apex ; the inner area yellow with antemedial 

 and medial crimson bands and a broad terminal band slightly tinged with 

 grey ; cilia ochreous with two crimson lines through them, dark at apex. Hind 

 wing fuscous ; cilia yellow with a dark line through their bases towards apex. 



Habitat.— Kangra Valley, 4500' (Dudgeon). Exp. 26 mill. Type—In B. M. 



Phycitin.e. 



4320a. Homoj:osoma nimbella, Zell Isis, 1839, p. 178. 



., Saxicola, Vaughan Month. Mag., VII., p. 132 (1870). 



„ Caniusella, Bag. Rom. Mem., VIII., p. 248, pi. 33, f. 16 



(1901). 



Head and thorax white, irrorated with brown ; abdomen white, obscurely 

 banded with fuscous. Forewing whitish, tinged with brown and thickly irro- 

 rated with fuscous ; the area from costa to median nervure whiter to the 

 postmedial line ; an indistinct dark subbasal spot on median nervure ; a 

 curved medial series of three spots on the veins ; the two discoidal points 

 large ; a rather indistinct oblique postmedial line. Hindwing semihyaline 

 white ; the veins, a fine terminal line and a line at base of cilia brownish. 



Habitat. — Europe ; Canaries ; W. Asia ; Kashmir, Dras. Exp. 18-24 mill. 



43246. Homceosoma nigrimedialis, n. sp. 



£. Pale reddish-brown ; forewing with some black irroration on costal 

 area ; a prominent black streak on median nervure and base3 of veins 2 - 3'4 • 

 a black streak on vein 1, most prominent on medial area ; slight black streaks 

 on veins of terminal area ; the lines pale, the 1st line medial, sinuous the 

 2nd oblique and slightly bent inward below costa ; a terminal series of black 

 stria?. Hindwing semihyaline white ; the veins and costal area fuscous • a 

 fuscous terminal line and line through the cilia. 



Habitat. — Khasis. Exp. 22 mill. Type — In Coll. Rothschild. 



4325e. Eccopidia oinistis, n. sp. 



9. Head, thorax and abdomen grey, irrorated with fuscous; the anal 

 tuft fulvous. Forewing grey, irrorated with fuscous ; an indistinct curved 

 medial Hue interrupted at median nervure ; two discoidal points ; the ter- 

 minal area suffused with purple-red, forming a diffused darker band. Hind- 

 wing semihyaline, tinged with brown. 



Habitat— Ceylon, Kandy (Pole). Exp. 16 mill. Type— In B. M. 



