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7. Polyploca nigripunctata spec. nov. 



Foretving : bluish white speckled with pale grey ; the inner and outer bands 

 and the terminal area tinged with brownish ; inner line black, waved, from two- 

 fifths of costa to near middle of inner margin, as in renalis Moore, preceded by 

 three thick waved dark lines filled in witli brown ; a dark spot near base of 

 submedian fold, followed by a black pointed dash ; the basal area limited by a 

 curved dark line ; outer line black, double, vertical at costa, then excurved to vein 

 2 and again to vein 1, approaching inner line on inner margin; a pale and dark 

 grey dentate line beyond ; snbterminal line white, defined by the dark terminal 

 area beyond, and an oblique black streak from apex ; a black terminal festoon ; the 

 fringe dark grey; orbicular stigma round, formed by a tuft of black scales; 

 reniform elongate, white with some raised scales, outlined with black ; a fine 

 dentate-lunulate median grey line. 



Hindioing : dull fuscous. 



Underside glossy whitish grey, with a paler outer band in both wings ; costa 

 of forewing white, with two black patches beyond middle, and three black spots 

 before apex. 



Head and thorax dark and light grey mixed ; tips of tegulae and upper edge of 

 palpi blackish ; abdomen wanting. 



Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 



1 S from Sikkim, September 1889 (Col. Pilcher). 



8. Polyploca griseata spec. nov. 



Forewing: dull cinereous, speckled with blackish, most thickly in terminal 

 area; a blackish spot at base on submedian fold: inner line black, before one- 

 third, evenly outcnrved and insinuate on vein 1 ; preceded by two indistinct dark 

 parallel lines ; the basal area limited by a thicker curved wavy line ; outer line 

 black, concave outwards from costa to vein 4, on which it is bent, then oblique 

 inwards to submedian fold, and vertically sinuous to inner margin, followed 

 immediately by a dark parallel line and at a distance by a dark wavy line ; 

 subterminal line pale grey between blackish shades, met by a curved black 

 streak from apex ; a black terminal festoon ; fringe dark grey with thick middle 

 line and bright pale basal line ; stigmata pale with black outlines ; the orbicular 

 large, rounded ; the reniform narrow, inwardly oblique, with a dark linear centre ; 

 the orbicular is filled up with dull yellowish, showing glossy in certain lights. 



Hindwing : fuscous, the veins darker ; the fringe whitish with a grey line. 

 Underside shining pale brownish grey, with a faint outer band in both wings 

 between slightly darker lines ; costa of forewing whitish, more broadly in apical 

 half, where it is marked by two short dark streaks and three black strigae. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale and dark grey mixed ; tarsi grey dotted with 

 black. 



Expanse of wings : 42 mm. 



1 6 from Kangra (Hocking) from the Elwes collection. 



Nearest to orbicularis Moore, but certainly distinct. 



9. Polyploca castaneata spec. nov. 

 Forewing : fawn-colonr, shaded on each side of the narrow central area and 

 along inner margin in basal half with dull chestnut-brown ; an oblique black 



