310 XOVITATES ZOOLOOICAE XXIV. 1917. 



41. Problepsis crassinotata spec. nov. 



3, 41-43 mm. Head black ; underside of palpus light-brown to whitish. 

 Antenna black proximally, brown distall}- ; furnished with shcrtr triangular 

 teeth, bearing fascicles of long cilia. Thorax and base of abdomen white above. 

 the rest of the abdomen above infuscated or blackened, excepting narrow white 

 posterior edgings to the segments. Hindtarsus almost one-half as long as tibia. 



Forewing creamy white, with costal edge narrowlj- infuscated as far as the 

 postmedian hne ; ocellus rounded, 5 or 6 mm. in diameter, its circumference 

 oUve-brownish, the circlet of silvery scales fairly complete, or slightly inter- 

 rupted in posterior part, where also an arc is cut off by silvery scaUng along M 

 and R' ; centre of ocellus pinkish grey, with a white discal line, proximally to it 

 a double black mark in cell (cut b\' the silvery ring), posteriorly a large black 

 mark between M- and M' and a smaller one between M' and R', distally a black 

 lunale from R^ to before R- ; median shade rather thick, light olivaceous brown, 

 spotted with silvery, reaching from ocellus to hindinargin ; some silvery scales 

 proximally between SM* and liindmargin ; postmedian line formed about as in 

 vulgaris Butl. (delphiuria Hmpsn., nee Guen.), thick, grey, becoming more 

 ochreous posteriorly ; proximal subterminal spots large, especially the (usually 

 confluent) pairs between the radials and at tornus, the subcostal pair more 

 wedge-shaped, the pair between R' and M= flatter ; distal subterminal series 

 small and generally very regular, separated both by the veins and the inter- 

 neural folds ; terminal dark line more or less broken into flattened lunules ; fringe 

 white, traversed by a thick but not very strong grey line and sUghtly tipped 



with gre3'. Hindwing with the cell-mark rather darker, large between R' 



and fold, narrow anteriorly, containing a very slender white line just behind 

 DC'~', no differentiable black markings, the silvery ones rather irregular ; distal 

 and posterior markings nearly as on forewings, the silvery scales of abdominal 

 region more distally placed. 



Forewing beneath white, slightly smoky in cell, costal margin more broadly 

 and strongly darkened than above ; both wings with ocellus dark fuscous with 

 white cell-mark, the other markings indicated, but not strong. 



Khasis. Type and another in coll. Brit. Mus. Also a S without locality 

 in coO. Joicey, and a worn o from Vrianatong, Tibet, in coll. L. B. Prout. 



A worn ? from Kiukiang, May 1887 (A. E. Pratt), in coll. Brit. Mus. (ex 

 coll. Leech), shows that the species is widely distributed ; ? antennal ciliation 

 well developed, not much shorter than diameter of shaft. 



4U. Problepsis longipannis spec. nov. 



(J, 41 mm. Head black, palpus narrowly white beneath. Antenna blackish, 

 with triangular teeth bearing long fascicles of cilia. Thorax white. Abdomen 

 above mostly blackish, narrowly white at the ends of the segments. Fore and 

 middle legs darkened on inner side ; hindtibia white, the hair-pencil partly 

 brown, the tarsus about half the length of tibia, with first joint not noticeably 

 thickened. 



Foreiving nut broad, termen rather strongly obUque ; glossy cream-white ; 

 costal edge narrowly smokj- from near base to near apex ; some silver3' scales 

 along proximal half of hindmargin ; discal ocellus contained in an elongate 

 brown cloud, which is within 6 mm. of base in cell, closely approximated to 



