( :^'5l ) 



and iniior margin, speckled with white in the middle, its edges irregularly brown- 

 black ; basal area with a difl'used blackish blotch ; marginal area with a difl'use 

 oblique cloudy fascia, and some black dashes and teeth from costa before apex to 

 middle of hindmargin. 



Hindwintjs : wholly suft'used with dark iiurplish fuscous, with a white blotch 

 at end of cell, followed by a dark antemedian line ; a dark curved postmedian line 

 and a strongly dentate subniarginal line ; fringes dark. 



Underside dark cinereous, with darker striae ; inner half of forewings rufous- 

 tinged. Face black; collar rufous grey; thorax and abdomen purplish mixed with 

 rufous ; inner margin of hindwings and tuft pale ochreous. 



The specimen above described appears to be a pale form; in another example 

 the white markings are greatly reduced,' the central fascia being dark throughout, 

 and the whole forewing suffused with dark ; the hindwings without any white blotch 

 at end of cell. 



Expanse of wings : 28 — 30 mm. 



Two cf d from the Khasias. 



41. Gathynia vinosa sp. nov. 



Foretiyhujs : vinous red-brown; the costa darker, fuscous-tinged; traces of a 

 dark line near base; second line brown, from costa at two-thirds, oblique outwards to 

 middle, then sharply incurved to the top of an ill-defined brown triangular lilotch on 

 inner margin beyond middle; the line and blotch edged with ferruginous; a fine 

 straight blackish line from just before apex to anal angle ; fringe concolorous with 

 wings. 



Hindwings: with a cui'ved and slightly ellwwed brown paler-edged line at two- 

 thirds ; some black spots along hindmargin. 



Underside dull reddish ochreous. Face and palpi brown ; thorax and abdomen 

 brownish grey, the latter becoming paler at end, like the pale inner margin of 

 hindwings. 



Expanse of wings : 18 mm. 



Three c?cj from Dili, Timor, 3Iay 1892 (\\'. Dolierty). 



Lobogethes gen. nov. 



FwewiwjH: with costa straight for three-fourths; hindmargin oblique, hardly 

 curved ; inner margin straight. 



Hindu>in;js : with costa sinuous only, not excised, fringed with hair towards base 

 and apex; hindmargin excised below apex; in the j with a blunt hook at end of 

 third median, and thence rounded to inner margin ; in the S with a rounded bulge 

 from middle of cell to second median, beyond which there is an incision and the 

 inner-marginal area ends in a broad lobe. At the base of the hindwiug below the 

 median vein is an elongated oval hvaline space, the upperside of which is clothed 

 with a tuft of spatulate scales. 



Antennae thick, lamellate ; palpi inclined upwards, as long as lace; hind tibiae 

 of d thickened, with four spurs. 



Xearatioii : forewing, iirst median from near base, second a little before end of 

 cell; discocellular angulated and apparently all but obsolete below: the lower radial 

 from the angulation ; (> and 7 on a Ion;/ st-<\\k ; 8 and i) stalked. In the liindwings 



