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35. Semiothisa temeraria Swinh. ab. fumosa ah. nov. 



Foreivbigs : entirely dull smoky brownish grey, the lines rust-colour; the area 

 beyond the postmedian line, except at apex, dark smoky fuscous, the veins, as usual, 

 remaining paler. 



Hiiuhviivjs : the same, without the dark marginal area. 



Underside testaceous grey ; inner and hindniargins of forewings slaty fuscous, 

 the latter with the fascia .showing blackish ; hindwiugs with only the extreme hind- 

 margin grey. Thorax and abdomen paler grey. 



One (? from the Khasia Hills, April 1894. 



A very distinct-looking insect from the type-form. 



Subfamily ENNOMIXAE. 



36. Fascellina fascoviridis sp. nov. 

 Foreiuings: dark green, suffused except towards the apex with purple fuscous, 

 and with darker strigulations ; the costa dark purple fuscous, containing a pale olive 

 blotch in middle, streaked with darker ; traces of diffuse oblique basal and median 

 dark purple shades ; postmedian line irregularly wavy, preceded in middle of wing 

 by a deep purple shading and edged outwardly by a dull silvery line which on costa 

 becomes a brighter blotch ; marginal area, except towards apex, darker, traversed by 

 a zigzag faintly lustrous line ; a minute white spot on costa before apex ; fringe dark 

 purple-brown. 



Hiiulwi'iujs : purplish rufous only near base and along costa, with a central 

 slightly curved dark-edged lustrous line, and a faintly silvery zigzag submarginal 

 one. • 



Thorax and abdomen olive-green ; face and palpi red-brown. Underside of fore- 

 wings olive-green and yellowish, with dark striations ; the costa yellow, with rich 

 brown lilotches ; the postmedian line brightly edged with white; the marginal area 

 lilack and tawny. Hindwings yellow, with olive striae ; the costal region more thickly 

 striated with red-brown ; a blotched straight median line, and a fine curved sub- 

 marginal one. 



Expanse of wings : 36 mm. 



One c? from Cherrapunji, November 1893. 



The outer margin of the forewing alone is e.\cised, the inner margin remaining 

 straight. 



37. Mimochroa lugens Butler ab. castanea ab. nov. 



All the green shades on tlie upperside replaced by chestnut, the underside 

 remaining as in the type-form. In one e.xample, however, all the yellow of the 

 underside also has di.sappeared, being replaced by dull chestnut ; the usual dark 

 brown limiting line is represented by a broad whitish line, while the hindmargin is 

 varied with whitish. 



The palpi in ail three example.-^ are rufous chestnut, not orange. 



Three c?cf from Darjiling, March and May 1889 (J. G. Pilcher leg.). 



38. Omiza cinerea sp. nov. 

 Forewinfjs : dingy grey-green, dusted with dark atoms, which are much denser 

 beyond the postmedian line ; antemedian line at one-fourth, starting from a sliort 

 inwardly oblique black costal dash, excurved below costa, then inwardly oblique and 



