142 XOVITATES ZOOI.OGICAE XXV. 191S. 



suffused with ochreous brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen 

 ochreous brown and white. Forewing ochreous brown mixed with white ; two 

 oblique dark subbasal striae from costa ; a sinuous black streak in submedian 

 fold to just beyond the antemedial Une, which is dark with two reddish-brown 

 marks at costa, then inchstinct and waved ; orbicular a small blackish 

 annulus ; reniform diffused red-brown with some black scales on its edges, con- 

 nected with a red-brown mark on costa ; postmedial lino with two reddish 

 brown spots at costa, then blackish defined on inner side by white, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then shghtly dentate, incurved below vein 3, the costal area 

 beyond it reddish brown with three white points at costa ; subterminal line 

 rather diffused white defined on outer side by diffused red-brown, especially at 

 veins 5 and 2 where the hne is incurved ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 ciha indistinctly chequered with dark brown. Hindwing wliite tinged with 

 ochreous yellow, the terminal area suft"used with brownish ochreous to sub- 

 median fold ; a terminal series of minute dark spots to vein 2 ; cilia white, 

 mixed with brownish ochreous to vein 2. Underside of forewing ochreous 

 tinged with red-brown, the inner area whitish, the postmedial hne whitish, 

 incurved below vein 4 ; hindwing white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with brownish ochreous, a minute brown discoidal spot. 



Hub. Assam, Silhet Distr., Chatak (Ewing), 1 ? type. Exp. -18 mill. 



Genus Pseudomecia no v. 



Type : Hypomecia lithoxylea Bang-Haas. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obUquely upturned, the 2nd joint reach- 

 ing to about middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short ; frons with 

 slight truncate prominence roughened in front ; eyes large, round ; antennae 

 of male bipectinate with moderate branches to apex ; thorax clothed with hair 

 and hair-hke scales, the metathorax with depressed crest ; fore tibiae with 

 curved claw- like spines on outer side of 1st joint ; abdomen without crests. 

 Forewing with the apex rounded, the termen evenlj' curved and not crenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomos- 

 ing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3, 4 from 

 angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discoccUulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing ^vith the cell near base only. 



In key differs from Omphaletis in the thorax being clothed with hair and 

 hair-like scales, the metathorax with spreacUng crest. 



Genus Antbodes nov. 



Type: ArUhodes acynodonta Dogn. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obhquely upturned, the 2nd joint reach- 

 ing to about vertex of head and rather broadly scaled, the 3rd long ; frons 

 smooth, with large tuft of scales and with ridge of scales above ; eyes large, 

 round ; antennae of female cihated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, 

 the prothorax wth large obhque flattened crest, the metathorax w ith large crest, 

 tibiae shghtly fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests, the 

 crests on 2nd and 3rd segments very large. Forewing with the apex rounded, 

 the termen evenly curved, the termen and ciha strongly crenulate ; veins 3 

 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing 



