( fiSO ) 



wiug a curved broad wliito Hue runs to above the anal angle, enclosing on the hind- 

 margin an elongate lunular dark brown marking ; between this and the outer edge 

 of the costal cone is another fine whitish line, running to the anal angle, and some- 

 what nndnlating in its lower course ; all those lines meet in a pale confused space at 

 the anal angle. Fringe ])ale with darker central line, preceded b)' a dark line, which 

 is itself preceded by a straight white line. 



Hindwings pale ochreons grey with faint indications of pale curved submarginal 

 lines. 



Palpi brown, white in front ; face brown, finely edged hiterally with white ; 

 thorax brown with whitish centre ; abdomen brown with white dorsal line and white 

 segmental rings. 



Underside whitish ochreous, witli indications of dark transverse lines towards 

 the costa, with the fringe dark below the apex, and with a squarish brown blotch on 

 the three median nervnles. 



Hindwings with a large dark discal spot, which shows througli on the upper- 

 side. 



Expanse of wings : male, 42 to 46 mm. 



Several examples from the Khasia Hills ; also one specimen from S. Celebes, 

 which cannot be separated from the Indian form. 



Photoscotosia stigmatica sp. nov. 



Forewings fuscous ; basal area, central fascia, and marginal area darker ; central 

 fascia with a small subcostal tooth, and four blunt convexities on the outer edge ; 

 inner edge inangulated on the median vein ; formed of a succession of dark fuscous 

 and paler undulating lines ; cell spot large, linear, very oblique, preceded by a 

 subquadrate brown spot reaching from the costa to the median vein ; a dark snbapical 

 spot, obliquely edged from the apex ; fringe fuscous. 



Hindwings orange, broadly white along the costa, smoky brown along inner 

 margin, and fuscous from anal angle to middle of hindmargin ; fringe of hindwings 

 orange round the ajx-x, fuscous from the radial to anal angle. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark fuscous. 



Underside glossy ochreous, in the forewings tinged with grey towards the base 

 and apex, in the hindwings with orange ; cell spots indistinct. 



Expanse of wings : 60 mm. 



One male from Darjeeling, from Dr. Lidderdale's collection. Tlie forewings 

 have the tuft of hairs fulvous, and bed of black scales along the tirst median 

 nervule. 



Subfamily ASCOTINAE. 



Hemerophila lignata sji. nov. 



Wings uniform dull wood brown. 



Forewings with tlie two lines finely bla«k, the first bluntly biangulated below the 

 costa as in H. sabplagiata ^\'lk., and, as in that species, approaching the second line 



