SADAESA.— OTETONA.— :^rELTPOTIS. 1G5 



subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular slightly bent towards lower end ; radial and 

 two upper medians from lower end of the cell, lower median at nearly one half before end 

 of the cell. Thorax robnst ; alidoincni long, somewhat slander ; palpi somewhat porrect, 

 compactly squamose, long ; second joint extending to front of the head, tliinl joint long; 

 legs long, tibia; laxly squamosu ; antenna; simple. Allied to (ji/rtona, ^\'alker. 

 Type *S'. loiuiipcnnis. 



S.VDAUS.V i.ONcirKNNis, II. .sj). (Plate V. fi;,'. It.) 



Male. Fore wing pale violet-grey, Nvith indistinct brown lunular spots between tlie veins, 

 ■which are mostly apparent obliquely from the apex to posterior margin ; a blacki.sh dot 

 below the cell : hind wing pale brown, the basal area paler and almost transparent. Body, 

 palpi, and legs brown. 



Expanse 1|- inch. 



Ilah. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudingcr. 



Sadaksa tknuis. 

 Cucull'm tenuis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1807, p. 00. 



Ilah. Darjiling [Atkinson). In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. 



Genus GYllTONA, Jl'ulker. 

 Gyuto.na albodentata, n. sp. 

 Fore wing dark purple-brown, with indistinct transverse discal ochreous lunvdar-sinuons 

 line, an orbicular and a reniform spot, a distinct submarginal curved row of minute white 

 dentate spots, a cluster of grey scales on middle of posterior margin : hind wing pale brown, 

 basal area wliitish. Body, palpi, and legs above brown. 

 Expanse lyo inch. 

 Hah. Cherra Punji, Khasia Hills. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. 



Genus MELTPOTIS, Hiibner. 

 Ercheht, Walker. 



Melipotis stkigipexxis, n. sp. 



Fore wing deep bright umber-brown ; veins indistinctly lined with black, and with 

 intervening longitudinal narrow ochreous streaks; an interrupted zigzag black ochreous- 

 bordered apical streak ; a double sinuous black line obliquely from exterior margin below 

 the apex to posterior margin, and a sinuous ochreous line between them and tlie posterior 

 angle ; an indistinct double sinuous black transverse antemedial line ; a small ochreons- 

 bordered black orbicular and reniform mark, and a black-centred mark below the cell ; 

 posterior end of the streaks whitish-bordered in the male, and the posterior margin of the 

 wing in the female longitudinally streaked with ochreous. Hind wing dusky umber-brown, 

 with a paler waved discal streak and an outer spot. Body dark browu. 



Expanse, d 1|, $ 2^ inches. 



