202 PYEALID.E. 



Geuus TAURICA, Walker. 



Taurica sikkima, n. sp. 



Male. Ochveous olivaceous-brown ; fore wing crossed by an erect sinuous black- 

 speckled antemedial line and an irregular angulated postniedial line ; the basal area to near 

 the former line densely black-speckled ; the medial area from near the inner to the outer 

 line also thickly black-speckled ; a few speckles also dispersed on the outer border ; a row 

 of black marginal dots and spots on the cilia ; a black-speckled spot at end of the cell : 

 hind wing pale cinereous ochreous-brown, with indistinct ochreous streaks below the apex ; 

 cilia yellowish, with brown spots. Thorax, head, palpi, and fore legs reddish-ochreous ; 

 abdomen cinereous-ochreous, blackish-speckled ; tarsi with black bands. Female : fore wing 

 darker olive-brown ; with more uniformly but sparsely black-speckled transverse lines; mar- 

 ginal spots and cell-spot as in male : hind wing cinereous-brown ; subapical streak paler ; 

 cilia pale pinkish, brown-spotted. 



Expanse, d Inj, ? l^n,- inch. 



Had. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. 



SCOPOCERA, n. g. 



Hale. Fore wing narrow, rather long; cell half the length ; first subcostal at one third 

 before end of cell, second approximate ; discocellular concave, radial from lower end ; 

 middle median close to end of cell, lower at one third ; a few fine short hairy scales project- 

 ing along the subcostal from middle of the cell : hind wing narrow, exterior margin very 

 oblique, convex ; cell two fiftlis the length ; two subcostals from end of cell ; discocellular 

 bent acutely in the middle ; radial from lower end ; middle median close to end of cell, 

 lower at one third. Body moderately slender ; labial palpi ascending, very long, slender, 

 second joint extending more than half its length above the vertex, third joint about half 

 length of second, acicular ; maxillary palpi short, tufted with a few fine long hairs ; antenna; 

 submoniliform, compressed, with a very long dense flat curved basal tuft, which projects 

 hindward beyond base of the thorax, the tuft composed of broad fiat scales above and longish 

 hairy scales beneath. Female : tuft at base of antenna? absent. 



Type iS'. pijraUata. 



Scopocera pyrai.iata, n. sp. 



Fore wing olivaceous-ochreous, crossed by an inwardly-oblique antemedial sinuous 

 whitish line and a postniedial recurved line ; a marginal row of black points ; basal and 

 medial area below the cell, and contiguous to the transverse lines, clouded with dark 

 cupreous-brown ; a black spot at end of the cell : hind wing whitish olivaceous-cinereous, 

 with a recurved pale-bordered brown discal line and marginal lunular spots. Cilia with an 

 inner blackish line and outer spots. Thorax, head, palpi, antenna?, and legs olivaceous- 

 ochreous ; abdomen %Aith brown bands ; le"s with brown bands. 



Expanse, cJ 2 1 inch. 



Ilah. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. 



