777/; MOTHS OF IXDIA. 



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and slightly angled outwards in cell and very strongly above inner margin ; clavi- 

 form slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres 

 and whitish annnli defined by brown, the former produced to a point confluent 

 with the latter, the cell below it suffused with dark-brown ; the postmedial 

 line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4 ; 

 the sub-terminal line whitish, dentate, defined on inner side by a series of small 

 obscure dentate dark marks ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia whitish 

 with a dark line through them. Hindwing pale, suffused with fuscous brown 

 and with a darker terminal line ; the underside whitish with small discoidal 

 spot and curved postmedi.il line. 



Habitat.— Kashmir, Digha Pass, 15,000'. Exp. 30 mill. 



1619e. Orosagrotis casiimirensis, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. IV, p. 136, 

 pi. 59, f. 20 (1903). 



£ . Head and thorax black brown mixed with seme grey ; abdomen fuscous 



brown. Forewing 

 pale brown mostly 

 suffused with black 

 leaving a pale fascia 

 below costa ; an 

 indistinct curved 

 sub-basal line from 

 lightly defined by brown on inner 



Orosagrotis caxhmirensis £, 1. 



■costa to submedian fold : the antemedial lin 

 side, slightly waved, oblique from costa to above inner margin, where it is 

 strongly angled ; claviform defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with brown 

 centres and pale brown annuli defined by black, the former small, round, the 

 latter narrow ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, angled outwards at vein 

 7, then very oblique, defined on outer side by pale brown, emitting streaks 

 defining the dark veins to the subterminal line, which is pale, defined by 

 dentate dark marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a fine terminal dark line and line at base of ceiia. Hindwing pale 

 fuscous brown ; the cilia white with brown lioe at base ; the underside whitish 

 the costal and. terminal areas suffused with brown, a slight discoidal point. 

 Habitat.— Kashmir, Kardong, 14,000'. Exp. 30 mill. 



Genus Micragrotis. Type. 



Micragrotis, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. TV., p. 148 (1903) ... axylkles. 



Proboscis rather small ; palpi short, oblique, fringed with hair below ; frons 

 Avith truncate corneous prominence with raised edges and curved corneous plate 

 below it ; antenna? of male minutely ciliated ; head 2nd thorax clothed with 

 hair and scales ; foretibia? short and broad, spined at sides, with two long 

 curved claws on inner side at extremity, and short claw or claws on outer ; miel 

 and hind tibia? spined. Forewing short, the apex rounded ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near an^le of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3'4 from angle of cell; 

 ■0 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; G'7 stalked. 



