TIIE MOTHS OF INDfA. 715 



ochreous, suffused with fuscous ; the underside ochreous, the costal and terminal 

 areas irrorated with brown, a dark postmedial lire. 

 Habitat.— Kashmir, Goorais Valley, txp. 3S mill. 



1637b. Uichia fuscisignata, Hmpsn. Oat. Lsp. Phal. B. M. IV, p. 597, pi. 76, 

 f. 15 (1905). 



9. Head and thorax pale rufous mixed with ochrecus ; palpi darker rufous 

 except at tips; abdomen ochreous, the ventral surface tirged with rufous. 

 Forewing pale ochreous suffused with rufous ; traces of a whiti&h sulbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold ; an oblique whitish antemedial line with brownish 

 lin9 on its innyf sid? ; orbicular and reniform defined by fine whitish lines, the 

 former oblique elliptical, the latter with blackish marks in its upper and lower 

 extremities ; postmedial line whitish, defined by a fine brown line en inner Bide 

 and sfc'o ujsr linj on out3r ; subterminal lino whitish, defined by brown suffusion 

 on its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of small brown lunules. Hindwing and undersides ochreous yellow. 



Habitat. — Kashmir, Goorais Valley. Exp. 42 mill. 



Genus Pakaxkstia. Type. 



ParaxeMia. Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. IV., p. 001 (1903). flavicaudata. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi with the 2nd joint upturned, reaching vertex 



Paraxestia flavicaudata. $ \. 

 of head, fringed with hair in front, and behind at base, the 3rd joint long, 

 naked, porrect, frons smooth; eyes large, overhung by long cilia ; antennae 

 of mab ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with long hair, without crests; 

 fore tibiae without spines ; mid and hind tibiae strongly spined • abdomen dorsally 

 clothed with long hair at base, the claspers of male large. Forewing with the 

 apex somewhat produced, the termen crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle 

 of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areoh ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with the ciiia crenulate ; veins 3*4 from jngle 

 of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6'7 from upper angle. 

 1670. Pakaxestia flavicaudata. 



Genus Mythimna. Type. 



Hythimna, Ochs. Schmett. Eur., iv., p. 70 (1816) non descr. ; 



Treit. Schmett. Eur., v (1), p. 77 (1*25^ oxalina. 



Orthopia Ochs. Schmett. Eur., iv , p. 79 (1816) non descr.; 



Treit. Schmett. Eur., v., (I) p. 2^0(1825) ccccimacula. 



Cera'tis, Ochs. Schmett. Eur., iv., p. 84 (1816) non descr.; 

 Treit. Schmett. Eur., v. (2), p. 395 (1825) .. rubricosa. 



