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THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 



SUPPLEMENTARY PAPER TO THE "VOLUMES IN 



" THE FAUNA OP BRITISH INDIA." 



PART IV. 



By Sir G. F. Hampson, Bart., f.z.s., f.e.s. 

 (Continued from page 124: of Vol, XT.) 

 Genus Proomphe. 

 Proomp/i^, Warr., Not. Zool., iii, p. 316(1896). 

 T>/pe. — P. lobata, Warr. 

 Range. — Sikhim. 



Palpi smoothly scaled, porrect, and hardly reaching beyond the frons, 

 which is rounded ; antennae of male minutely ciliated ; hind tibia with 

 tuft of long hair from base on outer side, bent just Ijefore the medial 

 spurSj and with the terminal spurs minute. Forewing with the costa 

 lobed at middle ; outer margin crenulate ; vein 3 from before angle of 

 cell ; 5 from above middle of discocellular ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked from before angle, and 11 anastomosing with them to 

 form n single areole. Hindwing with vein 7 from upper angle of cell, 

 which then runs out to an acute angle at 6, then back to the angle of 

 discocellulars ; vein 2 short from before angle ; 3, 4, 5 from angle ; the 

 lower part of cell short. 



3594a. Proomphe lobata, Warr., Nov. Zool., iii, p. 316. 

 $. Pale rufous. Forewing with subbasal and antemedial chestnut 



triangular spots on costa, the 

 latter at the lobe, and with the 

 pale sinuous antemedial line 

 arising from it ; a pale oblique 

 Froo^he lobata. $ {. ^^'^'o'^^ postmedial line from 



below apex. Hindwing yellowish-fulvous. 

 Habitat. — Sikhim. E,rp. 32 mm. 



Genus Emmesomia. 

 Emmesomla, Warr., Nov. Zool., iii, p. 113 (1896). 

 Palpi porrect and hardly reaching to extremity of frons, which is 

 smooth and rounded; antennse of female somewhat laminate ; hind 

 tibise with two pairs of spurs. Forewing with the costa arched, the 

 apex produced and acute, the outer margin deeply excised below apex 

 and greatly excurved at middle ; veins 3-4 from angle of cell j 10 

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