HETEROCERA OF SIR HIM AND BHUTAN. 657 



751. 0. sanguinea, Moore. 



Sikhim. I have not seen this. (I have it from Mciller and Knyvett, 

 dated April, but never took it myself. I believe it is a low-level moth. 

 —H. J. E.) 



758. 0. oblusa, Wlk. 



Sikhim. This seems to be a common species at light in Darjeeling, 

 1 have specimens taken there in May and August. (Common at light 

 in July and August. — H. J. E.) 



754. 0. obliquUinea, Hmpsn. 



Sikhim, I have not seen a specimen. (A pair from Moller agree 

 with Mussoorie specimens. — H. J. E.) 



758. 0. pavaca, Moore. 



Sikhim, 0,800 feet. This occurs at light in Darjeeling in June and 

 July. (Rarer than 0. ohtusa. — H. J. E.) 



758a. 0. oUvacea, n. sp. (Plate II, Fig. 20, <?.) 



(J. Head purplish ; palpi and legs scarlet and grey; hind tibise with 

 prominent black stripe ; thorax and abdomen olive-browTi, the latter 

 tinged with pinkish towards the end. Both wings olive-brown, slightly 

 but evenly striated with silvery-grey scales ; an almost medial waved 

 reddish line bent outwardly above the cell and inwardly near the inner 

 margin of the forewing, continued as an indistinct sub-basal line on the 

 hindwing ; some reddish suffusion below the costa of the forewing 

 beyond the medial line ; a grey lunulato mark on the costa of the fore- 

 wing before the apex, continued as a very indistinct sub-marginal line 

 as far as vein 5 ; a black spot near the outer angle of the forewing, 

 cilia of both wings pinkish-brown. 



Larva smooth, with the anal somite triangular, with a long single 

 terminal process, and the anal prologs wanting ; ord somite with a 

 short curved dorsal hump. Purplish-brown, paler dorsally from the 

 4th somite to the end ; a dark oblique line from the sub-lateral area of 

 the 4th to an indistinct dorsal line on the 7th somite, angled and again 

 oblique down to the sub-lateral area of the 10th somite. Head bifid, 

 produced to two conical points. Food plant, a species of EryUirina 

 called in Nepalese " Phalleta." 



Pupa, formed in a rolled-up leaf bound with pinkish silk, red- 

 brown with some pinkish powdery excrescences on the head and 

 thorax. 

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