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and beneath, Forewings light yellow-ochreous ; costa with about twelve short 

 whitish strigula) edged with dark fuscous ; apex suffused with blackish ; basal 

 third of wing irrorated with dark fuscous ; median and subterminalzigzag bands 

 of dark fuscous irroratiou, margined by whitish lines edged with dark fuscous, 

 obsolete on costal lobe ; apex of each lobe with a black dot, Hindwinga as 

 forewings, but costal lobe marked like the rest, median band nearer base. 



Bhotan, in June ; several specimens in collection of Calcutta Museum, to 

 which I am indebted for examples. Near sikkima, Moore, but that is a grey 

 species. _ 



'ICMtryy-^J^X. EPIBLEMIDiE.) 



Chrosis ephippias, n, sp, 



^ $, 11-16 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous, sometimes partially 

 tinged with brownish -ochreous. Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish-ochreous, 

 Forewings elongate, rather broader in $, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, 

 termen straight, somewhat oblique ; whitish-ochreous, strewn with brownish- 

 ochreoiis striguke which are finely sprinkled with black ; costa more sharply 

 and darkly strigulated throughout ; basal patch very obscurely indicated, 

 edge obtusely angulated in middle ; upper half of central fascia dark-brown, 

 truncate beneath, posterior edge with a strong acute projection above trunca- 

 tion ; rest of central fascia represented by an elongate dark-brown discal 

 mark at |, its anterior end sometimes curved and connected with costal half, 

 and a brown blotch with two upward diverging lobes on dorsum towards 

 tornus ; a triangular brown spot in disc towards apex ; a small dark brown 

 apical spot : cilia ochreous-whitish, sprinkled with fuscous, with dark fuscous 

 subbasal line. Hindwings with G and 7 stalked, rather dark fuscous ; cilia as 

 in forewings, 



Puttalam and INTaskeliya, Ceylon (Pole, de Mowbray, Green, Vaughan) ; 

 Bombay (Young") ; from July to April, twenty specimens. 



Proschistis, n. g. 



Palpi moderate, porrected. Antennse in ^ strongly fasciculate-ciliated (3). 

 Thorax with small posterior crest, li'orewings in ^ without fold, termen 

 sinuate ; 7, 8, 9 approximated at base. Hindwings with 3, 4, 5 approximated 

 at base, 6 and 7 approximated towards base. 



Allied to Eucosma. 



Prosch'Stis zaleuta, n. sp, 



$ 9. 18-25 mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous, irrorated and thorax some- 

 times partly suffused with whitish. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings elongate, 

 slightly dilated, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen sinuate, little 

 oblique ; white, sprinkled with dark fuscous and strewn with dark fuscous 

 strif^ul'ifi, veins except posteriorly obscurely suffused with dark purplish-leaden; 

 costa spotted with dark fuscous ; basal patch indicated by coalescence of dark 

 fuscous strlgulsc, but undefined ; central fascia dark fuscous, narrow, irregular 

 and undefined on upper half, broad and strongly marked on lower half ; a 

 aubquadrate dark fuscous spot on costa towards apex, whence proceeds a narrow 



