﻿AM^a 



232 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. V, 1910.] 



^ Cuir (ip^ ) -=z TROPHIMA EA , n. g. 



Head loosely rough-haired : ocelli present ; tongue absent. 

 Antennae 4, in & moderately ciliated, basal joint clothed with 

 long dense hairs projecting in front in a broad tuft. lyabial palpi 

 moderate, porrected, clothed with long rough projecting scales 

 beneath, second joint with several projecting lateral bristles. 

 Maxillary palpi obsolete. Posterior tibiae clothed with long hairs. 

 Forewings with ib furcate, 2 rather remote from angle, 3 and 4 

 connate from angle or 4 absent, 7 absent, 9 absent, 11 from or 

 beyond middle. Hindwings |, ovate-lanceolate, cilia i^ ; 2-7 

 separate, parallel, or 4 and transverse vein between 3 and 6 some- 

 times absent. 



Trophimaea arenatella^ Walk. 



Kurseong, E. Himalayas, 5,000 feet, in September (Annan- 

 dale). 



Sapheneutis crocotricha , n. sp. 



cr" . 14-17 mm. Head with tolerably appressed scales, ochre- 

 ous-yellow, face sometimes mixed with fuscous. Palpi short, 

 loosely scaled, yellowish mixed or suffused with dark fuscous. 

 Antennal ciliations 2. Thorax and abdomen dark fuscous. Fore- 

 wings elongate, moderate, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, 

 termen somewhat rounded, oblique ; 8 and 9 stalked ; purplish- 

 fuscous, suffusedly and indistinctl}' strigulated with darker fuscous, 

 veins and costa darker-suffused : cilia purplish-fuscous, sometimes 

 with pale greyish-ochreous basal line. Hindwings rather dark 

 fuscous, purplish-tinged; cilia light ochreous-fuscous, basal half 

 suffused with purplish-fuscous. 



Kurseong, E. Himalayas, 5,000 feet, in July (Annandale) ; 

 N. Coorg, 3,500 feet, in November (Newcome) ; two specimens. 



