BY L. B. PROUT. 183 



44. EuPiTHECiA DiNOSiA sp. n. 



9 27 mm. 



Head ochreous-brown, mixed with red; frontal cone rather 

 broad. Palpus very long (about 3), second joint rather 

 heavily scaled, third joint elongate, smooth; light ochreons- 

 brown with a tinge of* olive. Collar coloured as palpus. 

 Tegulae (in sens. Hmpsn.) spotted with red; true (wing-") 

 tegulae variegated, the hair at end blackish. Abdomen mixed 

 with red dorsally, with large orange-red crests on segments 

 3 and 4; body beneath pale. Legs partly black-mixed; 

 spurs long. 



Fore wing .glossy; areole ample; proximal one-third dark 

 purplish, traversed and bordered by fine blackish lines and 

 irrorated here and there with red scales ; its distal edge little 

 waved, but with a single sharp tooth just behind SC, which is 

 almost cut off from the dark area by a few white scales ; median 

 area light brown, suffused (under the lens weakly and 

 irregularly mottled) with red and throughout (excepting a fine 

 pale proximal line) very finely irrorated with brown-grey ; no 

 cell-dot ; postmedian line black, becoming very fine and weak 

 posteriorly, arising at about 3/5 costa, slightly indented at 

 SC\ 1\" and M^ wnth bhint lobes betw^een the indentations: 

 distal area |>aler, more olive-greyish as far as the subterminal, 

 then predominantly red ; a blackish costal patch midway 

 between postmedian and subterminal, continued across the 

 wing as a boundary-line to the pale double "rivulet" band of 

 the T.drentiinae , though becoming very faint about the 

 medians, and merged in a brown mark between M^ and hind 

 margin; subterminal indistinct, crenulate ; terminal line 

 interrupted at the veins; fringe proximally chequered, red and 

 blackish, centrally with a fine pale line, distally smoky. Hind 

 wing grey, slightly paler at base, darkened at tornal end of 

 abdominal margin; fringe proximally tinged with brown, 

 weakly dark-spotted, distally pale greyish. 



Both wings beneath glossy drab-grey, the fore wing slightly 

 suffused with fuscous and with the principal markings very 

 faintly indicated, the hind wing with a few shadowy 

 brownish lines. 



Mt. Murud, 6000-6500 feet, November. 



Superficially recalls the African E. nigribasis Warr. The 

 iS'awm-like palpi are curious and T suspect the (f will present 

 seme high specialisations, 



