476 NOCTUID MOTHS 



85. Bleptinodes taxaocrossa sp. n. 



cf . 32 mm. 



Palpus, head and thorax deep purphsh-fuscous ; abdomen 

 gieyish-fuscous. Fore icing natal brown (Ridgway, pL xl), 

 more seal brown (pi. xxxix) from antemedial to subterminal 

 line ; narrow taw ny streaks at base and proximally to 

 antemedial line, which is blackish, erect but dentate at the 

 veins (especially SC) ; a slight tawny orbicular spot iii cell 

 close to antemedial line ; reniform narrow, tawny, new-moon 

 shaped; postmedial line blackish, slightly diffused, bent 

 outward at SC^~R* and at R''--M\ bent inward opposite disc, 

 inwardly oblique to middle of fold but slightly angled on M", 

 bent outward to SM" and inward to near § hind margin ; 

 terminal hmules sharply marked ; fringe long. Hind wing 

 nearly uniform glossy drab, with faint traces of discal spot, 

 postmedial and subterminal lines ; terminal lunulas weaker 

 than on fore wing; fringe very long, with a dark line 

 through the middle. Underside dark drab ; hind wing paler 

 than fore wing, with large dark discal spot and pale, waved, 

 })ioximally dark edged postmedial and subterminal lines. 



:sh. Murud-, 6000--6500 feet, November— 1 cf . 



<S6. HiPOEPA FRACTALIS GueU. 



Hcnniiiia fractaJiti Guou., Sjiec. Gen. Lep., viii, p. 60, 1854, Cent. 

 India. 



Pah Tiap, November — 1 (f . 



This species is before me from Ceylon, Burma and Sarawak, 

 but not in sufficient numbers or good enough condition for it 

 to be possible to say whether there is any racial variation. 

 Specimens from Ceylon and Sarawak appear very close. 



87. MiXOMELIA PALUMBINA Btlr. 



Hcniiinia paJinnbina Btlr., 111. Het. B.M., vii, p. 88 pi. cxxxiv, fig. 9, 

 1889, Dharmsala. 



Mt. Murud, November — 1 9 . 



An Indian insect ; in the Joicey collection from the Khasias 

 only. In the Sarawak 9 the wings appear slightly more 

 elongate. The reniform is rather more obhque than in Indian 

 -specimens; on the hind wing, the anterior part of postmedial 

 line is rather further removed from termen. the line being 

 more oblique from costa to M^. On t)ie underside the discal 



