catalogue of the Pi/ralidiiia of Sikkim 643 



long as the half of the costa of fore wings, setaceous, thicker in the 

 male. Labial pal^ai somewhat rough-haired, fixscous, the base pale ; 

 maxillarj' palpi pencil-like, distinct ; front obtusely protruding. 

 Ocelli distinct, tongue wanting. Head with antenna an thorax 

 fuscous, paler in the female. Wings shaped as in C7m7o phragmi- 

 tellus, pale ochreous brown in the male, still much paler in the 

 female ; a spot at the base, two transverse rows of spots at the 

 place of the ordinary lines, a shade behind the second, and a large 

 rounded spot on the disco-cellular, brown ; the first row consists 

 of two or three spots and is outwardly oblique, the second is much 

 more so in the opposite direction, somewhat flexuous and more 

 distinct ; both are meeting in cell 1 b, and there confluent ; shade 

 behind the second line not reaching the apex ; marginal spots 

 black, distinct, larger in the male. Fringes paler than the wing, 

 especially in the male. Hind wings white, in the male with a row 

 of dark spots from the apex till vein 2. Abdomen fuscous. Under 

 side of wings nearly white ; four discal spots, a transverse row of 

 spots on all wings at three -fourths, and marginal spots brown, but 

 very obsolete in one of the females. Legs pale fuscous {^) ov 

 whitish ($), smooth, with long spurs as in Chilo liliragmitellus. 



Sikkim, Tonglo, 10,000 ft., July ; id., 7000 ft. ; H. J. 

 Elwes. 



Genus Diptychophoea, Zeller, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1866, 

 p. 153. 

 245. Diptychojjhora prcematurella. 

 Eromene prcematurella, Meyr., Australian Microlepid., 



p. 198. 

 Diptychophora prcematurella, id., I. c, p. 217. 

 Eromene dilatella, id., p. 199. 

 Sikkim interior ; Mdller. 



Genus Eschata, Walker, Catal., ix., p. 133. 

 246. Eschata argentata. 

 Eschata arcjentata, Moore, Descr. Indian Lep., Atk. 



p. 227. 

 Sikkim ; Atkinson. Naga Hills, 5 — 7000 ft., August, 

 1889 ; W. Doherty. 



247. Eschata conspvrcata. 

 Eschata conspurcata, Moore, Descr. Indian Lep., Atk., 



p. 227. 

 Sikkim ; Moiler. 



