428 Sir G. F. Ilampson on new 



blackish spot on costa and traces of a sinuous line from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double, 

 filled in Avitli ochreous at costa, then minutely waved, oblique 

 to vein 3 near subterrainal line, then incurved, some whitish 

 points beyond it on costa: subterminal line represented by a 

 series of small whitish lunules with short black streaks before 

 and beyond them, slightly excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle; the veins of terminal area with slight blackish 

 streaks ending in white points; a terminal series of l)lack 

 points in the interspaces. Hind wing bright glossy red- 

 brown, the cilia reddish ochreous with a dark line through 

 them. Underside of fore wing black-brown except costal 

 and terminal areas ; hind wing with the costal area except 

 at base and terminal area to vein 5 clothed with black-brown 

 hairy scales, the rest of wing whitish, a black discoidal spot 

 and minutely waved postmedial line from costa to vein 3 and 

 some black lunules on termen. 



$ . Fore wing darker red-brown more variegated with 

 ochreous, tlie spot in reniform whitish ; hind wing darker, 

 the underside with the costal area suft'used with red-brown, a 

 dark subterminal shade from costa to submedian fold. 



Hah. Ceylon, Peradenyia [Macktvood), 1 ^ type, Kandy 

 {Mackwood), 1 ? . Exj). 38-40 mm. 



2974 Z*. Trachea nive'qmncta, sp. n. 

 Trachea consumrnata ab. 4, Iliiipsn. Cat. Lep. Pbal. B. M. vii. p. 201. 



(J . Head and thorax bright red- brown with a few blackish 

 scales, the tegulse with blackish medial line ; palpi blackish 

 at sides except at tips ; tarsi blackish ringed with rufous ; 

 abdomen greyish brown, the crests, anal tuft, and ventral 

 surface rufous. Fore wing bright red-brown irrorated with 

 blackish, the terminal area slightly darker except at apex ; 

 subbasal line represented by double black striae from costa 

 and cell ; antemedial line double, blackish, slightly angled 

 outwards below costa, in submedian fold and above inner 

 margin, and inwards in cell and on vein I, some black before 

 it above inner margin ; claviform black-brown defined by 

 black, short and broad, extending to median nervure ; orbi- 

 cular and reniform with their annuli represented by some 

 white points incompletely defined by black, the former 

 oblique, the latter with ochreous lunule in outer part of 

 centre ; a blackish spot at middle of costa and traces of a 

 sinuous line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; post- 

 medial line double, bent outwards below costa, then minutely 



