340 Colonel C. Switilioe on nexo 



double ring-sliaped mark somewliat like a figure of 8 in the 

 cell, another at its end, and a tiiird below the end, tlie last 

 two more or less connected ; the basal iialf of the fore wing 

 is finely striated with brown thin striations ; there are indica- 

 tions of an outwardly curved brown aiitemedial line on the 

 fore wing-, and a sinuous outwardly curved middle line con- 

 nected with the two outer ring-marks; both wings with a 

 postmedial line, sinuous in the fore wing, its upper half very 

 deeply outwardly curved, double on the hind wing, waved 

 and very slightly outwardly curved ; a row of submarginal 

 brown spots on both wings; outer margin of the fore wing 

 somewhat excavated below the aj^ex as in E. moza, Butler*, 

 but not so deeply, and the two tails of the hind wing blunt 

 and very short. Underside pale pinkish grey, both wings 

 with discoidal marks, double brown transverse lines rather 

 close together, and minute submarginal spots. 



Expanse of wings 1^-q inch. 



Hub. Khasia Hills. 



Family Pyralidae. 



C/ithote horridipes, 



Crithote horridipes, Walker, Journ. Liun. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 1P3 (1864). 

 Helenis crinipes, Siiellen, Tijd. voor Ent. xxiii. p. 109, pi. viii. tigs. 4, 4 a 

 (1880). 



Type, Sarawid^, Borneo, in Mus. Oxon. 



Type crinipes, 13onthaiM, Celebes, in coll. Snellen. 



Apparently a very widely distributed species. I have it 

 from Gilulo, the Khasia Hills, and from ]S. Kanara, S. India; 

 there is no appreciable ditFereuce in any of them. 



Avitta s^ihsignans. 



Aritta subsi(/na7is, "VVallier, xv. 1675 (1858). 



Oroba surri'yens, Walker, Jouiii. Liun. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 81 (1864). 



Einzeuxis ituluctalis, Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. xxiii. p. 130 (la80), and 



xxiv. p. 68, pi. vi. fig. 8 (188lj. 

 Avitta fusciosa, Moore, Descr. Ind. Lep. Atk. p. 194, pi. vi. fig. 26 (1882). 



Type, Kanara, S. India, in B. M. 



Type surrigens, Sarawak, Borneo, in Mus. Oxon. 



'J'ype inductalis, Makassar, Celebes, in coll. Snellen. 



Type faiiciota, Khasia Hills, in coll. Staudinger. 



Another widely-spread species. Snellen records it from 

 Java, and I have received it from Sumba Island, Java, 

 (joping, Perak, Coomoo (Queensland), the Andaman Islands, 



* Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) i. p. 402 (1878). 



