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striated witli brown, the veins slightly streaked with blackish ; 

 subbasal line indistinct, slightly defined by greyish, waved, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; £.ntemedial line very indistinct, oblique 

 from costa to submedian fold, then angled inwards on vein L ; 

 claviform very indistinctly defined ; orbicular and reniform with 

 fuscous centres and grey annuli defined by rufous, the former 

 rounded ; postmedial line dentate and produced to short streaks on 

 the veins, bent outwards below costa and strongly incurved below 

 vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line pale, 

 defined on inner side by someVhat dentate rufous marks, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and somewhat dentate at veins 4, 3, the area 

 beyond it suffused with rather darker rufous except at apex • a 

 terminal series of slight points. Hind wing fuscous with a rufous 

 tinge, the basal area slightly paler ; the underside whitish irrorated 

 with rufous and brown, a dark discoidal lunule and indistinct post- 

 medial line with short dark streaks at the veins. 



Ab. 1. Brighter and more uniform ferruginous. Yatung. 



Hah. Punjab, Dharmsala (Hocl-ing), 2 c? , 3 $ , type; SiKHni 

 Tibet, Chumbi Valley, Yatung {Hohson\ 2 $ . Exp. 42-50 mJiim. 



Genus ONYCHESTRA, nov. 



Tj'pe, 0. siccanoriim. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely porrect, the 1st and 2nd joints 

 fringed with hair below ; froas with rounded prominence, witii curved corneous 

 process below it from middle of frons, a corneous plate below the frons laterally 

 produced into wings ; eyes large, rounded ; antennas of male minutely serrate 

 and fasciculate ; head and thorax clothed with rough hair and scales and with 

 ill-detined crests on pro- and metatliorax ; fore legs with the tarsal joints very 

 short and broad, the spines on the first three joints developed into short thick 

 claws, the ungues very large ; abdomen with dorsal crest on basal segment and 

 lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing rather narrow ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle 

 of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with S to form the areole ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent 

 from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 9 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



1442. Onychestra siccanorum. 



Mamestra siccanorum, Staud. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1870, p. 114; Mill. Icones, 

 pi. 152. f. 8 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 1(50. 



J . Head and thorax ochreous brown mixed with white ; 

 abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing white, largely sufiPused and 

 irrorated with ochreous brown ; an indistinct whitish subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold with some fuscous on each 

 side of it ; antemedial line rather indistinct, double, filled in 

 with whitish, slightly angled outwards below costa, oblique to vein 1 

 ■where it is angled inwards, then outwards above inner margin ; 

 claviform minute or short and broad, defined by black, a whitish 

 patch beyond it ; orbicular and reniform with small brown centres 

 and broad white annuli slightly defined by black, the former rather 

 quadrate or oblique elliptical, the latter slightly angled inwards on 



