662 NOCTTTIDJE. 





edge ; pectus and legs white tinged with red-brown, the tarsi brown 

 ringed with white ; abdomen pale rufous with white segmental 

 lines, the ventral surface white. Fore wing rufous with a slight 3 

 greyish tinge ; a pale yellow fascia on costal area leaving some 

 rufous on the costa, narrowing to base and terminating in a point 

 before apex, expanding in end of cell, enclosing a rufous point 

 representing the orbicular and emitting a spur below the round 

 rufous reniform ; a yellow fascia on basal half of vein 1 ; an indis- i 

 tinct oblique purplish grey postmedial band from vein 6 to inner 

 margin ; a yellow line just before termen not reaching apex or j 

 tornus. Hind wing red-brown ; cilia brown at base, yellowish 

 white at tips ; the underside pale yellow slightly tinged with red- 

 brown, the termen red-brown, the cilia white with a slight brown 

 line through them. 



Ab. 1. Thorax and fore wing without any yellow. 



Hah. Kashmir, Goorais Valley {Leech), 5 <$ , 2 2 tv P e > Scind 

 Valley {Leech), 4 6 , 1 $ . Exp. 26 millim. 



Genus HELIOCONTIA, nov. 



Type, H. apicclla. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 

 middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short; frons with small 

 rounded prominence with corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antenna 

 of male minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the 

 prothorax without crest, the metathorax with large tufted crest; tibiae smoothly 

 scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and not crenulate : veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 

 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 almost obsolete from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. 



Sect. I. Fore wing with vein 7 from 8 beyond 9. 



A. Fore, wing with medial and postmedial white spots on 



costa pantherula. 



B. Fore wing without medial and postmedial white spots on 



costa apicella. 



6003. Heliocontia pantherula. (Plate CLXVIII. 

 figs. 28 tf,29 $.) 



Emmelia pantherula, Herr.-Schaff. Corresp.-blatt. zool.-min. Ver. Eegensb. 



xxii. p. 151 (1868), <$ . 

 Emmelia imcimda, Herr.-Schiiff. Corresp.-blatt. zool.-min. Yer. Eegensb. 



xxii. p. 151 (1868), $. 



3 . Head and tegulae black-brown with a silvery-blue gloss ; 

 thorax deep rufous with a silvery-blue gloss; palpi rufous ; pectus 

 and legs white mixed with some brown, the tibiae and tarsi banded 

 with black ; abdomen red-brown with whitish segmental lines, the 

 ventral surface white with black band before the anal tuft which 



