300 Mr. W. Warren oji new 



rounded, shaped like Hoterodes. Hind wing of male wholly 

 white, triangular, being produced towards the anal angle ; of 

 female white, with dark margin, rounded. Antennae of 

 female setaceous, as long as, or longer than, fore wing ; of male 

 more than half as long again. Palpi ];orrected, drooping, 

 pointed ; ocelli present ; tongue present ; abdomen of male 

 very long. 



Type Adehides cinereah's (Hoterodes) ^ Moore, P. Z. S. 

 1867, p. 94. 



Archernis, Meyr. 

 ■ Type A. octoguttah's, Feld., Meyr. Tr. E. S. 1887, p. 220. 



Archernis jnihescens J sp. n. 



Fore wings dull greyish yellow, suffused more or less with 

 fuscous grey ; first line brown, close to base, second line much 

 curved outwards in the middle and running in to quite half 

 the length of the wing on the inner margin ; three whitish 

 semitransparent spots, one between the two stigmata in the 

 cell, one on the costa on the inner side of the second line, the 

 third in the middle of the disk, on the outer side of the second 

 line, in the angle formed where it turns vertically towards the 

 inner margin ; subniarginal space generally clearer vellow 

 than the rest of the wing; fringes yellowish. Hind wings 

 pale yellow, with a brown central spot and sinuous central 

 line. Head and thorax suffused with fuscous grey ; abdomen 

 yellowish. [Jnderside like upper, but paler. 



Expanse of wings 24 millim. 



Several of both sexes fi'om N. China and X. India (Dharm- 

 sala). 



Nearest to A. pvrpurescens, Moore (Samea)^ from the 

 Andamans. 



Mesothtris, gen. no v. 



Fore wings with costa nearly straight, slightlv convex 

 before apex, which is blunt; hind margin rounded. Hind 

 wings rounded. Palpi shortly rostriforni; antenna? (in female) 

 filiform ; cell in both wings very short, hardly one third of 

 the length of the wing; first median ncrvule starting imme- 

 diately before the end of cell, third and radial on a loni;; 

 footstalk, second from the stalk hallway between first and the 

 origin of the other two. This neuration obtains also in 

 the iiind wing, where also the two costal branches are on a 

 long stalk ; owing to the shortness of the cell the two sti<^- 



