152 BTOTODCXNTIDJE. 



spots indistinctly paler ; outer area grey-green ; a waved dark 

 submarginal line. Hind wing whitish, the costal and inner areas 

 suffused with red-brown, the apex grey-green. 



Hob. Sikhim. Escp. 46 inillim. Type in coll. Knyvett. 



267. Stauropus albivertex, n . sp. 



<5 . Palpi and sides of head black, the vertex white; thorax 

 dark iron-grey ; abdomen greyish brown, the basal segments red- 

 brown. Fore wing iron-grey ; an irregularly waved antemedial 

 line and waved oblique postmedial line. Hind wing nearly white ; 

 some dark hairs on inner area, and some brown on the margin at 

 anal angle. 



Hab. Gurais Valley, Kashmir (Leech). Exp. 70 millim. Type 

 in coll. Leech. 



268. Stanropus fasciatus, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 58 ; C. $ & no. 980. 



Palpi black, fringed with white ; head ochreous white ; thorax 

 grey and fuscous ; abdomen brownish grey, the extremity griz/lrd. 

 Fore wing grey irrorated with fuscous, some darker suffusion at 

 base ; three indistinct waved antemedial lines ; a postmedial irre- 

 gular line, expanding into ill-defined blotches below the costa, at 

 middle and inner margin ; a waved submarginal dark line. Hind 

 wing pale, with a large apical dark spot. 



A male from Sikhim has the collar white, and a large white 

 blotch below the centre of the costa of fore wing in and below the 

 cell : in a female from Sikhim the head also is white ; the fore 

 wing wholly white, except the basal area, the inner area, and a 

 patch on the costa beyond the middle, which are brown. 



Hab. Dalhousie ; Sikhim ; Khundtila ; Andarnans. Exp., <$ 52, 

 $ 54millira. 



269. Stauropus griseus, Ilmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 59, pi. 141, fig. 16. 

 Lymantria canescens, Hmpm. 111. Het. ix, ined., pi. 160, fig. 6. 



. Antenna brownish ochreous ; head and collar dark brown ; 

 thorax and tore wing dark brown grizzled with grey, the latter 

 with traces of dark ante- and postmedial lines. Abdomen and 

 hind wing paler brown. 



c? with the whole fore wing, except the costa, much darker 

 brown as far as the postmedial line; the waved submargiual line 

 more distinct. 



Hab. Nilgiris, southern slopes, 3000 feet ; Ceylon. Exp., J 50, 

 $ 63 millim. 



270. Stauropus orbifer, n. sp. 



$ . Head red-brown ; thorax and abdomen pure white. Fore 

 wing red-brown with a purplish tinge ; the whole inner area, 



