182 CYMATOPHOHID-ffi. 



332. Gaurena florescens, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 620 ; Butl. III. Hd. vi, 



pi. 109, fig. 5 ; C.Sf S. no. 1628. 



Differs from florens in the head and thorax being spotted with 

 yellow ; the waved subbasal band of the fore wing replaced by a 

 spot on the costa and one below median nervure ; the spot at end 

 of cell large ; the postniedial spot placed below the costa ; the 

 patches at apex and near outer angle smaller ; the marginal series 

 larger. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Khasis ; XagaS. Exp. 42 millim. 



333. Gaurena fuscescens, n. sp. 



cJ . Head and thorax dark fuscous ; abdomen pale. Fore wing 

 dull brown suffused with fuscous ; traces of numerous waved dark 

 lines ; a pale speck below median nervure near the base ; an in- 

 distinct dark spot on discocellulars ; a pale patch at apex, lliml 

 wing pale fuscous, with an indistinct paler band just beyond the 

 middle. 



Jlnl. Nagu Hills, 6000 feet (Dolierty). Exp. 40 millim. Type 

 in coll. Elwes. 



334. Gaurena lichenea, n. sp. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish grey. Fore wing whitish 

 grey, crossed by numerous waved dark lines ; indistinct antemedial, 

 postmedial, and snlnnarginal curved dark bands; orbicular and 

 reniform spots indistinct, the former figure-of-8-shapcd, the latter 

 elongate ; an oblique black apical streak and marginal lunulate 

 line. Hind winjj white, with an indistinct medial fuscous line and 

 broad blackish marginal band. 



Nab. Sikhim (M oiler) ; Na'ga Hills, 6000 feet (Dolierty). Exp. 

 38 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



Genus POLYPLOCA. 



Polyploca, Hiihn. Verz. p. 273 (1816). 

 Pafimpsestes, Hiibn. Verz. p. 273 (1816). 

 Saronaga, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 330. 



Type, P. ridens, Fabr., from Europe. 



Bange. Europe ; N.W. Himalayas ; Sikhim ; Naga Hills. 



Palpi with the first two joints hairy, the third porrect, rather 

 long and naked. Antennae with the joints wide and flattened ; 

 patagia heavily fringed with hair. Fore wing thickly scaled, the 

 apex acute and rather produced ; vein 6 from above the angle of 

 cell ; vein 9 anastomosing with 7 and 8 to form an areole. Hind 

 wing with vein 5 from just below the middle of discocellulars 

 or just above the lower angle of cell, or stalked with vein 4. Head 

 and frons tufted ; abdomen with a tuft on 3rd segment. 



