306 



antemedial curved double line filled in with purplish, and with a 

 black spot below median nervure ; a slightly waved postmedial 

 double line filled in with purple and excurved bevond cell, where 

 it is met by a dark streak from the apex ; the outer margin grey. 

 Hind wing pale fuscous. Underside with prominent cell -spot and 

 waved postmedial line. 



Ilab. N.W. Himalayas ; Nilgiris. Exp. 24 millim. 



2003. Hyelopsis frausa, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 446 ; C. $ S. no. 1874. 

 Naranga pallida, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 96, pi. 162, fig. 13. 



c? . Differs from plumbata in being pale brownish ochreous. 

 Pore wing with white and dark marks on inner margin and costa 

 representing the antemedial line ; a few dark scales at end of cell ; 

 the postmedial curved and waved double line almost obsolete and 

 represented by white and dark lines between vein 2 and inner 

 margin ; the outer area and cilia pale. Hind wing pale fuscous. 



The form pallida from Ceylon is pale ochreous, with the markings 

 of fore wing still more reduced ; the bind wing white. 



Hab. Mhow ; Ceylon. Exp. 18 millim. 



2004. Hyelopsis umbrina, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 74, pi. 145, fig. 15. 



. Head and thorax reddish brown ; abdomen fuscous. Fore 

 wing red-brown ; traces of a curved antemedial double line filled 

 in with pale colour and very much excurved beyond the cell, where 

 it is produced almost to an angle and met by an oblique dark streak 

 from the apex. Hind wing fuscous. 



Hab. Nilgiris, W. slopes. Exp. 24 millim. 



SECT. III. Antennae of male bipectinate, of female with long cilia ; 

 fore wing rather narrower, the outer margin oblique. 



2005. Hyelopsis herbaria, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 446; C. $ &no. 1819. 



Ochreous white. Fore wing with some fuscous black spots on 

 the costa ; a large blotch below end of cell ; traces of a postmedial 

 series of specks ; some obliquely disposed dark scales from apex ; 

 outer area slightly suffused with rufous ; outer margin with a few 

 black scales ; cilia with a blackish patch at centre. 



The types are in very bad condition, but the abdomen appears to 

 have been tufted. 



Hab. Mhow. Exp. 18 millim. 



Genus TOXOPHLEPS. 



Toxophleps, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 124 (189:3). 



Type, T. optiva, Swinh. 



Range. N.W. Himalayas ; Ceylon ; Eangoon. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head and 



