HTBL^EA. ARACHNOGNATHA. 373 



tinged ; the inner area whitish ; hind wing suffused with purpish 

 white. 



Jfab. Khasis. Exp. 30 inillim. Type in B. M. 



2207. Hyblsea firmamentum, Gum. Noct. ii, p. 392 ; C. $ S. no. 2231. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark red-brown ; the last with 

 the segments slightly fringed with yellow. Fore wing red-brown 

 irrorated with dark specks ; a chocolate basal patch terminating at 

 end of cell in an acute angle ; the part below cell darkest ; a 

 chocolate streak from centre of costa to above centre of outer 

 margin ; cilia pale in the emargination below apex. Hind wing 

 black-brown, with a yellow spot below centre of costa and another 

 above anal angle which is sometimes obsolescent; two yellow 

 patches on cilia towards anal angle. Underside with the inner 

 area of fore wing yellow and two patches on costa ; the hind wing 

 with numerous yellow patches. 



The yellow spots of hind wing are often entirely absent above and 

 much reduced on underside. 



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



Genus ARACHNOGNATHA, nov. 



Type, A. meterytlira, Hmpsn. 



Range. Burma. 



Palpi long, porrect, and curved, the 2nd joint clothed with long 

 hair ; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Fore wing with the 

 costa highly arched at base, the apex quadrate ; the areole long, vein 

 7 being given off halfway up it and 8 before the end. Hind wing 

 with the inner margin short ; veins 3, 4, and 5 from close to angle 

 of cell. Fore tibia? not tufted. 



2208. Arachnognatha meterythra, n. sp. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown. Fore wing pale 

 olive-green, with very faint traces of antemedial, medial, and 

 postmedial diffused chestnut bands ; a speck of erect black scales 



Fig. 205. Arachnognatha meterythra, $ . \. 



representing the orbicular; cilia chestnut. Hind wing vinous 

 pink ; an ocellate mark at anal angle consisting of a pale luimle 

 and dark pupil. 



Hab. E. Pegu, 5000 feet (Doherty). Exp. 36 millim. Type in 

 coll. Elwes. 



