136 EPIPLEMJDJE. 



of specks ; a curved series of small dark postmedial lunules ; a 



ferruginous patch on outer mar- 

 gin at the excision ; cilia white 

 variegated with brown. Hind 

 wing similar ; the series of specks 

 straighter ; no ferruginous patch 

 on outer margin. 



With a fuscous diffused 



p- 74 patch on fore wing beyond the 



Metorthochttusemarginatum,3. \. cell. Underside of hind wing 



with the basal area whitish. 

 Hob. Nagas ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon. Exp., $ 22, 24 millim. 



SECT. IT. Fore wing with vein 11 from cell and anastomosing 

 with 12. Hind wing with the costa not excised, the outer 

 margin highly angled at vein 4. 



3075. Metorthochilus excisum, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 114, pi. 151, 

 fig. 13. 



Purplish grey, striated with fuscous ; both wings with indistinct 

 postmedial and marginal rufous lines, the former curved. 

 Hob. Nilgiris. Exp. 20 millim. 



G-enua ATOSSA. = J^* 

 Atossa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 577/h^o"~^ 



Type, A. nekinna, Moore. 



Range. N.W. Himalayas ; Naga Hills. 



Antennae bipectinate, with short ciliated branches in the male. 

 Palpi short and porrect. Fore wing with the apex produced ; 

 vein 3 before end of the cell ; 5 from the middle of the discocel- 

 lulars ; 6 from the upper angle; 7 either stalked with 6 or from 

 the angle ; 8, 9, 10 stalked, or 10 absent ; a forked fold in the 

 cell, and fold in interno-median interspace. Hind wing with the 

 apex produced beyond the outer angle of fore wing ; vein 3 before 

 end of the cell ; 5 from the middle of the discocellulars ; 7 from 

 before the upper angle of cell. 



SECT. I. Veins 6 and 7 of the fore wing stalked. 



3076. Atossa nelcinna, Moore, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 577, pi. 67, fig. 7 ; 

 Elwes, P. Z. S. 1890, pi. 34, fig. 1 ; C. 8f S. no. 457. 



d . Antennae, head, and thorax black ; abdomen orange, with 

 the vertex black. Fore wing fuscous ; the basal half with pale 

 streaks in the interspaces; the outer half with two series of 

 rounded spots ; the two spots between veins 5 to 7 of the post- 

 medial series placed out of line towards the margin. Hind wing 

 ^imilar to the fore wing; the pale streaks of the basal half larger; 



