EUPITHECIA. TRICHOPTEEIGIA. 403 



795. Eupithecia rubridorsata, n. sp. 



2 . Palpi black ; head, thorax, and abdomen orange-red. Fore 

 wing with the basal two-thirds dark fuscous, the outer third dark 

 rufous ; an orange-red basal patch ; a black cell-spot ; traces of 

 antetnedial, four medial, and a submarginal waved whitish line. 

 Hind wing whitish ; the inner and outer areas suffused with 

 brown ; numerous indistinct waved lines, of which a medial and 

 postmedial are the most prominent. 



Nab. Sikhim (Knyvett}. Exp, 28 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



3796. Eupithecia incurvata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 268; C. # S. no. 3773. 



c? . Olive-brown. Fore wing with antemedial brown baud with 

 sinuous whitish edges ; the broad medial area brown, defined by 

 sinuous whitish lines, the inner angled in cell and followed by a 

 dark brown band and a waved brown line, the outer edge angled 

 at vein 4 ; a sinuous whitish submarginal line, with a brown patch 

 on its inner edge from costa to vein 4, and a brown subapical spot 

 beyond it. Hind wing fuscous, with traces of curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hob. Khasis. Exp. 22 millim. 



Genus TRICHOPTERIGIA, nov. 



Type, T. decorate^ Moore. 



Range. Himalayas ; Khasis. 



Palpi clothed with hair, porrect, and reaching well beyond the 

 short frontal tuft ; antennae of male minutely ciliated ; hind tibiae 

 with one pair of spurs, male with tuft of hair from femoro-tibial 

 joint; abdomen reaching slightly beyond the hind wing. Fore 

 wing with the outer margin long ; vein 3 from before angle of 

 cell ; 5 from middle of discocellulars ; 6 from above upper angle ; 

 10, 11 stalked, 10 anastomosing with 8, 9 to form the areole. 

 Hind wing of male with the inner area reduced to a small lobe at 

 ba.se ; vein 3 from before angle of cell, 5 from above angle ; the 

 discocellulars highly angled ; veins 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell. 



3797. Trichopterigia decorata, Moore, Lep. Atk.y. 272 ; C.fy 8. no. 3898. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey and ochreous, with a few fuscous 



scales. Fore wing semi- 

 hyaline grey, irrorated with 

 olive and black scales ; some 

 black spots on costa; the 

 base ochreous, bounded by 

 an oblique black line ; traces 

 of a medial line and line on 



Fig. 187. -Trichopterigia decorata, J. \. discocellulars; an irregu- 

 larly sinuous submarginal 



line, with a series of crimson spots beyond it. Hind wing semi- 



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