404 GEOMETRIC. 



hyaline white ; both wings with the veins of outer area and the 

 margin blackish. 



Some specimens have a diffused fuscous medial band on fore 

 wing. 



Hob. Sikhim, 13,000 feet ; Khasis. Exp. 30 rnillim. 



3798. Trichopterigia sanguinipunctata, Warr.P. Z. S. 1893, p. 363, 



pi. 31, fig. 17. 

 Looophora pulcherrima, Sivinh. A.M. N. H. (6) xii, p. 224. 



Differs from decorata in the thorax and abdomen being spotted 

 with crimson. Fore wing with the irroration entirely olive ; a few 

 crimson spots on basal area ; the medial area suffused with crimson 

 and with numerous spots and short streaks on the veins ; a series 

 of red marginal spots. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp. 30 millim. 



3799. Trichopterigia mfinotata, Butl III Set. vii, p. 116, pi. 137, 



fig. 13. 



<J> . Differs from decorata in the fore wing being greenish grey, 

 with numerous indistinct waved lines, some of the medial lines 

 being fuscous and forming a band which forks towards costa : the 

 subbasal line angled ; three submarginal lines, with one red spot 

 beyond them below costa and four at middle. Hind wing with 

 two indistinct submarginal lines. 

 Hob. Kulu. Exp. 40 millim. 



Genus TRICHOPTERYX. 

 Trichopteryx, Hiibn. Verz. p. 323 (? 1818). 



Type, T. carpinata, Borkh., from Europe. 

 Range. Nearctic and Palaearctic regions ; Himalayas ; Khasis. 

 Differs from Trichopterigia in the fore wing having vein 10 

 anastomosing with 11 and then with 8, 9 to form a double areole. 



SECT. I. Male with vein 8 of hind wing connected with 7 by an 

 oblique bar at end of cell. 



3800. Trichopteryx sikkima, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 272, pi. 8, fig. 30 ; 



C. $ S. no. 3899. 

 Amathia nigronotata, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 362, pi. 31, fig. 18. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous, slightly irrorated with 

 black. Fore wing white ; male with the disk irrorated with purple 

 scales ; female with traces of numerous waved olive lines ; sinuous 

 subbasal, antemedial, medial, and postmedial lines, with olive bands 

 on the outer edge of the first and last, and on the inner ed<;< of 

 the two middle lines; a submarginal series of black specks on 

 oli\r spots; some black spots on vein 1 and a marginal series. 

 Hind win*: puiv white. 



l/nf>. Sikhim. Exp., <$ 28, $ 34 millim. 



