PLATYTES. 21 



4188. Platytes niveifascialis, Hmpsn. P. Z, 8. 1895, p. 945. 



cJ . Head white ; palpi brown at sides ; thorax white and 

 brown ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing pale ochreous 



brown, with silvery white fascia 

 from base through the cell, 

 terminating in a point beyond 

 the cell and edged by brown 

 lines ; some dark brown scales 

 on inner area; a brown line 

 from costa beyond middle, 



Fig. is. double to vein b', where it is 



Platytes niveifascialis, J . \. highly angled near the margin, 



then inwardly oblique, sinuous 



and obsolescent ; a fuscous triangular shade on outer area meeting 

 the apex of the silvery fascia ; a tine crenulate dark marginal line. 

 Hind wing ochreous white, slightly tinged with fuscous on marginal 

 area. 



Hob. Nilgiris. Exp. 22 millim. 



4189. Platytes strigulalis, Hmpsn. P. Z. S. 1895, p. 946. 



c? . White ; palpi fuscous at sides ; abdomen with the two 

 basal segments yellow above. Fore wing with oblique yellow- 

 brown strigae from costa ; slight brown streaks below costa and 

 in cell ; the inner area irrorated with a few brown scales and 

 with traces of a medial oblique line ; a dark discocellular speck ; 

 the outer area prominently streaked with yellow-brown ; an 

 indistinct waved submarginal line bent inwards to costa and inner 

 margin ; a marginal series of black specks. Hind wing white. 



Hab. Murree ; Meeaii Meer, Punjab ; Nagas ; Ceylon. Exp. 20 

 millim. 



4190. Platytes albipennella, Hmpsn. P. Z. S. 1895, p. 946. 



d 1 . Cretaceous white ; palpi brownish at sides ; abdomen with 

 the two basal segments ochreous above. Fore wing with traces of 

 pale fulvous streaks in the interspaces, and of a pale fulvous spot 

 at lower angle of cell ; a marginal series of dark specks ; cilia with 

 three brown lines through them. Hind wing pure white. 



Hab. Murree. Exp. 18 millim. 



4191. Platytes fulvizonella, n. sp. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white irrorated with black. Fore 

 wing white irrorated with black ; a broad rather ill-defined medial 

 fulvous band ; the black irroration on disk taking the form of: three 

 diffused obliquely placed spots ; a curved fulvous postmedial line 

 expanding towards costa ; a fulvous marginal band. Hind wing 

 pale fuscous. 



Hab. Khasis. Exp. 13 millim. Types in coll. Eothschild and 

 B.M. 



