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shallow fovea in cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle 

 of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



4199. Eromene superbella, Zell. Stettin, ent. Zeit. 1849, p. 314. 



Grey, suffused with pale yellowish brown. Fore wing irrorated 

 with dark brown scales ; a straight dark-edged yellow band just 

 beyond middle, with a white baud on its inner edge ; a thickly 

 irrorated brown patch just beyond cell ; a white line from costa 

 towards apex to near outer margin on vein 6, then to inner margin 

 as a submarginal line ; the apical area with oblique yellow fascia 

 and triangular white costal mark ; black marginal spots from 

 vein 5 to outer angle connected by silvery spots on their outer 

 edges into sets of 2, 2, 3, and 2 spots. Hind wing white, with 

 traces of curved submarginal line. 



Hab. Europe; Sind ; Punjab. Exp. 16 millim. 



4200. Eromene ocellea, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 486 ; C. $ S. no. 4680. 

 Eromene bella, C. # S. no. 4tJ79 (nee Hiibn.). 



Brownish ochreous. Fore wing rather long and narrow, with 



postmedial somewhat ob- 

 lique fulvous-yellow band 

 with silvery line on it, the 

 area beyond it greyish 

 irrorated with black scales ; 

 a fulvous-yellow fascia 



Fig. U.-Er^ne ocellea, rf. |. traversed by a silvery line 



across apical area con- 

 tinued as double brown lines to inner margin; the marginal spots 

 as in superbella. Hind wing whitish, tinged with fuscous towards 

 outer margin. 



Some specimens have a fuscous tinge. 



Bab. Europe ; Aden ; Afghanistan ; Punjab ; Karachi ; Mhow ; 

 Poona. Exp. 20 millim. 



Genus STENOCHILO. 

 Stenochilo, Hmpsn. P. Z. S. 1895, p. 950. 



Type, S. canicostalis, Hmpsn. 



Range. Sind ; Calcutta. 



Palpi porrect, extending about one and a half times length of 

 head and smoothly scaled ; maxillary palpi dilated with scales at 

 extremity; frons with a conical prominence; antenna? of female 

 somewhat annulate ; tibiie with the outer spurs about two-thirds 

 length of inner. Fore wing long and very narrow ; the apex 

 rectangular ; the inner margin lobed towards base ; vein 3 from 

 near angle of cell; 4,5 well separated at origin; 6, 7 shortly 

 stalked ; 10 and 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from near angle 

 "I r.-ll ; I, 5 from a point in female, 5 absent in male ; 0, 7 shortly 

 stalked. 



