182 PYEALID^E. 



Hal. Simla; Sikhim ; Momeit, Burma. E.cp., J 38, $ 48 

 millim. 



4619. Orybina plangonalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 790; C. $ S. no. 4157. 

 Oryba conspicualis, Snell. Tram. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 562, pi. 20, 



$ . Purple-grey ; palpi bright pink. Fore wing with almost 

 the whole inner area suffused with fiery red ; an obliquely curved 

 antemedial dark line ; a red-edged yellow lunule beyond the disco- 

 eellulars, and a red-edged hyaline spot at origin of veins 3, 4, 5, 

 with an oblique dark line from it to inner margin, where it some- 

 times meets the antemedial line ; some fiery red on medial part of 

 outer area ; the veins dark, with some red scales on them. Hind 

 wing pale, with a fiery red patch from lower angle of cell to outer 

 margin below apex and vein 2, and crossed by the curved dark 

 postmedial line ; the apex and cilia from apex to vein 2 purplish 

 grey. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 34 millim. 



Genus PROTEINIA, nov. 



Type, P. pallifrons, Snell. 



Range. Sikhim. 



2 Palpi porrect, slender, projecting about two and a half times 

 length of head, the 3rd joint about half the length of 2nd - r 

 maxillary palpi minute ; frons rounded ; antennae nearly simple ; 

 tibi smooth. Fore wing with the outer margin slightly angled 

 at veins 6 and 4, then excised to outer angle ; veins 3, 4, 5 from 

 angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 given off from 8 before 7; 

 10 free. Hind wing with the outer margin slightly angled at 

 vein 4 ; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



4620. Proteinia pallifrons, Snell. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 660. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown. Fore wing 



deep coppery red ; the 



flfetJS^ ^ZZ^^^I costal area pale grey- 



^fc- --^k ^---^^^3 S brown, with some white 



MB ^S~ -Sy^ ./ specks on costa ; an ill- 



I l^>^-^ s^ defined oblique pale line 



* ^^^^^ F from median nervure to 



^\^^^ laM 3 " near base of inner margin ; 



Fig. 108.-JV*fcwia pallifrons, $ . \. a P ale line from c ? sta 3 ust 



before apex, curving out- 



ards to the margin, then inwards to vein 2, where it is slightly 

 angled ; the cilia dark fuscous. Hind wing deep red, the basal 

 half suffused with fuscous ; pale curved sinuous ante- and 

 postmedial lines, with a hyaline conical patch between them below 

 lower angle of cell. Underside with double line from outer margin- 

 of fore wing at vein 5 to anal angle of hind wing. 

 Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 34 millim. 



