OMPHISA. ISCHNUKGES. 383 



continued as a black line to vein 1 c ; cilia with their bases black 

 from apex to vein 4. 



Hob. Sikhim. Eocp. 42 millim. 



Genus ISCHNURGES. 



Ischnurges, Led. Wien. ent, Mon. 1863, p. 418. 

 Nesolocha, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 239. 

 Rhectothyris, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) vi, p. 474 (1890). 



Type, /. illustralis, Led., from New Guinea. 



Range. Oriental region ; New Guinea. 



Differs from Pyrausta (p. 429) in the antennae being four-fifths 

 the length of the fore wing and annulated with raised rings at 

 each joint ; tibiae with the outer spurs half the length of the inner. 



5098. Ischnurges gratiosalis, Wlk. Cat. xvii, p. 357; Hmpsn. III. 



Het. ix, pi. 173, fig. 12 ; C. $ S. no. 4246. 

 Asopia roridalis, Wlk. Cat. xvii, p. 371 ; C. $ S. no. 4251. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with pink, yellow, and 

 white scales ; palpi white below. Fore wing bright yellow, with 

 pink suffusion on basal costal area ; an obliquely sinuous ante- 

 medial line with a hyaline speck beyond it in the cell ; a pink- 

 edged hyaline spot in end of 

 cell with a larger spot below 

 it, connected with the inner 

 margin by a line, both spots 

 with pink and dark suffusion on 

 their inner edges and between 

 them and the postmedial series 

 IscJinurgesgratiosate, 4. }. of pink-edged hyaline spots, 



which consist or a bind spot 



below the costa and quadrifid spot beyond the cell ; the veins of 

 outer area, the margin, and area near outer angle pink. Hind 

 wing yellow, with a hyaline spot below middle of cell on a 

 pink patch ; a large pink-edged dentate hyaline patch beyond the 

 cell ; the outer area suffused with pink ; a pink marginal band. 

 Underside with the ground-colour white. 



Hob. N. China ; Sikhim ; Nilgiris ; Travancore ; Ceylon ; 

 Pulo Laut ; Borneo. Exp. 24-30 millim. 



5099. Ischnurges rosea, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvii, p. 142. 



$ . Orange-yellow suffused with crimson ; head yellow, palpi 

 black above. Fore wing with series of black specks on costa, some 

 fuscous suffusion below basal part of costa ; an indistinct obliquely 

 sinuous antemedial crimson line ; an elongate fuscous annulus in 

 ^ell and large dark discocellular spot. Both wings with a fine 

 sinuous crimson postmedial line retracted at vein 2 to angle of 

 cell, then somewhat excurved again, at vein 2 conjoined to a 

 purplish crimson submarginal band. 



Hab. Khasis. Exp. 16 millim. 



