PACHYXOA. PARBATTIA. 399 



a diffused oblique pale fuscous band bent inwards below the end 

 of cell ; traces of a pale fuscous diffused submarginal band. Hind 

 wing with the hair on inner marginal lobe blackish ; traces of pale 

 fuscous maculate postmedial and submarginal bands. 



Hob. Sikhim (Holler). Exp. 44 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



5146. Pachynoa fuscilalis, Hmpsn. III. Set. viii, p. 133, pi. 155, fig. 2. 



3 . Head and thorax purplish fuscous ; palpi black, white 

 below; abdomen with the 1st segment rufous, the next three 

 purplish, the terminal segments orange. Fore wing with the basal 

 area purplish fuscous, with a curved dark antemedial line, extending 

 along the costa and in the cell to the postmedial line, which is 

 straight from the costa to vein 3, where it is retracted to below end 

 of cell ; the inner and outer areas orange ; a black spot in cell and 

 discocellular lunule. Hind wing paler; a dark mark on inner 

 basal area ; a sinuous postmedial line bent inwards at vein 2 ; the 

 apex slightly suffused with fuscous. 



Hob. Nilgiris. Exp. 24 millim. 



Genus PARBATTIA. 

 Parbattia, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 225 (1888). 



Type, P. vialis, Moore. 



Range. Sikhim. 



Palpi porrect, triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden by hair ; 

 maxillary palpi filiform ; irons rounded ; antennae of male mi- 

 nutely ciliated ; tibia? with the outer spurs about two-thirds length 

 of inner. Fore wing with the apex produced, the outer margin 

 oblique ; vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle; 7 straight 

 and not approximated to 8, 9 ; male with a fovea below the cell 

 at origin of vein 2. Hind wing with the costa lobed and fringed 

 with hair near base ; the cell extremely short and the discocellulars 

 produced for a long way along median nervure so that veins 3, 4, 5 

 appear to be stalked; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing 

 strongly with 8. 



5147. Parbattia vialis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 225, pi. 7, fig. 30 ; C.fy S. 



no. 4538. 



c? . Head fuscous ; palpi black, white below ; thorax whitish ; 



abdomen ' black ringed with 

 white. Fore wing blackish 

 brown to the postmedial line, 

 which is nearly straight from 

 costa to vein 5, then incurved 

 to middle of inner margin, the 

 cell and area below it varie- 

 Fig. 215. Parbattia vialis, J. \. gated with grey; black spots 



in cell and on discocellulars 

 and two streaks on bases of veins 3, 4 ; a pale band beyond the 



