46 OMMATOPHOEID^:.— FOCILLID^E. 



blackish line, preceded by a series of small black dots : secondaries olive-brown, crossed from 

 the middle of costa to near external angle by a slightly tapering creamy whitish band ; a 

 black patch, preceded by two cream-coloured dots and some scattered blue scales, at anal 

 angle ; an almost marginal cream-coloured streak ; fringe cream-coloured : thorax brown, 

 abdomen greyish. Under surface greyish fuliginous, crossed by two central and two undu- 

 lated submarginal dusky lines; outer margin and fringe whitish; a slender blackish marginal 

 line; primaries with creamy whitish internal area. Expanse of wings 53 millim. 

 North India. 



Ophiusa properata. (Plate CXII. fig. 6.) 

 Ophiusa properata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Ifct. xiv. p. 1433. n. 31 (1857). 



Primaries dark olive-brown, crossed before the middle by a broad lilacine greyish belt 

 constricted towards the centre and internally edged with white; a very broad undulated 

 lilacine grey external border, its inner margin very slenderly edged with white; a large 

 internally white-edged blackish apical spot, below which is a white-edged black >-shaped 

 marking : secondaries lilacine greyish with whity-brown basieostal area ; a slender whitish 

 band, followed by a fuliginous brown nebula, crosses the wing before the middle ; fringe near 

 the apex snow-white : body brown. Under surface greyish brown, more or less suffused 

 and banded with rufous-brown : primaries with the apical two-fifths of fringe whitish ; secon- 

 daries with a white patch on the fringe as above. Expanse of wings 47 millim. 



Darjiling. 



FOCILLID^E. 



AMPHIGONIA, Gum. 



Amphigonia comprimens. (Plate CXII. fig. 7.) 



Amphigonia comprimens. Walker, Oat. Ltj: llet. xv. p. 1540. n. 5 ( L858). 



Greyish stone-colour; primaries crossed obliquely at basal fourth by four brown spots, 

 the second to fourth enclosing small ochreous >-shaped characters; a differently shaped but 

 similarly coloured spot at the end of the cell, an angulated and sinuatcd grey oblique stripe 

 beyond the cell ; an irregular lunulated ochreous streak, bounded internally by three black- 

 edged silvery white lunules and externally by a purplish-brown patch, across the disk; a 

 submarginal series of dark brown dots and dashes : secondaries with a grey luuule at the end 

 of the cell, followed by an angulated and sinuatcd grey stripe ', external area ochreous 

 excepting towards apex and bounded internally throughout by a scries of brown-edged 

 ochreous lunules; an ill-defined brown submarginal line, followed nearer to the margin by a 

 series of dark brown dots and dashes. Head, front of thorax, and back of abdomen ochra- 



