58 CENOCHEOMIIDJE. 



Decetia arenosa. (Plate CXIII. fig. 9.) 

 Decetia arenosa, Butler, Ann. 4' Mag, Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 121. n. 19 (1880). 



Primaries above sandy yellow, densely irrorated with minute grey striations, which, 

 however, are less numerous upon the centre of the disk, where there seems to be a yellowish 

 belt tapering towards the costa and enclosing two or three rounded grey spots ; two pale- 

 edged gravel-reddish parallel oblique lines — the first subbasal, the second central and 

 extending at its upper extremity almost to the apex : secondaries greyish brown, with darker 

 striations and four conical dark grey discal spots in a straight line ; costal area dull white ; 

 a dull gravel-red line across the basal third : thorax sandy greyish ; abdomen of the same 

 colour in the centre, but with orange sides and anus. Wings below grey, with bright 

 ochreous borders ; body orange. Expanse of wings 48 millim. 



North-east Himalayas (Lidderdale) . 



Decetia rufifrontata. (Plate CXIII. fig. 10.) 

 Auzea rufifrontata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xsv. p. 1487 (1862). 



Greyish brown, the wings with numerous slightly darker transverse striations : primaries 

 crossed obliquely by two nearly parallel dark lake-brown stripes, the inner one slender, 

 subbasal, edged internally with plumbaginous scales, the outer one a little broader beyond the 

 middle, both acutely inangled from subcostal vein to costal margin ; a series of more or less 

 fusiform white spots across the disk just beyond the outer stripe, and an arched subapical 

 series of smaller white spots ; two brown spots placed obliquely below the middle of the 

 disk ; a minute blackish dot at the end of the cell ; costal border towards apex bright lake- 

 brown, enclosing a line of plumbaginous scales : secondaries with the costal half pure white ; 

 abdominal half crossed before the middle by a straight lake-brown stripe, beyond which are 

 five short white dashes on and between the veins ; several blackish markings between these 

 white dashes and the outer margin, the latter black, intersected by a slender white line; 

 face and palpi bright carmine-red; top of head and thorax pale greyish brown; abdomen 

 blackish, with testaceous anal tuft. Wings below white : primaries with the basal area 

 brownish; costal margin and apex reddish ochreous; two parallel grey oblique lines beyond 

 the middle : secondaries testaceous at the base; an abbreviated grey line from the abdominal 

 margin to the median vein ; external border brownish, fringe blackish: pectus whitish, the 

 anterior legs carmine in front ; venter blackish, ochraceous at the sides. Expanse of wings 

 52 millim. 



Darjiling (Hearsay, Lidderdale, tyc). 



