28 CHALCOSIID^.— AllCTIID^. 



ANOMCEOTES, Felder. 



Mr. Moore considers A. basalis the type of a distinct genus, which he calls Akesina, but it 

 corresponds almost exactly, in both colouring and structure, with a species of Anomwotes 

 which we have from Ambriz collected by the late Mr. Moutciro; the only differences in 

 structure are that Akesina has slightly shorter wings, the upper discocellular veinlet of the 

 primaries is a trifle longer and the minute terminal furcation of the second subcostal branch 

 is wanting, thus practically reducing the number of subcostal branches from four to three. 



Anomoeotes basalis. (Plate CXXI. fig. U.) 

 Akesina basalis, Moore, Proc. Zool. iSoc. 1888, p. 396. 



Wings hyaline; the primaries, excepting the basi-iuternal area which is tinted with 

 orange, grey; secondaries with the basal half orange, the external half grey; body orange- 

 fulvous, antennae brown. Under surface similar. Expanse of wings 28 millim. 



Kangra valley. 



ARCTIIDJi]. 



SPILARCTIA, Bntl. 



Spilarctia dalbergse. (Plate CXXII. iig. 2.) 

 Spilaretia dalbergise (part.), Moore, I'roe. Zool. Sor,. 1888, p. 31)4. 



(J ? . Nearest to S. nydiu; the arrangement of the spots on the wings almost exactly 

 the same, but the primaries and thorax pale pinky buff, the latter with a longitudinal black 

 dorsal line; secondaries much whiter than iu S. nydia ; abdomen orange-ochreous instead of 

 carmine-red. Expanse of wings, ^ -47 millim., ? 47-50 millim. 



Dharmsala. (Larva on Geranium, April 12th, spun u]) at once; imago 24th May.) 



The type-label was written S. dalbergie (sic). 



Spilarctia howqua. (Plate CXXII. fig. 3.) 



1^ . Allied to S. coiifusa, from which it difl'crs in its much whiter wings and thorax ; the 

 j)Ostmedian series of spots on the primaries more prominent and less sinuous ; the submarginal 

 spots of the secondaries placed further from the outer margin, the first from the abdominal 

 margin elongated so as to reach the outer margin near the anal angle; the third and fourth 

 less prominent; the secondaries show no trace of the rosy colouring of S. coiifusa; the 

 abdomen has no dorsal scries of spots, but this is often the case with ^. coiifusa. On the 



