ALOIS.— CHOG ADA. 103 



BOARMIIUyE. 



ALCIS, Hiidn. 

 Alcis snblimis. (Phite CXXXV. fig. 19.) 



Primaries above witli the basal third granite-grey, mottled with whitish and traversed 

 externally by two sinuous black stripes; central third white, striated witli grey, and in the 

 male suftuscd with pale bufl'; an imperfect series of black or bhickish spots on the veins near 

 the outer edge of this whitish belt ; a grey and blackish blotch at the end of the cell ; external 

 third granite-grey varied with blackish or black ; an interrupted zigzag whitish or white 

 stripe across the middle of this area, and a pale buff or whitish diffused spot near outer margin 

 on second median interspace ; fringe whitish, spotted with smoky grey : secondaries pale 

 granite-grey, fading into white towards eosta; two divergent widely separated darker grey 

 streaks and a spot at the end oF the cell, all obsolete in the male, but fairly well-defined in 

 the female ; a zigzag submarginal white stripe, bordered internally witii dark grey or black 

 towards the abdominal margin : thorax granite-grey ; shank of antenna; dotted with white ; 

 abdomen more or less grey, with white hind margins to the segments, anal tuft pale buff. 

 U«der surface sericeous white ; a broad grey border spotted with white as in the allied species ; 

 fringes as above; slight grey traces of the upper surface markings visible through the wings ; 

 eosta of primaries mottled with black ; anterior tibiae and tarsi black, barred with creaui-coluur 

 above. Expanse of wings 40—48 millim. 



Dharmsala, and at Trioon above Dharmsala, 9000 feet elevation, where it flew out of the 

 grass. 



The pattern of this species somewhat resembles that of A trikuturia ; it is nevertheless 

 much more nearly allied to A. nuclivolans of Japan; it appears to be a common species, as 

 Mr. Hocking retained nine examples. 



CHOGADA, Moore. 



Chogada latipennis. (Plate CXXXVI. fig. 2.) 



cJ . Whity brown, irrorated with smoky brown ; external area slightly browner, bounded 

 internally by a dark brown dentate-sinuate baud enclosing a pale stripe; a second somewhat 

 similar baud, bounded internally by a black line, beyond the middle ; this line on the primaries 

 is elbowed and strongly denticulated from the eosta to the angle ; a more regular dentate- 

 sinuate dark brown central line ; a very irregularly angulate black line across the basal third ; 

 " reniform ■" spot blackish-bordered, elongate-pyriform : secondaries with an elbowed line 

 across basal fourth ; tlie discocellular spot cuneiform : abdomen crossed by abbreviate white- 

 edged black transverse bars. Underside pale sericeous brown; blackish discocellular dashes; 



