568 MR. F. MOOHE ON NEW INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. [Apr. 16, 



lines which terminate irregularly on the costa before the apex, the 

 middle line being indistinct ; a short white exterior submarginal 

 line from posterior angle, and an extreme marginal blackish lunular 

 line with pale inner border : hind wing clear brown from the base, 

 grey along exterior margin, along which is a black lunular line ; 

 from the anal angle proceed a short narrow white line and upper 

 black streaks, the space above which is pale and speckled with 

 black : head and thorax grey, with brown median longitudinal 

 streaks and a well-defined black lateral streak ; base of thorax 

 densely tufted with black and brown spatulated scales ; abdomen 

 and legs greyish black. 



Expanse 5j inches. 



Hub. Kotghur (50 miles from Simla), N.W. Himalayas. In 

 Coll. Capt. A. M. Lang. 



Langia khasiana. 



Male. Fore wing with the exterior margin deeply festooned ; pale 

 testaceous ; a broad dark grey costal band extending to near the 

 tip ; two black submarginal contiguous bands, the outer one broadest 

 and the inner nearly obsolete on the hind margin ; a parallel black 

 discal band which is bifid on the hind margin and there forms an 

 elongated loop, being anteriorly nearly obsolete ; between this and 

 the inner submarginal band runs a parallel paler and much less 

 distinct band ; and below the grey costa extends a black streak ; 

 interspaces of the entire wing from the costa black-speckled, which 

 are most numerous about the looped band, the costa being speckled 

 with testaceous : hind wing brown, greyish along anterior margin 

 and testaceous at anal angle ; from the latter extends a short sub- 

 marginal black streak which is broadest at the angle : exterior 

 margins of both wings with black lunules, each having a grey inner 

 border : head and thorax grey ; thorax with narrow longitudinal 

 testaceous median streaks and a broad lateral testaceous-bordered 

 black streak ; abdomen brown, speckled with testaceous ; legs 

 greyish brown above, tarsi nearly white, all the joints black-tipped ; 

 shaft of antennae blackish grey, pectinations pale testaceous ; eyes 

 brown ; tips of palpi black, fringed with white, and having each a 

 white-ringed dot in front. 



Expanse 5| inches. 



Hab. Khasia Hills (Major H. H. Godwin- Austen). In Coll. 

 F. Moore. 



Genus Smerinthus. 



Smerinthtjs decoratus. 



Female dark olive-brown, suffused with pale pink : fore wing 

 with a large median costal dark brown patch bordered with pale pink 

 and partly enclosing a pale brown reniform discal spot, beneath 

 which is a smaller lobe-shaped darker brown patch ; near the apex 

 is a triangular grey patch bordered with dark brown, below which is 

 a short longitudinal diaphanous white streak ; between the costal 

 patches are two transverse recurved pale pink lines, the outer one 



