1888.] FROM THE HIMALAYAS. 405 



a dark chestnut vinaceous-red, with ochreous-white cilise : fore wing 

 with similar, but more prominent ochreous-white transverse bands, 

 the outer band being uniformly undulated, not angulated, and not 

 showing the discal spot seen in T. gunesa ; exterior border slightly 

 greyish speckled : hind wing with a distinct ochreous-white trans- 

 verse discal narrow fascia. Head, palpi above, front and top of 

 thorax ochreous-white ; tegulae and abdomen dark chestnut-red, the 

 latter with very slight greyish segmental fringe. 



Expanse, ? 3| inches. 



Hob. Kangra Valley. In coll. British Museum. 



" Reared from pupa, spun in fern." {HocMny.) 



Varmina, n. g. 



Fore wing elongated, triangular ; costa almost straight, slightly 

 arched at the end, apex somewhat acute ; exterior margin oblique 

 and slightly convex ; posterior margin convex towards the base ; 

 costal vein straight, extending to two thirds the margin ; cell long 

 and broad, extending to two thirds the wing ; first subcostal emitted 

 at one half before end of cell ; second at one fifth, third thrown off 

 at a little beyond one half from its base and terminating before the 

 apex ; fourth from end of the cell, curving upward and anastomosing 

 with third for a short distance and thence recurved upward and ter- 

 minating before the apex ; fifth from below fourth at a little beyond 

 one half between its base and juncture with third ; discocellular 

 angled close to each end, concave in the middle, radials from the 

 angles ; middle median from angle close to end of the cell, lower 

 median at nearly one third before end of the cell ; submedian 

 straight. Hind wing short ; costa arched, apex and exterior margin 

 convex ; cell broad, extending to two thirds the wing ; two subcostals 

 from end of the cell ; discocellular concave, radial from below its 

 middle ; two upper medians from lower end of the cell ; lower 

 median at nearly one third before the end ; submedian and internal 

 vein slightly recurved. Body clothed with long, lax, silky hair, 

 anal tuft somewhat long in male, thick in female ; thorax stout ; 

 antennae minutely pectinated in male ; palpi laxly pilose ; femora, 

 tibiae, and tarsi laxly pilose. 



Varmina indica. 



Gluphisia indica, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1039 

 (1855). 



Male and Female. Fuhginous-grey : fore wing with five trans- 

 verse oblique zigzag dusky-black fasciae, the first, third, and fifth 

 most distinct ; the interspaces from base of wing to the fifth fascia 

 numerously covered with minute orange-yellow spots, the outer 

 border being bare : a grey-bordered black lunule at end of the cell, 

 a spot in middle of the cell, and a submarginal row of short longi- 

 tudinal linear grey-bordered black spots : hind wing uniformly fuligi- 

 nous-grey, with an indistinct black lunule at end of the cell. Thorax 

 greyish-white in male, pure white in female, with two transverse 



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