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THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 



SUPPLEMENTARY PAPER TO THE VOLUMES IN 



" THE FAUNA OF BRITISH INDIA." 



SERIES III, PART III. 



By 



Sir George Hampson, Bart., f.z.s., f.e.s. 



(Continued from page 478 of tins Volume.) 



Sub-family Erastriam;. 



Genus Neachrostia, nov. 



Type N. brunneiplaga. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned to vertex of head, thickly scaled ; 

 the third joint short ; frons smooth, rounded ; antennae of male ciliated ; meta- 

 thorax with recumbent crest ; abdomen without crests. Forewing with vein 

 3 from well before angle of cell ; 4'5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7'8 

 stalked shortly in female ; 9 absent ; 10-11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3'4 

 coincident ; 5 almost obsolete from middle of discocellulars ; 6'7 shortly stalked ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



2098. a. Neachrostia brunneiplaga, Swinh., A. M. N. H. (7), xv., p. 500 

 (1905). 



$. Head and thorax brown almost entirely suffused on dorsum with black 



and tinged with 

 grey ; palpi black 



ft'^llJIk ^^^-^^~~---7' y^^ except at tips $ ab- 



domen pale brown 

 irrorated with fus- 

 cous. Forewing pale 

 ochreous brown 

 Neachrostia brunneiplaga. <Jf. irrorated with 



rufous ; the basal area black bounded by a waved line ; the antemedial area 

 with a glaucous tinge ; the antemedial line represented by a black striga from 

 costa and brown striae in and below cell ; a medial line, black towards costa, 

 then brown, incurved in submedian interspace ; a small black discoidal lunule ; 

 a black patch on costa from middle to near apex, slightly tinged with grey ; 

 an indistinct postmedial line excurved at middle and incurved in submedian 

 interspace and with traces of another waved line beyond it ; some faint diffused 

 fuscous subterminal patches ; a terminal series of black striae ; cilia irrorated 

 with black. Hindwing pale brown with a faint fuscous tinge ; cilia ochreous 

 at base ; the underside pale irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spot and 

 diffused curved postmedial line. 



$ . Forewing with the antemedial area pale ochreous 

 Habitat. — Assam, Khasis. Exp. 18 mill. 



