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loan of the species described in his collection from the same source. 

 Lastly, we must touch on the subject of Burma, lightly however, because 

 of the small amount of work at the moths that has been done there 

 compared to what remains to be done. The only collections of any size 

 were made at Moulmein by Archdeacon Clerk, at Rangoon by Noble 

 and by Doherty in Eastern Pegu and Tenasserim, though smaller collec- 

 tions were made by Fea, Colonel Bingham, and Captain Watson. These 

 are sufficient to show how immensely rich the country is, a marked 

 feature in the fauna being the numbers of brilliant Sesiidce, Syntomidce 

 and Zygcenidce. It is to the hill ranges of Burma that we must 

 look for a large proportion of the additions to the Indian fauna 

 in the future, many of its species being also found in Borneo and 

 Sumatra. 



I have written the above sketch of the material of our present know- 

 ledge in the hopes of interesting more naturalists in India in the subject 

 of its moths. It is probable that hitherto people who would other- 

 wise have taken up the subject have been frightened by the vast numbers 

 of species and the impossibility of acquiring any knowledge of their 

 names and classification ; but I hope that the volumes on the " Moths of 

 India " may now have cleared the groundwork of the subject, and I shall 

 be happy to send any one lists of the names of any species of which 

 numbered specimens are sent to me at the British Museum. 



EUPTEROTID^. 



54. Tagoea Patula del. Sphingognatha khasiana. 



54a. Tagora khasiana. Moore. Lep. Atk., p. 77. 



$. Ochreous-brown ; palpi black fringed with brown hair ; wings with 

 very numerous waved fuscous lines. Forewing with small hyaline 

 discoidal spot ; a double oblique line from apex to outer margin 

 beyond middle ; a waved submarginal line with fuscous and white 

 spots on it at the veins. Hindwing with the basal half paler, with 

 brownish patch at base of inner margin ; a double waved postmedial 

 line filled in with gray ; a waved submarginal line with fuscous and 

 white spots on it at the veins. $ . With the submarginal line of 

 forewing more distinct and curved ; underside with the submarginal 

 lines of both wings more prominent. 



Habitat. — Khasis. Exp. 98 mm. 



