THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 705 



2889/j. Talapa confltjens, n. sp. 



Antennae of male bipeotinate. Dark brown, irrorated with bine-grey 

 scales. Forewing with oblique antemedial dark line acutely angled 

 below costa ; a black discocellular lunule and traces of a medial line ; 

 two oblique postmedial lines filled in with rufous and converging towards 

 inner margin, the outer line from near apex strong and defined outwardly 

 by blue- grey ; an indistinct minutely waved submarginal line obtusely 

 angled at middle and with no blue-grey irroration between it and 

 the postmedial line ; a fine crenulate marginal line. Hindwing similar, 

 the blue-grey irroration confined towards the anal angle ; the double 

 postmedial line obsolete towards costa. 



Habitat, — Khasis, Exp. 44 mm. Type. — In British Museum. 



Genus Plumipalpia, nov. 

 Type. — P. lignicolob, Hampson. 

 Range. — North- West Himalayas. 



Palpi obliquely upturned, the second and third joints fringed with 



long hair above, the second 

 about three times the third, 

 about the length of head ; 

 frons with conical tuft ; an- 

 tennas of male bipeotinate, 

 Plumipalpia lignicolor, $ ±. ^ terminal portion simple ; 



metathorax with tuft of scales. Forewing with raised tufts of scales, 

 long and narrow, the apex rectangular ; veins 8 and 9 anastomosing to 

 form the areole. Hindwing with the outer margin obtusely angled at 

 vein 2 ; vein 5 from near lower angle of cell, 3-1 and 5-6 from angles. 

 2894a. Plumipalpia lignicolor, n. sp. 

 $. Pale yellowish-brown; palpi blackish; patagia fringed with 

 ferruginous. Forewing with the costal area suffused with purplish- 

 brown; a tuft of raised black scales in middle of cell and another below 

 origin of vein 2, with two short lines from it to inner margin ; a few 

 black scales on inner area, and an oblique submarginal fine ochreous 

 streak defined by black below vein 2 ; a subapioal black speck and 

 marginal series of specks. Hindwing fuscous-brown, the cilia paler. 



Habitat. — Kasauli, North-West Himalayas. Exp. 36 mm. Type. 

 — In British Museum. 



