TEE MOTHS OF INDIA. 713 



Range. — Assam. 



Type. — S. Falcifera, Warren. 



Palpi upturned, reaching above vertex of head, the second and third 

 joints fringed with scales in front ; antenna? of female simple. Fore- 

 wing with the costa arched near base ; the apex produced and acute ; 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 7, 8, 9 stalked from long before 

 upper angle ; 10 absent ; 11 anastomosing with 12. Hindwing with 

 vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 7 from before upper angle ; 8 

 connected with 7 by an oblique bar. 



3092a. Schistophyle falcifera, Warr., Nov. Zool., iii, p. 101. 



5 . Yellowish-white, thickly irrorated with orange-red ; abdomen 



dorsally suffused with fuscous on 



medial segments. Forewing with the 



costa red-browu, broadly so towards 



apex ; an antemedial brown line very 



acutely angled below costa ; both 



Sehisto'phyle falciftra, 9 x wings with discocellular brown point: 



a strong brown band from costa of forewing before apex to middle of inner 



margin of hindwing ; a very highly crenulate submarginal line bent 



inwards below vein 3 of each wing ; a strong marginal brown line. 



Habitat. — Khasis. Exp. 36 mm. 



3L03. Tasta mioaceata, insert (syn.) Tasta chalybeata, Warr., 

 Nov. Zool., iv, p. 76. 



3108a. Bapta particolor, Warr., Nov. Zool. iii, p. 128. 



9 . Forewing with vein 11 from cell, anastomosing with 12, then with 

 10, which anastomoses with 8-9. Red-brown ; head, thorax and extremity 

 o( abdomen yellowish- white, basal part of abdomen with dark segmental 

 lines. Forewing with large basal whitish patch irrorated with fuscous 

 and defined by a purplish line angled below costa ; a rounded apical 

 whitish patch irrorated with fuscous and defined by a dark edge ; the rest 

 of wings lightly irrorated with fuscous. Cilia purplish ; hindwing with 

 small basal fuscous-irrorated whitish patch ; a discocellular black speck ; 

 a crenulate purplish-fuscous postmedial line with fuscous-irrorated whit- 

 ish patch beyond it from vein 6 to inner margin ; a Kack marginal line. 



Habitat. — Khasis. Exp. 36 mm. • 



