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Habitat.— W. China ; Simla, 7,000'. (Pilcher). Exj). 54 mill. 



1770a. Ancaea viridipicta, n. sp, {pi. B., f, 6). 



^. Dark red-brown ; palpi with the third joint whitish ; vertex of head 

 and thorax pale moss-green ; abdomen with the two medial dorsal tufts 

 green. Forewing with some white point on costa ; two ill-defined subbasal 

 waved blue-green bands, two antemedial and two postmedial, the last with a 

 series of points beyond them excurved at median nervules ; some spots in end 

 of cell ; traces of a dentate subterminal line developed into ii'resular patches 

 below middle. Hindwing with four small white subterminai spots towards 

 tornus. 



Habitat.— KhAsis. Exp. 48 mill. Type—In B. M, 



1789a. PoLiA OBLiQuisiGNA, n. sp. 



$. Grey; head, thorax and abdomen mixed with black scales ; tegul^ 

 with a black transverse line the area behind it and the patagia whiter- 

 Forewing with black-edged whitish patch on base of costa ; some black striae 

 and white points in cell and on vein 1 before the slightly sinuous black ante- 

 medial line ; the orbicular largo and white with fine black ed^e and with an 

 irregular white patch below it defined on lower side by the -shaped clavi- 

 f orm mark ; reniform large, grey-white with fine black edges ; the postmedial 

 line represented by a series of white and black points on the veins ; an indis- 

 tinct pale subterminal line defined in parts by black, angled inwards above 

 vein 1 and with some streaks from it to the terminal series of lunules. Hind- 

 wing fuscous with indistinct discoidal lunule and darker terminal line ; cilia 

 whitish chequered with black at middle ; underside whitish irrorated with 

 fuscous, the discoidal spot prominent ; an indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Habitat.— ^imla 7000'. (Pilcher). Exp. 40 mill. Type— In B. M. 



1795a. POLIA PYROXANTHA, n. sp. 



^. Head and thorax yellow mixed with bright-ferruginous ; abdomen 

 yellowish-grey irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft pale-rufous, Forewing 

 yellow very largely suffused with bright ferruginous ; the veins and costal 

 area brownish; a dark waved antemedial line ; the orbicular yellow ; a dark- 

 edge 1 white discoidal lunule; a crenulate postmedial line excurved from 

 below costa to vein 3, then incurved. Hindwing ochreous-yellow with traces 

 of discoidal spot and curved postmedial line more distinct on underside. 



Habitat.— Tibet, Yatung (Hobson), Exp. 30 mill. Type— In B. M. 



1798a, POLIA FDMEA, n, sp, 



^. Head and thorax black ; antennae pale ; abdomen fuscous. Forewing 

 fuscous-black irrorated with a few white scales ; the orbicular and reniform 

 small, ringed with white and with greyish centres ; slight subterminal black 

 streaks on veins 4*5, and a terminal series of black striae, Hindwing fuscous, 

 the inner area tinged with yellowish-brown ; a discoidal dark point and a fine 

 terminal line ; cilia whitish at tips. 



Habitat.— ^ikhim, 1800' ; (Dudgeon). Exp. 30 mill. Type— In B. M. 



1806a. CucuLLiA poliorhiza, n. sp. (pi, B., f . 27). 



