THE MOTES OF INDIA. 2J;1 



2227a. Ptisciana scotia, n. sp. 



9. Red-brown ; palpi at sides, fore-legs, and patagia blackish. Forewing 

 suffused with black to the postmedial line and with a diffused streak from 

 angle of the line to apex ; tufts of greyish-black scales near base and at 

 middle and end of cell ; the antemedial line greyish, dentate and acutely 

 angled outwards below the cell ; the postmedial line defined by greyish scales 

 becoming white towards costa, arising from costa before middle, very oblique 

 to beyond angle of cell, then inwardly oblique and acutely angled inwards 

 on vein 1, some fine black streaks from it on the subcostal veins ; the sub- 

 terminal line greyish and minutely dentate. Hindwing with the cilia whitish 

 at tips. 



Habitat.— "tik^vim, 1800' (Dudgeon). Exp. 34 mill. Type— In B, M. 



2236a. Hypothripa verna, n. sp. 



$. Head and collar white-and-grey ; palpi marked with brown ; patagia and 

 thorax variegated with purplish-brown-and-black ; abdomen grey. Forewing 

 grey, a large area on disc suffused with grey-green ; a large rounded patch at 

 base of costal area, yellowish-white at middle, then olive-green and edged by 

 brown ; a sinuous white antemedial line angled inwards on vein 1 ; a discocel- 

 lular line ; an irregularly dentate postmedial line, oblique to costa and with 

 some black points on medial part of its inner edge ; an irregular fuscous sub- 

 terminal line ; some black points on costa and termen. Hindwing pale- 

 fuscous. 



Habitat.— ^\kh.im, 1800' (Dudgeon). Exp. 22 mill. Type— In B. M. 



22366. Dendrothripa mackwoodi, n, sp. 



$. Forewing with fringe of short pink hair on underside of costal vein ; a 

 fringe of long ochreous hair below the cell ; hindwing with tho costal area 

 largely expanded and fringed with rough hair ; the apex with large triangular 

 excision ; the discocellulars almost obsolete. 



Head, thorax and abdomen pale-ochreous ; f rons with black bar above. Fore" 

 wing greyish-ochreous, tinged with fuscous from costa to submedian fold to 

 the postmedial line, the terminal area suffused with green ; a blackish patch at 

 the base of costa ; a sinuous medial line from costa to submedian fold with 

 black suffusion on its outer edge ; the postmedial line strongly excurved be- 

 yond the cell, defined by whitish on outer side and with some vinous, then 

 fuscous suffusion beyond its excurved portion ; a sinuous subterminal line 

 with some black suffusion in its medial sinus ; some vinous suffusion on ter- 

 men below apex and at middle ; a fine terminal black line. Hindwing ochre- 

 ou3-white, the cell slightly irrorated with black scales. Underside with the 

 costal area of both wings and terminal area of .forewing tinged with pink. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Colombo (Mackwood). Exp. 18 mill. 



2258. EuTELiA PICTICOLOR, insert (syn). Ptisciana ioda, Swinh., A. M. N. H. 

 (7), 3, p. 114, Karwar. 



No. 22586. EuTELiA stictoprocta belongs to Sect. III. with the antennas 

 strongly bipectinate. 



