JOURNAL 



OF THE 





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Vol. XIV. 



BOMBAY. 



No. 4. 



THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 



SUPPLEMENTARY PAPER TO THE VOLUMES IN 



" THE FAUNA OF BRITISH INDIA." 



SERIES n. PART VIII. 



By Sie (}. F. Hampson, Bart., f.z.s., f.e.s. 

 (Continued from -page 519 of this Volume,) 

 Moths of India — 5a. 



Genus Neoscelis, Nov. 

 Type. — N. rivula. 



Palpi porrect, extending about the length of head ; frons with tuft of hair • 



antennse of female ciliated ; mid 

 tibifu with the medial spurs absent ; 

 abdomen with dorsal tufts. Fore- 

 wing with vein 5 from near angle 

 of cell ; () from below upper angle ; 

 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked, U anas- 

 tomosing with 12. Hindwiiig with 

 veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 very shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to 

 near its extremity. 



3748&. Neoscelis rivula, n. sp. 



9. Head, thorax and abdomen purplish-red strongly irrorated with black ; 

 tegulai edged with white. Forewing black-brown mixed with grey ; purplish- 

 red streaks on inner area and above veins 3 and 6 ; a very indistinct curved 

 subbasal black line ; tufts of raised black scales at origin of vein 2 and on 

 discocellulars ; a very obscure curved whitish medial band ; a similar, more 

 prominent postmedial band traversed by a dark line and exciirved between 

 veins 7 and 2 ; a terminal series of pale points. Hindwing rather redder ; an 

 indistinct medial whitish band ; more distinct postmedial and terminal bands 

 from vein 5 to inner margin traversed by waved dark lines. Underside whitish : 

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Neoscelis rivula 9 |. 



