THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 11T 



white, the rest of abdomen yellow. Forewing yellow with a whitish suffu- 

 sion. Hindwing whitish yellow. 



Habitat. — Nicobars. Exp. 26 mill. 



1386c. Haloxe flavinigra, Hmpsn., A. M. N. H. (7), XIX., p. 232 

 (1907). (Plate G., f. 9.) 



£. Head, thorax and abdomen fuscous, the vertex of head, base of shaft of 

 antennae, and tegulaa yellow. Forewing orange yellow ; a black patch at base 

 with irregular oblique outer edge ; a postmedial black band angled inwards 

 below cell and with rather dentate edges ; some diffused fuscous before 

 termen. Hindwing pale fuscous. 



Habitat.— S. India, Palni Hills, 6,000', Exp. 20 mill. 



14025. Eugoa crassa, Wlk., Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., VI, p. 114 (1862); 

 Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., II., p. 547, Plate 34, f. 28. 



Tospitis indeclaratana, Wlk., XXVIII, 427 (1863). 



Tospitis inconspicua, Wlk., XXVIII, 430 (1863). 



fi. Head and tegulae pale yellow ; palpi and lower part of frons blackish : 

 thorax brown ; abdomen yellowish. Forewing yellowish, thickly irrorated and 

 suffused with reddish brown ; a rather darker patch at base of costa ; a minute 

 black point at lower angle of cell ; faint traces of an oblique band from costa 

 near apex. Hindwing pale yellow. 



9 • Hindwing pale brown, the cilia pale yellow. 



ab. 1. inconspicua. Frons blackish ; forewing with the patch on base of costa 

 more prominent ; the oblique postmedial band more prominent. 



Habitat— Assam, Khasis ; Borneo, Sarawak. Exp. 20-22 mill. 



14216. Mcltochkista ocellata, Hmpsn., A. M. N. H. (7), XIX, p. 234 

 (1907). (Plate F„ f. 32.) 



$ . Head and thorax orange-yellow; patagia and prothorax with black spots, 

 tibiae banded with black, last joint of tarsi black ; abdomen greyish ochreous 

 the ventral surface blackish. Forewing orange yellow ; small black spots at 

 base of costa and cell ; fuscous spots below costa and cell and above vein 1 

 before the antemedial line which is interrupted at submedian fold and angled 

 inwards above inner margin ; a large annulus at end of cell ; postmedial line 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then highly and irregularly dentate 

 strongly incurved below vein 4 and conjoined to antemedial line above and 

 below submedian fold ; a subterminal series of small spots on the veins, 

 Hindwing yellow. 

 Habitat. — Ceylon, Ohiya. Exp. 40 mill. 



1461a. Asura phantasma, Hmpsn., A. M. N. H. (7), XIX. p. 233 (1907). 

 (Plate G., f . 10.) 



$ . Whitish ochreous ; antennas and forelegs in front fuscous. Forewing 

 with the base of costa black ; a small black spot in base of cell ; an indistinct 

 antemedial series of spots strongly excurved in cell and less so below it, some . 

 times almost conjoined into a line ; a medial line oblique from costa to sub- 

 costal nervure, then excurved, often almost obsolete; a small discoidal spot ; 



