THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 655 



basal and inner areas more suffused with brown, leaving the discoidal spot 

 on a white patch. 



Ab. 3. Hindwing with the inner edge of terminal band less incurved at 

 middle and well separated from the discoidal spot. 



Ab. 4. Forewing with the medial area suffused with red-brown ; hind- 

 wing with the discoidal spot forming a narrow lunule well separated from 

 the inner edge of terminal band which is excurved, not angled, at discal 

 fold. 



Habitat. — W. Turkiestan ; E. Turkiestan ; Kashmir, Deosai Plains, 

 Gourais Valley, Shoroda. Exp. 24-30 mill. 



Genus Cteipolia. 



Type. 



Cteipolia, Stand Iris, ix, p. 191 (1896) . . . . . . sacelli. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect to just beyond irons and fringed 

 with very long hair below ; frons smooth ; eyes small, elliptical ; antennse of 

 male with very long cilia ; head, thorax and abdomen clothed with long 

 rough hair and without crests. Forewing very narrow, the termen obliquely 

 curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with 

 veins 3'4 typically strongly stalked; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocel- 

 lulars; 6 - 7 strongly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. II. — Hindwing with veins 3 - 4 from angle of cell. 



1799c. Cteipolia acrophila, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Pal. B. M. vi., p. 421 

 (1906). 



Head, thorax and abdomen brownish fuscous mixed with grey. Fore- 

 wing grey suffused and irrorated with brownish fuscous ; an indistinct 

 diffused blackish subbasal line ; antemedial line rather indistinct and 

 diffused, excurved below costa and in submedian interspace ; orbicular and 

 reniform represented by small whitish spots indistinctly defined by diffused 

 black and almost or quite conjoined ; postmedial line defined by grey on 

 outer side, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, incurved below 

 vein 4; subterminal line defined by fuscous suffusion on inner side, excurved 

 below costa and at middle ; the costa towards apex with series of black and 

 grey points; a terminal series of black points. Hindwing semi-hyaline 

 grey suffused with fuscous brown; the underside with small discoidal spot. 



Habitat. — Kashmir, Kardong, 14,000', Hunza. Exp. 24-28 mill. 



Genus Elvesia. 



1597. Elvesia diplostigma. 



Genus Amathes. 



Type. 

 Amathes, Hiibn. Verz., p. 222 (1827) . . . . . . lituva. 



Agrochola, Hiibn. Verz., p. 229 (1827) . . . . pistacina. 



