1889.] INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 417 



Sab. Nilgiri Hills, 6700 feet, July and August 1887. Nine males 

 and six females received from Mr. Hampson. 



From the allied H. longipennis this species differs in its shorter 

 fore wings, which are darker in colour, uniform in tint, and do not 

 show any of tlie speckled appearance of that species. 



Rhynchina eremialis, n. sp. 



Male and female of a uniform dirty sandy greyish-huff colour ; 

 palpi thickly speckled with minute hrown and black atoms; shaft of 

 the antennfe very minutely mari<ed with whitish, cihated in the 

 male, hairs whitish, simple in the female ; head and thorax thickly 

 and minutely irrorated with white, in some specimens more so than 

 in others ; fore wings with a faint grey mark at the end of the cell, 

 and a faint grey streak from just behind the centre of the hinder 

 margin to the apex, more apparent in the female than in the male ; 

 costa with some white marks towards the apex, costal line slightly 

 darker than the rest of the wing, marginal lunular line to both wings 

 brown, with minute whitish dots on the veins only sometimes visible ; 

 fringe broad, whitish, marked with grey patches, and the whole sur- 

 face of both wings indistinctly marked with whitish and greyish 

 longitudinal streaks, wbich are only apparent under the glass. 



Underside paler, shining, with the longitudinal streaks more 

 apparent, otherwise unmarked. 



This is a purely desert moth taken in sandy scrub, and has so 

 much the appearance of the sand in which it is found as to be invi- 

 sible to the naked eye when settled. 



Expanse of wings j-'ij inch. 



Rab. Hydrabad, Kotree, Jerruck, Baraji, Tatta, all in Lower 

 Sind. Taken in February, March, and April, 1886. 



Distinguished from all other described Indian species of this genus 

 by its uniform greyish-buff colour. 



HERMINIIDiE. 



Aginna levicula, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. fig. 14.) 



Male and female of a uniform brownish fawn-colour ; fore wings 

 irrorated with brown atoms, a brown mark at the end of the cell and 

 three transverse indistinct hrown lines — first antemedial sinuous, 

 slightly curving outwards ; second and third postmedial and discal 

 dentated outwards, rather close together, and widely separated from 

 the first ; second also outwardly curved; third nearly upright, with 

 faint yellowish dots on the points of the dentations, also a marginal 

 row of small black lunules. 



Hind wings slightly paler, more especially so towards the costa, 

 otherwise unmarked. 



Underside of a uniform pale brownish fawn-colour, a brown mark 

 at the end of the cell in both wings, and two outer brownish lines 

 edged outwardly with pale yellowish grey across both wings, more 

 distinct on the hind wings ; legs with hrown streaks on the sides. 



Expanse of wings l^j inch. 



