200 SIB G. r. HAMPSON — EBVISION OF MOTHS [Feb. 21, 



ciliated; tibiae with the outer spurs about two-thirds length of 

 inner. Fore wing with the apex produced, the outer margin 

 oblique ; vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 7 

 straight and well separated from 8, 9 ; male with a fovea below 

 the cell at origin of vein 2. Hind wing with the costa lobed and 

 fringed with hair near base ; the cell extremely short and the 

 discocellulars produced for a long way along median nervure so 

 that veins 3, 4, 5 appear to be stalked ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 

 7 anastomosing strongly with 8. 



Type. Pabbattia tialis Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 225, pi. 7. f. 30. 



N.E. India. 



&enus 109. Discothyeis. 



Discoihyris Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvi. p. 473 (1895). 



Palpi porrect, triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden by hair ; 

 maxillary palpi filiform ; frons rounded ; antennae of male ciliated ; 

 tibiae with the outer spurs about half the length of inner. Fore 

 wing with the costa arched towards apex, which is acute ; the outer 

 margin angled at vein 4 ; vein 3 from close to augle of cell ; 4, 5 

 from angle ; 7 curved and approximated for a short distance to 8, 

 9, to which 10 also is approximated. Hind wing with the outer 

 margiu produced to a point at vein 6 aud excurved at middle ; 

 vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 approximated for a short distance ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8 ; a large tuft of 

 hair on median nervure at lower angle of cell. 



Fig. 109. 



Discothyris ferruginata, S • t- (From Moths Ind. vol. iv.) 

 Type. (l)tDiscoTHTBis febbuginata Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 209. Sikhim. 



(2)*DiscoTHYEis VESTiQTALis Snell. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 628. 



Sikhim. 



(3) DiSCOTHXEIS MEGALOPHALIS, n. sp. 



cj . Dull ferruginous brown ; palpi white below at base. Fore 

 wing with discocellular black lunule ; a postraedial series of black 

 specks, most prominent towards costa and foi^ming a larger spot on 

 costa, excurved from below costa to vein 4, then inwardly oblique. 

 Hind wing with the tuft very large, extending along vein 2 and 

 blackish, a postmedial sinuous black line somewhat maculate 

 between veins 5 and 2; both wings with black line at base of 

 cilia. 



Eah. Khasis. Exp. 18 mm. Type in Coll. Rothschild. 



