1893.] SPECIES or moths fbom htdia. 359 



3rd median nervules filled up with black, the nervules themselves 

 ochreous ; a cloudy ochreous-brown oblique fascia from its lower 

 end to the inner margin, aud a small cloudy space on the costa above 

 it; a sinuous, somewhat diffuse, ochreous exterior fascia, and a 

 subterminal one consisting of interrupted dark grey cloudy spots ; 

 fringe white. Hind wings with a broad ochreous fuscous fascia, 

 continued from the fore wings and almost obliterating the dark 

 ocellus ; exterior fascia gi-eyer, broader and less siuuous than in 

 fore wings. Underside with costa, ocelli, and exterior fascia all 

 strongly marked, fuscous grey. Head, face, palpi, and vertex 

 blackish ; thorax and abdomen white ; antennae brownish, Diffei's 

 from all other species by the dark markings of the underside. 



Expanse of wings 44 millim. 



Hab. Sikkim. 



[Though the general aspect of this species might lead to its 

 being mistaken for P. deliaria, it seems very distinct. I have one 

 specimen only, from the interior. — H. J. E.] 



SOMATIIfA LAPIDATA, sp. u. (Plate XXXII. fig. 7.) 



5 . Fore wings pale stone-colour, suffused with darker, and irro- 

 rated with dark grey atoms and strigae ; a dull oblique basal line, and 

 a thicker exterior line, bluntly angulated beneath the costa, can be 

 traced ; cell-spot small, dark ; hind margin broadly dark olive-grey, 

 with an aggregation of dark transverse strigae. Hind wings with 

 the basal third thickly dappled with dark grey atoms, the outer | 

 with dark grey transverse strigae, leaving a narrow pale curved 

 space between the two darker portions, corresponding to a like paler 

 space on the fore wings between the exterior line and the sub- 

 marginal shade ; fringes of both wings dark grey, with two paler 

 lines and a black basal line. Face, palpi, vertex, and collar dull 

 olive-green ; patagia and thorax whitish grey ; abdomen stone- 

 colour mottled with dark grey. Underside pale ochreous, the 

 veins yellower, with all the markings by contrast darker; a 

 distinct dark cell-spot in both wings. 



Expanse of wings 34 millim. 



Hab. Naga Hills (Doherty). 



This species is smaller than, and has a slightly dissimilar facies 

 from, the others of the genus. 



LiPOMELiA, gen. nov. 



Fore wings with costa straight from the base, and gradually 

 convex tow ards apex, which is bluntly rounded ; hind margin 

 obliquely curved. Hind wings ample, with hind margin rounded 

 and inner angle square. Antennae of c? thick, shortly ciliated ; 

 head broad; forehead flattened; palpi short, porrect, or slightly 

 upturned; tongue present ; hind tibiae of <S flattened and curved ; 

 hind tarsi reduced to a short, hardly perceptible point. Neuration 

 normal. Scaling fine and smooth. 



Type, Lipomelia suhusta, sp. n. 



