1893.] SPECIES OF MOTHS FEOM INDIA. 369 



Photoscotosia, Warr. 



Trichopleura, Staud. (nom. praeoc). 

 Photoscotosia, Warr. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 327. 

 Lasiogma, Meyi-. Tr. E. S. 1892, p. 70. 

 Type, P. miniosata, Wlk. (Scotosia). 



Photoscotosia atbomaeginata, sp. n. (Plate XXX. fig. 1.) 



c? . Fore -wung with the ground-colour a mixture of dull olive 

 and bronzy violet ; a dark, curved, broadish, pale-edged line near the 

 base ; central band dull bronzy red, with the two lines that bound 

 it black ; the first, broad at the costa, concave basewards, but 

 forming a sharp tooth pointing inwards between the two concavities 

 on the median nervure ; the second is like\vise darker at the costa, 

 beneath which it forms two small projections, between which a small 

 tooth of the paler exterior ground-colour runs in ; it reaches the 

 inner margin with 6 small rounded waves, and the band itself is 

 3 times as broad on the costa as on the inner margin ; marginal 

 third a mixture of olive and dull reddish ; an indistinct oblique 

 blackish apical dash ; a distinct black line at base of fringes. Hind 

 wings white, slightly grey along the inner margin, and with the 

 inner half of the hind margin narrowly sooty black. Head, thorax, 

 and abdomen dark fuscous, tinged with olive. Underside of wings 

 glossy greyish white ; the fore wings darker along the disk and 

 with the fringes much darker ; both wings with a central curved 

 denticulated dark grey line ; hind wings with a distinct blackish 

 cell-spot. 



Expanse of wings 36 millim. 



Hah. Sikkim. 



Distinguished at a glance, independently of its smaller size, by 

 .the white hind wings with their sooty blotch. 



[I took a single specimen of this distinct species at about 12,000 

 feet on Sundukpho in July. — H. J. E.'] 



Photoscotosia mttitilinea, sp. n. (Plate XXX. fig. 10.) 



S . Fore wings fawn-colour, varied with grey and reddish bro\\Ta ; 

 extreme base reddish grey, followed by a reddish-brown fascia, 

 succeeded by a mottled grey and white fascia, and this by reddish- 

 brown lines, which deepen externally into a rich red-brown fascia, 

 the edge of which is slightly sinuous, and distinctly contrasted 

 with the paler central space ; discal spot dark bro^vn, linear, just 

 beyond the line ; exterior line preceded on costa by a red-brown 

 patch, forms tM'o sharp teeth below the costp. and crosses the 

 wing as a series of denticulate sinuations ; it --f. followed on the 

 costa and inner margin by a pale grey space crossed by numerous 

 sinuous dark lines ; rest of the wing dull reddish brown or reddish 

 grey ; hind wings smoky fuscous, with costal region whitish. 

 Underside paler, with dark central costal spot ; tuft of hairs black, 

 with base tawny ; hind wings dull grey. 



Expanse of wings 54 millim. 



Hah. Sikkim. 



[Taken by Moller's collectors in the interior. — H. J. £".] 



