1893.] SPECIES OP MOTHS PROM UTDIA. 373 



P took one 2 of this beautiful and distinct species at Tonglo, 

 and have another which agrees. — H. J. EJ] 



PoLTPHASiA, Stph. 111. iii. p. 230. 

 Type, P. truncata, Hufn. 



POLYPHASIA ALBISERIATA, Sp. n. 



(S 2 • Tore wings vehety blackish, dusted, especially towards 

 the hind margin,with very fine golden-yellow scales ; lines irregidarly 

 zigzag, consisting of lilac-grey scales ; 1st at ^; 2nd, forming the 

 inner edge of the central fascia, at i, running in just below the 

 middle into the fascia ; 3rd at |, limiting the central fascia ex- 

 ternally, contains 2 more prominent denticulations, one subcostal, 

 the other at the middle ; down the centre of the central fascia, 

 beginning at the costa, runs a series of contiguous oval white spots, 

 which does not reach the inner margin ; submargiual line slender, 

 undulating, pale golden ; fringes dark fuscous, with a deep black 

 line at base, interrupted at the end of each vein by a lilac-grey 

 wedge-shaped spot. Hind wings smooth, fuscous, with the inner 

 angle including the fringes clear white ; rest of the fringes dark 

 fuscous, preceded by a deep black line ; traces of an undulating 

 submarginal line edged with paler are visible towards the costa. 

 Head and thorax velvety blackish ; abdomen blackish, dusted 

 with paler scales between the segmental divisions. Underside of 

 fore wings rather glossy grey, paler towards the costa in the disk, 

 and with a white apical patch ; the line bounding the central 

 fascia on the outside, and the diseal spot, darker. Hind wings 

 glossy whitish for f from base ; a distinct dark grey exterior line, 

 followed by a diffuse, blotched shade, and dark fuscous fringes ; 

 apex of the wings broadly white. 



Expanse of ■ndngs 46 millim. 



In the 2 the series of white spots in the central fascia is 

 reduced to 3, and the whole submarginal area of both wings on 

 the underside is whitish. 



Hah. Sikkim. 



[This distinct species seems common on the Sundukpho range 

 at about 11,000-12,000 feet. It varies in the size of the white 

 spots on the fore wing, which are sometimes almost obsolete. — 

 H. J. E.-] 



POLXPHASIA ALBIAXGITLATA, Sp. U. 



cJ 2 • ^ore wings dark fuscous or blackish, interspersed with deep 

 tawny, the latter tints forming a more or less distinctly expressed 

 fascia on either side of the central fascia ; basal patch dark, edged in 

 its lower half, finely but obscurely, with whitish; central fascia edged 

 with a very strongly-marked, acutely biangulated thick white line, 

 which in its upper half is internally irregularly dentate, and which 

 ends on the inner margin with an outward curve ; from the costa, 

 in the centre of the central fascia runs a thick white line parallel 

 to the upper arm, and not quite reaching the lower arm of the 



