1893.] SPECIES OF MOTHS FEOM INDIA. 395 



2 lines marked, where it crosses each vein, by a black dot. Hind 

 wiDgs the same, but without the yellow basal patch ; fringes white, 

 short. Head and thorax yellow ; the latter with black spots. 

 Abdomen straw-yellow, with dorsal, lateral, and ventral row of 

 black spots. Antennae blackish. Underside white, with the cell- 

 spots conspicuously black, but without tlie transverse fasciae ; 

 fore wing mth costal and subcostal areas blackish. The markings 

 in the 2 ^^ darker than in the d" • 



Expanse of wings 36 millim. 



Hab. Sikkim. 



[Taken in the interior by MoUer's collectors, probably at a high 

 elevation. — B. J. E.] 



Subfam. ENJfOMiN.E. 

 Panisala olivescens, sp. n. 



2 . Grrouud-colour pale hoary grey, finely dusted with olive- 

 brown atoms ; a fine oblique straight basal line, parallel to the hind 

 margin ; median line parallel to it, from before the middle of the 

 costa to before the middle of the inner margin, followed by a 

 diffuse, olivescent shade, which fades into the ground-colour 

 before the 3rd line, which starts from the costa halfway between 

 the 2nd and the apex, is curved outwards, not inanguluted, near 

 its origin, and then runs back nearly straight, so as almost to 

 touch the 2nd Line on the inner margin ; space beyond to the 

 hind margin olivescent-brown, except below the costa, with a 

 faintly paler submarginal fascia-form space. Hind wing like fore 

 wing, but with no basal line, and with the 2nd and 3rd lines not 

 nearly touching each other on the inner margin. Underside dull 

 yellowish grey, lighter in the hind wings. Head, thorax, and 

 abdomen pale whitish grey. 



Hab. Sikkim. 



Slightly larger than P. truncataria, Moore. 



[Though the colour of this species is very different from that of 

 P. truncataria, the pattern is the same. I have a male taken by 

 Knyvett in April which matches the type female in coloiu-. All 

 my specimens of P. truncataria which are dated were taken in July 

 and August, so this may be the early brood of it. — M. J, E.] 



HoLOLOMA, gen. nov. 



Distinguished from Panisala, Moore, by the structure of the d" 

 antennae. In Panisala the lateral branches forming the pectination 

 are simple, thin, long, and projected obliquely forwards ; in Holo- 

 loma they are short and blunt, and stand out nearly at right 

 angles with the shaft, each having 2 fine short cilia at the apex, 

 and finely ciliated laterally, these ciliations giving a filmy appear- 

 ance to the whole pectination. The apex of the hind wing is 

 either plainly rounded off or very faintly incurved, without the 

 deep excavation that occurs in Panisala, 



