1893.] SPECIES OF MOTHS FBOM INDIA. 403 



Spilopeea umbeata, sp. n. 



S . Ground-colour pale straw, dusted with dark atoms ; an irre- 

 gular, curved, basal line, only distinct towards the costa, and not 

 reaching the inner margin ; a blackish costal blotch just beyond the 

 middle ; 2nd line starts just before the apex as a red-brown spot, 

 forms another smaller one just below, and is just discernible as a 

 faint curved brownish-grey shade, which vanishes before the inner 

 margin ; it is followed by another similar submarginal shade ; fringe 

 from apex to the central angle dark brown, preceded by a red- 

 brown patch ; a minute blackish cell-spot ; hind wing with dark 

 cell-spot, and 2 faint greyish parallel fascise beyond centre. Under- 

 side brighter straw-colour, with larger, stronger, reddish-brown 

 freckles ; distinct black cell-spots and strong submarginal fasciae, 

 the inner of the two broadly bright reddish brown. Abdomen 

 straw-colour ; face darker ; collar and base of costa pale browTiish. 



Expanse of wings 82 millim. 



[A single male taken at Margarita in Upper Assam by Doherty 

 in May.— IT. J. E.'] 



Opisthograptis molleei, sp. n. (Plate XXKI. fig. 12.) 



c? . Wings straw-yellow, with a pale brownish line from before 

 the apex of fore wing to the middle of the inner margin of the hind 

 wing ; on the costa itself this is dark brown, and is followed by a 

 small brown spot at the extreme apex itself ; a large semicircular 

 chestnut-brown blotch on the discocellular, dark-edged internally 

 on the convex edge, and externally emitting a fine brown spike 

 along the radial ; a red-brown quadrate costal blotch above it 

 touching the top ; 3 small brown dots on the costa near the base ; 

 a small brown dot at the end of the 2nd and 3rd median and 2nd 

 subcostal nervules. Head, thorax, abdomen, and fringes all straw- 

 yellow. Underside rather duller, with the markings reproduced ; 

 the hind wings with traces of a second dentate line towards the 

 hind margin. 



Expanse of wings 54 millim. 



Hub. Sikkim. 



The palpi in this species and in 0. ahlunata, Guen., are shorter 

 than in the rest, and these insects wUl perhaps have to be removed 

 to a separate genus. 



[I have only seen two males of this fine and very distinct species, 

 which my collectors brought from the interior. — H. J. EJ] 



Opisthogeaptis longipennis, sp. n. 



cJ . Fore wings canary-yellow, faintly suffused with tawny, and 

 with 2 oblique, parallel, reddish-tawny lines, one from 5 of the inner 

 margin to | of the costa, the other from | of the inner margin to 

 the apex ; fringes yellow. Hind wings very pale lemon-yellow, 

 with a small dark cell-spot and faint traces of a curved submar- 

 ginal fascia. Head and thorax canary-yellow ; face and abdomen 

 lemon. Underside yellowish straw-colour, mottled with tawny- 

 brown spots ; costal region of fore wings at base and 2nd line 



