1893.] SPECIES or moths pbom india. 409 



ACHEOSia QXJADEAEIA, Sp. D. 



5 . Fore wings yellowish ochreous, tinged with fulvous ; towards 

 the base and apex with traces of 2 blackish transverse lines, which 

 are each represented by a blackish blotch on the costa, and 2 round 

 blackish spots on the inner margin placed obliquely one over the 

 other; below the first costal blotch is a smaller blackish dot. 

 Hind \vings tawny yellow, with a composite blackish blotch at the 

 anal angle and a blackish spot in the angle of the hind margin. 

 Head absent ; thorax and abdomen concolorous. Underside 

 fulvous yellow, without markings. 



Expanse of wings 36 millim. 



Hab. Bhotan. 



[A very fresh S from Sikkim, sent by Moller, agrees exactly in 

 the markings, but has the colour of fore wings brighter. — H. J. E.'] 



Pbioma obliquilineata, sp. n. 



cj . Fore wings pale liver-colour, tinged with olive towards the 

 base and irrorated throughout with reddish-brown atoms ; 1st line at 

 3 starts from the costa as a reddish-brown, outwardly oblique, short 

 blotch, then runs obliquely inwards with an irregularly sinuous 

 course; 2nd line, also red- brown, nins sti'aight from the inner 

 margin, shortly before anal angle, to the apex, just before reaching 

 which it is deflected and forms a curved, oblique, costal blotch; 

 extreme apex with a small blackish blotch and another shortly 

 before it on the costa. Hind wings as in squalidaria, Hiib. Head, 

 thorax, abdomen, and antennae concolorous. Underside wholly 

 dull orange-tawny, with a small blackish costal dash before the 

 apex of both wings, and a distinct blackish cell-spot on the fore 

 wings. 



Expanse of wings 28 miUim. 



Hab. Naga Hills. Distinguished from its allies by the straight, 

 distinct, second line. 



[Doherty sent only one male of this, which was taken at about 

 4000 feet.— IT. J. E.} 



EuETTAPHEiA, gen. nov. 

 Fore wings ample ; costa curved at base and before apex, which is 

 distinct ; hind margin entire, obliquely curved. Hind wings ample, 

 with well-rounded hind margin, faintly indented opposite the cell. 

 Palpi shortly rostrif orm ; tongue present. Antennae of $ simple, 

 of (S pectinated : the pectinations fine, distant, and nearly at right 

 angles with the shaft ; legs moderate, hind tibiae not thickened, 

 with two pairs of spurs. Neuration : — Fore wing : first subcostal 

 nervule anastomosing with the costal; the other 4 subcostal 

 nervules on a common stem, which starts at | of the cell, at which 

 point the subcostal itself is bluntly angulated ; the 4th subcostal 

 nervule runs into the apex, the 2nd and 3rd being given oS from 

 it at I and f respectively, the 5th at | ; the first median nervule 

 starts at f , the second just before the lower end of cell where the 

 median vein is inclined upwards, the thiTd from the end ; lower 



