1893.] SPECIES OF MOTHS FEOM IKDIA. 415 



Ebiitnts, gen. nov. 



Fore wings with costa straight, hardly convex before apex, 

 which is sUghtly subfalcate ; hind margin indistinctly crenulate, 

 more oblique below the centre than above ; hind wings sub- 

 crenulate, with a slightly more prominent tooth at end of 1st 

 subcostal and 1st median nervules. Antennae simple in both 

 sexes, slightly thickened in d towards base; palpi obhquely 

 ascending, 3rd joint shorter than 2nd, horizontally porrect ; tongue 

 present. Hind tibiae of d thickened and flattened laterally, with 

 2 pairs of short, stout, spurs. Hind wings of d with a small 

 fovea close to base in the cell, which is visible above as a small 

 dark raised patch. 



Type, Erinnys combusta, sp. n. 



Eeinnts combusta, sp. n. 



cJ . Fore wings ochreous, suffused with yellow and tawny and 

 thickly sprinkled with black atoms ; inner line indicated by 2 

 small black-brown blotches, one below, the other above the median ; 

 a small blaok-brown cell-spot ; exterior line sinuous, black-brown 

 at i, more or less parallel to hind margin; marginal area dark 

 fulvous brown, except a slightly paler patch above the anal angle ; 

 fringes yellowish straw, dotted with black at end of all the veins, 

 and entirely black opposite the cell. Hind wings in the main 

 similar, but the basal half suffused with fulvous, and bounded, 

 before the middle, by an irregularly dentate dark line, beyond which 

 the wing is strikingly whitish. Head, thorax, and abdomen straw- 

 colour mixed with tawny. Underside like upper, but brighter; 

 the light and dark tints more contrasted. 



Expanse of wings 30 millim. 



Rab. Sikkim. 



Superficially reminding one of Garcms. 



Heteeostegaota, gen. nov, 



Anisodes, Moore, Lep. Coll. Atk. p. 250. 



Stegania, Moore, Lep. CoU. Atk. p. 260. 



Allied to Stegarda ; but easily distinguished. Fore wings longer ; 

 costa slightly arched, apex obtuse ; hind margin oblique, curved ; 

 hind wiugs rounded, slightly protuberant in the middle of the 

 hind margin, and with the anal angle square. Antennae in 2 

 simple, filiform ; in S thickened, sHghtly pubescent ; palpi short, 

 horizontally porrect. 



Type, H. lunulosa, Moore (Anisocles). 



HBTEEOSTEGAinA NIGEOEUSA, Sp. n. 



cJ . Fore wings wood-colour suffused with tawny, and sparsely 

 dusted with coarse black atoms, a broad central fascia filled up 

 with pale tawny, with a still paler patch just below the median ; 

 the inner edge of this fascia consists of a series of small curves 



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