1893.] SPECIES OF MOTHS FEOM INDIA. 417 



dense dark freckling ; no basal line, and the largest marginal 

 olive bl otch in the central prominence. Face and forehead white ; 

 thorax white with strong black markings ; abdomen the same. 

 Underside an exact reproduction of upper. 



Expanse of wings 60 millira. 



Hah. Sikkim. 



[I have two males of this very striking species, one of which I 

 took at light at Darjiling in July, the other from MoUer's col- 

 lection. It must be very rare. — H. J. E.'\ 



Subfam. Ascotin^. 

 Fam. Boarmidm, Guen. Phal. i. p. 213, part. 



Medasina quadbinotata, sp. n. 



(S . Fore wings light wood-colour, dusted with fine brown trans- 

 verse striae, and with all the markings black-brown ; costa broadly 

 and densely shaded and mottled with brown-black ; beneath this 

 costal suffused dark streak, a pale broad streak of the ground-colour, 

 without any admixture of darker, runs from the base of the inner 

 margin to the hind margin below the apex ; it is bounded towards 

 the inner margin by a curved black-brown line running obliquely 

 outwards, and forming the lower half of the basal line ; beyond it 

 and a little beyond the middle of the inner margin, a black doubly 

 curved line rises vertically and nearly touches the end of the first 

 line, where it disappears at the edge of the pale streak ; it is 

 followed by a narrow pale space and then a deep black blotch ; 

 sub marginal line pale ochreous, rather glossy, forming 2 or 3 

 undulations near the costa where it crosses the pale space, and 

 then running with one slight indentation, parallel to hind margin ; 

 space beyond it pale ochreous, with distinct black transverse striae ; 

 fringes darker, preceded by a row of shallow black lunules ; the 

 submarginal line below the pale space is broadly edged internally 

 with blackish brown, and the whole space between the sub- 

 marginal line and the pale space, forming altogether an obtuse- 

 angled triangle, is diffusely shaded with blackish brown ; cell-spot 

 black, somewhat lost in the costal suffusion ; some indistinct 

 traces of the two lines can be detected on the costa. Hind wings 

 with the extreme base whitish ochreous, the whole basal half 

 beyond being brown-black, gradually shading off towards the centre 

 of the wing to the ground-colour and containing a large black 

 cell-spot ; just beyond the centre is a black line, slightly curved 

 for I from the inner margin, then forming 2 largish teeth on the 

 subcostal veins ; this line is followed by a broadish brown-black 

 shade ; submarginal hne pale, distinct, irregularly wavy, bordered 

 with darker brown on its inner side ; submarginal space as 

 in fore wings; fringes paler. Head, palpi, face, and collar 

 dark; thorax and base of abdomen lighter; abdomen dark 

 brown, with a distinct slender black ring at its base. Underside 

 cinereous brown with a reddish tinge, with a broad dark brown 



