1893.] SPECIES OF MOTHS FBOM IITDIA. 42t 



Expanse of wings 42 millim. 

 Hah. Sikkim. 



[Taken at Sundukpho, about 12,000 feet, by my native collectors 

 in July.— iT. J. E.-] 



MiCEABEAXAS (?) LKCOLOEATA, sp. n. 



5 . Fore •wings white, densely dusted with a profusion of dark 

 grey atoms, which ai*e congregated more thickly in places, so as to 

 form indistinct transverse fascia-form blotches ; one close to the 

 base, the second curved, representing the first line ; the third, also 

 curved and slightly sinuous, beyond the discal spot, which is large 

 and black ; subtermiual line more distinct as a line, forming a 

 double black blotch at the costa, and opposite the cell ; hind margin 

 crenulate, edged with black, and with a large black drop at each 

 vein; fringes whitish. Hind wings dull whitish, with faint 

 cinereous atoms. Face white, thorax and abdomen mottled black 

 and white ; antennae white at base, irregularly white and black 

 along the shaft. Underside cinereous, mottled with darker ; the 

 hind wings rather paler than fore wings. 



Expanse of wings 48 millim. 



Hah. Sikkim. In the absence of the <S , the location of this 

 species must be considered provisional only. 



[I only have this from my native collectors, but specimens from 

 Gnatong on the Thibet frontier, at 12,000 feet, are in Knyvett's 

 collection. — H. J. E.^ 



PcECiLAicis, gen. nov. 



Chora, G-uen. Phal. i. p. 232 ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 629. 



Selidosema, Wlk. xxiv. p. 1029. 



Gnophos, Wlk. XXXV. p. 1597. 



Scotosia, Wlk. xxxv. p. 1687. 



Boarmia, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 631. 



Arichanna, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 658. 



Pseudocoremia, Moore, Lep. Coll. Atk. p. 241. 



Type, P. nir/ridorsaria, Q-uen. {Chora). 



The genus Pseudocoremia was formed by Mr. Butler (Cist. Ent. 

 ii. p. 496; P. Z. S. 1877, p. 394) for a small group of New 

 Zealand insects, one of the characteristics of which is an excessive 

 proneness to variation. Misled by a superficial resemblance, 

 Mr. Moore referred a group of E. Indian forms to the same genus. 

 But the constituents of this group do not vary inter se, and are 

 otherwise separable from the New Zealand genus. The margins 

 of both wings are scalloped, whereas in Pseudocoremia they are 

 without exception simple. 



PCECILAICIS (?) LATIFASCIATA, Sp. n. 



2 . Fore wings whitish ochreous, tinged with tawny, and thickly 

 dusted with dark brown short strigae ; basal half of the wing 

 almost wholly covered with confluent dark fuscous atoms, which 

 are densest at the edge, where they include the blackish central 



