1895.] or THE schce:n"obiin^ and ceambin^. 961 



Hind wing fuscous black ; the cilia white. Underside with the 

 basal two thirds of wings suffused with fuscous black. 

 Hob. Ceylon {Butt). Exp. 32 mm. 



Type. (2)tEscHATA gelida, Wlk. ix. p. 133. Sikhim ; Khasis. 



(3)tEsCHATA CHEXSAEGTEiA, "Wlk. xxxii. 634. N. China; Sikhim; 



Assam ; Nilgiris ; 

 „ argentata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 227. Burma ; Ceram. 



(4)tEsCHATA XANTHOCEEA, n. sp. 



cJ . Differs from chrysargyria in the antennse being orange ; the 

 legs orange fringed with white hair. Fore wing with the post- 

 medial and submarginal lines almost obsolete ; the cilia white with 

 golden tips throughout. 



Mab. Ceylon (Green). Exp. 38 mm. 



Sect. II. Fore wing with the apex rectangular and not produced. 



(5)tEacHATA CONSPUECATA, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 227. Sikhim. 



(6)tEscHATA PEECANDLDA, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 293. 



Kangoon. 

 (7)tEsoHATA OCHEIPES, Hmpsn. 111. Het. viii. p. 143, pi. 156. f. 23. 



Nilgiris. 

 Genus Doeatopeeas. nov. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi clothed with hair and hardly extending 

 beyond the maxillary palpi and the long pointed frontal process ; 

 antennae of male serrate and fasciculate, of female minutely serrate 

 and ciliated; tibae with the spurs short. Fore wing long and narrow; 

 the apex produced and acute in female ; vein 3 from before angle 

 of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from a point ; 8, 9 from well before 

 upper angle ; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 fi'om before 

 angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



Fig. 43. 



Doratoperas atrosparsellus, cJ . \. 



Type. tDoBATOPEEAS ateospaesellus, Wlk. xxvii. 163. Columbia ; 



Brazil. 

 "fNystalia zeuzeroides, Wlk. xxxiii. 761. 



fBonacoscaptes lanceolatxts, Zell. Hor. Ent. Eoss. 1881, p. 159, 

 pi. xi. f. 4. 

 CMlo spectabilis, Feld. Eeis, Nov. pi. 137- f. 2, 



