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another of the same species in Mr. Druce's, which I received some 

 years ago from Capt, Graham Young, and which was taken in the 

 Mandi or Kulu district of the N.W. Himalaya. The sex cannot 

 be determined with certainty, but both specimens seem, on account 

 of the simple frenulum, to be males. 



I took my specimen at Darjeeling in August. It may be described 

 as follows : — 



Form and venation of Notodonta trepida, but twice as large. Fore 

 wings brown, mottled with grey and reddish brown ; a dark line 

 inside the outer margin and a broad grey patch along the middle 

 part of tlie costa. A distinct fringed lobe in the centre of the hind 

 margin, resembling that found in the genera Notodonta and Lopho- 

 pteryx, hut not found in Phalera. Hind wings fawn-colour, with dark 

 veins and long dense brown hairs at the base. Beneath, fore wings 

 brown, with dense bail's clothing the basal part of the wing ; hind 

 wing paler, the costa reddish brown. Head and thorax grey-brown. 

 Abdomen dark brown, with yellow projecting tufls along the sides 

 and yellow bands below. Extremity of abdomen yellowish brown. 

 Fore legs densely covered, as mNotodonta trepida, with reddish-brown 

 hair. Palpi short. A dense tuft of hair between the eyes and at 

 base of the antennae, which are very minutely ciliated. Expanse 

 125 mm., length of body from eyes 41, length of hind wing 38, 

 antennae 21 mm. 



Genus Sinna, Wlk. 

 Sinna, Walk. Cat. Het. xxxii. p. 641 (1865). 

 Teinopyga, Feld. Reis. Nov., Atl. p. 9 (sine descr.) (1868). 



Sinna dohertyi, sp. nov. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 5.) 



This genus contains four or five species, which are all represented 



in the British Museum, and from all of which my species differs. It 



most resembles S. calospila, Wk., from Java, but differs in having 



■ the ground-colour of the fore and the whole of tlie hind wing pure 



shining silvery white instead of pale buff. 



From S. extrema, Wk., from Shanghai (probably identical with 

 Teinopyga reticularis, Feld.), and S. fentoni, Butler, from Japan, 

 which is also very nearly allied, it differs in having the markings of 

 the fore wing red instead of yellow. T. clara, Butler, from Japan 

 has no black at the tips of the wings. 



The markings of the fore wing above are too intricate for a de- 

 scription that would be intelligible ; but the colour in fresh speci- 

 mens is brighter than shown in the Plate. Beneath it is silvery 

 white, with smoky black instead of red and yellow markings. The 

 thorax is white with yellow bands ; the abdomen white with two 

 black spots on each side of its end. Legs white, with some black 

 spots. 



Described from two specimens taken in the Naga Hills by Mr. 

 Doherty. I should have been disposed to place this genus near 

 Chasmina among the Noctuae, but it is arranged in the British 

 Museum with the Lithosiidae between Setina and Camptoloma, and 

 Felder suggests its affinity to the genus Hulius. 



