1906.] ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE TIBET COMMISSIOjS'. 489 



■*Episilia astigmata, sp. n. (Plate XXXYI. figs. 4 c? , 5 $ .) 



(S . Head and thorax brown sufiused with fiiscous, the hairs 

 tipped with grey ; tarsi with slight pale rings ; abdomen ochreous 

 brown, with fuscous-brown lateral stripes. Fore wing dull 

 rufous, the basal, inner, and terminal areas suffused with fuscous, 

 the costal edge and veins f uscoiis ; subbasal line represented by 

 a slight black striga from costa ; antemedial line oblique, very 

 minutely dentate, slightly angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular 

 absent ; reniform represented by a dark line on discocellulars ; 

 postmedial line single, black, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely dentate and produced to short streaks on the veins, 

 obliquely incurved below vein 4, the area from just beyond it 

 sufi'used with fuscous and with slight pale points on costa ; 

 subterminal line absent ; a terminal seiies of slight black lunules ; 

 cilia fuscous, with fine whitish line at base. Hind wing pale 

 brownish grey, the terminaFarea slightly darker ; cilia pale brown, 

 with a whitish line at base ; the under side whitish, the costal 

 area tinged with brown, a faint discoidal spot and postmedial 

 series of minute dark streaks on veins 8 to 6. 



5 . Fore wing much blacker, showing a faint rufous tinge on 

 medial area in cell only, irrorated with a few white scales. 



Sab. Tibet, Gyantze ( Walton), vi. 04. 1 c? , 1 $ , type. Exp, 

 34-38 minim. 



E.emotely allied to E. suhplumhea Stand. 



*Lycophotia poliochroa, sp. n. (Plate XXXYI. figs. 16 d*, 

 17$.) 



S . Antennae strongly serrate and fasciculate. 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with some brown and 

 fuscous ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing grey and white, 

 tinged with ochreous and slightly irrorated with brown ; subbasal 

 line represented by black strife from costa and cell ; antemedial 

 line single, black defined by whitish on inner side, interrupted at 

 the veins, erect from costa to vein 1 and angled outwards above 

 inner margin ; claviform moderate, defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform defined by rather difiused black, the former with its 

 inner edge produced inwards as a streak to antemedial line ; 

 traces of a diffused medial line touching orbicular and claviform ; 

 postmedial line single, black slightly defined by whitish on outer 

 side, bent outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to 

 short streaks on the veins, confluent with outer edge of reniform, 

 obliqvie below vein 4 ; faint traces of a whitish subterminal line 

 slightly defined by fuscous on inner side, excurved at vein 7 and 

 middle ; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; cilia ochreous 

 white, with two slight dark lines through them. Hing wing 

 white tinged with pale brown, the cilia pure white ; the under side 

 white, Avith slight discoidal spot and indistinct postmedial line 

 from costa to vein 4. 



$ . Wings aborted, small ; the fore wing elongate, nairow^ the 



