722 LT.-COL. J. M. FAWCETT OX 



179. Lyncestis unilinea Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 452, 

 pi. xxvii. fig. 7. 



Habitat. Kedai, 22nd April, 1912, 1 c^ . 



At the present time there is only the type-specimen in the 

 B. M. Collection, from Poona, India. 



Genus Popp^A, nov. 



Type, P. sahina, sp. n. 



Proboscis absent. Palpi short, not reaching vertex of head. 

 Antennae minutely ciliate, rather thick; legs moderately clothed 

 with hair ; hind legs with two spurs. Thorax covered with 

 thick hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on two basa] segments 

 and some long hairs at anal extremity. Fore wing rather 

 naiTow, apex rounded, termen evenly curved and crenulate. 

 Veins 3, 4 from lower angle of cell, 5 given off from just 

 below the middle ; 6 from ujDper angle ; 7 and 8 stalked, and. 

 anastomosing with 9. The whole underside of cell of fore wing 

 filled with a patch of laised scales, which project beyond and 

 below it. Hind wing with cell half the length of wing. Veins 

 3, 4 from lower angle of cell, 5 from just below centre of apex ; 

 6 and 7 stalked, from upper angle ; 8 joining cell about one-third 

 of its length from base. 



180. POPP^A SABINA, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 5.) 



Description. — S • Heaxl and tegulse grey ; thorax red-brown 

 with a pinkish sufi'usion. Abdomen j^ale brown, with some 

 ochreous hairs at anal extremity. Palpi, pectuF, and legs 

 sufi'used with pinkish. Fore wing divided into two longi- 

 tudinal areas by a prominent black-brown line, which somewhat 

 recalls the line in Lyncestis unilinea. The upper area from 

 costa to median nervure and along vein 5 grey, thickly irro- 

 rated with dark grey scales along the costa, with some brown 

 stripes on the veins and in the interspaces in the terminal 

 area. A dark brown line along the median nervure, with a 

 fork on vein 2 and continued to the termen along vein 5. The 

 area below this line red-brown with pink sufi'usion. A black 

 terminal wedge-shaped spot below the apex, and a black terminal 

 line, interrupted at the veins. Cilia red-brown. Hind Aving 

 white. Underside : fore wing white, with the costa and sub- 

 apical area pinkish ; hind wing white. 



Habitat. Kedai, 26th Nov. 1912, 1 6 . Exp. 40 mm. 



181. Plecoptep.,a polymorpha Hanipson. P. Z. S. 1916, p. 134, 

 pi. ii. fig. 3. (Described from Somaliland.) 



Form 3. polymnia, nov. 



Description. — 5 • Differs from the figure and description of 

 polymovpha in the wings being ochreous (instead of white) 

 and irrorated with red-brown scales. Postmedial line consisting 



