324 MR. W. WARREN ON LEPIDOPTERA [June 5, 



139. ASPILATES OBLiaUARIA. (No. 228.) 



Aspilates obliquaria, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 649. 



Four females, in good condition. May and June 1886 and 1887, 

 two males worn in August, all from Thundiani. The females are all 

 larger than the males. 



140. Sterrha sacraria. (No. 19.) 



Phalrtna-Geometra sacraria, L. S. N. ii. p. 863. 

 Sterrha labda. Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. 129, pi. 181. fig. D. 

 One male, July 1886, from Campbellpore. 



S. labda appears to be only a form of sacraria with the stripe 

 broader. 



Pseudosterrha, gen. nov. 



Resembling Sterrha, but with the following differences : — In the 

 hind wing the upper half of the discocellular, which in Sterrha is 

 obsolete, is clearly present, and marked by a slightly darker spot ; 

 the scaling is decidedly coarser ; the antennae of the male are more 

 coarsely plumose ; and the hind wings, instead of being white, are of 

 the same ochreous tint as the fore wings, 



141. Pseudosterrha ochrea, sp. n. (No. 62.) 



Fore wings pale ochreous, tinged with reddish, without markings 

 except a dark, indistinctly expressed line running obliquely from the 

 middle of the inner margin towards the apex, before which it is re- 

 flexed on to the costa. Hind wings and fringes of both wings 

 ochreous. Underside reddish ochreous, the hind wing also showing 

 traces of a central band. Antennae of the male strongly plumose. 

 Expanse of wings, female 18, male 16 milhm. 



One male and one female from Campbellpore, July 16, 1886. 

 " Common in June." 



Family Zerenid^. 



142. Abraxas FusCESCENs. (No. 1.52.) 



Abraxas fuscescens, Butler, P. Z. S. 1886, p. 392, pi. 35. fig. 10. 

 One female and two males from Thundiani, September 1886. 

 " Not uncommon in August." 



Mr. Butler's specimens were from Kala-Bagh. 



143. Abraxas intermedia, sp. n. (No. 149.) 



Fore wing white, with a small basal patch of mixed fuscous and 

 tawny scales, followed by a clear white fasciaform space ; in the middle 

 of the wing are the remains of a curved central fascia, consisting 

 of a leaden-grey spot on the casta, fulvous at its costal edge, 

 immediately followed by two small leaden-grey spots, one touching 

 the costa, and the other beneath it, and of two or three leaden-grey 

 variable spots near the inner margin ; a submarginal curved row of 



