328 MR. W. WARREN ON LEPIDOPTERA [JuDB 5, 



Two females, Tlmndiani, dated August 17, 1886, and April 4, 

 1887. " Fairly common in August." This remark applies also to 

 P. niffripunctata, as the two species were confounded and num- 

 bered alike. 



153. Phibalapteryx nigripunctata, sp. n. (No. 133.) 

 Fore wing dull grey-brown, varied with oblique darker lines, dis- 

 tinct onlv on the inner margiu ; a dark subapical blotch on the 

 hind margin, a smaller one obliquely beneath it, and another, 

 more diffuse, above the anal angle ; veins speckled, black and 

 white ; a distinct black central spot ; fringes brown, preceded 

 by a series of thick, sbort, black dashes. Hind wing greyer, 

 likewise with the veins speckled dark and light ; marked by a 

 succession of darker and paler sinuous lines or narrow fasciae, most 

 conspicuously towards the hind margin ; central spot distinct, 

 black ; fringes as in the fore wing. Underside pale grey, with the 

 central spots distinct ; head, thorax, and abdomen dull fuscous. 



Expanse of wings 32 millim. 



One male August 10, two females August 10 and 26, 1886. 

 Thundiaui. 



All three specimens are more or less worn, so that the markings 

 are not exactly made out. It appears to be related to the common 

 European P. tersata. 



Photoscotosia, gen. nov. 



Not differing in neuration from Scotosia, but separable at once 

 by the very short globose palpi, the terminal joint of which is 

 invisible, and by the possession of a long tuft of hairs on the under- 

 side of the fore wings in the male. These hairs are pale ochreous at 

 their base, and velvety back at their apex, and extend from the base 

 of the wing to near the hind margin, occupying the whole space 

 between the median and submedian veins ; towards the hind margin 

 also the under surface of the wing beneath the hairs has deep black 

 scales. Wings shaped like Scotosia, but with the hind margins 

 plain, not scalloped; in the male the hind wing has the costa more 

 or less broadly pale, whitish or ochreous ; antennae of male 

 faintly ciliated. Besides the two species here mentioned, there is a 

 third, lucicolens (Butler), also from Hindostan. 



154. Photoscotosia amplicata. (No. 162.) 



Cidaria amplicata, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxv. p. 1404. 

 A single male from Thundiani, August 20, 1886 ; " rare." 

 Also from Darjiling. 



155. Photoscotosia miniosata. (No. 183.) 



Scotosia miniosata, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxv. p. 1354. 

 One female and one male from Nandar and Thundiani, September 

 1887. " Uncommon, a few in September." 

 Occurs also iu Bhootan and in N. Hindostan. 



