1888.] FROM THE HIMALAYAS. "Ill 



waved line ; orbicular and reniform spot almost free from the darker 

 speckles. Hind wing pale yellow, with a suffused dusky-brown 

 margin ; cilia pale yellow. Thorax and head yellowish-ochreous ; 

 palpi and legs purplish-ochreous. 



Expanse ly^- to If^^ inch. 



Hah. Kangra. In coM, British Museum. 



Alexia rudis, n. sp. 



Allied to A. ohseura. Fore wing brownish-ferruginous, very 

 sparsely irrorated with minute blackish scales and with indistinctly 

 darker brownish-ferruginous short transverse strigse, which are most 

 apparent in the female ; veins greyish ; a small whitish spot at lower 

 end of the cell, at base of upper medians, the spot with black-speckled 

 border ; a very indistinct pale reniform spot, which in the female 

 is slightly bordered with black scales ; a very indistinct, transverse, 

 discal, black -speckled line, the points only of which are seen in the 

 male. Hind wings ferruginous-brown, palest at the base. 



Expanse, S linj. $ ^ts "'"^^• 



Hab. Kangra. In coll. British Museum. 



Fam. CaradriniDjE. 



CaRADRINA FARINACEA, n. Sp. 



Fore wing minutely white-speckled ; crossed by a very indistinct 

 basal, subbasal, medial, and a discal, sinuous, slender, blackish line, 

 followed by a submarginal lunular line ; the orbicular spot indistinct ; 

 reniform spot with black-speckled border and central dots. Hind 

 wing greyish-white, with a slight greyish-brown border ; cilia white. 

 Body and legs grey ; tarsi with brown bands. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Hah. Kangra. In coll. British Museum. 



Fam. Heliothid^. 

 Genus Pradatta, Moore. 



Pradatta bimactjlata, n. sp. 



Male. Fore wing pale straw-yellow, the veins indistinctly lined 

 with ochreous-red ; a minute, black, discocellular dot at upper end 

 of the cell : hind wing white. Body pale straw-yellow ; thorax 

 in front and palpi brighter ; fore legs above ochreous-brown, tibial 

 claws black. 



Expanse f inch 



Hab. Dharmsala. In coll. British Museum. 



Genus Masalia, Moore. 



Masalia tosta, n. sp. 



Female. Fore wing ochreous-red, with a slight pale yellow streak 

 extending through end of the cell to near the outer margin ; costal 

 edge also pale yellow ; cilia slightly edged with white. Hind wing 



