50 KocTciD^gi:. 



by an angled white striga from costa, striae on termen below veins 

 7 and 5 and one at tornus with a few white scales between them ; 

 cilia with a fine white line at base. Hind wing white tinged with 

 fuscous especially on terminal area; cilia with a fine white line at 



Fig. 14. — Goenycta niveiguttata, ^ . \. 



base ; the underside Avhite, a fuscous bar from middle of costa Avith 

 traces of a band from it to inner margin, traces of a band from 

 middle of discocellulars to inner margin, excurved beyond lower 

 angle of cell, an apical fuscous parch. 



Hab. SiKHiM, 1800' {Dudgeon), 1 $ type. Kvp. 34 millim. 



Genus TYCRACONA. 



Type. 

 Tycracona, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 95 (,1882) ohliqua. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd porrect, short ; frons with small 

 rounded prominence at middle ; eyes large, round ; antenna laminate ; thorax 

 clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibige nn^derately 

 fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing tri- 

 angular, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 fi'om 10 anas- 

 tomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only, the termen strongly 

 curved. 



3625. Tycracona ohliqua. 



Tycracona ohliqua, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 95 (1882) ; Waterhouse, Aid, ii. 

 pi. 118; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 243. 



Head red-brown ; tegulse red-brown with white tips ; thorax 

 grey-white with some red-brown on prothorax and base of patagia ; 

 legs brown, the tarsi ringed with whitish ; abdomen grey suffused 

 with reddish brown. Pore wing grey-white thickly irrorated with 

 brown, the terminal area suffused with red-brown ; some red-brown 

 on costa towards base and a slight subbasal streak on subcostal 

 nervure with point below it on median nervure ; antemedial line 

 very indistinct, double, waved, slightly angled inwards below costa ; 

 orbicular defined by brown, minute, round ; reniform a narrow 

 white lunule slightly defined by brown ; an oblique black-brown 

 band from costa to vein 5 on outer edge of reniform with a black 

 fascia from it above vein 4 to near termen ; postmedial line rather 

 indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; some white points beyond it on 

 costa, defined by whitish on outer side in submedian interspace 



