HICOODA. 379 



near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 shortly stalked; 

 5 nearly fully developed from well below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

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



A. Fore wing with the terminal area darker than the ground- 



colour. 

 a. Fore wing with the reniform whitish, completely defined, pleheia. 

 h. Fore wing with the reniform concolorous, incompletely 



defined eccmn^ta. 



B. Fore wing with the terminal area not darker than the 



ground-colour. 



a. Fore wing with the postraedial line excurved from below 



costa to vein 4 dosaroides. 



b. Fore wing with the postmedial line slightly angled 



inwards in discal fold or obsolescent on costal half nigripalpis. 



5577. Hiccoda plebeia. 



Acontia plebeia, Bull. 111. Het. B.M. vii. p. 61, pi. 129. f. 3 (1899) ; 

 Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 319. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish tinged with rufous and 

 mixed with dark brown. Eore wing whitish tinged with rufous 

 and irrorated with dark brown, the medial and terminal areas 

 suffused with purplish grey leaving some pale rufous from costa 

 before apex to reniform and on inner half of postmedial area ; sub- 

 basal line represented by a slight black striga from costa ; ante- 

 medial liue whitish, waved, somewhat oblique ; claviform, orbicular, 

 and reniform whitish tinged with rufous and defined by black, the 

 two former small, round, the last with some brown in centre ; an 

 indistinct blackish medial line, oblique to the reniform, oblique and 

 sinuous from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double, blackish 

 filled in with whitish, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved 

 at discal fold, incurved and minutely waved below vein 4 ; some 

 blackish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line rather 

 diffused, blackish, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and bent 

 outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia black 

 mixed with grej. Hind wing fuscous brown ; a fine dark terminal 

 line ; cilia pale with a dark line through them ; the underside 

 whitish irrorated and suffused with dark brown, an indistinct dark 

 discoidal spot. 



Ab. 1. i'ore wing with the oblique pale area from costa before 

 apex extending to the pale basal area. — Bhutan. 



Hah. Punjab, 1 $, Simla {Harford), 1 J, 1 $, Dharmsala 

 (Hoclchuj), 2 cJ , 4 $ type ; Bhutan (Dudgeon), 2 c? . Hx2J. 22-26 

 millim. 



5578. Hiccoda eccausta, n. sp. (Plate CLX. fig. 6.) 



Head white ; palpi blackish at sides ; frons with lateral black 

 bars ; antennae blackish ; thorax yellow, the metathorax with 

 slight brown marks ; pectus, legs, and abdomen ochreous mixed 

 with brown, the fore tibiae and the tarsi banded with brown. 



