•396 NocTriD.^. 



B. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey. 



a. Fore wing tinged with rufous, the medial area suffused 



with fuscous parenialis. 



h. Fore wing without rufous tinge or fuscous sufi'usion. 

 a}. Fore wing witli black spot on subterminal line at 



costa distichoides. 



h^. Fore wing without black spot on subterminal line 



at costa chortalis. 



1036. Richia curviplena. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 13.) 

 Orthosiacurvipiena, Wlk. xxxiii. 715 (1865) ; Hmiisn. Moths lud. ii. p. 185. 



Head and thorax ochreous, the scales tipped with rufous ; palpi 

 red-brown except at tips ; pectus and legs tinged with red-brown ; 

 abdomen ochreous, dorsally tinged with brown, ventrally irrorated 

 with rufous. Pore wing ochreous, thickly irrorated with rufous ; a 

 double rufous subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; an 

 obliquely curved, double, waved antemedial line with an oblique 

 striga before it in cell, a streak starting from its lower extremity, 

 running along median nervure and then forming upper edge of 

 claviform ; orbicular and reniform large, defined by rufous, the 

 former somewhat ovate, and both with a little whitish on their lower 

 edges ; a rather indistinct waved medial line angled outwards to 

 lower angle of cell ; the postmedial line double, the inner dentate, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, the veins beyond it streaked with rufous ; the subterminal 

 line deep rufous, straight, oblique ; a fine slightly waved subterminal 

 line. Hind wing ochreous sufiused with fuscous, the cilia ochreous ; 

 the underside ochreous, the costal area and terminal half irrorated 

 with brown, a slight sinuous postmedial line and obscure difi'used 

 subterminal band. 



Hah. SiKKiM (Ailcinson, Moller, Pilcher), 13 S , 2 $ , type. 

 Exp. 40 millim. 



1037. Eichia xestiodes, n. sp. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 14.) 



Head and thorax pale rufous, the scales tipped with grey ; palpi 

 dark rufous, paler at tips ; abdomen ochreous dorsally tinged with 

 fuscous, the anal tuft fulvous yellow. Pore wing ochreous with a 

 violaceous tinge and irrorated with rufous ; a rufous subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold ; an oblique antemedial line slightly 

 incurved to costa and excurved above inner margin ; claviform 

 defined with rufous above and at extremity ; orbicular and reniform 

 large, defined by rufous, the former elliptical, the cell before and 

 between them suffused with rufous ; a waved medial shade from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin ; a waved postmedial line 

 excurved below costa, incurved in discal and submedian folds ; the 

 subterminal line broadly defined by rufous oi] inner side and slightly 

 on outer, excurved below costa and at middle ; a fine waved 

 terminal line. Hind wing ochreous suffused with fuscous. Under- 

 side ochreous, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, 

 a dark postmedial line. 



Hab. Kashmik, Goorais Valley {Leecli\ 2 (S , 1 $ , type. A'a-y. 

 38 millim. 



