HYPOSICCIA. — PARASICCTA. 407 



outwards ; a terminal series of points. Hind wing slightly tinged 

 with brown and with traces of a discoidal lunule more distinct on 

 underside. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous. 



Hah. C. & W. Chijsta, Washan, type t in Coll. Leech, Pu-tsu-fongy 

 Chia-ting-fu, Ichaug. Exp. 28 millim. 



866. Hyposiccia mesozonata. (Plate XXIX, fig. 22.) 

 jEme?ie mesosooiata, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. N. H. Soe. xi. p. 438 (1898). 



Head and thorax grey tinged with olive-brown ; palpi blackish ; 

 fore and mid legs banded with black ; abdomen fuscous, the anal 

 tuft grey. Fore wing grey ; the basal area suffused with olive- 

 brown, with darker spots afc base of costa and below the cell ; an 

 antemedial waved line angled outwards in cell, inwards just below 

 it and bent outwards to inner margin ; a black spot in middle of 

 cell and lunule on discoceliulars ; medial and postmedial waved 

 lines with an olive-brown band between them, angled at veins 6 

 and 4, then oblique, and joining the antemedial line at inner 

 margin ; an irregularly waved subterminal line with some brown 

 suffusion beyond it; a terminal series of points with larger spots at 

 apex, middle, and above torn us. Hind wing fuscous, darker in female ; 

 the cilia greyish. 



Hub. Assam, Xhasis, 1 c? , 1 $ type. Exy.., J 18, $ 20 millim. 



Genus PARASICCIA, nov. 



Type, P. mcwulifascia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head ; tibia; 

 with the spurs long. Fore wing with vein 2 from beyond middle of cell ; 

 3 from near angle ; 5 from above angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 

 stalked ; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with vein '2 from beyond middle of 

 cell ; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 from well above angle ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from middle 

 of cell. 



Sect. I. Antenna of male bipectinate, with moderate branches. 



867. Parasiccia punctatissima- 



JE?ne!ie -punctafissima, Pouj. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) vi. p. clix (1886) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 367. 



S . Head and thorax pale brownish grey ; palpi black ; legs 

 tinged with ochreous and banded with fuscous ; abdomen grey 

 tinged with fuscous, the anal tuft and ventral surface tinged 

 with ochreous. Fore wing pale brownish grey ; the costal edge 

 black towards base ; a black point at base and two subbasal points ; 

 an antemedial series with more prominent spot on costa, the 

 points in cell and on inner margin nearer the base ; a point at middle 

 of cell, with a spot on costa above it ; a discoidal lunule ; the post- 

 medial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, angled at veins 6 

 and 4, then retracted to below end of cell with a line on its inner 

 side, moie or less fuscous suffusion between it and end of cell ; 



