101 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



pure white lieneatli, tlie upper half of the club entirely black ; palpi and body beneath 

 and the legs white, palpi, head and body above black, with grey hairs, abdomen with 

 grey, thin, segmental bands, the tip ochreous-grey. 



Female like the male, but all the spots are usually a little larger. 



Expanse of wings, $ $, 1-^ to ly% inches. 



Habitat. — Europe, Central Asia, N.W. Himalayas. 



Distribution. — Recorded by Leslie and Evans from Chitral, and there is a pair 

 from the same locality in our collection taken in August, 1901, at 12,000 feet elevation, 

 which we figure. 



Genus GOMALIA. 



Gomalia, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 114; id. Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 183 (1881). Watson, Hesp. 

 Ind. p. 158 (1891); id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 67 ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, 

 p. til. Ehves and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 153. 



Forewing, vein 12 ends on costa well before end of cell, cell a little more than two- 

 thirds the length of the costa, discocellulars sub-erect, vein 3 emitted close before lower 

 end of cell, 2 from before the middle ; the male with a costal fold, costa very slightly 

 arched, apex sub-acute, outer margin evenly convex, shorter than the hinder margin, 

 which is nearly straight. H'mdwing, vein 7 emitted close to upper end of cell, 3 from 

 close to the lower end, discocellulars and vein 5 very faint, costa highly arched at base, 

 outer margin evenly rounded. Antennae with somewhat slender clul), blunt at the tip, 

 no terminal crook ; palpi sub-erect, second joint laxly clothed with longish scales, third 

 joint .slender, blunt, more or less concealed by the hairs of the second joint ; hind 

 tibite with two pairs of spurs. 



Type, Gomalia albofasclata, Moore. 



GOMALIA ALBOFASCIATA. 

 Plate 782, figs. 1, $, la, ? , lb, <? . 



Gomalia alhofasciaia, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 141 ; id. Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 183, pi. 71, fig. 7 



(1881); id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 263. Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 367. 



Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 159 (1891); id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 67 ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. 



Soc. ix. 1895, p. 422. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 153. Evans, Journ. Bo. 



Nat. Hist. Soc. xx. 1910, p. 388. 

 Gomalia littoralis, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1884, p. 513, pi. 47, fig. 4 ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. 



Soc. 1887, p. 280. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside with the ground colour brownish-olive-grey. Forewing 

 with a basal l)lackish-brown band, and an ante-medial darker band, the latter with its 

 outer margin limited by a black thick line which extends from the sub-costal vein in 



