148 LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



a little arched uear the base, then nearly straight to apex, which is sub-acute, outer 

 margin convex, shorter than the hinder margin, the wing comparatively long and 

 somewhat narrow ; hinder angle somewhat pronounced. Hindwing with vein 7 from 

 a little before upper end of cell ; discocellulars and vein 5 faint, 3 emitted from lower 

 end of cell, 2 from about one-third before the end ; wing comparatively small, outer 

 margin rounded and even. Antennae a little more than half the leno;th of the costa of 

 forewing, club long, fairly robust, tip pointed and slightly curved over ; palpi with 

 the third joint almost concealed by the hairs of the second joint ; hind tibiae with 

 two pairs of spurs. 



Type, Isoteinon masuriensis, Moore. 



PEDESTES MASURIENSIS. 

 Plate 791, tigs. 3, i , 3a, ? , 3b, ^. 



Isoteinon masuriensis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 693 ; id. idem, 1882, p. 262. Doherty, Journ. 



As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 138. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 455. Watson, Hesp. Ind. 



p. 79 (1891). 

 Pedesles mnsuriensis, Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 81. de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. 



p. ISO (1894). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 429. Elwes and Edwards, 



Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 193, pi. 24, figs. 40, a, b, c (genitalia). Hannyngton, Journ. Bo. Nat. 



Hist. Soc. XX. 1910, p. 371. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside black. Forewing with white spots, a somewhat long, 

 quadrate spot filling the end of the cell excavated on its inner side, a long oval spot 

 below it filling up the first median interspace close to its base ; a pointed spot at the 

 base of the second median interspace, its point wedged into them, and sometimes a 

 small spot below the outer end of the lowest spot ; three small spots in an outer curve, 

 from near the costa, one-sixth from the apex. Hindwing without markings. Cilia of 

 both wings brown, with pale tips. Underside. Forewing with the costa narrowly, the 

 apex broadly and the outer margin decreasingly paler than the ground colour of 

 the wdng, and tinged with pinkish-ochreous, the spots as on the upperside. Hindwing 

 cchreous-brown, without markings, the entire wing being covered with minute ochreous 

 scales. Cilia of ])oth wings white, with brown patches at the vein-ends. Antenna3 black, 

 ringed with white, the club whitish on the underside ; palpi, head and body concolorous 

 with the wings ; palpi below white. 



Female like the male, the white semi-hyaline spots on the forewing somewhat larger. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ lyig- to l-,^ inches. 



Habitat. — N.W. Himalayas, Sikkim. 



DiSTRiBUTiox. — We have it from ]\Iasuri and Sikkim ; the types are from Masuri ; 

 Elwes records it from Sikkim, 6,000 feet elevation ; Moore from the Kangra Valley, 

 Watson from Kumaon. 



