1893.] SPECIES OF MOTHS FROM INDIA. 343 



(damaged) mouse-coloui' with a pink tinge ; face deep red-brown ; 

 head clear, pale ochreous : thorax and abdomen olive-ochreous 

 mixed with darker ; abdominal ci-ests tinged with red. Underside 

 dull mouse-colour, dusted \vith grey, and without distinct markings. 



Expanse of wings 24 millim . 



Hab. Naga Hills. 



Subfam. ObthostixinvE. 



NaXA OBTHOSTIGIALIS, Sp. n. 



Fore ^^ings dull whitish, semitransparent, AA^ith all the reins 

 blackish, and the costa smoky grey ; basal transverse line mai'ked 

 by 3 black, lengthened spots lying on the subcostal, median, and 

 submedian A^eins ; exterior and subterminal lines denoted b}' 

 similar spots on all the veins; a lai-ger dark oblong cell-spot, and 

 dots on the veins below it. Hind wings like fore Mings, but 

 Avithout the basal dots. Underside, with cell-spots and t\\o outer 

 roAVS of spots only distinct, but these more so than above. 



Expanse of Avings, $ 52 millim., c5' 43 millim. 



Hab. Sikkim : Bhotan. 



[Taken by me at Darjiling in July. — H. J. E.'] 



PsiLONAXA, gen. nov. 



OrtJiosiiris, Motsch. Bull. Mosc. 1866, p. 196. 



OrtJiostLds, S. & W. Cat. 2241. 



Zerene,de I'Orza, Cat. Lc'p. Jap. p. 48, no. 113 (1869). 



The species of this genus agree Avith Naxa, Wlk., in the shape 

 of the AA'ings, the scaling, and all points of structui'e except the 

 antennae, and herein they agree Avith Orthostixis, Hiib., Avhich like- 

 wise has simple antenuaa in both sexes. 



Type, P. taicoumaria, de I'Orza (Zerene). 



PsiLox.vxA OBLiTERATA, sp. n. (Plate XXXI. fig. 10.) 



2 • Like P. taicoumaria, de I'Orza, but smaller and feebler ; all 

 the spots reduced to mere dark dots ; the two lower ones of the 

 basal roAv nearly absent. 



Hab. Bhotan ; Naga Hills. 



Tavo worn specimens in Mr. Moore's collection marked linteata, 

 M., may be tlie same ; they are J 2 from Darjihng. 



[This was taken at about 7000 feet by Doherty near Mao, Mani- 

 pur, in August. — //. J. E.'j. 



Cbyptoloba, gen. nov. 



Larentia, Moore, P. Z. S. 1807, p. 054. 



Lyr/ranoa, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5. vi. p. 228 

 (1880). 



Fore wings with costa convex, liind margin obli(|uely curved ; 

 hind wings rounded ; both wings elongate ; hind wing in c? A\-ith 

 a peculiar chitinous lobe attached to the base of the abdominal 

 margin. Antenna? rather long, strongly pectinated in the d" , 



