1893.] SPECIES OF MOTHS FEOM I^fJDIA. 345 



the anal angle ; fringe iron-grey chequered with pale olive. 

 Hind wings dull whitish, speckled with grey at the base ; the 

 outer half, the inner margin, and a large discal spot dark grey. 

 Head and thorax olive-ochreous ; abdomen grey. TJnderside pale 

 straw-colour, which in the fore wing is almost wholly suffused ^Wth 

 iron-grey ; patches along the costa, hind margin, and inner margin 

 alone remaining pale. The hind wings have a broad dark marginal 

 band and discal spot. 



Expanse of wings 22 millim. 



Hah. Sikkim. 



[The type, which is unique,was taken by Moller's native collectors 

 at about'7000 feet.— i?. J. E.'] 



IsoLOBA, gen. nov. 



Like Crj/ptoloba, "Warr., bat with the $ antenufe not plumose, 

 but moniliform ; the antennae shorter, with finer and longer lateral 

 branches ; wings glossy, with two straight brown transverse lines, 

 and without the silvery metallic spots and streaks that characterize 

 C'r(/2)foloba. 



Type, Isoloha bifasciata, sp. n. 



IsoLOBA BiFASciATA, sp. u. (Plate XXXII. fig. 18.) 



S 2 . Fore wings glossy straw-colour, finely and iiTegularly 

 dusted with black atoms ; 1st and 2nd lines at i and | respectively, 

 thick, brown, nearly straight, being slightly recurved only towards 

 the costa ; the 1st immediately followed, in the centre of the wing, 

 by a thicker cluster of black atoms ; the 2ud by a still larger blackish 

 b'.otch ; 3 small oblique black dashes on the costa before apex, and 

 2 black flecks, in an oblique line, from the apex to the black blotch 

 beyond the 2ud line ; fringes straw-colour, broadly chequered with 

 black at the ends of all the veins. Hind wings duller straw-colour, 

 scarcely dusted with dai-ker, with the dark chequering of the 

 fringes much narrower and less conspicuous. Head, palpi, and 

 thorax the same colour as the brown transverse lines ; the abdomen 

 mottled straw-colour and brown. Underside of both wings bright 

 straw, mottled with dark atoms, and with a diffuse dark grey 

 shade beyond each of the 2 lines on the front wing ; the black 

 chequering of the fringes visible also beneath. 



Expanse of wings 2G millim. 



Hab. Sikkim. 



[Xot rare from Tonglo to Sundukpho on the Nepal frontier, 

 10,000-12,000 feet.—//. J. E.] 



LoBOGO'iA, gen. nov. 



Closely related to Cryptoloha and Isohba, with ^\■llich it agrees 

 in neuration and scaling, but characterized by the angulation in 

 tlio hind margin of botii wings. 



Type, Lohogonia ambusia, sp. n. 



