1893.] SPECIES OF MOTHS FROM INDIA. 351 



Sphagnodela, gen, nov. 



Pore wings rather lengthened ; the costa graduall)^ curved 

 throughout ; hind margin evenly rounded. Hind wings with hiad 

 margin rounded, the inner angle rather prominent. Forehead 

 shelving, slightly prominent ; vertex with erect hairs ; thorax and 

 patagia hairy ; abdomen A^ith segmental crests ; palpi not long, 

 porrect, ascending, the third joint inconspicuous ; tongue present ; 

 antennae of (S pectinated, the pectinations short, curved, and 

 directed slightly forward ; legs and underside of thorax hairy. 

 Neuration : cell half as long as wings ; discocellular angulated ; 

 lower end of cell wedge-shaped ; 1st submedian at |, 2nd at |-, 3rd 

 from end of cell ; lower radial from above the angulation of disco- 

 cellular; upper from the upper angle; 3rd, 4th, and 5th subcostals 

 on a common stem ; 1st and 2nd the same. Hind wings : costal 

 running near subcostal for a short distance ; two subcostals on a 

 short stem ; the rest as in fore wings. 



Type, S, liicida, sp. n. 



SPHA.GN0DELA LUCiDA, sp. n. (Plate XXXII. fig. 13.) 



S . Fore wings bright moss-green, varied with paler yellowish 

 green and thickly dappled with coarse blackish dots ; lines blackish, 

 denticulate, first at |, vertical ; second at f , sinuous, approaching the 

 first line by a sinus above the inner margin ; submarginal line com- 

 posed of a curved series of black spots, each followed by some silvery- 

 white scales ; some irregularly scattered white scales also follow 

 the second line, and are dusted over the disc ; cell-spot large, dark ; 

 fi'inges olive-green, with black spots at the ends of the veins, and 

 an indistinct dark festooning containing paler scales. Hind AAings 

 yellowish ochreous, tinged with green, especially towards the hind 

 margin, and thickly mottled with black transverse strigne ; fringes 

 yellowish green. Palpi dai-k brownish green; face and vertex pale 

 j-ellowish green ; thorax and abdomen olive-green ; antenna? pale 

 yellowish, with a white basal joint. Underside pale ochreous, 

 dappled with fuscous cinereous, the fore wing almost entirely 

 suffused with cinereous except along the hind margin. 



Expanse of wings 48 millim. 



Hah. Sikkim. 



This species differs from usneata, Feld., not only in its smaller size 

 but in the absence of any definite lines and markings on the 

 hind wings ; it is altogether a much brighter, gayer-looliing insect. 



[Not an uncommon species on the Nepal frontier of Sikkiui, 

 Avhere I have taken it at from 10,000 to 13,000 feet in July. — 

 II. J. E.-] 



Subfam. Geometein>e. 



Chloeodontopeka, gen. nov. 



Odontoptera, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 021. 



Fore wings elongate; costa nearly straight ; apex blunt ; hind 

 margin with 2 deep excavations beneath apex, with a prominent 



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