1S93.] SPECIES OF MOTHS EBOM INDIA, 359 



3rd median uervules filled up with black, the nervules themselves 

 ochreous ; a cloudy ochreous-brown oblique fascia from its lower 

 end to the inner margin, and a small cloudy space on the costa above 

 it; a sinuous, somewhat diffuse, ochreous exterior fascia, and a 

 subterminal one consisting of interrupted dark grey cloudy spots ; 

 fringe white. Hind wings with a broad ochreous fuscous fascia, 

 continued from the fore wings and almost obhterating the darlv 

 ocellus ; exterior fascia greyer, broader and less sinuous than in 

 fore M-ings. Underside ^^"ith costa, ocelli, and exterior fascia all 

 strongly marked, fuscous grey. Head, face, palpi, and vertex 

 blackish ; thorax and abdomen white ; antennae brownish. Differs 

 from all other species by the dark markings of the underside. 



Expanse of wings 44 millim. 



Hah. kSikkim. 



[Though the general aspect of this species might lead to its 

 being mistaken for P. deUaria^ it seems very distinct. I have one 

 specimen only, from the interior. — //. J. EJ\ 



SoMATiKA LAPiDATA, sp. u. (Plate XXXII. fig. 7.) 



5 . Fore wings pale stone-colour, suffused with darker, and irro- 

 rated with dark grey atoms and strigte ; a dull oblique basal line, and 

 a thicker exterior line, bluntly aiigulated beneath the costa, can be 

 traced ; cell-spot small, dark ; hind margin broadly dark olive-grey, 

 with an aggregation of dark transverse strigse. Hind wings \v\ih. 

 the basal third thickly dappled with dark grey atoms, the outer | 

 with dark grey transverse strigse, leaving a narrow pale curved 

 space between the two darker portions, corresponding to a like paler 

 space on the fore wings between the exterior line and the sub- 

 marginal shade ; fringes of both wings dark grey, with two paler 

 lines and a black basal line. Face, palpi, vertex, and collar dull 

 olive-green ; patagia and thorax whitish grey ; abdomen stone- 

 colour mottled A\itli dark grey. Underside pale ochreous, the 

 veins yellower, with all the markings by contrast darker ; a 

 distinct dark cell-spot in both wings. 



Expanse of wings 34 millim. 



Hah. Xaga Hills {Doheriy). 



This species is smaller than, and has a slightly dissimilar facies 

 from, the others of the genus. 



LiPOMELiA, gen. nov. 



Fore wings with costa straight from the base, and gradually 

 convex tov\ards apex, which is bluntly rounded ; hind margin 

 obliquely curved. Hind wings ample, with hind margin rounded 

 and inner angle square. Antenna) of S thick, shortly ciliated ; 

 head broad: for(;head flatten(;d; palpi short, porrect, or slightly 

 upturned ; tongue present; hind tibia) of S flattened and curved ; 

 hind tarsi reduced to a short, hardly perceptible point. Ncui-alion 

 normal. Scaling fine and smooth. 



Type, Lipomelia suhuata, sp. n. 



