360 ME. W. WARItEX OX XEW GEXERA AXD [Apr. 1 8, 



LiPOMELiA suBusTA, sp. 11. (Plate XXXII. fig. 24.) 

 cJ . Fore wings olive-drab, much suffused with tawny and brown ; 

 the olive-drab ground-colour is limited to the base, the costa, the 

 apex more broadly, and the hind margin ; the basal portion is 

 edged by an oblique tawny line, starting from the inner margin 

 close to the base, and running parallel to bind margin, ending in 

 the middle of the cell; second line red-brown, commencing below 

 the costa, forms first a large conical projection bindwards, then a 

 double curve, and a second conical projection above the inner 

 margin ; the space between the two lines filled up with tauny, 

 except along the costa, with some paler vertical \^avy streaks on 

 the inner margin ; subterminal line ii'regidarly dentate, almost 

 touching hind margin below the centre ; space between it and 2nd 

 line filled up, in the lower g, with mahogany-brown ; fringes olive- 

 drab, with a fine tawny dot at end of each vein; discal spot 

 elongated, white, shining, somewhat raised. Hind wings wholly 

 tawny, mottled with brown, from base to subterminal hne, then 

 olive-drab ; fringes as in fore wings ; discal spot constricted in 

 centre, sometimes divided into two spots. Palpi, face, and antennae 

 dark brown ; vertex and collar red-brown ; thorax and patagia olive- 

 drab ; abdomen tawny olive. Underside dull olive with a pink 

 tinge ; the inner region of the fore wings and the upper of the 

 hind wings being suffused irregularly with blackish. 



Expanse of wings 28 millim. 



Hah. Sikkim ; ^"aga Hills. 



EHODOSTEOPniA SrBFE,iVIDA, sp. n. 



(S . Fore wings pale cinereous, dusted with darker, and tinged 

 with ochreous ; basal ai'ea diffusely darker, costa and hind margin 

 more distinctly so ; parallel to hind margin, and separated from the 

 darker streak by a narrow pale space, is another oblique dark fascia 

 of equal width with the dark portion of the hind margin ; cell-spot 

 dark. Hind wings pale whitish ochreous, with a faint yellowish 

 tint, tinged with grey towards the anal angle ; fringes of both 

 wings with a distinct darker basal line. Underside of both wings 

 whitish grey, strongly suffused with yellowish. 



Expanse of wings 38 millim. 



Bab. Kashmir. 



There are several examples, all males, in the B.!M. Coll. from 

 Afghanistan. 



Near P. lorealis, Swinhoe. 



[The type, in my collection, was taken at Sonamurg in Kashmir 

 by the late Mr. Atkinson. — H. J. E.] 



Ta>'aoxeichia, gen. nov. 



Fore wings with costa nearly straight, more curved just before 

 apex ; hind margin curved, more obliquely towards anal angle ; 

 hind wings with hind margin rounded, anal angle rather marked. 

 Antennae of c? beset with long close ciliations ; palpi horizontally 

 porrect, hardly reaching beyond face ; tongue present. Hind tibiae 



