1893.] SPECIES OF MOTHS FROM INDIA. 373 



[I took one ? of this beautiful and distinct species at Tonglo, 

 and hare another which agrees. — H. J. E.~] 



PoLTPHASiA, Stph. 111. iii. p. 230. 

 Type, P. irumata, Hufn. 



POLTPHASIA ALBISBEIATA, Sp. n. 



S $ . Fore wings velvety blackish, dusted, especially towards 

 the hind margin, with very fine golden-yellow scales ; lines irregularly 

 zigzag, consisting of lilac-grey scales ; 1st at i; 2nd, forming the 

 inner edge of the central fascia, at -jL, running in just below the 

 middle into the fascia ; 3rd at |, limiting the central fascia ex- 

 ternally, contains 2 more prominent denticulatious, one subcostal, 

 the other at the middle ; ^own the centre of the central fascia, 

 beginning at the costa, runs a series of contiguous oval white spots, 

 which does not reach the inner margin ; submarginal line slender, 

 undulating, pale golden ; fringes dark fuscous, with a deep black 

 line at base, interrupted at the end of each vein by a lilac-grey 

 wedge-shaped spot. Hind wings smooth, fuscous, with the inner 

 angle including the fringes clear white ; rest of the fringes dark 

 fuscous, preceded by a deep black line ; traces of an undulating 

 submarginal line edged with paler are visible towards the costa. 

 Head and thorax velvety blackish ; abdomen blackish, dusted 

 with paler scales between the segmental divisions. Underside of 

 fore wings rather glossy grey, paler towards the costa in the disk, 

 and \^"ith a white apical patch ; the line bounding the central 

 fascia on the outside, and the discal spot, darker. Hind wings 

 glossy whitish for -f from base ; a distinct dark grey exterior line, 

 followed by a diffuse, blotched shade, and dark fuscous fringes ; 

 apex of the wings broadly white. 



Expanse of Mings 46 millim. 



In the 5 ^be series of white spots in the central fascia is 

 reduced to 3, and the whole submarginal area of both wings on 

 the underside is whitish. 



Hah. Sikkim. 



[This distinct species seems common on the Sundukpho range 

 at about 11,000-12,000 feet. It varies in the size of tlie white 

 spots on the fore wing, \\hich are sometimes almost obsolete. — 

 U. J. E.-] 



POLTPHASIA ALBIANGULATA, Sp. n. 



^ $ . Fore ^^•ings dark fuscous or blackish, interspersed with deep 

 tawny, the latter tints forming a more or less distinctly expressed 

 fascia on either side of the central fascia ; basal patcli dark, edged in 

 its lower half, finely but obscurely, with whitish ; ceutival fascia edged 

 with a very strongly-marked, acutely biangulated thick white line, 

 which in its upprr half is internally irregularly dentate, and which 

 ends on the inner margin with an outward curve ; from the costa, 

 in the centre of the central fascia runs a thick white lino parallel 

 to the upper arm, and not quite reaching the lower arm of the 



