1893.] SPECIES OE MOTHS FROM H^DIA. 403 



Spilopeea umbeata, sp. n. 



(5 . Ground-coloui' pale straw, dusted with dark atoms ; an irre- 

 gular, curved, basal line, only distinct towards the costa, and not 

 i-eaching the inner margin ; a blackish costal blotch just beyond the 

 middle ; 2nd line starts just before the apex as a red-bi"own spot, 

 forms another smaller one just belo^^", and is just discernible as a 

 faint curved brownish-grey shade, which vanishes before the inner 

 margin ; it is followed by another similar submarginal shade ; fringe 

 from apex to the central angle dark brown, preceded by a red- 

 brown patch ; a minute blackish cell-spot ; hind wing with dark 

 cell -spot, and 2 faint greyish parallel fasciae beyond centre. Under- 

 side brighter straw-colour, with larger, stronger, reddish-brown 

 freckles ; distinct black cell-spots and strong submarginal fascias, 

 the inner of the two broadly bright reddish brown. Abdomen 

 straw-colour ; face darker ; collar and base of costa pale brownish. 



Expanse of wings 32 millim. 



[A single male taken at Margarita in Upper Assam by Doherty 

 in May.— iT. J. E.-] 



Opisthogsaptis molleei, sp. n. (Plate XXXI. fig. 12.) 



S . Wings straw-yellow, with a pale brownish line from before 

 the apex of fore wing to the middle of the inner margin of the hind 

 wing ; on the costa itself this is dark brown, and is followed by a 

 small brown spot at the extreme apex itself ; a large semicircular 

 chestnut-brown blotch on the discocellular, dark-edged internally 

 on the convex edge, and externally emitting a fine brown spike 

 along the radial ; a red-brown quadrate costal blotch above it 

 touching the top ; 3 small brown dots on the costa near the base ; 

 a small bro\\n dot at the end of the 2nd and 3rd median and 2nd 

 subcostal nervules. Head, thorax, abdomen, and fringes all straw- 

 yellow. Underside rather duller, with the markings reproduced ; 

 the hind wings with traces of a second dentate line towards the 

 hind margin. 



Expanse of wings 5-t millim. 



Hah. Sikkim. 



The palpi in this species and in 0. ahlunata, Guen., arc shorter 

 than in the rest, and these insects will perhaps have to be removed 

 to a separate genus. 



[I have only seen two males of this fine and very distinct species, 

 which my collectors brought from the interior. — H. J. E.j 



Opisthograptis longipennis, sp. n. 



J . Fore wings canary-yellow, faintly suffused with tawny, and 

 with 2 oblique, parallel, reddish-tawny lines, one from 5 of the inner 

 margin to | of the costa, the other from g of the inner margin to 

 the apex ; fringes yellow. Hind wings very pale lemon-yellow, 

 with a small dark cell-spot and faint traces of a curved submar- 

 ginal fascia. Head and thorax canary-yellow ; face and abdomen 

 lemon. Underside yellowish straw-colour, mottled with tawny- 

 brown spots ; costal region of fore wings at base and 2nd line 



