420 ME. W. AVAEEEX 0>' TsTJW GENEEA AND [Apr. 18, 



along the base of the fringes ; the apex of the wing is paler slate, 

 like the base ; a small dark central dot. Hind wings with a 

 central spot and the second and third lines reproduced. Under- 

 side dull cinereous, with the apex whitish ; the central dot and 

 central fascia in both wings showing indistinctly darker. Head, 

 antennae, thorax, and abdomen all dark slate-colour. 



Expanse of wings, 52 millim. 



Hah. Sikkim. 



[I have never taken this fine species myself, but MoUer's 

 collectors brought several males and one female from the interior 

 in June. — H. J. E.'] 



DEDfOTEiCHiA scoTOSiAEiA, sp. n. (Plate XXX. fig. 9.) 



(S $ . Cinereous-olive, dusted with numerous blackish trans- 

 verse strigte, \\\i\i 3 blackish transverse lines, all thicker on the 

 costa ; the first with a paler line inside ; the exterior with the paler 

 one externally, this line is bent imvards from the costa, then 

 angulated outwards for a short distance, again running straight in 

 the original direction along the middle of the wing, and reaching 

 the inner margin with 3 or 4 short curves ; submai'ginal lines 

 formed of black blotches between the veins, with a paler line 

 beyond, which forms a small abrupt sinus in the centre of the 

 wing ; a row of black lunules before the fringe, which is darker 

 and slightly scalloped ; a black central spot, with a black costal 

 blotch above it. Hind wings with a regularly denticulated, exter- 

 nally pale-edged central line, and an irregular fainter submarginal 

 one ; black lunules and fringe, as in the fore wings. Underside 

 dull ochreous cinereous, paler along the hind margins. Head and 

 abdomen the same. 



Expanse of wings 30-56 millim. 



The lines are often very indistinct, and the size is particularly- 

 variable. 



Hab. Sikkim. 



The species might easily be taken for a Scotosia. 



[This was not very rare on Tonglo at 10,000 feet in July. There 

 was a female in Mr. Moore's collection unnamed, from Dalhousie. 

 A much smaller form, which I should have considered distinct on 

 account of the obscure markings of the fore wing and much paler 

 hind wing, was taken at the same time and extends up to 13,000 

 feet on the Xepal frontier. It is a well-marked variety. — H. J. E.'] 



Deyoccetis, Hiib. Verz. p. 316. 

 Astacuda, Moore, Lep. Coll. Atk. p. 244. 

 Pseudanr/erona, Moore, Ceylon, iii. p. 414. 

 iSerraca, Moore, Ceyl. iii. p. 416. 

 Type, Z>. rohorana, Schiff. 



DaTOCffiTIS >^IGEESCE>'8, sp. n. 



_ $ .^ Wings dark smoky brown, slightly tinged with purplish, with 

 faint indications of two darker denticulated transverse hues running 



