1893.] SPECIES OF MOTHS FROM IXDIA. 433 



Elphos pr^umbbata, sp. n. 



2 . Fore -wiDgs straw-colour, with a yellow suffusion, sprinkled 

 pretty thickly with rouud dark atoms ; 1st and 2nd lines black, 

 exactly like those of E. liymenaria ; ocelloid cell-spot obsolete 

 above, with a vertical black costal spot exactly above it, whereas 

 in E. hymenaria this spot is obliquely nearer the base ; a dark 

 blacldsh smoky suffusion occupies the whole apical portion of the 

 wing, except the extreme apex itself ; the edge of the suffusion 

 running obliquely from the costa at the origin of the 2nd line to 

 the hind margin shortly above the anal angle. Hind wings like 

 fore \Aings, with the apical portion only slightly and diffusely 

 smoky. The whole of the wing-surface much clearer yelloAv, and 

 not dusted and suffused with smoky bluish-grey atoms and shades 

 as in E. hiimenaria. Underside clear white, with dark grey 

 mottlings, and the smoky apical suffusion of the upperside exactly 

 reproduced in black. (In hymenaria the disk of both wings is 

 suffused Mith cinereous, and the margins have a broad black 

 fascia.) Head and thorax dark mottled ; abdomen yellowish, A^ith 

 blackish markings above on each segment ; clear yelloAAish below. 



Expanse of AAings 80 millim. 



Hob. Perak. 



[A single specimen only of this very fine species was taken by 

 Doherty.— if. J. E.~] 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 

 Plate XXX. 



Fig. 1. Phofoscotosia atromarginafa , (5, p. oG'J. 



2. Cidaria cxquisita, <^, p. 375. 



3. intertexta, S, P- 374. 



4. dentistrigata, ^ , p. 374. 



5. Amoehe iiiveopicia, 5, p. 372. 



6. GagUodes olivacca, § , p. oS'2. 



7. Paralophia i^^i'ifafa, j.p. 371. 



8. Kurypepliides iramJiaia, ^ , p. 382. 



9. Driiiotrickia i^cotosiaria, ^, p. 420. 



10. Photoscotosia muUiUnea, (^ , p. SB'.'. 



11. fulguritis, (5, p. 370. 



12. Paricterodes (?) violacra, J, p. 3'll. 



13. Arichanna ruhrivcna, ^f, p. 42-1. 



14. Loxaspilafc!^ dis^par, J, p. 413. 



1 5. Abraxas alpcsfris, ij , p. 304. 



Ifi. Pcricoma lactciguttata, cJ , p. 378. 



17. variabilis, $, p. 377. 



18. interrupta, $, p. 380. 



19. apiristrigata, (^ , p. 378. 



20. fascial a, J, p. 379. 



21. Eupithrcia cosfipirfa., 9, p. 383. 



22. rnlirinofiifd, J , p. 384. 



23, ulhispiimata, 2, p. 384. 



Platk XXXI. 



Fig. 1. C'omos/ida ctpnilea, f^, j). 3.'i4. 



2. Mirriiliixia rff'nrmafa, rt, p. 3.''>1. 



3. Hmiisffila ndnimargn, ^, p. 3,'i4. 



