136 EPIPLEMIDA, 
of specks; a curved series of small dark postmedial lunules; a 
ferruginous patch on outer mar- 
gin at the excision; cilia white 
variegated with brown. Hind 
wing similar ; the series of specks 
straighter ; no ferruginous patch 
on outer margin. 
@. With a fuscous diffused 
Fig. 74. patch on fore wing beyond the 
Metorthochilus emarginatum,$. 4. cell. Underside of hind wing 
with the basal area whitish. 
Hab. Nagas ; Nilgiris; Ceylon. Hap., § 22, 9 24 millim. 
Szcr. II. Fore wing with vein 11 from cell and anastomosing 
with 12. Hind wing with the costa not excised, the outer 
margin highly angled at vein 4. 
3075. Metorthochilus excisum, Hmpsn. Ill. Het. viii, p. 114, pl. 151, 
fig. 13. 
Purplish grey, striated with fuscous ; both wings with indistinct 
postmedial and marginal rufous lines, the former curved. 
Hab. Nilgiris. Hep. 20 millim. 
Genus ATOSSA. 
Atossa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 577. 
Type, A. neleinna, Moore. 
Range. N.W. Himalayas; Naga Hills. 
Antenne bipectinate, with short ciliated branches in the male. 
Palpi short and porrect. Fore wing with the apex produced ; 
vein 3 before end of the cell; 5 from the middle of the discocel- 
lulars ; 6 from the upper angle; 7 either stalked with 6 or from 
the angle; 8, 9, 10 stalked, or 10 absent ; a forked fold in the 
cell, and fold in interno-median interspace. Hind wing with the 
apex produced beyond the outer angle of fore wing; vein 3 before 
end of the cell; 5 from the middle of the discocellulars ; 7 from 
before the upper angle of cell. 
Sect. I. Veins 6 and 7 of the fore wing stalked. 
3076. Atossa nelcinna, Moore, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 577, pl. 67, fig. 7 ; 
Elwes, P. Z, S. 1890, pl. 34, fig. 1; C § 8. no. 457. 
6. Antenne, head, and thorax black; abdomen orange, with 
the vertex black. Fore wing fuscous; the basal half with pale 
streaks in the interspaces; the outer half with two series of 
rounded spots; the two spots between veins 5 to 7 of the post- 
medial series placed out of line towards the margin. Hind wing 
similar to the fore wing; the pale streaks of the basal half larger ; 
