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two subbasal purplish lines, the second arising from a patch on the 

 cOsta ; two antemedial lines slightly angled inwards on median 

 nervure ; a medial diffused band ; the orbicular and reniform large, 

 with purplish edges ; the postmedial line angled below the costa 

 and at lower angle of cell ; a dark submarginal nearly straight 

 line ; a marginal crenulate line. Hind wing pale, with a medial 

 pink line from upper angle of cell to inner margin ; a submarginal 

 pink diff used band ; the inner area suffused with pink ; a crenulate 

 marginal line. Underside of fore wing with two postmedial lines. 

 Hind wing with cell-spot and postmedial line. 

 Hah. Dharmsala. Exp. 44 millim. 



1594. Xanthia basalipunctata, Graeser, Berl ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 341. 

 Gortyna intermixta, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 480, pi. 19, 



fig. 11. 



$ . Ochreous, suffused with ferruginous. Eore wing with the 

 costa narrowly red-brown; double waved subbasal and antemedial 

 lines, the latter with a red-brown patch in cell and another on 

 inner margin ; orbicular, reniform, and claviform with red-brown 

 outlines ; curved medial and postmedial lines, the latter with the 

 whole area beyond it red-brown, except an apical yellow patch ; an 

 indistinct, waved, submarginal line. Hind wing fuscous, with an 

 indistinct postmedial line. 



Hah. Amur; Khasis. Exp, 42 millim. 



1595. Xanthia gilvago, Esp. Schmett. Eur. pi. 176, fig. 2. 

 Noctua palleago, Hiibn. Samml, Eur. Schmett., Noct. fig. 442. 



Head and thorax orange-yellow ; abdomen whitish. Tore wing 

 orange-yellow, slightly suffused with rufous ; indistinct rufous 

 waved subbasal, antemedial, and postmedial lines, and antemedial, 

 medial, and postmedial lunulate fuscous bands ; the orbicular and 

 reniform indistinct, the latter with a dark spot on its lower part ; 

 a submarginal series of dark specks, with faint fuscous marks 

 beyond them ; the cilia reddish. Hind wing, yellowish white. 



Hah. Europe ; Gurais Yalley, Kashmir. Exp. 38 millim. 



1596. Xanthia rectilineata, n. sp. 



Pale reddish. Fore wing with nearly straight subbasal, ante- 

 medial, and postmedial pale lines with dark edges, some fuscous 

 suffusion before the antemedial and beyond the postmedial line ; a 

 diffused fuscous medial band, the reniform fuscous and large ; some 

 fuscous on outer margin. Hind, wing pale. 



Hah. Kulu (Hocking) ; Sultanpur, Kangra. Exp. 32 millim. 

 Type in B. M. 



Genus ELWESIA, nov. 



Type, E. diplostigma, Hmpsn. 



Range. Sikhim. 



Differs from Xanthia in the eyes being heavily lashed ; palpi 



