478 NOCTTJID^. 



suffused with fuscous ; antemedial, postmedial, and submarginal 

 waved lines with pale edges ; a series of marginal specks. Hind 

 wing white, with diffused ante- and postmedial fuscous band ; the 



Fig. 265.— Melipotis 



apex fuscous ; a large black spot near middle of outer margin ; a 

 dark marginal line. 



Hah. Hyderabad, Sind. Exp. 34 millim. 



Sect. II. (Melipotis). Mid and hind tibiae with slight spinous 

 tufts ; fore tibiae without the tufts. 



2450. Melipotis cashmirensis, n. sp. 



S . Head and thorax brown, irrorated with grey ; abdomen pale 

 brown. Fore wing brown, thickly suffused with grey ; a medial 

 white band, bounded inwardly by a dark brown line and outwardly 

 by a postmedial line much excurved beyond cell, especially beyond 

 lower angle, to which it is sharply excurved ; a dark line on disco- 

 cellulars ; a nearly straight submarginal indistinct pale line. Hind 

 wing brown, with the interspaces of basal area whitish ; a white 

 spot on outer margin at vein 2 ; the cilia white. 



Hah. Kashmir (Mc Arthur). Exp. 38 millim. Type in coll. 

 Leech. i*us°* M. co.il W , Uf. A**. 5. Li*m. p*us )%2Y )>*9A,]»J.5/.k - 

 U 50 « W\ to \^ \ <X i <* H ^ <* * S3 *■ • EV ~y fc> t , k \~^ 



Sect. III. Male with large tufts of hair on inner side of palpi 2 "^ 



on 2nd and 3rd joints; tibiae with the tufts slight. Hind ^)v?.,*3j 

 wing with a patch of differently formed scales in base of cell, 

 and a tuft of hair from base of costal nervure on upperside. 



2451. Melipotis fulviceps, n. sp. 



Dark fuscous brown, with a bronze tinge ; head and legs 

 bright orange-yellow; the tufts on palpi of male black. Fore 

 wing slightly irrorated with grey ; some white specks on costa 

 towards apex, and a series on outer margin. Hind wing paler. 



Hob. Simla {Harford). Exp. 32 millim. Type in B. M. 



Genus GNAMPTOGYIA, nov. 



Type, G. multilineata, Hmpsn. 

 Range. N.W. Himalayas. 



Palpi upturned, smoothly scaled, and reaching just above vertex 

 of head ; antennae long and thick, with fasciculated cilia in male ; 



