182 PTEALIDiE. 



Hab. Simla i Sikhim ; Momeit, Burma. Exp., <$ 38, 5 48 

 millim. 



4619. Orybina plangonalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 790; C. fy S. no. 4157. 

 Oryba conspicualis, Snell. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 562, pi. 20, 

 fig. 3. 



$ . Purple-grey ; palpi bright pink. Fore wing with almost 

 the whole inner area suffused with fiery red ; an obliquely curved 

 antemedial dark line ; a red-edged yellow lunule beyond the disco- 

 eellulars, and a reel-edged hyaline spot at origin of veins 3, 4, 5, 

 with an obliqiie dark line from it to inner margin, where it some- 

 times meets the antemedial line ; some fiery red on medial part of 

 outer area ; the veins dark, with some red scales on them. Hind 

 wing pale, with a fiery red patch from lower angle of cell to outer 

 margin below apex and vein 2, and crossed by the curved dark 

 postmedial line ; the apex and cilia from apex to vein 2 purplish 

 grey. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 34 millim. 



Genus PROTEINIA, nov. 



Type, P. pallifrons, Snell. 



Range. Sikhim. 



$ . Palpi porrect, slender, projecting about two and a half times 

 length of head, the 3rd joint about half the length of 2nd ; 

 maxillary palpi minute ; frons rounded ; antenna? nearly simple ; 

 tibiae smooth. Pore wing with the outer margin slightly angled 

 at veins 6 and 4, then excised to outer angle ; veins 3, 4, 5 from 

 angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 given off from 8 before 7 ; 

 10 free. Hind wing with the outer margin slightly angled at 

 vem 4 ; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



4620. Proteinia pallifrons, Snell. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 560. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown. Pore wing 



deep coppery red ; the 

 costal area pale grey- 

 brown, with some white 

 specks on costa ; an ill- 

 defined oblique pale line 

 from median nervure to 

 near base of inner margin ; 



Fig. m.-ProteM^allifrons, $ . \. a P ale line from c ? sta J ust 



before apex, curving out- 



ards to the margin, then inwards to vein 2, where it is slightly 



angled ; the cilia dark fuscous. Hind wing deep red, the basal 



half suffused with fuscous : pale curved sinuous ante- and 



postmedial lines, with a hyaline conical patch between them below 



lower angle of cell. Underside with double line from outer margin 



of fore wing at vein 5 to anal angle of hind wing. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp, 34 millim. 



