ARCTIIDiE. 



505 



1540 a. Pisara argentescens, Hmpm. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 296. 



2 . Silvery grey, slightly suffused and irrorated with fuscous. 

 Fore wing with traces of curved subbasal line ; a large fuscous 

 patch on middle of costa extending down to vein 2 ; an indistinct 

 crenulate postmedial line with curved line beyond it and fuscous 

 suffusion between them ; an indistinct curved and irregularly 

 sinuous submarginal line. Hind wing fuscous. 



Hab. Sikhhn. Exp. 26 millim. 



1540 b. Pisara fuscibasalis, n. sp. 



Fuscous brown and grey. Fore wing with the basal half 

 suffused with fuscous brown, leaving a large grey patch on basal 

 inner area ; curved and slightly sinuous dark antemedial and medial 

 lines ; an indistinct postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; the postmedial area grey ; the outer area fuscous. 

 Hind wing fuscous, pale at base. 



Hab. Ceylon {Pole); Thayetmyo, Burma {Watson). Exp. 14 

 millim. Type in B. M. 



1541 a. Pisara mediozonata, n. sp. 



<$ . Greyish white. Fore wing with a rounded brown spot on 

 base of costa ; a broad medial fuscous band irrorated with a few 

 shining scales, and with two rounded brown spots on it at costa, 

 a black line on its inner edge expanding towards the first brown 

 spot and two slightly irregular black lines on its outer edge ; an 

 irregular fuscous submarginal line and a marginal line. Hind 

 wing paler fuscous, with a dark cliscocellular mark. 



Hal. Bhutan, 2500 feet {Dudgeon). Exp. 16 millim. Type in 

 B. M. 



1541 b. Pisara seminigra, n. sp. 



5 . Pure white ; palpi black ; abdomen tinged with fuscous 

 towards extremity. Fore wing with a short oblique black band 

 from costa near base, with leaden-coloured scales on it; a similar 

 band at middle conjoined to a postmedial band of tufts of leaden- 

 coloured scales, the area beyond it brown suffused with black: an 

 irregular submarginal series of tufts of leaden-coloured scales. 

 Hind wing with the outer area suffused with fuscous. 



Hab. Bhutan {Dudgeon). Exp. 18 millim. Type in B. M. 



1543 a. Pisara argentisparsa, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 297. 



S . Head and thorax white ; abdomen suffused with fulvous 

 and fuscous ; wings white, suffused with fulvous and fuscous and 

 irrorated with a few brilliant silver scales. Fore wing with traces 

 of minutely dentate ante- and postmedial lines, the latter much 

 excurved beyond cell. 



Hab. Simla. Exp. 22 millim. 



