ALCIS.— CHOGADA. 
10'-] 
BOAllMIIDiE. 
ALCIS, Hilbn. 
Alcis sublimis. (Plate CXXXV. fig. 19.) 
Primaries above with the basal third granite-grey, mottled with whitish and traversed 
externally by two sinuous black stripes; central third white, striated with grey, and in tlie 
male suffused with pale buff; an imperfect series of black or blackish spots on the veins near 
the outer edge of this whitish belt ; a grey and blackish blotch at the end of the cell ; external 
third granite-grey varied with blackish or black ; an interrupted zigzag whitish or white 
stripe across the middle of this area, and a pale buff or whitish diffused spot near outer margin 
on second median interspace ; fringe whitish, spotted with smoky grey : secondaries pale 
granite-grey, fading into white towards costa; two divergent widely separated darker grey 
streaks and a spot at the end of the cell, all obsolete in the male, but fairly well-defined in 
the female ; a zigzag submarginal white stripe, bordered internally with dark grey or black 
towards the abdominal margin : thorax granite-grey ; shank of antennae dotted with white ; 
abdomen more or less giey, with white hind margins to the segments, anal tuft pale buff. 
Under surface sericeous white ; a broad grey border spotted with white as in the allied species ; 
fringes as above; slight grey traces of the upper sui'face markings visible through the wings ; 
costa of primaries mottled with black ; anterior tibise and tarsi black, barred with cream-colour 
above. Expanse of wings 40-48 millim. 
Dharmsala, and at Trioon above Dharmsala, 9000 feet elevation, where it flew out of thf 
grass. 
The pattern of this species somewhat resembles that of A trikotaria ; it is nevertheless 
much more nearly allied to A. noctivolans of Japan; it appears to be a common species, a> 
Mr. Hocking retained nine examples. 
CHOGADA, Moore. 
Chogada latipennis. (Plate CXXXVI. fig. 2.) 
^ . Whity brown, irrorated with smoky brown ; external area slightly browner, bounded 
internally by a dark brown dentate-sinuate band enclosing a pale stripe ; a second somewhat 
similar band, bounded internally by a black line, beyond the middle ; this line on the primaries 
is elbowed and strongly denticulated from the costa to the angle ; a more regular dentate- 
sinuate dark brown central line ; a very irregularly angulate black line across the basal third ; 
" reniform spot blackish-bordered, elongate- pyrif or m : secondaries with an elbowed line 
across basal fourth ; the discocellular spot cuneiform : abdomen crossed by abbreviate white- 
edged black transverse bars. Underside pale sericeous brown ; blackish discocellular dashes; 
