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X. Descriptions of New Heterocera from, India. By 
Geoege Feancis Hampson, B.A., F.E.S. 
[Read Feb. 6th, 1895.] 
The species described in tlie following paper are all from 
British India, Ceylon, and Burma, and consist of new 
species received since my three volumes on Moths in 
the " Fauna of India series were published. The same 
order of the families and genera is adopted, and the 
structural characters are consistent with the definitions 
in that work, unless modifications are introduced into the 
specific descriptions. 
The species from Sikhim and the adjacent part of 
Bhutan, were sent to me by Mr. G. C. Dudgeon, who 
has kindly placed the whole results of many years 
: collecting at my disposal ; and though the proportion of 
new species amongst them is not large, yet it is sufficient 
to show that the moths of that well-worked locality are 
by no means exhausted. 
The Ceylon species were collected by Messrs. F. M. 
Mackwood and J. Pole, and are very few in number, as 
the species of Macro Lepidoptera from that locality are 
better known, both in their perfect state and in their 
life-histories, than those from any other part of the 
Tropics. 
The Tenasserim moths were taken by Mr. L. De 
Niceville, and in proportion to the number of species, 
contain a large percentage of new forms, many of which 
are very fine, as that district is almost unexplored as far 
as the Heterocera is concerned. Almost the only thing 
written on the subject is a paper by Mr. F. Moore on the 
Lepidoptera of Upper Tenasserim,'' in the P.Z.S. for 
1878, containing but few moths, and a similar paper in 
\ the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1886, 
giving a short list of moths from Tavoy and Siam ; the 
occurrence of a species which extends the range of the 
allies of the S. American and Australian Gastniidse into 
^ Indian limits being especially noteworthy. 
TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1895. — PART IT. (jUNE.) 
