Descriptions of New Heterocera from India. 297 
suffusion between them; an indistinct curved and irregularly 
sinuous submarginal line. Hindwiug fuscous. 
Eah, Sikhim (Dudgeon). Exp. 26 mm. Type in B. M. 
Pisara argentisparsay n. sp. 
$ . 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 ; f orewing with traces of 
minutely dentate ante- and postmedial lines, the latter much 
excurved beyond cell. 
Eab. Simla (Harford). Exp. 22 mm. Type in B. M. 
Genus Cyphotopsyche, nov. 
Type. C. ustipennisj Hmpsn. 
Palpi porrect extending about the length of head, the 2nd joint 
thickly scaled, the third naked; antennae of male bipectinated 
with short branches to two-thirds' length and with a large tuft from 
basal joint; the collar forming large upright paired triangular hoods 
extending over the head ; abdomen with a pair of large corneous 
wing-shaped plates from base extending over dorsum. Forewing 
with veins 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked. Hindwing with veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 
stalked ; 5 from middle of discocellulars. 
Cyphotopsyche ustipennis, n. sp. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with greyish, dark 
rufous, and black scales. Forewing grey-brown ; the costal area 
dark fuscous ; ill-defined dark streaks in the interspaces ; a dark 
U^ »a( Cyphotopsyche ustipennis, 
fascia from lower angle of cell to outer margin, a dark patch on 
outer margin below apex ; the margin and cilia dark fuscous. 
Hindwing pale greyish ; the cilia fuscous at apex. 
Eab. Bhutan (Dudgeon) ; Ceylon (Pole). Exp. 24 mm. 
Type in B. M. 
Larva. Early stages : creamy-buff with dorsal, subdorsal, and 
sublateral series of small warts bearing tufts of long buff hairs ; 
