ASXICXA. — EXOPHILA. 
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brown ; vertex of head and tegulse deep chocolate- brown ; 
palpi, pectus, legs and ventral surface of abdomen redder 
brown. Fore wing grey tinged with red-brown and irrorated 
and striated with black-brown ; a diffused blackish subbasal 
line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial red-brown 
spots on costa and below the cell and an ill-defined spot on 
middle of costa ; a minute white pomt in middle of cell ; 
a narrow oblique black- brown discoidal bar expanding on 
inner side into a more or less developed spot at lower angle 
of cell ; a faint diffused slightly curved brown postmedial 
line ; a red-brown subterminal shade with well-defined outer 
edge, somewhat oblique towards costa and excurved at middle ; 
a series of dark brown points before termen. Hind wing 
greyish suffused with red-brown ; cilia whitish at tips Under- 
side greyish suffused with red-brown ; fore wing with brown 
subterminal shade ; hind wing with slight discoidal striga 
and diffused postmedial line. 
Hab. Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur ( G . Young), 1 type, 
Simla {Harford), 2 1 Exp. 38—44 millim. 
Genus EXOPHILA. 
Exophyla, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Er. 1841, p. 248 Type. 
non descr. rectangularis, Geyer. 
Exoph.Ua, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 419 (1852) rectangularis, Geyer. 
Exophila molybdea, n. sp. 
o'. Head and thorax reddish brown glossed with leaden grey, 
the tegulae with black line near tips which are whitish ; pect us, 
legs and abdomen grey suffused with reddish brown, the tarsi 
black ringed with whitish. Fore wing reddish brown suffused 
with leaden grey and irrorated with a few black scales ; an 
indistinct oblique black subbasal line from costa to median 
nervure ; antemedial line black, oblique, sinuous ; two slight 
black discoidal spots ; postmedial line black, with a bar 
from costa, indistinct and excurved beyond the cell, then 
sinuous ; subterminal fine rather diffused, blackish, waved ; 
a series of black points before termen. Hind wing reddish 
brown tinged with grey, the costal area whitish to beyond 
middle, the terminal area suffused with fuscous ; a fine 
dark terminal line ; cilia whitish tinged with red-brown. 
Underside of fore whig with the inner area whitish, a rather 
diffused straight erect blackish postmedial line and sub- 
terminal shade ; hind wing whitish suffused with red-brown, 
the terminal half of costal area and the terminal area to vein 2 
irrorated with black, a rather diffused straight black post- 
medial line. 
Hab. Natal, Durban {Platt), 1 £ type. Exp. 38 millim. 
