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DICHONIOPSIS; NEUMICHTIS. By W. Warren. 
lubrica. 
obliquisigna 
leucosticta. 
sepultrix. 
lutra 
spumigera. 
and shorter ones below veins 4 and 3; orbicular and reniforni stigmata pale, outlined with brown; the 
orbicular brown at centre, elongate, produced below and confluent with the reniforni; the veins marked with 
black and the intervals with black lines; hindwing white with veins and termen brown; in the $ more ge¬ 
nerally brownish. Common in the Punjab, N. India, also recorded from the Nilgiri Hills in the South. Larva 
dark ochreous mottled with brown; tubercles pale with dark edges; dorsal line fine, edged with 
brown; subdorsal lines obsolete; spiracular yellow edged above with brown, forming lateral patches on each 
segment: a brown bar across segment 12; head chocolate brown; feeding on Berberis. 
3. Genus: Diclioniopsis gen. nov. 
Tongue fully developed; frons smooth, rounded, with a large tuft of scales; palpi hairy, short 
and stout, obliquely porrect upwards, the third segment thrown forward; antennae of <$ with short ses¬ 
sile fascicles of cilia; thorax crested; the tegulae produced into a ridge; abdomen laterally fringed with 
hair; pectus and tibiae with long hairs. Larva (of one species) feeding on oak. Type D. obliquisigna Hmps. 
D. lubrica Btlr. Forewing granite grey, suffused with blackish, a band beyond outer line remain¬ 
ing palest; lines obscurely double filled in with paler; claviform stigma wide, black, pointed at end, 
emitting a black dash to outer line and followed by a bidentate whitish patch; orbicular and reniform 
large, pale grey, surrounded by black; subterminal line, pale, with Hark shading*‘oil ea'clTsicle; ' Kindwing 
pale brownish with traces of a dark outer line. Described from a single $ from Dharmsala in the Punjab. 
. ; « 
D. obliquisigna Hmps. (14 b). Forewing ochreous grey tinged with ofive and dusted with dark 
grey; the subbasal line whitish; inner line dark, oblique and waved; outer dentate lunulate; submarginal 
pale, irregularly defined by dark shades; claviform stigma edged with black followed by a large bidentate 
white blotch; the upper stigmata' large, the orbicular white and conspicuous, the reniform ochreous in 
a pale ring; hindwing pale grey brown; the fringe whitish. Like the last species recorded only from the 
Punjab. Larva green irregularly marbled with white; dorsal line fine and pale; head and thoracic plate 
brown; feeding on oak in spring. 
D. leucosticta Moore (14 b). Forewing olive variegated in places with chalk white, the median and 
terminal areas darker olive, the lines and edges of stigmata black; inner line oblique and waved, outer 
dentate lunulate, conversely edged with white; the stigmata large with olive centres and white annuli; 
an irregular black blotch along submedian fold containing above a white spot contiguous to orbicular; 
terminal area with its inner edge lunulate, thickly and somewhat irregularly marked with black, preceded by 
a diffuse and irregular white band; dark marginal lunules; fringe olive; hindwing olive fuscous, paler 
in basal half; cellspot and outer line darker. The extent of the white variegation is inconstant. Tonglo, 
Sikkim. 
4. Genus: (Sfeiimfclitis Hmps. 
Tongue fully developed; frons smooth; palpi short, obliquely upturned, the third segment thrown 
forward; antennae of <$ subserrate, with sessile fascicles of cilia; head and thorax clothed with hair; 
the pectus hairy; abdomen with slight lateral tufts in $; forewing with apex prominent, the termen 
crenulate, obliquely curved; neuration normal. Type N. expulsa Guen. The genus contains only Austra¬ 
lian and Tasmanian species. 
N. sepultrix Guen. (emergens Walk.) (14 b). Forewing dark purplish grey with a plumbeous 
tinge; the central area, except along costa, dark brownish fuscous; inner and outer lines double, 
black, filled in with leaden purple; the basal and costal areas and the terminal space also of the same 
tint; the basal area varied with dark fuscous; the costal edge with double dark spots at the rise of 
the lines; the terminal area crossed by thick dark dashes between the veins, which towards ermen 
are streaked with pale; orbicular and claviform stigmata leaden purple, black-edged, the orbicular project¬ 
ing below median vein in the form of a lobe on base of vein 2, touching the claviform; reniform 
large, also dark purplish grey, but with the outer edge and the whole outer half just at centre white; 
a yellowish white patch between veins 5 and 7 touching outer line; subterminal line yellowish white, pre¬ 
ceded by a dark ferruginous shade; iyjnge leaden purple, with a bright pale line at base; hindwing bronzy 
brownish fuscous, paler towards base; a rpqnd dark cellspot; submarginal bluish white spots on veins 2 and 3 
which are darker basewards; in the form lutra Guen. (14c) the ground colour of the basal land post- 
median^ areas, the filling up of the two lines, and the costal streak are pinkish fulvous nstead oft 
purplish'leaden grey; as far as my knowledge goes, the examples of lutra are all HH, and those of se¬ 
pultrix all but Guenee in liis description of the latter says the sexes v are alike; the form spu- 
