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ELWESIA; AMATHES. By W. Warren. 
14. Genus: Elwesia Hmps. 
Tongue fully developed; frons smooth, bearing a thick tuft of hair; palpi with second segment 
obliquely upturned, stout and fringed with hair in front, the third long, porrect, smooth and spatulate; 
antennae of d thickened, with very slender tuberculate fascicles of cilia; prothorax with a strong erect crest; 
abdomen roughly haired, without crests; forewing with prominent acute apex, and strongly crenulate ter- 
men; neuration normal. Type E. diplostigma Hmps. 
diplostigma. E. diplostigma Hmps. (14 h. Forewing fawn colour, slightly washed with grey, especially in basal 
and terminal areas; lines pale, edged with deeper fawn colour; the inner and subterminal straight, the 
outer slightly out-curved in upper half, all in the main parallel to each other and to termen; a diffuse 
darker median shade also parallel; stigmata large edged with pale; the claviform rounded at extremity; 
the orbicular rounded, flattened above and below; the reniform oblong oval, reaching below median vein, 
and containing at lower end of cell a round blackish spot with pale edge; outer line followed by a 
double row of black dashes on the veins, which are all finely pale; a row of distinct and regular pale 
terminal lunules; fringe concolorous with terminal area; hindwing paler fawn colour, suffused with grey 
except along costa and termen. Sikkim. 
nigripalpis. E. nigripalpis spec. nov. (14h). Forewing fawn colour more or less dusted with grey; the lines blackish, 
diffuse; an obscure dark subbasal line; inner line out-curved at preceded by a brown shade; outer line 
outcurved above the middle with blackish teeth beyond on the veins; median shade diffuse, bent on med¬ 
ian vein, where it touches the reniform stigma; stigmata hardly visible, the reniform alone plainer, 
figure of 8 shaped, with dark centre and pale ring, not- reaching below median vein; subterminal line 
obscurely paler, waved, between slightly darker shades; a row of blackish terminal dots between the veins; 
fringe concolorous; hindwing dull greyish fuscous, with darker cellspot; underside greyer, less rufous than 
in diplostigma. with dark cellspots and diffuse dark outer line; palpi externally, sides of frontal tuft, 
and outside of forelegs black brown. Darjiling, Sikkim. 
pallida. E. pallida spec. nov. ( 14 h). Forewing pale greyish ochreous; the lines ferruginous, ill-defined; inner 
line waved, oblique inwards; median shade fine, dentate, also oblique inwards below middle; outer line 
lunulate dentate, oblique inwards above middle and more vertical below; the pale waved subterminal line 
hardly visible; a row of black terminal spots; fringe pale ochreous with a bright pale crenulate basal line; 
claviform stigma obsolete; orbicular a small ferruginous ring; reniform large, shaped as in diplostigma , 
but the upper half narrower; reaching below median and with a round black spot at end of cell; hindwing 
greyish fuscous, paler towards base, with dark cell spot; fringe fuscous, with a broad pale crenulate basal 
line; underside pale ochreous slightly speckled in parts with darker; both wings with large dark cellspot 
and diffuse outer line; face and shoulders quite pale ochreous, the thoracic crest and patagia somewliat- 
darker, the dorsum more rufous; palpi externally and forelegs browm. Darjiling, Sikkim. 
15. Genus: Amatlics Hbn. 
Tongue fully developed; frons smooth, with a tuft of hair; palpi obliquely porrect, longhaired 
in front, the third segment short and smooth; antennae of G typically ciliated; thorax and abdomen clothed 
with hair, but without distinct crests, the abdomen with lateral tufts, but not broadly flattened as in 
Conistra. Type A. litura Hbn. A genus mainly of palaearctic species, one only from India being referred 
here, besides a very doubtful species from Australia. 
phacosoma. A. phaeosoma Hmps. (14 h). Forewung pale luteous, slightly dusted with darker; all the markings 
indistinct; inner line waved, oblique; outer bent outwards below costa, lunulate dentate, forming dark 
teeth on veins, oblique inwards below vein 4; median shade bent- at middle; the subterminal pale and 
waved; a row of black dots before termen; fringe fuscous with pale basal line; orbicular stigma round, 
faintly out-lined with brown; reniform with pale annulus defined by brown, constricted at middle, its lower 
part- filled in with pale fuscous; hindwing fuscous, the costal area pale; fringe whitish varied with brown. 
Recorded only from the Punjab, N. India, and described from a single $. 
pulvis. A. pulvis Guen. Forewing blackish grey, heavily powdered with paler grey; all the usual lines 
and markings obscured and obsolete, except- the upper stigmata which are faintly discerned, being rather 
less dusted with pale grey, and encompassed by a slight grey outline; fringe concolorous; hindwing blackish 
grey, paler towards base, the pale fringe showing a dark dividing line; head, thorax, and abdomen concol¬ 
orous with wings; antennae of A annulated, ciliated, with bristles. Described by Guenee from a single 
S from New Holland. He compares it in size and shape to suspecta Hbn. of Europe; it- does not appear 
to have been identified since. Possibly, in this, as in certain other cases, the N. H. stood for New Hamp- 
