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DESCRIPTIONS
OF
NEW INDIAN LEPIDOPTEROUS INSECTS
FROM THE
COLLECTION OF THE LATE MR. W. 8. ATKINSON, M.A, F.LS, &e,
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, BENGAL.
RHOPALOCERA,
BY
WILLIAM C. HEWITSON, F.LS.
HETEROCERA
(SPHINGID.E—HEPIALIDA),
BY (ieee ete eomeeerra FREDERIC MOORE, F.ZS. eEvc., ‘a, CH = ASSISTANT CURATOR, INDIA MUSEUM, LONDON. NG WITH AN INTRODUCTORY
NOTICE,
BY ARTHUR GROTH, F.Z.S. &c.,
HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL.
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C A. Cau i A: PUBLISHED BY THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. LONDON: PRINTED BY TAYLOR AND FRANCIS, RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET
1879.
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SYSTEMATIC LIST OF CONTENTS.
PART IL.
RHOPALOCERA. By W. C. Hewson.
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HETEROCERA. By F. Moone.
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INTRODUCTION.
At the Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, held on November 7th, 1877, the Chairman, Mr. W. T. Blanford, F.R.S., and Vice-President of the Society, announced as follows :—
‘That arrangements had been made for publishing an extra volume, containing the descriptions by Messrs. Moore and Hewitson of the new species of Lepidoptera in the late Mr. Atkinson’s collections, as announced at the March Meeting. It was proposed that the volume should be in Four Parts, quarto. The first Part would be put in hand at once; and the remaining three Parts would be completed in the course of the next two years. The work would be illustrated by coloured Plates. Owing to the expense, 225 copies * only would be printed, and would be available to Members by purchase after presentations had been made to the Societies interested in Natural History exchanging with the
Society.”
The scheme of publication here described was an enlargement of that which, on the suggestion of Mr. F. Moore of the India Museum, I had proposed to the Society early in 1877. The Society’s ‘ Proceedings’ for March of that year, to which Mr. Blanford makes reference, record the letter submitting my recommendation, as well as the Council’s action
thereon.
Briefly, my letter stated that Mr. Atkinson’s magnificent collection of Lepidoptera, specially rich as it was known to be in Heterocera, had been purchased by Mr. Hewitson, and had since gone to Germany, but that Mr. F. Moore had made arrangements with the
* Afterwards extended to 525 copies, of which 300 were to be published with uncoloured plates. The work. moreover, will consist of Three Parts only.
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purchaser to examine the novelties among the Nocturnals, and had offered to describe them in the Society’s Journal if the Council would find room for his paper. It was estimated that the new species would number 650, thus ranged—
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and that they might be described and illustrated by uncoloured figures of selected types at no great cost. Such a paper I observed might be published as an extra number of the Journal, with a brief Introductory Memoir, which I would supply, on the plan fol- lowed in the case of the late Mr. Blyth’s Burmah Catalogues.
The promptitude with which the Council adopted the above recommendation showed their appreciation of the motives which led me to make it. The Society could not offer a more appropriate tribute to the memory of a distinguished Member and office-bearer than by securing for their own publications the record of his many and valuable contributions to the Lepidopterous fauna of India.
The larger scheme of publication adopted by the Council, and their sanction of the use of coloured Plates, enabled me to enlist the ever-willing services of the late Mr. Hewitson in the undertaking. On learning that a quarto Plate could be placed at his disposal, he at once offered to figure four of the new species of Diurnals which he had obtained from the Atkinson collection, and to republish with the figures the descriptions which he had already given of them in the ‘ Entomologists’ Monthly Magazine’ (Dec. 1876).
Plate I. of this work has now a melancholy interest, inasmuch as its proofs were corrected on the dying bed of this enthusiastic Lepidopterist. His last note to me in con- nexion with the proofs is dated May 23rd, five days only before his death.
I proceed to give a short personal notice of the assiduous Collector whose successful labours in the field will be found recorded and illustrated by such competent hands in the following pages.
Wi.uiAM STEPHEN ATKINSON was the eldest son of the Rev. Thomas D. Atkinson, of Chesterton, in Suffolk, where he was born in September 1820. He was educated at home; and his boyish tastes for the study of nature seem to have been developed on Cannock Chase, on his father becoming Vicar of Rugeley. It was here that he commenced what gradually became a very complete collection of British Lepidoptera, including the Tineina, which latter were with him favourite objects of study.
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He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1839, and obtained a Scholarship, passing out as 26th Wrangler in 1843. After some further stay at Cambridge, during which he occupied himself in tutorial duties, he came to London to study for the profession of Civil Engineer ; but on being offered the appointment of Principal of the Martiniere College, he went out to Calcutta in November 1854, having previously married Miss Montford, daughter of the Vicar of East Winch, in Norfolk. He joined the Asiatic Society in July 1855, and towards the close of the same year succeeded me as its Secretary, continuing to hold that office till 1864.
The new and rich fauna which now offered itself at once fascinated him; and as I had then a considerable collection of Bengal Lepidoptera, consisting for the most part of the larger Diurnals and Nocturnals obtained by the late Mr. Robert Frith, he was a frequent visitor at my house. Sharing as he did my interest in the transformations of the many species which could be observed in the neighbourhood of Allipore, the breeding-cages and the progress made by my native artist * in figuring the several stages of the imago had for him a special attraction. His experience as a collector, and consequent familiarity with the larvee of British species, gave a point to his observations and criticisms which often proved of the greatest assistance to me.
He had not been many months in Calcutta before he reported to Mr. Stainton his first discoveries of Tineina, a group which no Indian entomologist had yet ventured to touch. His practised eyes detected traces of a miner on the leaf of Bauhinia purpurea; and Lithocolletis Bauhinie was, I, believe, the first Microlepidopterous species that ever reached this country from India. It was described in 1856, with two other species, by Mr. Stainton in the Trans. Entom. Soc., new ser. vol. ii. p. 8301. Myr. Atkinson at the same time became a Member of the Entomological Society.
How assiduously and with what success he pursued his researches in this new and difficult field of Indian Entomological research, may be gathered from the opening remarks of a later paper by Mr. Stainton when describing, in 1858, twenty-five species of Indian Microlepidoptera (Trans. Entom. Soc. new ser. vol. v. p. 111). One of these species, the type of a new genus of Elachistide named after its discoverer, Atkinsonia clerodendronella, I hope to see reproduced, as this work proceeds, from a drawing in my own possession.
In a third paper of Mr. Stainton’s, describing and figuring nine exotic species of the genus Gracilaria (Trans. Ent. Soc. 3rd ser. vol. i. p. 291, 1862), I find that five species were
* In one of his letters to Mr. Stainton I find him paying the following just tribute to the drawings of this artist, the late Munshi Zynulabdin, who for many successive years worked in Mr. Frith’s and my employ :—“ His execution is as good as any I ever saw; in fact it could hardly be better; but he has never drawn under a micro-
scope.”
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contributed by Mr. Atkinson. Zeller’s ‘ Monograph of the Crambide,’ * again, published in 1863, records the following five species obtained from the same source :—
Scirpophaga auriflua. Schcenobius minutellus. gilviberbis. Calamotropha Atkinsoni. Schcenobius punctellus.
It must be borne in mind that all the specimens sent home by Mr. Atkinson were bred by himself, and that for most of them the larve were described; and I cannot here refrain from extracting from one of his letters to Mr. Stainton (July 11, 1856) a passage which sets forth some of the difficulties which will always beset the tropical Micro- lepidopterist :—
“The smaller Tineina are especially difficult to manage: one’s fingers and every thing else are sticky with damp and heat; and one can hardly live, except under a punkah. You can imagine, therefore, the difficulty of pinning creatures of the size of Nepticula, and will not be surprised to hear that I have failed entirely in pinning two small species of Phyllocnistis, and several other things of the like size. The Indian Tineina are certainly much smaller, on the average, than those of Europe, which is singular, considering the luxuriance of vegetation, and in marked contrast with the large size of the predominant Diurnal Lepidoptera.”
Mr. Atkinson generally employed the short autumn vacations in excursions to places within easy. reach of Calcutta; and in 1860 he paid his first visit to Darjiling. It was in this year that he was appointed Director of Public Instruction under the Bengal Govern- ment, a post which he held till he finally quitted India. I think I may say that the bulk of his fine collection of Moths were captured during his repeated visits to Darjiling. His wife had preceded him thither, and by simply showing a lamp against a white wall had been in the habit every evening of taking numerous novelties. The exceptional richness in Nocturnals of Mr. Atkinson’s cabinets is due entirely to the systematic way in which, thus aided by his wife, he attracted and collected his own specimens, instead of relying on the casual captures of native collectors. When at Darjiling myself, in 1864, I witnessed the success of his ambush on more than one occasion.
I regret that his widow has not been able to find any notes of Mr. Atkinson’s tour in the Sikkim Hills, made in company with the late Dr. Thomas Anderson, of the Calcutta Botanic Garden. He often spoke to me of this expedition, and of the useful information which it obtained for him in regard to the localities and elevations in which the numerous so-called “ Darjiling” Lepidoptera are met with. The vague indications of locality so com- monly furnished by museum-labels were highly obnoxious to him; and I have in my
* ¢Chilonidarum et Crambidarum Genera et Species.’
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‘possession copy of revised localities which he compiled for the improvement of any further edition of Horsfield and Moore’s India-Museum Catalogues. I have now before me a memorandum-book kindly lent to me by Mrs. Atkinson, in which I find noted for Kashmir, which he visited in 1874, just the particulars which I should have expected in his Sikkim diary.
Mr. Atkinson resigned the Secretaryship of the Asiatic Society in 1864, and in the following year was elected one of its Vice-Presidents and nominated a Trustee of the New Indian Museum. His official duties necessarily occupied the greater part of his time; and the want of leisure as well as of books of reference prevented him from venturing on the description of any of the novelties which now filled his drawers. He was, however, in frequent correspondence with Mr. F. Moore, who, in his paper “On the Lepidopterous Insects of Bengal” (P. Z. S. 1865, p. 755), described, but did not figure, three new species of Saturniide sent home from Darjiling by Mr. Atkinson. These were Cricula drepanoides, Saturnia anna, and Loepa sikkima—the two last having the provisional names assigned to them by Mr. Atkinson. Another fine species of the same group, Loepa miranda, Atkinson, was described by Mr. Moore in Trans. Entom. Soc. ser. 3, vol. ii. p. 424, 1865; but neither of this has any figure yet been published.
Mr. F. Walker’s Catalogue of the Heterocerous Lepidoptera in the British Museum contains in its Supplements (Parts 31-35, 1865-66) several new species sent home by Mr. Atkinson to be described and named. As the types of these were, I believe, returned to India by Mr. Walker, it is to be feared they are lost to this country, though duplicates, where they existed, will probably be found among the specimens which he told me he had presented, before leaving Calcutta, to the Indian Museum.
In Hewitson’s ‘ Exotic Butterflies’ I find figures only of the three following species of Mr. Atkinson’s :—
Vol. ii. 1862-66. Erycinipa. . . Dodona dipoea. Darjiling. Hesperia phenicis. India *.
Vol. iv. 1867-71. Husrere | * , a : Hesperia eltola. Darjiling.
It was not until 1865, when Mr. Atkinson came to England on three months’ leave, that he made Mr. Hewitson’s aquaintance. Of the other novelties from Darjiling described by the latter in this work, I find Myrina symira figured in Supplementary Plate III. 6 of Part VIII. (and last) of his ‘ Illustrations of Diurnal Lepidoptera,’ which has been published since his death. The two Hesperide (/. cephala and H. cerata) were doubtless reserved to be figured in another Part of the same work which he proposed to devote to this family.
* Identical, Mr. Moore tells me, with a Hesperia which both Mr. Atkinson and I had reared on the Date-tree at Allipore.
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As Mr. Hewitson mentioned twelve species of Rhopalocera in the Atkinson collection as being hitherto unknown, there yet remain for description four species, to be dealt with by the British Museum authorities, into whose hands Mr. Hewitson’s unique collection has passed.
The first original descriptions by Mr. Atkinson were undertaken on the return of Major Sladen’s expedition from Yunan. His paper, which was communicated to the Zoological Society by Dr. J. Anderson in 1871*, described three new species of Diurnal Lepidoptera from Western Yunan, collected by Dr. Anderson in 1868. These species were Aimona lena, Zophoessa andersont, and Plesioneura liliana, all of them being
well figured.
In 1878 Mr. Atkinson contributed two more papers to the same Society. One of them + described and figured a new and beautiful species of Butterfly which had been sent to him by Dr. Lidderdale from Bhutan, and which, in the belief that it would form a new genus intermediate between Thais and the Chinese Sericinus, he named Bhutanitis lidderdalii. THe was not aware, nor was I till Mr. Moore called my attention to the fact, that a closely allied species had already been described by Blanchard in the ‘Comptes Rendus,’ 1871, p. 809, and constituted the type of his new genus Armandia, named after the Abbé Armand David, who had sent it home from Moupin. Blanchard’s genus will take precedence of Bhutanitis, owing to the delay which occurred in Mr. Atkinson’s publication of his description of Armandia lidderdalii, which seems to have come into his hands in May 1868. A figure of the Abbé David's species, Armandia thaitina, will be found in the second livraison of the ‘Etudes d’Entomologie, printed in November 1876 (but apparently not published), at M. Charles Oberthiir’s press at Rennes. A comparison of the figures leaves no room to doubt the close affinity of the two species, which are both from high elevations, and will probably be found to meet each other on the slopes of the mountains which divide Assam from Western China. It will be interesting to ascertain the range eastward of A. lidderdalii, and to learn whether its larva feeds on the Aristolochia, which the Abbé} tells us is the food-plant both of Sericinus and Armandia thaitina, the two forms which, he adds, replace Thais in Europe.
Mr. Atkinson’s third paper), contributed to the Zoological Society in the same year, described and figured two new species of Butterflies from the Andaman Islands. These were Papilio mayo, a fine species of the Polymnestor group, and Euplwa andamanensis. He confined himself to bare descriptions, though no one was more competent than he was to offer observations on the distribution of allied species, and the isolation of these two
* P.Z.8. 1871, p. 215. ¢ ‘Journal de mon 3"° Voyage d’Exploration’ &e. Hachette, 1875. eb aie oe Lote ape oO: S P.Z.8. 1873, p. 736.
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forms of genera, so abundant in Indian species, is a fact which affords room for much
interesting comment.
This is not the place in which to speak of Mr. Atkinson’s career as a public officer. His duties of superintending the Education Department in Bengal were highly interesting to him, and such as previous training well qualified him to discharge efficiently. When he left India on furlough in the early part of 1875, he hardly calculated on returning to that country, and brought home with him his entire collections. He intended to remain in England for three years, whether his term of office was renewed * by Government or other- wise, and to devote his furlough to working out the new species which form the subject of this paper. But before settling down to this task, he was advised to recruit his health by an excursion on the Continent, and he resolved to spend his first winter in Italy. He called on me in the autumn to announce his plans, and to inform me of an arrangement which he had fortunately been able to make for leaving undisturbed within Custom-House limits the numerous cases containing his collections. He was then in the best of spirits, and dwelt much on the pleasant prospect of opening his cases on his return to England in the spring. But this prospect was not to be realized. He was attacked by pneumonia at Rome in January 1876, and died, after a few days’ illness, on the 15th of that month.
It will be borne in mind that the figures here published represent but a small proportion of the new species of Heterocera described by Mr. Moore, who, being limited to a certain number of Plates, had necessarily to select the species to be reproduced in them, and who has exercised his discretion wisely in figuring the more typical forms in each family. For the Lithosiide he has been able to dispense with figures altogether, as he has so recently revised the family in a well-illustrated paper contributed to the Zoological Society in January 1876, in which appear many of the forms of the Atkinson Collection.
I have to acknowledge the assistance rendered to me by Mr. Stainton in kindly placing at my disposal several letters addressed to him by Mr. Atkinson on his first arrival in India.
ARTHUR GROTE.
London, July 1879.
* This term was renewed, I learn from Mrs. Atkinson; but the orders of Government did not reach this country
till after his death.
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DESCRIPTIONS
OF
INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA RHOPALOCERA
FROM THE
COLLECTION OF THE LATE MR. W. 8S. ATKINSON.
BY
W. C. HEWITSON, E.LS., F.Z.S., etc.
Family NYMPHALID &.
Genus ADOLIAS.
ADOLIAS SATROPACES. (Plate I. figs. 6, 7, 8.)
Adolias satropaces, Hewitson, Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, 1876, p. 150.
Male. Upperside dark brown; anterior wing projecting at the apex, as in A. cocytus ; marked in the cell by a black line and by two large pale spots bordered with black, by a spot and two short black lines below these, and by another pale undefined spot near the apex; the outer margin, except at the apex, rufous-grey ; posterior wing with the outer half of the same colour.
Underside ochreous-yellow ; anterior wing with the spots in the cell and a linear sub- marginal band of brown ; posterior wing with some scarcely seen spots and bands before and after the middle.
Female pale rufous-brown ; anterior wing with the spots in and below the cell as in the male: marked beyond the middle by six transparent spots, five in a transverse band, and one near the apex; crossed near the outer margin from the apex by a dark brown band, which is continued to the middle of the inner margin of the posterior wing. Posterior wing with two spots in the cell and a series of submarginal lunular spots of brown.
2 SATYRIDA.
Underside as above, except that it is orange-yellow, and that the submarginal band has its origin at a different part of the apex, and is scarcely seen on the posterior wing.
Expanse, ¢ 2-85, 2? 3345 inches.
Hab. Moulmein. In coll. W. C. Hewitson.
Note——The female of this species very closely resembles A. aphidas.
Family SATYRID &. Genus DEBIS.
DEBIS SERBONIS. (Plate I. figs. 4, 5.)
Debis serbonis, Hewitson, Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, 1876, p. 151.
Upperside rufous-brown ; both wings with two submarginal brown lines; anterior wing with two indistinct pale spots on the costal margin beyond the middle; posterior wing with a series of three black eye-like spots, and an ocellus marked with white near the anal angle.
Underside rufous; anterior wing with a zigzag brown line and a large pale spot, bor- dered on both sides with brown within the cell; the discocellular nervure brown: crossed beyond the middle by a dark brown band, bounded outwardly, near the costal margin, by a dull white spot; a white spot near the apex, and below two small ocelli, one of which is incomplete, followed by a band of brown, and a submarginal band also brown: posterior wing crossed by two brown bands, one before, the other at the middle; a brown line at the end of the cell; a series of six ocelli, the first and fifth larger and more distinct than the rest; the outer margin and a line near it black.
Expanse 23° inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. W. C. Hewitson.
Genus ZOPHOESSA.
ZOPHOESSA ATKINSONIA. (Plate I. figs. 2, 3.)
Zophoessa atkinsonia, Hewitson, Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, 1876, p. 151.
Upperside: male dark brown, rufous towards the base ; both wings with a submarginal black line: anterior wing marked by several rufous-orange spots; two in the cell, a quadrifid band beyond these, three (one bifid) near the apex, and five below the middle: posterior wing with a rufous-orange band near the outer margin marked by five black spots; a sub- marginal rufous line.
Underside rufous brown ; a spot in the cell, which is bordered on both sides with brown, and a continuous band beyond the middle, sinuated and bordered inwardly with dark brown, both yellow ; a series of four small white spots near the apex, and two submarginal linear brown bands: posterior wing tinted with green near the base, marked by two short bands of yellow, followed by a broader band of the same colour; the outer half of the wing rufous-brown, marked by five black ocelli, with rufous iris and pupil of blue: a submarginal band of white.
Expanse 2,5 inches.
Hab. Darjilnmg. In coll. W. C. Hewitson.
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ERYCINIDA.—LYCANIDA.
Family ERYCINID &.
Genus DODONA.
Dopona DEODATA. (Plate I. fig. 1.)
Dodona deodata, Hewitson, Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, 1876, p. 151.
Upperside brown. Both wings crossed near the middle by a broad common band of white. Anterior wing with the base pale rufous-brown crossed by a band of paler colour ; the outer half dark brown marked by ten white spots; four in a band from the costal margin to the anal angle, and two bands of three spots each, near the apex. Posterior wing with the inner margin broadly rufous-brown, crossed by a band of paler colour, the outer margin dark brown, traversed by two bands of white spots.
Underside as above, except that several of the small white spots, near the apex of the anterior wing, meet and form a band, that there is a submarginal white line, and two white spots near the anal angle, and a linear band leading to two black spots near the outer margin of the posterior wing, and that the lobe at the anal angle is bordered above with orange-yellow marked by two black spots.
Expanse 14% inch.
Hab. Moulmein. In coll. W. C. Hewitson.
Family LYCHNIDZ.
Genus MYRINA.
MYRINA SYMIRA.
Myrina symira, Hewitson, Entomologist’s Mouthly Magazine, 1876, p. 152.
Upperside brown, tinted with purple, the outer margin dark brown: posterior wing with the anal angle dark brown: two tails, a long one in continuation of the first median branch and a short one inside of it.
Underside rufous-orange: posterior wing with a black spot crowned with silvery blue at the base of each tail.
Expanse 15/5 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. W. C. Hewitson.
This species will be figured in the ‘Illustrations of Diurnal Lepidoptera,’ Lycenide, part vill.
4 HESPERIDA.
Family HESPERID&.
Genus HESPERIA.
HESPERIA CEPHALA.
Hesperia cephala, Hewitson, Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, 1876, p. 152.
Upperside dark brown, the fringe brown and white alternately ; anterior wing with three transparent white spots and an opaque spot near the inner margin—one at the middle bifid, one at the apex trifid, and one below it ; posterior wing with two transparent spots near the middle.
Underside: anterior wing as above, except that the costal margin from the base to the transparent spot, and the outer margin from the apex to the middle, are yellow; posterior wing yellow, with a black spot near the base, a third white spot adjoining the transparent white spots, which are bordered below with rufous-brown, the outer margin rufous-brown.
Expanse 15% inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. W. C. Hewitson.
HESPERIA CERATA.
Hesperia cerata, Hewitson, Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, 1876, p. 152.
Upperside dark brown: anterior wing with four transparent white spots; one in the cell sinuated on both sides, two below this between the branches of the median nervure, and one near the apex bifid: posterior wing with a central series of four or five indistinct white spots.
Underside as above, except that both wings have a submarginal series of pale spots, that the posterior wing has a white spot near the base, and a transverse central series of six distinct white spots.
Expanse 15% inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. W. C. Hewitson.
Genus PTERYGOSPIDEA.
PTERYGOSPIDEA BADIA.
Pterygospidea badia, Hewitson, Annals & Mag. of Natural History, 1877, xx. p. 322.
Upperside dark brown: anterior wing with a central narrow band and four white spots near the apex (one of which is very minute and considerably below the rest) transparent white: posterior wing with the fringe yellow.
Underside as above, except that the posterior wing has a central yellow spot. Antenne with a white ring near the point.
Expanse 2;'5 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. W. C. Hewitson.
DESCRIPTIONS
OF
INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA
FROM THE
COLLECTION OF THE LATE MR. W. 8. ATKINSON.
BY
FREDERIC MOORE, F.ZS. erc.,
ASSISTANT CURATOR, INDIA MUSEUM, LONDON.
Family SPHINGIDA*.
Genus APOCALYPSIS, Butler. Apocalypsis, Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. ix. pt. x. p. 641 (1876).
Allied to Huryglottis; similar in pattern, but at once distinguished by the much smoother thorax, shorter and more slender antenne, more prominent and less crested head.
APOCALYPSIS VELOX. Apocalypsis velox, Butler, 1. c. p. 641 (1876).
Fore wing long and pointed, sepia-brown, with the veins, a chain-like discal excavated transverse band, and some oblique lines connecting its outer border with the apices of the radial veins pale brown ; an oblique white streak from the apex to the upper radial: hind wing smoky brown, the costal and abdominal areas paler; a basal hairy patch, two diffused abbreviated discal bands distinct towards abdominal area, and a broad outer border deep brown, darkest at the anal angle; margin blackish, the fringe and a diffused narrower streak at anal angle white. Body smoky brown, head and collar darker; a central longitudinal
* The new species of Sphingidse were handed over to Mr. Butler for description, he being then engaged in writing
a revision of that family. They therefore appear here as described by that author.—F. M.
) SPHINGID.
streak, the borders of the thorax, and a series of lateral abdominal transverse bands black- brown ; lateral margins of head, fringe of tegule, back of thorax, and front margins of the abdominal segments white; antenne whitish, with testaceous serrations. Wings below smoky brown: fore wing with the internal area whitish; base of discoidal cell testaceous ; a white apical streak, less distinct than above: hind wing with the base and abdominal area whitish ; two diffused ill-defined transverse bars; margin as above. Body below smoky brown ; palpi, sides and hinder part of pectus, and centre of venter white.
Expanse 6,2; inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus AMBULYX, Walker. Ambulyx, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. viii. p. 120.
AMBULYX FLORALIS.
Ambulyx floralis, Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1x. pt. x. p. 689 (1876).
Male. Shining bronzy clay-colour: fore wing with the apical half of costal area, the central and interno-discal areas washed with green ; subbasal area dusky olivaceous, limited externally by an oblique olive line, a second parallel line crossing the wing over the base of the first median branch ; three ill-defined oblique waved lines, the outermost undulated, crossing the disk ; between the second and third a very indistinct diffused sinuous line; inner margin and the lines as they approach it blackish; a white-pupilled round black spot on the lower discocellular ; a tuft of rose-red hairs at the base of inner margin: hind wing with the basal two thirds rose-red ; costal area whitish ; external third washed with green, especially towards apex, brownish towards the anal border; fringe for the most part white. Head and collar brown; tegule and abdomen washed with green; antennz testaceous, pec- tinations brown ; anterior tibiz and tarsi above brown. Wings below much paler, testaceous, washed with pale green: fore wing with the interno-discoidal area rose-red ; costal area greenish ; a transverse brown litura beyond the cell; a transverse oblique nearly straight white-bordered olive discal line; a zigzag line nearer to the outer margin, becoming black towards inner margin; a submarginal series of spots, only distinct and blackish at the ex- ternal angle: hind wings crossed by three parallel white-bordered olive lines; a squamose brown submarginal spot near anal angle. Body below whity brown; palpi, pectus, and legs slightly dusky.
Female altogether less lively in colour, the green colouring less perceptible.
Expanse, 3 248; inches, 2 444 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll, Dr. Staudinger.
Allied to A. superba, but smaller, and clouded with bronze and green
DILUDIA.—DAPHNUSA.
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Genus DILUDIA, Grote. Diludia, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. v. p. 188.
DILUDIA TRANQUILLARIS. Diludia tranquillaris, Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. pt. x. p. 641 (1876).
Female. Nearly allied to D. grandis, slightly smaller, the markings much less strongly defined, the central irregular transverse congregation of parallel bands broader; a black band only visible on costal area; the apical patch more uniformly dark grey, much narrower and longer, oblique behind, more narrowly black-bordered ; hind wing with only one abbreviated black zigzag band across the grey anal patch. Body slightly, browner in tint ; head not varied with white; abdomen with lateral diffused brown longitudinal bands in- stead of the black spots. Wings below more uniform in colour, the transverse bands less strongly marked, narrower, and nearer to the outer border; the central blackish band of fore wing obsolete.
Expanse 55%; inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus DAPHNUSA, Walker. Daphnusa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. vin. p. 237.
DAPHNUSA PORPHYRIA. Daphnusa porphyria, Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. pt. x. p. 640 (1876).
Fore wing reddish brown, the basal area transversely marked with an irregularly arched whitish line; external area rather darker, marked from near external angle to a little below apical angle by a diffused whitish curved streak ; a subapical sepia-brown excavated qua- drangular patch ; apex grey, with a large semicircular sepia-brown spot bordered externally by a white lunule on the outer margin ; a broad central red-brown band, bordered on each side by a whitish streak, its outer line angular, much broader in front than behind, trans- versely clouded with grey, its outer third beyond the discoidal cell darker; the base otf second median interspace and the discocellulars blackish piceous; two dissimilar whitish- edged black spots on the veins near external angle: hind wings pale brown, with two very indistinct discal streaks, clearly discernible upon the abdominal area; outer border rather broadly smoky brown; costa whitish; anal angle marked with a greyish and ferruginous dash, upon which is a black spot; a nearly marginal grey line. Body pale brown, varied with dark brown; a black spot on the crest of the head. Fore wing below greyish brown ; apical half of costa and internal area pale greyish; apical markings as above, but redder : hind wing pale rosy greyish, paler on the abdominal area; three angulated ferruginous diffused discal lines; outer border rather broadly pale ferruginous, fringe dark piceous. Body below pale reddish brown; palpi chocolate-brown.
Expanse 253; inches.
flab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Allied to D. colligata.
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Genus MACROGLOSSA, Ochs. Macroglossa, Ochs. Kur. Schmett. iv. p. 41.
MACROGLOSSA LEPCHA.
Macroglossa lepcha, Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. pt. x. p. 635 (1876).
Allied to M. obscuriceps, from which it differs in having the head and thorax olive- green, the black band across the abdomen feebly developed, the fore wings narrower, the central greyish band, which is scarcely distinguishable in MZ. obscuriceps, quite obsolete, the subbasal lines bounding it internally converted into a black band, which is broad on the inner margin and tapers towards the costa. Wings below with the transverse lines less distinctly marked; the internal orange area brighter.
Expanse 2 inches.
Hab. Calcutta. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Allied to M. avicula and M. bombylans, Boisd. Spec. Gén. Lép. Hét. Sphinges, p. 334.
Family ZGERIID &.
Genus ANGERIA, Fadr. Aigeria, Fabr., Lliger’s Mag. vi. p. 287 (1807).
JEGERIA FLAVA, 0. sp.
Wings transparent: fore wing with narrow borders and discocellular band and veins at apex cupreous-brown, base and apex yellowish ; cilia of hind wing brown. Antenne yel- lowish, tip brown; thorax and abdomen above brown, each segment with a yellow band ; anal tuft yellow ; palpi, collar, streaks on vertex, and sides of thorax yellow; legs yellow, with brown bands.
Expanse 38; inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
/EGERIA TRICINCTA, 0 sp.
Male. Wings transparent: fore wings with purplish-brown borders and a band at end of cell; transparent parts with steel-blue reflections: hind wing with narrow purple-brown borders and discocellular streak and cilia. Antenne greyish at base ; body and antenne purple-brown ; palpi beneath, collar, streak on sides of thorax, a basal, medial, and anal band on abdomen, and streak on side chrome-yellow ; legs purple-brown, fore tarsi white, middle and hind tarsi and hind tibiz fringed with white.
Expanse inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
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PRAMILA, nov. gen.
Allied to Sphecia; wings shorter: fore wing narrow at base, broad at apex ; no recur- rent vein: hind wing broad; no subcostal branch; discocellulars slightly oblique, lower the shortest ; one radial ; upper median veinlets straight. ‘Thorax broad ; abdomen tapering to tip; head small; palpi slender, ascending, hairy; antenne slender at base, biserrate ; legs long, femora and tarsi squamous ; tibie slightly hairy, spurred.
PRAMILA ATKINSONI, n. sp. (Plate II. fig. 1.)
Female. Wings transparent; costa, cilia, and a narrow discocellular streak on hind wing blackish-brown: fore wing with a broad orange-red black-bordered discocellular spot.
Body and antenne bluish-black ; legs brown; palpi beneath and tarsal joints fringed with white.
Expanse 13 inch. Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus SCIAPTERON, Staudinger.
SCIAPTERON SIKKIMA, n. sp.
Male. Fore wing dark purple-black, with steel-blue reflections: hind wing transparent ; a narrow costal and outer border and discocellular streak blackish-purple ; cilia cupreous brown. Thorax blackish-purple, with a bright chrome-yellow streak on each side; head, antennee, abdomen, and legs black above and slightly streaked with yellow beneath; fore tarsi white ; tarsi of middle and hind legs spotted with white.
Expanse 1,2; inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
TRILOCHANA, nov. gen.
Fore wing long, narrow ; costa slightly convex at base and apex, exterior margin short, oblique ; subcostal vein four-branched, the fourth also forked at half its length; three radials; median vein two-branched, branches starting from angle of lower discocellular : hind wing broad, exterior margin very convex below apex; subcostal vein extending direct to apex; discocellulars very oblique; one radial; median vein three-branched, two arising together at lower end of cell, the third at a distance from its end; one submedian and two interior veins. Body long; head broad ; eyes projecting laterally ; thorax long, projecting much beyond base of wings; abdomen attenuated towards base, tuft fan-like; fore legs hairy ; mid legs. squamous, slightly hairy at sides; hind femora squamous, tibiz clothed with dense and long hairs; antenne long, minutely serrate.
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TRILOCHANA SCOLIOIDES, n. sp. (Plate IT. fig. 2.)
Upperside shining olive-green ; a short narrow transparent longitudinal basal streak on fore wing, and two triangular streaks on hind wing. Body dark purple-brown ; abdominal segments edged with grey; last two segments on sides and beneath and large anal tuft red ; tuft fringed dorsally with black hairs; antenne dark brown; legs black, hind tarsi yellow- ish; palpi purple-brown. Underside as above; costa of fore wing slightly steel-blue.
Expanse 1 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus MELITTIA, Hida. Melittia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 128.
MELITTIA NEPCHA, 0. sp.
Margins and veins purple-black ; apical border narrow, speckled with a few purple- grey scales; apical area large, traversed by four veins and partly by the subcostal upper branch ; basal area traversed by median vein only; abdominal area fringed with golden hairs ; thorax greenish in front, with a collar composed of a few steel-blue scales ; hind part of thorax golden yellow; abdomen above bluish-black, with narrow golden-yellow segmental bands, yellow beneath; palpi, pectus, fore legs, mid femora and tibia pure white fringed with black; hind legs densely clothed with long black hairs, femora above fringed with long red and white hairs ; antenne black above, pectinated surface red.
Exp. 13 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
MELITTIA NEWARA, 0. sp.
Male. Costal margins and veins purplish-black; apical band of fore wing narrow, speckled with pale purple scales; cilia brown; apical area traversed by four veins, basal area by median vein and a short recurrent vein from discocellulars ; abdominal area and base of fore wings fringed with yellow hairs. Thorax bright golden-yellow, top slightly purple-black ; abdomen bluish-black ; palpi, pectus, fore legs, and femur and tibia of mid legs yellow fringed with black ; hind legs densely clothed with long purplish-black hairs, femora fringed above with yellow hairs, and a few red hairs radiating at lower joint ; abdo- men beneath yellow ; antenne purple-black above, pectinated portion reddish.
Expanse 1,45 inch.
Hab. Dayjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
AGARISTIDA. dist
Family AGARISTID &,
Genus EUSEMIA, Dalman. Eusemia, Dalman, Vet. Akad. Handl. (1824).
EUSEMIA AUSTENI, n. sp.
Male. Upperside black: fore wing with yellowish cream-coloured spots, two being dis- posed within the cell, a round one below it and two beyond, also a submarginal curved series of small spots; some bluish-grey scales at end of cell: hind wing orange-yellow, a black basal patch, a broad irregular marginal band, a large geminate spot above anal angle, and a small spot at end of cell; some white apical spots within marginal band. Thorax black, with a pale lemon-yellow narrow stripe on each side; abdomen orange-yellow, banded with black.
Underside as above; middle of thorax orange-yellow ; legs and antenne black.
Expanse 24 inches.
Hab. Khasia Hills. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
The nearest ally to this species is H. villicoides, Butler, from Japan.
NIK AA, nov. gen,
Fore wing long, narrow ; costa and hind margin nearly straight ; apex and posterior angle slightly pointed; outer margin convex, very oblique; discoidal cell dilated its entire length ; discocellulars bent inwards; subcostal vein five-branched, second to fifth on a foot-stalk arising from end of cell; one radial from upper angle of first discocellular ; median vein four- branched, upper three arising from lower angles of cell and contiguous at their base, fourth from half the length of cell. Hind wing trigonal, apex and anal angle rounded, abdominal margin short; cell broad; discocellulars slightly bent inwards; subcostal vein two-branched at end of cell; median four-branched, disposed as in fore wing ; one submedian and an inter- nal vein. Body short, extending to anal angle; head small; palpi projecting beyond head, ascending, slightly pilose, broad and flat, third joint rather long; legs long, squamose ; middle and hind tibie with short spurs; antennz setaceous, thickest at base.
Type WV. longipennis (Hypercompa longipennis, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. iii. p. 655). Hab. Upper Kumaon.
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Family ZYGENIDZ.
Genus NORTHIA, Walker. Northia, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. i. p. 141.
(Syn. ZAMA, H.-Sch.)
NORTHIA KHASIANA, 0. sp.
Black: wings subhyaline, blackish; veins black; margins and cilia black; hind margin of fore wing and anterior margin of hind wing fuliginous: antenne greenish black ; legs black.
Expanse | inch.
Hab. Khasia Hills. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus SYNTOMIS, Ochs. Syntomis, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. i. p. 103.
SYNTOMIS NEWARA, N. sp.
Near S. multiguttata. Yellowish hyaline; veins and cilia blackish: fore wing with a brownish-black narrow streak at end of the cell, short curved band on apex, and small square spot on outer margin between lower median veinlets: antenne black ; body brownish-black ; front of head, collar, streaks on thorax, and rather broad bands on abdomen yellow, tip blackish ; legs brown above, yellowish beneath.
Expanse 1,3; inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
SYNTOMIS LEPCHA, 0. sp.
Near S. multiguttata. Yellowish hyaline; veins and cilia black: fore wings with a broad, black, elongated hexagonal streak at end of cell, and a short apical marginal band of the same width, which stops at and is slightly dentate on the upper median veinlet: hind wing with decreasing apical marginal black band. Body black ; front of head brown ; collar and four narrow stripes down thorax, narrow bands and two lateral stripes on abdomen, yel- low, tip of abdomen reddish; legs brown, yellowish beneath ; cox and femora of fore legs red.
Expanse | inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
SYNTOMIS CHERRA, 0. sp.
Nearest allied to S. mandarina, Butler. Wings dark cupreous-brown: fore wing with
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whitish hyaline space in cell, an elongated space below it, and two subapical vein-crossed spots: hind wing with a large hyaline basal spot. Body blackish , spot on middle and band at base of thorax, and broad abdominal bands orange-yellow, paler beneath; front of head white; antenne tipped with grey; legs brown, tarsi greyish.
Expanse 13 inch.
Hab. Cherra Punji, Assam. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
SYNTOMIS HYALINA, n. sp.
Wings yellowish hyaline: fore wing with subcostal vein and narrow band on outer margin black; the hind margin with a short dentate point on its middle: hind wing with narrow black anterior and exterior marginal band, dentate between the median and subme- dian veinlets ; abdominal margin orange-yellow. Antenne black, tip whitish ; body black ; bands on middle of abdomen orange-yellow ; front of head white; legs brown, first joint of tarsi white.
Expanse 12 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
SYNTOMIS DISCINOTA, N. sp.
Wings yellowish hyaline; subcostal vein, narrow band on outer margins, and cilia black ; a short black streak from middle of discocellular of fore wing, and slight dentation at end of lower median veinlet in both wings. Antenne black, tip whitish ; body greenish black ; collar, spot on sides and base of thorax, and narrow lateral bands on abdomen orange- yellow, tip black; front of head and pectus light yellow; legs black, femora and tibiw streaked with grey, and first joint of tarsi white.
Expanse 12 inch.
Hab. Khasia Hills. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Genus ARTONA, Walker. Artona, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. 11. p. 439.
ARTONA POSTVITTA, n. sp.
Male and Female. Upperside brown; hind wing with a narrow medial longitudinal white streak and white cilia. Antenne and body above blackish ; legs blackish, streaks beneath and tarsal joints white ; abdomen and palpi whitish beneath.
Underside paler on fore wing at base, and white space on hind wing curved.
Expanse 38; inch.
Hab. Daxjiling. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
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ARTONA FULIGINOSA, Nn. sp.
Male and female. Fuliginous-brown ; fore wing blackish along the costa and middle of wing. Antenne and palpi black ; legs brown. Expanse, ¢ 355, 2 7% inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Family CHALCOSIID &.
ARACHOTIA, nov. gen.
Wings long, narrow: costa and hind margin of fore wing nearly straight ; apex slightly pointed ; outer margin short, oblique ; cell dilated only at half its length; subcostal vein three-branched ; discocellulars slightly sinuous, very short ; median vein five-branched, each branch starting at end of cell from discocellulars, and thus forming radials ; submedian vein contiguous and running parallel to median to end of cell, two-branched, the upper starting at angle of cell, the lower at a short distance before the cell; two lower submedian or internal veins extending to exterior margin, the upper terminating above and the lower at the posterior angle: hind wing produced and acute at the apex, anal angle lobular ; cell divided by a recurrent veinlet its entire length, emitted from middle of lower discocellular ; lower discocellular slightly angled, twice the length of upper; subcostal vein two-branched ; median vein three-branched, first or radial continuous with recurrent veinlet of the cell, second and third at equal distances at their base ; submedian and three lower internal veins extending to anal lobe. Body long; antennz very long, extending to three fourths of the costa, bipectinate in male to near tip, which is slightly thickened; filiform and slightly thickened near tip in female ; palpi short, thin; second and third joints naked ; legs long, squamous.
ARACHOTIA FLAVIPLAGA, i. Sp.
Male. Upperside: fore wing metallic olive-green at base, bluish green at apex; a nar- row streak below base of cell, space within the cell, a contiguous triangular space below it, and a rounded subapical space transparent ; a short transverse yellowish streak near base of hind margin: hind wing transparent, with black anterior margin and an irregular-shaped streak from anal angle on hind margin. Antenne dark brown; vertex, thorax, and tip of abdomen bluish green; base of abdomen blackish, two lateral yellow bands on middle of abdomen ; front of head and palpi greyish brown.
Underside of wings as above, but anterior margin of hind wing broadly metallic bluish green. Abdomen beneath greyish, banded with blue-green ; legs brown.
Female. Differs only in the absence of the basal transparent longitudinal streak, and in having a broader subbasal short transverse yellowish streak on fore wing, and a broad black abdominal margin. Antenne whitish near apex.
Expanse, ¢ 13, 2 13 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
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Genus TRYPANOPHORA, Kollar. Trypanophora, Kollar, Hiigel’s Kaschm. iv. p. 457. .
TRYPANOPHORA ATKINSONI, n. Sp-
Male. Wings black: fore wing with a hyaline rounded upper basal divided spot and a large medial space traversed by the black veins, the black extending as a streak along the lower median veinlet, and also forming a spot at end of the cell: hind wing with a lower basal and subapical hyaline space traversed by the black veins; anterior margin and cell yellow ; apex, outer margin, anal angle, and a spot on cell black. Antenne brown, shaft greenish-black ; body black; front of head, collar, spot on side and middle of thorax, and band on five segments of the abdomen orange-yellow; tip of abdomen bluish-black ; legs blackish-brown, greyish at sides.
Expanse 14 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Distinguished from 7. humeralis by the much larger hyaline area of the fore wing.
Genus CHELURA, Hope. Chelura, Hope, Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. p. 444.
CHELURA ERONIOIDES, n. sp.
Female. Upperside subhyaline, fuliginous, veins brown, interspaces of base of both wings broadly streaked and apex of fore wing spotted with dull white ; a yellow stripe across immediate base of fore wing. Underside as above. Head, thorax, and antenne fuliginous- black ; abdomen and legs yellowish.
Expanse 23 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus ETERUSIA, Hope.
Eterusia, Hope, Trans. Linn, Soe. xvii. p. 445.
ETERUSIA LATIVITTA, n. sp.
Female. Upperside—fore wing dark brownish olive-green, with a broad yellow trans- verse medial band, a smail yellow spot at base of costa, a single spot at end of cell, and a subapical series of small spots: hind wing black ; a yellowish patch on middle of anterior margin, and a small spot before the apex, the veins at the apex, and streaks between them steel-blue. Lower part of abdomen golden-yellow. Underside black: fore wing marked as above, the veins beyond the band blue-streaked: hind wing with the costal patch and a large yellowish-white spot before and two below the apex, the veins being blue-streaked.
Expanse 3 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Nearest allied to E. edocla, Doubleday, from Silhet, but may be easily distinguished by the different-shaped and much broader medial transverse band on the fore wing.
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ETERUSIA ALOMPRA, 0. sp.
Male. Upperside—fore wing dark olive-green, crossed by a rather broad oblique medial yellow band, which is bordered without on both sides by black streaks, one between each vein: hind wing black; streaks at base and a short maculated apical marginal band cobalt- blue; a transverse discal curved series of bright yellow ill-defined spots. Front of head, thorax, and abdomen dark metallic olive-green ; antenne, vertex, and base of thorax steel- blue. Underside bluish-black : both wings crossed by a yellow band and a submarginal row of bluish-white spots; base of wings longitudinally streaked with metallic emerald-green and blue. Legs metallic olive-brown; abdomen beneath brown.
Expanse 2% inches.
Hab. Sibsagar, Assam. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus SORITIA, Walker. Soritia, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ii. p. 435.
SORITIA FUSCESCENS, n. sp.
Male. Upperside dark umber-brown: hind wing pale brown from below the cell to abdominal margin. Antenne black; collar light red; head brown; thorax and abdomen fuliginous black; legs brown. Underside as above; apex of both wings and costal margin of hind wing pale brown.
Female. Same as male, excepting that the hind wing is broadly whitish brown on abdo- minal margin.
Expanse, ¢ 1} inch, ? 1¢ inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
SORITIA OLIVASCENS, 0. sp.
Male. Upperside olive-brown: fore wing with a yellow basal streak, oblique discal patch, and a small subapical spot: hind wing with anterior margin and short transverse subapical streak yellow. Body and antennz brown; collar crimson; tegule golden bronze. Underside brown: fore wing with a narrow basal streak, broad discal patch, small subapical spot, and apical lunule yellow: hind wing with costal margin and apex yellow; a row of black subapical spots. Front of head, palpi, legs, and abdomen beneath yellow.
Female. Upperside—fore wing olive-brown, veins yellow: hind wing pale yellow at base, brown at apex, divided by curved series of subapical black spots: head and collar crimson ; tegule yellow; abdomen pale steel-blue with greyish bands. Underside pale buff-yellow ; apex of fore wing olive-brown as above ; apex of hind wing grey, with subapical spots as above. Legs and abdomen beneath yellowish.
Expanse, ¢ 1$ inch, ? 1} inch.
Hab. WKhasia Hills. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
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CODANE, nov. gen.
Male. Fore wing elongate-ovate ; costa convex ; apex rounded, exterior margin oblique, hind margin nearly straight; cell broad, divided by a recurrent veinlet its entire length ; subcostal vein five-branched, the third, fourth, and fifth on a foot-stalk arising at end of the cell; upper discocellular angled near subcostal, bent obliquely inward and descending into the cell, second short and bent obliquely outward; one radial from upper angle of disco- cellular; median vein four-branched, two lower at equal distances before end of cell, two upper on a short foot-stalk from lower end of second discocellular; a submedian and an internal vein terminating above posterior angle. Hind wing ovate, apex and outer margin rounded ; cell fusiform, divided by a recurrent veinlet its entire length ; discocellulars sharply angled; subcostal vein two-branched, starting from upper angle of first discocellular; median vein four-branched, two upper on short foot-stalk from end of second discocellular, two lower at equal distances; two submedian veins contiguous at the base, and two internal veins. Antenne long, extending beyond half length of costa, broadly bipectinate to end; body short; head broad ; palpi small, third joint pointed, minute; legs naked.
Type C. zenotea (Pidorus zenotea, Walk. Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. p. 425).
Hab. Cherra Punji, Assam.
Genus CAMPYLOTES, Westwood. Campylotes, Westwood, Royle’s Him. Bot. p. 53,
CAMPYLOTES ATKINSONI, Nl. Sp.
Female. Upperside very dark bright olive-green: fore wing with a deep carmine narrow longitudinal streak at base of costa within the cell, and still narrower streaks below; two subapical oblique series of pure white spots: hind wing with an indistinct blackish carmine streak between the veins, bright crimson only towards the apex. Underside dull indigo- bluish-green ; base and upper discoidal cell of fore wing, basal streaks and anterior spots between veins of hind wing dull deep crimson. Antenne black; body dark olive-green ; abdomen beneath and legs black.
Expanse 3} inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Distinguished from C. histrionicus by its much darker colour, deeper crimson, and nar- rower streaks between the veins. .
Genus CHALCOSIA, Hiibner. Chalcosia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 173.
CHALCOSIA ARGENTATA, 0. sp.
Upperside—tore wing with the veins metallic emerald-green ; the base broadly silvery- white; a basal costal streak and an oblique partly transverse medial maculate band black, D
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washed with emerald-green ; apex broadly black enclosing a series of small white spots ; oblique discal intermediate space cream-white : hind wing pale yellow ; apical curved black band crossed by green veins. Underside as above, except that in the fore wing the base is black to below the cell. Antenne steel-blue; front of head metallic brown and white; ver- tex and collar carmine red; thorax metallic blue; abdomen and legs metallic greyish-white.
Expanse 2 inches.
Hab, Uazar D. |? Hazara District]. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Nearest allied to C. cdwoides, H.-Sch. Lep. Spec. Nov. pl. 1. f. 6.
Genus CYCLOSIA, Hiibner.
Cyclosia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 177.
CYCLOSIA CARDINALIS, 0. sp.
Allied to C. fuliginosa, Walk. Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ii. p. 418.
Male. Upperside—fore wing with the base and a partly contiguous wavy transverse discal band dark fuliginous; apical half of wing white; veins and outer margin darker fuliginous: hind wing metallic yellowish-fuliginous, yellowest on abdominal margin ; discoidal vein streaked with blue; outer margin broadly white bordered and crossed with black. Underside as above, but paler, and veins at the base streaked with blue. Front of head metallic-blue, hind part of head and collar crimson, thorax and abdomen above purplish black ; antennee steel-blue; legs and abdomen beneath greyish-fuliginous.
Expanse 2? inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus HERPA, Walker. Herpa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. i. p. 441.
HERPA SUBHYALINA, h. sp.
Male. Wings subhyaline, pale yellowish: fore wing with fuliginous veins. Underside as above, costal border of both wings fuligimous. Antenne long, jet-black, pectinations very broad; head fuligincus-black ; thorax yellowish ; abdomen greyish-yellow ; legs and abdomen beneath blackish-fuliginous.
Expanse 22 inches.
Hab. Lachung Valley, Sikhim. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus HISTIA, Hiibner. Histia, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 198.
HISTIA NILGIRA, n. sp.
Female. Upperside—fore wing fuliginous-black, veins and parallel intervening streaks black: hind wing at base pale metallic emerald-green streaked with fuliginous between the
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veins; apex black; intervening discal space white, forming a large transverse oval patch. Underside—fore wing pale fuliginous, streaks darker, washed with indigo-blue: hind wing with base and apex fuliginous-black, washed with indigo-blue; central patch white as above. Front of head, vertex, and collar crimson; thorax black; abdomen black above, crimson at tip and beneath, with a lateral and lower row of black spots; palpi and legs black; an- tenne steel-blue.
Expanse 3 inches.
Hab. Nilgiri Hills. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Allied to H. vacillans, Walk. (libelluloides, H. Sch. Pl. 2. f.13 2), but is a much larger
insect, having longer wings, these being elongated as in //. papilionaris.
Genus MILLERIA, #.-Sch. Milleria, H.-Sch. (Syn. Laurion, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. 11. p. 426, 1854.)
MILLERIA ALBIFASCIA, n. sp.
Male and female. Upperside dark olive-brown: fore wing crossed by a medial curved oblique white band terminated on the costa on the inner side by a yellow spot: hind wing with a rather large apical yellow spot. Underside as above, apex of both wings washed with greyish-blue. Body, antenne, and legs pale metallic bluish-black.
Expanse, ¢ 1% inch, 2 1 inch.
Hab. Cherra Punji, Assam. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Differs from MW. circe, H.-Sch. Lep. Spec. Nov. pl. 1. f. 2, 1853, in being duller-coloured, the oblique band on fore wing being white, and in the larger size of spot on costa of hind wing.
Family NYCTEMERID&.
ARBUDAS, nov. gen.
Fore wing long, rather narrow, costa very slightly arched, apex acute, exterior margin short, posterior margin nearly of the same length as the costa; costal vein arched at the base; cell broad, long; subcostal vein recurved, five-branched, first branch arising from near end of cell, second trifurcate and arising beyond end of the cell, the outer fork starting from below half the length of the middle fork ; discocellulars extending some distance within the cell, angled at the upper and lower end, from the upper angle starts the radial ; median vein recurved, four-branched, the upper branch starting from angle of the lower discocellular, the next from lower end of the cell, the two lower branches at equal distance from near end of the cell; submedian vein curved upward and running near the median; internal vein at some distance from posterior margin. Hind wing long, anterior margin of the same length as posterior margin of fore wing, apex acute, exterior margin and anal angle very convex ; costal vein running close to the margin, first branch of the subcostal vein starting before end of
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the cell; upper discocellular short, both bent inward; four branches to median as above; a submedian and two internal veins. Body small, slender; antenne bipectinated ; palpi very small, slender, naked ; legs slender, naked, middle and hind tibia with very short spurs.
ARBUDAS BICOLOR, n. sp. (Plate IT. fig. 19.)
Male. Fore wing greyish fuliginous-brown ; hind wing white, with a fuliginous-brown marginal band and white cilia. Underside as above, the fore wing having a white subapical patch, which is slightly distinguishable from the upperside ; marginal band on hind wing not extending to anal angle. Body dusky-fuliginous ; antenne black ; palpi and legs greyish fuliginous.
Expanse 1 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and British Museum.
Family KUSCHEMID&.
Genus EUSCHEMA, Hiidner. Euschema, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 175.
EUSCHEMA NIGRESCENS, 0. sp.
Male. Upperside black: fore wing with a white streak at base of costa, crossed by three rows of spots, the first row subbasal and creamy white, formed of three spots commencing from within base of cell, the next medial and of six spots terminating above second spot of first row, the third row smallest, submarginal, both bluish-white: hind wing with the base and a medial narrow maculated band cream-white or yellowish; a submarginal row of indi- stinct small yellowish spots. Underside as above, with all the markings more prominent. Thorax white-streaked ; front of head partly black ; abdomen yellow, banded with black - legs fuliginous, yellowish beneath ; antenne black.
Expanse 24 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Allied to E. flavescens, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B.M. ii. p. 406.
Family CALLIDULID&.
HERIMBA, nov. gen.
Fore wing elongated, costa produced ; apex acute ; exterior margin very oblique, poste- rior margin short ; costal vein short, at some distance from the margin ; cell short, broad ; subcostal vein five-branched, first branch arising very near the base, second and third conti- guous at their base and arising before end of the cell and extending to apex of costa, fourth and fifth also contiguous at their base and arising from end of the cell; discocellulars of
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equal length, slightly angled in the middle; one radial starting from middle of the cell ; median vein four-branched, the two upper branches from end of the cell, two lower at equal distances before its end; submedian vein contiguous to posterior margin. Hind wing broad ; anterior margin short, exterior margin convex, abdominal margin long; cell short ; subcostal vein two-branched ; median vein four-branched, three upper branches contiguous at their base. Body stout, short; antenne slender, filiform; palpi robust, ascending, projected slightly beyond the head, apical joint conical; legs long, squamous, femora thickened, clothed with short adpressed hair-like scales.
HERIMBA ATKINSONI, n. sp. (Plate LI. fig. 3.)
Upperside very dark glossy cupreous-brown: fore wing with a pearly-white oblique transverse medial narrow band with waved borders extending from near the costa to near posterior angle; two minute pearly-white spots within the cell, another below it, and a slightly larger spot near the apex: hind wing with a minute pearly-white spot within the cell, one beyond it, and another before the apex. Underside with markings as above ; both wings also with short transverse pale cupreous streaks between the veins. Body beneath and legs brown ; tarsi with white bands ; antenn blackish.
Expanse 14 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
DATANGA, nov. gen.
Allied to Callidula, Hubn. (C. evander, Cram.). Wings shorter, broader, the fore wing having the second, third, and fourth branches of the subcostal vein starting all together at a short distance beyond the cell.
DATANGA MINOR, h, sp.
Male and female. Upperside rufous-brown: fore wing with a red oblique narrow straight subapical band, which is of equal width throughout. Underside saffron-yellow ; both wings with numerous dark short strigee, which are partially red-bordered on the disk ; two small black-bordered white spots within the cell and an elongated spot at its end.
Expanse, ¢ 1, 2 1% inch.
Hab. Moulmein, Burmah. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Allied to D. sakunt (Petavia sakuni, Horsf.), from Java.
DATANGA ATTENUATA, n. Sp.
Upperside rufous-brown: fore wing with a pale red oblique subapical band, broadest in female, and attenuated at its lower end in both sexes. Underside dark saffron-yellow : fore wing with a black-bordered subapical yellow band, as above ; both wings with numerous
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confluent dark strigee, which are bordered and much suffused with deep red; two small black-bordered white spots within the cell, and an elongated spot at its end.
Expanse, ¢ 12, 2 1¢ inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Family LITHOSIID &.
Genus CALPENIA, Moore. Calpenia, Moore, P. Z.S. 1872, p. 571.
CALPENIA KHASIANA. Calpenia khasiana, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 5.
Female. Upperside—fore wing brownish fawn-colour, vinous-tinged, paler along the veins ; a broad pale yellow band extending longitudinally from base below the cell and upward to near the costa, and crossed by the veins; some yellow spots on the costa; a small spot and streak at base of the cell, and two outer submarginal rows of small dentate spots of chrome-yellow: hind wing chrome-yellow, with four transverse rows of vinous brownish- black spots and a rayed basal streak, the spots broadly lunate, irregular in size, the outer row being marginal and the smallest. Underside the same as above. Antenne, front of head, and palpi black; thorax dark greyish-brown, longitudinally streaked with chrome- yellow; abdomen chrome-yellow, with dorsal and lateral row of spots; legs dark grey.
Expanse 3+ inches.
Hab. Khasia Hills. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus SIDYMA, Walker. Sidyma, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. vii. p. 1686.
SIDYMA APICALIS. Sidyma apicalis, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 9, pl. i. f. 2.
Male. Upperside purplish-black: fore wing with a narrow triangular white apical patch. Underside as above. Collar, thorax beneath, and anal tuft orange-red.
Expanse 1 inch.
Hab. Daxjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Smaller than S. albifinis, Walker, from Masuri, and distinguished from it by having the apical white patch only on the fore wing.
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Genus VAMUNA, Moore. Vamuna, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 10.
Fore wing long, narrow; costa slightly arched beyond the middle; apex acute; exterior margin short and slightly truncate below the apex, oblique hindward, the angle slightly convex ; posterior margin convex towards the basein male. Hind wing broad ; apex slightly produced; exterior margin convex in the middle. Veins similar to those in Churinga (C. rufifrons), excepting that in the fore wing the lowest or fifth branch of the subcostal is emitted from upper angle of the cell, the median branches nearer together at their base, and the lowest nearer the end of the cell. Body moderately stout; antennz in both sexes setose ; palpi moderately long, ascending, projecting beyond the head, second joint long, third joint very short ; legs long, naked, middle and hind spurred.
Type V. remelama (Lithosia remelana, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1865, p. 798).
Hab. Darjiling.
VAMUNA MACULATA. Vamuna maculata, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 10, pl. i. fig. 5.
Male. Upperside—fore wing greyish-ochreous: hind wing pale dull ochreous at base and whitish externally, with three marginal black spots, the two upper large, the lower small and at some distance from anal angle. Underside dull ochreous basally, whitish externally: fore wing with a brownish patch at the apex, a black longitudinal basal streak, and a broad large transverse subapical patch: hind wing with only the lower and middle marginal black spots. Body ochreous.
Female much paler; the apex of fore wing slightly brownish-ochreous: hind wing above and beneath with smaller medial and lower black spots; the fore wing with the basal black streak less defined, and the subapical spot small.
Expanse, ¢ 13, 2 2 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
VAMUNA BIPARS. Vamuna bipars, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 10, pl. i. fig. 11.
Male. White ; costal edge of the base and apical half of fore wing fuliginous black ; hind wing with a fuliginous-black submarginal band, the middle portion of which is very broad and blackest. Underside duller white; the black band on fore wing confined to the disk, the apical border being pale brownish-ochreous ; upper portion of band on hind wing obsolete. Antenne, front of head, and tip of palpi black; fore and middle legs above, a terminal spot on hind tibie and its tarsi black; tarsal joimts with a white band; base of palpi, thorax and abdomen, legs beneath, and anal tuft ochreous.
Expanse 2 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
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Genus MAHAVIRA, Moore. Mahavira, Moore, P. Z. 8S. 1878, p. 11.
Male. Fore wing long, narrow; costa arched, apex acute; exterior margin oblique, posterior margin recurved ; subcostal vein five-branched, first and second branches arising before and near end of the cell, third trifid, the two lower branches at equal distances from end of the cell; discocellulars long, straight, upper obliquely inward, lower obliquely out- ward ; radial from upper end of cell ; median vein four-branched, the two upper branches from lower end of cell, third at some distance before its end; submedian vein curving towards hind margin. Hind wing longer than broad, exterior margin convex ; subcostal vein two- branched beyond end of cell; discocellulars as in fore wing; median vein four-branched, the two upper branches from end of cell and contiguous at their base, third immediately before end of the cell. Body slender ; antenne serrate, with long and delicate pectinations ; legs slender; femora slightly pilose beneath, middle and hind tibiz spurred; palpi slender, basal joint pilose, apex pointed.
MAHAVIRA FLAVICOLLIS. Mahavira flavicollis, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 11, pl. 1. fig. 3.
Male. White; costa slightly edged with brown at the base; collar yellow; antenne yellow ; fore femora with a blackish streak on the inner side.
Expanse 13 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In colls. Dr. Standinger and F. Moore.
Genus KORAWA, Moore. Korawa, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 11.
Male and female. Fore wing long, narrow ; costa slightly arched, apex somewhat acute, exterior margin very oblique ; subcostal vein five-branched, first branch ascending and touch- ing the costal, but free at its end, second starting before end of the cell, third at end of the cell, trifurcate, lowest branch at one third beyond end of the cell; upper discocellular angled outward at its middle, lower oblique ; radial from angle of upper discocellular ; median vein four-branched, the two upper from lower end of the cell ; submedian slightly recurved. Hind wing moderately short, apex slightly produced and convex, exterior margin rounded ; sub- costal two-branched beyond end of the cell; discocellulars of equal length, bent inward ; median vein four-branched, two upper beyond end of the cell, middle branch from end of the cell; submedian nearly straight. Body moderate ; palpi small, pilose, porrect ; antenne minutely and finely bipectinate ; legs pilose, sparsely in male.
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KORAWA PALLIDA. Korawa pallida, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 12.
Male and female. Semidiaphanous: fore wing pale fleshy-yellow ; hind wing white. Thorax slightly ochreous-yellow; abdomen white; palpi pale yellow, black-tipped; legs white ; fore tibize with a black longitudinal line in front.
Expanse, ¢ 14, 2 2 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Genus CHURINGA, Moore. Churinga, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 9.
Male and female. Wings ample, broad, somewhat short in male. Fore wing with the costa slightly arched towards end, apex pointed ; exterior margin oblique, posterior angle rounded ; first subcostal branch very oblique, free ; second from near end of the cell, trifur- cate, fifth from end of the cell, with a loop-spur to the base of third ; radial starting from below the fifth subcostal beyond end of the cell; discocellulars of equal length, bent inward at the middle ; median vein four-branched, two upper from end of cell, next at some dis- tance before, and lower from, half length of the cell. Hind wing convex at the apex ; exterior margin rounded, abdominal margin short; two subcostal branches at one-fourth beyond end of the cell; median four-branched, two upper from end, next before the end, and lower from half length of the cell. Body large ; thorax with long pilose tegule ; palpi slender, ascending, basal joint pilose beneath, second and third joints very long, tip blunt; legs long, femora slightly pilose beneath ; antenne in male broadly pectinate, setose in female.
Type C. rufifrons.
CHURINGA RUFIFRONS. Churinga rufifrons, Moore, P. Z. 8S. 1878, p. 9, pl. 1. fig. 12.
Male and female. Upperside—fore wing pale purplish ochreous-brown ; costal and posterior margins narrowly edged with ochreous-yellow: hind wing and abdomen pale ochreous-yellow. Underside paler. Thorax brown; tegule edged with yellow; head, collar, and palpi reddish-ochreous ; thorax beneath and legs bright ochreous ; tip of palpi, antenne, fore legs above, and tarsi brown.
Expanse, ¢ 15%, 2 24%; inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F’. Moore.
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Genus HESUDRA, Moore. Hesudra, Moore, P. Z. 8S. 1878, p. 12.
Male. Wings short, rather broad. Fore wing with the costa nearly straight, apex acute ; exterior margin very oblique; subcostal vein five-branched, first branch very oblique, free, running close to the costal; second arising before end of the cell, trifurcate; fifth from end of the cell, looped to third near its base; radial from upper end of the cell; discocellulars bent in the middle ; median vein four-branched, two upper from one-fourth beyond the cell, third near its end. Hind wing produced at the apex; exterior margin very oblique, nearly straight ; abdominal margin long; two subcostal branches from one-fourth beyond the cell ; median four-branched, two upper from one-third beyond the cell, third close to its end. Antenne broadly pectinate; palpi slender, curved upward, slightly pilose at base; legs slender.
HESUDRIA DIVISA. Hesudra divisa, Moore, P. Z.8. 1878, p. 12, pl. 1. fig. 4.
Male. Upperside pale testaceous: fore wing with a broad dark purplish-grey band occupying the posterior half of the wing ; base of the costa also purplish-grey ; costal border yellowish. Underside—fore wing pale purplish-grey, costal border yellowish; hind wing narrowly edged along the anterior margin with greyish-black. Thorax, head, side of palpi, and legs above purplish grey ; abdomen pale greyish testaceous beneath ; tip ochreous; base of palpi and legs beneath pale ochréous; antenne purplish-brown.
Expanse 1,3; inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Genus GHORIA, Moore. Ghoria, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 12.
Fore wing long, narrow ; costa slightly arched beyond the middle ; apex acute; exte- rior margin oblique and slightly convex, posterior margin long ; first subcostal branch very oblique, free; second trifurcate, fifth from end of the cell and bent upward, looped to the third near its base; radial starting from below the fifth subcostal at one-third beyond the cell; discocellulars obliquely concave; median four-branched, the two upper from end of cell, third immediately before its end, fourth at half its length. Hind wing broad, apex slightly produced; exterior margin convex in the middle; two subcostal branches at one third beyond the cell; median four-branched, two upper beyond the cell, third at its end. Body slender, extending beyond hind wing ; antenne setose ; legs slender, squamous, spurred ; palpi slender, porrect, base pilose beneath.
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GHORIA SERICEIPENNIS.
Ghoria sericeipennis, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 13.
Male. Upperside—fore wing silky-white, with a broad dark cinereous-brown band along posterior margin: hind wing white, pale cinereous-brown at the apex and along ante- rior margin. Underside—fore wing, anterior border and apex of hind wing brown. Middle of thorax, tegule, and front of head dark cinereous-brown ; abdomen above and beneath white; anal tuft brown; collar yellowish; palpi ochreous-yellow; legs above cinereous- brown, whitish beneath.
Expanse 1} inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
GHORIA ALBOCINEREA. Ghoria albocinerea, Moore, P. Z.S. 1878, p. 13, pl. 1. fig. 10.
Male. Upperside—fore wing silky white, with a cinereous-brown band along posterior margin: hind wing cinereous, cilia white. Underside cinereous-brown, palest on hind wing ; abdominal margin cinereous-white ; costal edge of fore wing yellowish towards the apex. Thorax and abdomen white; middle of thorax and streak on tegule cinereous-brown ; collar and front of head, and antennz, yellowish ; anal tuft pale brownish-ochreous ; legs cinereous-brown above, yellowish beneath ; palpi yellowish, tip brown.
Expanse 154; inch. ,
Hab. Darjiling. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Genus TARIKA, Moore. Tarika, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 14.
Fore wing long, broad; costa arched; exterior margin convex, posterior margin rounded at the base ; first subcostal branch short, oblique, anastomosing with the costal, second from near the end of the cell, third from near base of second, bifurcate, fifth from end of the cell, bent upward and touching the third at one-fourth its length ; discocellulars bent inward, upper angled close to subcostal, lower shortest; radial from angle of upper discocellular ; median three-branched, two upper branches from one-third beyond the cell ; submedian nearly straight. Hind wing broad, apex slightly produced ; subcostal branches at one-fourth, and median branches at one-third from end of the cell. Palpi small, short, slightly decumbent ; legs stoutish, naked; antennze minutely pectinate; body slender, not extending beyond hind wing.
Type 7. varana (Lithosia varana, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1865, p. 797).
TARIKA NIVEA. Tarika nivea, Moore, P. Z. 8S. 1878, p. 15.
Male and female. Fore wing silky-white, costal edge pale yellow. Head, front of E 2
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thorax, palpi, body, and legs beneath yellow; tip of palpi brown; fore and middle legs
brown above. Expanse, ¢ 13, 2 13 inch. Hab. Darjiling. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Genus KATHA, Moore. Katha, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 16.
KATHA TERMINALIS.
Katha terminalis, Moore, P. Z.8. 1878, p. 17, pl. i. fig. 14.
Male. Ochreous: fore wing darkest, with a distinct curved purplish band across exterior margin. Antenne, front of head, tip of palpi, middle of thorax, and streak on tegule pur- plish-black ; legs above purplish-brown.
Expanse 1+; inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Allied to K. apicalis (Lithosia apicalis, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. vi. p. 104), from Borneo, but differs on the fore wing in the apical band not extending upward on to the costa, and in the absence of the slight apical patch on the hind wing, which is present
in Bornean examples.
Genus SYSTROPHA, Hiidner. Systropha, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 166.
SYSTROPHA DORSALIs. Systropha dorsalis, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 18.
Female. Fore wing straw-yellow, slightly ochreous along posterior margin: hind wing yellowish white. Head, thorax, legs, and abdomen at sides and beneath ochreous-yellow ;
abdomen above lilac-grey. Expanse 1;?; inch. Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus CAPISSA, Moore. Capissa, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 19.
CAPISSA PALLENS. Capissa pallens, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 19, pl. ii. fig. 3.
Female. Pale whitish-ochreous: fore wing glossy, costal edge ochreous. Underside—
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costal border of both wings brighter-coloured; middle of fore wing pale ochreous-brown. Thorax, palpi, and abdomen beneath ochreous; legs dusky-brown above; palpi brown at tip; antenne brown.
Expanse 13 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Somewhat allied to C. insolita (Lithosia insolita, Walk. Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. 11. p. 497).
Genus DOLGOMA, Moore. Dolgoma, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1878. p. 20.
DOLGOMA BRUNNEA. Dolgoma brunnea, Moore, P. Z.S. 1878, p. 20, pl. i. fig. 8.
Male. Cinereous-brown: fore wing uniformly dark-coloured ; hind wing paler. Under- side paler than above; costal border of fore wing and legs beneath yellowish.
Expanse | inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Genus MITHUNA, Moore. Mithuna, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 21.
Wings short, rather broad. Fore wing arched, apex pointed ; first branch of subcostal vein arising near end of the cell, short, oblique, anastomosing with costal, but free at its end ; second branch quadrifid, the upper and the lower branch starting together at one-third beyond the cell; upper discocellular very short, lower curved inward ; radial from lower end of upper discocellular; two upper median branches starting at half distance beyond the cell, lower branch straight from one-third before its end. Hind wing—subcostal and median branches at nearly one-half length beyond the cell. Bodyshort ; palpi small, pilose beneath ; antenne setulose ; legs smooth.
MITHUNA QUADRIPLAGA. Mithuna quadriplaga, Moore, P. Z.S. 1878, p. 21, pl. u. fig. 9.
Fore wing luteous-brown, with a distinct dusky-brown medial transverse band, which is angled outward at end of the cell, a similar band also crossing the disk ; outer margin with a series of dusky spots, which also indistinctly cross the cilia: hind wing pale luteous-brown. Underside paler. Head and thorax brown.
Expanse 1 inch.
Hab. Daxjiling. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
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Genus COSSA, Walker. Cossa, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. Suppl. i. p. 232.
CossA BRUNNEA. Cossa brunnea, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 22, pl. ii. fig. 11.
Female. Fore wing dark purple-brown, with a small black spot at end of the cell, and a short black streak on the costa near the middle: hind wing paler. Underside with the margins paler. ‘Thorax, head, and legs dark brown.
Expanse 14 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
COSSA QUADRISIGNATA. Cossa quadrisignata, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 21, pl. 1. fig. 10.
Male. Fore wing dark purplish-brown, with slightly paler streaks along the veins ; costal border pale purplish-cinereous, with two prominent short black streaks; a small spot at end of the cell: hind wing and abdomen above pale brownish-cinereous ; anal tuft slightly ochreous. Underside pale cinereous-brown; middle of fore wing brown. ‘Thorax, head, abdomen beneath, and legs brown.
Expanse 14 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus RANGHANA, Moore. Ranghana, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 22.
Female. Fore wing very long, narrow ; costa arched, apex pointed; exterior margin very oblique, angle and hind margin rounded; subcostal vein five-branched, first branch short, arising immediately above end of the cell and joining the costal, second and third at equal distance from first, third trifid; radial from below subcostal beyond the cell at equa distance between first and second branches; cell short; discocellulars straight ; median vein straight, three-branched, the two upper at one-third from the exterior margin, lower recurving from below end of the cell; submedian vein extending to posterior angle. Hind wing long, narrow; subcostal vein forked at half length beyond the cell; cell short ; disco- cellulars deeply curved; median straight, two-branched ; submedian straight. Body short ; palpi very short, stout ; legs long, slender, middle and hind tibize spurred ; antenne setose.
RANGHANA PUNCTATA,. Ranghana punctata, Moore, P.Z.S. 1878, p. 22, pl. i. fig. 12. Female. Pale ochreous buff colour: fore wing with a marginal and apical series of nine small black spots. Underside paler, without marks. Expanse 14 inch. Hab. Calcutta (July). In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
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Genus TEGULATA, Walker. Teyulata, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. vi. p. 110.
TEGULATA BASISTRIGA. Tegulata basistriga, Moore, P. Z.S. 1878, p. 22, pl. i. fig. 5.
Female. Upperside pale luteous-brown; fore wing brightest at the apex, slightly brown-speckled; a black streak along base of costal edge and along base of posterior margin: hind wing pale brownish fawn-colour externally. Underside darker ; legs brown above.
Expanse 1 inch.
Hab. Ceylon. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
TEGULATA PROTUBERANS. Tegulata protuberans, Moore, P. Z. 8S. 1878, p. 23, pl. i. fig. 6.
Female. Upperside pale luteous-brown : fore wing with numerous brown speckles and a dark brown prominent costal spot: hind wing and abdomen pale luteous-yellow. Under- side paler ; middie of fore wing brownish.
Expanse 14’; inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus NISHADA, Moore. Nishada, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 23.
Male and female. Fore wing somewhat short, broad ; costa considerably arched ; apex very acute; exterior margin oblique and slightly convex, posterior margin short, in the male convex and fringed to near the base; subcostal vein five-branched, first branch arising at half length of the cell and slightly touching the costal vein, second at one-third before end of the cell, third at some distance beyond the cell, fourth bifid at half its length; cell nar- row ; discocellulars very slender, upper short, lower obliquely curved inward ; radial starting from lower end of upper discocellular ; median vein three-branched, the two upper at nearly half distance beyond end of cell, lower before its end; submedian vein recurved upwards from the base. Hind wing in the male very short and broad, somewhat quadrate ; anterior margin produced upward from the base and folded over on to the underside, end there pro- vided with a long recumbent fan-like plumose covering or appendage ; the hind wing in the female is longer, being of the same length as posterior margin of fore wing, its anterior margin is nearly straight and is without the folded plumose appendage ; costal vein follow- ing the anterior margin beneath the fold in the male; subcostal vein two-branched, the
32 LITHOSIIDA,
upper arising near base of the wing; cell broad; discocellulars recurved; median vein straight, two-branched, the branches very close together, lower branch from before end of the cell; submedian straight. Antenne minutely and finely pectinate in male, setose in female ; body slender, extending beyond hind wing; legs stout, smooth, fore femora thickened,
middle and hind tibie spurred; palpi small, porrect, projected slightly beyond the head, pilose beneath, apex small, pointed.
NISHADA FLABRIFERA. Nishada flabrifera, Moore, P. Z.S. 1878, p. 23.
Male and female. Yellowish-ochreous, palest in female: fore wing in male brighter ochreous, and slightly ferruginous at the base. ‘Thorax, head, and antenne brownish ochreous.
Expanse 1 inch.
Hab, Calcutta District. In colis. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Allied to the Bornean WN. rotundipennis (Lithosia rotundipennis, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. vi. p. 104), which species is also probably identical with Lith. chilomorpha, Snell. Tijd. voor Ent. 1877, p. 67, pl. v. f. 1, from Sumatra.
Genus PRABHASA, Moore. Prabhasa, Moore, P. Z. 8S. 1878, p. 25.
Wings long. Fore wing narrow, very slightly arched before the apex ; exterior margin oblique, slightly convex ; posterior margin long, nearly straight; subcostal vein at some distance from costal; first branch short, curving upward to costa before end of the cell, second straight, from end of the cell, third contiguous at base to second, trifurcate, looped to second near base ; cell long, in the male folded and tufted with recumbent plumes above to beyond half its length, the median and submedian contiguous ; discocellulars long, con- vex, radial from lower part; median vein three-branched, two upper curving hindward from lower end of cell, lower curving from below the cell at nearly half its length ; submedian recurved. Hind wing produced at the apex ; exterior margin recurved, abdominal margin short; subcostal two-branched beyond the cell; discocellulars concave ; cell short, broad ; median three-branched, two upper branches at half distance beyond the cell, lower from before half its length ; submedian nearly straight. Body slender, longer than hind wing, tufted in male; antenne slender, with very fine delicate pectinations; legs slender, long, smooth, spurred ; palpi slender, long, slightly ascending beyond front of head.
PRABHASA VENOSA.
Prabhasa venosa, Moore, P. Z.S8. 1878, p. 26, pl. ui. fig. 16.
Male and female. Upperside pale luteous-brown: fore wing with the veins darker brown ; an indistinct brown transverse discal band, which is bent outward beyond the cell ;
PRABHASA.—LYCLENE. 35
male with a greyish-brown plumose tuft overlapping and extending half the length of the celi; anal tuft in male ochreous. Underside paler; band across fore wing not visible. Expanse, ¢ 1-45, 2 143; inch. Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
PRABHASA FLAVICOSTA. Prabhasa flavicosta, Moore, P. Z. 8S. 1878, p. 26, pl. 1. fig. 17.
Female. Upperside uniformly dark luteous-brown: hind wing and abdomen purplish brown ; fore wing with the costal border pale yellow ; discal band most prominent at costal end, broad, but not bent outward. Front of head, thorax at sides, palpi, and abdomen beneath yellow; legs above cinereous-brown, yellowish beneath. Underside uniform brown, costal border on both wings yellowish.
Expanse 143; inch.
Hab. Cherra Punji, Assam (October). In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Genus LYCLENE, Moore. Lyclene, Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I. C. 1. p. 300.
LYCLENE ARTOCARPI. Lyclene artocarpi, Moore, P. Z.S. 1878, p. 30.
Male and female. Fore wing ochreous, with a dusky-grey subbasal series of short longi- tudinal streaks ; an upright medial band, and outward discal oblique irregular band, both confluent on middle of the hind margin; a small blackish spot at base of wing, and an in- distinct spot at end of the cell: hind wing and abdomen pale ochreous. Thorax with black spots. Underside paler ; markings on fore wing less distinct ; an indistinct medial dusky fascia across hind wing in the female.
Expanse € inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Nearest allied to L. humilis, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. ii. p. 554. “ Larva feeds on the Jack tree (Artocarpus incisa), January.’—A. Grote.
LYCLENE OBSOLETA, Lyclene obsoleta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 32, pl. ui. fig. 7.
Female. Yellow: fore wing slightly ochreous-yellow externally, with several purplish- brown subbasal spots, a deeply sinuous discal band, and outer contiguous series of spots : hind wing and abdomen yellow. Underside paler, markings on fore wing indistinct : hind wing with a short costal streak before the apex. Fore tibie with a blackish terminal
streak. ¥F
D4 LITHOSIIDA.
Expanse 58; inch. Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. May be distinguished by the absence of the medial transverse band between the sub-
basal spots and sinuous band.
LYCLENE RADIANS. Lyclene radians, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 30, pl. iii. fig. 2.
Male. Fore wing yellowish-white, with a black basal spot, three transverse series of spots, each series composed of three, and the middle series curved ; a prominent spot at end of cell, and a marginal series of broad black lines, one on each vein, their inner ends confluent and forming a bordered line which is bent outward at its middle: hind wing with a less prominent series of short black marginal lines, which’ do not extend to the anal angle. Underside similarly marked, the basal spots on fore wing less distinct: hind wing with two indistinct spots from middle of costa. Body ochreous-yellow ; legs black-streaked.
Expanse 1 inch. flab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
LYCLENE INDISTINCTA. Lyclene indistincta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 38, pl. ili. fig. 9. female. Fore wing dull yellow, with two very indistinct subbasal curved series of pale brown spots, a bent discal series of spots, and an outer series of short longitudinal streaks : hind wing and underside much paler. Fore tibiz cinereous-brown above. Expanse 144 inch. Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
LYCLENE ASSAMICA. Lyclene assamica, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 33, pl. ili. fig. 8. Male. Pale yellow. Upperside: fore wing with a purple-brown basal spot, two sub- y PI 8 } ? basal transverse series of spots, a spot at end of the cell, and a discal dentate band, each point having a terminal spot, these spots forming a submarginal series. ‘Thorax black-spotted. Expanse 3%; inch. Hab. Dibrughur, Assam. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. oo § Allied both to Z. wndulosa and to the Bornean L. cuncigera, Walker.
LYCLENE INTERSERTA. Lyclene interserta, Moore, P. Z. 8S. 1878, p. 82, pl. ii. fig. 6.
Female. Upperside: fore wing ochrey-yellow, with a short black streak at the base, narrow subbasal transverse bent line, a discal lime which is convex anteriorly and bent pos-
BARSINE. :SY9)
teriorly ; between these is an oblique angled line, the point being opposite to the angle of the subbasal line ; an upper and a lower longitudinal line, the former along the cell, the latter below it and furcate, the forks bent backward: also an outer marginal confluent looped line ; cilia black, with white border: hind wing pale yellow; cilia at apex black. Underside uniform yellow, markings indistinct. Thorax and head yellow, with black streaks ; palpi and legs above blackish ; abdomen paler yellow.
Expanse 1,5; inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F, Moore.
Near to L. euprepioides, Wall.
Genus BARSINE, Walker.
Barsine, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. ii. p. 546.
BARSINE GLORIOSA. Barsine gloriosa, Moore, P. Z.S. 1878, p. 29, pl. ui. fig. 16.
Female. Upperside: fore wing ochreous-red, veins broadly lined with yellow; a broad blackish well-defined subbasal cross band, a narrow discal recurved band, and an apical series of short black longitudinal streaks ; two small black dots at base of wing ; costal edge and cilia black: hind wing and abdomen pale pink. Underside: fore wing red, with short black costal and apical streaks; hind wing paler, apex dusky black. ‘Thorax red, with a narrow black middle streak and two anterior spots ; palpi and legs red ; middle tibie with a black terminal streak.
Expanse 1,45 inch.
Hab. Khasia Hills (October). In coll. Dr. Staudinger. Nearest allied to B. cruciata, Walker, from Borneo.
BARSINE INFLEXA. Barsine inflexa, Moore, P. Z.S. 1878, p. 29, pl. ii. fig. 17.
Male. Upperside: fore wing ochreous-red, veins lined with yellow ; costal edge, poste- rior margin, and cilia black; a black subbasal cross band, somewhat thickened within the cell, the outer lower arm of which is bent inward; a narrow discal transverse maculated band, and an outer series of short streaks, one on cach vein: hind wing and abdomen pale pink. Underside: fore wing red, with black apex and margins: hind wing yellowish, with dusky black apex ‘Thorax and head red, streaked with yellow ; legs red.
Expanse { inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and IF’. Moore.
F2,
36 LITHOSIIDA.
BARSINE PUNICEA.
Barsine punicea, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 29.
Female. Upperside: fore wing ochreous-yellow, slightly reddish along the costal bor der, with a blackish subbasal cross band, a waved curved discal band, and an outer series of alternate long and short longitudinal streaks; cilia and apical edge of costa black: hind wing pale ochreous-red, with black marginal band. Underside dull ochreous-red ; apex of fore wing and outer margin of hind wing blackish. Abdomen blackish, tip yellow; middle tibise with a terminal black streak.
Expanse $ inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
This species is nearest allied to B. lineata, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. iii. p. 760, from Borneo.
BARSINE FLAVIVENOSA. Barsine flavivenosa, Moore, P. Z.S. 1878, p. 30, pl. i. fig. 18.
Male. Upperside: fore wing red, with all the veins very broadly lined with yellow; a blackish subbasal imperfect cross band with the lower portion of the outer arm obsolete; a curved discal band and an incurved apical series of short black streaks: hind wing, abdomen, and legs very pale pink. Underside pink; hind wing palest.
Expanse § inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus AAMENE, Walker. Aumene, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. in. p. 541.
ZEMENE SINUATA. Eimene sinuata, Moore, P. Z.S. 1878, p. 34, pl. iti. fig. 11.
Male. Upperside ochreous-white: fore wing with five narrow black sinuous bands, a spot within and a lunule at end of the cell, and an outer marginal row of small spots; cilia with a black line and three widely separated spots: hind wing pale brownish grey; cilia brown-lined. Underside brownish grey, markings on fore wing indistinct: hind wing with a pale brown spot at end of the cell, and a submarginal fascia. A black terminal spot on tegule ; palpi black; fore legs black-streaked.
Expanse | inch.
Hab. Cherra Punji, Assam (October). In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
JEMENE MACULIFASCIA. mene maculifascia, Moore, P. Z.S. 1878, p. 38, pl. iii. fig. 10.
Male. Fore wing white, crossed by six black maculated bands, the first basal, second curved, third and fourth discal, irregular, and with dusky-brown suffused interspace, the
SETINA.—ADREPSA. 37
other two marginal; two spots within the cell, the one at the end large. Cilia spotted near apex: hind wing ochreous-white. Underside: fore wing brown; spots slightly visible: hind wing with a brown spot at end of the cell, an indistinct submarginal fascia, and spots on cilia near apex. Thorax black-spotted ; palpi black ; fore legs black-streaked.
Expanse 1,}; inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus SETINA, Schrank.
SETINA NEBULOSA. Setina nebulosa, Moore, P. Z.S. 1878, p. 35.
Female. Upperside: fore wing yellow, with a black basal spot, a broad irregular- bordered discal ochreous-brown band and confluent subbasal irregular-shaped band: hind wing cinereous-white, with broad dusky indistinct submarginal fascia. Underside and legs paler. Thorax yellow; abdomen cinereous-white.
Expanse 1,7; inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
SETINA DISCISIGNA.
Setina discisigna, Moore, P.Z.S. 1878, p. 35.
Female. Upperside pale yellow: fore wing tinged with ochreous along hind margin ; a black spot near base, a smaller spot at base of costa, and a more prominent spot at end of the cell: hind wing suffused with purplish-brown near the apex and along abdominal margin. Underside: middle of fore wing dusky brown. Thorax and head yellow, both with black spots; abdomen and legs purplish-brown, tip yellow.
Expanse | inch.
Hab. Cherra, Assam (October). In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
ADREPSA, nov. gen.
Female. Fore wing long, narrow ; costa arched at the base, apex acute, exterior margin oblique, posterior margin slightly convex at the base, angle convex; subcostal vein five- branched, first branch arising before end of cell, second beyoud the cell at nearly half distance between it and the apex, third bifid, fifth at equal distance between the cell and third; discocellulars angled at upper and lower end, curved in the middle; radial from angle of upper discocellular ; cell broad ; median vein four-branched, the upper from angle of lower discocellular, second from end of the cell, third at equal distance before end of the cell, fourth at some distance off; submedian vein curving hindward, and contiguous to the margin. Hind wing broad, anterior margin straight, apex acute, exterior margin obliquely recurved ; cell short, broad; subcostal vein two-branched beyond end of the cell; discocel- lulars long, upper bent inward, lower outward; a radial from near upper end of lower
38 ARCTIIDA,
discocellular ; median vein three-branched, two upper beyond the cell; a straight submedian and an internal vein. Body moderate; abdomen not extending beyond hind wing; palpi small, slender, porrect, pilose beneath, apex pointed; legs squamous; fore femora and tibie slightly pilose beneath ; antenne filiform.
ADREPSA STILBIOIDES, n. sp. (Plate IT. fig. 20.)
Female. Fore wing dark purplish-grey, with a curved transverse subbasal and recurved discal series of black-speckled spots, one on each vein ; a large spot within the cell, an oval spot at its end, and a linear series of half-oval spots on exterior margin, all slightly bordered on one side with a few white speckles: hind wing pale glossy yellow, with an indistinct, slender, black-speckled, maculated marginal line. Underside: fore wing and anterior border of hind wing pale purplish-brown ; a marginal series of small slender black-speckled streaks on both wings. Thorax, head, palpi, antenne, and legs dark purplish-grey ; thorax white-speckled ; abdomen ochreous-yellow.
Expanse 1 inch.
Hab. Assam. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Family ARCTIID &.
Genus GLANYCUS, Walker. Glanycus, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. iu. p. 634.
GLANYCUS TRICOLOR, 0. sp.
Upperside bluish-black : fore wing with a small recurved discocellular hyaline white spot: hind wing with a large medial hyaline white spot ; a narrow crimson streak on abdo- minal margin. Underside as above. Body steel-blue, a broad band across fore part of thorax, another band at base of abdomen, anal tuft, a streak on side of thorax beneath, and abdomen beneath bright crimson; antenne brown ; palpi and legs steel-blue.
Expanse 152; inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr, Staudinger and F. Moore.
Genus HYPERCOMPA, Steph. Hypercompa, Steph., Brit. Ent. 11. 67.
HYPERCOMPA NYCTEMERATA, 0. Sp.
Similar to H. equitalis, Kollar, Hiigel’s Kasch. iv. pl. 20. f. 3, from the N.W. Hima- layas. Differs on fore wing in the transverse discal series of spots being of more equal length and regular in position, with a series curving upward before the spot below the apex ; there
EUCH £TES.— ALPENUS.—SPILARCTIA. 39
is also an additional lengthened spot contiguous to and below the basal spot within the cell: hind wing white; veins and narrow outer marginal line slightly fuliginous ; a subanal and slight subapical fuligineus streak, which is less defined in female. Cilia fuliginous in male, white near anal angle in male and at apical angle in female. Body ochrey-yellow, with black dorsal narrow bands, and three rows of small spots beneath; legs blackish above, ochrey-yellow beneath.
Expanse, ¢ 2} inches, ¢ 2% inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Genus EUCH ATES, Clemens. Eucheies, Clemens, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. xii. p. 532.
EUCHETES SIKKIMENSIS, n. sp. (Plate I. fig. 12.)
Upperside: fore wing ochreous-brown, palest along the veins: hind wing fuliginous- brown with an indistinct paler submarginal band. Underside ochreous-brown, both wings with darker basal and marginal streaks between the veins, the disk thus showing a pale trans- verse fascia. Abdomen ochreous-red, with a dorsal and lateral row of black spots; anal tuft yellow; legs blackish.
Expanse 1% inch.
Hab, Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
It is extremely interesting to find a species of the genus Auchetes occurring in Asia. The species hitherto described are American.
Genus ALPENUS, Walker. Alpenus, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ii. p. 686.
ALPENUS FLAVENS, i. sp.
Uniform ochreous-yellow: fore wing with two medial transverse slightly recurved series of quadrate brown spots, and two less distinct spots below the apex: hind wing with a series of three small brown spots from anal angle, and a very small indistinct spot at end of cell. Underside of wings marked as above. Abdomen reddish, with indistinct blackish dorsal spots ; antenne, tip of palpi, and legs above brown.
Expanse 1,5 inch.
flab. Cherra Punji, Assam. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Genus SPILARCTIA, Butler. Spilarctia, Butler, Cist. Ent. 11, p. 89 (1875).
SPILARCTIA UNIFORMIS, n. sp.
Female. Upperside pale ochreous-buff: fore wing with a small black spot at base, a spot
40 ARCTIID 2.
near end of submedian vein, a recurved discal, and a less distinct submarginal, vein-divided series of spots: hind wing with a large black cell spot, two larger spots above anal angle and smaller spot near apex. Underside uniformly coloured as above: fore wing with a black . lunule at end of the cell: hind wing marked as above. Abdomen with dorsal and lateral black spots; antenne black; palpi brown-streaked ; legs yellow; terminal spot on femora, tibia, and tarsi above ochreous-brown.
Expanse 15°; inch.
Hab. Calcutta (August). In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Nearest allied to Sp. punctata, Moore, from Java.
SPILARCTIA HOWRA, Nn. sp.
Male and female. Pale yellowish-ochreous: fore wing with a short recurved discal series of minute black speckles: hind wing with a small black spot at end of the cell, and a spot near middle of hind margin. Underside with a small black spot at end of cell in both wings. Markings less distinct in the female. |
Expanse, ¢ 14 inch, 2 14 inch.
Hab. Calcutta. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Nearest allied to S. suffusa, Walker, but differs in the wings being pale yellowish- ochreous, and in the absence of the ochreous-red on the hind wing above and on both wings beneath, as in that species.
SPILARCTIA OBLIQUIVITTA, n. sp. (Plate II. fig. 26.)
Male. Upperside: fore wing pale yellowish-ochreous, with a black medial oblique straight narrow band from middle of hind margin to beyond the cell, and terminating in a series of short longitudinal streaks before the apex: hind wing white. Underside white: fore wing slightly pale ochreous along costal border; oblique band of upperside visible ; apical streaks black: hind wing with a small black-speckled spot below the apex, and a similar spot near the anal angle. ‘Thorax ochreous-yellow; abdomen above brighter ochreous, with a lateral row of black spots, whitish beneath ; antenne black, shaft whitish ; palpi black at the tip and sides; fore legs and tarsus of all the legs streaked with black above.
Expanse 1¢ inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus ICAMBOSIDA, Walker. Icambosida, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. Suppl. 2, p. 401 (1865).
ICAMBOSIDA PUNCTILINEA, 0. sp.
Male Fore wing very pale ochreous-yellow ; a recurved black maculated oblique band from middle of hind margin to lower end of the cell, composed of broad contiguous linear spots; a few narrow spots also before the apex: hind wing pure white, with small black
CARBISA.—PIMPRANA. 4]
cell-spot, two above anal angle, and one near apex. Underside as above. Thorax pale ochreous ; abdomen bright crimson above, white beneath; sides of thorax beneath and pectus crimson ; antennw, palpi, and side of head black; legs white, fore legs above with a terminal spot on femora and tibie, and tarsi black.
Expanse 1%; inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Nearest allied to J. rubitincta (Spilosoma rubitincta, Moore, P. Z.S. 1865, p. 809).
CARBISA, nov. gen.
Fore wing somewhat short, trigonal, apex convex, exterior margin very oblique, hind margin short; veins similar to those in Jcambosida, but with the first and third median branches much curved: hind wing short and trigonal, apex convex, exterior margin slightly rounded. Body robust; thorax broad, laxly pilose; abdomen less pilose; antenne bipec- tinate; palpi short, not extending beyond the head, decumbent, pilose ; legs pilose beneath.
CARBISA VENOSA, n. sp. (Plate II. fig. 10.)
Male. Upperside—fore wing pale brownish-ochreous ; veins pale ochreous-white. Cilia yellowish: hind wing pale yellowish-ochreous, with a very indistinct brown submarginal fascia. Underside pale ochreous-yellow; a slight indistinct subapical brown streak on fore wing, and a similar-coloured streak near anal angle of hind wing. Thorax, palpi, and head ochreous-yellow ; abdomen above paler, with narrow black segmental bands; antenne brown, shaft white; fore legs black-streaked above, middle and hind femora with a black terminal spot. .
Expanse 1? inch.
Hlab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr, Staudinger.
PIMPRANA, nov. gen.
Male. Fore wing long, narrow; costa arched at the base and before the apex, angle acute, exterior margin slightly oblique, posterior angle rounded ; subcostal vein five- branched, first and second arising before end of the cell, fourth and fifth from below the third beyond the cell; discocellulars bent inward ; radial from upper end of the cell ; median vein four-branched, three upper branches from lower end of the cell: hind wing broad, trigonal, extending beyond fore wing, anterior margin slightly arched, apex very convex, abdominal margin short ; subcostal vein forked at a short distance from end of the cell, the radial from middle of discocellulars, median vein three-branched. Body moderate, pilose ; abdomen extending beyond hind wing, sides and apex tufted; palpi stout, densely pilose, porrect, extending slightly beyond the head, third joint short; antennz long, setose; femora and tibiz of all the legs densely pilose, middle and hind legs spurred.
G
42 ARCTIIDZ.
PIMPRANA ATKINSONI, n. sp. (Plate II. fig. 11.)
Upperside—fore wing ochreous-green, varied with ochreous-brown on hind border and exterior border, the base and lower veins white-speckled ; a marginal apical series of blackish spots speckled with white: posterior angle white-streaked. Cilia blackish alternated at the veins with white ; hind wing ochreous-yellow along costal and outer borders, the interior of the wing black; cilia and abdominal fringe yellow. Underside ochreous-yellow, the lower part of both wings black ; fore wing with two, and hind wing with one black cell-spot. Thorax ochreous-green ; abdomen black above ; the tip and beneath yellow ; antenne brown ; palpi black at tip and sides; legs yellow, tarsi grey.
Expanse 12 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
_PANGORA, nov. gen.
Fore wing long, apex rather acute, exterior margin short and oblique: hind wing broad, apex rather acute in male, rounded in female, exterior margin convex, abdominal margin short, anal angle rounded. Neuration similar to Creatonotus, but with the upper median branches on both wings closer together at their base. Body stout; palpi prominent, apical joint pointed, projecting beyond the head, covered with adpressed scales; legs squamose ; antenn minutely serrate in male, simple in female.
PANGORA DISTORTA, n. sp. (Plate II. fig. 14.)
Male and female. Upperside—fore wing dark dull olive-brown, with ochreous-white irregular-margined basal patch, a ‘medial transverse oblique sinuous-margined irregular- shaped band, two small patches near the outer margin, one being near the apex, the other beneath it, and a very small spot above posterior angle ; the basal patch extending into base of the cell and spotted with brown; the medial band with a short bent and angled inner extension at both ends: hind wing ochreous-red, brightest in female ; cilia paler; a black spot at upper end of cell extending to the costal margin ; a submarginal row of four large black spots, a narrow marginal streak at apex and small spot below it. Underside marked as above, the pale interspaces on fore wing ochreous-yellow; spots on hind wing in male indistinct. Head and thorax ochreous-white, black-spotted ; abdomen ochreous- red, with dorsal and lateral row of black spots, and black bands beneath ; legs black, femora bright red above; front of head and tip of palpi black, base of palpi pale ochreous.
Expanse, ¢ 24 inches, 2 2% inches.
Hab. Masuri (Hutton); Simla (Atkinson); N. W. Himalayas. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and }. Moore.
RAJENDRA.—NAYACA. 48
RAJENDRA, nov. gen. *
Form and neuration similar to Creatonotus (C. interruptus), but differs in the hind wing being shorter, less produced at the apex, and the greater convexity of the hind margin. Palpi prominent ; antenne minutely bipectinate in male, simple in female.
Type. £. lativitta.
RAJENDRA LATIVITTA, n. sp.
Male. Allied to R. biguttata (Aloa biguttata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. iii. p. 707) from the western Ghauts. Differs in the fore wing having a much broader longitudinal band, which is also less bent below the end of the cell; the hind wing differs also in the black costal border being narrower and the marginal spot smaller.
Expanse 143; inch.
Hab. Parisnath Hill, Behar (September). In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
NAYACA, nov. gen.
Similar in form and neuration to A/phea, Walker. Body stout; thorax and abdomen thickly pilose; head prominent, pilose; abdomen extending beyond hind wings; antennz long, rather broadly bipectinate in male, less so in female; palpi porrect, stout, first and second joints pilose beneath, third joint squamous; legs stout, squamous, spurred, femora pilose beneath.
Type Nayaca imbuta (Arctia imbuta, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. iii. p. 614).
Hab. Himalayas.
NAYACA FLORESCENS, n. sp. (Plate IT. fig. 13.)
Male. Fore wing pale ochreous-brown, veins ochreous-yellow; a series of white variously-shaped spots between the veins—disposed similar to those in Alphea fulvohirta, but of different shape; the spots between the lower median and submedian veins connected by a short peduncle: hind wing white, with three olive-brown spots on anterior margin, one at end of the cell, another below the apex, and a larger irregular-shaped spot from anal angle. Wings beneath paler, marked as above. Thorax ochreous-brown with pale ochreous edges; collar fringed with red; top of head ochreous-yellow ; front of head and palpi olive- brown; abdomen bright ochreous-red above, beneath white with an abdominal streak and lateral spot olive-brown ; legs olive-brown, paler beneath, femora red.
Expanse 1{ inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
* This genus will embrace the species described by Mr. Walker as Aloa integra, A. dentata, A. biguttata, as well as those I described as Alow sipahi and A. nigricans.
Gg?
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Family LIPARID &.
Genus ORYGIA, Ochsenheimer. Orygia, Ochs., Schmett. Eur. ii. 218.
ORYGIA OCULARIS, n. sp.
Male. Upperside umber-brown: fore wing with a large suffused-bordered black-lined spot enclosing a pale lunule at end of the cell; two black suffused lunular lines below the spot, and some black dentate marks before the apex. Underside paler; spot on fore wing indistinct.
Expanse # inch.
Hab. Calcutta. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Allied to O. postica (Lacida postica, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. pt. iv. p. 803),
but differs in its smaller size, paler colour, and less prominent markings.
Genus CHARNIDAS, Walker. Charnidas, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. iv. p. 797.
CHARNIDAS OCHRACEA, 0. sp.
Female. Upperside ochreous: fore wing with a few scattered black scales indistinctly visible, some of which are disposed in a maculated series across the disk ; a more prominent black spot at end of the cell. Underside slightly paler, both wings with an indistinct black spot near upper end of the cell. Pectinations of antenne dark brown.
Expanse 13 inch.
Hab. Calcutta. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
“ Larva with tawny brushes on the back. Feeds on Bamboo. Pupa October 19th ; imago October 28th.”—MS. note, A. Grote.
CHARNIDAS CINNAMOMEA, 0. sp.
Male. Upperside—fore wing dark cinnamon-brown: hind wing paler, and with brighter brown borders. Fore wing with an indistinct dusky brown streak at end of the cell. Under- side uniform cinnamon-brown. ‘Thorax dark brown; abdomen cinnamon-brown; antenne blackish, shaft brown.
Expanse 153; to 13% inch.
Hab. Pangi, Upper Kunawur, N.W. Himalayas. In coll. Capt. Lang, Dr. Staudinger, and F. Moore.
Nearest allied to C. litura, Walker, l. c. p. 797.
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BARYAZ A, nov. gen.
Male. Fore wing broad; costa almost straight, apex scarcely acute, exterior margin slightly convex, hind margin long, nearly of the same length as the costa; subcostal vein five-branched, first and second branches arising before end of the cell, third from the end and emitting the fourth from below half its length, fifth from end of the cell ; discocellulars bent at upper and lower ends and concave in the middle, the radial emitted from the upper angle ; median four-branched, upper branch starting from lower angle of discocellular, the two next from end of the cell; a submedian and an internal vein: hind wing broad, trigonal, apex and anal angle rounded ; subcostal vein three-branched, third branch from below the second at one third its length ; discocellulars angled at the middle; other veins as in fore wing. Body slender, abdomen extending beyond hind wing; antenne bipectinate ; palpi porrect, pilose, apical joint exserted, slender; legs rather slender, fore femora and tibie pilose, middle and hind tibie spurred.
BARYAZA CERVINA, n. sp. (Plate III. fig. 1.)
Male. Upperside—fore wing brownish fawn-colour, crossed by a straight subbasal dark brown band, and a narrow pale-bordered discal line ; a prominent black lunule at end of the cell: hind wing and abdomen brown. Underside dull ferruginous-brown; both wings crossed by an indistinct darker discal narrow band ; an indistinct streak at end of each cell. Thorax dark brown ; palpi beneath and fore legs above blackish.
Expanse 1 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus STILPNOTIA, Westwood. Stilpnotia, Westw. & H., Brit. Moths, 1. p. 90.
STILPNOTIA SERICEA, 0. sp.
Male and female. Wings silky-white. Body white ; abdomen in male yellowish-white. Palpi black at the side. Fore legs black above ; middle and hind tibi and tarsi in female black-banded ; antenne pale ochreous, shaft white. Near to the European S. salicis.
Expanse, ¢ 12 inch, 2? 1% inch.
Hab. Masuri (Capt. Lang); Darjiling (Atkinson). In coll. Capt. Lang, Dr. Staudinger, and F’. Moore.
STILPNOTIA OCHRIPES, n. sp.
Female. Pure white, silky; costal edge slightly pale ochreous. Body white; palpi at sides bright ochreous-yellow ; fore legs, middle and hind tarsi bright ochreous-yellow ; antenne pale ochreous, shaft white.
Expanse 1,85 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
In this species the wings are shorter and slightly broader than in S. sericea.
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CARAGOLA, nov. gen.
Male. Fore wing triangular, apex produced, pointed, exterior margin oblique, straight, posterior angle acute ; subcostal vein five-branched, third and fourth branches arising near the apex, fifth at one third from end of the cell; cell short; discocellular veins sharply angled ; radial starting from first discocellular near its upper end ; median vein four-branched, angled before end of the cell; second branch starting from the angle, third and fourth on a foot-stalk one third beyond the cell; submedian vein extending to posterior angle: hind wing short; convex at the apex; abdominal margin rather long; cell short; subcostal vein two-branched, arising at one third their length from the end of the cell; discocel- lulars sharply angled; median vein four-branched, the three upper branches contiguous at their base from end of the cell; submedian vein nearly straight. Body slender, pilose ; antenne broadly bipectinate, slender at tip; legs thickly pilose beneath; palpi moderate, pilose.
Allied to Caviria and to Redoa.
CARAGOLA COSTALIS, n. sp. (Plate IT. fig. 21.)
Male. Upperside pure silky-white: fore wing with black costal edge, the margin slightly folded over near the apex; base of wing slightly tinged with ochreous; veins raised above the surface. Body pale ochreous-white ; antenne pale ochreous, shaft white; palpi at side, and side of head beneath black ; fore legs black above.
Expanse 1 inch.
Hab, Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus REDOA, Walker. Redoa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. iv. p. 826.
REDOA LACTEA, 0. sp.
Male and female. Wings dull silky-white, sparsely silvery-scaled. Body white; front of head, tip of palpi, and legs black-spotted ; antenne and costal border of fore wing tinged with pale ochreous.
Expanse, ¢ 1% inch, ¢ 2% inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Differs from L. submarginata, Walker, in its larger size, the wings being less covered with silvery scales and not raised in slight corrugated folds as in that species,
REDOA DIAPHANA, N. sp.
Male and female. Wings dull white, diaphanous. Body white above, yellowish
GAZALINA.—HARAPA. 47
beneath ; tibize of fore legs beneath slightly black-fringed ; antenne pale ochreous, shaft white.
Expanse, ¢ 13 inch, ? 2 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and I’, Moore.
Distinguished from Redoa lactea by the total absence of silvery scales on the wings, and the spots on the head, palpi, and legs.
Genus GAZALINA, Walker. Gazalina, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. Suppl. p. 398.
GAZALINA TRANSVERSA, n. sp. (Plate II. fig. 22.)
Female. White: fore wing with two transverse medial narrow black bands, the first short and inwardly oblique and ascending only to near lower part of the cell, the outer band slightly bent at lower end of the cell and at its lower end. Underside white, bands of fore wing indistinctly visible. ‘Thorax slightly ochreous ; abdomen with narrow blackish segmental bands; anal tuft large, golden brown ; palpi and front of head fringed with black ; fore legs above black, beneath white ; middle and hind legs white; tarsi above black.
Expanse 12 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In cell. Dr. Staudinger.
HARAPA, nov. gen.
Female. Fore wing long; costa arched ; apex acute; exterior margin oblique, slightly convex hindward; posterior margin nearly straight; first and second subcostal branches arising before end of the cell, third from below second and coalescing with fourth beyond end of the cell, third forked near its end; discocellulars bent inward; radial starting from upper end of the cell; two upper branches of median from lower end of the cell: hind wing broad, apex and abdomiual margin short; subcostal forked beyond end of the cell, two upper median branches from end of the cell, third before its end. Body stout; legs pilose be- neath; antennz bipectinate ; palpi long, porrect, projecting beyond the head, pilose be- neath, apical joint slender.
HARAPA TESTACEA, n. sp. (Plate II. fig. 15.)
Female. Fore wing reddish-testaceous: hind wing pale cinereous-testaceous. Underside uniform pale reddish-testaceous. Body and antenne reddish-testaceous ; palpi ochreous.
Expanse 23 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
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Genus EUPROCTIS, Hiibner. Euproctis, Hibn., Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 159.
EUPROCTIS SUBNIGRA, N. sp.
Male. Upperside—fore wing white: hind wing dusky-black, abdominal border whitish. Cilia white. Underside of both wings uniform dusky-black. Cilia white. Antenne dusky, shaft white; anal tuft yellow.
Expanse 1} inch.
Hab. Cherra Punji (Atkinson); Jawai Hills (Austen). In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
EUPROCTIS PYGMA, 0. sp.
Male. Yellow: fore wing with two medial transverse scarcely perceptible paler bands: hind wing pale yellow. Underside—fore wing tinged with brownish fawn- colour.
Expanse 475 inch.
Hab. Calcutta. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
EUPROCTIS SEMIVITTA, n. sp. (Plate II. fig. 25.)
Male. White: fore wing with a medial transverse oblique short black-speckled bana terminating within end of the cell; a few indistinct black speckles on hind margin at each side of the band. Underside white. Thorax pale ochreous; abdomen ochreous-white, slightly banded with black, anal tuft bright ochreous; second joint of palpi black ; tip white ; fore legs ochreous in front; antenne pale brown.
Expanse 1 ,?5 inch.
Hab. Khasia Hills. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
EUPROCTIS VARIEGATA, n, sp. (Plate II. fig. 24.)
Male. Upperside white ; cilia of fore wing maculated with brown: fore wing with six transverse, partly ochreous and brown-speckled bands which are slightly confluent, the outer band being marginal, broad, and occupying nearly a third of the wing: hind wing with a brown broad marginal band and a speckled spot at end of the cell. Underside—fore wing and marginal band on hind wing dusky-brown. Front of thorax ochreous ; antenne brown; palpi black; fore tibiz black-streaked.
Expanse 14/5 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
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Genus PIDA, Walker. Pida, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. Suppl. p. 399.
PIDA LATIVITTA, n. sp. (Plate II. fig. 18.)
Female. Upperside pale ochreous, exterior borders whitish: fore wing with a broad medial recurved transverse darker ochreous-brown band, sparsely covered with black speckles and crossed by pale veins, and enclosing a black spot at upper end of the cell; outer border also sparsely black-speckled: hind wing with the middle densely brown-speckled, promi- nently so at end of the cell. Underside pale greyish-ochreous ; both wings sparsely speckled at end of the cell. Abdomen dark brown, tuft ochreous above, white beneath ; legs brown- speckled ; antenne brown, shaft whitish.
Expanse 2 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. Yn coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus CHAZROTRICHA, Felder. Cherotricha, Felder, Nov. Voy. pl. 98 (1874).
CH#EROTRICHA BIPARTITA, n. sp. (Plate IT. fig. 4.)
Female. Upperside pale ochreous-yellow: fore wing greyish, numerously speckled with minute brown scales; crossed by two medial recurved wavy pale bands; a darker speckled spot below the apex. Underside uniform pale ochreous. Abdomen bright ochreous.
Expanse 1 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
CHAMROTRICHA MARGINATA, Nn. Sp.
Male and female. Deep yellow: fore wing from the base to one third from exterior border ochreous-brown and minutely black-speckled; a yellow angular space at lower end of the cell, the division across the disk wavy and pointed below the apex; a submarginal row of distinct black spots. Underside uniform yellow. Thorax ochreous-brown ; abdomen dark brown, apical tuft golden yellow.
Expanse 22 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Near to C. plagiata (Euproctis plagiata, Walker), but may be distinguished by the black spots along outer margin, and by the dark-coloured abdomen.
CHAROTRICHA UNIFORMIS, N. sp.
Upperside—fore wing uniform ochreous-brown, minutely black-speckled. Cilia yellow: H
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hind wing yellow ; basal half brown and speckled. Underside paler yellow; basal portion of both wings brown. |
Expanse 2 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Allied to C. plagiata (Euproctis plagiata, Walker), distinguished from it by the absence of the yellow discal space on the fore wing, and by the dark colour of the hind wing.
CHAROTRICHA QUADRANGULARIS, n. sp. (Plate II. fig. 23.)
female. Upperside pale yellow: fore wing from the base to near outer margin fawn- colour, minutely black-speckled ; an oblique quadrate yellow space at end of the cell; four black marginal spots, two being below the apex, and two near posterior angle. Underside pale yellow: fore wing with the basal portion pale fawn-colour, margin without spots. Thorax pale fawn-colour ; abdomen blackish fawn-colour ; anal tuft yellow, tip blackish.
Expanse 2 inches.
fab. Munipur, Eastern Bengal. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Allied to C. marginalis, but is of a different colour, and may be distinguished by the four spots on outer margin of fore wing.
Genus ARTAXA, Walker. Artaxa, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. iv. p. 794.
ARTAXA DISPERSA, n. sp. (Plate IT. fig. 6.)
Female. Fore wing dark yellow, with afew minute brown speckles forming an indistinct medial very oblique transverse band: hind wing very pale yellow. Thorax yellow; abdo- men brownish black, apex grey-fringed.
Expanse 1$ inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Allied to A. subfasciata, Walker, but of a much darker and brighter colour, the speckled band more oblique, and not extending to the hind margin.
ARTAXA VENOSA, n. sp. (Plate II. fig. 5.)
Male and female. White: fore wing with subbasal, discal, and marginal yellow bands, crossed by white veins ; a short medial brown-speckled vein-divided band crossing from end of the cell ; the interspace along the disk also sparsely brown-speckled. Antenne, front of head, palpi, fore legs, and anal tuft pale ochreous.
Expanse, ¢ 12, 2 14 inch.
Hab. Darxjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
ARTAXA.—DAPLASA. dl
ARTAXA TRIFASCIATA, 0. sp.
Male and female. Upperside—fore wing pale primrose-yellow, with three indistinct transverse equidistant ochreous brown-speckled abbreviated bands ascending from the hind margin, the middle band most prominent: hind wing white. Underside white; costal border of fore wing brownish at the base. Thorax pale yellow; abdomen ochreous-brown above, tuft ochreous ; palpi, fore femora, and tibie ochreous in front.
Expanse, ¢ 12, 2 12 inch.
Hab. Cherra Punji, Assam. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Allied to A. subfasciata, Walker.
ARTAXA BASALIS, n. sp. (Plate II. fig. 16.)
Male. Upperside—fore wing yellow, with a broad ochreous-brown black-speckled basal band extending to middle of wing, its outer border being angled beyond end of the cell; a small similar-coloured spot opposite to angle of band: hind wing whitish. Underside cinereous-white ; basal band on fore wing dusky. Head, thorax, and palpi yellow ; abdomen and legs cinereous-white.
Expanse 1? inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
This species is allied to A. atomaria and A. justicie.
ARTAXA HOWRA, Ni. sp.
Male. Upperside ochrey-yellow, palest on hind wing: fore wing with a black-speckled short streak ascending from middle of hind margin; a small black-speckled spot at end of the cell. Palpi ochreous-brown above.
Expanse | inch.
Hab. Calcutta. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Allied to Artaxa citrina, from Ceylon. Differs in being darker-coloured, especially on the hind wing, and the fore wing having the black spot at end of the cell. It is also allied to A. brevivitta, Moore, from Bengal.
DAPLASA, nov. gen.
Fore wing elongated, somewhat narrow ; costa much arched at the base; apex slightly acute ; posterior margin long; subcostal vein five-branched, first and second arising from before end of the cell, third trifurcate, the branches short, middle branch from below half length of upper; discocellulars bent in the middle; radial from anterior end of upper disco- cellular ; median vein four-branched, two upper branches starting from lower end of the cell ;
submedian widely separated from median. Hind wing extending to angle of fore wing; costa H 2
52 LIPARIDZ.
nearly straight; apex somewhat pointed; costal vein extending to apex; subcostal two- branched, starting beyond end of the cell; other veins as in fore wing. Body slender ; an- tenne bipectinate ; palpi minute, slender, ascending ; legs slender, fore femora and tibie slightly pilose, other legs spurred.
DAPLASA IRRORATA, n. sp. (Plate II. fig. 17.)
Male. Fore wing white, irrorated with minute brown scales, composing apparently four oblique bands, which are shortest and most distinct on the hind margin, the outer band ex- tending across the disk from apex. Hind wing and abdomen pale yellow. Underside pale yellow; costa of fore wing bright yellow. Thorax white, brown-speckled; palpi, and legs above, bright yellow.
Expanse 14 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
MAHOBA, nov. gen.
Male. Fore wing short, broad; costa slightly arched; apex pointed; exterior margin long, oblique. Hind wing broad, extending beyond posterior angle, apex rounded ; abdominal margin long; veins similar to those in Lymantria. Body narrow; abdomen shorter than hind wing; antennz broadly bipectinate, less so in female; palpi porrect, extending beyond the head, flat, pilose, tip exposed ; legs slender, pilose, spurred.
Female. Wings broader; outer margin of fore wing less oblique: hind wing broader and more rounded at apex.
MAHOoBA PLAGIODOTATA. (Plate ITI. fig. 6, ¢.)
Cyclidia plagiodotata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxv. Geom. p. 1483 (1862), @.
Male and female. Whitish: fore wing numerously irrorated with ferruginous speckles, which form three confluent patches on the costa and indistinctly extend across the wing ; also a ferruginous patch along exterior margin, a transverse discal pale-bordered sinuous streak at end of the cell: hind wing with a large brown medial, a subanal spot, and a patch at and below the apex. Underside creamy-white: fore wing with a large ferruginous-brown spot at end of the cell and patch at apex: hind wing with upper and lower spots as above ; apical patch indistinct. Head and thorax hoary; abdomen ochreous, with black bands beneath ; antenne blackish ; palpi and legs ochreous and black-speckled.
Expanse 24 inches.
Hab. Daxjilng. In coll. British Museum and Dr. Staudinger.
MAHOBA IRRORATA, 0. sp.
female. Upperside ochreous-white: fore wing very sparsely irrorated with ferruginous
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brown scales; a pale spot at end of the cell enclosing an angled discocellular brown streak, which is slightly yellow-speckled: hind wing sparsely irrorated with ferruginous-brown scales along outer border. Underside as above, but speckled only along outer borders; an indistinct angled streak at end of each cell. ‘Thorax pale ochreous ; abdomen brighter ; palpi and legs ochreous, brown-speckled ; antenne brown.
Expanse 24 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger
NAGUNDA, nov. gen.
Female. Fore wing moderately long, narrow; costa arched near the end; apex rather acute ; exterior margin oblique ; lowest branch of subcostal vein emitted from upper angle of end of the cell ; discocellulars long, bent acutely inward ; three upper branches of median vein arising close together from lower angle of cell. Hind wing elongated, extending beyond posterior angle of fore wing; apex and exterior margin rounded. Body robust ; abdomen extending beyond hind wing; ovipositor exserted; antenne minutely bipectinate to tip, pectinations broad; palpi porrect, hairy beneath, tip minute; legs pilose.
Type Nagunda semicincta (Alope semicincta, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. iii. p. 620).
Hab. N.W. Himalayas.
LOCHARNA, nov. gen.
Wings short. Fore wing arched ; apex somewhat acute ; exterior margin oblique, nearly straight ; hind margin long ; cell narrow ; costal vein short ; first branch starting at one half length of the cell, third subcostal much curved upward, lowest branch from upper angle of cell; discocellulars curved ; other veins of both wings similar to those in Lymantria. Hind wing short, rounded at the apex and exterior margin; abdominal margin somewhat long. Body robust ; abdomen extending to anal angle; thorax with a radiating tuft of loose hairs on each tegula, and an erect posterior crest of short spatulated hairs ; antenne thinly bipec- tinate, rather short ; palpi thickly pilose, apical joint naked; fore femora and tibiz densely pilose, tarsi naked ; middle and hind legs sparsely hairy,
LOCHARNA STRIGIPENNIS, n. sp. (Plate III. fig. 11.)
Upperside—fore wing whitish-ochreous ; veins ochreous, with numerous delicate, short, narrow transverse black strigee between the veins, except at the lower part of base and upper part of the disk along the costa; cilia black-edged: hind wing uniform ochreous. Under- side uniform ochreous. Thorax white; collar ochreous, the hairs black-tipped, with a posterior glossy-black curly spatulated crest ; front of head, palpi, and fore legs ochrevus, fringed with black; antennz black, shaft white.
Expanse 1; inch.
Hab. Khasia Hills. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
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CADRUSIA, nov. gen.
Fore wing long; costa arched in the middle; apex acute; exterior margin oblique, straight ; posterior margin long, and the angle somewhat abrupt. Hind wing arched in middle of anterior margin; apex rather acute; exterior margin slightly produced at the middle; veins similarly arranged as in Lymantria monacha. Body moderately short; antenne minutely bipectinate; palpi ascending beyond front of head, densely pilose beneath, tip exserted ; legs slender ; fore legs thickly pilose to end of tarsi; middle and hind legs less
pilose.
CADRUSIA VIRESCENS, n. sp. (Plate III. fig. 16.)
female. Fore wing ochrey-grey, densely covered with dark sap-green and brown scales, forming broad basal indistinctly-confluent transverse bands, and a narrow sinuous pale- bordered discal band, beyond which is an outer blackish dentate pale-bordered line, and a wavy marginal line; a prominent angled blackish lunule with white-speckled interior at end of the cell; veins black-lined: hind wing ochreous, with a large triangular black spot at end of the cell, and two near outer border towards the angles; a wavy marginal black line. Underside pale ochreous; both wings with a prominent black triangular spot at end of the cell, and two indistinct spots near outer margin. Thorax greenish; abdomen, palpi, and legs ochreous; fore legs green in front.
Expanse 23 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
IMAUS, nov. gen.
Male and female. Alike. Wings large, broad, short. Fore wing slightly arched at base of costa ; apex somewhat rounded; exterior margin oblique and slightly convex. Hind wing somewhat quadrate ; apex rounded, exterior margin produced in the middle. Body robust ; abdomen not extending beyond hind wing; no anal tuft ; ovipositor not exserted ; antenne in both sexes with broad bipectinations ; palpi porrect, slender, clothed with closely adpressed hairy scales ; femora and tibie slightly fringed with hair.
Type. Jmaus mundus (Lymantria munda, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. iv. p. 875).
Hab. Daryjiling.
Genus PORTHETRIA, Hiibner. Porthetria, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 160.
PORTHETRIA LEPCHA, Nl. Sp.
Male. Upperside grey, slightly suffused with fawn-colour: fore wing with four trans- verse equidistant sinuous black lines, the first three lines being medial, the fourth submar-
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ginal; two indistinct basal series of spots; discocellular angular streak and a small spot before it black ; a marginal row of black spots: hind wing reddish at base and along abdo- minal border, with an ill-defined pale brownish submarginal band. Underside pale greyish- ochreous, markings very indistinct. Antenne dark brown; spots on thorax above and short dorsal bands blackish ; palpi black at the side; fore femora black and red-streaked above ; tibiz and tarsi black-speckled.
Expanse 2,°5 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
PORTHETRIA UMBRINA, n. sp. (Plate III. fig. 4.)
Male. Upperside umber-brown: fore wing crossed by three narrow greyish basal wavy bands and two outer marginal sinuous bands; veins greyish ; a marginal row of black spots ; a blackish spot at end of the cell; cilia alternated with black ; a slight ochreous streak at base of wing: hind wing with an indistinct marginal blackish pale-bordered maculated band, and a spot at end of the cell. Underside ochreous-brown, margins ochreous; both wings with a dentate blackish spot at end of the cell; fore wing with a row of black spots on exterior margin and cilia. Thorax longitudinally streaked with grey; abdomen ochreous, with indistinct dorsal and lateral blackish spots ; palpi ochreous, with a lateral black spot ; body beneath and legs ochreous ; legs black-streaked ; antenne dark brown.
Expanse 1% inch.
Hab. Darjiling (Selim Terai). In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Similar in pattern of markings to P. mathura, Moore, also from Darjiling, but of entirely a different colour.
Genus LYMANTRIA, Hiibner. Lymantria, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 160.
LYMANTRIA GRISEA, n. sp. (Plate III. fig. 5, @.)
Male and female. Pale dull brownish-white: fore wings minutely brown-speckled, crossed by several pale brown sinuous bands, the interspaces white-speckled ; a marginal row of brown spots: hind wing with indistinct brownish marginal band. Underside pale greyish- ochreous, margins brighter. ‘Thorax brown; abdomen beneath pale ochreous; palpi brown at side; legs black-streaked above.
Expanse, ¢ 1$, 2 14 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
BARHONA, nov. gen.
Female. Fore wing long, somewhat narrow ; apex much produced, acutely angled ; costa arched ; exterior margin very oblique. Hind wing rather longer, extending some distance
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beyond posterior angle of fore wing; costal margin somewhat straight, apex pointed ; exterior margin very convex; abdominal margin short; veins similar to those in Lymantria (L. dispar), except that the two upper median branches are close together at their base. Body robust, short; antenne minutely pectinate; palpi small, pilose; legs naked; fore femora slightly fringed beneath.
BARHONA CARNEOLA, 0. sp.
Female. Upperside pale rosy flesh-colour; base of hind wing brighter red; fore wing with three short black streaks, one being at end of the cell, another obliquely on costa near the base, the third below it on the hind margin. Underside of wings more roseate than above; costal edge red. Antenne black, basal tuft red; front of head and fore coxe red ; palpi black above; legs black in front; fore and middle femora red beneath; abdomen beneath with slight segmental red bands.
Expanse 3 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
DURA, nov. gen.
Fore wing short; costa slightly arched; apex somewhat rounded; exterior margin slightly oblique and convex, hind margin long. Hind wing short; apex rounded ; exterior margin much produced and angled in the middle; abdominal margin short ; veins similar to those in Lymantria monacha, excepting that in the fore wing the lowest subcostal branch is here emitted below the end of the cell (as a radial) from the angle of upper discocellular vein, the next subcostal branch being also emitted above it and at a short distance from the cell. Body moderate, not extending beyond anal angle; antennz bipectinate; palpi porrect, pilose ; legs slender, slightly pilose, spurred.
DuRA ALBA, n. sp.
Male and female. White. Fore wing crossed by very indistinct pale brownish sinuous bands ; a brown spot at end of the cell, and a marginal row of brown spots: hind wing with a brown spot at upper end of the cell, and a marginal row of spots. Underside white ; cell-spot and marginal series as above. Palpi blackish at side ; legs white.
Expanse, 5 13, 2 22 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Allied to D. albicans (Dasychira albicans, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. vii. p. 1739).
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Genus PEGELLA, Walker. Pegella, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. Suppl. p. 1922.
PEGELLA BIVITTATA, N. sp. Lymantria lineata 9, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. iv. p. 875.
Female. White. Fore wing silky, with a basal short curved sinuous brown streak and two transverse brown bands, the first band outwardly oblique, straight, and one fourth from the base ; second band inwardly oblique, broadest and lunular, its base touching the first on ‘the hind margin ; an exterior marginal row of brown linear spots, which also cross the cilia. Thorax and a large silky anal tuft white ; abdomen reddish ; antennz and palpi black; col- lar and tuft at base of antenne and front of head red; legs black, fore legs red-streaked.
Expanse 3 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. British Museum and Dr. Staudinger.
HIMALA, nov. gen.
Male and female. Fore wing short; costa slightly arched at the base ; apex somewhat pointed; exterior margin oblique and slightly convex, posterior angle rounded: hind wing broad, apex and exterior border rounded. Veins similar to those in Stilpnotia salicis. Body robust, extending to length of hind wing; antenne bipectinate, broadly so in male ; palpi slender, porrect, pilose; legs slender, femora and tibize pilose.
HIMALA ARGENTEA.
Redoa argentea, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. iv. p. 827 (1855). Dasychira ilita, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 341 (1858).
Male and female. Silvery-white. Fore wing with the veins black, except the costal and upper subcostal branches: hind wing with the veins externally and marginal lne black. Palpi black at the side; antenn pale brown; fore and middle legs black in front; tarsi in female black beneath.
Expanse, ¢ 12, 2 1 inch.
Hab. Deyra Dhoon, N.W. Himalaya.
Genus DASYCHIRA, Stephens.
Dasychira, Steph. Brit. Ent. 11. p. 58.
DASYCHIRA BRUNNESCENS, nl. Sp.
Male. Upperside—tfore wing greyish-white, irrorated with brown scales, crossed by a I
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brown irregular zigzag basal line and two subbasal lines, a sinuous discal line, and a sub- marginal pale-bordered lunular line; a brown dentate streak at end of the cell: hind wing ereyish-brown, palest on outer margin; veins and a submarginal fascia darker brown. Underside grey, brownish-speckled ; base of fore wing with ferruginous-brown hairs: both wings with a triangular brown spot at end of cell, and a pale brown submarginal fascia. Thorax, head, and legs grey, speckled with brown; abdomen pale brown; pectinations of antenne ferruginous-brown, shaft grey.
Female. Marked as in male, excepting that the hind wings are much paler-coloured.
Expanse, ¢ 23, 2 38 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
This species has greater similarity of appearance to the European D. pudibunda than any other Indian member of the genus.
DASYCHIRA PERDIX, n. sp. (Plate III. fig. 3.)
Male. Grey ; both wings and the veins irrorated with prominent blackish-brown speckles, forming on the disk of the fore wing indistinct transverse sinuous bands and patches, and a submarginal line; a suffused brown patch at end of the cell, and another ascending from middle of the hind margin: hind wing with a submarginal fascia ; inner margin and abdo- men above pale ferruginous-grey. Underside yellowish-white ; veins lined with pale ochre- ous; costal base of fore wing broadly pale ferruginous. Thorax grey, speckled with brown ; antennie, side of palpi, and legs pale ferruginous.
Expanse 2? inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
DASYCHIRA FASCIATA, n. sp.
Male. Fore wing with two broad greyish-white bands, the first extending from middle of costa and narrowing to near posterior margin, the other along exterior margin, both in- tersected by brown veins ; base of wing and space between the bands greenish-brown, crossed by grey lunules: hind wing creamy-white ; anterior margin to below apex greyish-white ; apex crossed by brown streaks. Underside creamy-white ; costa and cilia of fore wing ferruginous. Head and front of thorax white ; hind part of thorax greenish-brown ; abdo- men pale testaceous, tip dark brown ; antennee brown; palpi, pectus, and legs ferruginous.
Expanse 24°; inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
DASYCHIRA STRIGATA, 0. 8p.
female. Upperside grey, suffused outwardly with fuliginous-brown ; irrorated with black scales; crossed by four subbasal, two discal, and a marginal, black sinuous lines, the outer discal line being pale-bordered ; a black lunule at end of cell; cilia black-spotted: hind wing greyish-brown, base pale ferruginous; an indistinct blackish submarginal fascia, and
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blackish narrow lunular marginal band and spots on cilia. Underside pale ferruginous- brown; both wings with indistinct blackish narrow cell-streak, submarginal fascia, and cilial spots. ‘Thorax, head, palpi, and legs grey, speckled with black ; abdomen and antenne brownish-ferruginous.
Expanse 22 inches.
Hab. Gurhwal (Atkinson); Simla (/utton). In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
This species may ultimately prove to be the female of D. kausalia.
DASYCHIRA CINCTATA, 0. sp.
Male. Upperside—fore wing glossy white, minutely irrorated with brown scales; a brown quadrate spot on costa one-third from the base; a transverse single medial and double discal wavy brown line terminating on costa in a small spot; a submarginal zigzag brown line: hind wing greyish-white, with a subdued brown spot in the cell, an irregular recurved submarginal band, and a marginal lunular line. Underside greyish-white ; both wings with a large dusky-brown spot at end of cell, and indistinct transverse discal brown streaks. Head, thorax, and legs grey; palpi black, tipped with grey ; antenne chestnut-brown, shaft white; legs black-speckled, and tarsi black-banded ; abdomen ochrey-grey, with broad black bands above.
Expanse 2} inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
DASYCHIRA ALBESCENS, n. sp. (Plate ILI. fig. 2.)
Male. Upperside white. Fore wing minutely irrorated with brown scales, crossed by two subbasal and a discal irregular-zigzag indistinct brown lines: hind wing with indistinct brown submarginal fascia, darkest at anal angle, the brown colour also slightly extending inward between the veins; a brownish spot within the cell; cilia of both wings alternated with brown. Underside white ; middle of fore wing broadly, from base, brown; cell-spot on both wings distinct. Palpi at side and tarsi brown-streaked.
Eixpanse 24 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Nearest allied to D. cinctata.
Family NOTODONTID &.
Genus STAUROPUS, Germar.
Stauropus, Germ. Prod. p. 45.
STAUROPUS APICALIS, n. sp.
Male. Fore wing brownish-grey, crossed by a subbasal, discal, and submarginal zigzag 12
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grey lunular lines with brown borders; between the two former is a large indistinct greyish reniform mark; a series of blackish dots on exterior margin; an irregular longitudinal apical black streak eurving below the costa; some irregular black marks also on middle and base of costa: hind wing dull purple-brown. Underside pale brown, middle of fore wing darker brown. Thorax grey; abdomen brownish-testaceous ; front of thorax, palpi, and legs purple-brown.
Expanse 22 inches.
flab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr, Staudinger,
Genus HETEROCAMPA, Doubleday.
Heterocampa, Doubleday, Entom. p. 55.
HETEROCAMPA IRRORATA, 0. sp.
Female. Fore wing grey, speckled with black and yellow, crossed by several zigzag rows of black dentate marks; a black streak obliquely from base, and outer marginal row of short transverse black streaks, one being between each grey-pointed vein: hind wing pale brown. Underside pale brown; costa darker brown. Thorax and head greenish-grey ; abdomen yellow-brown.
Expanse 1 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
HETEROCAMPA BRUNNEA, 0. sp.
Male. Fore wing pale umber-brown, crossed by a broad darker brown subbasal outwardly- oblique band with black-bordered lunular line, and an irregular submarginal indistinct band, outside which is a row of grey-speckled black spots: hind wing and abdomen brownish fawn-colour. Underside pale brown, palest on hind wing. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs chestnut-brown ; antenn pale brown.
Expanse 12 inch,
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
HETEROCAMPA MACULATA, fi. Sp.
Male. Fore wing with a broad basal band and posterior angle grey; apex and disk pale ferruginous, crossed by subbasal and submarginal black zigzag lunular spots ; base in- terspersed with black spots ; a row of submarginal black spots: hind wing pale ferruginous, clouded with brown at apex and anal angle. Underside pale testaceous, brownish and brown-blotched along costa. Thorax black; collar, head, palpi. and legs grey ; abdomen pale testaceous, tipped with a black bar.
Expanse 13 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger,
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HETEROCAMPA PLAGIVIRIDIS, n. sp.
Male. Fore wing purplish-brown, crossed by four green lunular bands with irregular dark brown borders—the first basal, second subbasal, both broad, third discal and formed by two long curves, the fourth submarginal, zigzag, and narrow: hind wing pale pinkish-brown, abdominal margin and abdomen yellowish-brown. Underside pale brown; base of fore wing and abdominal margin yellowish. Antenne brown; thorax, palpi, and legs dark chestnut-brown.
Expanse 2 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
HETEROCAMPA OBLIQUIPLAGA, Ni. sp.
Male. Fore wing crossed by two blackish-grey bands bordered by zigzag black margins, the first subbasal, outwardly oblique and broad, the other submarginal and indistinct at its middle, the broad interspace between them being greyish pink-brown; reniform spot pale ; base and outer border of wing brown, with a marginal row of grey spots: hind wing pale pink-brown ; abdominal margin yellowish. Underside pale testaceous. Head, thorax, palpi, and legs blackish-grey ; abdomen pale testaceous, tipped with black-grey; antenne pale brown.
Expanse 24 inch. Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger,
HETEROCAMPA VARIEGATA, 0. sp.
Male. Fore wing pale pinkish greyish-brown, darkest basally and at apex, palest obliquely before the apex; crossed by narrow irregular lunular ochre-yellow black-bordered bands, clustered at the base and before the apex, and forming a border on exterior margin ; veins black-streaked: hind wing pinkish-brown, with an ochrey-yellow black-bordered anal spot; cilia alternate black and grey. Underside pale brownish-white ; fore wing streaked with brown at base and apex. ‘Thorax dark brown, tinged with ochre in front, and with a white posterior spot; abdomen greyish brown; antenne and legs brown; palpi black.
Expanse 2 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
HETEROCAMPA BASALIS, 0. sp.
Male. Fore wing greyish-white, crossed by a broad subbasal and discal dark umber- brown band with blackish lunular-bordered inner line; two small black spots at end of cell; outer margin crossed by an alternate black and white zigzag line: hind wing and abdomen greyish brown. Underside—fore wing brown; hind wing very pale brown; both wings
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crossed by indistinct darker fascia. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs dark brown; antenne pale brown.
Expanse 1 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus ROSAMA, Walker. Rosama, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1066.
ROSAMA PLUSIOIDES, n. sp.
Male. Allied to the Javan R. strigosa, Walker; but differs in its much darker colour, the costal and outer portion of the fore wing being very dark chestnut and washed with grey, the hind part only being ochreous and darker-streaked ; silvery yellow spot before the cell prominent; the outer submarginal black line is also much less sinuous.
Expanse 1} inch.
Hab. Daxjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus SPATALIA, Hiibner.
Spatalia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 145.
SPATALIA GEMMIFERA, n. sp. (Plate III. fig. 14.)
Male. Upperside—fore wing pale sienna-brown ; a series of silver-white spots bordered with chestnut-brown below the cell at base, from which proceeds a dark brown streak to below the apex; a submarginal series of pale spots, and a few black dots before the apex ; inner lobe of posterior margin black-tufted: hind wing tinted with pale sienna-brown. Underside pale sienna-brown on fore wing, yellowish on hind wing. Thorax, head, palpi, and fore legs chestnut-brown; crest of thorax whitish; antennz brown, shaft whitish ; abdomen pale sienna-brown, tip chestnut-brown, anal tuft blackish.
Expanse 2 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus CELEIA, Walker. Celeia, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. Suppl. p. 463.
CELEIA DISRUPTA, Nn. sp.
Male. Upperside—-fore wing dark purple-brown ; a narrow longitudinal silver streak from base, followed by a white and black spot on a chrome-yellow patch, the silver streak continuing and dilating broadly to outer margin below the apex ; a greenish tint below the
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silver streak ; cilia alternate brown and white: hind wing brown; cilia edged with white. Underside dusky brown; hind wing and patch on fore wing below apex greyish-white. Thorax dark chestnut-brown, medial streak whitish; front of head white; palpi and legs dark chestnut ; abdomen brown, tip chestnut-brown ; antenne brown, shaft whitish ; abdomen beneath whitish.
Expanse 2 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
CELEIA SIKKIMA, Nn. sp.
Male. Upperside—fore wing pale chestnut-brown, streaked with black at base along the disk, at and below the apex; a silver white interrupted streak below the cell: hind wing and abdomen brown ; anal tuft black-tipped. Thorax, antenne, head, and palpi dark brown. Underside—fore wing dusky brown ; hind wing and abdomen beneath and legs pale brown.
Expanse 2 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
NIGANDA, nov. gen.
Fore wing very long, narrow, exterior margin oblique ; subcostal vein five-branched, first and second branches arising before end of the cell, second coalescing with third near its base ; fourth and fifth starting from below the third, each at one third its length from end of the cell; first discocellular very short, oblique, second and third long, concave; two dis- coidal veins; median vein three-branched, lower branch arising at one third the length of the cell, second near to its end and upper branch from its angle with lower discocellular ; submedian vein parallel and close to hind margin: hind wing rather long, trigonal; apex acute, outer margin slightly convex; costal vein long, extending to apex; subcostal two- branched, each starting halfway beyond end of the cell ; two discocellulars, oblique ; median vein as in fore wing ; submedian and internal veins straight. Body long, narrow, attenuated to tip, extending half its length beyond hind wings, tufted; antennze minutely biserrate in male, setaceous in female ; palpi thick, pilose, ascending ; legs slender, pilose, spurred.
NIGANDA STRIGIFASCIA, n. sp. (Plate III. fig. 15, ¢.)
Male. Upperside pale ochreous-brown, greyish externally: fore wing with a narrow longitudinal striated white streak from middle of base to beyond end of the cell, the streak dentate at the end of the cell, a pale yellow fascia extending thence to apex; a narrow ochreous streak below end of the cell; an oblique discal series of indistinct black points and a less apparent series on outer margin ; front of thorax whitish-ochreous, thorax ochreous, abdomen paler.
Female. Upperside brownish-ochreous, brightest on fore wing ; the longitudinal streak broad, occupying the ceil, white at base and yellow to below the apex; outer margin bor-
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dered with white, and brown-speckled. Underside paler in both sexes; fore wings with similar longitudinal streaks.
Expanse, ¢ 2 inches, 9 28 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
NIGANDA SIKKIMA, n. sp.
Male. Upperside—fore wing dull yellowish-ochreous, suffused with vinous-brown along ° hind margin ; disk crossed by three recurved series of ochreous-brown dots, a contiguous inner row and two outer rows of fawn-coloured spots; a marginal row of blackish dots: hind wing vinous ochreous-brown. Cilia yellow. Underside pale dull ochreous-yellow, middle of both wings brownish. Head, thorax, and palpi ochreous-grey ; abdomen ochreous, tip grey.
Expanse 23 inches. .
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
NIGANDA AURATA, 0. sp.
Male. Upperside—fore wing ochreous-yellow, the base and upper half glossy metallic golden-yellow; an ochreous narrow red bifid streak from base below the cell; three or more short oblique streaks on costa, two within the cell, and some speckles on hind margin; a black spot at end of the cell, a pure white sinuous marginal line, two sub- marginal indistinct dusky lunular lines, and a discal row of minute black points: hind wing pale vinous ochreous-brown. Cilia yellow. Underside—fore wing vinous-ochreous ;_ costal border yellow: hind wing pale vinous ochreous-yellow. Thorax grey in front; head, palpi, legs, and thorax behind reddish-ochreous; abdomen greyish-ochreous, beneath and tip yellow.
Expanse 1{ to 2} inches.
Hab. Darjiling (Atkinson) ; Khasia Hills (Godwin-Austen). In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
NIGANDA ALBISTRIGA, 0. sp.
Male. Upperside ochreous-brown: fore wing with a medial longitudinal narrow ochreous line from base of wing, which widens on the disk and is streaked with white near the outer margin: a series of two subbasal, a transverse medial row, three discal rows, and two marginal rows of black points, the two latter with pale borders; a black spot within end of the cell. Cilia alternate brown and ochreous: hind wing and abdomen dark brown. Underside pale greyish-brown: fore wing clouded with brown ; a marginal row of blackish spots: hind wing with subbasal and discal transverse sinuous brown lines, and a marginal row of brown lunules. Head, thorax, and tip of abdomen ochreous-brown,
Expanse 1% inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
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NIGANDA DIVISA, n. sp.
Male. Upperside—fore wing brownish-ochreous; the veins on upper half of wing and longitudinal intermediate narrow streaks dark ochreous-brown; a narrow black longitudinal streak on hind margin near base, from the end of which an indistinct fascia ascends to costa; a curved subbasal transverse series of blackish-speckled spots, a discal series of black points, and a similar series on outer margin ; a pale-bordered mark at end of the cell: hind wing dark umber-brown. Head, thorax, and tip of abdomen brownish-ochreous, crest of thorax, front of head, and palpi brighter ochreous ; abdomen above dark brown Wings beneath dark umber-brown ; apex of both wings, legs, and abdomen beneath pale brownish- ochreous.
Expanse 2% inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus CEIRA, Walker. Cera, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. Suppl. p. 462.
CEIRA OCHRACEAy 0. sp.
Female. Upperside-—fore wing clear uniform ochreous-yellow, with an indistinct discal row of brown points: hind wing pale yellow, veins and outer margin darkest. Head and thorax ochreous ; abdomen paler. Underside uniform paler ochreous-yellow.
Expanse 2 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
CEIRA JUNCTURA, 0. sp.
Male. Upperside pale straw-yellow: fore wing with an ochreous-brown longitudinal band from base to apex, the band suffused broadly and darker-spotted below the cell and before reaching the apex, some dark speckles joining the band from hind margin; base of costa spotted and obliquely streaked, and the costal edge lined with ochrey-brown ; two vblique submarginal speckled lines of the same colour. Underside dull pale ochrey-yellow, the veins of both wings and costal border of fore wing pale ochreous-brown. Body ochreous- yellow ; thorax, head, palpi, and legs ochreous-brown.
Expanse 1$ inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
CEIRA BASISTRIGA, 1. Sp.
Male. Upperside—fore wing dark ochrey-yellow, with numerous ochrey-brown speckles disposed across the disk in oblique linear series; two short straight brown streaks speckled with greyish-white from base of wing below the cell; base of costa dotted with black ; a marginal row of blackish dots, and a prominent upper discal black-speckled spot:
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hind wing pale yellowish-cinereous. Underside pale ochreous-yellow: fore wing suffused on the disk with brown. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs ochrey-brown ; abdomen pale ochreous. Expanse 23 inches. Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
CEIRA POSTICA, D. sp.
Male. Upperside pale straw-yellow: fore wing speckled with ochrey-brown ; a narrow ochrey-brown ill-defined medial longitudinal band from base curving upward to apex; a triangular patch on hind margin near angle; a series of darker points along outer margin. Underside uniform whitish-ochreous. Head, palpi, thorax, and legs ochrey-brown.
Expanse 12 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
CEIRA DECURRENS, NR. sp.
Female. Upperside dull straw-yellow: fore wing minutely brown-speckled ; two medial and a submarginal transverse oblique brown-speckled bands, the two medial bands broadest anteriorly, bent inward to costa and partly jomed at the angle by a confluent fascia extending to the apex; a black dot at end of the cell. Hind wing, body, and underside paler whitish-ochreous.
Expanse 2 inches.
Hab. Cherra Punji, Assam. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus PYDNA, Walker. Pydna, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. vi. p. 1753.
PYDNA FASCIATA, 0. sp.
Male. Upperside pale ochreous-brown: fore wing with two transverse oblique recurved darker fasciz, which are broadly suffused on hind margin and anteriorly across to below apex, the interspaces whitish-streaked ; a distinct transverse discal row of dark brown dots, and a similar but less distinct series on outer margin: hind wing uniform ochreous-brown. Underside paler: fore wing ochreous-brown at base: hind wing with an indistinct brown sinuous discal band and a spot at end of the cell.
Expanse 23 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Allied to P. testacea, Walker, but differs from it by the oblique suffused fascia and the discal series of brown dots, and in the absence of the row of black dentate marks near the outer margin.
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PYDNA INDICA, n. sp.
Female. Upperside greyish-ochreous: fore wing brown-speckled; a discal trans- verse curved oblique series of brown points, one on each vein, and a transverse subbasal indistinct series: hind wing grey with indistinct broad ochreous streaks along the veins. Underside paler, whitish on hind wing: fore wing suffused with pale ochreous-brown at base.
Expanse 24 inches.
Hab. Calcutta. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus LOPHOPTERYX, Slephens. Lophopteryx, Steph. Brit. Ent. ii. p. 26.
LOPHOPTERYX ARGENTATA, Nn. Sp.
Male. Fore wing silvery-grey, suffused with pale brown at base and chestnut brown on lobe of hind margin, at angle, and on cilia; crossed by two medial black zigzag lines, between which are two black streaks within the cell; some slight black streaks at the base and before the apex, and a row on exterior margin: hind wing and abdomen grey-brown. Underside grey-brown. Head, front of thorax, and antenne chestnut-brown ; sides of thorax silvery-grey.
Expanse 13°; inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
LOoPHOPTERYX FLAVISTIGMA, Nl. Sp.
Male. Fore wing dark umber-brown, interspersed with hoary scales; a basal, subbasai, discal, and submarginal narrow zigzag yellowish transverse bands, each with black-bordered lines; a narrow yellowish reniform mark centred with a black streak: hind wing pale umber-brown, with a short yellow black-bordered hoary-margined streak above anal angle. Underside uniform umber-brown. Head and thorax hoary chestnut-brown ; abdomen and antenne pale umber-brown.
Expanse 1 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
LoPHOPTERYX FERRUGINOSA, Nn. Sp.
Male. Fore wing light fuliginous-brown, interspersed with short yellowish longitudinal streaks ; crossed by a subbasal and discal row of dark brown lunules, each row curving and nearly touching before reaching the hind margin, and terminating on the margin in a narrow yellow streak; two outer marginal rows of dark brown pale-centred dentate marks.
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68 NOTODONTID.
Hind wing and abdomen pale brown. Underside pale brown; hind wing with narrow darker brown transverse line. Head and thorax light reddish-brown.
Expanse 1 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus RAMESA, Walker. Ramesa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1016.
RAMESA APICALIS, n. sp. (Plate III. fig. 12.)
Male. Upperside—fore wing pale chestnut-brown, with longitudinal black streaks from the base, and a straight transverse apical pale streak with white inner border and black outer margin; streaks black-spotted between the veins: hind wing uniform brown. Under- side brown ; apex of fore wing and hind wing pale brown. Thorax and head hoary blackish- brown; abdomen brown; antenne chestnut-brown; legs brown, black-speckled.
Expanse 1% inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus HOPLITIS, Hiibner. Hoplitis, Hiibn., Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 147.
HOPLITIS STRIGATA, n. sp. (Plate ITI. fig. 13.)
Male. Upperside—fore wing longitudinally streaked with pale and dark chestnut-brown ; a basal patch and short oblique costal streaks before the apex grey; from these a dark curved streak proceeds to the apex; marginal lunular line brown: hind wing pinkish white, anterior border brownish ; a black grey-speckled spot at anal angle. Underside—fore wing brown, whitish-streaked on hind margin: hind wingasabove. ‘Thorax grey, front of head and streak down thorax blackish ; abdomen and legs brown; antenne chestnut-brown, shaft grey.
Expanse 23 inches.
Ilab. Canara (Ward). In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Genus NOTODONTA, Hiibner. Notodonta, Hiibn., Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 146.
NOTODONTA SIKKIMA, 0. sp.
Male. Upperside—fore wing pale grey-brown; a dark umber-brown broad basal band with wavy whitish border ; a patch on costa near apex; a rounded spot midway between it and a geminated spot at posterior angle; cilia white, alternated by a marginal row of brown spots; reniform mark greyish white, brown-centred: hind wing greyish-white, with a brown submarginal curved band and marginal lunules; abdominal margin broadly pale
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ochrey-brown. Underside greyish-white, base of wings pale ochrey-brown ; marginal spots on fore wing pale brown. ‘Thorax blackish-brown ; head, collar, palpi, antenna, abdomen, and legs pale ochrey-brown.
Expanse 22 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus PHEOSIA, Hiibner. Pheosia, Hiibn., Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 145.
PHEOSIA COSTALIS, n. sp.
Male and female. Upperside—fore wing with a broad longitudinal costal buff-white band, slightly brown-streaked along the veins; hind part of wing and small patch at apex dark chestnut-brown; a white trifid discocellular mark and a short silver-white streak on vein below: hind wing brownish fawn-colour; cilia edged with white. Underside pale brownish fawn-colour; base and apex streaked with pale buff. Head, palpi, thorax, and legs chestnut-brown ; a projecting buff-white crest on middle of thorax ; antenna brown, shaft buff-white.
Expanse 2 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore,
PHEOSIA ALBIFASCIA, N. sp.
Male. Upperside—fore wing chestnut-brown, with a broad longitudinal whitish fascia from base of costa to apex; veins blackish ; a double brown-bordered white oblique discal and submarginal line; exterior and posterior border dusky brown ; cilia and a pale-bordered marginal line brown: hind wing pale ochrey-yellow, darker on abdominal margin ; exterior margin and cilia chestnut-brown. Underside pale ochrey-yellow: fore wing washed with chestnut-brown; costal border and outer margins of both wings dark chestnut-brown. Thorax, head, antenne, and legs chestnut-brown; tegule black-streaked ; abdomen pale ochrey-yellow.
Expanse 22 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
PHEOSIA SIKKIMA, 0. sp.
Male and female. Upperside—fore wing fulvous-brown, darker fuliginous-brown from base to below apex, a paler longitudinal fascia traversed by darker veins on costa from its middle to the apex ; hind margin also paler and traversed by pale longitudinal streaks which are slightly whitish in male; two indistinct medial zigzag darker lines, which are pale- bordered in the male: hind wing and abdomen pale brown; thorax and crest chestnut-
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brown, a broad white band on front of thorax above. Underside and legs pale brown ; tarsi in female with pale whitish bands.
Expanse, ¢ 1{ inch, ¢ 2% inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
RACHIA, nov. gen.
Male. Fore wing very long, narrow, subfusiform ; costa arched ; apex acute; exterior margin very oblique, waved; hind margin slightly convex at the base ; subcostal vein five- branched, first branch arising before end of the cell, third from the second at nearly half its length from end of the cell, forked, fourth from below the third at one third from its end, fifth from the second at half distance between third and end of the cell; discocellulars slightly bent in the middle, whence springs the radial; median vein three-branched, middle branch from before end of the cell; submedian curved towards the hind margin. Hind wing long, extending beyond angle of fore wing, costa straight, apex slightly rounded, exterior margin waved, abdominal margin short, densely hairy; costal vein extending to apex ; subcostal two-branched at half the length beyond the cell; discocellulars, radial, and median as above; a submedian and an internal vein. Body stout, abdomen extending beyond hind wing; thorax thickly pilose ; antenne long, plumose, very broadly bipectinate ; palpi small, short, not extending beyond the head, pilose and adpressed beneath, tip blunt ; legs thickly pilose.
RACHIA PLUMOSA, B. sp.
Male. Upperside—fore wing dusky ferruginous-brown, with pale ochreous short longitudinal interspaces between the veins, the spaces streaked with dark chestnut-brown ; an indistinct transverse subbasal and a discal black zigzag line; a marginal black denticu- lated line: hind wing duller brown, with two very indistinct transverse dusky pale-bordered submarginal sinuous lines. Antenne black; thorax dark brown, black in front; abdomen paler. Underside paler, duller-coloured: fore wing unmarked: hind wing pale cinereous- brown along abdominal margin; crossed by a discal brown band; a brown lunule at end of the cell.
Expanse 2? inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Genus PARAVETTA, Moore. Paravetta, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1865, p. 814.
PARAVETTA SIKKIMA, 0. Sp.
Male. Upperside dark brownish fawn-colour: fore wing with a wide transverse medial pale-margined outwardly bent ochreous-brown band, the upper part very broad, the lower
DANAKA.—BEARA. fat
part narrow, and inwardly oblique ; a narrow marginal line, the edge of cilia on both wings, and a short submarginal wavy line on hind wings ochreous. Underside slightly paler, with an ochreous bent submarginal and a pale marginal line.
Expanse 1,%5 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Differs from P. discinota in its smaller size, darker colour on both wings. and in the absence of the prominent dark discal spots.
DANAKA, nov. gen.
Male. Fore wing long, narrow, costa nearly straight,,apex acute, exterior margin recurved, posterior margin recurved, angle acute; first subcostal branch before end of the cell, second and third from the end, fourth from below the third at half its length, fifth from end of the cell; discocellulars obliquely curved ; median with the two upper branches confluent at their base and with the third from lower end of the cell; a submedian and in- ternal vein. Hind wing rather long, extending slightly beyond posterior angle of fore wing, apex rounded, exterior margin waved, abdominal margin short ; subcostal three-branched ; discocellulars very oblique, straight ; other veins as in fore wing. Body moderately stout ; abdomen slightly longer than hind wing, with lateral segmental and anal tufts; antenne serrate, teeth finely pectinate ; palpi pilose, conical ; femora and tibie thickly pilose.
DANAKA PYRALIFORMIS, n. sp. (Plate ITI. fig. 10.)
Male. Upperside—fore wing brownish-ochreous, crossed by a medial irregular-shaped violet-grey band, the lower part of base and a short streak within the cell also of the same colour: hind wing cinereous-brown, outer border ochreous-tinged, with an indistinct curved discal transverse darker pale outer-bordered band ; cilia edged with cinereous-white. Body ochreous ; antennz and legs ochreous-brown. Underside paler, basal two thirds of both wings dusky black.
Expanse 13 inch.
Hab. Dayjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus BEARA, Walker. Beara, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. Suppl. p. 1703.
BEARA CASTANEA, n. sp. (Plate IIT. fig. 9.)
Male. Fore wing chestnut-brown, crossed by a subbasal, a discal, and a submarginal indistinct blackish sinuous band: a blackish spot at lower end of wing, and large curved spot at end of the cell; both wings with a marginal row of dots: hind wing yellowish, tinted along outer border with very pale chestnut-brown. Thorax chestnut-brown, white beneath ; abdomen greyish-brown, beneath white; legs chestnut-brown above, whitish
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beneath ; palpi frmged with white at base; antenne brown. Underside pale chestnut ; hind borders of both wings yellow ; a marginal dotted line indistinct.
Expanse 12 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
This species has much the appearance of B. dichromella, Walker, but differs in being twice its size, and in the fore wing being devoid of the black speckles that are scattered throughout that wing; the hind wing also is of a different colour.
Family PSYCHID &.
KOPHENE, nov, gen.
Wings covered with minute compact scales: fore wing broad, trigonal, costa slightly concave in the middle, apex acute, exterior margin oblique, long, nearly straight, angle rather acute, posterior margin short; costal vein curved upward from the base ; subcostal vein five-branched, first branch arising at some distance before and second at end of the cell, third and fifth from upper angle of the cell, fourth from below the third at one third its length ; cell very broad at the end; discocellulars of equal length, lower slightly bent near its end; two discoidal veinlets emitted within the cell, upper from middle of the disco- cellulars parallel with the radial, the other from angle of lower discocellular, both joined together in the middle of the cell; and before their junction the lower throws out a short branch or spur to the median vein nearly in a line with its lower branch; median vein four-branched, the two upper from end of the cell, third near its end, fourth at some distance off; submedian vein angled and curved upward at half its length, having a lower curved branch extending to the base, the lower branch emitting a short spur at half its length which is directed outward. Hind wing broad, short, anterior margin arched, apex and exterior margin and posterior angle convex; subcostal slender, joined to the costal by an oblique upward cross branch; discocellulars oblique, curved; two discoidal veinlets emitted within the cell and joined together near the middle; median vein four-branched, angled at the lower branch, the two upper branches starting from end of the cell, third near its end; a submedian and two internal veins. Body pilose; thorax clothed with long hairs; abdomen slender; antenne short, bipectinate, plumose; legs small, slender, femora and tibize clothed with long hairs.
KOPHENE CUPREA, 2. sp.
Wings covered with minute compact dark cupreous-brown scales; abdominal margin pale cinereous-brown. Body above cinereous-brown, beneath dusky-brown.
Expanse ~ inch.
Hab. Calcutta. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
LIMACODIDZA. 1B)
KOPHENE MINOR, h. sp.
Wings covered with minute compact scales; pale cupreous-brown, palest beneath. Fore wing rounded at the apex. Legs sparsely pilose; body pilose.
Expanse 3 inch.
Hab. Calcutta (June). In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Family LIMACODIDS&.
Genus SCOPELODES, Westwood.
Scopelodes, Westwood, Nat. Libr. xxxvui. p. 222.
SCOPELODES VULPINA, n. sp. (Plate III. fig. 22.)
Upperside—fore wing bright golden velvety-brown ; cilia hoary cinereous: hind wing fawn-colour, veins lined with pale yellow ; base of wing yellowish; cilia cinereous. Under- side brownish fawn-colour, veins on both wings lined with yellow ; base of hind wing broadly pale golden-yellow. Head, thorax, antennz, aud legs hoary brown ; abdomen golden-yellow, with an indistinct b'acl?sh dorsal tufted streak, tip black; palpi golden brown, tip black.
Expanse 2 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Differs from S. venosa in the wings being much more produced at the apex, as well as in colour and size.
Genus NAROSA, Walker. Narosa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1151.
NAROSA RUFOTESSELLATA, n. sp. (Plate IIT. fig. 24.)
Upperside—fore wing silvery-yellow, ornamented with short transverse crimson streaks between the veins, some of which are brown-speckled; a prominent brown- speckled spot at end of the cell: hind wing bright crimson. Cilia yellow. Underside red, yellowish at apex and on hind margin of fore wing. ‘Thorax silvery-yellow ; abdomen reddish ; palpi, legs, and body beneath yellow; collar, thorax beneath, and sides of palpi pale red.
Expanse 12 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
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Genus CONTHEYLA, Walker. Contheyla, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. Suppl. p. 384.
CONTHEYLA THORACICA, n. sp. (Plate III. fig. 7.)
Upperside dark cinereous-brown; cilia paler: fore wing thickly black-speckled, inter- spersed with a few prominent lilac-white scales ; a small pale brown spot on costa before the apex, and a similar-coloured spot above middle of hind margin. Thorax greyish-white ; collar and tegule fringed with black; abdomen brown, segments slightly fringed with black, the fringe beneath long and tufted; palpi, thorax, body beneath, and legs brown ; joints of legs tufted and fringed with white.
Expanse 15%; inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus MONEMA, Walker, Monema, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1112.
MONEMA OCELLATA, 0. sp.
Female. Upperside pale golden-testaceous: both wings with a narrow brown marginal line and cilial border ; base of hind wing fuliginous: fore wing with a clearly defined narrow black submarginal line, which is shghtly tortuous anteriorly; a large medial ocellated spot composed of a silvery-grey centre, a bright cupreous-brown outer border on its discal half, and a black-speckled border on its inner half; a few silvery-grey and black speckles ascending obliquely towards the apex. Body above adorned with long thickened black-pointed scat- tered hairs. Underside slightly paler; fore wing suffused black in the middle: hind wing with slightly suffused black streaks from base.
Expanse 2 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Genus MIRESA, Walker. Miresa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1128.
MIRESA CUPREA, n. sp. (Plate III. fig. 8.)
Upperside—fore wing dark glossy cupreous-brown, with two short oblique streaks below the cell and a submarginal transverse fascia of bright cupreous-brown: hind wing brown, with slight cupreous tinge along outer margin. Underside dark brown. Body dark grey- brown ; antenne, front of head, palpi, fore legs, and tarsi ochreous-brown.
Expanse 1$ inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
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Genus SETORA, Walker. Setora, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1069.
SETORA DIVERGENS, n. sp. (Plate III. fig. 23.)
Male ochreous-red, female ochreous-brown, very sparsely black-speckled: fore wing crossed by two narrow blackish bands, the outer band from costa near apex and nearly erect, the other starting from its upper end and curving to near base of hind margin. Underside uniformly coloured, without bands: hind wing very sparsely black-speckled. Palpi fringed with black at the tip.
Expanse 12 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus BELIPPA, Walker. Belippa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. Suppl. p. 508.
BELIPPA APICATA, 0. sp.
Fore wing dark olive-brown, varied with purplish-brown along the costa, and pale ochreous along outer border; a very indistinct black-speckled spot at end of the cell, and a black spot with white speckles at apex: hind wing dark brownish fawn-colour, with an indistinct darker maculated margin, and a black-speckled spot at apex and at anal angle; cilia brownish-cinereous. Underside dark brown, veins paler, spot at apex and angle as above. Body dark rufous-brown ; abdomen with very indistinct black dorsal fringe ; anal tuft black at tip; tibie with a black streak.
Expanse 12 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Family LASIOCAMPID &.
Genus GASTROPACHA, Curtis. Gastropacha, Curtis, Brit. Ent. 1. p. 24.
GASTROPACHA SIKKIMA, n. sp.
Male. Ferruginous: fore wing crossed by indistinct darker narrow wavy bands, the exterior band zigzag and more prominent; a longitudinal indistinct yellowish fascia along hind margin, another at the apex, and also an intermediate vinous-grey fascia, the latter also extending along the exterior margin: hind wing with the anterior portion yellowish and crossed by wavy indistinct narrow ferruginous bands. Thorax yellowish-ferruginous.
L2
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Underside more uniform ferruginous, with indistinct darker zigzag discal band on fore wing, and less distinct anterior sinuous band and suffused patch at angle on hind wing.
Female. Yellowish-ferruginous ; wavy bands less distinct; outer borders greyish- ochreous. Pectinations of antenne and palpi blackish.
Expanse, ¢ 22 inches, 2 34 inches.
fab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
, GASTROPACHA SINUATA, 0. sp.
Male. Upperside greyish-ferruginous: fore wing minutely grey-speckled, with indistinct subbasal and discal wavy darker bands: hind wing darker ferruginous, with indistinct discal wavy grey bands; exterior margin very sinuous. Underside—fore wing uniform ferrugi- nous: hind wing greyish, with anterior ferruginous wavy streaks; margin of both wings blackish-ferruginous. Cilia grey. Head and antenne greyish.
Expanse 2+ inches.
flab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
GASTROPACHA TORRIDA, n. sp. (Plate III. fig. 19.)
Male. Upperside brownish-ochreous ; fore wing with a whitish spot at end of the cell, and a medial transverse recurved indistinct dusky-black narrow band: hind wing darker- coloured at the base; with a narrow medial and a lunular submarginal indistinct dusky- black band. Underside as above ; antenne black.
Expanse 1¢ inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus ODONESTIS, Germar. Odonestis, Germ. Prod. p. 49 (1811).
ODONESTIS SIGNATA, Nn. sp.
Mate and female. Upperside reddish fawn-colour, hind wing and abdomen paler: fore wing with an indistinct black curved subbasal, and a recurved discal sinuous line ; an outer discal zigzag row of dusky metallized spots; an oblique ochreous-white elongated spot at end of the cell and a small white dot above it: hind wing with a very indistinct dusky transverse medial fascia. Underside duller-coloured ; both wings with a dusky-black trans- verse medial fascia; elongated spot at the end of cell yellowish-white. Antenne pale ferruginous.
Expanse, 6 18, 2 23 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
EUPTEROTE.—SPHINGOGNATITA.—EUTRICHA. 17
Genus EUPTEROTE, Hiibner. Eupterote, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 187.
(DREATA (part.), Walker.)
EUPTEROTE NILGIRICA, nN. sp.
Female. Dull ochreous; both wings with a broad discal transverse dark brown-speckled band and an outer submarginal narrow sinuous band, the interspace with row of triangular marks; the discal space before the band sparsely and indistinctly brown-speckled. Under- side as above.
Expanse 22 inches.
Hab. Nilgiri Hills. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Allied to EL. canaraensis, Moore, but may be distinguished from that species by the en- tire absence of the exterior discal lunular band.
Genus SPHINGOGNATHA, Felder. Sphingognatha, Felder, Nov. Voy. pl. 94.
SPHINGOGNATHA KHASIANA, 0. sp.
Male. Upperside pale greyish-ochreous ; both wings apparently with five oblique trans- verse broad undulating brown-speckled bands, the first band being outside the cell on fore wing, and crossing the hind wing near the base, the fifth band grey-speckled ; a contiguous outer discal parallel narrow brown line, even on the fore wing, undulating on hind wing, curving from apex to one-third from posterior angle, and crossing the hind wing to one-third above anal angle ; beyond this is a submarginal greyish-white lunular band with black den- tate spots between the veins ; a small vitreous spot at end of the cell.
Female. Brighter-coloured, marked as in the male. Palpi and fore legs dusky above.
Expanse, ¢ 33, 2 3% inches.
Hab. Khasia Hills. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
This is a much smaller species than S. pallida (Jana pallida, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. iv. p. 912), which has very narrow and less oblique bands, the outer discal band being further from the margin, and its upper end on the fore wing some distance from the apex.
Genus EUTRICHA, Hiibner (Steph.). Eutricha, Steph. Brit. Ent. i. p. 36. EUTRICHA FLAVOSIGNATA, n. sp. (Plate III. fig. 17.)
Maie. Upperside dark chestnut-red; hind wing duller-coloured: fore wing with a pro- minent small yellow cell-spot, a slight yellow transverse subbasal band, and a very indistinct
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pale discal band, the interspaces between the outer veins and cilia blackish. Underside uniformly duller red ; both wings with a darker discal transverse fascia. Cilia slightly white- edged.
Expanse 13 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
MAHANTA, nov. gen.
Fore wing long, narrow ; costa arched near its end; apex falcate, outer margin oblique and convex posteriorly; hind margin short and deeply excavated at base ; subcostal vein five-branched, first arising before end of the cell, second beyond the cell, third and fourth near the apex, fifth from below the third at half its length between its base and fourth branch ; cell short; discocellulars long, bent inwards; a recurrent vein extending to base of cell; upper radial vein anastomosing with subcostal to beyond end of cell; lower radial starting from middle of lower discocellular; three median veins; submedian and internal veins straight. Hind wing short, ovate; subcostal three-branched ; cell short; upper discocellular short, lower long and outwardly oblique ; recurrent veins oblique ; one radial and three median veins at equal distances apart at base; a submedian and two internal veins. Body stout; abdomen long, extending beyond hind wing ; thorax broad ; head small; antennve slender, serrated to tip ; palpi adpressed, stout, ascending ; legs short, densely pilose to tip of tarsi.
MAHANTA QUADRILINEA, n. sp. (Plate ITI. fig. 20.)
Male. Upperside bright pale cimnamon-brown ; fore wing with two medial transverse obliquely recurved narrow dark-brown lines, each bordered outwardly from the hind margin with a short silky cinnamon-grey fascia; a similar fascia extends upward from posterior angle, and another near base of wing; cilia edged with silky white: hind wing golden yel- yellow broadly along anterior margin; cilia whitish at anal angle. Underside paler cin- namon-brown; veins of both wings and hind margin of fore wing golden yellow. Middle of thorax and antenne cinnamon-grey ; a short straight white streak across each tegula.
Expanse 2 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus METANASTRIA, Hiibner. Metanastria, Hibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 186.
METANASTRIA MINOR, 0, Sp.
Male and female. Dull ferruginous: fore wing indistinctly grey-speckled, and with two medial obliquely transverse straight narrow pale-bordered darker bands. ‘Thorax with a
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slightly raised medial crest. Underside uniform ferruginous; apex of fore wing slightly erey-speckled.
Expanse, ¢ 1555, 2 14% inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
ARGUDA, nov. gen.
Male and female. Fore wing short; costa arched at the middle; apex slightly falcate and pointed; exterior margin short, even; posterior margin long, straight, extending one third beyond hind wing, angle rounded. Hind wing abbreviated anteriorly, elongated pos- teriorly ; costa short, exterior margin long, even, and very convex ; abdominal margin long; veins similar to those in Metanastria hyrtaca. Body moderately stout ; abdomen not ex- tending beyond hind wing; palpi stout, conical, pilose, porrect; antenne broadly bipecti- nate ; legs stout; femora and tibiz pilose.
ARGUDA DECURTATA, N. sp.
Male and female. Upperside ferruginous: fore wing speckled with ochreous-grey ; two medial transverse oblique narrow black pale-bordered bands, the inner band straight, the outer slightly recurved before the costa; a small black cell-spot ; an indistinct discal series of dusky zigzag lunules; hind margin black-fringed: hind wing speckled with ochreous grey, and crossed by a short zigzag dusky streak along anterior border. Underside bright dark ferruginous; exterior borders and two indistinct discal fascize across fore wing, and three basal dusky-bordered greyish wavy bands across hind wing, the latter wing also with a discal dusky zigzag band. ‘Tip of palpi and a streak on vertex black.
Expanse, ¢ 14, ? 23 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
RADHICA, nov. gen.
Male. Fore wing short, costa slightly arched, apex truncated; exterior margin waved, angled below the apex; posterior margin long, straight. Hind wing short, produced hind- ward ; costa abbreviated; exterior margin very convex, waved; abdominal margin long. Veins, body, antennz, palpi, and legs as in Arguda.
RADHICA FLAVOVITTATA, 0. sp.
Male. Upperside yellowish-ferruginous: fore wing with wavy transverse subbasal and straight oblique medial pale-bordered narrow dusky bands ; a prominent black cell-spot, and discal zigzag series of yellow-bordered dusky lunules: hind wing with a somewhat broad yellow dusky-inner-bordered subbasal band, which is most prominent anteriorly. A dark
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ferruginous streak on middle of thorax terminating in a lower greyish-black spot; palpi dusky black. Underside—fore wing paler, with a dusky cell-spot, medial transverse band, and marginal streaks: hind wing grey-speckled, crossed by a dusky black subbasal sinuous band, indistinct discal wavy yellow-bordered streaks, and a marginal row of black cilial streaks.
Expanse 24 inches.
fab. Nynee Tal and Dhurmsala, N.W. Himalaya. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
CHATRA, nov. gen.
Male and female. Wings ample: fore wing elongated, oval; costa considerably arcaed ; apex acutely convex; exterior margin oblique; hind margin short, convex at the angle. Hind wing broad, short, apex convex ; exterior margin produced and very convex, abdominal margin short. Veins similar to those in Oeona, Walker (Cat. Lep. Het. B.M. vi. p. 1418), Body stout; palpi short, compact and adpressed, broad, porrect; legs pilose; antenne bipectinate.
CHATRA GRISEA, Nn. sp.
Male. Dark duli greyish-ferruginous: fore wing densely covered with grey scales, crossed by two subbasal and two medial indistinctly darker wavy bands and an outer discal zigzag series of prominent black grey-bordered lunules; a white subbasal cell-spot: hind wing with a very indistinct darker medial transverse fascia. Underside dusky ferruginous ; fore wing densely grey-speckled on outer border, and the hind wing along anterior and outer borders; both wings crossed by two indistinct darker medial bands, and fore wing with a discal maculated band.
Female brighter-coloured above and beneath ; markings as in male.
Expanse, ¢ 33, 2 4§ inches.
Hab. Cherra Punji (Atkinson). WKhasia Hills (Godwin-Austen). In coll. Dr. Staudinger and I’, Moore.
Genus LEBEDA, Walker. Lebeda, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. vi. p. 1453.
LEBEDA PLACIDA, 1. sp.
Male and female. Upperside uniform pale ferruginous; fore wing with four indistinct darker ferruginous-brown medial transverse narrow bands, the two inner waved, the two outer sinuous ; an outer discal series of small black-speckled spots; a prominent white cell- spot; outer border and interspace between the middle bands washed with grey. Underside
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paler: fore wing with three indistinct darker transverse discal fasciee; hind wing with two similar fasciz.
Expanse, ¢ 33, ? 5 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
May be distinguished from L. ferruginea and L. ampla by its longer and narrow wings, and uniform colour.
LEBEDA VULPINA, Nn. sp.
Male. Fore wing very dark bright ferruginous, crossed by two indistinct rather broad medial darker fawn-coloured bands, and a similar oblique basal band ; an outer discal zigzag series of grey-speckled dusky spots; a small prominent white cell-spot: hind wing and abdomen dull paler ferruginous. Underside pale dull ferruginous; both wings crossed by very indistinct dusky medial bands. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs dark ferruginous; pecti- nations of antennee dusky ferruginous.
Expanse 24 inches.
Hab. Daxjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
LEBEDA LINEATA, n. sp.
Male. Ferruginous: fore wing with a longitudinal black narrow straight line from base to near outer margin ; crossed by basal and discal narrow blackish sinuous lines; an outer discal row of black spots, and fawn-coloured speckled streaks between the veins on outer margin. Underside slightly paler; fore wing with dusky-black subbasal medial bands, discal and marginal spots, and hind wing with medial curved dusky band. Antenne dusky-ferruginous ; palpi at tip and side, and legs above, black.
Expanse 24 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
LEBEDA FULGENS, n. sp.
Male. Fore wing dark bright terruginous, somewhat yellowish at the base of hind margin and at the posterior angle, and washed with greyish-ferruginous on exterior border ; crossed by apparently six darker oblique bands, which are wavy anteriorly and sinuous pos- terlorly, the outer discal one formed of somewhat zigzag dusky spots; a prominent small white triangular cell-spot: hind wing and body dull ferruginous ; anal tuft dusky. Under- side uniform ferruginous; veins paler. Head, palpi, antenne, and legs dark dull fer- ruginous.
Expanse 2? inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
The fore wings in this species are narrower than in the other Indian species of the genus.
M
82 LASIOCAMPIDA,
Genus TRICHIURA, Stephens. Trichiura, Steph. Brit. Ent. i. p. 42.
TRICHIURA KHASIANA, n. sp. (Plate III. fig. 21.)
Upperside dark vinous-brown: fore wing with ferruginous-brown veins and black lon- gitudinal interspaces speckled with grey; crossed by three black pale-bordered lines—the first subbasal, second discal, and third marginal, the middle band wavy, the outer zigzag and ochreous-speckled: hind wing with very indistinct darker subbasal band. Underside uniform brown: fore wing with a few grey speckles at the apex; hind wing with indistinct subbasal darker band. Antenne, head, palpi, thorax, and legs dark brown ; abdomen paler.
Expanse 12 inch.
Hab. Khasia Hills. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus MUSTILIA, Walker. Mustilia, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. Suppl. p. 580.
MUSTILIA CASTANEA, 0. sp.
Male. Fore wing dark chestnut-red; an oblique blackish line curving from apex to hind margin near the angle; three broad transverse bands formed of greyish chalybeate scales, retracting inward to the costa; a small black spot at end of the cell: hind wing dark fer- ruginous, palest at base ; three short discal indistinct narrow dusky lines curved from above the anal angle. Underside ferruginous, palest at base: fore wing with short blackish oblique line from apex; a spot at end of cell: hind wing grey at anal angle ; two transverse discal brown lines; a black spot at end of the cell. Body dark chestnut-red, paler beneath ; thorax washed with chalybeate ; antenne pale ferruginous.
Expanse 24 inches.
Hab. Davrjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Differs from MW. falcipennis, Walk. (which is also from Darjiling), in being of a darker colour both above and beneath. The hind wing has the outer margin convex, and is not produced before the anal angle; and there are three transverse lines which are curved, two widely separated lines only being present in JZ. falcipennis. On the underside the markings
in WM. castanea are very indistinct.
MUSTILIA HEPATICA, n. sp. (Plate III. fig. 18.)
Male. Upperside ochreous-brown, greyish-ochreous at base of wings and on thorax: fore wing with an oblique narrow wavy blackish line from apex to hind margin one third from the angle, and a transverse subbasal zigzag line; a large oblique blackish spot at end of the cell; two brown streaks on costa before the apex ; three confluent pale ochreous spots above posterior angle: hind wing with a transverse medial curved wavy blackish line from
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middle of costa to above anal angle; three confluent pale ochreous spots above anal angle. Underside pale chestnut-brown, palest on hind wing; a blackish transverse discal pale outer- bordered line from apex of fore wing to above anal angle; a black spot at end of each cell. Shaft of antenne whitish; fore legs brown above, ochreous beneath; mid and hind tarsi with brown bands.
Expanse 2% inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Family BOMBYCIDZ.
Genus OCINARA, Walker. Ocinara, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. vii. p. 1768.
OCINARA DIAPHANA, 0. sp.
Male. White; diaphanous; both wings crossed by three paler diaphanous bands. Abdomen greyish-brown above ; antenne brown, shaft white ; sides of head, palpi, pectus, and fore legs above blackish.
Expanse 13 inch.
Hab. Khasia Hills. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Differs from O. lactea, Hutton, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1865, p. 326, from the N.W. Himalayas, in the absence of the black markings on the fore wing and on the abdominal margin.
Family DREPANULID&.
Genus DREPANA, Schrank.
DREPANA ALBONOTATA, Nn. sp.
Male. Upperside yellow, washed with silvery yellow at the base ; female pale silvery yellow: fore wing with two transverse discal very indistinct confluent lunular suffused brown lines, enclosing a small pure white spot at end of the cell; a submarginal series of black and silvery-speckled spots, blotched with brown below the apex: hind wing with a small brown-bordered white spot at end of the cell, a very indistinct brown lunular discal line, and marginal row of small brown silvery-speckled spots. Underside paler, without markings.
Expanse, 14, % 12 inch.
Hab. Mount Parisnath, Behar. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
M 2
84 DREPANULIDA.
DREPANA FLAVA, n. sp. (Plate II. fig. 7.)
Female. Upperside yellow: fore wing with an indistinct subbasal transverse lunular brown line with the points inward, a submarginal double lunular line with the points outward, the interspace below the apex showing a silvery-white spot; an indistinct small brown spot at end of the cell: hind wing with three very indistinct brown outer lunular lines ; a prominent silvery-speckled spot at lower end of the cell, and a smaller spot at its upper end. Underside yellow: fore wing with prominent oblique brown band from apex to near middle of hind margin; cell-spots indistinct. Antenne and legs ochreous- brown.
Expanse 2} inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
DREPANA PALLIDA, 0. sp.
Male and female. Upperside pale ochreous-grey, almost diaphanous. Both wings with an upper and lower blackish-speckled spot at end of the cell, most prominent on the fore wing; a pale ochreous-brown pale-bordered discal narrow duplex band, straight and bent before the apex on fore wing, and lunular on hind wing; both wings with subbasal trans- verse indistinct brown lunular lines, a submarginal lunular line with darker dentate points, and a narrow brown marginal line. Underside paler, oblique bands and cell-spots on fore Wing indistinct. Antenne brown.
Expanse 12 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
DREPANA BIOCULARIS, n. sp. (Plate IT. fig. 9.)
Male. Upperside pale ochreous-brown, palest on upper part of hind wing, numerously speckled with silvery scales ; an indistinct darker double line crossing from apical angle to middle of abdominal margin ; a submarginal series of small indistinct black-speckled spots : fore wing with a large and prominent oval black pale-centred spot at end of the cell: cilia blackish and silver-edged. Underside paler, without markings.
Expanse 1,%5 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
DREPANA POSTICA, n. sp. (Plate IT. fig. 8.)
Male. Upperside—fore wing pale ochreous-brown, suffused with purple, the base and posterior angle yellowish ; an oblique transverse nearly straight narrow brown discal line, and indistinct subbasal line; a submarginal series of small black spots, the spots below the apex grey-speckled: hind wing pale yellow, with narrow brown subbasal and discal trans- verse line ; both wings with a pure white small spot at end of the cell. Underside brighter-
DREPANA.—ORETA.—COSSUS. 85
coloured ; oblique discal band and apical spots on fore wing distinct. Body and antenne yellowish.
Expanse 12 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
DREPANA VINACEA, 0. sp.
‘Male. Upperside ochreous-brown, suffused with purple; a duplex narrow blackish band indistinctly bent to the costa before the apex and crossing to middle of abdominal margin; a black streak from apex to below angle of the band; both wings with indistinct transverse subbasal and submarginal wavy darker lines, and two black-speckled grey- bordered spots at end of the cell: cilia brown. Underside ochreous-yellow, with indi- stinct spots at end of the cell, and fore wing with dusky-brown fascia from apex. Antenne and fore legs above blackish.
Expanse 1¢ inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Genus ORETA, Walker. Oreta, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1166.
ORETA SANGUINEA, 0. sp.
Upperside—fore wing with the basal two thirds and outer border deep red, the former ‘traversed by short transverse yellow and brown strigz, the latter partly covered with grey streaks ; the outer discal space yellow: hind wing with the basal portion and a patch at apex red ; both wings with two submarginal indistinct series of black speckles. Underside of both wings as above. Body and legs deep red; abdomen yellow at sides; antenne pale red.
Expanse 1 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Family COSSID &.
Genus COSSUS, Fadr. Cossus, Fabry. Ent. Syst. 11. 2. 4,
COSSUS TESSELLATUS, i. sp.
Male. Upperside—fore wing greyish-ochreous, crossed by several ochrey-brown bands, darkest below the cell and on a conspicuous spot at end of the cell, the outer bands alter- nately lunular and maculated, those at the base outwardly oblique: hind wing pale greyish- ochreous, sparsely crossed by brown strige. Cilia alternately pale and dark cinereous.
86 COSSIDA.
Underside paler; markings as above but less apparent. Body greyish-cinereous; antenne, legs, and anal tuft pale ochrey-brown.
Expanse 12 inch.
Hab. Calcutta. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Near C. quadrinotatus, Walk.
CossUS CASHMIRENSIS, n. sp.
Male. Fore wings short, very broad, truncate, outer margin short and nearly straight, hind margin deeply angled near the base. Upperside—fore wing cinereous-grey, darkest at the base, crossed by several narrow outwardly-oblique pale greyish-black irregular wavy lines, and two blacker short oblique lines across the middle to some oblique wavy lines before the apex: hind wing fuliginous-brown. Underside dark-brown, reticulations and streaks on costa black. Body cinereous-grey, palest beneath ; antennz brown ; palpi, frontal tuft, and legs blackish-brown.
Expanse 12 inch.
flab. Tawi, Kashmir. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus ZENZERA, Latreille. Zenzera, Latr. Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 175.
ZENZERA PARDICOLOR, 0. sp.
Male. Pure white, veins margined with pale brown: fore wing with a prominent series of black spots between the veins, the spots largest at base and end of the cell: hind wing with black confluent spots between the veins from middle of the base to apex; the anterior margin white, anal margin broadly pale brown. ‘Thorax spotted with black; antenne and frontal tuft light brown; legs white banded with black. Underside as above.
Expanse 2 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
ZENZERA STIGMATICA, 0. sp.
Male. Upperside pale golden-yellow: fore wing with a large prominent curved gemi- nate black and red spot below the cell ; some confluent brown reticulations along the costa, a clouded series obliquely from the apex to the spot, and a paler series on the outer margin: hind wing glossy at the base; without markings. Underside duller-coloured ; reticulations on fore wing and upper portion of spot fuliginous-brown ; lower or red portion of the spot obsolete. Palpi and frontal tuft black; antenne brown; legs at the joint and tarsi with black bands.
Expanse 1+% inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
ZENZERA.—PHRAGMAT(CCIA. 87
ZENZERA ALBOFASCIATA, 0. Sp.
Male. Upperside purplish cinereous-white: fore wing with a broad unmarked fascia from base to apex, costal border crossed with short black confluent strigze, lower part of wing from base below the cell to outer margin below the apex cinereous fawn-colour, and crossed by numerous narrow black strigeze which are reticulated on outer margin: hind wing with the lower half pale cinereous, crossed with delicate cinereous-brown strige. Cilia pale cinereous. Underside cinereous-brown, strige less prominent, both wings with a pale fascia. Front of head brown; vertex and antenne blackish; collar on thorax above pale ochreous ; hind part of thorax and abdomen dark cinereous-brown; legs black.
Expanse 22 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Allied to Z. asylas, Cram., pl. 137. f. c, from the Cape.
Genus PHRAGMATCECIA, Newman.
Phragmatecia, Newman. (Walker, Catal. vii. 1542.)
PHRAGMATCCTIA SACCHARUM, N. Sp.
Male. Greyish-ochreous: fore wing brownish-ochreous on the upper half; a small indistinct brown spot above submedian vein, and a row of spots on the cilia. Underside paler. Thorax, palpi, and fore legs brownish-ochreous ; antennz brown, shaft ochreous.
Expanse 1% inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
PHRAGMATCECTIA MINOR, Ni. Sp.
Male. Fore wing pale ochreous-brown, darkest along costa, indistinctly reticulated with narrow brown lines: hind wing pale greyish-ochreous, veins brown externally. Underside— fore wing uniform brown, not reticulated: hind wing as above. Body, palpi, and legs ochreous-brown ; antennz brown, shaft ochreous.
Expanse | inch. Hab. Silhet. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. “ Inhabits the Jheels ; the moth appearing in September.”— Atkinson, MS. note.
88 HEPIALID A.
Family HEPIALID &.
Genus HEPIALUS, Faér. Hepialus, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 589.
HEPIALUS UMBRINUS, n. sp.
Semidiaphanous, pale umber-brown with a vinous tint externally, fringe at base of wings fulvous-yellow; both wings sparsely irrorated externally with dark brown scales; costal margins and cilia dark purple brown, with a darker row of lunular spots on outer margin of fore wing. Underside as above. Body, legs, palpi, and antennz dark umber- brown; base of thorax with fulvous-yellow fringe.
Expanse 2 inches.
flab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
DESCRIPTIONS
OF
INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA
FROM THE
COLLECTION OF THE LATE MR. W. 8. ATKINSON.
BY
FREDERIC MOORE, F.ZS. exrc.,
LATE ASSISTANT CURATOR, INDIA MUSEUM, LONDON,
Family CYMATOPHORID &.
Genus THYATIRA, Ochs.
THYATIRA DECORATA. Thyatira decorata, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 328, pl. xxxvii. fig. 1.
Male and female. Fore wing dark brown; with a peach-coloured basal trilobed spot, a large oval spot within the cell, a smaller spot at its end, an oblique irregular-shaped costal spot before, and a similar spot at the apex, a large deep-coloured spot at the posterior angle, and two small marginal spots above it, followed by lunules to the apical spot; an elongated spot on middle of the hind margin; some indistinct pale-bordered black sinuous lines crossing the wing between the spots: hind wing pale brown, with a small marginal pale yellowish patch near anal angle. Body pale ochreous-brown; palpi and legs with dark-brown bands.
Expanse, 612, 9 1% inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
PART 11.—WNov. 28, 1881. B
90 CYMATOPHORIDZ.
Genus HABROSYNE.
Habrosyne, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 236 (1818-25). Gonophora, Bruand (1849)*.
HABROSYNE PLAGIOSA, 0. sp.
Male and female. Pale ferruginous indistinctly marked with a few pale strige ; crossed by a pinkish-grey, narrow, curved antemedial and an outer marginal band, a similar-coloured line curving from apex to end of the cell, and a short white tufted streak extending upward from the base; a double sinuous transverse discal brown line, and a discocellular lunule: hind wing and abdomen pale ochreous-brown. Thorax, head, and legs pale ferruginous.
Expanse 2 to 24 inches.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
HLABROSYNE ARMATA, 0. Sp. Habrosyne armata, Moore, ‘ Aid,’ pt. «pl. .
Male. Fore wing dark ferruginous-brown ; a narrow pink band curving from near base to posterior end of a discal blackish double zigzag line ; a pink streak curving inward from before the apex and a submarginal line; a discocellular lunule, and two narrow outer marginal lines; a short white curved tufted streak at base, above which are two straight streaks at base of the cell: hind wing and abdomen brown. Thorax, head, and palpi ferruginous-brown ; legs paler.
Expanse 1,4 inch.
Hab. Khasia Hills (October). In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
HABROSYNE SANGUINEA, 0. sp.
Male and female. Fore wing very dark purple-red; the basal third, a spot along posterior margin to near the angle, and some curved streaks on costa pale ferruginous, uregularly bordered with white; two contiguous discal double zigzag dark-brown pale- bordered lines; a discocellular lunule, a straight submarginal and a sinuous marginal pale line ; a basal white-tufted streak: hind wing and abdomen dark brown. Thorax and head dark ferruginous ; palpi and legs paler.
Expanse 1,4; inch.
fab. Darjilnmg. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Genus RISOBA, Moore. Risoba, Moore, P. Z.S. 1881, p. 828.
Allied to Lhyatira. Fore wing somewhat shorter ; costal margin arched at apex, angle acute, exterior margin less oblique ; second subcostal branch trifurcate, its lowest fork (or
* Used in 1834 for Coleoptera.
RISOBA. 91
fourth branch) near the apex, fifth branch curved upward from end of the cell and touching the third near its base ; upper discocellular obliquely concave, slightly bent at its lower end ; upper radial straight from end of the cell, lower radial and upper median branch from angles close above end of the cell: hind wing very convex exteriorly ; costal and subcostal veins joined together at their base, two subcostal branches from end of the cell, radial and upper median branch from end of the cell, middle median branch from angle before end of the cell, Body slender; thorax broad, crested in front; antenne long, minutely pectinated in male. Type 2. repugnans (Thyatira repugnans, Walk.).
RISOBA OBSTRUCTA.
Risoba obstructa, Moore, P. Z. 8S. 1881, p. 328. Bolina obstructa, Walker, MS. Brit. Mus. Cabinet.
Male and female. Fore wing greyish-brown, indistinctly black-speckled ; a white basal oblique slender band, which is slightly brownish hindward and has a black sinuous border ; a discal greyish-white fascia bordered externally by an irregular black line; a black dot within the cell, and a circle enclosing another dot at its end; exterior border traversed by a broad blackish whitish-bordered indistinct band terminating at the apex in blacker streaks ; a marginal row of black lunules bordered inwardly with white: hind wing pale cinereous- brown, with pale-brown marginal band.
Expanse, ¢1, 9 1? inch.
Hab. Ceylon (Mackwood), Calcutta (Atkinson). In coll. F. Moore and Dr. Staudinger.
RISOBA BASALIS, n. sp.
Male and female. Fore wing pale brownish-ochreous, greyish along the costa and below the apex ; a whitish basal oblique band, bordered outwardly by dark brown; disk crossed by an irregular indistinct black sinuous pale-bordered line terminating hindward in white ; interior of the wing crossed by an indistinct black sinuous fascia ; apical patch dark brown and black, streaked with whitish tips at costal end and below angle; a slight marginal pale-bordered black lunular line: hind wing cinereous-white, with broad brown marginal band, and a discal spot. Body cinereous-brown, white-speckled ; legs brown above.
Expanse, ¢ 1435, 9 144 inch.
Hab. Cherra (Austen); Darjiling (Atkinson). In coll. F. Moore and Dr. Staudinger.
RISOBA VIALIS, n. sp. (Plate IV. fig. 1.)
Male. Fore wing ochreous-brown, greyish at the apex, indistinctly crossed by sinuous black lines; with a white outwardly oblique band from end of the costa to one third of posterior margin, and a postmedial oblique narrow band, these forming a broad letter W across both the wings, the former brown-speckled, the latter bordered by a sinuous black line; two. confluent and a lower narrow black streak at the apex, bordered inwardly by a
curved streak ; a submarginal series of narrow sinuous white lunules; a black circular mark B2
92 CYMATOPHORID.
enclosing a dot at end of the cell: hind wing greyish-white, with broad greyish-brown marginal band, and a slight spot at end of the cell. Body greyish-brown ; tegule white- speckled ; front of thorax, palpi, tibice and tarsi above, brown.
Expanse 13 inch.
Ilab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
RISOBA CONFLUENS, Nn. sp.
Female. Fore wing very dark brown; avery large basal pale brownish-ochreous oblique- bordered patch occupying nearly half the wing; a contiguous smaller irregular spot extending to posterior angle ; a marginal series of four very small spots, and a large sinuous- bordered apical spot: hind wing and body brownish-ochreous. Front of head, palpi and legs above dark brown.
Expanse 1,°5 inch.
flab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore.
Genus KERALA, Moore.
Kerala, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 329.
Fore wing long, narrow; costa slightly arched near the base, apex acute, exterior margin slightly oblique and excavated near posterior angle ; posterior margin somewhat recurved ; second branch of subcostal trifurcate near its end, fifth bifurcate, curving upward and touching the second at one fourth from its base, the fork (or upper radial) emitted from beyond end of the cell; discocellular angled at its lower end, lower radial and two upper median branches from the angles at end of the cell. Hind wing moderately broad, triangular; costal and subcostal veins joined together at their base, subcostal bifurcate at half its length beyond the cell; discocellular angled inward at its middle, and outward near its lower end, the radial from lower angle; two upper median branches on a foot-stalk beyond the cell. Body slender, abdomen smooth; antennz slender, setose; palpi slender, squamose, apex short and conical; legs squamose.
KERALA PUNCTILINEATA. Kerala punctilineata, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 330.
Male. Yellowish or greyish-ochreous, costal area reddish-ochreous; all the veins to beyond the middle with alternate black and yellow or grey spots, those on the subcostal branches forming streaks; a transverse black dentated band with white inner border; a pale-yellow orbicular and reniform spot, the latter with black outer border: hind wing and abdomen pale cinereous-brown, discal area ochreous. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs yellowish-ochreous ; legs black-banded.
KERALA.—PALIMPSESTIS. 93
Female reddish-ochreous, marked as in male: hind wing uniformly pale cinereous- brown.
Expanse, ¢ 13, ? 1€ inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and British Museum.
KERALA MULTIPUNCTATA, n. sp. (Plate IV. fig. 4.)
Male, Fore wing dull greyish-ochreous; veins with black ringlet spots, terminating in a transverse discal line and two marginal series of larger dentate white-bordered spots, a subbasal black sinuous line, and a reniform spot at end of cell: hind wing pale brownish cinereous, discal area ochreous, with an indistinct brown marginal border. ‘Thorax and legs greyish ochreous ; collar, head, and palpi reddish-ochreous ; tarsi black-banded.
female differs only in the spots along the costal area being more confluent, and in the hind wing being uniformly cinereous.
Expanse 1,8; inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
Genus PALIMPSESTIS, Hiibner. PALIMPSESTIS ALTERNATA.
Palimpsestis alternata, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 331, pl. xxxvu. fig. 2.
Allied to P. ocularis of Europe.
Male. Fore wing pale metallic cupreous-brown, crossed by a broad basal, a medial, and two narrow submarginal greenish-grey indistinct bands; some black basal spots, an ante- and postmedial transverse black sinuous line, and black and white streaks externally along the veins: hind wing and abdomen pale cupreous-brown. ‘Thorax greenish grey; collar, front of head, palpi, and legs rufous-brown ; legs with black bands.
Expanse 1,4 inch.
Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.
PALIMPSESTIS CUPRINA. Palimpsestis cuprina, Moore, P. Z. 8S. 1881, p. 331, pl. xxxvii. fig. 3.
Male and female. Fore wing pale metallic-brown, slightly cupreous anteriorly, and the area below the cell greenish; two or three black transverse antemedial lines angled at median vein; some basal spots, a black discocellular recurved mark and a spot within the cell; five or six transverse discal indistinct sinuous lines with black and white dentate marks on the veins; a submarginal pale lunular line, and a marginal black line: hind wing pale cupreous-white, with pale cupreous-brown marginal band. ‘Thorax, head, and palpi brown, abdomen paler ; collar black ; fore and middle legs with black bands.
Expanse 158; inch.
fab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger.