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Show 4 MR. F. MOORE ON THE LITHOSIID.E. [J discal streaks almost confluent, being separated only by a narrow yellow division. Expanse 1^ inch. Canara (Ward). In coll. F. Moore. Near to //. heliconia. DAMALIS, Hiibner. Damalis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Sch. p. 172. D A M A L I S C O N C A N A , n. sp. Near to H. alciphron, C.*am. pl. 133. f. E. Upperside ochreous ; cilia white : fore wing at base bright ochreous and dotted with black ; a small whitish streak from lower end of the cell: hind wing with black marginal band crossed by pale veins, and two irregular longitudinal discal streaks. Thorax with black dots ; abdomen with dorsal and lateral row of black spots ; legs whitish, streaked with black. Underside-fore wing pale ochreous-brown; hind margin yellow; cell white, bordered with black and enclosing a black spot: hind wing yellow, with paler black marginal band, and streaks as above. Expanse 2J- inches. Canara (Ward). In coll. F. Moore. DIGAMA, Moore. Digama, Moore, Catal. Lep. E.I. C. ii. p. 298 (1858). Fore wing-first branch of subcostal long, free ; second at a considerable distance before end of the cell, trifurcate; fifth from near end of the cell, curved upward and looped to third at one third its length; radial from end of the cell; discocellulars nearly erect; median vein four-branched, upper from end of the cell, second and third from angles near its end. Hind wing with two subcostal branches beyond the cell; discocellulars curved outward, oblique; four median branches, three upper from end of the cell. Below the submedian vein on the underside of the fore wing, is a short longitudinal cavity, along the upper edge of which projects a raised transversely scabrous narrow bar ; and on the upperside of the hind wing is a short transverse outwardly curved raised scabrous bar, so placed that, by the motions of this wing, it evidently plays across the longitudinal bar on the fore wing and produces a stridulatory sound. DIGAMA HEARSEYANA. D. hearseyana (part), Moore, Catal. Lep. E.I. C. ii. p. 298. pl. 7A. f. 3 a, $ (1858). Male and female. Upperside-fore wing greyish brown, with four basal transverse series of black spots, and an intermediate spot in the cell, with paler interspaces along the veins and wavy bands across the disk : hind wing and abdomen ochreous yellow, the latter with dorsal row of black spots. Thorax, head, and palpi grev-brown ; front and middle of thorax black-spotted ; joints of palpi with terminal black band ; legs black-banded above, pale ochreous |