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Show 12 MR. F. MOORE ON THE LITHOSIID^. [Jan. 13, Palpi small, porrect, pilose. Antennae minutely and finely bipecti-nate. Legs pilose, sparsely in male. KORAWA PALLIDA, n. Sp. Male and female. Semidiaphanous ; fore wing pale fleshy-yellow ; hind wing white ; thorax slightly ochreous-yellow ; abdomen white ; palpi black-tipped ; legs white, fore tibiae with a black longitudinal line in front. Expanse c? 1-fc, $ 2 inches. Darjiling (Atkinson). In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. HESUDRA, n. g. 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 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 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. Antennas broadly pectinate. Palpi slender, curved upward, slightly pilose at base. Legs slender. HESUDRA DIVISA, n. sp. (Plate I. 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. Thorax, head, side of palpi, and legs above, purplish grey; abdomen pale greyish, testaceous beneath, tip ochreous ; base of palpi and legs beneath pale ochreous ; antennae purplish-brown. Underside-fore wing pale purplish-grey, costal border yellowish; hind wing narrowly edged along the anterior margin with greyish black. Expanse ly^-inch. Darjiling (Atkinson). In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. GHORIA, n. g. Fore wing long, narrow, costa slightly arched beyond the middle, apex acute, exterior 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 branch 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 |