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Show 1878.] MR. F. MOORE ON THE LITHOSIID.E. 17 rather short, pilose at base, porrect. Antennae minutely pectinate. Legs long, rather stout. Body long, extending beyond hind wing. KATHA NIGRIFRONS. (Plate I. fig. 15.) Lithosia nigrifrons, Moore, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 572. North India. This genus will also include Lithosia apicalis, Walk., from Borneo, L. intermixta, Walk., L. brevipennis, Walk., from South India, and L. helveola of Europe. KATHA TERMINALIS, n. sp. (Plate I. fig. 14.) Male. Ochreous; fore wing darkest, with a distinct curved purplish band across exterior margin. Antennae, front of head, tip of palpi, middle of thorax, and streak on tegulae purplish black; legs above purplish brown. Expanse ly1^ inch. Darjiling (Atkinson). In coll. Dr. Staudinger. Allied to K. apicalis (Lithosia apicalis, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. vi. p. 104) from Borneo, but differs on the fore wing in the apical band not extending upward onto the costa, and in the absence of the slight apical patch on the hind wing, which is present in Bornean examples. KATHA CUCULLATA, n. sp. Male. Upperside-fore wing pale purplish grey, costal edge at apex and cilia yellowish ; an indistinct greyish-brown outer marginal band: hind wing and abdomen pale ochreous grey ; anal tuft ochreous. Thorax, top and front of head, and palpi except at base beneath, black; legs black, middle and hind legs pale beneath ; antennae black. Underside-fore wing brownish ochreous ; hind wing pale ochreous. Expanse 1 y\y inch. Andamans. In coll. F. Moore. Allied to K. terminalis and K. apicalis. EILEMA, Hiibner. Eilema, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 165 (1816). Wings long, narrow. Fore wing with the subcostal five-branched, first short, oblique, and anastomosed to costal, second free and widely separated from third, third trifurcate, the lowest or fifth nearest the base, the two upper near apex ; radial from upper end of the cell; discocellulars inwardly oblique; median three-branched, two upper beyond half distance from the cell, lower long, from near its base. Hind wing-two subcostal branches at one third, and two upper median branches at two thirds beyond the cell. Type, E. caniola, Hiibner, of Europe. MANULEA, Wallengren. Manulea, Wallengren, Ent. Monats. vii. p. 145. Wings narrow. Fore wing with the costa not arched ; subcostal vein P R O C . Z O O L . Soc-1878, No. II. 2 |
