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Show 1881.] NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 355 Genus TRIGONOPHORA, Hiibn. TRIGONOPHORA ALBOS1GNATA, n. Sp. Fore wing reddish ochreous, minutely speckled with purplish grey, crossed by an inwardly-obliqne antemedian ochreous-white straight narrow band, a postmedian outwardly-oblique, sinuous, narrow band, both bands with indistinctly darker purple-red border ; a submarginal zigzag pale-bordered denticulated red fascia ; cilia purple-brown ; orbicular and reniform marks formed by a purple-red line, the centre being yellowish ochreous, the reniform mark bordered externally by two upper and two lower white spots: hind wing purplish ochreous-brown, palest along the costal border. Thorax, palpi, and legs reddish ochreous, abdomen ochreous-brown. Expanse lg inch. Allied to T. empyrea, Hiibn., of Europe. Hab. Kussowlie, N . W . Himalaya. In coll. F. Moore. APPANA, n. g. Fore wing somewhat short, costa straight, apex slightly pointed, exterior margin oblique, very slightly waved and convex ; first subcostal branch emitted from half length of the cell, second at one fourth, trifurcate, third at one fourth, and fourth at one half from base of second, fifth from end of the cell, projecting upward and touching the third near its base ; cell long ; upper discocellular very short, lower bent in the middle ; upper radial from angle near subcostal, lower radial and upper median from angles immediately above end of the cell, middle median from its end, lower median from one third before its end ; submedian slightly recurved. Hind wing triangular, exterior margin convexly oblique and waved ; two subcostal branches emitted from a short distance beyond end of the cell; discocellular obliquely concave, radial from near its lower end ; two upper median branches from end of cell; submedian and internal veins long. Body moderate, abdomen extending beyond hind wing; palpi short, stout, squamose, third joint very short; antennae setose ; legs pilose beneath. Allied to Habryntis {H. scita, Hiibner). APPANA INDICA, n. sp. Phlogophora indica, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 57. Fore wing pale purplish ochreous, with a median transverse broad band of chestnut-brown, palest on the costa, and enclosing a paler orbicular and reniform spots, which are confluent below the cell ; the band is narrow hindward and bordered on both sides by a narrow black line; two black-speckled transverse streaks and a contiguous black spot at base of the wing ; a pale-yellow submarginal line ; veins speckled with black and white : hind wing paler, with an indistinct darker discal and marginal bands. Thorax chestnut-brown, with white-fringed collar, abdomen paler; palpi and legs ochreous-brown. Expanse lT 4jj inch. Hab. Darjiling. In coll. F. Moore and Dr. Staudinger. |