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Show 1881.] NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 363 end of the cell, lower from distance before the end. Body long; palpi short; legs very hairy beneath ; male with fore tibia furnished with a pair of terminal front spines ; antennae setose. Type S. sinuata. SOPHAGA SINUATA, n. Sp. Male and Female. Fore wing pale yellow, with a broad transverse dark ochreous-yellow median band, its inner border being bent below the cell, its outer border sinuous and with a brown point on each of the veins from the radial; a dark ochreous streak from the band, along median vein, to the base; exterior border with short longitudinal dark ochreous streaks, and a marginal row of black dots : hind wing pale greyish ochreous, the discal area brownish. Underside paler; fore wing with the discal area and a marginal row of black dots: hind wing in male with a narrow discal transverse brownish band, indistinct discocellular spot, and speckles along outer border, obsolete in female. Thorax dark ochreous; abdomen brownish ochreous ; terminal spines on fore tibia black. Expanse 1| inch. Hab. Bombay {Dr. Leith). In coll. F. Moore. Do RIKA, n. g. Fore wing short, narrow; costa slightly arched from the base, exterior margin oblique, convex; first subcostal branch somewhat short, second emitted from beyond end of the cell, quadrifid, third from close to base of second, fourth and fifth on a foot-stalk near apex; cell long, narrow; upper discocellular very short, lower slender, concave, bent slightly near median; radials from their angles; upper median branch from angle above end of the cell, middle branch from the end, lower at some distance before the end and opposite first subcostal : hind wing convex at the apex, exterior margin recurved, abdominal margin short; two subcostal branches emitted from beyond end of the cell; discocellular very slender, radial from the middle ; two upper median branches from end of the cell, lower from near its end. Body short; palpi slender, pilose ; legs pilose beneath; fore tibia in male armed in front with a long and a short spur ; antennae setose. Type D. sanguinolenta. DORIKA SANGUINOLENTA, n. Sp. Female. Fore wing bright yellow; costal edge white; longitudinally streaked with red along costal border, the median veins, and submedian vein; cilia pinky white: hind wing white. Thorax, palpi, and legs above ochreous-red; abdomen brownish ochreous. Expanse ly% inch. HaB. Bombay {Dr. Leith). In coll. F. Moore. DORIKA AUREOLA. Leucania aureola, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . ix. p. 108 (1856). HaB. Canara, S. India. 24* |