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Show 1881.] NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 365 anastomosed to third near its base ; discocellular very slender, close to each end, concave in middle, upper and lower radials from the angles ; upper median branch emitted from angle above end of the cell, middle branch from the end, lower from some distance before the end. Hind wing comparatively long and narrow ; two subcostal branches from end of the cell; discocellular bent in middle, a very slender radial from the middle; cell long; two upper median branches from end of the cell, lower from some distance before the end. Body long, slender ; thorax laxly pilose ; palpi pilose, small, apex very short; legs slightly pilose beneath ; fore tibia in male armed with a long and a short black spine in front; antennae in male minutely pectinate. Type P. Beatrix. PRADATTA BEATRIX, n. Sp. Synia Beatrix, Von M . D. R., M S. Male and Female. Fore wing pale pink, with a longitudinal pale yellow fascia extending from the base of the cell to exterior margin, and a similar fascia below the cell spreading below the median vein to the outer margin ; some specimens have the median vein to end of the cell tinged with black: hind wing white, with pink lining to the veins and outer border. Underside-fore wing with paler costal and outer border than above ; hind wing with pink costal border. Thorax pinkish brown, palest on tegulae ; abdomen pale yellowish above, pinkish beneath ; palpi and legs above ochreous-red ; fore-tibial claws black. Expanse if inch. HaB. Canara (S. India); Dharmsala (N.W. Himalaya) ; Saibadad (Cashmir). In coll. F. Moore, Dr. Staudinger, and Lord Walsingham. PRADATTA BIVITTATA. Leucania Bivittata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ix. p. 108 (1856). HaB. S. India. In coll. British Museum. PRADATTA DECORATA, n. sp. Male and Female. Fore wing pale yellow, with a broad triangular pale crimson band extending from base through and below the cell and thence obliquely upward across the disk to the apex ; a recurved series of six white spots on the discal portion of the band, one on middle of median vein, and one on submedian vein ; cilia crimson : hind wing paler yellow; cilia whitish, slightly tinged with crimson at the apex. Body pale yellow ; thorax ochreous; front of head, tip of palpi, and legs above crimson; fore-tibial claws black. Expanse f to 1 inch. HaB. Deccan (Dr. Day) ; Manpuri, N.W. Provinces {Home); Allahabad (Hellard) ; Sind valley and Saidabad, Cashmir (Atkinson). In coll. F. Moore and Dr. Staudinger. |