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Show 82 MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [Jan. 10, TALAPA, n. g., Moore. Female robust. Palpi porrect, compressed, pilose; second joint recurved upwards and outwards, extending beyond the head ; third joint two-thirds the length of the second, straight, slender. Antennse very minutely pectinated. Legs slightly pilose; mid tibiae with one pair and hind tibise with two pairs of long slender spurs. Body stout. Abdomen extending beyond the angle of the hind wing. Wings ample : fore wing broad ; costa nearly straight; apex acute ; exterior margin wavy, oblique, angled in the middle: hind wing broad ; anterior angle rounded ; exterior margin wavy, slightly angled hindward. TALAPA CALIGINOSALIS. (Pl. VII. fig. 6.) Remigia caliginosa, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . xxxiii. Suppl. iii. p. 1017. Darjeeling. In Coll. A. E. Russell; W . S. Atkinson ; F. Moore. ANORATHA, n. g., Moore. Male and female slender. Palpi porrect, long, covered with short hairs of equal length, compressed; second joint straight, slightly recurved in the female, ascending upward and outward to the level of the vertex, and extending half its length beyond the head ; third joint one-third the length of the second, fusiform. Antennse minutely pectinated in the male, simple in the female. Legs very long, slender, mostly smooth ; mid tibiee with one pair and hind tibise with two pairs of long slender spurs. Body slender. Abdomen long, attenuated, and in the male extending nearly half its length beyond the angle of the hind wing. Wings long, narrow. Male. Costa elongated, straight; apex slightly falcate ; exterior margin very oblique, slightly angled in the middle ; hind margin half the length of the costa. Hind wing arched at the base and near the apex ; anterior margin extending considerably beyond the posterior angle of the fore wing; apex rounded ; exterior margin produced and angled in the middle. Female. Apex falcated; exterior margin less oblique, but more angled in the middle ; posterior margin longer, two-thirds the length of the costa. Hind wing somewhat less produced apically ; apex more acute ; exterior margin recurved ; abdominal margin longer. ANORATHA COSTALIS, n. sp. (Pl. VII. fig. 9.) Male and female cupreous brown. Male. Costal border broadly pinkish white ; an indistinct brown short oblique medial streak, a narrow reniform mark, and a distinct pinkish-white outer-bordered very oblique transverse narrow discal band ; an irregular submarginal row of blackish spots with whitish outer borders : hind wing and abdomen pale cinereous cupreous brown, with an indistinct partly transverse discal pale streak. Front of head and sides of thorax fringed with white. Underside'brown : |