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Show 18/8.] MR. F. MOORE ON THE LITHOSIIDJE. 5 beneath. Underside-fore wing uniform pale grey-brown ; hind wing with a small black discocellular spot at upper end of cell. Expanse, cS lT*V> ? Ifo" m c n * N.W. India (Allahabad, Manpuri, Deyra, Simla). In the Catalogue Lep. East-India Company, above quoted, is described and figured (fig. 3) a male insect from Ceylon, which I then considered to pertain to this species. The Ceylon specimens, however, are very distinct; and the species has been named by Felder as D. insulana. DIGAMA INSULANA. Digama insulana, Feld. Verh. zool.-bot. Gesch. 1868, p. 285. D. hearseyana (part), Moore, Catal. Lep. E.I. C. ii. p. 298, pl. 7. f. 3, $(1858). Male and female. Upperside-fore wing pale grey-brown, basal spots prominent: hind wing ochreous yellow, male with a grey-brown marginal streak, and female with a short marginal spot, situated near the middle. Head and thorax pale grey-brown, black-spotted ; abdomen ochreous, with dorsal black spots ; antennae brown in male ; legs black-banded above ; palpi with terminal black bands. Underside paler; both wings with a black spot at end of the cell. Expanse lg inch. Ceylon. In coll. India Museum. DIGAMA SIMILIS, n. sp. Male and female. Allied to D. hearseyana, but of smaller size; fore wing similarly marked ; hind wing in the male with a dusky brown marginal streak from near anal angle, and another near apex, the latter only present in the female. Expanse cS 1,2 Ips* i°ch- N.W. Himalaya (Simla). In coll. F. Moore. DIGAMA FIGURATA, n. sp. Male. Upperside-fore wing greyish white, with very prominent brown basal spots, two median, transverse, irregular, sinuous, partly confluent bands, and a partly confluent marginal band; a large black spot in middle and a lunule at end of the cell: hind wing pale ochreous yellow, with prominent black marginal marks. Thorax and head white, spotted with black; antennae brown; palpi white, with broad terminal black bands; abdomen ochreous-yellow, with dorsal and lateral black spots ; legs white, with black bands above. Underside- forewing grey-brown, spots in cell visible ; hind wing with black spot at end of the cell, and on middle of outer margin. Expanse 1-A inch. Burmah. In coll. F. Moore. CALPENIA, Moore. Calpenia, Moore, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 571. C A L P E N I A KHASIANA, n. sp. Female. Upperside-fore wing brownish fawn-colour vinous-tinged, |
