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Show 10 MR. F. MOORE ON THE LITHOSIID^. [Jan. 15, joints very long, tip blunt. Legs long, femora slightly pilose beneath. Type, C. rufifrons. Will also include Lithosia beema, Moore, P.Z.S. 1865, p. 798. CHURINGA RUFIFRONS, n. sp. (Plate I. fig. 12.) Mate and female. Upperside-fore wing pale purplish ochreous-brown, costal and posterior margins narrowly edged with ochreous yellow; hind wing and abdomen pale ochreous-yellow. Thorax brown ; tegulae edged with yellow; head, collar, and palpi reddish ochreous ; thorax beneath and legs bright ochreous; tip of palpi, antennae, fore legs above, and tarsi, brown. Underside paler. Expanse, <S lyV $ 2T3y inches. Darjiling (Athinson). In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. VAMUNA, n. g. Fore wing long, narrow ; costa slightly arched beyond the middle ; apex acute ; exterior margin short and slightly truncate below the apex, oblique hindward, the angle slightly convex; posterior margin convex towards the base in male. Hind wing broad ; apex slightly produced; exterior margin convex in the middle. Veins similar to those in Churinga (C. rufifrons), excepting that in the fore wing the lowest or fifth branch of the subcostal is emitted from upper angle of the cell, the median branches nearer together at their base, and the lowest nearer the end of the cell. Body moderately stout. Antennae in both sexes setose. Palpi moderately long, ascending, projecting beyond the head, second joint long, third joint very short. Legs long, naked ; middle and hind spurred. Type, V.remelana (Lithosia remelana, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 798). ^ Darjiling. VAMUNA MACULATA, n. sp. (Plate I. fig. 5.) Male. Upperside-fore wing greyish ochreous ; hind wing pale dull ochreous at base and whitish externally, with three marginal black spots, the two upper larger, the lower small aud at some distance from anal angle. Body ochreous. Underside dull ochreous basally, whitish externally; fore wing with a brownish patch at the apex, a black longitudinal basal streak, and a broad large transverse subapical patch ; hind wing with only the lower and middle marginal black spots. Female much paler, the apex of fore wing slightly brownish-ochreous; hind wing above and beneath with smaller median and lower black spots ; the fore wing with the basal black streak less defined and the subapical spot small. Expanse, dig, $ 2 inches. Darjiling (Atkinson). In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. VAMUNA BIPARS, n. sp. (Plate I. fig. 11.) Male. White, costal edge of the base and apical half of fore wing fuliginous black ; hind wing with a fuliginous-black submarginal band |