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Show 1878.] MR. F. MOORE ON THE LITHOSIID<E. 11 the middle portion of which is very broad and blackest. Antennae, front of head, and tip of palpi black; fore and middle legs above, a terminal spot on hind tibiae and their tarsi, black ; tarsal joints with a white band; base of palpi, thorax and abdomen, legs beneath, and anal tuft ochreous. Underside duller white ; the black band on fore wing confined to the disk, the apical border being pale brownish-ochreous ; upper portion of band ou hind wing obsolete. Expanse 2 inches. Darjiling (Atkinson). In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. MAHAVIRA, n. g. Male. Fore wing long, narrow, costa arched, apex acute, exterior margin oblique, posterior margin recurved; subcostal vein five-branched, first and second arising before and near end of the cell, third trifurcate, the two lower branches at equal distances from end of the cell; discocellulars long, straight, upper obliquely inward, lower obliquely outward ; radial from upper end of the cell; median vein four-branched, the two upper branches from lower end of the cell, third at some distance before its end ; submedian vein curving towards hind margin : hind wing longer than broad, exterior margin convex ; subcostal vein two-branched beyond end of cell; discocellulars as in fore wing ; median vein four-branched, the two upper branches from end of cell and contiguous at their base, third immediately before end of the cell. Body slender. Antennae serrate, with long and delicate pectinations. Legs slender, femora slightly pilose beneath; middle and hind tibiae spurred. Palpi slender, porrect, basal joint pilose, apex pointed. MAHAVIRA FLAVICOLLIS, n. sp. (Plate I. fig. 3.) Male. White, costa slightly edged with brown at the base ; collar yellow ; antennae yellow ; fore femora with a blackish streak on the inner side. Expanse lf^ inch. Darjiling (Atkinson). In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. KORAWA, n. g. Male and female. Fore wing long, narrow ; costa slightly arched ; apex somewhat acute, exterior margin very oblique; subcostal vein five-branched, first branch ascending and touching the costal but free at its end, second starting before end of the cell, third at end of the cell, trifurcate, lowest branch at one third beyond end of the cell; upper discocellular angled outward at its middle, lower oblique ; radial from angle of upper discocellular ; median vein four-branched, the two upper from lower end of the cell; submedian slightly recurved. Hind wing moderately short, apex slightly produced and convex, exterior margin rounded; subcostal two-branched beyond end of the cell; discocellulars of equal length, bent inward ; median vein four-branched, two upper beyond end of the cell, middle branch from end of the cell; submedian nearly straight. Body moderate. |
