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Show 1878.] MR. F. MOORE ON THE LITHOSIID.E. 13 beyond hind wing. Antennae setose. Legs slender, squamose. Palpi slender, porrect, base pilose beneath. GHORIA ALBOCINEREA, n. sp. (Plate I. fig. 10.) Male. Upperside-fore wing silky white, with a cinereous-brown band along posterior margin : hind wing cinereous; cilia white. Thorax and abdomen white; middle of thorax and streak on tegulae cinereous brown ; collar and front of head, and antennae yellowish ; anal tuft pale brownish ochreous, Underside cinereous brown, palest on hind wing, abdominal margin cinereous white ; costal edge of fore wing yellowish towards the apex. Legs cinereous brown above, yellowish beneath ; palpi yellowish, tip brown. Expanse 1-^ inch, Darjiling (Atkinson). In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. GHORIA SERICEIPENNIS, n. sp. Male. Upperside-fore wing silky white, with a broad dark cinereous brown band along posterior margin ; hind wing white, pale cinereous brown at the apex and along anterior margin. Middle of thorax and tegulae, and front of head, dark cinereous brown; abdomen above and beneath white, anal tuft brown ; collar yellowish; palpi ochreous yellow ; legs above cinereous brown, whitish beneath. Underside-fore wing, anterior border, and apex of hind wing brown. Expanse If- inch. Darjiling (Atkinson). In coll. Dr. Staudinger. CHRYS^EGLIA, Butler. Chryseeglia, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 356. Veins of the fore wing similar to those in QUonistis entella. Those in the hind wing differ in the median having but three branches, two only starting from the end of the cell. Type, C. magnifica (Lithosia magnifica, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. vi. p. 103), from Borneo. CHRYSEEGLIA FERRIFASCIATA, n. sp. (Plate I. fig. 6.) Male and female. Upperside golden yellow : fore wing glossy, with a steel-blue band along the costa, a broad transverse median band and a large triangular spot near base of posterior margin; also a blackish outer marginal band, which is broadest in the male ; median band dilated hindward and angled on its inner margin below the cell: hind wing with the margin and cilia at the apex slightly blackish. Tegulae and legs steel-blue. Underside paler yellow ; fore wing with pale dusky brown bands as above. Expanse, 6* l-*fV« 2 2Tp" inches. Nepal (Ramsay), Darjiling (Grote). In coll. F. Moore. OEONISTIS, Hiibner. CEonistis, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 165 (1816). Fore wing-first subcostal branch long, free; second arising from near end of the cell ; third from its end, trifurcate; radial curving |