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Show 14 MR. F. MOORE ON THE LITHOSIID-E. [J from end of the cell; discocellulars bent in the middle ; median vein four-branched, two upper from end, third from angle before end of the cell. Hind wing-two subcostal branches immediately beyond end of the cell, two upper median branches from beyond, and third from end of the cell. Type, CE. entella (P. entella, Cram. Pap. Exot. pl. 208. f. D ) . India, Cevlon, Will also" include Gnophria ceramensis, Voll. Tijdsch. voor Ent. 1872, iii. p. 246, pl. 12. f. 1. LITHOSIA, Fabr. Lithosia, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 459 (1798). Sexes dissimilar in colour and pattern. Fore wing with first subcostal branch free, second starting near end of the cell, trifurcate, fifth curving up from end of the cell and touching third near its base ; radial from end of the cell in male, from angle of upper discocellulars in female; discocellulars curved in male, angled at both ends in female ; median four-branched, three upper from end of the cell. Hind wing with one subcostal branch in male, two in female beyond the cell; two median branches beyond the cell in male, and from its end in female. Type, Lithosia quadra of Europe. Will also include Lithosia dives (GEonistis dives, Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. Nov. 1877, p. 398, from Japan. GROUP B. Fore wing with subcostal vein FiYE-branched; median vein THRW-branched. SlMAREEA, n. g. Similar in form, colour, and pattern to the male of the European L. quadra, but of different venation in the fore wing ; and both sexes are alike, the discocellulars not being bent at the upper and lower end of the cell (as in female L. quadra) ; and the median vein has only two branches in both sexes proceeding from end of the cell (L. quadra having three in the male). In the hind wing the costal vein has two branches beyond the cell in both sexes, L. quadra having one only ; the median branches also start at some distance from the cell in both sexes. The palpi are more pilose, have the second and third joints much longer, the apex blunt, and projecting much beyond the head. SlMAREEA BASINOTA. (Plate I. fig. 16.) Lithosia basinota, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 798. Darjiling. T A R I K A , n. g. Fore wing long, broad ; costa arched; exterior margin convex, posterior margin rounded at the base; first subcostal branch short, oblique, anastomosing with the costal, second from near end of the cell, third from near base of second, bifurcate, fifth from end of the cell, bent upward and touching the third at one fourth its length; discocellulars bent inward, upper angled close to subcostal, lower |