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Show 16 MR. F. MOORE ON THE LITHOSIID^E. [Jan. 15, COLLITA, n. g. Wings very broad. Fore wing with the costa arched; subcostal five-branched, first short, oblique, anastomosed to costal, second starting at some distance before end of the cell, third trifurcate, the fifth or lowest branch nearest the base ; upper discocellular slightly angled close to subcostal, whence starts the radial; median three-branched, two upper at one fourth beyond the cell. Hind wing very broad, apex produced, exterior margin rounded in the middle, abdominal margin long and extending beyond abdomen ; two subcostal branches and two upper medians from one third beyond the cell. Palpi short, porrect. Type, C. griseola (Lithosia griseola) of Europe. Will also include L. vetusta, Walk., from China, and the European L. compla-nula and L. stramineola, Dbleday. COLLITA LILACINA, n. Sp. Fore wing pale lilac-grey, with pale yellowish costal border ; hind wing pale greyish ochreous ; thorax grey ; head pale yellow ; palpi black-tipped ; fore legs brownish above. Expanse 1| inch. W . Yunan (Anderson). In coll. F. Moore. Similar in appearance to Gandhara serva (Lithosia serva, Walk.), from Sikkim, but of entirely different venation. COLLITA PARVA, n. sp. (Plate I. fig. 13.) Female. Fore wing greyish ochreous-brown ; hind wing and abdomen paler; fore wing yellowish along the costal border. Underside uniform ochreous brown, palest on lower part of the hind wing. Legs cinereous brown above. Expanse -fy inch. Darjiling (Atkinson). In coll. Dr. Staudinger. Allied to CL vetusta (Lithosia vetusta, Walk.), from North China, having the same venation, but is of a much smaller size. KATHA, n. g. Wings clothed with stout compact imbricated scales. Male. Fore wing long, very narrow ; costa nearly straight, apex rounded ; exterior margin slightly oblique ; posterior margin recurved, convex near the base ; slightly folded longitudinally below the median vein ; cell long, narrow; discocellulars bent outward at upper end and inward at lower end ; first branch of subcostal vein at some distance before end of the cell, short, oblique, and anastomosed to costal; second short, arising beyond end of the cell; third trifurcate, its lowest branch at equal distance between second and fourth ; radial starting from upper angle of discocellular ; two upper branches of median vein at half distance from end of the cell; submedian recurved. Hind wing long, broad; two subcostal branches at one third from cell; discocellulars slightly bent inward , two median branches at one half distance from the cell, and wide apart. Palpi |