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Show 26 MR. F. MOORE ON THE L1THOSIID.E. [J submedian recurved. Hind wing produced at the apex; exterior margin recurved ; abdominal margin short; subcostal two-branched beyond the cell; discocellulars concave; cell short, broad ; median vein three-branched, two upper branches at half distance beyond the cell, lower from before half its length; submedian nearly straight. Body slender, longer than hind wing, tufted in male. Antennae slender, with very fine delicate pectinations. Legs slender, long, smooth, spurred. Palpi slender, long, slightly ascending beyond front of head. PRABHASA VENOSA, n. sp. (Plate II. fig. 16, cS •) Male and female. Upperside pale luteous brown : fore wing with the veins darker brown ; an indistinct brown transverse discal band, which is bent outward beyond the cell ; male with a greyish-brown plumose tuft overlapping and extending half the length of the cell; anal tuft in male ochreous. Underside paler; band across fore wing not visible. Expanse, 3 ly-j» 2 lyir inch. Darjiling (Atkinson). In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. P R A B H A S A FLAVICOSTA, n. sp. (Plate II. fig. 17.) Female. Upperside uniformly dark luteous brown : hind wing and abdomen purplish brown : fore wing with the costal border pale yellow ; discal band most prominent at costal end, broad, but not bent outward. Front of head, thorax at sides, palpi and abdomen beneath, yellow ; legs above cinereous brown, yellowish beneath. Underside uniform brown ; costal border on both wings yellowish. Expanse lT 3<y inch. Cherra Punji (Atkinson). In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. P R A B H A S A COSTALIS, n. sp. Male and female. Whitish testaceous : fore wing with the costal border whitish, and a brown spot one third before the apex; lower part of wing brown-speckled, most distinct along the veins. Underside- fore wing testaceous brown, dark-speckled along the base of costa and subcostal vein. Legs dusky brown above. Expanse, S 1» $ ly2^ inch. North China. In coll. F. Moore. GAMPOLA, n. g. Male. Wings short, broad, truncate at the apex. Fore wing arched towards the end, apical angle acute, exterior margin nearly erect, posterior angle convex and fringed ; costal edge at the base folded over and fringed for a short distance1; cell long and narrow, folded beneath the median vein; subcostal at some distance from costal, five-branched, first short, anastomosing with costal, but free at its end, second arising at some distance before end of the cell, third trifurcate, the upper branch nearest to and at one third beyond the cell; discocellulars bent below the middle, outwardly oblique, upper longest; radial from the angle ; median vein bent upward near end of cell, 1 Probably a sound-producing apparatus. |