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Show 28 MR. F. MOORE ON THE LITHOSIID^E. [Jan. 13, men red ; tuft white. Thorax white, with two red bands. Underside uniform red; cell-spots in fore wing and discocellular streak in hind wing blackish. Fore and middle legs with blackish bands. Body beneath and legs white. Palpi black at the side. Expanse 1-A- inch. Masuri, N . W . Himalaya (Hutton). In coll. F. Moore. B I Z O N E COCCINEA, n. sp. (Plate III. fig. 14.) Male. Upperside crimson-red, the base of fore wing slightly yellow: fore wing with a subbasal and discal black band, the former bent inward and the latter outward at the costal end ; three black spots at end of the cell. Thorax yellowish, banded with red ; anal tuft and abdomen beneath yellow ; legs yellow, with red bands. Underside of wings uniform red. Expanse ly^ inch. Sikkim. In coll. F. Moore. BIZONE ALBA, n. sp. Male. Upperside white : fore wing with a small basal red spot and narrow streak on base of costal edge ; a black spot at end of the cell. Underside pale red, broadly on anterior margin of fore wing and narrowly on hind wing; palpi at sides and fore and middle legs with blackish bands. Expanse y^- inch. North China. In coll. F. Moore. GROUP E. Aberrant. Fore wing with FIVE subcostal and FOUR median branches. BAROA, n. g. Fore wing long, moderately broad ; costa slightly arched ; apex somewhat pointed ; exterior margin oblique and convex ; cell short, narrow ; subcostal vein five-branched, first branch free, second trifurcate, the forks ascending, fourth from end of the cell; discocellulars angled at the ends; radial from upper angle; submedian four-branched, two upper from end and third from angle before end of the cell. Hind wing somewhat short, broad ; apex pointed ; exterior margin convex ; two subcostal branches from end of the cell; three submedian branches from end and fourth before end of the cell. Body extending beyond hind wing. Palpi slender, long, pilose beneath, ascending and extending beyond the head ; terminal joint blunt. Legs slender. Antennae minutely pectinate in male, setulose in female. Type, Baroa punctivaga (Cycnia punctivaga, Walk. Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. iii. p. 682). * Java (Horsfield). BARSINE, Walker. Barsine, Walk. Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ii. p. 456. BARSINE FLAMMEALIS, n. sp. (Plate III. fig. 15.) Fore wing yellow, mostly covered with bright-red intervening |