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Show 404 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW LEPIDOPTERA [June 19, margin short; costal vein extending to two thirds the margin ; cell extending to nearly one half the wring ; first subcostal emitted at one fourth before end of the cell; second trifid, emitted immediately before the end, third at one half and fourth at one fourth beyond base of the second, the third terminating at the apex; fifth and sixth (or upper radial) on a footstalk beyond end of the cell; discocellular inwardly oblique, lower radial from slight angle above end of the cell; middle median at one third, and lower median at two thirds before end of the cell ; submedian slightly depressed in the middle. Hind wing very short obovate; costa lobate at the base ; lower end of the cell extending to one half the wing; costal vein deeply recurved, its base very convex, extending to only half the margin, furnished with two short ascending bifid spurs, the first (or pre-costal vein) starting straight upwards from its base, the second spur ascending obliquely from above middle of the basal arch; first subcostal emitted at one half the upper length of the cell and anastomosing with the concave portion of the costal for a short distance and then proceeding to the apex; discocellular oblique; two upper median veins from end of the cell, middle at one sixth and lower at one third before end of the cell; submedian and internal vein recurved. Body densely clothed with hair, abdomen extending half beyond hind wing in male, anal tuft very dense in female; head small, hairy in front; palpi short, pointed at tip, densely, but compactly clothed ; legs densely hairy above ; antennae bipectinated, the pectinations plumose, and longest at the base in male. Type, B. undulosa. Allied to genus Taragama (Megasoma, Boisd.). BHIMA UNDULOSA. <j? . Pcecilocampa undulosa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M . vi. p. 1477 (1855). Male. Semitransparent. Wings fuliginous-black externally, fuliginous- bronze basally : fore wing crossed by two contiguous inwardly-oblique waved antemedial, and two lunular discal fuliginous-grey lines, and a submarginal zigzag black-bordered grey fascia; a grey lunule at end of the cell: hind wing with two indistinct grey discal fascia?. Body fuliginous-brown; front of head ochreous ; antennae and legs black. Female. Less semitransparent. Wings fuliginous ochreous-brown ; the transverse markings ochreous-grey. Body and front of head ochreous-brown ; anal tuft ochreous. Expanse, 8 1-g-. 2 3f inches. Hab. Darjiling (Atkinson), Cherra Pinyi (Austen), Dharmsala (Hocking). " Reared from a curious moss-like larva." (Hocking.) Cocoon of pale rusty-brown silk, intermixed with short sharp spiny black hairs. TARAGAMA CASTANOPTERA, n. sp. Female. Differs from T. ganesa in its larger size. Both wings of |