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Show 408 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW LEPIDOPTERA [JunC 19, beyond the postmedial line are two similar but wider-separated discal lines, the outer lines being most distinct and ending at the apex ; a less distinct line also contiguous to the postmedial line; along the extreme outer margin is a fine black lunular line. Hind wing greyish- brown, indistinctly paler across the middle ; cilia cinereous. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs, above, greyish-brown ; legs with black bands. Expanse, o" ly6^, $ 1 T 8-j inch. Hab. Kangra. In coll. British Museum. PALIMPSESTIS ALBIDISCA, n. sp. Fore wing greyish olive-brown, the posterior base and disc slightly suffused with pink, crossed by a medial, waved, sinuous, distinct black line, followed by five or six paler sinuous lines, each of which are angulated outward at the upper median vein ; beyond these is a more distinct but less sinuous line, which is blackest at the apical end ; marginal line also black ; between the medial line and the base are three indistinct waved black lines with slight whitish-speckled borders, and at the base is a short longitudinal black-crested streak with white lower edge ; the area between the medial line and the third discal line is white below the cell. Hind wing pale greyish brown. Thorax, head, and palpi olivaceous hoary ; legs with black bands. Expanse ly^ inch. Hab. Kangra. In coll. British Museum. DlPHTERA FASCIATA, n. Sp. Fore wing pale green ; with a black basal costal streak, a basal posterior streak which is bent upward below the cell, two small costal streaks, followed by a broad costal streak which is continued across end of the cell, beyond this are two smaller costal streaks and a larger dentate spot, from the latter extends a dark green waved fascia, which has a slender, black, sinuous, inner-bordered line, the exterior border being sparsely speckled with minute black scales; cilia with an alternate white and black sinuous border. Hind wing bluish-white. Body pale green ; palpi and legs greenish-white with black bands. Expanse ly^- inch. Hab. Kangra. In coll. British Museum. Genus TRI^ENA. TRIiENA DENTICULATA, n. Sp. Male. Fore wing brownish-grey ; crossed by slender, sinuous, indistinct blackish lines with grey-speckled borders, of which the basal is acute and the discal lines are most apparent; a marginal row of black points ; orbicular mark oblique, with greyish-white centre; from the base below the cell extends a longitudinal"black streak to the antemedial line, and a similar streak from the postmedial line to the exterior margin. Hind wing white ; veins dusky-brown ; with a |