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Show 1881.] NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 327 together from near base of second, the fifth coalescing with the second at one third its length ; discocellulars slightly oblique, radial from their middle ; median vein three-branched, two upper from end of the cell; one submedian. Hind wing convex externally; subcostal vein two-branched ; discocellulars, radial and median veins as in fore wing. Body long, slender, laxly pilose, tip tufted with spatu-late hairs ; antennas long, pectinated rather broadly two thirds their length ; palpi short, stout, pilose ; legs pilose. Allied to Pydna, Walker. CORMA HORSFIELDI. Eumeta horsfieldi, Moore, Catal. Lep. E.I. C. ii. p. 430 (1859). HaB. Java. Horsfield coll. Brit. Museum. CORMA RAFFLESI. Eumeta rafflesi, Moore, Catal. Lep. E.I. C. ii. p. 430 (1859). Hab. Java. Horsfield coll. Brit. Museum. Fam. COSSID^E. Genus Z E N Z E R A. Z E N Z E R A MULTISTRIGATA, n. sp. Zenzera indica, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M . vii. p. 1536 (1856), nee H.-Schaff. Male and Female. White : fore wing with steel-blue spots along the costa, within the cell, and at its end, and along the exterior and posterior borders, the discal spaces between the veins with steel-blue transverse streaks : hind wing with less prominent similar steel-blue markings within the cell and on anterior border. Body white, six steel-blue spots on hind part of thorax, and seven bands on the abdomen ; front of head black ; legs steel-blue above, femora white beneath; antennae black. Expanse, 3 2f, $ 3-f inches. Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Brit. Museum and F. Moore. Note. Z. paucipunctata, Walker, I. c. p. 1537, is identical with Z. indica, H.-Schaff., Lep. Exot. spec. nov. f. 166 (1854). Tribe NOCTUES. Fam. CYMATOPHORID^E. Genus THYATIRA, Ochs. Fore wing with second subcostal branch bifurcate; fourth branch also bifurcate; upper and lower discocellulars concave, upper bent near subcostal; upper radial from the angle near subcostal, and lower radial from their middle; upper median branch from angle above end of the cell, middle branch from its end. Hind wing with the costal vein free at its base from the subcostal, but curved in the middle ; first subcostal branch emitted from half length of the cell, curving upward and touching the costal at its middle; radial and |