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Show 1881.] NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 333 Genus TRI^ENA, Hiibner. T R L E N A MAXIMA, n. sp. Allied to T. tridens of Europe. Fore wing grey, speckled with brown ; an oblique, transverse, subbasal black duplex sinuous line, and a similar but more sharply-pointed sinuous discal, line ; a marginal row of black spots ; a longitudinal irregular black basal streak along the median vein, which nearly joins a straight streak to the outer margin ; orbicular and reniform spots black-lined and joined by an intervening upper black linear streak : hind wing pale greyish cinereous, with the veins, a discal line, and a marginal band cinereous-brown. Thorax grey, abdomen greyish cinereous ; palpi and legs with dark bands. Expanse 2\ inches. HaB. Punjab Hills, N.W. India (B. Powell). In coll. F. Moore. Fam. LEUCANIIDJE. Genus A L E T I A l, Hiibner. Aletia, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 239 (1816.) Hyphilare, Hiibn. iBid. ALETIA ANGULIFERA, n. sp. Male. Allied to A. conigera (Noctura. conigera, Schiff.). Fore wing ochreous-yellow, indistinctly clouded with red-ochreous scales; crossed by a reddish-black antemedian outwardly-bent line and an oblique postmedian line, which is bent inward at costal end; a whitish spot at lower end of the cell, a pale-yellow reniform and orbicular space ; marginal and cilial lines black-speckled : hind wing pale dusky brown, cilia pale yellow. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs ochreous-yellow ; abdomen paler. Expanse l-j^- inch. HaB. N.W. Himalaya, Cashmere (Sind valley). In coll. F: Moore and Dr. Staudinger. ALETIA DISTINCTA, n. sp. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 4.) Allied to A. vitellina, Hiibn. Male. Fore wing deep ochreous-yellow, sparsely crossed by short irregularly disposed red strigae, more or less black-speckled ; a prominent antemedian and postmedian transverse curved narrow band of the same colour, but more blackly speckled, beyond which is a discal row of blaek spots followed by a white streak-one on each vein; a marginal series of black dots- one on each vein; orbicular and reniform space marked by red strigse; space beyond the cell to the postmedian band clouded with dusky red ; cilia from apex to near end of hind margin thickly black-speckled : hind wing pale ochreous-brown posteriorly, yellowish anteriorly ; cilia pale yellowish. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs deep ochreous; a slight black-speckled collar, a few speckles on tegulse, and a cluster at base of pale ochreous abdomen. Expanse 1 ^ inch. HaB. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. Type A. vitellina, Hiibn. |