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Show 1881.] NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 315 white spot at lower end of the cell: hind wing golden-yellow, with broad cupreous-brown marginal band. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs above dark rufous-brown; abdomen golden-vellow, with brownish tip. Expanse 1| inch. Hab. N. India. In coll. F. Moore. Genus APAMEA, Ochs. A P A M E A CUPRINA, n. sp. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 2.) Allied to A. leucostigma. Fore wing dark cupreous-brown, with indistinct grey transverse sinuous fasciae; costal and median veins grey-speckled; orbicular and reniform marks grey, the latter also black-speckled : hind wing pale cupreous-brown. Thorax, palpi, and legs above dark brown ; abdomen ochreous-brown. Expanse ly5^ inch. Hab. Sikkim {Blanford, 1870). In coll. Dr. Staudinger. APAMEA PANNOSA, n. sp. Fore wing dark ferruginous-brown, with a pale whitish-ochreous sinuous patch at the apex and diffused patches along the posterior border ; a transverse subbasal, antemedian, and a postmedian, pale-ochreous centred, black, double sinuous lines ; orbicular and reniform spots black-lined with pale inner border and ferruginous centre; an indistict submarginal pale sinuous line with black points : hind win°- and abdomen cinereous-brown, darkest externally. Thorax, palpi^ and legs above dark ferruginous, legs with black bands. Expanse ly7^ inch. Hab. Nilgiris, S. India; Ceylon. In coll. F. Moore. APAMEA LATIFASCIATA, n. sp. Fore wing dark ferruginous greyish brown, with the discal area and posterior margin broadly pale ochreous ; a transverse antemedian and postmedian sharply-sinuous black lines bordering the dark ferruginous and forming a median band ; orbicular and reniform spots pale-centred : hind wing pale cinereous. Body ferruginous ; thorax, palpi, and legs dusky ferruginous, legs with black bands. Expanse 1§ inch. Hab. Manpuri, N . W . India (Home). In coll. F Moore. APAMEA MUCRONATA. n. sp. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 8.) Male and Female. Fore wing pale ferruginous, with a broad medial transverse darker ferruginous band bordered by an antemedian and a postmedian double black sinuous lines, the latter with very long outer discal points ; orbicular and reniform spots black-lined and pale-centred ; a ferruginous black-speckled spot and some contiguous streaks at base of the wing ; some streaks on costal border, and a marginal irregular fascia bordered by the black lunular points with pale tips : hind wing and abdomen pale pinkish brown. Thorax, P R O C . Z O O L . Soc-1881, No. XXIII. 23 |