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Show 1881.] NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 353 median fascia darker brown; outer margin also darker brown, with a pale-bordered lunular line: hind wing paler. Underside pale, brighter cinnamon-brown. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs above dark cinnamon-brown. Expanse lg inch. HaB. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. Genus OCHROPLEURA, Hiibner. OCHROPLEURA CONSANGUINEA, n. Sp. Male and Female. Fore wing dark cupreous-brown, base and exterior border suffused with grey; costal border pale ferruginous ; a short subbasal pale streak with black border, an oblique antemedian waved black double line, a postmedian, less distinct, double sinuous line, and a submarginal pale lunular line; orbicular and reniform spots grey, with black interspaces ; an indistinct conical greyish-centred mark below the cell: hind wing brown. Thorax cupreous-brown ; collar and palpi ferruginous edged with black ; abdomen brown ; legs blackish with pale bands. Expanse If inch. HaB. Solun, Punjab; Dalhousie, N.W. Himalaya. In coll. F. Moore. Allied to 0. renalis, from which it is distinguishable by its smaller size, straighter and more oblique antemedian line, and the postmedian line being nearer the renal spot. Genus HERMONASSA, Walker. H E R M O N A S S A C H A L Y B E A T A , n. sp. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 17.) Smaller thanH.consignata. Fore wing dark brown, with indistinctly darker markings, which are all bordered with chalybeous-grey speckles : hind wing pale cinereous-brown. Underside cinereous-brown. Expanse 1 inch. Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. HERMONASSA SINUATA, n. sp. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 5.) Near H. cuprina. Fore wing paler and of a brighter cupreous-brown, the interspace between the transverse basal and subbasal lines wider, the latter more acutely sinuous, and its lower end almost touching that of the discal line, which latter is also more sinuous : hind wing very pale brown. Underside also much paler. Expanse if inch. HaB. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. Fam. ORTHOSIIDJE. Genus O R T H O S I A , Ochs. O R T H O S I A RECTIVITTA, n. sp. Fore wing mottled with greyish ochreous and dark brown, posterior and exterior areas more uniformly brown ; a transverse sinuous |