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Show 1881.J NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 369 cilia entirely pink : hind wing pale yellow, with a distinct dusky-brown marginal band ; cilia yellowish white. Underside pale yellow ; fore wing with the veins broadly suffused with dusky black, and a blackish discal fascia. Body pale brownish ochreous ; thorax, palpi, and legs above ochreous-brown. Expanse 1 inch. HaB. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. ADISURA PALLIDA, n. sp. Male. Fore wing pale purplish ochreous-grey, with the costal edge and longitudinal streaks extending to outer margin very pale ochreous-brown ; a few minute black speckles on costal and posterior borders ; a curved discal transverse row of minute black points; cilia edged with white : hind wing ochreous-white, with an indistinct pale-brown median submarginal fascia. Underside ochreous-white. Thorax and head ochreous-grey ; palpi at the side, and legs above, ochreous-brown. Expanse ljij inch. HaB. Ceylon. Tn coll. F. M . Mackwood. Nearest allied to A. leucanidides. ADISURA SIMILIS, n. sp. Allied to A. marginalis. Differs from it in being of a pale ochreous yellow ; the fore wing with similar marginal bands and cilia, but with the disk crossed by an indistinct recurved row of brown speckles, some speckles also being present towards the base of hind margin : hind wing whitish at the base. Expanse, 3 ? |f inch. HaB. Calcutta. In coll. F. Moore and Dr. Staudinger. Fam. ANTHOPHILID^;. Genus HYDRELIA, Guen. HYDRELIA CONJUGATA, n. sp. Male and Female. Fore wing dark umber-brown ; costal border pale ochreous-brown, with darker streaks between the costal and subcostal veins; a white-bordered, brown elongated outwardly-oblique orbicular mark, which is confluent hindward with a similar upright reniform mark, an oblique pale streak below the cell in a line with the orbicular mark; these markings indistinct in the female: hind wing ochreous-brown; thorax, palpi, and legs above brown-speckled. Expanse ly1^ inch. HaB. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. Genus THALPOCHARES, Lederer. Micra1, Guenee, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. p. 224 (1841). THALPOCHARES PARVULA, n. sp. Near to the European T. parva, but of smaller size. White: 1 Previously used in Diptera. |