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Show 1881.] NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 371 THALPOCHARES DIVISA, n. sp. Male and Female. Yellow : fore wing with a broad outer dark ochreous band occupying half the wing, the inner border of the band formed by a delicate black line, broadly suffused outwardly across the disk with ochreous-red, the exterior margin of the wing also ochreous-red and traversed by a narrow white line, on which are a few minute black dots ; two indistinct black dots also at end of the cell: hind wing with a slight ochreous outer margin. Expanse § inch. HaB. Allahabad {Hellard) ; Calcutta (Grote) ; Ceylon {Mack-wood). In coll. F. Moore. THALPOCHARES BIFASCIATA, n. sp. White : fore wing with a broad transverse median band and the outer margin clear golden-yellow, the inner border of the latter deeply waved: hind wing and body white. Expanse y5^- inch. Hab. Allahabad, Punjab, N.W. India {Hellard). In coll. F. Moore. THALPOCHARES FLAVIDA, n. sp. Fore wing pale ochreous-yellow, crossed by two median indistinct narrow red lines: hind wing pale ochreous-red ; cilia ochreous-white. Bodj", palpi, and legs above pale ochreous. Expanse T 7^ inch. Hab, Allahabad, Punjab, N.W. India {Hellard). In coll. F. Moore. Genus LEPTOSTA, Guen. LEPTOSIA QU1NARIA, n. Sp. Male and Female. Brownish grey : fore wing with a basal and three equidistant median transverse waved pale-bordered brown bands, each broadest and darkest at the costal end; an outer transverse sinuous pale-bordered black line: hind wing cinereous along the costal border, brown-speckled on posterior half, with short transverse pale sinuous bands. Body, palpi, and legs brownish grey. Expanse Tf inch. Hab. Allahabad, Manpuri, N.W. India. In coll. F. Moore. Genus ACANTHOLIPES, Lederer. Acantholipes, Lederer, Die Noct. Europa's, p. 198 (1857). Docela, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiv. p. 1258 (1865). Microphysa (part), Boisduval. ACANTHOLIPES FLAVISIGNA, n. sp. Female. Ochreous-grey: fore wing with a transverse oblique median brown fascia which is narrow at the costal end, and has a deeply-waved outer border; a discal transverse, curved, oblique narrow ochreous line, with outer irregular zigzag brown border; a |