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Show 1881.] NOCTURNAL L E P I D O P T E R A . 373 reniform spots indistinct: hind wing cinereous-brown. Thorax pale ferruginous; palpi and legs dark ferruginous-brown, with pale bands. Expanse ly2^ inch. Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. Genus PHOTHEDES, Lederer. P H O T H E D E S BIPARS, n. sp. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 7.) Allied to the European P. captiuncula, Zeller. Fore wing with the basal half dark brown, enclosing a white-lined narrow reniform spot; outer half pale brown, the margin and cilia speckled with dark brown: hind wing and abdomen pale brown. Thorax and fore legs above dark brown ; collar, front of head, and palpi greyish brown. Expanse y9^ inch. HaB. Cherra Punji, Assam. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. Genus BANKIA, Guen. B A N K I A A N G U L I F E R A , n.sp. Fore wing very pale dull purplish ochreous, with two median transverse inwardly oblique slender pale lines, the outer line bent inward near the upper end to costa; a very indistinct submarginal series of minute brown dots : hind wing very pale purplish cinereous. Body pale brownish ochreous; palpi and fore legs above ochreous-brown, with pale tarsal bands. Expanse y9^- inch. HaB. N.W. Himalaya. In coll. F. Moore. BANKIA LATIVITTA, n. sp. Fore wing pale ochreous-brown ; basal third very obliquely white, the border defined by an irregular slender brown line; an oblique discal white band extending from posterior angle to the costa, and enclosing two black discocellular dots, the costal end projecting obliquely outward, and again indistinctly merging in the band on the disk; an oblique dark-brown speckled fascia from the apex; cilia blackish : hind wing cinereous-brown. Thorax white ; abdomen cinereous, brown-speckled. Expanse T 8 7 inch. HaB. Nilgiris, S. India. In coll. F. Moore. BANKIA ERECTA, n. sp. Fore wing whitish, with an erect median transverse narrow ochreous or dark olive-brown band, with black inner border ; a similar-coloured fascia from the apex, leaving a curved white space before the anterior end of the band, and a fascia along exterior margin; a black dot at base of the costa and two at end of the cell, the upper one being indistinct; some speckles at the exterior apex and the cilia blackish : hind wing pale cinereous. Body whitish. Expanse y9^ inch. HaB. Nilgiris, S. India. In coll. F. Moore. |