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Show 1881.] NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 375 PHALGA, n. g. Fore wing-costa almost straight ; apex pointed ; exterior margin oblique and scalloped, angular in the middle ; first subcostal branch emitted at one third before end of the cell, second at one sixth before its end, third at one eighth from below base of second, fourth at three fourths from third, fifth from end of the cell, bent obliquely upward and slightly touching third near its base; discocellular extremely slender, slightly bent at each end, convex in the middle, radials from upper and lower angles; upper median branch emitted from angle above end of the cell, middle branch from its end, lower at nearly one half before its end; submedian recurving from the base. Hind wing narrow; exterior margin convex, slightly scalloped ; abdominal margin short; costal vein extending to apex, two subcostal branches emitted from end of the cell; discocellular extremely slender, radial from its lower end; cell very short; upper median branch from angle above end of the cell, middle branch from its end, lower at one third before the end; submedian and internal vein recurved. Body moderate, abdomen laterally tufted ; palpi ascending, not extending above the head, second joint stout, third slender; fore tibia laxly tufted; antennae filiform. Allied to Lineopalpa, Guenee. PHALGA SINUOSA, n. sp. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 7.) Fore wing pale dull brownish ochreous, with a very indistinct black-speckled- bordered, pale, zigzag subbasal transverse line, a more distinct black treble discal acute-angled zigzag line, a submarginal single line, and less distinct marginal lunular line ; a pale yellowish reniform mark : hind wing ochreous-brown ; cilia brownish ochreous ; a slender black marginal lunular line and streaks above anal angle. Body brownish ochreous ; thorax, palpi, and fore legs ochreous-brown. Expanse 1| inch. Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. Fam. EuRHiPiD^E. Genus EUTELIA, Hiibner. EUTELIA SICCIFOLIA, n. sp. Greenish ochreous, numerously covered with short indistinct dusky strigae: fore wing crossed by five or six irregular waved indistinct blackish lines and an oblique subapical line, the costal border clouded with brown, the edge at the apex black-speckled : hind wing suffused with purplish brown on exterior border, with irregular transverse indistinct blackish lines; a slender semidia-phanous- white discocellular streak. Front of thorax, head, palpi at the side and in front, black ; legs above black. Expanse lyV inch. Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. Allied to E. viridatrix. |