14 CHALCOSIID^. 



AhToka puliginosa, n. sp. 



Male and fcmaJc. Fuliginoiis-biown ; fore -wing blackish along the costa and middle 

 of wing. Antenntp and pal})! black ; legs brown, 

 Exjranse, ^ t^j. $ -^ inch. 

 Hah. Daijiling. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. 



Family C H A LC O S 1 1 D J^. 



ARACHOTIA, nov. gen. 



Wings long, narrow : costa and hind margin of fore wing nearly straight ; apex slightly 

 pointed ; outer margin short, oblique ; cell dilated only at half its length ; subcostal vein 

 three-branched ; discocellulars slightly sinuous, very short ; median vein five'branched, each 

 branch starting at end of cell from discocellulars, and thus forming radials ; submedian vein 

 contiguous and running parallel to median to end of cell, two-branched, the upper starting 

 at angle of cell, the lower at a short distance before the cell ; two lower submedian or 

 internal veins extending to exterior margin, the upper tenuinating above and the lower at 

 the posterior angle : hind wing produced and acute at the apex, anal angle lobular ; cell 

 divided by a recurrent veinlet its entire length, emitted from middle of lower discocellular ; 

 lower discocellular slightly angled, twice the length of upper ; subcostal vein two-branched ; 

 median vein three-branched, first or radial continuous with recurrent veinlet of the cell, 

 second and third at equal distances at their base ; submedian and three lower internal veins 

 extending to anal lobe. Body long ; antennae very long, extending to three fourths of the 

 costa, bipectinate in male to near tip, which is slightly thickened ; filiform and slightly 

 thickened near tip in female ; palpi short, thin ; second and third joints naked ; legs long, 

 squamous. 



AltACHOTIA FLAVIPLAGA, 11. sp, 



Male. Upperside : fore wing metallic olive-green at base, bluish green at apex ; a nar- 

 row streak below base of cell, space within the cell, a contiguous triangular space below it, 

 and a rounded subapical space transparent ; a short transverse yellowish streak near base of 

 liind margin : hind wing transparent, with black anterior margin and an irregular-shaped 

 streak from anal angle on liind margin. Antennje dark brown ; vertex, thorax, and tip of 

 abdomen bluish green ; base of abdomen blackish, two lateral yellow bands on middle of 

 abdomen ; front of head and palpi greyish brown. 



Underside of wings as above, but anterior margin of hind wing broadly metallic bluish 

 green. Abdomen beneath greyish, banded with blue-green ; legs brown. 



Female. Differs only in the absence of the basal transparent longitudinal streak, and in 

 having a broader subbasal short transverse yellowish streak on fore wijig, and a broad black 

 abdominal margin. Antenna; whitish near apex. 



Expanse, <^ If, 9 If inch. 



Hab. Darjiling. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. 



