32 LITHOSIID^. 



upper arising near base of the wing ; cell broad ; discoceUulars recurved ; median vein 

 straight, two-branched, the branches very close together, lower branch from before end of the 

 ceil ; submedian straight. Antenna? minutely and finely pectinate in male, setose in female ; 

 body slender, extending beyond hind wing; legs stout, smooth, fore femora thickened, 

 middle and hind tibic^ spurred ; palpi small, porrect, projected slightly beyond the head, 

 pilose beneath, apex small, pointed. 



NiSHADA FLABRIFERA. 



Nisliada flabri/era, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 23. 



Hale and female. Yellowish-ochreous, palest in female : fore wing in male brighter 

 ochreous, and slightly ferruginous at tlie base. Thorax, head, and antenna; brownish 

 ochreous. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Ilab. Calcutta District. In colls. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. 



Allied to the Bornean A". 7'otundij)cnnis [Lithosia rotundipennis. Walk. Journ. Linn. 

 .Soc. Zool. vi. p. 104), which species is also jjrobably identical with Litlt. chilomorpha, Snell. 

 Tijd. voor Ent. 1877, p. 07, pi. v. f. 1, from Sumatra. 



(xciius PKABIIASA, Moore. 



Prahha.m, Moore, V. Z. S. 1878, p. 25. 



Wings long. Fore wing narrow, very slightly arched before the apex ; exterior margin 

 oblique, slightly convex ; posterior margin long, nearly straight ; subcostal vein at some 

 distance from costal ; first branch short, curving upward to costa before end of the cell, 

 second straight, from end of the cell, third contiguous at base to second, trifurcate, looped 

 to second near base ; cell long, in the male folded and tufted with recumbent plumes above 

 to beyond half its length, the median and submedian contiguous ; discoceUulars long, con- 

 vex, radial from lower part ; median vein three-branched, two upper curving hindward from 

 lower end of cell, lower curving from below the cell at nearly half its length ; submedian 

 recurved. Hind wing produced at the apex ; exterior margin recurved, abdominal margin 

 short ; subcostal two-branched beyond the cell ; discoceUulars concave ; cell short, broad ; 

 median three-branched, two upper branches at half distance beyond the cell, lower from 

 before half its length ; submedian nearly straight. Body slender, longer than hind wing, 

 tufted in male ; antennse slender, with very fine delicate jjectinations ; legs slender, long, 

 smooth, spurred ; palpi slender, long, slightly ascending beyond front of head. 



Prabhasa venosa. 

 Prahhasa renosn, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 26, pi. ii. fig. 1(3. 



Male and female. Upperside pale luteous-browm : fore wing with the veins darker 

 brown ; an indistinct brown transverse discal band, which is bent outward beyond the cell ; 



