70 NOTODONTID.E. 



brown, a broad white band on front of thorax above. Underside and legs pale brown ; tarsi 

 in female with pale whitish bands. 



Expanse, S ]| inch, ? 2^ inches. 



Hah. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



RACHIA, nov. gen. 



Male. Fore wing very long, narrow, subfusiform ; costa arched ; apex acute ; exterior 

 margin very oblique, waved ; hind margin slightly convex at the base ; subcostal vein five- 

 branched, tirst branch arising before end of the cell, third from the second at nearly half its 

 length from end of the cell, forked, fourth from below the third at one third from its end, 

 fifth from the second at half distance between third and end of the cell ; discocellulars 

 slightly bent in the middle, whence springs the radial ; median vein three-branched, middle 

 branch from before end of the cell ; submedian curved towards the hind margin. Hind 

 wing long, extending beyond angle of fore wing, costa straight, apex slightly rounded, 

 exterior margin waved, abdominal margin short, densely hairy ; costal vein extending to 

 apex ; subcostal two-branched at half the length beyond the cell ; discocellulars, radial, and 

 median as above ; a submedian and an internal vein. Body stout, abdomen extending 

 beyond hind wing ; thorax thickly pilose ; antennae long, plumose, very broadly bipectinate ; 

 palpi small, short, not extending beyond the head, pilose and adpressed beneath, tip blunt ; 

 legs thickly pilose. 



RaCHIA PLUMOSAj n. sp. 



Male. Upperside — fore wing dusky ferruginous-brown, with pale ochreous sliort 

 longitudinal interspaces between the veins, the spaces streaked with dark chestnut-brown ; 

 an indistinct transverse subbasal and a discal black zigzag line ; a marginal black denticu- 

 lated line : hind wing duller brown, with two very indistinct transverse dusky pale-bordered 

 submarginal sinuous lines. Antennae black ; thorax dark brown, black in front ; abdomen 

 paler. Underside paler, duller-coloured : fore wing unmarked : hind wing pale cinereous- 

 brown along abdominal margin ; crossed by a discal brown band ; a brown lunule at end of 

 the cell. 



Expanse 2f inches. 



Hah. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. 



Genus PARAVETTA, Moore. 

 Paravetta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 814. 



Pakavetta sikkima, n. sp. 



Male. Upperside dark brownish fawn-colour : fore wing with a wide transverse medial 

 pale-margined outwardly bent ochreous-brcjwn band, the Tipper part very broad, the lower 



