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coloured : oblique discal band and apical si)ots on fore wing distinct. l?ody and antennae 

 yellowish. 



Exjianse li^ incli. 



Ilab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



DKEI'AXA vinacka, u. sp. 



Mti/c. Uppersido ochrcous-brown, suffused with purple ; a duplex narrow blackish 

 band indistinctly bent to the costa before the apex and crossing to middle of abdominal 

 margin ; a black streak from apex to below angle of the band ; both wings with indistinct 

 transverse subbasal and submarginal wavy darker lines, and two black-speckled grey- 

 bordered spots at end of the cell : cilia brown. Underside ochreous-yellow, witli indi- 

 stinct spots at end of the cell, and fore wing with dusky-brown fascia from apex. Antenna; 

 and fore legs above blackish. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



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



Genus ORETA, Walker. 

 Oreta, Walker, Cat;il. Lop. Het. E. :\I. v. p. 110(5. 



OUETA SAKGUINEA, n. sp. 



Uppcrside — fore wing with the basal two thirds and outer border deep red, the former 

 traversed by short transverse yellow and brown strigse, the latter partly covered with grey 

 streaks ; the outer discal space yellow : hind wing with the basal portion and a patch at 

 apex red ; both wings with two submarginal indistinct series of black speckles. Underside 

 of both wings as above. Body and legs deep red ; abdomen yellow at sides : antennjE 

 pale red. 



Expanse 1| inch. 



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



Family COSSID.E. 



Genus COSSUS, Fabr. 

 Cossus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2. 4. 



CoSSUS TESSELLATUS, n. sp. 



Male. Uppersidc — fore wing greyish-ochreous, crossed by several ochrey-brown bands, 

 darkest below the cell and on a conspicuous spot at end of the cell, the outer bands alter- 

 natelv lunular and maculated, those at the base outwardly oblique : hind wing pale greyish- 

 ochreous, sparsely crossed by brown strigoe. Cilia alternately pale and dark cinereous. 



