94 CTMATOPHOEID.E. 



PITRASA, nov. gen. 



Fore wing elongated, narrow ; costa slightly arched at base, apex acuminate, exteriin- 

 margin obliquely convex, posterior margin convex towards the base ; costal vein very long, 

 extending to three fourths the margin ; first subcostal emitted at one half before end of the 

 cell, second at one sixth, trifurcate, third at one fifth, and fourth at one half from base of 

 second, fifth curving upward from end of the cell and touching the third near its base ; 

 discocellulars deeply concave in the middle, radials from the upper and lower ends ; cell 

 extending more than half the wing ; middle median from immediately before end of the 

 cell, lower at one fourth before the end ; submedian curved at the base. Hind wing oval, 

 short, apex very convex ; costal vein recurved ; two subcostal branches emitted from end of 

 the cell ; discocellulars bent obliquely outward from the middle ; radial near its lower end ; 

 middle median from immediately before end of the cell, lower at one thu'd before the end ; 

 submedian and internal straight. Body stout, long ; collar erect ; palpi small, porrect, 

 second joint broad, laxly squamose, third joint short, cylindrical ; antennse very long, 

 minutely bipectinate to near tip in the male; legs long; fore and middle femora and tibite 

 laxly squamose above, femora finely pilose beneath. 



PrrRASA VAKiEGATA, n. sj]. (Plate IV. fig. 2.) 



Male. Fore wing dark purplish-ochreous, fasciated with purplish-grey on the disk and 

 posterior border ; an oblique waved black line from the apex across tlie disk, bordered witliin 

 and before the apex by a wliite fascia ; some indistinct white streaks along tlie outer veins, 

 and an outer mai-ginal black line bordered by a white line ; some indistinct black basal 

 transverse streaks, and a linear wdiite-bordered streak from base of median vein : hind wing 

 whitish-cinereous, with broad brown outer band. Body, palpi, and legs brown. 



Expanse If inch. 



Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudiager. 



PrrRASA viTELLiNA, n. sp. (Plate IV. fig. 3.) 



Female. Fore M'ing ochreous-yellow ; costal border slightly speckled towards the apex 

 with purplish-ochreous and white, the veins across the disk also speckled with purple and 

 white, the ends of the three at lower end of the cell and their interspaces entirely white ; an 

 oblique transverse discal row of black dots, one on each vein, a purple streak extending for 

 a short distance along the vein from the exterior margin, the margin itself with a narrow 

 white and purple line ; some pale-bordered purple streaks across the veins at the base, and 

 a short linear streak from base of median vein : hind wing whitish-cinereous, with broad 

 brownish-cinereous outer band. Body cinereous ; thorax brownish ; palpi and legs above 

 brownish. 



Expanse 1| inch. 



Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and British Museum. 



