MAMESTKA. — PEOSPALTA. Ill 



Gcuus MAMESTRA, Ochs. 



MaMESTKA RENALBA, 11. sp. 



Fore wing dark cupreous-brown ; liasal half thickly black-speckloil, crossed by two sub- 

 basal and two discal indistinct transverse sinuous grey bands, a nioiv prominent black outer 

 discal waved baud, and a marginal row of spots with intervening wliite dots ; reniform mark 

 distinctly white-speckled : hind wing pale brown, whitish towards tlie base. Thorax, head, 

 palpi, and legs dark brown, the latter with pale bands. 



Expanse Ij^^- inch. 



Ilab. Daijiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. 



MaMESTKA DECOKATA, 11. sp. (Plate \\ . tig. 8.) 



Fore wing purple-brown ; veins grey-speckled ; with a broad medial pale-bordered 

 dark golden band, the inner border of which is oblique and the outer irregularly waved ; 

 orbicular and reniform spots pale-lined and centred with ochrcous-brown ; a brown basal 

 streak on posterior margin, and outer marginal transverse zigzag line with grey-speckled 

 borders ; posterior margin fringed with ochreous : hind wing ochreous-brown ; cilia brighter, 

 edged with grey ; an indistinct transverse discal brown fascia. Thorax, head, palpi and 

 legs above purple-brown ; palpi and legs speckled \\ itli ochreous-brown ; abdomen ochreous- 

 brown. 



Expanse 1^,- inch. 



Hah. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Genus PROSPALTA, Walker. 

 PrOSPALTA STELL.VTA, II. sp. 



Fore win" dark brown ; crossed bv some medial iiale-bordered black sinuous lines ; 

 three clusters of pure white spots within the cell and another cluster below its end, a lobate 

 spot at base of the wing ; three spots on the costal edge, some on base of posterior border, 

 a row of smaller spots crossing tlie disk, and two interru[)ted marginal rows ; two series of 

 white spots also on the cilia : hind wing brown, with indistinct paler tranverse discal waved 

 line ; cilia bordered with wliitc. Thorax dark brown, abdomen paler brown, with a white- 

 speckled dorsal crest ; palpi blackish with pale bands ; legs above black, banded witli 

 white. 



Expanse, s 1^ inch, $ If inch. 



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



Allied to P. leiicosjjihi, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. 13. M. xiii. p. 1111, and to P. albomaculafa 

 {Mamestra albomaculata, Moore, V. Z. S. 18G7, p. 52). 



