126 HADEN1D.E. 



bordered line, and a postmedial slightly sinuous line, the latter curved inwards towards the 

 costa ; a straight marginal sinuous line ; some basal irregular white streaks ; orbicular and 

 reniform spots white bordered ; discal area beyond the cell and outside the postmedial line 

 ochreous, and an ochreous patch near the base : hind wing pale brown, with narrow white 

 sinuous marginal band from anal angle, with a few black and wliite flecks up the two lower 

 median veins. Body, palpi, and legs dark purple-brown, the latter with whitish tarsal 

 bauds. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Hah. Darjiling (April). In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



NIKARA, uov. gen. 



Female. Fore wing — costa nearly straight, exterior margin oblique, slightly convex in 

 the middle, posterior margin short ; second subcostal emitted before end of the cell, trifur- 

 cate ; third and fourth at equal distances from base of second ; fifth curving upward from 

 end of the cell and touching the third at nearly half distance between it and the fourth ; 

 radial from end of the cell ; discocellular concave ; two upper median branches from angles 

 above end of the cell, third at its lower end, fourth some distance before the end. Hind wing 

 — costa nearly straight ; exterior margin convex, abdominal margin short ; two subcostal 

 brandies from end of tlie cell ; discocellulars concave, upper slightly longest ; radial from 

 angle of the middle ; two upper medians from lower end of the cell, third at some distance 

 before its end. Body short ; pal]>i pilose, third joint minute ; legs pilose beneath ; antenna? 

 tiliform. 



NiKARA CASTANEA, n. sp. (Plate IV. fig. 21.) 



Female. Fore wing chestnut-brown, the discoidal area and the cell darker brown, and 

 bordered externally by a black Avaved line ; orbicular and reniform spots, streaks between 

 the base of median veins, two lines down the exterior margin, and the costal and posterior 

 margins, speckled with greyish-white : hind wing brown, with an indistinct darker discal 

 fascia. Underside \ya\q brown, palest on basal areas ; both wings with a transverse discal 

 brown line. Thorax chestnut-brown, speckled witli white ; abdomen brown ; legs dark 

 brown, speckled with white. 



Expanse l^o- inch. 



Hah. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Genus APPANA, Moore. 



Appana, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 355. 



Fore wing somewhat short, costa straight, apex slightly pointed, exterior margin 

 oblique. Aery slightly waved and convex ; first subcostal branch emitted from half length of 

 the cell, second at one fourth, trifurcate, third at one fourth, and fourth at one half from 



