156 AMPHIPYEID.E. 



Tambana catocalina, n. sp. (riatc V. fig. 3.) 



Female. Fore wing olive-brown, crossed by a straight antemedial and a waved post- 

 medial grey-bordered blackish line ; medial interspace olivaceous-grey, crossed by a central 

 waved olive-brown narrow fascia and enclosing a large reniform spot ; exterior border 

 olivaceous-grey, divided from the postmedial line by a zigzag olive-brown fascia, the middle 

 of which extends obliquely outwards ; a marginal row of brown dots : hind wing ochreous- 

 yellow, with a pale ochreous-brown marginal band. Thorax, palpi, and legs ochreous-grey ; 

 abdomen ochreous. Underside ochreous-yellow, with ochreous-grey borders and a dusky- 

 brown discocellular spot on fore wing. 



Expanse 1| inch. 



Ilab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Genus PERIN^NIA, Bufler. 

 Permrsnia, Butler, Ann. N. II. 1878, p. 289. 

 This genus is allied to ScotopMla {8. tragojwgonis) of Europe. 



Peein^nia accipiter. 

 Sjj'mtherojis accipifer, Felclcr, Novara-Reise, Lep. iv. jil. 111. fig. 29. 



Fore wing umber-brown, sparsely speckled with minute black scales, numerously 

 covered with short transverse paler strigte ; an indistinctly-indicated pale-bordered darker 

 sinuous discal line ; veins externally from the discal line indistinctly blackish ; a marginal 

 row of dots ; a small white orbicular dot and a blackish streak extending to the discal line, 

 the streak encompassing a reniform cluster of whitish speckles : hind wing ochreous-brown, 

 with darker marginal band ; cilia pale ochreous-brown. Thorax, palpi, and legs above 

 umber-brown, sparsely black-speckled ; abdomen paler. 



Expanse 1-|^ inch. 



Hab. Pangi (Sfoliczka) ; Daijiling {Atkinson). In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Allied to P. lignosa, Butler, Types of Heterocera in Brit. Mus. ii. p. 37, pi. 32. fig. 7, 

 from Japan. 



MITHILA, n. g. 



Fore wing elongated, narrow, costa much arched at base, exterior margin slightly 

 oblique, convex, posterior margin lobed towards the base ; costal vein extending to four 

 fifths the margin ; first subcostal emitted at one half before end of the cell, second trifurcate, 

 emitted at one twelfth before the end, third at one fourth from base of second, fourth at 

 one half from third, fifth from end of the cell and joined by a short spur to second below 

 base of the third ; cell extending beyond half length of the wing ; discocellulars angled close 

 to each end, concave in the middle, radials from upper and lower angle ; middle median 

 emitted at one twelfth before end of the cell, lower at one third before the end ; submedian 

 straight, extending some distance above posterior margin. Hind wing long, narrow ; anterior 

 margin somewhat longer than posterior margin of fore wing, apex very convex, abdominal 

 margin very short ; costal vein straight, extending to apex ; two subcostals emitted from 



