1 60 POLTDESMID^. 



Bamea acronyctoides, n. sp. 



Male and female. Fore wing grey ; crossed by indistinct brownish Innular bands, two 

 subbasal and a discal transverse irregnlar zigzag black line, and a sub marginal black line 

 curving from before apex to second median branch, along which it runs to the outer margin, 

 another black line also extending along the lower median vein to the outer margin ; a black 

 streak from the discal line at end of cell running inward to the costa : hind wing white, 

 with pale brown marginal band. Thorax and abdomen grey ; collar, lateral band on palpi, 

 and bands on tarsi dark brown. 



Expanse, 6 If, ? 1^ inch. 



Ilah. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudingcr and F. Moore. 



OROMENA, n. g. 



Fore wing elongated, triangular ; costa slightly depressed in the middle, apex pointed, 

 exterior margin oblique and convex ; costal vein extending two thirds the margin ; first 

 subcostal emitted at half length before end of the cell, second at one sixth before the end, 

 trifid, third at nearly one third from base of second, and terminating at the apex, fourth at 

 nearly one half from below third, fifth from end of cell, ascending and touching third close 

 to its base ; cell short, not extending to half length of the wing ; discocellular slightly bent 

 near each end, radials from the angles ; upper median from angle above end of the cell, middle 

 branch from the end, lower from one fifth before the end ; subracdian slightly concave near 

 base. Hind wing small, exterior margin very obliquely convex, slightly scalloped ; abdominal 

 margin short ; costal vein straight, extending to apex ; two subcostal branches from end of 

 the cell ; discocellular very convex, oblique, radial from near its lower end ; cell short, one 

 third length of the wing ; two upper medians from acute lower angle of the cell, hjwer 

 branch from near the end ; submedian and internal straight. Body stout ; abdomen 

 extending beyond hind wings ; palpi robust, extending to vertex, second joint thick, laxly 

 squamous, third joint cylindrical, one third lengtli of second in male and nearly equal in 

 female; legs stout, tibia pilose, tufted; antenniie pectinated, the pectinations finely plumose 

 in both sexes. 



Type 0. rdifjiXicnda. 



Oromena reliquexda. 

 Briada reliquenda, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. pt. xv. p. 1802 (1858), (J. 



Male. Fore wing golden olivaceous-brown ; crossed by a subbasal, an antemedial, and 

 a postmedial black white-bordered sinuous line, their interspaces more or less black-speckled, 

 the reniform mark being darker black, tlie postmedial line bordered by a broad black 

 irregular band which is slightly white-speckled; a submarginal row of slender black denti- 

 culate marks with white inner borders, and a marginal row of less distinct similar-coloured 

 lunules: hind wing tenescent-yellow, with a broad outer and a slender waved discal senescent- 

 brown band, tiie former with an indistinct marginal row of whitish-bordered black lunules. 

 Female with more prominent and broader white borders to the trans^■erse sinuous lines, the 



