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mark, reniform mark witli greyish centre and wliite-speckled outer bortler : liiiul wing 

 white, with broad brown marginal band ; cilia edged with grey. Female darker : fore wing 

 vinous-brown, \\ ith pale transverse markings, the lower medial area darkest ; the postmedial 

 transverse lunular line lobed outward between the lower discocellular vein and the nuddle 

 median branch, and not indented as in male; outer half of reniform mark yellow. IJody, 

 palpi, and legs ochreous-brown ; tarsi witli darker bands. 



Expanse, 6 If, $ If inch. 



Ilah. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



VAPARA, n. g. 



Fore wing comparatively broad, exterior margin even, posterior margin convex in the 

 middle ; first subcostal emitted at one third before end of the cell, second bifid, emitted at 

 one fifth, fourth also bifid, emitted from end of the cell, curving upward and touching tliird 

 near its base, the fifth being tlirown off above end of the cell and just below the point of 

 juncture ; discocellular slightly oblique and convex ; upper radial from end of tlie cell in a 

 line witli subcostal; lower radial and upper median from slight angles above end of the cell, 

 middle median close to its end, lower at one third before the end ; submedian slightly 

 curved. Hind wing short, broad ; costal vein straight ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; 

 discocellular slightly oblique and convex, radial from near its lower end ; two upper medians 

 from end of cell, lower at one third before the end ; submedian and internal vein nearly 

 straight. Body moderate, abdomen of male extending beyond hind wing, anal appendages 

 tufted ; tibia) compactly pilose ; palpi porrect, laxly squamose, stouter and shorter than in 

 Erygia ; antennae minutely pectinate in male. Allied to Erygia. 



Type V. fasciata. 



VaPARA IXDISTINCTA, II. sp. 



Fore wing brownish-ochreou?, with two indistinct transverse basal, two medial, and two 

 discal slender dusky-brown sinuous lunular bands, and a marginal row of points ; an orbi- 

 cular dot and pale reniform mark : hind wing jjaler. Body brownish-ochreous, front of 

 thorax and bands on fore legs ochreous-brown. 



Expanse, 6 If, ? If inch. 



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



Vataka kasciata, n. sp. 



Fore wing brownish-ochreous, with a broad black subbasal transverse sinuous-lined 

 band and two discal zig/ag speckled fascia;, the latter slightly bordered with white sjjeckles 

 at the costal end ; interspaces between the markings sparsely black-speckled ; a small black 

 reniform mark ; cilia with black spots : hind wing ochreous-brown, with indistinctly darker 

 discocellular streak and outer band ; cilia ochreous. Body brownish-ochreous, abdomen 

 brown, bands on palpi and tarsi blackish. 



Expanse l^ inch. 



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



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