166 CATEPlIIUiE.— CATOCALID^. — PHYLLODLD^. 



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

 Nearest allied to the Japanese E. umbrosa, Butler, 



Melipotis C0STIPANN08A, n. sp. (Plate V. fig. 8.) 



Male and female. Fore wing umber-brown, with a blackish-brown sinuous-bordered 

 patch on base of the costa, and an elongated black-streaked apical patch ; a slender black 

 line from lower angle of the former to posterior margin, and a double sinuous line recurved 

 from the latter ; a black-lined mark between the median and submediau veins, and a slender 

 whitish sinuous submarginal line ; a black dot within the cell, and two white dots at the 

 end : liind wing dusky brown, with two white spots, and two white streaks on the cilia. 



Expanse, cf 2, $ 2-|- inches. 



Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Family CATOCALID^. 

 Genus CATOCALA, Ochs. 



Catocala tapestkina^ n. sp. (Plate V. fig. 13.) 



Fore wing chestnut-brown ; veins across the discal area broadly speckled with purple- 

 grey ; a transverse basal short sinuous pale streak, an antemedial waved narrow black band 

 with greyish-inner-bordered line, a postmedial deeply sinuous black line with greyish-yellow- 

 outer-bordered line, the lines bent inward to the costa between the discocellular veins ; a 

 discal yellowish zigzag fascia, and a marginal row of black-bordered yellow spots ; a 

 grey-speckled discocellular lunule, and an auriform mark below the angle of the cell com- 

 posed of a black-bordered greyish-yellow line with chestnut-brown centre ; the basal, medial, 

 and discal areas with black longitudinally suffused streaks : hind wing deep yellow, with 

 broad outer waved band, and a narrower medial irregular brown band ; a marginal row of 

 small yellow spots ; abdominal margin broadly paler brown. Thorax, head, and palpi 

 chestnut-brown ; tegute and palpi grey-fringed ; abdomen above pale brown ; legs grey. 



Expanse 3 inches. 



ilab. Darjiling In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Family PHYLLODTD^. 



Geuus PHYLLODES, Guen. 

 Phyllodes oenata, u. sp. 



Female. Fore wing ochreous-red, the posterior and exterior borders suffused reddish- 

 brown ; numerously covered with blackish strigae ; crossed by five dusky-black bent strigate 

 lines ; a blackish streak extending from upper end of the cell to exterior margin below the 

 apex ; two pure white black-bordered spots at end of the cell, the lower spot triangular in 

 form ; exterior margin slightly white-speckled : hind wing dark purplish-brown, with a broad 



