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costal border, and two sinuous medial transverse lines. Body ochrcons-brown ; thora\ witli 

 a pale jellowisli band. 



Expau'^e Ij inch. 



Ilab. Darjiling. la coll. Dr. Staudingcr. 



Genus ^lESTLETA, ll'alker. 



MeSTLETA AN'GULIFEKA, 11. SJ). 



Pale purplish-grcyish-ochreous : fore wing crossed by an oblique medial narrow brown 

 band, wliieh is acutely bent inward to tlie costa near its upper end, an antcmedial and a 

 postmedial slender sinuous brown line, both bent inward at the co>tal end ; a sliglit brown 

 palc-bordercd oblique streak from tlie apex, which is continued landward in a blackish 

 sinuous line ; a slender pale-bordered brownish marginal line : hind wing witli a narrow 

 brown medial transverse band, and two indistinct outer sinuous lines. Underside pale 

 brownish-ochreous. Thorax, palpi, and legs ochreous-brown ; abdomen and band on the 

 tarsi greyish-ochreous. 



Expanse -^ inch. 



Hal). Calcutta. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. 



"Larva feeds in the pods of Jo/icsia usoliu. June." — ylt/cinson. 



Mkstleta Af:oxTiOiDES, u. s[). (Plate ^'. fig. 15.) 



Fore winir ochreous-white, with three minute brown streaks on middle of the costal 

 edge ; from the third streak a slender fine line runs to tlie disk ; an obHquc bro\vn fascia 

 extending from apex to middle of posterior margin, tlie fascia sharply defined on its outer 

 border and black-marked at its apical end ; below the apex is a slight sinuous blackish line : 

 hind wing whitish, with a brown short fasciated streak from above anal angle. Front of 

 thorax, head, palpi, and legs above brown ; abdomen pale brownish-ochreous. 



Expanse -f^y inch. 



JIab. Calcutta. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



SOXAGARA, n. g. 



Fore wing triangular ; costa nearly straight, apex acute, exteiior margin oblique and 

 sliglitly convex, posterior angle pointed ; first subcostal emitted at two thirds before end of 

 the cell, second, third, and fourth near end of the cell and at equal distances from the fifth, 

 third terminating at the apex ; discocellular bent at each end, concave in the middle, radials 

 from the angles; middle median at one fifth and lower at more than one half before end of 

 the cell. Ilind wing broadly triangular ; exterior margin convex ; first subcostal at nearly 

 one half before end of the cell ; discocellular slightly oblique, bent inward at lower end, 

 radial from the angle ; middle median very near end of the cell, lower at one third before 

 the end ; submedian and internal vein at equal distances from lower median. 15ody short, 

 stout ; palpi ascending and convergent at the tip, second joint stout, laxly squamose, third 



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