180 THEKMESIIDiE. 



joint very short, conical ; legs stout, tibiae thick, laxly squamosa ; antennse simple in both 

 sexes. 



Type S. strigipennis. 



SONAGAKA STRIGIPENNIS, n. sp. 



Oclueous-red, with a narrow dusky-brown band straight from apex to middle of abdo- 

 minal margin : fore wing with a slender slightly waved line extending from the base below 

 the apex to posterior angle ; some oiftwardly-oblique waved very slender brown striga3 from 

 the costa, and some longitudinally on the outer border : hind wing also with a recurved 

 slender brown line extending from costa before the apex to above anal angle, the interspaces 

 from the base with very slender brown transverse strigis. Cilia edged with grey. Underside 

 marked as above, the fore wing also having a slight streak at end of the cell. Body reddish- 

 ochreous. 



Expanse, 6 ^t6-> ? l"i% inch. 



Hab. Darjiling. In cull. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. 



SONAGARA STRIGOSA, n. sp. (Plate V. fig. 17.) 



Brownish-ochreous. Both Avings with inwardly transverse uniformly disposed, slender 

 black continuous strigse, and a more distinct streak from apex to middle of abdominal 

 margin ; an ill-defined reniform mark on fore wing. Underside marked as above. 



Expanse W inch. 



Hah. Calcutta. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Allied to, but quite distinct from, 6'. reticulata {Thermesia refictdata, AValker). 



HINGULA, n. g. 



Fore wing elongated, narrow, apex acute ; exterior margin short, waved, convex hind- 

 ward ; cell extending more than half the wing ; first subcostal emitted at more than one 

 half before end of the cell, second at one fourth, trifid, third from below second immediately 

 above end of cell, fourth from below third close to apex, fifth from end of the cell, bent 

 upward and touching third near its base ; discocellular bent at each end, radials from the 

 angles ; middle median close to end of the cell, lower at one half before the end ; submedian 

 nearly straight. Hind wing short ; exterior margin convex, waved ; cell short, extending 

 one third the wing ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular slightly concave, 

 bent near lower end, radial from the angle ; two upper medians from end of the cell, lower 

 at one half before the end ; submedian and internal straight. Body short, stout ; palpi 

 ascending, second joint extending half beyond the head, broad at anterior end, squamose, 

 third joint one third its length, slender, pointed; antennae minutely pectinated; legs 

 squamose. 



Near to Daxata, Walk. (Catal. Lep. Ilet. Brit. Mus. xxxiii. p. 1108), and to the 

 American genus Lagassa, 



