218 MARGAKOXllU.E. 



close to end of cell, lower iibout one third : hind wing short, broad, exterior margin convex ; 

 cell short, less than one third the length, broad ; subcostals from end of cell ; discocellular 

 slightly concave, radial from close to end ; two npper medians from end of cell, lower about 

 one fourth. Body very stout ; abdomen rather short ; labial palpi obliquely ascending, 

 stout, broad, squamous, third joint minute, obtuse; maxillary palpi slender, compact at the 

 tip ; antennae setaceous, minutely ciliated in male ; legs ratlipr stout, long, fore and middle 

 tibise laxly squamous ; spurs slender, inner very long, outer short. 

 Type B. octomaculata (Filodes octomaculata, Moore). 



RHACiOBA BIMACULATA, 11. Sp. 



Dark sepia-brown. Base of wings witli steel-blue reflections : fore wing with a small 

 oblique hyaline white spot at end of the cell. Thorax and abdomen with steel-blue reflec- 

 tions ; palpi entirely brown ; a band on fore tibiae and all the tarsi white. 



Expanse 1-| inch. 



MaL Darjduig. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Genus FILODES, Guen. 



FlLODES PATRUELIS, n. S]). 



Diflfers from F. fidvidorsalis and F. mirificalis in its somewhat larger size. Wings 

 much paler in colour, being of a pale violaceous-brown ; both sexes liave the base of the fore 

 wing less fulvous than in F. fidvidorsalis, and the black spots distinct. Both wings with an 

 oblique transverse discal blackish fascia. 



Expanse, d l^^^, ? ly^j inch. 



Hab. Calcutta; Cherra Punji. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. 



CHAREMA, n. g. 



Male. Fore wing long, narrow ; apex acute, exterior margin very oblique; lirst sub- 

 costal at two thirds before end of cell, second and third approximated, second close to end 

 of cell, third bitid, tifth from end of cell ; discocellular slightly concave, radials from near 

 the ends ; middle median close to end, lower at nearly one third : hind wing short, trian- 

 gular ; cell one third the length ; subcostals from end of cell, upper slightly touching the 

 costal ; discocellular concave, radial from lower end ; two upper medians from end of cell, 

 lower about one fourth before the end. Body moderately stout ; abdomen extending one 

 third beyond hind wings; thorax with very long lax hairy divergent tegulte, which extend 

 to nearly half the abdomen ; labial palpi ascending to a little liigber than the vertex, stout, 

 very broad, compactly squamous, third joint broadly conical ; maxillary palpi slender ; 

 antennae slender, setaceous, minutely biciliated ; legs long, squamous, spurs slender, 

 unequal. 



Type C. noctescens. 



Chake.ma xoctescens, n. sp. 

 Olivescent umber-brown. AVings of a uniform tint througliout : fore wing with an 



