232 OXTDIID^. — OENOCHEOMIID^. 



Marcala obliquaria, n. sp. 



Pale purplish ochreous-brown. "Wings crossed by a broad pale ochreous oblique medial 

 band, which has a dark purple-brown bordering- line, the outer line being recurved to the 

 costa at its upper end ; basal and outer area sparsely traversed by indistinct short darker 

 brown strigaj ; a pale-centred brown spot at end of cell of the fore wing. Thorax, front of 

 head, palpi, tip of abdomen, and fore legs pale purplish-brown ; base of abdomen ochreous. 



Expanse I-j-q- inch. 



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



Marcala ireorata, n. sp. 



Eeddish-ochreous. Wings uniformly speckled with short brown strigae : fore wing 

 crossed by an oblique antemedial and a postmedial red-brown line ; the inner line dilated at 

 the costal end, the outer line bent acutely inward at the apical end ; a small white-centred 

 lunate brown spot at end of cell : hind wing pale ochreous along costal border, and crossed 

 by a lower discal brown line. Front of head, lip of pal[)i, fore legs and tarsi brown. 



Expanse, ? Fj^j inch. 



Hah. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Genus OXYDIA, Gum. 

 Oxydia vulpinaria, n. sp. 



Female. Ferruginous-brown. Both wings with the outer border broadly darker brown ; 

 the discal area densely covered and the basal area sparsely speckled with greyish-white 

 scales ; crossed by a slender greyish-white scaled oblique antemedial line, and a marginal line, 

 that on the fore wing bent inward to the costa. Underside reddish-ochreous, with scattered 

 cinereous-brown speckles. 



Expanse 2f inches. 



Hah. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Family CE N O C H R O M I I D .E. 



Genus DECETIA, Ifalker. 

 Decetia pallida, n. sp. (Plate VIII. fig. 1.) 



Male. Very pale brownish-ochreous. Wings very indistinctly marked with numerous 

 slender brown strigte ; crossed by an oblique ochreous-brown line extending from the apex 

 to above middle of the abdominal margin. Fore wing also Avith the discal area clouded 

 with darker brown strigae, a pale-centred spot at end of the cell, and an ill-defined submar- 

 ginal sinuous line ; hind wing with an impressed pale semidiapiianous streak beyond end of 

 the cell, beneath the radial veinlet. Cilia oclireous-brown. Branches of antennte blackish. 

 Underside ochreous, with the brown line across both wings. 



Expanse 1-| inch. 



Hah. Calcutta. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



