236 BOARMIID.E. 



Medasixa persimilis, n. sp. 



Male. Allied to JI. infcrntptaria. Briglitev ferruginous: fore wing with the hroad 

 pale costal band marked by a few slender dark brown strigoe, disposed only along the edge, 

 and with a pale-bordered lunuhir oblique medial line, the submarginal pale waved line being 

 somewhat further from the outer margin : hind wing not angulated at the middle of the 

 exterior margin ; medial line much less sinuous and not pale-bordered; the submarginal 

 pale line continuous. 



Expanse 2| inclies. 



Ilab. Darjiliug. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore, 



Medasina fratercula, n. sp. 



Male. INIuch smaller than M. inter rnpta via, being nearly one third less in expanse ; 

 the dark brown strigoe uniformly disposed throughout : fore wing with the broad pale costal 

 band marked by short brown strigse only along the costal edge ; the discal sinuous line 

 diffused, black, sharply defined, more oblique, and disposed nearer the outer margin, the outer 

 border being glaucescent ; a series of submarginal white dots instead of tlie pale waved line: 

 hind wing not angulated on tlie outer margin, the discal sinuous line sharply defined, and 

 its outer lower border white-speckled, followed by a submarginal row of white dots. 



Expanse If inch. 



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



CALICIIA, u. g. 



Male. Fore wing rather narrow, elongate, triangular ; exterior margin scalloped ; cell 

 half the length ; first subcostal about one fiflli before end of cell, second approximate, trifid, 

 fifth from end of cell ; discocellular bent below the middle, radial from above the angle ; 

 middle median at one fifth, lower at half before end of cell : hind wing broad, exterior 

 margin convex, scalloped ; cell more tlian lialf tlie length ; first subcostal near end of cell ; 

 discocellular bent above middle ; the middle median at one fifth and lower at two fifths 

 before end of cell. Body stout; thorax clothed with thick compact lax scales; palpi por- 

 rect, short, stout, not extending beyond the front ; antennce in male broadly bipectinated, 

 the branches ciliated ; in female setaceous ; legs stout, squamous ; spurs stout, rather long. 



Calicha retrahens, n. sp. 



Male and female. Dark olive-brown, minutely black-speckled : fore wing crossed by 

 six or seven inwardly-oblique black sinuous diffused lines, each of which is indistinctly 

 bordered by a whitish clialybeous line; a reddish triangular patch below the costa and on the 

 posterior margin bordering the discal line ; a rcddisii stieak also at posterior angle : hind 

 wing with four or five similar lines with clialybeous border, the discal line also reddish- 

 bordered. 



Expanse 2f inches. 



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



