238 BOAEMIID.E. 



wing witli less-defined slender subbasal and discal denticulated line. Body, middle and 

 hind legs brown-speckled ; palpi and fore legs with brown bands. 



Expanse I^-q inch. 



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



MENOniKA? VIALTS, n. sp. (Plate VIII. fig. 9.) 



Ilalc. Yellowish-testaceous ; the basal and outer area of both wings traversed by 

 numerous short black striga; ; the medial area obliquely crossed by a broad yellowish band : 

 fore wing also crossed by a black antemedial sinuous line, and a submarginal diffused black 

 sinuous fascia, which is bordered by a slender white outer line : hind wing with a similar 

 but less defined submarginal fascia and white line. Eody brown-speckled; abdomen with a 

 basal white band ; ]ialpi and bands on legs brown ; anal tuft pale testaceous. 



Expanse If inch. 



Hob. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



HIRASA, n. g. 



Near to IlemerojiJiila. Wings shorter ; exteiior margins less scalloped : fore wing 

 with the first subcostal about one third before end of cell, second and third close to end, 

 second anastomosed to first for a short distance from the base, third trifid ; lower median at 

 nearly two fifths before end of cell. Antennte of male thickish, naked. 



Type H. scrijituraria. 



HiRASA SCETrTURARIA. 



Tej)/irosia scriplKraria, Walker, C'atal. Lcp. Het. B. M. xxxv. p. 1590 (18GG). 

 Hah. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



HiRASA CONTUBERNALIS, 11. Sp. 



Much darker cinereous-brown than the allied II. .■^cripfuraria, with the transverse lines 

 thinner and less defined : fore wing with the inner line similar, the outer line recurved and 

 hardly sinuous, and with an inner contiguous darker brown fascia, whereas in H. scripturaria 

 it is acutely sinuous towards the upper end; there are no white dentate marks below the 

 apex and the cell-spot is larger : hind wing with the line regularly waved throughout, and 

 with an inner contiguous dark brown fascia, not curved liom its lower end and angulated on 

 the subcostal, as in U. scripturaria. 



Expanse 1|- inch. 



Uab. Khasia Hills (yJ//-/>/.swO; f^\\\\\on^{Ansie)i). In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F.Moore. 



Genus CLEORA. 



Cleora, Curtis, Brit. Eiit. ii. fob 88 (1825) ; Stcplicns, Catal. Brit. Ins. ii. p. 123 (1829) ; id. Illiist. 

 Hanst. iii. p. ]S1 (1831). 



Fore wing elongate, more triangular than in AJcis [A. rqxmdaria), exterior margin 

 even ; first subcostal at one sixth before end of cell, second approximate, both free, tliird 



