ALCIS.— DARISA. — ASTACUDA. 243 



Alcis vicina, n. pp. 



^fale. Brownish-ochreous : fore wing sparsely fieckcd with short slender brown strii^^a?, 

 wliicli are regularly disposed transversely along the eosta and more irregularly on the basal 

 area and the exterior border ; crossed by a slender black antemedial sinuous line, and an 

 angulated postniedial line, between which is a uie(Hal zigzag line, and beyond a pah'- 

 bonh-red blackish sinuous subinarginal t'aM'ia, and a marginal hinular line ; a black luiude 

 at end of cell : hind wing sparsely speckled with short blackish transverse strigse; crossed 

 by a straight black antemedial line, recurved discal line, submarginal pale-bordered sinuous 

 fascia, and a prominent marginal line, the two former being obsolescent on the anterior 

 margin ; a lunular spot at end of cell. Thorax, aud abdomen above, and palpi with blackish- 

 speckled bands ; fore legs with darker bands. 



Expanse 2 inches. 



I/it/j. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger aud F. Moore. 



DARISA, n. g. 



Nearest to typical Boannia {B. consonaria). Wings larger, similar in pattern above : 

 fore wing with the costal vein bifid near its end ; first subcostal about one sixth, free, second 

 trifid, fifth from end of cell ; discocellular concave, radial from middle ; the middle median 

 close to end, lower at nearly one half: hind wing longer; cell half the length ; subcostal 

 and middle median close to end of cell, lower median at one third. Body long ; thorax 

 laxly chithed ; abdomen with lateral tufts ; palpi oblitjuely porrect, broad ; antenna' broadly 

 bipectiiiattd to near tip, the branches stout and densely ciliated. 



Type I), mucidaria (Boann/d. mucidarid, ^^'alk. 8u[)pl. p. 1-3S1), 



D.VKTS.V MAXIMA, n. Sp. 



Male and female. Brownish-ochreous. AVings very sparsely speckled with black scales 

 and short strigte, which are most apparent externally : fore wing crossed by an antemedial 

 and postmedial slender indistinct black sinuous line, beyond which is a greyish black-speckled 

 sinuous interrupted fascia, with whitish outer border; the two former lines and the outer 

 margin bordered by a brighter ochreous-brown black-speckled fascia, and a similar fascia 

 crosses the middle ; a slight dusky lunule at end of cell : hind wing thickly black-speckled 

 across the base ; a slender black discal sinuous line, an ill-dclined submarginal blackish- 

 speckled pale-bordered sinuous fascia, both being outwardly-bordered by brighter ochreous- 

 brown. Side of palpi and bands on fore anil middle legs blackish ; hind legs speckled. 



Expanse, 6 2f , $ 2f inches. 



llah. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and \\ Moore. 



ASTACUDA, n. g. 



Nearest Catoria. Male. Fore wiiii,-^ more regularly triangular, apex somewhat pointed, 

 exterior margin oblique ; first subcostal bitid near its end (single in the female), very 



