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triangular ; first subcostal at one fourth before end of cell, second and tliird at equal dis- 

 tances from first and end of cell, third bifid at half its length, fifth and sixth on a footstalk 

 at nearly half beyond end of tlie cell ; discocellular slender, outwardly-oblique, very long, 

 radial from its middle ; two upper medians on a footstalk at one fifth beyond the cell, lower 

 close to end ; submedian with a short slender lower branch : hind wing more prolonged and 

 narrow hindward than in Stropliidia ; exterior margin more oblique, concave above the 

 caudal angle ; cell less than one third the length ; first subcostal close to end ; discocellular 

 extremely slender, outwardly-oblique, bent above the middle, radial from the angle ; two 

 upper medians on a footstalk at about one third l)eyond the cell, lower very close to the end. 

 Body rather stout, anal tuft couchiforin ; palpi ()hli(puly porrect, reaching a little beyond 

 the front, laxly squamous beneath, apex short, pointed ; antennaj flattened, setaceous ; legs 

 rather stout; hind tibiaj not thickened, with two pairs of long stout spurs. 

 Type v. astheuiatu. 



UltArTEKOIDES ASTHENIATA. 



Microitia astheniata,Gi\en. Plial. ii. p. 21(1857); Walker, Catal. Lcp. Ilct. B. M. xxiii. p. 8.21 (18G1); 

 Westwood, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. .Jll. 



Sab. Borneo (Wallace) ; Darjiling [Atldnson & Farr). 



Family EROSIID.E. 

 Genus DIRADES, Walker. 



DlliADES KUPTAKIA, n. Sp. 



White. Fore wing with some slender ochreous-brown transverse striga; on the costa, 

 which are most distinct from the base, and a patch of striga; below the apex. Both wings 

 with three broken transverse pale ochreous strigose bauds, a marginal line, and interciliary 

 line. Talpi, sides of abdomen, and legs above with ochreous-brown bauds. 



Expanse -^q inch. 



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



Allied to I), conchiferata. 



DiRADES RETICULATA, n. sp. 



Tale umber-brown. Wings thickly covered with dark brown and whitish transverse 

 strigse disposed between the veins, tlie veins being pale brown ; fore wing with an erect 

 whitish antemedial line, which curves inward to the costa and meets a similar postmedial 

 line, the inner border of the entire line being blackish ; a wliitish-bordered blackish mar- 

 ginal streak below the apex : hind wing with a whitish angular subbasal and a recurved 

 discal line, both with blackish border. Cilia edged with dark brown. Body speckled with 

 dark brown ; front, palpi, and bands on fore legs dark brown. 



Expanse ^^j to 1 inch. 



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



