266 PAXTHEKID.E. 



Family P A N T H E R I D .E (Zeremd^, auct.). 



Genus IVIETABRAXAS, Butler. 

 JIetabkaxas falcipennis, n. sp. (Plate VIII. fig. 29.) 



Male. AVliite. Fore wing with dark cinereous strigte along the costal border, a broken 

 excurved subbasal band, a large spot from above lower end of the cell, some smaller trans- 

 verse discal spots, and a broad broken snbmarginal band which is medially connected by 

 speckles ; a streak also below the apex ; some ochreons-yellow bordered black spots at base 

 of the wing : hind wnng with some cinereous speckles along the costa and abdominal 

 margin, and a medial, discal, and snbmarginal broken band, each composed of an upper and 

 lower portion ; a slender broken marginal line. Body ochreous-yellow, black-spotted ; 

 antennae, front, nnd binds on fore and middle legs above cinereous-brown. 



Expanse 1-J- inch. 



JIab. Khasia Hills (October). In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



CULCULA, n. g. 



Fore wing elongate, triangular ; cell fully half the length ; first subcostal at one fifth 

 before end of cell, bifid near its base, third from the end, trifid ; discocellular inwardly 

 oblique, bent outward below the middle, radial from above the middle ; the middle median 

 near end of cell, lower at two fifths : hind wing short, broad ; exterior margin convex ; cell 

 more than half the length; subcostal convex at the base, first branch before end of cell ; 

 discocellular bent in the middle, radial from angle ; the middle median near end of cell, 

 lower at one third. Body stout ; abdomen thickly tufted at apex in female ; palpi short, 

 squamous ; antennte in male biserrated, ciliated ; legs thick, squamous, spurs short, stout. 



CULCULA EXANTHEMATA, 11. sp. 



AVliite. Fore wing with a large ferruginous basal blotch, an interrupted transverse 

 discal cinereous-bordered dark ferruginous macular band, a large cinereous blotch at end of 

 cell, some small blotches below the cell and others scattered along the outer margin and 

 apex : hind wing with a cinereous-bordered ferruginous macular discal broken band, the 

 upper portions being composed of small spots ; a large cinereous blotch at end of cell, and 

 a series of small snbmarginal spots. Tip of tegulse, band on base of abdomen, apical tuft, 

 middle of thorax and front of head, and pectus ferruginous ; palpi, fore legs, and tarsi 

 brown. 



Expanse, d 2{i, ? of inches. 



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



THALEKIDIA, n. g. 

 Male, AVings semitransparent. Fore wing short, triangular ; cell more than half the 

 lengtn ; first subcostal at one fourth before end of cell, second at one eighth, trifid close to 

 the end, fifth from end and touching the second at one fifth its length and then bent out- 



