EEMODES.— BRABIRA. 271 



Eemodes ABXOintis, n. sp. (Plate VIII. fig. 11.) 



JIdle. Fore wing olivaceous-green, with traces of darker sinuous lines, of which the 

 medial and discal are brownisli at the costal end ; and intervening sliglitly cinercscent lines ; 

 a purple-brown marginal band traversed by a sinuous subniarginal cinereous lino : liiud 

 wing pale cinereous, the exterior margin slightly scalloped, but not cleft or lobed as in other 

 species, the basal vesicle, however, being present. Thorax, liead, and pali)i olivaceous- 

 green ; abdomen cinereous ; legs above brownish-cinereous. 



Expanse Ijy inch. 



Uab. Cherra Punji (October). In coll. Dr. Staudingcr. 



I511ABIRA, u. g. 



Male. Fore wing long, triangular ; apex pointed ; cell more than half the length ; first 

 subcostal at one fifth before end of cell, quadrifid, fifth from tlie end, curved upward and 

 slightly touching the second close to its base, sixth also from the end ; discocellular concave, 

 radial from its middle ; the middle median at one fifth, lower at one third, curving down- 

 ward : hind wing small, short, narrow, anterior margin very convex at the base, exterior 

 margin produced to an acute angle at end of first subcostal, and also at a lesser angle at end 

 of second subcostal, abdominal margin very sliort and with an elongated vesicular fold ; cell 

 short, disposed along the middle; costal partly joined to subcostal, the subcostals from end 

 of cell ; lower veins not visible. Cilia very long. Body short, rather stout ; antennae 

 broadly bipectinated to one third the tip, the brandies ciliated ; front broad, smooth ; palpi 

 porrect, projecting half beyond the head, hirsute; proboscis moderate; logs long, smootli, 

 one pair of slender spurs on middle tibiae, and two pair on hind tibi*. 



Female. Fore wing less triangular ; hind wing of normal shape ; discocellular out- 

 wardly-oblique, radial from its middle ; tlie middle median near end, lower about one third. 

 Palpi longer ; more compact ; antennae minutely pubescent in front. 



Type B. Atkinsoiiii. 



Brabira Atkinsoxii, n. sp. 



Pale brownish-ochreous. Male : fore wing crossed by very indistinct purplish-brown 

 inwardly-oblique subbasal, discal, and a subniarginal duplex sinuous line, eacli being most 

 apparent and dilated at the costal end ; cell-spot prominent, broad, blackish : hind wing 

 with traces of darker discal sinuous lines. Female : Both wings with less-defined traces of 

 duplex sinuous lines ; cell-spot on fore wing smaller. Body, head, palpi, and legs beneath 

 ochreous ; fore legs above and antennae purplish-brown. 



Expanse, d ? 1 inch. 



Hal). Darjiling. In coll. Ur. Staudinger and F. Moore. 



Brabira pallida, n. sp. (Plate VIII. fig. 12.) 



3Iale. Pale cinereous ochreous-wliite. Fore wing with ochreous-brown basal, subbasal, 

 medial, and subapical costal streaks, which represent the ends of obsolescent lunular bands ; 

 the lower portion of the two former visible only by slight brown-speckled points on tlie 



