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XVII. DescrijJtions of new species of Indian Lepidoptera- 

 Heterocera. By F. Moore, F.Z.S. 



[Read June 4th, 1884.] 



The species here described belong to the tribe of Bomby- 

 cites, the first enumerated being an extremely rare form 

 of Chalcosiidce, of the genus Devanica, allied to D. Risa 

 of Doubleday. An Arctiid of the genus RJwdogastra. 

 Some Notodonts, including a new genus with a large 

 apical patch of colour somewhat similar to that on some 

 Indian species of Phalera. Of LiiMridcB, two species of 

 the genus Lcelia, two of the allied genus Lcelioides, a fine 

 new Evproctis, and a new genus allied to Stiljmotia. Of 

 the family Lasiocamjnda, a species of the curious genus 

 Ajyha from the Nilgiris, a Ganisa, and a Tagora from 

 Bombay, several species of the genus Eupterote, of 

 which the species are extremely difficult to discriminate. 

 Besides these the Bomhyx collaris of Guerin and the Jana 

 lineosa of Walker have been taken as the types of new 

 genera ; and of the genus Muiiida both sexes are for the 

 first time here characterised. Other species of this 

 numerous family follow, of the genera Brachytera, 

 Sangatissa, Messata, and of the extremely rare Apona, 

 remarkable for the great length and plumose character 

 of its antennae ; Syrastrena ; Lenodora ; a fine Gastro- 

 pacha, with curiously divaricating markings on the fore 

 wings. Also species of the genera Trahala and Lebeda. 

 In the family LimacodidcB are two species of Walker's 

 genus Aphendala. 



CHALCOSIIDiE. 



Devanica, n. g. 



Sephisa* Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, ii., p. 41 (1882). 



Devanica bicolor, n. s. 

 ? . Fore wing black, crossed by a yellow outwardly-oblique 

 medial band; veins indistinctly lined witli blue. Hind wing 



* Previously used for a genus of Lepidoptera. 

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