C66 MR. F. MOORK ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [May 23, 



A.PSARASA RADIANS. 



Apatela rad{ans,Westvf. Cab. Orient. Ent. pi. 28, f. 4 (1847). 



Glottula radians, Walk, Catal. Lepid. Het. B. M. Noct. pt. xv. 

 p, 1668. 



Remark. — I am uncertain about the position of this genus, and 

 place it here with doubt. 



Fam. Crambid^. 

 Genus Eschata, "Walk. 

 Syn. Cheer ecla, Walk. Suppl. p. 634. 

 Eschata gelida, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B, M, ix. Noct. p. 133. 

 Darjeeling. 



Genus Apurima, Walk. 



Aptjrima xanthogastrella, Walk. ib. xxvii. p. 194 (1863). 



Eupela degenerella, Walk. ib. xxviii. p. 524. 



Lithosia cramboides,Vfs\\i. ib. xxxi. Suppl. i. p. 230 (1864). 



Genus Scirpophaga. 



SciRPOPHAGA auriflua, Zellcr, Monogr. Chile, et Cramb. p. 2 

 (1863). 

 Calcutta. 



S. gilviberbis, Zeller, ib. p. 2 (1863). 



Brihaspa, n. g., Moore. 



Male. Labial palpi porrect, slightly recurved, slender, smooth, 

 pointed at the apex ; second joint twice the length of the third. 

 Maxillary palpi less than half the length of the labial, fringed. An- 

 tennae minutely pectinated ; basal joint thick. Head narrow, pro- 

 truding in front, conical. Thorax stout. Abdomen attenuated, com- 

 pressed at the sides ; apical tuft prominent. Legs smooth, slender, 

 long ; hind legs very long (the tibia and tarsus together being three- 

 quarters of an inch) ; hind tibiae with four long spurs. Wings elon- 

 gate, broad : fore wing acute at the apex ; costa arched at the base ; 

 exterior margin slightly convex, oblique : hind wing produced at the 

 apex ; exterior margin slightly recurved ; anal angle rounded. Cilia 

 broad. 



Brihaspa atrostigmella, n. sp. (PI. XXXIIL fig. 13.) 



Male pure white, glossy : fore wing with a black curved bar or 

 brand at the base of the costa, beneath which is a small black spot ; 

 two black spots at the end of the cell, and an oval spot beneath 

 them near the posterior margin ; two pale yellow maculated trans- 

 verse streaks obliquely before the apex, and two similar-coloured 



