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the middle portion of which is very broad and blackest. Antennae, 

 front of head, and tip of palpi black ; fore and middle legs above, a 

 terminal spot on hind tibise and their tarsi, black ; tarsal joints with 

 a white band ; base of palpi, thorax and abdomen, legs beneath, 

 and anal tuft ochreous. Underside duller white ; the black band on 

 fore wing confined to the disk, the apical border being pale brownish- 

 ochreous; upper portion of band on hind wing obsolete. 



Expanse 2 inches. 



Darjiling (Atkinson) . In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. 



Mahavira, n. g. 



Male. Fore wing long, narrow, costa arched, apex acute, exterior 

 margin oblique, posterior margin recurved ; subcostal vein five- 

 branched, first and second arising before and near end of the cell, 

 third trifurcate, the two lower branches at equal distances from end 

 of the cell ; discocellulars long, straight, upper obliquely inward, 

 lower obliquely outward ; radial from upper end of the cell ; median 

 vein four-branched, the two upper branches from lower end of the 

 cell, third at some distance before its end ; submedian vein curving 

 towards hind margin : hind wing longer than broad, exterior mar- 

 gin convex ; subcostal vein two- branched beyond end of cell ; dis- 

 cocellulars as in fore wing ; median vein four-branched, the two 

 upper branches from end of cell and contiguous at their base, third 

 immediately before end of the cell. Body slender. Antennae ser- 

 rate, with long and delicate pectinations. Legs slender, femora 

 slightly pilose beneath ; middle and hind tibiae spurred. Palpi slender, 

 porrect, basal joint pilose, apex pointed. 



Mahavira flavicollis, n. sp. (Plate I. fig. 3.) 



Male. White, costa slightly edged with brown at the base ; collar 

 yellow ; antennae yellow ; fore femora with a blackish streak on the 

 inner side. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Darjiling (Atkinson). In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. 



Korawa, n. g. 

 Male and female. Fore wing long, narrow ; costa slightly arched ; 

 apex somewhat acute, exterior margin very oblique ; subcostal vein 

 five-branched, first branch ascending and touching the costal but 

 free at its end, second starting before end of the cell, third at end ot 

 the cell, trifurcate, lowest branch at one third beyond end of the 

 cell ; upper discocellular angled outward at its middle, lower oblique ; 

 radial from angle of upper discocellular ; median vein four-branched, 

 the two upper from lower end of the cell ; submedian slightly re- 

 curved. Hind wing moderately short, apex slightly produced and 

 convex, exterior margin rounded ; subcostal two-branched beyond 

 end of the cell ; discocellulars of equal length, bent inward ; median 

 vein four-branched, two upper beyond end of the cell, middle branch 

 from end of the cell; submedian nearly straight. Body moderate. 



