1878.] MR. F. MOORE ON THE LITHOSIID^. 15 



shortest ; radial from angle of upper discocellular ; median three- 

 branched, two upper branches at one third beyond the cell ; sub- 

 median nearly straight. Hind wing broad, apex slightly produced ; 

 subcostal branches at one fourth and median branches at one third 

 from end of the cell. Palpi small, short, slightly decumbent. Legs 

 stoutish, naked. Antennae minutely pectinate. Body slender, not 

 extending beyond hind wing. 



Tarika varana. (Plate I. fig. 8.) 



Lithosia varana, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 797. 



Darjiling. 



Tarika nivea, n. sp. 



Lithosia nivea, Walker, MS. 



Male and female. Fore wing silky white, costal edge pale yellow ; 

 head, front of thorax, palpi, body and legs beneath, yellow ; tip of 

 palpi brown ; fore and middle legs brown above. 



Expanse, S If, ? If inch. 



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



Brunia, n. g. 

 Fore wing long, narrow; first branch of subcostal vein short, oblique, 

 anastomosed to the costal, second starting from angle close before end 

 of the cell, trifurcate, fifth from end of the cell and looped to third 

 branch at its base ; discocellulars bent below the middle, upper 

 angled close to end of the cell ; radial from angle of upper disco- 

 cellular ; two upper median branches at half length beyond end of 

 the cell. Hind wing long, apex produced ; two branches of subcostal 

 vein at one third beyond the cell, and two median branches at two 

 thirds beyond. Palpi ascending, pilose beneath. 



Brunia antica. (Plate I. fig. 9.) 



Lithosia antica, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ii. p. 505. 

 Ceylon. 



Will also embrace Lithosia natara, Moore, from Java, and L. 

 sarawaca, Butler, from Borneo. 



Gandhara, n. g. 

 Fore wing broad, somewhat short ; costa much arched beyond the 

 middle ; apex acute ; exterior margin slightly oblique, rounded in 

 middle ; hind margin slightly rounded at the base ; first branch of 

 subcostal vein curving upward and extending free to beyond end of 

 the costal, second and third branches starting together from end of 

 the cell, third trifurcate; discocellulars zigzag, the angles equidistant; 

 radial from upper angle ; two upper median branches from lower 

 angle of cell. Hind wing broad, short. 



Gandhara serva. (Plate I. fig. 7.) 



Lithosia serva, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ii. p. 506. 



Darjiling. 



