16 MR. F. MOORE ON THE LITHOSIID^. [Jail. 15, 



COLLITA, n. g. 



Wings very broad. Fore wing with the costa arched ; subcostal 

 five-branched, first short, oblique, anastomosed to costal, second 

 starting at some distance before end of the cell, third trifurcate, the 

 fifth or lowest branch nearest the base ; upper discocellular slightly 

 angled close to subcostal, whence starts the radial ; median three- 

 branched, two upper at one fourth beyond the cell. Hind wing very 

 broad, apex produced, exterior margin rounded in the middle, ab- 

 dominal margin long and extending beyond abdomen ; two subcostal 

 branches and two upper medians from one third beyond the cell. 

 Palpi short, porrect. 



Type, C. griseola {Lithosia griseola) of Europe. Will also 

 include L. vetusta, Walk., from China, and the European L. compla- 

 nula and L. stramineola, Dbledav. 



COLLITA LILACINA, 11. Sp. 



Fore wing pale lilac-grey, with pale yellowish costal border ; hind 

 wing pale greyish ochreous ; thorax grey ; head pale yellow ; palpi 

 black-tipped ; fore legs brownish above. 



Expanse 1| inch. 



W. Yunan (Anderson). In coll. F. Moore. 



Similar in appearance to Gandhdra serva (Lithosia serva. Walk.), 

 from Sikkim, but of entirely different venation. 



Collita parva, ii. sp. (Plate I. fig. 13.) 



Female. Fore wing greyish ochreous-brown ; hind wing and 

 abdomen paler ; fore wing yellowish along the costal border. Un- 

 derside uniform ochreous brown, palest on lower part of the hind 

 wing. Legs cinereous brown above. 



Expanse -fa inch. 



Darjiling (Atkinson). In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Allied to C. vetusta (Lithosia vetusta, Walk.), from North China, 

 having the same venation, but is of a much smaller size. 



Katha, n. g. 



Wings clothed with stout compact imbricated scales. 



Male. Fore wing long, very narrow ; costa nearly straight, apex 

 rounded ; exterior margin slightly oblique ; posterior margin re- 

 curved, convex near the base 5 slightly folded longitudinally below 

 the median vein ; cell long, narrow ; discocellulars bent outward at 

 upper end and inward at lower end ; first branch of subcostal vein at 

 some distance before end of the cell, short, oblique, and anastomosed 

 to costal ; second short, arising beyond end of the cell ; third trifur- 

 cate, its lowest branch at equal distance between second and fourth ; 

 radial starting from upper angle of discocellular ; two upper branches 

 of median vein at half distance from end of the cell ; submedian 

 recurved. Hind wing long, broad ; two subcostal branches at one 

 third from cell ; discocellulars slightly bent inward , two median 

 branches at one half distance from the cell, and wide apart. Palpi 



