1878.] MR. F. MOORE ON THE LITHOSIID.E. 17 



rather short, pilose at base, porrect. Antenna? minutely pectinate. 

 Legs long, rather stout. Body long, extending beyond hind wing. 



K.ATHA NIGRIFRONS. (Plate I. fig. 15.) 



Lithosia nigrifrons, Moore, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 572. 



North India. 



This genus will also include Lithosia apic alls, Walk., from Borneo, 

 L. intermixta, Walk., L. brevipennis, Walk., from South Iudia, and 

 L. helveola of Europe. 



Katha terminates, ii. sp. (Plate I. fig. 14.) 



Male. Ochreous ; fore wing darkest, with a distinct curved pur- 

 plish band across exterior margin. Antennae, front of head, tip of 

 palpi, middle of thorax, and streak on tegulse purplish black ; legs 

 above purplish brown. 



Expanse 1 T L inch. 



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



Allied to K. apicalis (Lithosia apicalis, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 Zool. vi. p. 104) from Borneo, but differs on the fore wing in the 

 apical band not extending upward onto the costa, and in the absence 

 of the slight apical patch on the hind wing, which is present in 

 Bornean examples. 



Katha cttcullata, n. sp. 



Male. Upperside — fore wing pale purplish grey, costal edge at 

 apex and cilia yellowish ; an indistinct greyish-brown outer mar- 

 ginal band: hind wing and abdomen pale ochreous grey; anal tuft 

 ochreous. Thorax, top and front of head, and palpi except at base 

 beneath, black ; legs black, middle and hind legs pale beneath ; 

 antennae black. Underside — fore wing brownish ochreous ; hind 

 wing pale ochreous. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Andamans. In coll. F. Moore. 



Allied to K. terminalis and K. apicalis. 



Eilema, Hiibner. 



Eilema, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 165 (1816). 



Wings long, narrow. Fore wing with the subcostal five-branched, 

 first short, oblique, and anastomosed to costal, second free and widely- 

 separated from third, third trifurcate, the lowest or filth nearest the 

 base, the two upper near apex ; radial from upper end of the cell ; 

 discocellulars inwardly oblique; median three-branched, two upper 

 beyond half distance from the cell, lower long, from near its base. 

 Hind wing — two subcostal branches at one third, and two upper 

 median branches at two thirds beyond the cell. 



Type, E. caniola, Hiibner, of Europe. 



Manulea, Wallengren. 

 Manulea, Wallengren, Ent. Monats. vii. p. 145. 

 Wings narrow. Fore wing with the costa not arched ; subcostal vein 

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