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hind wing yello wish white, veins and two median transverse parti- 

 ally-interrupted bands, and cilia fuliginous. Legs blackish above, 

 ochraceous beneath. 



Expanse 2 inches. 



Hab. Dharmsala, N.W. Himalaya. In coll. F. Moore. 



Ehyparia tigrina, n. sp. (Plate XXXII. fig. 4.) 



Male. Upperside yellowish ochraceous : fore winy with broad 

 black streak along basal end of each vein, and two transverse con- 

 fluent series of outer spots : hind wing with black costal border, a 

 suffused spot at end of tbe cell, and a broad, irregular-bordered sub- 

 marginal band. A black central spot on thorax, dorsal bands and 

 lateral spots on abdomen. Underside as above. Antennae, side of 

 head, and palpi black. Legs black, femora ochreous. 



Expanse 1-| inch. 



Hab. Pulney Hills, S. India (Sealg). In coll. India Museum and 

 F. Moore. 



Somewhat allied to R. strigatula (Arctia strigalula, Walker), 

 from Java, but of different colour and markings. 



Cycnia transversa, n. sp. 



Upperside pale purplish testaceous : fore wing crossed by six black 

 equidistant, irregular, interrupted bands and a marginal row of spots, 

 the bands bent inward and broadest at the costal end : hind wing 

 with a black spot at end of the cell, and an interrupted submarginal 

 series. Underside paler ; marked as above. Body black-spotted. 



Expanse \\ inch. 



Hab. N.W. India. In coll. F. Moore. 



Challa, n. g. 



Male and Female. Fore wing elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched 

 towards end, apex nearly convex, exterior margin oblique; subcostal 

 vein five-branched, first branch starting immediately before end of 

 the cell ; second from end of cell, quadrifid, the three upper forks 

 short, lowest from below junction of first fork ; radial from upper end 

 of the cell ; discocellulars of equal length, bent inward ; a very slender 

 discoidal veinlet emitted within the cell ; median vein four-branched, 

 two upper branches joined together at their base, and starting from 

 end of the cell, third contiguous ; submedian vein near the posterior 

 margin. Hind wing obovate, subcostal touching the costal at its base, 

 two-branched from end of the cell ; upper discocellular shortest, 

 lower very obliquely outward ; a discoidal veinlet emitted within the 

 cell ; median four-branched, the three upper starting from end of 

 the cell ; a submedian and two interior veins. Body short, laxly 

 pilose ; antennae bipectinate in male, minutely serrate-pectinate in 

 female ; palpi short, minute ; femora and tibite slightly pilose. 



Allied to Alpenus, Walker. 



Challa bimaculata, n. sp. 



Male and Female. Ochreous-yellow, deepest on fore wing and 



