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Sphetta apicalis, n. sp. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 7.) 



Male. Upperside — -fore wing dark umber-brown, with a pale 

 testaceous black-streaked patch from the apex of costa, which termi- 

 nates in an oblique paler reniform mark at the end of cell ; a small 

 pale testaceous spot in middle of the cell ; the space immediately 

 below the apical patch black-speckled ; a subbasal and discal pale 

 narrow sinuous band, and a marginal series of black points : hind 

 wing and abdomen fuliginous-brown. Underside pale silky-testa- 

 ceous, with brownish outer borders and pale marginal points : hind 

 wing with an indistinct brown lunule at end of the cell, and a curved 

 discal narrow band. Thorax above and vertex black-speckled ; palpi 

 black at side ; fore and middle legs blackish above ; antennse brown. 



Expanse lg inch. 



Hab. Darjiling. In coll. F. Moore. 



Sphetta biocellata, n. sp. 



Female. Upperside ferruginous-brown : fore wing with the costal 

 border its entire length longitudinally marked with short blackish 

 dentate streaks ; a pale testaceous apical patch, the lower border of 

 which is black, its shape being sinuous from the apical angle and 

 then straight to end of the cell; an oval pale spot with a blackish 

 centre at end of the cell, and a darker similar spot, with black in- 

 termediate space, within the cell ; a blackish subbasal transverse 

 sinuous double line, a similar line curving upward from its base to 

 below the end cell-spot ; veins on the disk with short black streaks ; 

 a pale submarginal indistinct narrow fascia, and a row of black den- 

 tate marginal points : hind wing and abdomen pale ferruginous- 

 brown. Underside paler, with darker interspaces between the veins 

 on the fore wing, and streaks along the veins on hind wing ; both 

 wings with a blackish spot at end of the cell, and black dentate 

 marginal line. 



Expanse 2g inches. 



Hab. Bombay. In coll. F. Moore. 



Gluphisia sinuata. 



Female. Fore wing with a brownish ochreous band along exterior 

 margin, bordered within by a sinuous irregular black line ; from the 

 band to the base the wing is speckled with black, showing a slightly 

 prominent spot at end of the cell and streaks on middle of hind 

 margin : hind wing cinereous-brown, with a slight dusky streak at 

 end of the cell and indistinct median transverse band. Body cinere- 

 ous-brown. Underside pale cinereous-brown, with indistinct streak 

 at end of cells and baud on hind wing. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Hab. N.E. Bengal. In coll. W. B. Farr. 



Rachia plumosa. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 1.) 

 Rachia plumosa, Moore, Asiat. Soc. Beng. Desc. Lep. Atk. Coll. 

 p. 70(1878). 



Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. 



