1872.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 575 



Genus Naxa, Walk. 

 Naxa ptjncticilia. 



Male and female white, opaque, squamous : fore wing with a 

 black line extending along nearly one half of the extreme edge of 

 costal margin ; a black spot in middle of the cell ; a row of six 

 black spots on cilia, and a single apical spot on cilia of hind wing : 

 legs streaked with black ; pectinations of antennae pale brown. 



Expanse, S If, $ If inch. 



Hab. Nilghiris (Dr. F. Bay). In Coll. W. W. Saunders and 

 F. Moore. 



Genus Deroca, Walk. 



Deroca maculata. 



Male. Wings semihyaline, white : fore wings with fuliginous 

 bar-like spots at the base and on the veins along the costa; a 

 marginal and submarginal medianly interrupted series of lunular 

 spots, the two series divided by smaller diamond-shaped spots ; a 

 double discocellular spot : hind wing with a medianly interrupted 

 series of fuliginous marginal spots, a less distinct submarginal series 

 and a third bar-like series on the veins : body and legs white ; fore 

 and hind legs fuliginous above, with white spots ; antennae fuliginous. 



Expanse 1|- inch. 



Hab. Masuri, North-west Himalayas, 7000 feet. In Coll. Capt. 

 Lang, W. W. Saunders, and F. Moore. 



Genus Hypercompa. 

 Hypercompa regalis. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 7.) 



Allied to Hyp. Jiera. Fore wing buff-colour, tinged with 

 ochreous red at posterior angle, with a black elongated spot at 

 base, a fusiform streak along middle of posterior margin, an out- 

 wardly oblique tapering band from middle of costa, and another 

 similar band from the apex, between which is a parallel line with a 

 zigzag end, each terminating before the posterior angle, where there 

 are three small spots, and above these a narrow marginal line : 

 hind wing ochreous red, with a marginal row of black spots, of 

 which the one at the anal angle is the largest : palpi ochreous red ; 

 antennae brown ; front of head black ; top of head and thorax 

 whitish, with a black collar, a maculated band across the middle, 

 and a triangular median spot on the waist : abdomen ochreous 

 yellow. Underside pale ochreous red, tinged with yellow at base and 

 on exterior margin ; the median oblique band partly, and the mar- 

 ginal spots on hind wing only visible. Tibia above and tarsi brown. 



Expanse 2 inches. 



Hab. North India. In Coll. W. W. Saunders. 



Subfam. Bombycin^e. 

 Genus nov. Norasuma. 

 Female. Wings elongate : fore wing with the costa very much 



