404 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW LEPIDOPTERA [JuDC 19, 



margin short ; costal vein extending to two thirds the margin ; cell 

 extending to nearly one half the wing ; first subcostal emitted at 

 one fourth before end of the cell ; second trifid, emitted immediately 

 before the end, third at one half and fourth at one fourth beyond 

 base of the second, the third terminating at tbe apex; fifth and 

 sixth (or upper radial) on a footstalk beyond end of the cell ; disco- 

 cellular inwardly oblique, lower radial from slight angle above end of 

 the cell ; middle median at one third, and lower median at two thirds 

 before end of tbe cell ; submedian slightly depressed in the middle. 

 Hind wing very short obovate ; costa lobate at the base ; lower end 

 of the cell extending to one half the wing ; costal vein deeply 

 recurved, its base very convex, extending to only half the margin, 

 famished with two short ascending bifid spurs, the first (or pre- 

 costal vein) starting straight upwards from its base, the second spur 

 ascending obliquely from above middle of the basal arch ; first sub- 

 costal emitted at one half the upper length of the cell and anasto- 

 mosing with the concave portion of the costal for a short distance 

 and then proceeding to the apex ; discocellular oblique ; two upper 

 median veins from end of the cell, middle at one sixth and lower at 

 one third before end of the cell ; submedian and internal vein 

 recurved. Body densely clothed with hair, abdomen extending half 

 beyond hind wing in male, anal tuft very dense in female ; head 

 small, hairy in front ; palpi short, pointed at tip, densely, but 

 compactly clothed ; legs densely hairy above ; antennse bipectinated, 

 the pectinations plumose, and longest at the base in male. 



Type, B. undulosa. 



Allied to genus Taragama {Megasoma, Boisd.). 



Bhima undulosa. 



5 . Poecilocampa undulosa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. vi. 

 p. 1477 (1855). 



Male. Semitransparent. Wings fuliginous-black externally, fuligi- 

 nous-bronze basally : fore wing crossed by two contiguous inwardly- 

 oblique waved anteniedial, and two lunular discal fuliginous -grey 

 lines, and a submarginal zigzag black-bordered grey fascia ; a grey 

 lunule at end of the cell : hind wing with two indistinct grey discal 

 fasciae. Body fuliginous-brown; front of head ochreous ; antennae 

 and legs black. 



Female. Less semitransparent. Wings fuliginous ochreous- 

 brown ; the transverse markings ochreous-grey. Body and front of 

 head ochreous-brown ; anal tuft ochreous. 



Expanse, c? H, 2 3f inches. 



Hub. Darjiling (Atkinson), Cherra Pinyi (Austen), Dharmsala 

 (Hoclcing). 



" Reared from a curious moss-like larva." {Hocking.) 



Cocoon of pale rusty-brown silk, intermixed with short sharp 

 spiny black hairs. 



Taragama castanoptera, n. sp. 



Female. Differs from T. ganesa in its larger size. Both wings of 



