41.0 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW LEPIDOPTERA [JunC 19, 



black scales, some of which are clustered somewhat linearly below 

 base of the cell and beyond its end ; a black spot at lower end ot 

 the cell, and a marginal row of minute black dots. Hind wing pale 

 cinereous-brown ; cilia white. Body greyish-ochreous ; palpi and 

 legs above darker ; tip of abdomen cinereous-brown. 



Expanse Ij^j inch. 



Hab. Kangra. In coll. British Museum. 



Leucania percisa, n. sp. 



Fore wing greyish pinkish-oclireous, with a conspicuous white 

 line extending along the median vein from base to exterior margin, 

 the line bordered on both sides by purplish-black, most strongly 

 beneath at the base, the black also extending upward to the apex ; a 

 black spot at lower end of the cell, and a discal and marginal row 

 of less distinct minute black dots. Hind wing cinereous-white, with 

 pale cinereous-brown outer border ; cilia white. Body greyish- 

 ochreous ; a blackish collar across the thorax ; head ochreous-brown ; 

 palpi and legs dusky-brown. 



Expanse, c? 1§, ? l|^ inch. 



Hab. Kangra. In coll. British Museum. 



Leucania bifasciata, n. sp. 



Fore wing pale purplish-red, with a pale yellowish fascia along 

 base of the costa and another along the posterior margin ; median 

 and outer veins to the margin whitish, the former with a sHghtly 

 black border, and the latter with an indistinct intermediate black 

 streak ascending to the apex ; an indistinct discal row of minute 

 black dots. Hind wing pale cinereous-brown, suffused with red on 

 the margin and cilia. Body pale yellow, tip of abdomen ochreous ; 

 thoracic crest tipped with red ; palpi and legs purplish-red. 



Expanse ly^^ inch. 



Hab. Kangra. In coll. British Museum. 



Allied to L, griseifasciata. 



Alexia fbaterna, n. sp. 



Allied to A. albicosta, both the fore and hind wing and the 

 body being of a dark purplish reddish-ochreous colour. Fore wing 

 with paler short transverse strigse ; median veins and discoidal streak 

 greyish ; the orbicular and reniform spot obsolete. Underside of 

 both wings and body also much darker coloured. 



Expanse, d' 1| inch. 



Ilab. Kangia. In coll. British Museum. 



Aletia exanthemata, n. sp. 



Fore wing yellowish-ochreous, speckled with purplish ochreous, 

 the speckles being more or less confluent along tlie costal border ; 

 across the wing is a curved antemedial and a waved postmedial 

 blackish-speckled line, followed by a similar speckled discal line and 

 a marginal row of dots ; between the latter is a dusky snbmarginal 



