350 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 



of tlie costa to tlie posterior angle. 

 Hindwing exteriorly with two 

 greyish longitudinal streaks 

 between eacii pair of veins. 

 Underside, both wings uniform 

 . brown. Forewing with the oblique 

 discal band as above. Cilia 

 brown. Front of head and palpi 

 dull orange -yellow ; body and legs 

 brown ; abdomen with a pale grey- 

 ish anal tuft. 



Genus CROSSIURA, nov. 



Male. Forewing, costa slightly arched ; apex rather acute ; outer 

 margin slightly convex ; inner angle rounded ; inner margin 

 straight : costal nermre ending on the costa considerably beyond 

 the apex of the discoidal cell ; subcostal nervules progressively from 

 the base of the wing originating closer together, the fourth arising 

 well before the apex of the cell and ending as usual at the apex of 

 the wing; subcostal nervure ending well below the apex; upper disco- 

 cellular nervule strongly outwardly oblique; middle disco -cellular 

 short, upright, concave ; loicer disco-cellular twice as long as the middle 

 one, in the same straight line, straight ; third median nervule arising 

 at the lower end of the cell ; second median arising some distance 

 before the end ; first median arising near the base of the wing, at 

 twice the distance from the second as the second arises from the first ; 

 submedian nervure straight; internal nervure short. Hindwing, 

 elongated, narrow ; costa regularly arched ; apex rounded ; outer margin 

 quite straight from the apex to the termination of third median 

 nervule, then well rounded to the anal angle, this rounded portion 

 being at about right-angles to the rest of the outer margin ; ana.l angle 

 dilated, folded over beneath, the cilia being there developed into two 

 or three strong and thick tufts of hair '2 of an inch in length; abdo- 

 minal margin nearly straight : costal nermre evenly curved, ending at 

 the apex of the wing ; first subcostal nervule arising well before the apex 

 of the cell ; upper disco-cellular nervule short, strongly concave, out- 

 wardly oblique; lower di«co-celiular about three times as long as the 



