1881.] NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 327 



together from near base of second, the fifth coalescing with the 

 second at one third its length ; discocellulars slightly oblique, radial 

 from their middle ; median vein three-branched, two upper from end 

 of the cell ; one submedian. Hiud wing convex externally ; subcostal 

 vein two-branched ; discocellulars, radial and median veins as in 

 fore wing. Body long, slender, laxly pilose, tip tufted with spatu- 

 late hairs ; antennae long, pectinated rather broadly two thirds their 

 length ; palpi short, stout, pilose ; legs pilose. 

 Allied to Pydna, Walker. 



CORMA HORSFIELDI. 



Eumeta horsfieldi, Moore, Catal. Lep. E.I. C. ii. p. 430 (1859). 

 Hab. Java. Horsfield coll. Brit. Museum. 



CORMA RAFFLESI. 



Eumeta rafflesi, Moore, Catal. Lep. E.I, C. ii. p. 430 (1859). 

 Hah. Java. Horsfield coll. Brit. Museum. 



Fam. CossiD^. 

 Genus Zenzera. 



ZeNZERA MULTISTRIGATA, n. Sp. 



Zenzera indica, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. vii. p. 1536 

 (1856), nee H.-SchafF. 



Male and Female. White : fore wing with steel-blue spots along 

 the costa, within the cell, and at its end, and along the exterior and 

 posterior borders, the discal spaces between the veins with steel-blue 

 transverse streaks : hind wing with less prominent similar steel-blue 

 markings within the cell and on anterior border. Body white, six 

 steel-blue spots on hind part of thorax, and seven bands on the 

 abdomen ; front of head black ; legs steel-blue above, femora white 

 beneath ; antennae black. 



Expanse, c5' 2§, 2 3f inches, 



Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Brit. Museum and F, Moore. 



Note. Z. paucipunctata, Walker, I. c. 'p. 1537, is identical with 

 Z. indica, H.-Schjiff,, Lep. Exot, spec, nov, f, 166 (1854). 



Tribe Noctues. 



Fam. Cymatophorid^. 



Genus Thyatira, Ochs, 



Fore wing with second subcostal branch bifurcate ; fourth branch 

 also bifurcate ; upper and lower discocellulars concave, upper bent 

 near subcostal ; upper radial from the angle near subcostal, and lower 

 radial from their middle ; upper median branch from angle above 

 end of the cell, middle branch from its end. Hind wing with the 

 costal vein free at its base from the subcostal, but curved in the 

 middle ; first subcostal branch emitted from half length of the cell, 

 curving upward and touching the costal at its middle ; radial and 



