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Genus Tri^ena, Hiibner. 



Tri^ena maxima, n. sp. 



Allied to T. tridens of Europe. Fore wing grey, speckled with 

 brown ; an oblique, transverse, subbasal black duplex sinuous line, and 

 a similar but more sharply-pointed sinuous discal, line ; a marginal 

 row of black spots ; a longitudinal irregular black basal streak along 

 the median vein, which nearly joins a straight streak to the outer 

 margin ; orbicular and reniform spots black-lined and joined by an 

 intervening upper black linear streak : hind wing pale greyish cine- 

 reous, with the veins, a discal line, and a marginal band cinereous- 

 brown. Thorax grey, abdomen greyish cinereous ; palpi and legs 

 with dark bands. 



Expanse 2\ inches. 



Hab. Punjab Hills, N.W. India {B. Powe/l). In coll. F. Moore. 



Fam. Leucaniide. 

 Genus Alexia ^ Hiibner. 

 Aletia, Iliibn. Verz. bek. Sclimett. p. 239 (1816.) 

 Hyphilare, Hubn. ibid. 



Alexia angulifera, n. sp. 



Male. Allied to^. conigera {Noctura. conigera, SchiflF.). Fore wing 

 ochreous-yellow, indistinctly clouded with red-ochreous scales ; 

 crossed by a reddish-black anteniedian outwardly-bent line and an 

 oblique postmedian line, which is bent inward at costal end; a whitish 

 spot at lower end of the cell, a pale-yellow reniform and orbicular 

 space ; marginal and cilial lines black-speckled : hind wing pale dusky 

 brown, cilia pale yellow. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs ochreous- 

 yellow ; abdomen paler. 



Expanse \^ inch. 



Hab. N.W. Himalaya, Cashmere (Sind valley). In coll. F. 

 Moore and Dr. Staudinger. 



'b'- 



Alexia disxincta, n. sp. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 4.) 



Allied to A. vitellina, Hiibn. Male. Fore wing deep ochreous- 

 yellow, sparsely crossed by short irregularly disposed red strigae, 

 more or less black-speckled ; a prominent antemedian and postmedian 

 transverse curved narrow band of the same colour, but more blackly 

 speckled, beyond which is a discal row of black spots followed by a 

 white streak — one on each vein ; a marginal series of black dots — 

 one on each vein ; orbicular and reniform space marked by red 

 strigae ; space beyond the cell to the postmedian band clouded with 

 dusky i-ed ; cilia from apex to near end of hind margin thickly black- 

 speckled : hind wing pale ochreous-brown posteriorly, yellowish 

 anteriorly ; cilia pale yellowish. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs deep 

 ochreous ; a slight black-speckled collar, a few speckles on tegulse, 

 and a cluster at base of pale ochreous abdomen. 



Expanse 1 j'\, inch. 



Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 

 Type A. vitellina, Hiibn. 



