1881.] NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTKRA. 3-49 



Fam. Caradrinid^. 

 Genus Caradrina, Ochs. 

 Caradrina arenacea, n. sp. 



Fore wing pale greyish ochreous, with an indistinct transverse 

 sinuous brown line and three discal lines, the outer line bordered 

 below the apex witli ochreous-yellow ; reniform spot brownish, 

 speckled with white and ochreous-yellow ; a small indistinct brown 

 orbicular spot ; some black short streaks on the costa, and a marginal 

 row of dentate points : hind wing whitish ochreous, with pale-brown 

 border. Body whitish ochreous ; thorax with a few blackish 

 speckles ; palpi blackish laterally, white at tip ; fore and middle legs 

 with blackish speckles and tarsal bands. 



Expanse 1^^ inch. 



Hab. Masuri {Lang), Darjiling. In coll. F. Moore and Dr. 

 Staudinger. 



Caradrina delecta, n.sp. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 15.) 



Fore wing pale greyish ochreous, with an indistinct black-speckled 

 subbasal and three median transverse sinuous lines, and an outer 

 discal row of points ; a submarginal transverse straight pale line ; 

 orbicular and reniform spots black-speckled : hind wing ochreous- 

 white. Body ochreous-grey ; palpi and legs above brown-speckled. 



Expanse Ig inch. 



Hah. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Allied to C. kadeni. 



Dadica, n. g. 



Male. Fore wing with straight costa ; apex acute ; exterior margin 

 short, slightly oblique and convex ; posterior margin long ; first sub- 

 costal branch emitted at one half from the cell, second at one 

 fourth before its end, trifurcate, fifth from end of the cell, curved 

 upward and touching third near its base ; cell narrow ; discocellular 

 short, concave ; radial from upper end of cell ; lower radial and 

 upper median branch from angles above end of the cell, second from 

 angle at its end, third at one third before its end. Hind wing short, 

 triangular ; cell short ; subcostal vein fringed with plumose scales 

 to end of the cell ; two subcostal branches from end of the cell ; 

 discocellular bent beyond the middle, radial from below the angle ; 

 two upper median branches from end of the cell. Body long, some- 

 what slender, with a large anal tuft ; palpi porrect, second joint long, 

 squamose, third joint short ; legs pilose beneath ; antennae setose. 



Allied to the genus Radinacra, Butler, Types of Lep. Het. B. M. 

 ii. p. 26. 



Dadica lineosa, n. sp. 



Fore wing brownish ochreous, with a transverse slightly curved 

 subbasal and a discal narrow brown line, a less distinct basal waved 

 line, a median fascia, and a waved submarginal line ; a white reni- 

 form spot : hind wing pale vinous-brown, with pale ochreous apical 



