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median fascia darker brown ; outer margin also darker brown, with 

 a pale-bordered lunular line : hind wing paler. Underside pale, 

 brighter cinnamon-brown. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs above 

 dark cinnamon-brown. 



Expanse Ig inch. 



Hab. DarjiHng. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Genus Ochropleura, Hiibner. 



OCHROPLEURA CONSANGUINEA, H. Sp. 



Male and Female. Fore wing dark cupreous-brown, base and ex- 

 terior border suiFused with grey ; costal border pale ferruginous ; a 

 short subbasal pale streak with black border, an oblique antemedian 

 waved black double line, a postmedian, less distinct, double sinuous 

 hue, and a submarginal pale lunular line ; orbicular and reniform 

 spots grey, with black interspaces ; an indistinct conical greyish- 

 centred mark below the cell : hind wing brown. Thorax cupreous- 

 brown ; collar and palpi ferruginous edged with black ; abdomen 

 brown ; legs blackish with pale bands. 



Expanse 1| inch. 



Hab. Soluii, Punjab ; Dalhousie, N.W. Himalaya. In coll. F. 

 Moore. 



Allied to 0. renalis, from which it is distinguishable by its 

 smaller size, straighter and more oblique antemedian line, and the 

 postmedian line being nearer the renal spot. 



Genus Hermonassa, Walker. 



Hermonassa chalybeata, n. sp. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 17.) 



Smaller iha.wH.consigtiata. Fore wing dark brown, with indistinctly 

 darker markings, which are all bordered with chalybeous-grey 

 speckles : hind wing pale cinereous-brown. Underside cinereous- 

 brown. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Hermonassa sinuata, n. sp. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 5.) 



Near H. cuprina. Fore wing paler and of a brighter cupreous- 

 brown, the interspace between the transverse basal and subbasal 

 lines wider, the latter more acutely sinuous, and its lower end 

 almost touching that of the discal line, which latter is also more 

 sinuous : hind wing very pale brown. Underside also much paler. 



Expanse 1 1 inch, 



Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Fain. Orthosiid/E. 



Genus Orthosia, Ochs. 



Orthosia rectivitta, n. sp. 



Fore wing mottled with greyish ochreous and dark brown, pos- 

 terior and exterior areas more uniformly brown ; a transverse sinuous 



