1881.] NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 3G3 



end of the cell, lower from distance before the end. Body long ; 

 palpi sliort ; legs very hairy beneath ; male with fore tibia furnished 

 with a pair of terminal front spines ; antennae setose. 

 Type S. sinuata. 



SOPHAGA. SINUATA, n. Sp. 



Male and Female. Fore wing pale yellow, with a broad transverse 

 dark ochreous-yellow median band, its inner border being bent below 

 the cell, its outer border sinuous and with a brown point on each of 

 the veins from the radial ; a dark ochreous streak from the band, 

 along median vein, to the base ; exterior border with short longitu- 

 dinal dark ochreous streaks, and a marginal row of black dots : hind 

 wing pale greyish ochreous, the discal area brownish. Underside 

 paler ; fore wing with the discal area and a marginal row of black 

 dots : hind wing in male with a narrow discal transverse brownish 

 band, indistinct discocellular spot, and speckles along outer border, 

 obsolete in female. Thorax dark ochreous ; abdomen brownish 

 ochreous ; terminal spines on fore tibia black. 



Expanse I| inch. 



Hab. Bombay (Dr. LeitK). In coll. F. Moore. 



Do RIKA, n, g. 



Fore wing short, narrow ; costa slightly arched from the base, 

 exterior margin oblique, convex ; first subcostal branch somewhat 

 short, second emitted from beyond end of the cell, quadrifid, third 

 from close to base of second, fourth and fifth on a foot-stalk near 

 apex ; cell long, narrow ; upper discocellular very short, lower 

 slender, concave, bent slightly near median ; radials from their 

 angles ; upper median branch from angle above end of the cell, 

 middle branch from the end, lower at some distance before the end 

 and opposite first subcostal : hind wing convex at the apex, exterior 

 margin recurved, abdominal margin short ; two subcostal branches 

 emitted from beyond end of the cell ; discocellular very slender, 

 radial from the middle ; two upper median branches from end of 

 the cell, lower from near its end. Body short ; palpi slender, pilose ; 

 legs pilose beneath ; fore tibia in male armed in front with a long 

 and a short spur ; antennse setose. 



Type D. sanguinolenta. 



DORIKA SANGUINOLENTA, n. Sp. 



Female. Fore wing bright yellow ; costal edge white ; longitu- 

 dinally streaked with red along costal border, the median veins, and 

 submedian vein ; cilia pinky white : hind wing white. Thorax, 

 palpi, and legs above ochreous-red ; abdomen brownish ochreous. 



Expanse 1-^ inch. 



Hab. Bombay {Br. LeitK). In coll. F. Moore. 



DORIKA AUREOLA. 



Leucania aureola. Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. ix. p. 108 

 (1856). 



Hab. Canara, S. India. 



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