364 MR. F, MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC [Mar. 1, 



Masalia, n. g. 



Wings small : fore wing short, narrow ; costal vein running close 

 to the margin ; first subcostal branch short, emitted at one fourth 

 before end of the cell, second at equal distance between first and 

 fifth, trifid, the third and fourth at about one half from base of 

 second, fifth from end of the cell, ascending and touching the 

 second at halfway between its base and third ; upper discocellular 

 straight, short, lower coucave, bent near lower end, radials from 

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

 middle branch from the end, lower from opposite first subcostal. 

 Hind wing small, exterior margin convex ; two subcostal branches 

 from end of the cell ; discocellular bent in the middle, radial from 

 the angle ; cell short ; two upper median branches from end of the 

 cell. Body moderately slender ; palpi minute, slender, porrect ; 

 antennae filiform ; fore tibia armed with a pair of terminal spines. 



Type M. radiata. 



Masalia radiata, n. sp. 



Fore wing greyish ochreous-brown, with a pale yellow longitudinal 

 narrow streak from base of the cell to outer margin ; a short basal 

 streak below it between the median and submedian veins, and a 

 narrower streak extending along and between the subcostal and 

 median veins ; costal edge yellow ; cilia pale pinkish grey : hind 

 wing greyish brown. Underside greyish brown ; fore wing with 

 white streaks disposed as on upperside. Thorax, head, palpi, and 

 legs above ochreous-brown ; terminal spines on fore tibia black ; 

 abdomen ochreous ; eyes black. 



Expanse \^ inch. 



Hab. Manpuri, N.W. India {Home). In coll. F. Moore. 



Masalia irrorata, n. sp. 



Female. Fore wing pale reddish ochreous, with paler streaks 

 between the veins, speckled with minute dark-brown scales, which 

 are most numerous along the area of the veins and on posterior 

 border ; an oblique transverse discal series of six black points, one 

 on each lower vein ; cilia bordered with white : hind wing white ; 

 cilia white. Underside very pale ochreous-white ; fore wing with 

 the costal border tinged with red ; median veins brown-speckled. 

 Thorax pale reddish ochreous ; front of head, palpi, and legs above 

 brownish ochreous. 



Expanse ly^ inch. 



Hab. Darjiling. In coll. F. Moore. 



Pradatta, n. g. 



Fore wing comparatively short and broad ; costa slightly depressed 

 in the middle, exterior margin oblique, posterior margin convex near 

 the base ; cell long ; first subcostal branch rather short, second 

 emitted from near end of the cell, trifurcate, tbird and fourth close 

 together, fifth curved abruptly upward from end of the cell and 



