1881.] NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 367 



CURUBASA CRUENTATA, n. Sp. 



Male and Female. Fore wing pale silky yellow, with a purplish- 

 pink costal band extending only to the subcostal vein, a similar but 

 broader and darker band along the posterior margin ; cilia yellow, 

 edged with pale pink : hind wing paler yellow. Thorax and front 

 of head ochreous-brown ; abdomen yellow ; palpi and legs above 

 reddish ochreous ; terminal spines on fore tibia black. 



Expanse, cJ I, ? If inch. 



Hub. N.W. India; Noashera, Cashmir. In coll. F. Moore and 

 Dr. Staudinger. 



CuRUBASA CALAMARIA, H. Sp. 



Male. Very pale straw-yellow ; fore wing with a very indistinct 

 longitudinal roseate streak through the median vein. Underside as 

 above ; basal and discal areas, including the costa of fore wing, greyish 

 brown. Thorax, front of head, palpi, and legs above brownish 

 ochreous ; spines on fore tibia black. 



Expanse -^^^ inch. 



Hub. Bombay (Dr. Leith). In coll. F. Moore. 



CuRUBASA MARGINATA, n. Sp. 



Male. Somewhat paler than C. calamaria. Fore wing with an 

 ochreous-grey band along posterior margin : hind wing with the 

 basal area slightly greyish brown. Underside of fore wing with the 

 basal and discal areas greyish brown, costal border pale yellow. 

 Front of head, palpi, and legs above purplish grey ; fore tibial claws 

 black. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Hab. N.W. Himalaya. In coll. F. Moore. 



Adisura, n. g. 



Fore wing comparatively short and broad, triangular, costa nearly 

 straight, apex very acute, exterior margin oblique and even, posterior 

 margin short ; first subcostal branch emitted from half length of 

 the cell, second near the end, trifurcate, the third and fourth at equal 

 distances from base of second, fifth curved upward from end of the 

 cell and touching the third close to its base ; discocellular concave, 

 slightly bent near its lower end ; upper radial from end of the cell, 

 lower from angle of discocellular ; upper median branch from angle 

 above end of the cell, middle branch from the end, lower at some 

 distance before its end. Hind wing triangular, rather broad and 

 short ; costa nearly straight, exterior margin convex and much 

 waved, abdominal margin short ; two subcostal branches emitted 

 from end of the cell ; discocellular very slender, slightly concave ; 

 radial extremely slender, emitted from middle of discocellular ; two 

 upper median branches from slightly beyond end of the cell, lower 

 from one third before its end. Body short, stout ; palpi stout, 

 laxly squamose, apical joint thick, short ; legs laxly pilose ; antennae 

 minutely pectinated in male. 



Type A. atkinsoni. 



