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cilia entirely pink : hind wing pale j^ellow, witii a distinct dusky- 

 brown marginal band ; cilia yellowish white. Underside pale yellow ; 

 fore wing with the veins broadly suffused with dusky black, and a 

 blackish discal fascia. Body pale brownish ochreous ; thorax, palpi, 

 and legs above ochreous-brovvn. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Adisura pallida, n. sp. 



Male. Fore wing pale purplish ochreous-grey, with the costal edge 

 and longitudinal streaks extending to outer margiia very pale ochreous- 

 brown ; a few minute black speckles on costal and posterior borders ; 

 a curved discal transverse row of minute black points ; cilia edged 

 with white : hind wing ochreous-white, with an indistinct pale-brown 

 median submarginal fascia. Underside ochreous-white. Thorax and 

 head ochreous-grey ; palpi at the side, and legs above, ochreous- 

 brown. 



Expanse Ijlj inch. 



Hab. Ceylon. Tn coll. F. M. Mackwood. 



Nearest allied to A. leucanidides. 



Adisura similis, n. sp. 



Allied to A. marginalis. Differs from it in being of a pale ochreous 

 yellow ; the fore wing with similar marginal bands and cilia, but with 

 the disk crossed by an indistinct recurved row of brown speckles, 

 some speckles also being present towards the base of hind margin : 

 hind wing whitish at the base. 



Expanse, d $ y|- inch. 



Hab, Calcutta. In coll. F. Moore and Dr. Staudinger. 



Fam. Anthopdilid.e. 

 Genus Hydrelia, Gueu. 



Hydrelia conjugata, n. sp. 



Male and Female. Fore wing dark umber-brown ; costal border 

 pale ochreous-brown, with darker streaks between the costal and 

 subcostal veins ; a white-bordered, brown elongated outwardly-oblique 

 orbicular mark, which is confluent hindward with a similar upright 

 reniform mark, an oblique pale streak below the cell in a line with 

 the orbicular mark ; these^ markings indistinct in the female : 

 hind wing ochreous-brown ; thorax, palpi, and legs above brown- 

 speckled. 



Expanse lyL inch. 



Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Genus Thalpochares, Lederer. 

 Micra\ Guenee, Ann. Soc. Eut. Fr. x. p. 224 (1841). 



Thalpochares parvula, n. sp. 



Near to the European T. parva, but of smaller size. White : 

 ' Previously used in Diptera. 



