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reniform spots indistinct : hind wing cinereous-brown. Thorax pale 

 ferruginous ; palpi and legs dark ferruginous-brown, with pale bands. 



Expanse ly-ij inch. 



Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Genus Phothedes, Lederer. 

 Phothedes bipars, n. sp. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 7.) 



Allied to the European P. captiuncida, Zeller. Fore wing with the 

 basal half dark brown, enclosing a white-lined narrow reniform spot ; 

 outer half pale brown, the margin and cilia speckled with dark 

 brown : hind wing and abdomen pale brown. Thorax and fore legs 

 above dark brown ; collar, front of head, and palpi greyish brown. 



Expanse ^V inch. 



Hub. Cherra Punji, Assam. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Genus Bankia, Guen. 

 Bankia angtjlifera, n. sp. 



Fore wing very pale dull purplish ochreous, with two median 

 transverse inwardly oblique slender pale lines, the outer line bent 

 inward near the upper end to costa ; a very indistinct submarginal 

 series of minute brown dots : hind wing very pale purplish cinereous. 

 Body pale brownish ochreous ; palpi and fore legs above ochreous- 

 brown, with pale tarsal bands. 



Expanse -f*^ inch. 



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



Bankia lativitta, n. sp. 



Fore wing pale ochreous-brown ; basal third very obliquely white, 

 the border defined by an irregular slender brown line ; an oblique 

 discal white band extending from posterior angle to the costa, and 

 enclosing two black discocellular dots, the costal end projecting 

 obliquely outward, and again indistinctly merging in the band on 

 the disk ; an oblique dark-brown speckled fascia from the apex ; 

 cilia blackish : hind wing ciuereous-brown. Thorax white ; abdomen 

 cinereous, brown-speckled. 



Expanse y*^ inch. 



Hab. Nilgiris, S. India. In coll. F. Moore. 



Bankia erecta, n. sp. 



Fore wing whitish, with an erect median transverse narrow ochreous 

 or dark olive-brown band, with black inner border ; a similar-coloured 

 fascia from the apex, leaving a curved white space before the anterior 

 end of the band, and a fascia along exterior margin ; a black dot at 

 base of the costa and two at end of the cell, the upper one being 

 indistinct ; some speckles at the exterior apex and the cilia blackish : 

 hind wing pale cinereous. Body whitish. 



Expanse -f^- inch. 



Hab. Nilgiris, S. India. In coll. F. Moore. 



