1881.] NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 375 



Phalga, n. g. 



Fore wing — costa almost straight ; apex pointed ; exterior margia 

 oblique and scalloped, angular in the middle ; first subcostal branch 

 emitted at one third before end of the cell, second at one sixth before 

 its end, third at one eighth from below base of second, fourth at 

 three fourths from third, fifth from end of the cell, bent obliquely 

 upward and slightly touching third near its base ; discocellular 

 extremely slender, slightly bent at each end, convex in the middle, 

 radials from upper and lower angles ; upper median branch emitted 

 from angle above end of the cell, middle branch from its end, lower 

 at nearly one half before its end ; submedian recurving from the 

 base. Hind wing narrow ; exterior margin convex, slightly scalloped ; 

 abdominal margin short ; costal vein extending to apex, two sub- 

 costal branches emitted from end of the cell ; discocellular extremely 

 slender, radial from its lower end ; cell very short ; upper median 

 branch from angle above end of the cell, middle branch from its end, 

 lower at one third before the end ; submedian and internal veia 

 recurved. Body moderate, abdomen laterally tufted ; palpi ascend- 

 ing, not extending above the head, second joint stout, third slender; 

 fore tibia laxly tufted ; antennae filiform. 



Allied to Lineopalpa, Guenee. 



Phalga sinuosa, n. sp. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 7.) 



Fore wing pale dull brownish ochreous, with a very indistinct black- 

 speckled-bordered, pale, zigzag subbasal transverse line, a more dis- 

 tinct black treble discal acute-angled zigzag line, a submarginal 

 single line, and less distinct marginal lunular line ; a pale yellowish 

 reniform mark : hind wing ochreous-brown ; cilia brownish ochreous ; 

 a slender black marginal lunular line and streaks above anal angle. 

 Body brownish ochreous ; thorax, palpi, and fore legs ochreous- 

 brown. 



Expanse \\ inch. 



Hub. Darjiliug. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Fam. EuRHiPiD^. 

 Genus Eutelia, Hiibner. 



EUTELIA SICCIFOLIA, U. Sp. 



Greenish ochreous, numerously covered with short indistinct 

 dusky strigse : fore wing crossed by five or six irregular waved 

 indistinct blackish lines and an oblique subapical line, the costal 

 border clouded with brown, the edge at the apex black-speckled : 

 hind wing suffused with purplish brown on exterior border, with 

 irregular transverse indistinct blackish lines ; a slender semidia- 

 phanous-white discocellular streak. Front of thorax, head, palpi 

 at the side and in front, black ; legs above black. 



Expanse I^q- inch. 



Hab, Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Allied to E. viridatrix. 



