376 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC [Mar. I, 



Genus Varnia, Walker. 

 Varnia fenestrata, n. sp. 



Deep dull cliocolate-red, washed witli chalybeate-grey, marked 

 with very indistinct blackish confluent strigse ; fore wing with trans- 

 verse very indistinct black lines, those on the basal half waved, the 

 discal and subapical line being oblique, straight, and joined together 

 on the costa, the interdiscal space bordering these two lines brighter 

 red ; some pale yellow spots on the costal edge : hind wing with a 

 large, irregular, quadrate semidiaphanous white discocellular spot, 

 and some contiguous pale yellow streaks. Body with red dorsal 

 streaks ; palpi black laterally. 



Expanse 1^% inch. 



Hab. Darjihng. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Fam. Plusiid,*;. 

 Genus Euchalcia, Hiibner. 

 EUCHALCIA cashmirensis, n. sp. 



Fore wing brownish olive-green, with a transverse olive-white basal 

 line, an antemedian line curving below the cell, an undulated post- 

 median line, and two submarginal lines ; orbicular and reniform 

 marks formed by a similar olive-white line ; the outer border of the 

 pale lines tinged with cupreous-brown : hind wing pale purplish 

 brown ; cilia ochreous. Thorax brownish olive ; abdomen ochreous, 

 dorsal tufts bright ochreous ; palpi and legs pale ochreous ; tarsi 

 and antennae brighter ochreous. 



Expanse If inch. 



Hab. Sind valley, Cashmir. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Allied to E. uralensis and E. modesta. 



Fam. Calpid^. 



CULASTA, n. g. 



Fore wing elongate ; costa nearly straight ; apex acute ; exterior 

 margin convex towards the posterior angle, posterior margin very 

 convex near the base ; first subcostal branch emitted at nearly one 

 half before end of the cell, second at one fifth, third from near base 

 of second, and fourth from near the apex; fifth from end of the cell, 

 ascending to, but not touching, the third near its base : discocellular 

 bent near each end, concave and very slender in the middle, radials 

 from the angles; cell long, extending more than half length of the 

 wing ; upper median branch from angle above end of the cell, middle 

 branch from its end, lower at one third before the end ; submedian 

 recurved. Hind wing somewhat short and broad, exterior margin 

 waved, convex ; costal vein nearly straight ; two subcostal branches 

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

 from its lower end; cell broad, short ; two upper median branches 

 emitted from angle at end of the cell, lower at one fourth before its 

 end ; submedian and internal vein slightly curved. Body stout. 



