(5) 



venter blackisb, with wliite segmental rings ; pectns dull orange : legs ochreons 

 thickly dnsted with brown. 



Expanse of wings : c? 66 mm. ; ? 70 ram. 



2 ^tJ, 5 ? ? from the Khasia Hills, Assam (t3-pe) ; one cJ from Darjiling 

 (F. MoUer). The last is smaller, and less distinctly marked. 



The ? has the antennae almost simple, with a few short bristles. 



8. Tambana nigra spec, nov., a^id snlisp. fuscipennis subsp. nov. 



Foreicinq : purplish black ; the lines, which are dimble, the edges of the 

 stigmata, and tlie praesubmarginal shade deep black ; the narrow terminal area, 

 the centres of stigmata, and the costal spots dark grey ; the inner and outer lines 

 conversely lunnlate-dentate ; a dark median shade ; fringe purple grey. 



HiiHlwiiiy : yellowish straw-colour, deeper yellow in the ? ; veins towards 

 termen black; fringe lilack ; a fuscous terminal border, ill-defined in the tj, 

 com})lete in the ? . 



Underside of forewing dull blackish, the cells and inner margin dull straw- 

 colour ; of hindwing mainly straw-colour, becoming blackisli terminally; both 

 wings with large difl'use discal blotch and dark outer line ; fringe dotted with white 

 beyond the veins. 



Head, thorax, and legs blackisli mixed with pale grey hairs ; abdomen black, 

 its sides in basal half with luteous hairs ; pectus woolly, olive grey. 



Expanse of wings : 46 mm. 



2 (?(?, 1 ? from the Khasia Hills, Assam. 



In the form from Burma — subsp. fuscipennis subsp. nov. — the upperside of 

 hindwing and the undersides of botli wings are dingy fuscous with a luteous tinge ; 

 the outer line on both wings on underside is more strongly bent at middle. 



Expanse of wings : 50 mm. 



1 ? from Bernardmyo, Burma, 7o00 ft.. May 1890 (W. Dohcrty), from the 

 Elwes Collection. 



9. Tambana pallidipennis spec. nov. 



Forewing : like nigra, but the ground colour paler, greyer ; the black suffusion 

 not so complete ; the lines filled up with pale grey. 



Hindwing : uniform pale straw-colour, witii the fringe dark fuscons ; in some 

 cases, especially in the ? ?, with traces of a faint subterminal shade. 



Underside dirty straw-colour ; a diftuse dark discal blotch in forewing ; the 

 outer lines and terminal border fuscons. 



Head, thorax, and legs blackish with a stronger admixture of pale hairs; the 

 hair at base of abdomen at the sides paler. 



Expanse of wings : 46 mm. 



10 c?c?, 3 ? ? from Java: Pengalengan, Preanger ; Bandong ; Palaboehan. 



Subfamily EUXOINAE. 

 10. Euxoa fumipennis spec. nov. 



Forewing : luteous grey, suftused throughout with deep smoky blackish, the 

 paler ground colour showing as a diffuse band only beyond outer line ; markings 

 mnch as in E. radians Guen. from Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand ; the 

 filling up of the inner line, the median nervure, the annulns of the orbicular stigma, 



