21g NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXV. 1918. 



costa, then stronglj' bent outwards, then excurved to vein 4 , then incurved and 

 sinuous to submedian fold, where it is acutely angled inwards to the V-shaped 

 mark, and obUque to inner margin ; subterminal Hne silvery white defined on 

 inner side by golden cupreous, strongly excurved to discal fold, then incurved, 

 and excurved at submedian fold ; a fine dark terminal hne with a silvery white 

 line before it defined on inner side by a golden cupreous band emitting a projec- 

 tion to the subterminal line between veins 4 and 3 ; ciUa with a dark Une near 

 base. Hindwing pale glossy grey-brown, the base and costal area to beyond 

 middle whitish, the terminal area darker except towards tornus ; ciUa wliitish 

 with a fine brown Une near base. Underside of forewing whitish suffused with 

 grey-brown except on inner and terminal areas, the postmedial area greyish 

 fuscous, a diffused obhquely curved blackish postmedial hne from costa to lower 

 angle of cell, then faint, a dark patch on apical part of termen ; hindwing white 

 tinged with brown, the costal area irrorated with dark brown, a broad fuscous 

 subterminal shade. 



Hah. Natal, Durban (Piatt), 2 ,J, 1 ? type. Exp. 40 mill. 



APPENDIX. 



LITHOSIADAE. 



Arctianae. 

 1798a. Spilosoma melanochroa n. sp. 



3. Head and thorax black-brown ; tegulae edged with yellowish dorsally 

 and at sides ; antennae with the basal joint wlute ; palpi orange-yeUow at base 

 in front ; abdomen orange- yellow with dorsal and lateral series of small black 

 spots, the hair at base of dorsum dark brown ; fore coxae orange-yeUow ; pectus 

 and femora whitish and brown, the hind tibiae banded black and white. Fore- 

 wing black-brown ; an ochreous white antemedial line from discal fold to sub- 

 median fold where it is somewhat dilated ; an obhque irregular ochreous white 

 medial band from below costa to median nervure with shght streaks before and 

 beyond it at subcostal nervure and beyond it in discal fold ; the lower disco- 

 cellular with ochreous white striga and the veins beyond the cell with shght 

 ochreous white streaks ; a curved ochreous white postmedial hne, somewhat 

 dentate at the veins and interrupted between veins 7, 6 and just below vein 3 ; 

 a diffused rather maculate ochreous white terminal hne from vein 7 to tornus. 

 Hindwing black-brown with a shght wliitish streak on extremity of subcostal 

 nervure and base of vein 7 ; the underside greyer brown with whitish patches 

 at base and middle of costa. 



Hob. Madras, Nilgiris (Andrewes), 1 S type. Exp. 30 mill. 



Family PHALAENOIDIDAE 

 Phalaenoidea MoCleay, 1805, type glycinae, is older than Agarista Leach. 1815, type agricola. 



Genus Aethodes nov. 

 Type : A. anguaiipennis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obhquely upturned, the 2nd joint reach- 

 ing to about middle of frons and fringed with long hair in front produced to a 



