78 LASIOCAMPID^. 



pale discal band, the interspaces between the outer veins and cilia blackish. Underside 

 uniformly duller red ; both wings with a darker discal transverse fascia. Cilia slightly white- 

 edged. 



Expanse If inch. 



Uah. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



jMAHA^'TA, no v. gen. 



Fore wing long, narrow ; costa arched near its end ; apex falcate, outer margin oblique 

 and convex posteriorly ; hind margin short and deeply excavated at base ; subcostal vein 

 live-branched, first arising before end of the cell, second beyond the cell, third and fourth 

 near the apex, fifth from below the third at half its length between its base and fourth 

 branch ; cell short ; discocellulars long, bent inwards ; a recurrent vein extending to base 

 of cell ; upper radial vein anastomosing with subcostal to beyond end of cell ; lower 

 radial starting from middle of lower discocellular ; three median veins; submedian and 

 internal veins straight. Hind wing short, ovate ; subcostal three-branched ; cell short ; 

 upper discocellular short, lower long and outwardly oblique ; recurrent veins oblique ; one 

 radial and three median veins at equal distances apart at base ; a submedian and two 

 internal veins. Body stout ; abdomen long, extending beyond hind wing ; thorax broad ; 

 head small ; antennce slender, serrated to tip ; palpi adpressed, stout, ascending ; legs short, 

 densely pilose to tip of tarsi. 



Mahanta quadeilinea, n. sp. (Plate III. fig. 20.) 



Male. Upperside bright pale cinnamon-brown ; fore wing with two medial transverse 

 obliquely recurved narrow dark-brown lines, each bordered outwardly from the hind margin 

 with a short silky cinnamon-grey fascia ; a similar fascia extends upward from posterior 

 angle, and another near base of wing ; cilia edged with silky white : hind wing golden y el- 

 yellow broadly along anterior margin ; cilia whitish at anal angle. Underside paler cin- 

 namon-brown; veins of both wings and hind margin of fore wing golden yellow. Middle 

 of thorax and antennae cinnamon-grey ; a short straight white streak across each tegula. 



Expanse 2 inches. 



Hah. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Genus METANASTRIA, Hdbner. 

 Metanastriu, Iliibuer, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 18G. 



Metanasteia minoe, n. sp. 



Male and female. Dull ferruginous : fore wing indistinctly grey-speckled, and with two 

 medial obliquely transverse straight narrow pale-bordered darker bands. Thorax with a 



