154 GONOPTERID.E. — AMPIIIPYEID.E. 



in the middle, radials from the angles; upper and middle median branches from angles at 

 end of the cell, lower at nearly one half before its end ; submedian nearly straight. Hind 

 wing somewhat small, short, and narrow ; exterior margin slightly uneven ; costal vein 

 nearly straight ; two subcostal branches from end of tlie cell; discocellular slender, straight, 

 inwardly oblique, radial from near its lower end ; cell short ; two upper median branches 

 from beyond end of the cell, lower from close before its end ; submedian and internal vein 

 straight. Body moderate, abdomen extending beyond hind wings; palpi ascending, second 

 joint squamose, extending to vertex, tliird joint of nearly equal length, slender; legs long, 

 tibiic tufted, hind femora tufted bcneatli ; antenna; setose. 



Falaxa soudida, n. sp. 



Dull brownish-f;chreous : fore wing with an indistinct basal and medial transverse 

 darker band, the latter inwardly bordered by a slight black sinuous line and outwardly by a 

 less distinct duplex sinuous line, the latter ending on the costa in a ])ale streak; the discal 

 and marginal area black-speckled, with a discal series of indistinct speckled spots, which are 

 most prominent at apical end ; an indistinct black orbicular dot and an elongated pale-centred 

 black reniform mark : hind wing ochreous-brown ; cilia ochreous. Body ochrcous ; palpi 

 and legs above ochreous-brown, tuft on hind femora white. 



Expanse Iy^ inch. 



Ilab. Cherra Punji, Assam [Aiisten). In coll. F. Moore and Dr. Staudinger. 



Genus THALATTA, Walker. 

 Thalatta, Walker, Catal. Lcp. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 90G. 



Thalatta FASCI0.SA, n. sp. (Plate V. fig. 3.) 



Fore wing chestnut-brown, washed by three or four transverse waved purplish-grey 

 fascite, crossed by a postmcdial, reddish-bordered, waved line and a submarginal gre}ish- 

 white sinuous line terminating in two small black dots at aj)ical end : hind wing paler 

 brown. Thorax, palpi, and legs above dark brown. 



Expanse l-j^ inch. 



Iluh. Cherra Punji. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Family A M P H I P Y R I D ^. 



Geims AMPHIPYRA, Ochs. 



Amphipyea coevus. 

 Amphipyra corviis, Motsch. 



Allied to the European A. lividn. Larger in size : fore wing much darker cupreous-black, 

 the hind wing also of a deeper copper-red and darker apical border. Underside also of a 

 much deeper tint. 



Expanse If inch. 



