58 ZYG^NID.'E. 



Genus PHACUSA. Walker: i. 150(1854). 

 Notioptera. Butler: Journ. Linn, Soc, 1876, p. 355. 



246. Phaeusa strigosa. 



Synto/iiis sin'gosa. Walker: xxxi. 69 (1S64). 

 Type. Celebes, in B. M. 

 a. Bouru (Wallace). 



247. Phaeusa expansa. 



Syntomis cxpansa. Walker: xxxi. 73 (1864). 

 a. Mysol (type) (Wallace). 



248. Phaeusa variata. n. sp. 



9 Antennas and wings deep black, frons, collar, thorax and abdo- 

 men olivaceous brown, tip of abdomen with some short black hairs, 

 a pure white band behind each eye, wings with longitudinal, broad 

 pure white streaks. Fore-wings with one from near the base to the 

 middle, appearing again in a short streak in the disc, another of 

 a similar kind above, sub-marginal, the first part of it not cjuite 

 so long or so deep. Hind-wings with two streaks in the centre 

 suffused inwardly and joined together making a disjointed band ; 

 underside as above, body smeared with white, legs pale brown. 



Expanse of wings \^^ inches. 

 a. Dorey (type) (Wallace). 



Allied to nothing I know of. 



Genus LOPHOSOMA. Gen. Nov. 

 Type, L. cuprea (Walker). 



<j The antenntE pectinated ; palpi short and porrect ; mid tibiae 

 with one pair, hind tibise with two pairs of minute spurs ; abdomen 

 with lateral tufts of hair on terminal segments in the male ; vena- 

 tion as in Taseina, except that vein 6 of the hind-wing is present. 



249. Lophosoma euprea. 



Syntomis ciiprea. Walker: vii. 1596 (1856). 



Tascia ctipixa. Butler: Jonrn. Linn. Soc, Lond., 1S76, p. 558. 



Cotes and Swinh. : Cat. Moths of Lidia, ii. 56. 301 (1887). 



a. India (type). 



250. Lophosoma quadrieolor. 



Syntomis qiiadricolor. Walker: vii. 1596(1856). 



Tascia qiiadricolor. Butler : Journ. Linn. Soc., Lond., 1876, p. 358. 



Cotes and Swinh. : Cat. Moths of India, ii. 56. 302 



(1887). 

 a. India (type). 



Genus TASEMA. Walker: vii. 1597 (1856). 



251. Tasema bipars. 



Taseina hipars. Walker: vii. 1597 (1856). 



Cotes and Swinh. : Cat. Moths of India, ii. 44. 216 (1887). 



India (type). 



