HYPSIN/E. 85 



Register which shows that the insect is from Sylhet from coll. 

 Stainforth.' 



878. Neochera stibostethia. 



A'eochera stibostethia. Butler: Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., 1877, p. 329. 

 Snellen : Tijd. voor F2nt., 1888, p. 121. 



Type. Bourou, in B. M. 

 a. Bourou. 



379. Neochera basilissa. 



Hypsa basilissa. Meyrick : Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. W., (2), i. p. 767 



(1886). 



Type. Cooktown, Australia, in coll. Macleay, Australia. 

 a. New Guinea (Wallace). b. Timor. c. Milete Island. 



d. Morty. e. Batchian. 



380. Neochera zaria. n. sp. 



$ Antennas and palpi black, palpi with two white bands, frons 

 white, top of head, collar, thorax, and abdomen bright chrome 

 yellow, abdomen paler than the thorax, thorax with a black spot on 

 each side and one in the centre behind the middle, and with a 

 whitish band behind ; abdomen with a central row of five small 

 black spots ; fore-wings dark slate colour with white veins, the white 

 expanding slightly on the slate-coloured cilia. 



Hind- wings with a white ground colour, a large square spot outside 

 upper end of cell, a broad black marginal band, dentated on both 

 sides, very much so inwardly, and extended in a suffused and paler 

 colour in the interspaces on the lower half of the wing and broadly 

 on the costal margin, leaving only a small upper portion and some 

 streaks hindwards of pure white, cilia also white. 



Underside, wings blackish brown with a blue sheen, both wings 

 with white veins ; fore-wings with a white sub-apical band and a 

 white longitudinal belt below the cell ; hind-wings with the inter- 

 spaces in the inner portions mostly white ; body white, slightly 

 luteous, with black spots on each side of abdomen and rows of 

 black spots all over the thorax ; legs black streaked with white. 



Expanse of wings 4 inches. 

 a. Manilla (type). 



Allied to A'^ basilissa (Meyrick), the white on veins of fore-wing 

 are thinner, the abdomen has only a central row of small spots 

 instead of being banded as in that species, also differs in the white 

 cilia and black suffusion on lower half of hind-wings. 



381. Neochera bhawana. 



Neochera hha'ivana. Moore: Cat. Lep. E. I. C, ii. p. 29:;, pi. 1 a, f. 4 <J 

 (1859). 



Walker: xxx. 217(1864). 



Butler : Trans. Ent. Soc, Lend., 1875, p. 328. 



• Snellen : Tijd. voor Ent., 18SS, p. 121. 



