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THK ENTOMOLOGIST. 



costa beyond the middle ; traces of a black antemedial line, only 

 distinct towards dorsum ; a large blackish blotch on tornal end of 

 terminal area ; postmedial line blackish inwardly edging the tornal 

 blotch, represented by black dots on the veins towards costa ; sub- 

 terminal line blackish, only distinct between veins 4 and 6; terminal 

 line black, crenulate, preceded by black dots between the veins; 

 fringes reddish brown, marked with black between the veins. Hind 

 wings reddish brown, a blackish tornal patch ; terminal dots black. 

 Under side rather paler than the upper side ; all the wings have a 

 black discoidal dot and transverse line beyond ; the terminal area of 

 fore wings clouded with blackish. 



5 . Similar but transverse lines on the fore wings more distinct, 

 and there is a blackish lunule on these wings. 



Expanse, 24 millim. ^ ; 26 millim. ? . 



Collection number, 980. 



One example of each sex from Kausbirei; the male taken in 

 July, 1906, and the female in August, 1907. 



Near C. castanea, Hampson. 



Erastroides limhata, sp. n. 



? . Head and thorax dark brown ; abdomen whitish, mid segments 

 tinged with brown. Fore wings brown, powdered with darker, and 

 clouded with blackish on basal three-fourths ; terminal fourth whitish, 

 transversely clouded with blackish ; postmedial line black marked 

 with pale brown, turned in under cell thence wavy to dorsum, limit- 

 ing the paler terminal area ; terminal line black, indistinct except 

 towards apex where it unites with a black spot. Hind wings fuscous 

 grey, fringes preceded by a pale line. Under side fuscous ; apex of 

 the fore wings black, intersected by the veins and limited by a diffuse 

 whitish line. 



Expanse, 19 millim. 



Collection number, 1277. 



A female specimen from Kanshirei, April 9th, 1908. 



Lithacodia viriditincta, sp. n. 

 ? . Head whitish, thorax (rubbed) apparently greenish ; abdomen 

 M'hitish, segments barred with greenish grey. Eore wings whitish, 

 suffused with green, a black mark at base of the costa; antemedial 

 line black, not continued to dorsum, forming the inner boundary of a 

 large quadrate black patch on the medial area ; orbicular stigma of 

 the ground colour, united with a similar spot on the costa and with 

 another below the cell, all these spots enclosed in black patch ; 

 reniform stigma of the ground colour but not well defined; post- 

 medial line black, wavy, only distinct from costa to vein 3 ; sub- 

 terminal line black, originating in a conspicuous spot on the costa, 

 thickened about middle ; terminal line black, interrupted at ends of 

 the veins ; fringes grey, brownish at base, traversed by darker grey. 

 Hind wings greyish suffused with brassy yellow on terminal two- 

 thii-ds ; two dusky wavy lines bej-ond the middle, the inner one most 

 distinct ; terminal line black, interrupted at the veins ; fringes as on 

 the fore wings but somewhat paler. Under side whitey brown ; fore 



