moths of Burma. 199 



194. Arhela ? dea, n. sp. (PL VI., fig. 7). 

 Antennae pinkish grey. Head white. Body and wings above 

 bright dark oHve-brown. Thorax with some white marks. Abdo- 

 men whitish at the base. Fore wings with some indistinct black 

 marks on the costa and some in the middle of the wing, and some 

 on its pale pinkish fringe. Hind wings paler at the anal border. 

 Underside : Face and body white ; legs white, striped with brown 

 above ; wings same as above, slightly paler ; costa of fore wings 

 marked with pale pinkish grey ; anal tuft same colour as the 

 wings, enormously long and thick, cylindrical, more than two- 

 thirds the length of the abdomen. Expanse of wings, fg in. 



Eangoon, May, 1886. In coll. Swinhoe. 



A very curious little insect ; allied to nothing I know 

 of. Undoubtedly of the family Cossidce, of an un- 

 described genus near Arhela, which I leave to be de- 

 scribed when more specimens are forthcoming. 



195. Phragmatoecia minor. 



Phraqmatoecia minor, Moore, Descr. Ind. Lep. Atk., 



i., p. 87 (1879). 

 Bhamo. In coll. Swinhoe. 



HEPIALID^. 



196. Hepialus tavoyanus. 



Hepialus tavoyanus, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. (5.5), 

 2, i., p. 98 (1886). 



Tavoy. In I. M., Calcutta. 



