Species of Eastern Lepidoptera. 439 



Genus Cacyparis, Walker. 



Cacyparis prunif era, sp. n. 



Cacyparis prunifera, Swinh. MS.; Hampson, t. c. p. 127. 



$ . Fore wings white, closely striated with dark purple- 

 brown ; a short antemedial band composed of three chocolate- 

 brown lunular marks from hinder margin ; a very large, out- 

 wardly pale-edged chocolate-brown spot in the upper disk, 

 which is variegated with orange and purple ; some purple 

 patches on lower half of outer margin. Hind wings greyish 

 brown ; cilia whitish. Plead and thorax brown, mottled with 

 white ; tegulge with tufts of long whitish hairs ; abdomen 

 greyish brown. 



Expanse of wings 1^ inch. 



Ceylon ; one example, in Mus. Oxon. Sikkim ; one ex- 

 ample, in coll. Swinhoe. 



Lasiocampidae. 



Genus Odontocraspis, nov. 



Antennse short, stout ; the pectinations very stout, short, and 

 gradually decreasing to the tips. Fore wings with the costa 

 arched, outer margin excised above the middle ; a falcated 

 production below the apex at the end of vein 6 ; hinder mar- 

 gin long and straight ; wing narrow ; veins 6 and 7 branched 

 nearly halfway beyond the end of the cell. Hind wings with 

 the costa straight and very short ; outer margin round, regu- 

 larly excised and very long ; the abdominal margin long ; 

 the anal angle narrow ; veins 4 and 5 stalked, 8 curved up- 

 wards and then down to 7, which it joins a little before the 

 base. 



Odontocraspis hasora, sp. n. 



$ . Eich chestnut-brown : fore wings with some orange 

 speckles in the cell and a group of them at the end of the cell, 

 with two small white spots on the outside; a hyaline out- 

 wardly excavated spot near the margin above vein 6, and a 

 similar smaller one in the next interspace above it; two 

 transverse, sinuous, brown discal bands : hind wings with the 

 costal space paler than the rest of the wing. Underside 

 duller brown ; a whitish lunule at the end of the cell ; a broad 

 bluish-white central band not extending to either margin; 

 marginal space cupreous tinged. 



Expanse of wings IjV inch. 



Shillong. Eleven examples. 



A very curious-looking insect. 



