new Species of Oriental Lepidoptera. 113 



on the veins; some metallic blue scales in various parts of 

 the wing forming three incomplete, irregular bands — subbasal, 

 medial, and postmedial, the last being close along the inner 

 side of the discal yellow band : hind wings as dark as the 

 fore wings, but without any blue scales ; a large central pale 

 yellow spot joined to a pale yellow subbasal still larger patch, 

 forming a broad band. Underside same as above, except that 

 there are no metallic scales, and there is a subcostal yellow 

 spot in the centre of the fore wings. Head, thorax, and 

 abdomen black, the last four segments of the abdomen orange 

 coloured. 



Expanse of wings 1 r fl l7 inch. 



Karwar, South Kanara. One example. Type in coll. 

 Davidson. 



Allied to M. basalt's, Wlk., but the fore wing has no 

 chestnut tinge, and the hind wing has a broad band instead 

 of a central spot. 



Fam. Lasiocampidse. 

 22. Lenodora Jia, nov. 



<J . Pale reddish brown. Head, thorax, and abdomen 

 covered with pale ochreous-brown hairs ; anal tuft bright 

 ochreous. Wings very thinly clothed, semihyaline : fore wings 

 with the costa and hinder margin more thickly clothed with 

 dark red-brown; a submarginal row of indistinct blackish 

 spots; cilia bright red-brown: hind wings slightly more 

 clothed than the fore wings; cilia bright red-brown. Under- 

 side : body and legs ochreous, covered with ochreous hairs ; 

 wings more ochreous, with the margins red-brown. 



Expanse of wings 1^ inch. 



Kashmir, May 1896. Type in coll. Davidson. 



Fam. NoctuidaB. 



Subfam. Trifinje. 



23. Acronycta iria, nov. 



$ . Head, thorax, and fore wings grey : fore wings with a 

 longitudinal black streak below the middle, from near the 

 base to about one third from base, where it stops and com- 

 mences again from about one third from outer margin to 

 near the margin; the wing is also crossed by an antemedial 

 outwardly curved blackish sinuous line, a medial, short line 

 from the costa to a black-ringed orbicular mark ; an outwardly 

 curved dentate black discal line, some indistinct submarginal 

 Ann.dc Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. iii. 8 



