new Species of Oriental Lepidoptera. 1 15 



fore wings with many whitish marks ; hinder marginal parts 

 and inner area of hind wings whitish ; fore tarsi black with 

 white bands. 



Expanse of wings 1 inch. 



Karwar, June 1895. Type in coll. Davidson. 



Subfam. Catocalinm. 



26. Catocala Irisa, nov. 



J . Palpi, head, thorax, and fore wings dark brown, thorax 

 with a blackish stripe on each side : fore wings with sub- 

 basal and antemedial, nearly erect, blackish bands, beyond 

 this the wing is paler except towards the margin ; two sinuous 

 short black lines from the costa near the apex, across the 

 apical space, enclosing a pale brownish ochreous apical spot, 

 some spear-shaped black submarginal marks ; cilia brown, 

 with a pale line at their base : abdomen and hind wings bright 

 ochreous yellow, a brown marginal band stopping abruptly 

 at. vein 2 and including a yellow apical space ; cilia yellow. 

 Underside: fore wings nearly white, hind wings yellow; fore 

 wings with a short postmedial brown band, and a marginal 

 brown band with an ochreous apical spot; hind wings with 

 band as above, also with an ochreous apical spot. 



Expanse of wings 1 ^ inch. 



Satara, 1874. Type in coll. Davidson. 



Allied to C. ochreipennis, Butler, from Madagascar, but 

 smaller and the wino-s narrower. 



Subfam. Focillinje. 

 27. Zethes ochrodes, nov. 



<J . Pale ochreous grey, with minute brown irrorations ; 

 thorax marked with black lines : fore wings with subbasal, 

 outwardly curved, black line, another close to it nearly 

 straight, curved inwards near the hinder margin, the third 

 discal, from costa at two thirds, elbowed deeply outwards 

 above the middle, then oblique to hinder margin at two 

 thirds; two black longitudinal lines running just below the 

 angle to the outer margin : hind wings with a straight medial 

 line, a brown spot near anal angle outside the line, the outer 

 portion of both wings slightly more irrorated than the inner ; 

 fore wing with a submarginal band of white lunules. 



