310 PERCY SLADEN TKUST EXPEDITION. 



Seychelles. — Received from Malie by M. de Joannis. The present collection contains 

 no specimens. 



JJisti- ibid ion. — Seychelles (Mahe) ; throughout India and Burma to Ceylon and 

 Andamans ; Java; China; Duke of York I. 



140. Isocentris seychellalis, sp. n. (Plate 17. fig. 12.) 



6 . Exp. 22 mm. Palpi porrect, densely scaled, third joint short; golden-yellow inter- 

 mixed with piuk and purple scales. Antennsae finely ciliated, yellow. Head and thorax 

 yellow, the latter with some purple-i'ed scales transversely arranged across prothorax 

 and metathorax. Abdomen bright yellow, dorsal area irrorated with purple-i-ed. 



Tore wing bright yellow, with eight small purple-red spots on basal half, the first 

 subcostal and subbasal, the second costal at \, the third in cell at \, the fourth on disco- 

 cellulars, the fifth in disc below cell at \, and the sixth a little beyond fifth, the seventh 

 on dorsum near base, and the eighth near dorsum at \. Exterior third of wing with a 

 l)urplish-ved patch (except round apex, which is yellow) incurved along vein 2 to about f, 

 thence straight to dorsum. Cilia purplish-red. 



Hind wing light yellow, a broad purplish-red terminal patch from apex to inner margin. 

 Cilia purplish-red. 



Seychelles. — A single specimen in very poor state from Mr. de Gaye's collection. 



141. Pachyzancla phceopteralis, Gn. 



Botys phceopteralis, Guenee, Delt. et Pyr. p. 349. 



Botys otreusalis, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, iii. t. 180. f. 11; Joannis, Ann. S. E. Fiance, 1894, 



p. 436. 

 Pachyzancla phtEopteralis, Hampson, Moths Ind. iv. p. 402. 



Seychelles. — Eight specimens, of which seven are from Mah6 and one from Praslin. 



Distribution. — S. America ; throughout Africa ; Aden ; St. Helena ; Mauritius ; Sey- 

 chelles (Mahe, Praslin) ; throughout India ; Burma; Ceylon; Andamans; Solomon Is. 



Probably in Madagascar, Nicobars, Java, Sumatra, and New Guinea, and possibly in 

 Australia also, but I do not find any records from these localities. 



142. Pachyzancla maJiensis, sp. n. (Plate 17. fig. 13.) 



6 . Exp. 23 mm. Labial palpi porrect, broadly triangularly scaled, third joint not 

 visible ; dark fuscous above, whitish below. Maxillary palpi short, filiform, iuconsjjicuous, 

 dark fuscous. Antennae pale greyish-yellow, minutely ciliated. Head, thorax, and 

 abdomen yellowish, collar with some dark fuscous scales. Pectus and legs pale yellowish- 

 white. 



Fore wing pale golden-yellow ; costa broadly dark fuscous from base to about f ; a 

 small but conspicuous blackish cellular spot a little beyond \ ; a conspicuous blackish 

 transverse spot on discocellulars ; a transverse fuscous striga from costa at f , quite 

 obsolete below vein 6 ; termeu faintly suffused with fuscous, especially ai'ound apex : 

 cilia pale yellowish, whitish at tips, faintly clouded with pale fuscous at base. 



