48 



NocxurniE 



3622. Thalatha sinens. 



Orthosia shims, Wit. xi. 746 (1857); Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 71, 

 pi. 144. f. 6; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 241. 



Head and thorax pure white, the tegulae and patagia with some 

 pale rufous scales ; palpi black except at tips ; tarsi banded with 

 black-brown; abdomen white suffused with brown. Fore wing pure 

 white faintly irrorated with pale brown on basal and inner areas; 

 an obliquely curved interrupted black fascia from base of costa to 

 subrne lian fold before antemedial line, which is indistinct, pale 

 brown, oblique, slightly waved, and with double browu spots at 

 costa ; a diffused brownish triangular patch from middle of costa 

 to median nervure ; re n if or m very faintly and incompletely defined 

 by pale brown, small ; postmedial line very indistinct and in- 

 complete, double, the lines widely separated and with two black 

 points on costa, bent outwards below costa, then waved, incurved 



Fig. 13. — Thalatha sinens, J. \. 



below vein 3, crossed by a diffused oblique brown fascia in sub- 

 median fold from well before it to subterminal line, with oblique 

 black striga above it before postmedial line and triangular spot 

 beyond it, two black points with a brown bar from them beyond it 

 on costa ; an indistinct diffused waved brown line representing the 

 inner edge of subterminal line which has some slight brown marks 

 on its outer edge ; a terminal series of slight dark striae and a 

 wedge-shaped black spot at vein 2 ; cilia chequered brown and 

 white. Hind wing white suffused with red-brown ; a black spot 

 on termen at vein 2 ; cilia white ; the underside white, the costal 

 area suffused and irrorated with red-brown, a slight discoidal lunule 

 and diffused sinuous postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the markings grey-green, the striga 

 before postmedial line developed into an irregular fascia from just 

 before medial line to the spot on outer edge of postmedial line. 



Hah. W. China, Chia-kou-ho {Pratt), 1 5 ; Bombay, N. Kanara, 

 Karwar (Bell), 1 5 ; Madras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 J ; Travancorh, 

 Trevandrum (Eryusson), 1 § ; Burma, Moulmein (Clerk), 1 5 type. 

 Exp. 30-36 millim. 



*3623. Thalatha melaleuca, n. n. (Plate CXXIV. fig. 2.) 



Tarache hehece, Eeth.-Baker, Nov. Zuol. siii. p. 208 (1906), nee Dipthera 

 kebea, p. 203. 



5. Head and thorax white; palpi black except at tips; lower 

 part of frons black; antenna' black except at base ; tegulae black 



