Eastern and Australian ITeterocera. 145 



Expanse of NA'ings j^„ inch. 

 Key Island; one example. 

 Allied to T. Rafflesii, Moore, from Java. 



Family Chalcosiidae. 

 8. Soritia bicolor. 



Devanica bicolor ( 5 ), Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 3oo, 

 Soritia hicolm; Hmpsn. Moths India, iv. p. 469 (1896). 

 Soritia viridivena ( $ ), Ilmpsn. I. c. i. p. 253 (1892).. 

 Soritia ni^/i-ibasalis {S), Hmpsn. /. c. 



Cachar, Silhet, Kliasia Hills. 



The type from Cacliar is in the Indian Museum, Calcutta ; 

 the type of viridivena from Silhet is in the B. M. ; Sir George 

 Hampson has compared the two together, and found them to 

 be identical. The type of nigribasalis from Sikkim is in 

 Coll. Elwes — by some printer's error it was described as a 

 female. I have received a good many examples of both 

 sexes of this species from the Khasia Hills. 



9. Soritia Bocki, nov. 



cJ ? . Antenme, head, and abdomen black ; thorax with 

 the fore half scarlet, the hinder half black : fore wing's with 

 a band at the apex and a large space on the hinder margin 

 blackish brown, leaving a large ochreous band tinged with 

 scarlet, which occupies more than half the wing-space, from 

 the base running along the upper half and bending down to 

 the outer margin, occupying the whole space below the apical 

 band : hind wings uniform blackish brown, without markings. 

 Underside same as above; body and legs black. 



Expanse of wings \^^^ inch. 



Hsipaw, Burma. Types in B. M. 



Some examples have a stronger suffusion of scarlet on the 

 band on the fore wings than the types ; there are altogether 

 three males and two females in the National Collection from 

 Hsipaw, a male from Hong Kong, and a female from 

 Shanghai. I have in my own collection a male from Kiang-Si, 

 which I received as Pidorus Bocki, but I can find no reference ; 

 it is allied to >S. costata, Walker, of which there are many 

 examples from Northern and Western China; the wings of 

 that species are much longer, the coloration is deep black 

 with a bright scarlet narrow band, the head and collar 

 scarlet, the thorax wholly black. 



