612 Col. a Swinhoe on 



LXVIII. — On new and little-knoivn Species of Eastern and 

 Australian Lepidoptcra. Bv Colonel Charles Swinhoe, 

 M.A., F.L.S., &c. 



Family HesperJidae. 

 Casyapa dissimilis, nov. 



^ . Anteniise ochreous -with brown bauds ; palpi, froiis, 

 and head dark ochreous ; thorax, abdomen, and wings of a 

 uniform ochreous brown, entirely covered with dark ochreous 

 scales, without any markings ; cilia pale ochreous. Under- 

 side dark ochreous brown, without the ochreous suffusion 

 and also without any markings ; fore legs with long dark 

 ochreous hairs. 



? . Antennse brown, a long white space before the hooked 

 tip ; palpi dark ochreous ; head, body, and wings of a 

 uniform dark olive-brown : fore wings with a broad, nearly 

 uniform white band, from the costa beyond the middle 

 to the outer margin above the hinder angle, where it is 

 joined to a curved white spot ; cilia of both wings brown. 

 Underside pale, but more blackish : fore wings with the 

 band as above, the hinder margin and base suffused with 

 grey ; hind, wings with about the outer half coloured like 

 the fore wings, the abdominal half suffused with grey : body 

 grey, legs dark ochreous. 



Expanse of wings, (^ 3, ? 3^-^ inches. 



German N. Guinea ; one pair. 



Allied to C. ncevifera, Mab., frum Batjan, but can easily 

 be separated by the absence of the strong black mark at tlie 

 end of the cell of the fore wings in the male, which is so 

 prominent a character in Mabille's species. There is a pair 

 from N. Guinea in the B.M. uunamed. 



Tagiades curiosa, nov. 



^ . Antennae black, white on the underside of the club ; 

 palpi, hend, thorax, and fore wings dark olive blackish brown 

 with an olive tint ; frons white, containing a brown band ; 

 palpi white beneath : fore wings with an obscure discal 

 band, of three obscure duplex spots, rather near the outer 

 margin, rising from near the hinder margin more than 

 halfway up the wing ; spots white, all small and linear, 

 with the exception of the outer three, which are round — one 

 at the end of the cell, two above it, one below it, all in an 

 oblique line, one above but outside the last, two above this 



