On ncio Eastern and AunlraU ni Mollis. 1G5 



pliarp p|)iiiulcs in front at the base, strongly geniculate, with 

 a triangular exj)ansion at the a]iex, the anterior side of the 

 angle the longest and armed with six teeth, the posterior side 

 with one tooth ; when the anterior side of the angular ex- 

 ])ansion closes against the immovable finger the tip of the 

 movable finger considerably surpasses its posterior side ; 

 inner edge of hand lightly convex, without trace of any basal 

 ]>rominence, with four strong and some smaller teeth ; inner 

 surface of hand without any distinctly depressed or hollowed 

 area on its inner side just below the denticulated crest. 



Total length 44 millim. ; carai)ace25; chela (not including 

 coxa) 26. 



hoc. Lam pun, N. Siam (.1/. Daly). 



Two male examjjles of this species were colhicted with one 

 of T. Dalyi. The chief difference between the two forms 

 lies in the much smaller size and different shape of the tip of 

 the tibial apophysis and the absence of excavation on the 

 inner surface of the hand in T. Tarnanii. 



XXVIII. — Descriptions ofnexo Eastern and Australian Moths. 

 By Colonel C. Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S., &c. 



Family Limacodidse. 

 Thosea hixa, nov. 



c^ . Of a uniform grey colour, some examples tinged with 

 ochveous, some with pale olive ; shaft of antenn£e dull red, 

 the pectinations red-grey : fore wings with a central thin 

 brown band from hinder margin a little before the middle- 

 stopping short of the costa a little beyond the middle; a 

 brownish spot in the centre of the disk ; in some examples 

 the band is mere or less obsolete, in others the spot is obso- 

 lete, but all have indications of one or the other : the hind 

 wings and the underJ^ide are without any markings, the under- 

 side is tinged with red. 



? . AVithout the discal spot in all the three examples before 

 me, the transverse central band more or less marked. 



Expanse of wings, (J 1, $ l^j^ inch. 



Sherlock River, W. Australia {Clement). 



Types in B. M. 



