1(38 Col. C ISwinhoc on new 



Family AcoutiidaB. 

 Jirastn'a lilacina. 



Da.iafn lilacina, Butler, 111. Het. vii. p. 81, pi. cxxxiii. fijj. o (1889). 

 liapania lilacina, lliupsu. Mollis India, iii. p. '2.1 (1895). 



Great Nikobars. 



This insect belongs to the AcontiieUe, and ni^t to the 

 Deltoidid^e. 



Megaludes raduita^ n )V. 



(^ 9 . Palj)i, head, and thorax white, covered with grey 

 iirorations; thorax with a brown band in front: tore wings 

 mo;;tly greyish \Yhite; in some examples, especially in the 

 females, the entire wing is more or less snffused with grey ; 

 some grey spots on the costa, a blacki.sh-brown irregularly 

 shaped S|)ace along the hinder margin, thin at the base, broad 

 and quadrate at the middle, with a black and oehreous line, 

 in some examples like an ocellus with oehreous or orange 

 centre ; some blackish streaks between the veins in the disk : 

 hind wings white, in some females grey. 



Expanse of wings ly^ inch. 



Sherlock River, W. Australia {Clement). 



Types in B. M. 



There are five males and four females. 



Megahdes lucala, nov. 



(^ . Palpi chocolate-brown, with a few white hairs; thorax 

 chocolate-brown, white in front and j-.t the sides: fore wings 

 with a chocolate-brown costa and with broad markings of the 

 same colour along the hinder margin, containing a short 

 outwardly oblique line beyond the middle ; veins brown, 

 some brown streaks on the outer margin in the intersj)accs ; 

 all the inner poitions of the wing whitish, as if smeared aith 

 wliite : hind wings white, in one examjjic ])ure white, in tlie 

 other with a slight ochreous-grey marginal border. Under- 

 side : fore wings smeared with grey; hind wings pure white, 

 no markings; body whitish, legs chocolate-brown. 



Expanse of wings 1^ inch. 



bheiluck liiver, W. Australia {Clement). 



Type in B. ^J. 



Two examples, both males. 



Megalodes tusa, nov. 



(J $. "White; foro wings with five broad, dark grey, 

 straight bands, the firfct from the costa at the base short, the 



