Eastern and Australian I Iclerocera. 405 



9 . I'alpi, head, body, and liiiid wings pale pinkish grey, 

 without any markings ; a small l)io\vn dorsal tuft on second 

 segment of abdomen : fore wings greyish brown ; a rather 

 broad |)ale pinkish-grey stripe from base to apex, running 

 parallel with the costal margin ; an indistinct antemedial 

 line; an oblique and dentuted postmedial line, outwardly 

 curved below the costa, outwardly marked with whitish ; a 

 submarginal, whitish, rather thick, but similarly disposed line; 

 a double row of marginal brown spots marked with whitish 

 lunules on their iimer sides. Underside uniform pale pinkish 

 grey, with indications of a darker postmedial band across 

 bo til wings. 



Expanse of wings 1 j^,) inch. 



(Surabaya, Java ; five pairs. 



This sj)ecies in the male very closely resembles O.postica, 

 Walker, from South Burma and Ceylon, but is uniformly 

 quite one third smaller, and the female of the latter has 

 aborted wings ; the shape of the wings of the female of the 

 Javan species is very similar to that of 0. thyellina, Butler, 

 i^ , from Jaj)an. 



Genus Pendria. 

 Pendria, Swinhoe, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xvii. p. o40 (1906), 



Pendria rotundata, nov. 



cJ . Pure white; palpi black above, antennre grey, shaft 

 with black dots, base of pectinations black; fore legs with 

 two black bands on the tibia?, one at the base of the tarsi, 

 mid tarsi with three black bands, hind tarsi with one, ends of 

 all the tarsi and the claws black : fore wings with the coital 

 line blackish for two thirds its length, medial, discal, and 

 submarginal, indistinct greyish, broad, straight transverse 

 bands, only to be seen in certain lights : hind wings with a 

 similar short indistinct mark in the middle of the disk, and 

 another immediately behind it near the margin ; cilia of both 

 wings pure white. Underside without markings. 



Expanse of wings 1 ^^^ inch. 



Nias; one example. 



Superficially resembles P. rinaria, Moore, from Java and 

 Sumatra, but the wings are rounder, and in rinaria the costal 

 line is entirely black, and so also is the upper half of the 

 cilia of the fore wings and the middle straight portions of 

 the hind wings. 



