406 Colonel C. Swinlioe on 



Dasychira anaha, iiov. 



(^ ? . Aiitcnuas, jjalpi, head, body, and fore wings dark 

 brown ; hiud wing.s paler brown ; no perceptible markings 

 above except a rather large indi.stinct spot at end of cell of 

 fore wings and some indi( ations of a rather darker discal band 

 on the hind wings; cilia ochreous, with brown patches; 

 underside dark ochreous grey ; a brown shade from base to 

 the end of the cell of the fore wings in the male ; both sexes 

 with an indistinct and rather suffused brown discal band with 

 some dark spots on it : hind wings with a brown spot at the 

 end of the cell and indistinct medial and discal, somewhat 

 straiglit, brown bands, the medial band obsolescent in the 

 female. 

 • Expanse of wings, cJ ly^.r, ? Ijo inch. 



S , Padang, Sumatra ; ? , Batavia, Java. 



Abdomen with dorsal crests on anterior segments ; belongs 

 to the hhatia group; the fore wings of the female are rather 

 shorter and broader tlian usual. 



Family Aganaidae. 

 Subfamily Deilemerin^. 



Deihmera niasana, nov. 



(^ $ . Palpi white below, black above, last joint all black ; 

 frons white, with a large black central spot ; head and collar 

 yellow ; thorax and abdomen white ; a large black spot on 

 vertex of head and one on each side of the collar; a broad 

 black stripe on centre of thorax and on each side ; abdomen 

 \\ith a greyish disconnected dorsal band and some greyish 

 suffusion : fore wings black, veins on the basal half white; 

 a thin white streak on the hinder margin ; a prominent 

 white streak on the second internal vein from base to near 

 the discal band, attenuated and pointed at both ends ; discal 

 band composed of seven spots, well divided by the veins, the 

 ujiper spot long and touching (he costa, the second club- 

 shaped, curved, and longest of all ; in the females between the 

 outer ends of these two spots are two small white streaks, the 

 remaining spots elongated, nearly parallel, the lowest quite 

 small : hind wings white, with a nearly uniform outer 

 niarfnnal black border, little more than the tenth of an inch 

 broad, its inner side eve.ily indented on the veins. 



Expanse of wings 1 ,\ inch. 



Nias ; two males, three fen.ales. 



