504: Col. C. Swinlioe on ncio 



Asota spadLr, no v. 



(J . Palpi, head, and body dull ocLreous : both wings of a 

 uniform dull purplish brown ; fore wings with a pale spot at 

 end of cell, and some dull ochreous colour at the base : hind 

 wings also with a pale spot at the end of the cell, and the 

 costal space above, from the base to a little beyond the cell 

 end, pale ochreous, nearly white. Underside : legs and body 

 without markings ; the basal half of both wings dull ochreous, 

 the outer half purplish brown. 



Expanse of wings 1-^ inch. 



Florida Isl., Solomons (Meek). Type in B. M. 



The shape of the wings is somewhat as in A. plagi'ata, 

 Walker, from Australia; it is a curious-looking insect and is 

 allied to nothing I know of. 



Asota donatana, uov. 



(J . Palpi with the last joint and end of second joint black ; 

 head and body ochreous yellow; thorax with some black 

 spots; abdomen with black segmental bands. Wings pure 

 white : fore wings ochreous at the base, with four black 

 spots ; a spear-shaped purple-grey mark on vein 1 outside the 

 yellow basBj with the white vein running through it; borders 

 of both wings pturple-grey, much in accordance with the 

 usual pattern of the A. plana group, but in the fore wings 

 the usual two grey spots on the inner edge of the costal 

 border of the fore wings are absent, and the upper white spot 

 towards apex is merged into the central white band; in the 

 hind wings the band is narrow and is divided by the vein 

 ends, and the three interdiscal spots usual in A. persectay 

 Walker, are present. 



Expanse of wings 2^% inches. 



Donat Hills, Tenasserim. Type in B. 31. 



Family NotodontidaB. 



Pydna hunyada, nov. 

 ^ . Greyish yellow irrorated with grey, except on the hind 

 wings, which are pure greyish yellow without markings ; 

 abdomen with pale segmental bands, the last three segments 

 suflPused with blackish brown : fore wings with a brown spot 

 at the end of the cell, three brownish spots near the base, and 

 two on the subcostal vein, one before and the other beyond 

 the middle, a row of subraarginal dots, and two pale trans- 

 verse outwardly curved bands^ one before and the other 



