new Indo-Malayan Lepidoptera. ak 
costa one-fourth from the apex to the middle of the hinder 
margin, the space beyond suffused with pale grey, containing 
a submarginal and a marginal row of similar spots: hind 
wing greyish ochreous, shading darker towards the outer 
margin. Head and thorax dark ochreous, abdomen greyish 
ochreous. Underside: body, legs, and wings whitish, 
without any markings. 
iixpanse of wings 2,%, inches. 
_ Hab, Hainan. 
Family Lasiocampide. 
Metanastria sumatre, nov. 
3d. Antennz dark greyish ochreous ; palpi, head, thorax, 
and fore wing above dark brown, with a pinkish-red tinge ; 
a minute white dot at the end of the cell, duplex transverse 
darker brown bands, ante- and postmedial outwardly curved 
below the costa, inwardly curved above the hinder margin ; 
three minute submarginal white dots in the three uppermost 
interspaces, ringed with black, and two black dots, touched 
with white in the two next interspaces: hind wing paler, two 
faintly indicated outwardly curved discal bands. Underside: 
both wings uniformly coloured of a paler and duller pink- 
brown, and both wings crossed by two brown discal bands 
nearly straight and rather close to each other. Abdomen 
above and beneath and the thorax beneath and the legs pale 
pinkish brown ; sides of the head and pectus dark brown. 
?. Upperside of a uniform pale brown colour, also with a 
pinkish-red tinge; bands on both wings similar to those in 
the male but narrower, the cell-spot and five submarginal 
spots of the fore wing present but very indistinct. Underside 
very slightly paler than the upperside, with the duplex discal 
band faintly indicated, the antemedial band obsolete; antennze, 
palpi, head, body above and below, and the legs concolorous 
with the wings. 
Expanse of wings, ¢ 3,55, 2 4;%y inches. 
Hab. Padang, Sumatra. 
Allied to Md. purpurascens, Moore, from Borneo, which is 
also in my collection; that species has also indications of the 
dots on the fore wing, but the transverse bands are more 
numerous and are quite differently situated, and the colour is 
brown without the pinkish tinge. 
Odonestis lucifuga. 
Metanastria luerfuga, 3, Swinhoe, Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon, i. p. 264, 
pl. vi. fig. 5 (1892). 
Odonestis malayica, § 2, Swinhoe, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, (8) xvi, 
p. 178 (1916). 
