neio Eastern Lepkloptera. 65 



and underside crimson, with lateral black spots on each 

 segment: fore wings above with dull pale purplish reflec- 

 tions on the costa and outer veins, the costal reflections 

 expanding somewhat towards the apex : hind wings with 

 similar reflections on the apical portions. Undersicle dull 

 brown; fore wings with a large dull ochreous spot at the 

 upper end of the cell ; blue reflections on the costa, subcostal 

 vein, the veinlot within the cell, and on all the outer veins; 

 liind wings without any reflections; the brown colour on all 

 the wings pale towards tlie outer margins ; pectus and thorax 

 crimson ; legs black. 



Expanse' of wings 2-f'y inches. 



Padang, Sumatra; one example. 



Nearest to P. amplicatum, Butler, from the Celebes ; diff*ers 

 in the nature of the reflections above and is very different 

 beneath. 



Family Lymantriidae. 



Pasychira alhiplaga, nov. 



S ? . Antonnse with the shafts whitish, pectinations 

 greyish brown; palpi brown above, greyish white beneath; 

 head and fore part of thorax greyish white ; thorax 

 greyish brown ; abdomen greyish white : fore wing greyish 

 brown, smeared in parts with whitish, more prominently 

 so in the female; a broad, almost straight, whitish stripe 

 from the base to the apex, through the upper part of 

 the wing, more or less obsolescent in one of the females ; an 

 autcmedial dentated whitish line, lined with brown on its 

 outer side; a postmedlal, dentated, and recurved similar line, 

 lined with brown on its inner side, curving inwards above the 

 hinder margin close to the antemedial line ; a subinarginal 

 lunular whitish thin l)and, which also curves inwards above 

 the hinder margin ; a marginal row of brown lunules, 

 margined on each side with whitish; cilia white, with brown 

 l)atches ; most of these lines are almost invisible in the male, 

 Imt quite distinct in the female : hind wings pale brown in 

 the male, almost white in the female : body, legs, and win^i-s 

 grey ; a discal, nearly straight, grey, thin band across the 

 fore wing and indicated on the upper portion of the hind 

 wing. 



Expanse of wings, (^ ly",-,-, ? 1,'yinch. 



East Java ; one male and Ave females. 



In Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xviii. p. 105 (1900), I 

 described this female erroneously as the female of Onjyia 

 nchulom^^NAkQx, with which 1 originally received it; the 



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