436 Col. C. Swinhoe on new 



thorax above dark chocolate-colour. Fore wings bright 

 yellow, with a large chocolate-coloured band which covers 

 nearly the whole surface of the wing, leaving only the outer 

 margin, the costa, and an inwardly excavated rounded space, 

 including the outer half of the cell, yellow ; a large prominent 

 black spot at the end of the cell in the yellow space : hind 

 wings blackish brown, with a yellow outer border, and the 

 costa more or less suffused with yellow ; abdomen black, with 

 a yellow anal tuft. Underside yellow, with the interior por- 

 tion of both wings suffused with black. 



Expanse of wings 2y*o inches. 



Cherra Punji. One example of this very handsome moth. 



Arctiidae. 

 Genus Ehodogastria, Hiibner. 



Rhodogaatria negrita^ sp. n. 



Creatonotus negritus, Swinh. MS. ; Hampson, Faun. Brit. Ind., Moths, 

 ii. p. 28 (1894). 



^ ? . Palpi and antennae black ; frons and thorax pure 

 white ; top of head and collar crimson ; abdomen black, with 

 yellow bands. Wings black : fore wings with costal line 

 towards apex crimson ; a white streak from base to end of 

 cell, another along the entire length of the interno-median 

 interspace, and a short basal white streak on the hinder 

 margin : hind wings with the base and abdominal margin 

 suffused with white ; cilia of both wings white. Underside 

 same as upperside, but wings blacker; thorax white; legs 

 white, with crimson stripes; tarsi black; abdomen black, 

 with white bands. 



Expanse of wings, c? 2, ? 2tu inches. 



Cherra Punji. Two males and five females. 



The colour of the wings varies much in tint, some 

 examples being deep black and some much paler. 



lithosiidse. 



Genus Baeoa, Moore. 



Baroa vatala, sp. n. 



(J ? . Of a uniform dark ochreous grey, thorax with black 

 spots. Fore wings with two black spots at the base, one at 

 the end of the cell, and two outwardly curved transverse rows 

 of black spots, the first before the middle ; in the male there 

 are only two spots, in the female there are four ; the second 



