212 Col. C. Swinlioe 07i new 



Family Lasiocampidse. 



Melanastria dora^ sp. n. 



$ . Dark pink-brown ; antennas greyish oclireous, palpi 

 and Lead black, thorax and fore wings uniform very dark 

 glossy pink-brown -, the wing crossed by two indistinct out- 

 wardly curved black lines, antemedial and postmedial, a 

 discal line of black spots marked with pure white, with a pale 

 red shade inside the line of spots, a pure white prominent 

 spot at the end of the cell on the inner side of the first trans- 

 verse line. Hind wings paler, not glossed, uniform in colour, 

 and without markings ; cilia of both wings concolorous with 

 the wings, with a pale line at its base ; abdomen chestnut- 

 red ; anal tuft brown. Underside : pectus black, legs with 

 black hairs, abdomen blackish brown. 



Expanse of wings 2yV inches. 



Lawang, Java {Hallihurton). One example. 



Like a very black M. latipennis^ Walker, but the colour is 

 altogether different, the bands absent, and the cell-spot large 

 and prominent. 



Melanastria gynandra^ sp. n. 



$ , Dark pink-brown ; antennse pinkish grey, palpi, body, 

 and wings dark pink-brown, palpi, head, and collar being 

 very dark, nearly black. Fore wings with a pale dot at end 

 of cell, followed by a pale narrow band edged on both sides 

 with black and sharply elbowed outwardly above the middle; 

 two or three similarly coloured indistinct straight bands in 

 the upper disk, and that portion of the wing crossed by two 

 indistinct sinuous black lines^ then a pale pinkish space, 

 followed by another similar line marked with white spot-like 

 speckles. Hind wings very slightly paler than the fore wings 

 and without markings ; cilia concolorous with the wings. 

 Underside uniformly brown, wings ci'ossed by two dark 

 discal bands. 



Expanse of wings 2-1^0 inches. 



Lawang, Java [Halliburton). One example. 



Wings very narrow. Allied to no species known to me. 



Melanastria himerta, sp. n. 



(J . Fawn-colour ; palpi and plume of antennae brownish, 

 abdomen above blackish brown, anal tuft ochreous. Fore 

 wings with a black spot at the end of the cell and with three 

 transverse, straight, complete, blackish-brown thick lines — 



