On new Eastern and Australian Motlm. 4(j3 



LIX. — New Genera and Species of Eastern and Australian 

 Mut/ts. By Colonel C. JSwi.vuuc, M.A., F.L.S., &c. 



Family Boarmiidae. 



Subfiim. AiiUAXiNjs. 



Abraxas lati/asciata, no v. 



$ . Wings above and below black, witli a very broad 

 white medial band, not quite touclung the costa on either 

 win^, constricted in the middle in the tore wings, broader and 

 nearly of even breadth throughout in the hind wings ; head 

 and body black, with yellow markings, as in the allied forms 

 of A. inunda, Walker. 



Expanse of wings 2^, inches. 



Fergusson Island. 



Nearest to A. (Craspedosis) sibilla^ Warren, Nov. Zool. vi. 

 p. H45, from Halmahera, and to some of the forms of munda, 

 Walker; these do not belong to the genus Craspedosis, but 

 come into the Potera group of the genus Abraxas ; there is 

 no fovea in the male, as in Craspedosis proper. 



Family LimacodidaB. 



Susica sinensis. 

 Tadtma sinensis, Walker, vii. p. 1759 (185(5). 



The type came from Shanghai and is a male. I have both 

 sexes from Sarawak, and as the female has been hitherto 

 unknown, I describe it. 



? . Of a uniform glossy ochreous fawn-colour : fore win^-s 

 sparsely iirorated with black atoms; a brown spot at the end 

 of cell ; indications of interior and exterior bands, the latter 

 containing a brown faint patch in the middle of the disc: 

 hind wings slightly paler and without markings ; cilia of 

 both wings dark brown, with pale basal line: underside 

 coloured like the upperside ; wings without gloss ; both 

 wings covered with black irrorations ; cilia concolorous with 

 the wings. 



Expanse of wings if^^ inch. 



Thosea bha(/a, nov. 



(J . Top of head and band behind collar yellow, as is also 

 the abdominal tuft, the rest of the body dark red- brown : 

 fore wings pale red-brown, the basal third dark brown like 



