Eastern and Australian Moths. 409 



Family Cossidae. 

 A r be la disclplagaj no v. 



J % . Antennw yellowish ; lifaii, thorax, and fore wings 

 greyish white; thorax with some dark red spots: tore wings 

 irrorated with red and reddish-grey atoms, forming many 

 indistinct transverse bands, an elongated dark red spot at tiie 

 base, and another in the upper disc, its inner edge lobed : 

 hind wings and abdomen j)ure white. The female only 

 differs from the male in its larger size and in the absence of 

 the basal spot. 



Expanse of wings, ^ j^'jj, ? Ij^^j inch. 



Sarawak, Borneo. ^ type in 13, M. 



Singapore. ? type in B.M. 



I have a male in poor condition from Singapore identical 

 with the male from Sarawak. 



Family HepialidaB. 

 r/iassus sericeus, uov. 



J . Head and body brown : fore wings pale chocolate-grey, 

 costa marked throughout with chocolate-brown spots in pairs; 

 a white dot at the end of the cell ; a broad brown patch 

 which fills the cell is excavated above, leaving a pale space 

 below the costa, and is diffusely extended hindwards below 

 vein 2 ; two brown macular bands before the outer margin, 

 meeting together on the hinder margin before the angle : hind 

 wings giey, without markings: underside grey, without 

 markings, except for a few brown spots in the middle of the 

 costa of the fore witigs. 



Exj)an3e of wings 2^„ inches. 



Malang, Java. 



Closely allied to P. sinensis, Moore, from Ciiina, but can be 

 distinguished by the absence of the short white streak on the 

 inner side of the white cell-spot and by the absence of the 

 white spot near base of cell. 



Family Acontiidae. 



Genus COPHANTA, Walker. 



Coyjhanta, Walker, xxx. 9G4 (18G4). 



TuxoiMeps, Ilmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ii. p. 124 (1893). 



Cophanta funestalis. 

 Cophanta funettalxB, Walker, /. c. 

 Sarawak. 



