Asiatic Lepidoptera Heterocera. Go 



mineous with lake-red margins, the central one red sprinkled 

 with ochraceous ; fringe yellow at its base, excepting at apex 

 (where it is dark red) yellowish externally : secondaries snow- 

 white, sericeous : abdominal fringe of the male cream-coloured ; 

 front of head and base of antennae rose-pink, vertex of head 

 bright yellow ; collar and tegulae bright yellow, margined in 

 front with plum-colour ; thorax bright green ; abdomen white 

 (cream-coloured in the male) with a basal red tuft just behind 

 the thorax and between two snow-white tufts ; antenna? 

 brown, annulated with white. Under surface sericeous white : 

 primaries pale greenish, yellowish towards the costal and 

 external borders ; the central patch pinky white : legs rosy 

 in front; venter of the male cream-coloured. Expanse of 

 wings, ^ 1 inch 6 lines, ? 1 inch 4^ lines. 



Darjiling (Lidderdale) . Type B. M. 



Nearest to T. chloroleuca, but much more beautiful. 



7. Tyana lancina, sp. n. 



? . "Wings as in the preceding species, excepting that there 

 is no trace of the central patch on the primaries ; head chrome- 

 yellow, slightly pink in front, with a white band behind ; 

 collar and tegulse chrome-yellow, with orange anterior margin ; 

 thorax yellowish green ; abdomen snow-white, with a bright 

 orange tuft in the centre at base ; anal segment sordid white ; 

 antennas pink. Primaries below sericeous greenish white with 

 the costal border tinted with pink ; fringe cream-coloured, 

 with an orange dot at apex : secondaries sericeous snow-white : 

 body below cream-coloured ; the anterior legs rosy cupreous in 

 front. Expanse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. 



Bhotan (Lidderdale). Type B. M. 



Notodontidae. 

 Hyper^eschra, gen. nov. 



Oleni affine genus ; alis autem anticis multo longioribus, nmrgine 

 postico haud excavato, ramis subcostalibus multo magis approxi- 

 mates ; alis posticis subtriangularibus, vena subcostnli ramis longe 

 pone cellulam emissis ; corpore longiore, capitc majore. (fen. 

 typus II. pallida. 



8. Hyperceschra pallida, sp. n. 



Whity brown ; primaries chalky white, sprinkled with 

 brown towards the inner margin and across the centre of the 

 median interspaces; two irregularly zigzag widely divergent 

 black-brown lines representing the central belt and enclosing 

 a large white reniform spot ; two longitudinal black streaks 



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