444 Rev. F. W. Hope on some ueiv Insects collected in Assam. 



brunnescenti, lineâ nigi'â uti-inquè valdè irregulari incluso, maculisque 

 l^arvis nigris in nervos dispositis, apice antico lineis angularibus albis 

 maculisque duabus majoribus nigris, apice posticn rivulis decern nigris. 

 Alœ pusticœ dimidio basali iiigro, apicali pallido nigro-rivulosis. Antennce 

 bipectinatee, pectinibus niediocribus. Palpi parvi. Lingua spiralis. 

 3Iuxillcc capite duplc) longiores. Corpzis infrà nigrum. 



A more lengthened Latin description is unnecessary, as the figure is so 

 accurate. I need only add, that the wings are of a most agreeable russet 

 brown and cream colour, which being formed into the greatest variety of 

 difterent shaped markings renders it almost impossible to describe the insect 

 with any tolerable degree of accuracy. It seems probable that the present 

 species will at some future time be considered the type of a new genus, as the 

 anterior wings are laterally rounded and not scalloped, as is the case with 

 several, if not all, of the African species belonging to this group. The only 

 insect of my acquaintance with which it can be compared is Bombyx Liicina of 

 Drury, from the vicinity of Sierra Leone. 



Zyg.^nid.e. Stephens ■ 



Chelura. 



('apnt anticè angustuin, postice latins. 



Lingua spiralis, siibelongata. 



Palpi breves. 



Anfenncc ante oculos insertœ, bipectinatae. 



Thnrax connexus, magnitudine mediocri. 



Alidomen subcylindrlcum, annulis ad apicem magnitudine decrescentibus, 



octono miuori. 

 (\iuda forcipe acuto armata, et in parte media diiplici hamo instructa. 

 Ake angustee, marginibus posticis subemarginatis. 

 Pedes simplices. 



Chelura bifasciata. 



Long. corp. lin. 1 H. Expan. alar. 3 une. 2 lin. 



Straminea ; antennis nigris, alis anticis binis fasciis aurantiis insignitis. 



Caput nigrum, antennis concoloribus, thorace tuberculato glabro et nitido. 



