406 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. [May 6, 



Family BombycidjE. 

 Aristhala, Moore. 

 Aristhala, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 704. 



Aristhala sikkima, n. sp. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 3.) 



Male. Greyish ferruginous : fore whig purple-brown below the cell 

 and along exterior border ; a white-bordered bent subbasal and a 

 zigzag transverse discal blackish line, two blackish median transverse 

 fasciae and an oblique streak from middle of costa to outer median 

 fascia, two semidiaphanous white spots on middle of exterior border ; 

 cilia black-streaked : hind wing with two purple-brown median curved 

 transverse and short subbasal bands, two semidiaphanous white 

 spots, bordered above with purple-brown streaks on exterior margin 

 near angle, the angle brighter ferruginous ; abdominal margin and 

 fringe grey and purple-brown. Underside — fore wing yellowish- 

 ferruginous ; two discal transverse brown bands : hind wing brighter 

 ferruginous, two curved discal bands, two small black discocellular 

 spots, and a purple-brown grey-speckled fascia near abdominal 

 margin from base to white subbasal spots. 



Female. Brighter yellowish ferruginous : fore wing clouded with 

 dark purplish ferruginous along posterior and exterior borders, and 

 hind wing at base and angle ; transverse markings and white spots 

 less distinct. Thorax greyish-ferruginous in male, dark ferruginous 

 in female ; abdomen dull ferruginous, hoary in male ; antennae deep 

 ferruginous ; front of head and legs brighter ferruginous. 



Expanse, d" If, $ 2-| inches. 



Hab. Darjiling. In coll. F. Moore and British Museum. 



Hanisa, n. g. 



Fore wing trigonal ; costa slightly concave near the base, apex 

 rounded, exterior margin very oblique and angular in the middle, 

 hind margin short ; costal and subcostal veins contiguous to margin ; 

 subcostal vein five-branched, first and second branches parallel, third 

 trifurcate, the lower fork terminating below the apex ; upper radial 

 starting from upper end of the cell ; cell narrow, short ; a discoidal 

 vein emitted within the cell ; lower radial from middle of discocel- 

 lulars ; median vein three-branched, middle branch terminating at 

 angle on exterior margin, submedian straight. Hind wing elongated 

 hindward, convex externally ; abdominal margin long, extending to 

 end of abdomen, fringed and slightly produced at anal angle ; sub- 

 costal vein two-branched ; cell short ; median vein three-branched. 

 Body long, slender ; anal tuft fan-shaped. Antennae short, broadly 

 bipectinate ; legs short, pilose. 



Allied to genera Aristhala, Trilocha, Ocinara, and to Bombyx 

 (B. mori). 



Hanisa stjbnotata. 



Bombyx subnotata, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc. in. p. 188 (1859). 

 Hab. Singapore {Wallace). In coll. Saunders, Oxford Univer- 

 sity Museum. 



