5/8 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. [Apr. 16, 



Henderson, who accompanied Mr. Forsyth during his late mission 

 to Yarkund. 



Genus Caligula, Moore. 



Caligula cachara. 



Male yellowish brown : fore and hind wings with two con- 

 tiguous postmedian transverse lunular blackish lines, which on the 

 fore wing are slightly zigzag before the costa and there terminate in 

 a small elongated white-bordered black costal patch before the 

 apex : fore wing with space from the base to the postmedian lines 

 irrorated with minute black and grey scales, and an indistinct black- 

 speckled submarginal line : hind wing with a well-defined whitish- 

 yellow narrow lunular submarginal line. Ocelli of both wings large, 

 rounded, with a grey central lunate mark ; outer ring jet-black 

 exteriorly, and bright pink interiorly, the latter bordered with an 

 inner white line. A suffused brown transverse streak from costa to 

 abdominal margin, passing through the ocelli exteriorly. 



Expanse 3f- inches. 



Hab. N. Cachar {Major Godwin- Austen) . In Coll. F. Moore. 



Genus nov. Rhodia. 



"Wings ample, elongate, costa of fore wing in the male rounded, 

 attenuated and falcated at the apex ; hind wing rounded exteriorly. 

 Body thick, short. Antennae bipectinated to the tip. Ocelli hya- 

 line, of a blunt oval shape. 



Cocoon bag-shaped, compact, pendent from twigs. 



Rhodia newara. 



Male and female dark yellow, both wings with a rather small 

 discocellular hyaline spot of a blunt oval shape, having an inner 

 white marginal line but no outer rings ; a transverse subbasal 

 reddish-black band, acutely angled on the hind wing ; an undulated 

 similar-coloured band traversing both wings transversely beyond the 

 hyaline spot, being broadly bordered outward with ferruginous, and 

 thickly irrorated with white scales, beyond which is a zigzag line 

 dentated across and also between the veins, the space between which 

 and the inner margin of the band on the hind wing is completely 

 filled up with dark ferruginous brown, terminating on the costa of 

 fore wing near the apex by a recurved black patch with a white- 

 outer-bordered line ; hyaline spots densely bordered with ferrugi- 

 nous brown scales ; front of thorax, costa, and anterior portion of 

 fore wing irrorated with ferruginous and white scales ; exterior 

 margin of both wings with a narrow pale fuliginous indistinct 

 border. 



Expanse 5 to 5g inches. 



Hab. Kathmandoo, Nepal {General Ramsay). In Coll. F. Moore. 



" Cocoon brilliant green, perfectly naked ; pendent from twigs of 

 weeping-willow. End of November and beginning of December." 



