1872.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 579 



Subfam. Lasiocampid^e. 



Genus Apona, Walk. 



Apona, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. vii. p. 1762 (1856). 



Wings rather broad, costa convex towards the apex, which is 

 slightly acuminate in the male and falcate in the female. Body- 

 thick, thorax covered with dense long hairs. Palpi very short, 

 thickly clothed with long hairs. Antennae long, half the length of 

 costa, very broadly plumed to the tip in the male, pectinate in the 

 female. Legs stout, densely clothed with long hairs ; hind tibiae 

 with two moderately long thick apical spurs. 



Apona pallida. 



Apona pallida, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. vii. p. 1763 

 (1856), ?. 



Male and female brownish fawn-colour, with a pale chestnut- 

 brown patch below the apex and extending along the exterior 

 margin : fore wing with two transverse chestnut-brown narrow 

 bands, which are oblique, and slightly recurved, but not undulated, 

 the outer band bordered exteriorly with broad contiguous alternately 

 long and short brown patches, the dividing veins on which are 

 dark chestnut-brown in the male and paler in the female ; between 

 these are three parallel paler lunular bands ; a dark brown discal 

 dot within the cell : hind wing with similar transverse but less 

 distinct bands. Underside as above, the transverse bands distinct. 

 Thorax chestnut-brown. Antennae of male with very broad bright 

 chestnut plumes, the shaft being white. 



Expanse 4 inches. 



Hab. Sikkim. In Coll. British Museum and F. Moore. 



Apona plumosa, Moore. 



Male greyish fawn-colour, exterior border of fore wing chestnut- 

 brown : fore wing with transverse narrow bands beyond the cell ; 

 the exterior band straight, oblique, bright chestnut-brown, with 

 whitish inner line ; inner band blackish brown, zigzag ; between the 

 outer and inner bands are three indistinct parallel lunular bands ; a 

 black discal dot : hind wing with indistinct inner and outer trans- 

 verse bands ; exterior border of wing brown. Thorax and body 

 chestnut-brown. Antennae half the length of costa, with broad 

 bright chestnut-brown plumes, shaft white. Underside uniform 

 pale chestnut-brown ; transverse bands indistinct. 



Expanse 3f inches. 



Hab. Kuruool, Nilghiris (-Or. F. Day). In Coll. F. Moore and 

 W. W. Saunders. 



Genus no v. Alompra. 



Male and female. Fore wings elongated, narrow ; costa convex 

 near the apex, which is acute ; exterior margin very oblique, convex 

 at the angle, hind margin one half the length of costa : hind wings 

 short, trigonal ; anterior margin very convex at the base, thence 



