18 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. [Jan. 16, 



yellow fascia, crossed by a blackish irregular line ; outer area of 

 wing grey-speckled. 



Expanse 3 inches. 



Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Genus Thaxjmatopcea, Hiibner. 

 Cnethocampa, Stephens. 



Thaumatopcea cheela, n. sp. (Plate V. figs. 3 c? , 3 a $ .) 



Male. Fore wing brownish grey, sparsely white-scaled, the scales 

 disposed longitudinally ; crossed by a basal, an antemedial, and a 

 postmedial zigzag black line, each line being distinctly bordered by 

 ochreous-yellow ; cilia alternated with greyish white : hind wing 

 paler. Body greyish-brown, abdomen with ochreous-yellow seg- 

 mental bands ; femora and tibise thickly clothed with long silky 

 greyish-brown hair; tarsi and antennse ochreous-yellow. Female 

 darker brownish grey, the transverse yellow-bordered lines less 

 distinct ; thorax and abdominal tuft darker brown. 



Expanse, c? 1|, ^ 1| inch. 



Hab. Umballa district {Captain B. Beed). In coll. F. Moore. 



Most nearly allied to the European T. pinivora. 



Fam. Lasiocampid^. 

 Taragama intensa, n. sp. (Plate V. fig. 4.) 



Male. Deep bright red : fore wing with an oblique undulated post- 

 medial ochreous-white line, and a similar-coloured triangular spot 

 on the costa above end of the cell : hind wing with a slight 

 ochreous-white fascia from anal angle. Body red, head and front 

 of thorax reddish-grey ; antennae, palpi beneath, and legs above 

 red ; cilia ochreous-white. 



Expanse 1| inch. 



Hab. N.E. Bengal (A. E. Eussell). In coll. F. Moore. 



Taragama hyperanther^, n. sp. (Plate V. fig. 5.) 



Male. Dark chestnut- red : fore wing grey-specked along the 

 costal border and broadly along exterior margin, crossed by two 

 greyish-ochreous transverse undulated medial lines, the lower discal 

 interspace being grey-speckled ; a submarginal series of chestnut- 

 red lunules : hind wing grey-speckled along anterior border, and 

 with a broad greyish-ochreous fascia ascending from anal angle. 

 Cilia of both wings greyish-ochreous. Body greyish-ochreous ; 

 tegulse and abdominal dorsal bands dark chestnut-red ; antennte 

 and palpi beneath also chestnut-red. 



Expanse 2 inches. 



Hub. Calcutta district. In coll. F. Moore. 



This specimen was reared by Mr. Arthur Grote at AUipore near 

 Calcutta, from a larva feeding, in September, on Hyperanthera. 



