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and black speckles : hind wing and abdomen pale brownish ochreous; 

 cilia whitish ; thorax, palpi, and legs above purplish red. 



Expanse 1| inch. 



Hab. Bombay. In coll. F. Moore. 



Genus Thalatta, Walker. 

 Thalatta, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 996. 



Thalatta albiorbis, u. sp. 



Fore wing dark purplish brown, crossed by a postmedial indistinct 

 outwardly-oblique waved brown line ; a prominent pure-white orbi- 

 cular spot : hind wing greyish brown ; cilia white. Underside 

 purplish greyish brown; hind wing browu-speckled. Palpi and 

 legs dark purple-brown. 



Expanse l-j^jj inch. 



Hab. Ceylon. In coll. F. Moore. 



Allied to T. jireecedens. Walker. 



Thalatta modesta, n. sp. 



Fore wing greyish purple-brown, crossed by a postmedial in- 

 distinct pale-bordered brown line; hind wing cinereous-brown. 

 Body, palpi, and legs brown. 



Expanse ly^^ inch. 



Hab. Ceylon. In coll. F. M. Mackwood. 



Fani. ToxocAMPiDJE. 



Apopestes indica, Moore. 



Upperside — fore wing with basal two thirds brownish-grey, 

 showing but very few indistinct short blackish strigse, these appearing 

 only contiguous to and beyond a transverse row of short longitudinal 

 submarginal streaks ; reniform mark blackish with grey-white 

 border; a white dot in middle of cell ; a series of blackish spots on 

 costa; a prominent black lunular marginal line: hind wing pale 

 brown. Body brown ; palpi and tarsi black-speckled. Underside 

 glossy pale greyish brown ; a narrow transverse discal and sub- 

 marginal streak and a short discocellular streak dusky brown. 



Expanse 2A inches. 



Hab. Manpuri, N.W. Provinces (C. Home). In coll. F. Moore. 



Has much the aspect of Ophiodes trapezium, and is allied to 

 A. phantasma from the Altai ; but differs in having narrower wings, 

 and in the absence of the distinct mottling and medial transverse 

 wavy bands on fore wing of tlie latter species. 



Fam. P0LYDESMID.E. 

 Genus Donda. 



Donda, Moore, Desc. Lep. Coll. Atkinson, Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 

 p. 161 (1882). 



Fore wing elongated, less triangular than in Oromena ; hind wing 

 somewhat shorter, exterior margin more convex ; venation similar. 



