198 Col. C. Swinhoe on 
and below, and legs grey: fore wings with the ground-colour 
grey, with several transverse, brown, very sinuous lines— 
first subbasal, second antemedial and double, the space 
between dark; an ear-shaped brown mark at the end of the 
cell, with a dark diffused band through it, to the middle of 
the hinder margin; a duplicate recurved discal line; a sub- 
marginal lunular line and a marginal line: hind wings orange- 
ochreous, greyish on outer areas; a discal grey band. 
Expanse of wings 2 inches. 
I have taken the Masuri example as the type; the Khasia 
Hill examples are, however, identical. 
Dasychira magnalia, nov. 
3 ¢. Olive-brown, shining; palpi and frons chestnut- 
brown; head, thorax, and fore wings dark olive-brown: fore 
wings with a brown ear-shaped mark on an ochreous ground 
at the end of the cell; basal, antemedial, and postmedial 
transverse, blackish-brown, sinuous, and semidentate lines, 
the first and second erect, the third recurved ; a discal, highly 
sinuous, ochreous line, rather close to the margin; small 
ochreous marginal lunules: hind wings brown, an indistinct 
mark at the end of the cell and indications of a discal band. 
Underside dark brownish grey, tinged with pink; a trans- 
verse brown band across the disk of both wings, angled out- 
wardly on the hind wings, which also have a brown spot 
at the end of the cell ; legs black. 
Expanse of wings, ¢ 1,5, @ 1% inch. 
Khasia Hills. 
Is a distinct and good form, allied to nothing I know of. 
Lymaniria silea. 
& ¢. Antenne ochreous, shafts whitish; palpi whitish, 
brown on the upperside ; head, thorax, and fore wings very 
pale ochreous buff, very slightly tinged with pink; some 
brown marks on the costa, very indistinct ; a few brownish 
dots on the outer margin and a few scattered here and there 
over the surface of the wings; in some examples there is a 
brown dot at the end of the cell, in one example it is a fairly 
sized spot: hind wings white, without markings; both wings 
very thinly clothed, almost semihyaline. Underside white, 
without markings; legs slightly tinged with ochreous. 
Expanse of wings, ¢ 14%, 2? 14% inch. 
Fergusson Island. 
There are three males and a female from Fergusson Island 
and New Guinea in the B. M. unnamed Lymantrid drawer 
no. 00). 
