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



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

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



Expanse 1| inch. 



Hub. Bombay, In coll. F. Moore. 



Genus Thalatta, "Walker. 

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



Thalatta albiorbis, n. 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 brown-speckled. Palpi and 

 legs dark purple-brown. 



Expanse 1^^ inch. 



Hab. Ceylon. In coll. F. Moore. 



Allied to T. prcsceclens, Walker. 



Thalatta modesta, n. sp. 



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

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

 Bodj', palpi, and legs brown. 



Expanse \^^ inch. 



Hub. Ceylon. In coll. F. M. Mackwood. 



Fam. ToxocAMPiD^. 



Apopestes indica, Moore. 



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

 showing but very few indistinct short blackish strigee, 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 2^ 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 the latter species. 



Fam. POLYDESMID^. 



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. 



