1889.] INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 405 



A much smaller insect than A. lactinea, and differs from it in the 

 absence of the scarlet front and thoracic band and in wanting the 

 marginal black spots which are so prominent on the hind wing of 

 that species. 



Spilarctia ummera, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. fig. 1.) 



Female. Dull ochreous ; head, thorax, and fare wings ochreous 

 fawn-colour, thorax with a black spot in front ; fore wings above with 

 a black spot at the base, but without any other markings ; hind 

 wings dull ochreous yellow, a black spot just above the end of the 

 cell, and two black submarginal spots near the anal angle ; abdomen 

 ochreous, with a dorsal row of black spots, a black spot also on 

 middle of thorax. 



Wings on the underside same colour as the hind wings above, fore 

 wings with a black subcostal spot above the end of the cell ; hind 

 wings with the three black spots as above, and with a very faint 

 pale black subapical spot. Body below white ; aiitennte black ; 

 face and pectus ochreous, the latter with some black markings. 



Palpi with first and last joiiit black, second joint ochreous; fore 

 legs ochreous, hind legs white. 



Tibiae and tarsi above blackish. 



Expanse of wings ]^'^ inch. 



Hab. Bassein, Burmah, Oct. 1887. One perfect specimen re- 

 ceived from Mr. Noble. Nearest to the Javan S. punctata, but 

 smaller in size ; similarly coloured, but with a basal black spot on 

 the fore wing and a spot on the middle of the thorax, these spots 

 being absent in 5. punctata. 



TiNOLIUS hypsana, n. sp. 



Male. Fore wings dirty straw-colour, with pale yellowish buff- 

 coloured spots placed exactly as in T. eburneigutta. 



Hind wings and wings below pale yellowish buff-colour, unmarked ; 

 antennae pale yellow, pectinations grey ; head, body, and legs chrome- 

 yellow, thorax with some black spots, abdomen with a black band 

 on each segment except the basal one ; legs with large lunular black 

 .spots above. 



Expanse of wings 2^ inches. 



This insect has the appearance of an ordinary yellow Hypsa. 



Hah. Sikkim. Three specimens purchased from Mr. Paul 

 Mowis. 



L I P A R I D ^,. 



Somena abjecta, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. fig. 13.) 



Allied to S. scintillans. 



Male and female of a pale dirty yellowish-buff colour, top of head 

 whitish, abdomen brown, anal tuft ochreous ; fore wings suffused 

 with pale reddish brown and covered with black atoms ; an ante- 

 medial and a postmedial, very indistinct, pale, transverse, thin band. 



