48 



NocruTD.a?. 



3622. Tlialatha sinens. 



Orthopia -siiyns, Wlk. xi. 746 (1857); Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 71, 

 pi. 144. f. 0; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 241. 



Head and thorax pure white, the tegulae and patagia with some 

 pale rufous scales ; palpi black except at tips ; tarsi banded with 

 black-Vjrown; abdomen white suffused with bro^'n. Fore wing pure 

 white faintly irrorated with pale brown on basal and inner areas ; 

 an obliquely curved interrupted black fascia from base of costa to 

 subraedian fold before antemedial line, which is indistinct, pale 

 brown, oblique, slightl}^ waved, and with double brown spots at 

 costa ; a diffused brownish triangular patch from middle of costa 

 to median nervure ; reniform very faintly and incompletely defined 

 by pale brown, small ; postraedial line very indistinct and in- 

 complete, double, the lines widely separated and with two black 

 points on costa, bent outwards below costa, then waved, incurved 



Fig. 13. — Thalatha sinens, cJ 



below vein 3, crossed by a diffused oblique brown fascia in sub- 

 median fold from well before it to subterminal line, with oblique 

 black striga above it before postmedial line and triangular spot 

 beyond it, two black points with a brown bar from them beyond it 

 on costa ; an indistinct diffused waved brown line representing the 

 inner edge of subterminal lino which has some slight brown marks 

 on its outer edge ; a terminal series of slight dark striae and a 

 wedge-shaped black spot at vein "2 ; cilia chequered brown and 

 Avhite. Hind wing white suffused with red-brown ; a black spot 

 on termen at vein 2 ; cilia white ; the underside white, the costal 

 area suffused and irrorated with red-brown, a slight discoidal lunule 

 and diffused sinuous postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the markings grey-green, the striga 

 before postmedial line developed into an irregular fascia from just 

 before medial line to the spot on outer edge of postmedial line. 



Ilab. W. China, Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 1 $ ; Bombay, N. Kanara, 

 Karwar (Bell), 1 5 ; Madras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 J ; Travancore, 

 Trevandrum (Ft-rgusson), 1 $ ; Burma, Moulmein (Clerh), 1 $ type. 

 E.vp. 30-36 millim. 



*3623. Thalatha melaleuca, n. n. (Plate CXXIV. fig. 2.) 



Tarache Jceheis, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 208 (1906), nee Bipthera 

 kebccB, p. 203. 



2 . Head and thorax white ; palpi black except at tips ; lower 

 part of frons black ; antennte black except at base ; tegulse black 



