444 Rev. F. W. Hope on some new Insects collected in Assam. 



brunnescenti, line^ nigra utrinqu^ valdfe irregular! incluso, maculisque 

 parvis nigris in nervos dispositis, apice antico lineis angularibus albis 

 maculisque duabus majoribus nigris, apice postico rivulis decern nigris. 

 Aloe posticce dimidio basali nigro, apicali pallido nigrorivulosis, Antennce 

 bipectinatse, pectinibus inediocribus. Palpi parvi. Lingua spiralis. 

 Maxillce capite duplb longiores. Corpus infra nigrum. 



A more lengthened Latin description is unnecessary, as the figure is so 

 accurate. I need only add, that the wings are of a most agreeable russet 

 brown and cream colour, which being formed into the greatest variety of 

 different shaped markings renders it almost impossible to describe the insect 

 with any tolerable degree of accuracy. It seems probable that the present 

 species will at some future time be considered the type of a new genus, as the 

 anterior wings are laterally rounded and not scalloped, as is the case with 

 several, if not all, of the African species belonging to this group. The only 

 insect of my acquaintance with which it can be compared is Bomhyx Lucina of 

 Driiry, from the vicinity of Sierra Leone. 



ZvGiENiDiE. Stephens ? 



Chelura. 



Caput antic^ angustum, postic^ latius. 



Lingua spiralis, subelongata. 



Palpi breves. 



Antennce ante oculos insertae, bipectinatae. 



Thoraw connexus, magnitudine mediocri. 



Abdomen subcylindricum, annulis ad apicem magnitudine decrescentibus, 



octono minori. 

 Cauda forcipe acuto armata, et in parte media duplici hamo instructa. 

 Alee angustse, marginibus posticis subemarginatis. 

 Pedes simplices. 



Chelura bifasciata. 



Long. Corp. lin. 11 J. Expan. alar. 3 unc. 2 lin. 



Straminea ; antennis nigris, alis anticis binis fasciis aurantiis insignitis. 



Caput nigrum, antennis concoloribus, thorace tuberculato glabi-o et nitido. 



