Descriptions of New Heterocera from India, 291 
costa beyond middle to outer margin below apex ; a silvery white 
spot at lower angle of cell ; some dark specks on the margin. 
Hab, Nawala-pittya, Ceylon (Pole). Exp, 28 mm. 
Type in B. M. 
Narosa ermineaj n. sp. 
$ . White ; abdomen slightly tinged with fuscous. Forewing 
with a large fuscous patch on disk, with dark specks on its outer 
edge, conjoined to a fulvous and fuscous apical patch and to a 
large fuscous medial patch on inner area with dark marks on it 
and a fulvous spot on its outer edge. Hindwing slightly tinged 
with fuscous. 
Hob. TliyetemyOj Burma (Watson). Hxp. 18 mm. 
Type in B. M. 
LYMANTRIID^. 
Genus Malachitis^ nov. 
Type. If. melanochlora y Hmpsn. 
Palpi porrect reaching just beyond the frons ; antennas of male 
strongly bipectinated. Forewing with the apex produced and 
outer margin oblique ; vein 9 given off from 10 and anastomosing 
with 7 and 8 to form the areole. Hindwing with the inner margin 
long ; veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 from lower angle of cell ; 6, 7 stalked. 
Malachitis melanochlora, n. sp. 
$ . Black-brown ; head and thorax slightly variegated with green. 
Forewing with a basal green patch ; a green streak on base of inner 
Jjf^^^_\ Malachitis melanochlora, $ , \. 
margin and a green fascia beyond upper angle of cell. Hindwing 
browner. 
Hah. Bhutan (Dudgeon). Exp, 36 mm. Type in B. M. 
