GONIOPHILA. — THALATTA. 
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semicircular costal fold on underside of basal half of costa 
extending to below the cell and fringed with hair. Hind 
wing with the cell about one-third length of wing ; veins 3, 4 
from angle ; 5 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, < 
from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 
only. 
Goniophila niphosticha, n. sp. 
Q. Head and thorax pale red-brown irrorated with a few 
black scales ; palpi blackish towards tips ; pectus whitish ; 
legs grey-brown ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore 
wing grey suffused with pale red -brown and sparsely irrorated 
with black scales, the terminal half of costal area white, the 
area beyond the postmedial line red-brown tinged with 
fiery red on apical half ; traces of two sinuous brownish 
medial lines ; a faint dark striga on lower cliscocellular ; 
postmedial line represented by a diffused dark shade obliquely 
incurved from costa near apex to vein 2 with some slight 
fiery red marks beyond it, and by an incurved silvery white 
line faintly defined by fiery red from vein 3 to vein 1 near 
tornus ; cilia white at tips. Hind wing whitish suffused with 
brown, the cilia whitish at tips. Underside white tinged with 
broAvn, the apical area of fore wing and hind wing except 
inner area irrorated with a few black scales ; fore wing w ith 
diffused dark discoiclal spot and oblique subterminal shade 
from costa to vein 6 with some white beyond it ; hind wing 
with dark discoidal lunule. 
Hab. Burma, Hsipaw (de Niceville), 1 $ type. Exp. 38 
millim. 
Genus THALATTA. 
Thalatta, Walk. xiii. 996 (1857) 
Type. 
precedens, Walk. 
Thalatta melanogramma, n. sp. 
Head and thorax red-brown slightly mixed with whitish ; 
palpi whitish in front ; pectus whitish ; abdomen pale red- 
brown, the crests darker, the ventral surface whitish tinged 
with red-brown. Fore wing pale red-brown slightly irrorated 
with darker brown, the postmedial area rather paler ; ante- 
medial line black, angled outwards below costa, then oblique 
to submedian fold where it is excurved, angled inwards at 
vein 1 ; a white point in middle of cell and slight blackish 
discoidal striga ; a brown shade before the postmedial line 
which is black, excurved below costa, at middle and above 
inner margin, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved and 
sliffhtlv sinuous below vein 4 subterminal line represented 
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