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Show 22 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. [Jan. 16, and black speckles : hind wing and abdomen pale brownish ochreous; cilia whitish ; thorax, palpi, and legs above purplish red. Expanse 1§ inch. Hab. Bombay. In coll. F. Moore. Genus THALATTA, Walker. Thalatta, Walker, Catal. Lep, Het. B. M. xiii. p. 996. THALATTA ALBIORBIS, n. sp. Fore wing dark purplish brown, crossed by a postmedial indistinct outwardly-oblique waved brown line ; a prominent pure-white orbicular spot: bind wing greyish brown; cilia white. Underside purplish greyish brown; hind wing brown-speckled. Palpi and legs dark purple-brown. Expanse 1-^j inch. Hab. Ceylon. In coll. F. Moore. Allied to T. prcecedens, Walker. THALATTA MODESTA, n. sp. Fore wing greyish purple-brown, crossed by a postmedial indistinct pale-bordered brown line; hind wing cinereous-brown. Body, palpi, and legs brown. Expanse 1T 2 0 inch. Hab. Ceylon. In coll. F. M. Mackwood. Fam. TOXOCAMPID^E. APOPESTES INDICA, Moore. Upperside-fore wing with basal two thirds brownish-grey, showing but very few indistinct short blackish strigae, these appearing only contiguous to and beyond a transverse row of short longitudinal submarginal streaks; reniform mark blackish with grey-white border; a white dot in middle of cell; a series of blackish spots on costa; a prominent black lunular marginal line: hind wing pale brown. Body brown ; palpi and tarsi black-speckled. Underside glossy pale greyish brown ; a narrow transverse discal and sub-marginal streak and a short discocellular streak dusky brown. Expanse 24 inches. Hab. Manpuri, N.W. Provinces (C. Home). In coll. F. Moore. Has much the aspect of Ophiodes trapezium, and is allied to A. phantasma from the Altai; but differs in having narrower wings, and in the absence of the distinct mottling and medial transverse wavy bands on fore wing of tbe latter species. Fam. POLYDESMIDJE. Genus D O N D A. Donda, Moore, Desc. Lep. Coll. Atkinson, Asiat. Soc. Bengal, p. 161 (1882). Fore wing elongated, less triangular than in Oromena ; hind wing somewhat shorter, exterior margin more convex ; venation similar. |