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NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE. Vol. VL, 1899.
NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE.
H Journal of Zooloo\^
IiX r(h\NECTf()X WITH IIIF. 'ITxTNG MTsEUM.
EDITED BY
The Hon. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D., ERNST HARTERT, and Dr. K. JORDAN.
Vol. VI., 181)!).
(WITH srXTEKX PLATES.)
Issued at the Zoological Musei'm, Trino.
I'lnXTED BY HAZKLL, WATSOX, \ VINKV. I.n., LONDON AND AVLKSl'.L'UV.
1899.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI.
GENERAL SUBJECTS.
TAGES
See Introductory Notes to "A Review of the Oriiithnlogy of tlu' Galapagos Islands, the Diaries of Messrs. Harris and Drowne, and General Remarks about the Fauna of the Galapagos Islands. Walter RoTHSCHim and Ernst Hahtf.rt 85-142
MAMMATJA.
Demhuihujiis mn.eimns. Walter lioTHSfHiLD. (Plate [.) .... 217
AVKS.
1. Kurtliei- Not(>< oil lluuiuiing- Birds. Ern.st IIaktkrt 72 — 7.5
2. Note on Casnarhm i'asiinrlua sdaleri. Walter IToTiisnin.n .... 7,5
3. On the Birds collected by Mr. Meek on Bossel Island in the Ixjuisiade .\rclii-
pelago. Ernst IIarteht 70 — 8-t
( vi )
4. A Eeviow of the Ornithology of th«> Galapagos Islamls, witli Not^s on the
Webster- Han-is Expedition. (Plates V., VI.) Wai.tkr Kothsciiii.d and Ern'st Hartekt ; —
Part I. jntrddiictorv Notes ........ 8."i — 86
Part II. Diary of ChaHcs .Mill, r ir.mis .'^C—lOt
Part III. Notes from the Diary <>i .Mi I'. I'. Drcwn.- . lii4-l:1D
Part TV. List of the most important works and articles on the Fauna of the (Jalapagos Isl.mds, refeired lo in the followiii<r
pages 13.")— 1:!6
Part V. General Hem.-irks about the l''auna of thi' tialapagos
Islands 136—142
Part Vf. 'I'he Birds of th.- (Jalap;, gos Islands .... 142—205
5, On the Birds collecte<l hv Mr. Meek on St. Aignan Islands in the Lonisiade
Archipelago. Kkn.st Haktert ........ 20G— 217
Ti. On .some Itarc Birds from New Guinea and the Sula Isl.ands. \\ ai.teu
RoTHSCmi.l). (Plates II. ami III.) 218-219
7. On some Species of the Genera (lydop.-^ilta and Ptilinopns (Plate IV.) . 219
8. The Genus Apteryx, with a (.'hapter on the Anatomy of the Kiwis by
F. Beddard (Plates IX.— XVI.). Walter Rotuschild . . . 301—402
9. Li.st of a collection of Birds made at Gambaga, in the Gold-Coast Hinterland,
by ('apt. W. (JitTard. Ernst IlARTEnT 403—422
10. On some birds from Gape York, North Queensland. Fknst IIautkrt . 423— 42S
11. Oi\ Mipomela ruhmciKulUda Tristr. Erkst Uartert 428
j;kitii,ia.
Note on Testiulu numeirei. Waliek ItoTiisciin.n ... . 359 — 300
( vii ) lvKl'Il)(»PTKi;.\.
fAOES
1. Ntiw Spucies ami Genera ut' the Families Di-e^mnuilihie, 'rin/i-i'lulue, Cniitii'lae, EpipleniUhie, ami GeumelrkUw, from tlie Oid-W'urM Regions. W. Wahrkx 1 _6C
i. .Some New Eastern Lepidoptera. W.vlter lioTiisciiiLD .... 07 — 71
3. A .Mouograpli of Chariixcs and the allied Prioiiopteroiis Genera (cunliuiiel
from V^ol v.). Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan . . . 220 —286
1. New Urejiiinididae, Tkijild'uhn:, and GeoiiietrkUie, from the Aethiopian Region.
\V. Wahrkx 287—312
5 New Drepanulidoe. Thijrididae, Ejjiplemidne, Uraniidae, and Geoiiielridctf, from
the Oriental and Palaearctic Regions. W. Warren . . . 313 — 359
0 On .some New Lepidoptera from the Kast. Walter Rothschild and Karl
Jordan 129 — Hi
LIST OF PLATES IN VOLUME VI.
Plate I. Dendrolugus ma.eimuis Roth.scb. (Trep Kang.iiuo from Xew Guinea, from the type specimen. C'olouivd by hand.)
„ II. CliannosijDH atnilii Kothscli. and OreostrtUhus fidiginosus De Vis (Two
Birds from New Guinea. The VluiriitnsiinK from the type. Coloured hy hand.)
,, III. Ifrita ccrronaUi Hothsch. and Pitta do/terli/i Rothsch. (Two Eastern Bii-ds. From the tyjie.'^. Coloured by hand.)
„ IV. Heads of four Parrots and two Pigeons. (Mostly from the types. Coloured by hand.)
,, V. Views from tlie Galapagos Islands. (Delineated fiom Pliotographs.)
„ VI. < Mithne-ligures of Beaks of the Genus Geospi.ji from the Galapago.s
Islands. (See ex[ilauatiiin opposite to plate.)
, VII. Pliite of C'iutni.ixii. (Photographed from nature. See explanation opposite to |ilate.)
,. VIII. Plate of (jtuiraxen. (Coloured by hand. .See explanation opiw.site to Plate VII.)
,. IX. A/d';ri/.c cciinlmlis. (Photogi-aphiil fmm life, in two positiou.s.)
,, X. Aj>teri/.c amslrulis iitaittclli. ( I'hotographeil from life.)
») -\'l. -l/ileri/.c uwfMt. (Photograplii'd frcnii life.)
). -Xll. A/ileri/x otveni occideulaliti. (Photographed fiom life.)
,. .Mil. A/d^i-i/.i: /laasti. (Plnitiigra|ilied frum life.)
,, XIV. Apliri/.r aiintmlis. (I>rawn by Keulemans.)
.W. Uil-glanil of A/Uer,/.,- haiisli. (;.;.)
„ W'\. Pelvis of Ai'liu-i/j: oireiii and .1. iii'ylmlis. (Nat. size.)
NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE.
Vol. VI. APRIL, 1899. No. 1.
NEW SPECIES AND GENERA OF THE FAMILIES
DBEPANULIDAE, THYBIDIDAE, UBANIIDAE,
EPIPLEMWAE, AND GEOMETRIDAE
FROM THE OLD-WORLD REGIONS. By W. warren, M.A., F.B.S.
Family DREPANULIDAE. 1. Cobanilla erminea sp. uov.
Forew/'/iffs : brown-black, with darker trausver.se striae ; basal area pinkish ochreous, varied with grey and silvery scales, bounded by a dark browu Hue or shade from costa at one-third, sharply angled on the subcostal, and curved inward to near base of inner margin ; from two-thirds of inner margin an obscure dark line runs straight and oblique towards apex as far as vein 6, where it is most acutely angled, and runs back to meet a browu costal streak at two-thirds : except for the two browu streaks the custa is pale throughout ; marginal area less browu than central, with transverse sooty specks ; discocellular dark, with slight silvery dots at the angles.
Ilindwings : uniform browu, with a curved deeper browu cloud beyond the discocellular; faint traces of darker specks towards apex; inner margin and the course of the lower veins studded with silvery scales ; fringe of both wings concolorous with wing, and slightly glistening.
Underside of forewiugs dull red, speckled and towards liindmargiu suffused with blackish ; the outer oblique line distinct, lustrous-edged : of hiudwings bright red, spotted with black along costa and hindmargin. Vertex, face, palpi, legs, and abdomen beneath brilliant red ; shoulders nearly white ; thorax ochreous grey ; abdomen like hiudwings.
Ex2Jause of wings : :i4 mm.
One 6 from St. Aignan, November 1«9T (A. S. Meek).
A second example from Kei Island, much worn, evidcutly belongs to the same species, the uudersurface beiug precisely the same ; but above the whole of the wings is reddish fawu-colour, with a few brown striae, and the basal area but slightly paler. It is apparently a local form.
:i. Cobanilla fulgens sp. uov.
Forewings : olive-brown; the costa paler, pinkish, with a few black scales; the costal edge ochraceous ; discocellular marked with dots of white scales; the costa and outer half of wing lustrous jaearly, leaving ouly a triangular space
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inclmlinj,' Ihe cell aud a patch at anal angle of the deep ground-coloui- ; fringe Instrons red-brown.
Himhcings: deepening in tinf. towards hindinargin ; fringe as in forewings, but preceded by a broad lustrous line ; discocellnlar as in forewings.
Underside of forewings reddish grey, the grey becoming darker towards hind- margin ; a dark irrey obliiine outer line, and grey cell-spot ; hindwings redder throughout, dajjpled with dull grey ; fringe of both wings bright red. Fiwe, fillet, legs, and underside of abdomen crimson ; thorax and abdomen pinkish grey, the latter along dorsum olive-brown like the wings.
E.xpanse of wings : 34 mm.
One c? from Mount Dnlit, Borneo (Hose).
Apex of forewings produced ; hindmargin excised to vein i, where there is a blunt elbow.
o. Cobanilla triumbrata sp. nov.
Forewings: yellowish fulvous ; the costa broadly paler, more pinkish, and speckled with blackish scales ; an oblique diffuse deeper fulvous shade from oue- third of inner margin : a second at two-thirds, slightly sinuous, neither reaching the costa ; a broad marginal deep fulvous fascia containing an obscure dentate sub- marginal line, only distinct at anal angle, where it forms two blackish lilac-edged spots on veins 1 and "2 ; fringe fulvous, marked with blackish beyond cell and above anal angle, these blackish patches preceded by lilac-grey marginal lunnles or streaks ; discocellular marked in white.
Ilindtvings : similar, the deeper shades less distinct, the whole central space between them being filled up with fulvous.
Underside yellow, with transverse bright fulvous striae, and fulvous suffusion at anal angle of both wings and apex of hindwing. Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; top of face, palpi, and forelegs crimson.
Expanse of wings : 39 mm.
One ? from Penang, May 1897 (Curtis).
Along with this ? came a <?, with the same locality and date, which is certainly Oreta verenica Swiuh., described from Singapore; though different in appearance, size, and coloration, they may prove the same species.
The species described by me as Cobanilla hepaticata, from Sandakan, Nov. ZooL. IV. p. 13, is undoubtedly identical with Swinhoe's Oreta verenica.
4. Cobanilla unilinea sp. nov.
Forewings : flull fulvous, with a lilac tinge ; the lower arm of the angnlated discocellnlar marked with white scales ; a deeper fulvous diffuse shade from costa just before middle, traversing the discocellular, and very obscurely curved to towards base of inner margin ; a deejier fulvous slightly flexuous line, edged externally with pale yellowish from just beyond middle of inner margin into apex ; fringe deep fulvous.
Hindwings : with paler costal area ; deeper fulvous central and marginal shades ; the submarginal area with a few black scales aud traces of two curved rows of darker spots between the veins ; discocellular marked as in tbrewings.
Underside yellower ; the fulvous streaks aud suffusion brighter ; the oblique line of forewing continued more broadly across middle of hindwing. Face and palpi
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bright scarlet ; thorax and abdomen like wings ; the shoulders and base of patagia pinkish white.
Expanse of wings : 48 mm.
One ? from Ron Island, July 18i»T (Doherty).
The apex of forewings bluntly ronnded and but slightly produced, the hind- margin only faintly indented below it, then curved.
5. Cyclura confiisata sp. nov.
Forewings : greyish liver-colour, tinged with glossy lilac ; the costal area paler ; the whole wing crossed by numerous irregularly waved blackish lines, arranged in pairs and forming indistinct fasciae ; tawny patches beyond and below the end of cell, and above anal angle ; fringe brown-black.
lUndwings: similar; the whole of the marginal apical area tawny, with the black lines thickened.
Underside ferruginous, mixed with blackish grey; a thick postmediau blackish shade on both wings. Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings.
Expanse of wings : 39 mm.
One ? from Laiwui, Obi, September 1807 (Doherty).
The neuration is unusual and considerably different from that of the tj-pical species ; vein 6 is shortly stalked with 7 ; 8, 9, 10 are stalked, anastomosing shortly with 11 near origin, and 8 anastomosing shortly with 7 near apex.
(3. Cyclura inconspicua sp. nov.
Forewings : dull lilac-grey, speckled with fuscous and black ; a slight brownish suffusion near base, and a brownish median shade, swelling out at end of cell and embracing the white cell-spot, then obliijue and narrowed to inner margin before middle ; a line of brown submarginal spots, that at anal angle conspicuous ; fringe rather darker.
Uindwinys : the same, with only a faint brown cloud in centre ; inner margin spotted with black.
Underside pale ochreous grey ; the forewings with an oblicjnc black streak from three-fourths of inner margin towards apex, before which it becomes obsolete, and is followed by many coarse black sjiots ; hindwings with a dark blotch at costa only. Face brown ; thorax like wings ; abdomen paler.
Expanse of wings : 24 mm.
One ? from St. Aiguan, November lt>97 (Meek).
Differs from the tyjje of the genus in neuration ; In and 11 are long-stalked ; 6 short-stalked with 7 and .s ; 9 absent (? coincident with 10).
7. Oreta obtusa Wlk.
The type of this species in the British Museum is without antennae ; but the oblique line on the forewings is straight, not curved as in catama Moore, and the underside of forewings is almost wholly brownish red ; in vatama, on the contrary, the yellow and red tints of the upperside are even more strongly contrasted below than above ; the autennal serrations in tatama are distinctly separate ; in obtus'i coalescent ; so the two species must be kept apart. Oreta obliquilinca Hmjjsn. are merely smaller and less distinctly marked specimens oi obtusa Wlk., with which they agree on the underside.
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i^. Phalacra albilinea sj). uov.
Foreiciiigs : pale wood-colonr, finely black-speckled ; the lines indistinct ; a double dark line near base, angled in midwing ; at about two-fifths and three-fifths of costa arise two grey irregularly dentate-creuulate lines, vertical in direction to the median vein, then oblique and approximating, to inner margin at one-third ; the space between them pale yellowish ochreons ; the space immediately jireceding and following, as well as a subcostal streak, brownish ochreons ; at five-sixths of costa a double lunulate line vertical to vein 4, then sharjily oblinue to inner margin at two-fifths, clear white, with fine black edges joined by black dashes at the veins ; a strongly dentate snbmargiual line, the teeth outwardly marked in black ; an oblique grey cloud below apex from hiudmargiu to outer line : marginal line fine, grey ; fringe concolorous, with grey mottling ; two black dots on the discocellular.
nindivings : paler ; the pale central fascia as in forewings, but equally wide throughout, preceded by a subbasal brownish ochreons band, internally dark-edged, and followed by a brownish lunulate line ; outer line black, straight, slightly lunulate below costa, and preceded by a brownish lunulate line ; snbmarginal and marginal areas as in forewings ; two black dots on discocellular.
Underside whitish ochreous, dusted with grey ; the cell-dots black ; traces of three external grey lines, parallel to hindmargin. Face brown ; palpi black ; vertex and fillet whitish ochreous ; thorax and abdomen brownish ochreous.
Expanse of wings : 39 mm.
One t? from the Khasias, February 1897.
Family THYRIDIDAE. 9. Banisia albisig'nata sp. nov.
Forewings : very pale ochreous, faintly striated witli darker ; the costal edge marked with five or six black dashes, indicating the origin of transverse fasciae, traces of which are barely discernible near costa and along inner margin, especially one just beyond middle of the latter ; an obscure dark spot at bottom of the discocellular ; a diffuse greyish cloud below and beyond cell ; a large roundish whitish space at apex, ending in a point at end of vein 5, internally dark-margined, containing two dark spots and some scattered blackish scales ; fringe concolorous.
Iliudu-ings : white ; with a slightly darker fascia near base edged by two blackish lines ; and a more diffuse and broad central band fornied of black inter- lacing striae, partly tinged with ochraceons, but without any defined edging : marginal area rather bright ochraceons, inwardly edged by a fine darker, nearly straight line, witli a paler tooth-shaped mark from apex ; fringe ochraceons, white at anal angle.
Underside much brighter-coloured; the ajiical white blotch black-edged, and with a black cloud below it ; the costa whitish ; hindwings with the dark markings almost obsolete. Face and palpi ochraceons ; thorax like forewings ; abdomen whitish, slightly tinged with ochreous down the back.
Expanse of wings : 20 mm.
One ? from Warri, Niger Coast Protectorate, July 1S97 (Dr. Roth).
This species belongs to the group including atripunctalis Wlk., trifascialis Moore, tritroplm Swinh., and intcmlbicans Warr., distinguished by the com- paratively shorter and broader wings and obsoleteness of the usual transverse markings.
f 5)
M Banisia piperata sp. nov.
Fore/rin(/s : pale yellowish, crossed by five or six parallel, partially conflnent oranjre bands, -with somewhat angular edges ; the pale bands of yellow groiind-colonr between tbem formed of series of globnlar spots ; costal region finely dnsted with black ; marginal area with innumerable very minnte black points and scratches, some of which extend into the base of the orange fringe.
Ilindwings : the same.
Underside very similar, but more distinctly marked ; the costal edge more strongly marked with blackish dashes than on npperside. Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow spotted with orange.
Expanse of wings : 16 mm.
One ? from Ron Island, July IsOT (Doherty).
11. Banisia recti viata sp. nov.
Forewings : pale rufous brown, the veins darker ; finely reticulated with darker and with the lines deeper brown ; costa at base browner ; a curved line at one-fifth ; a straight thick brown lino from before middle of costa to before middle of inner margin ; a little beyond it two fine brown lines start from the costa, the first irregularly waved and partly double to two-thirds of inner margin, the second running obliquely outwards to below vein 4, and then forked to before and above anal angle; a curved brown line from before apex to the end of vein 4 ; fringe concolorons, with slightly darker basal line.
Hindiviiujs : with a straight dark line near base, another near middle, donble below the median, and there forming an irregular aunulns ; a straight tliick line from middle of costa towards anal angle continuing" the straight line of forewings ; two fine curved lines beyond, becoming snbmarginal and throwing oft' spurs to bindmargin.
Underside the same. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons with wings.
Expanse of wings : 30 mm.
One ? from Ansus, Jobi Island, April, May 1S07 (Doherty).
13. Hypolamprus cossoides sp. nov.
Forewings : fulvous yellow, suffused towards base along costa and inner margin with vinous brown, and marked with irregular transverse striae of the same colour ; a linear cell-spot vinous ; slight marginal spots between the veins ; fringe con- colorons.
Hind wings : similar.
Underside paler, with the markings fainter ; traces of a vinous curved ante- median streak on both wings. Head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish, mixed with vinous scales ; the shoulders altogether vinons.
Expanse of wings : 54 mm.
One c?_from St. Aignan, November 1897 (Meek).
Forewings with costal insinuate in middle, convex before apex, which is shortly falcate ; bindmargin sinuous ; hindwings broad ; the apex bluntly rect- angular ; hindmargin well rounded.
As it agrees with IL/poIamprus in the neuration, I have placed it in that genus ; but it will probably rcijuire a new one.
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13. Hypolamprus submarmorata sp. nov.
Interiuediate l)etween //. leopardata Warr., from Cedar Bay, Queensland, and //. unicolor Warr., from Amboina ; of the same size as the former, the forewings with tlie markings much less distinct ; in the hindwings the dark central band forms between veins ij and <i a quadrate deep lirown spot, and the pale fasciae on each side form two s(jnare white spots with a dark central line.
Underside without the subcostal and cellular coppery patch ; the whole of both wings thickly and regnlarly studded with small black points and striae.
Four ? ? from St. Aignan, October 1897 (Meek).
Isothauma gen. nov.
Like Siculodes and Bhodoneura in shape and markings, but differing in the structure of the cell ; in the above-mentioned genera the upper half of the dis- cocellnlar is vertical and the lower oblique ; in Isothauma the reverse is the case, the upj)er half being oblique and the lower vertical ; this is especially noticeable in the hindwings, where tlio cell is very broad. Cell-spots formed by tufts of raised scales.
Type : Isothauma opalinula Mab. (Siculodes), from Madagascar.
Neothyris gen. nov.
Foreivings: elongate; costa shouldered at base, abruptly convex before apex, straight or even inflected between ; apex minutely subfalcate ; hindmargin curved, much more oblique in the lower half ; inner margin truncate at liase.
Hindwings : longer than broad ; apex prominent, bluntly rounded ; hindmargin rounded.
Antennae of c? slightly thickened towards base, pubescent or shortly ciliated, of ? filiform, simple ; basal joint surrounded by an involucre of scales, more con- spicuous in S; forehead with a slight projecting tuft of scales below ; palpi stout, porrect, the basal joint as large as the second, distinct and hairy, the third mnch smaller and smoother ; tongue and frenulum present. Hindtibiae with four long slender spurs ; all the femora fringed beneath with hairs,
Neuration: cell less than half of wing ; discocellular vertical ; first median at five-sixths, second, third, and lower radial all close together from round lower angle of cell : upjier radial and vein 7 from upper angle, the latter cnrved upwards at origin ; 8, 9 very long-stalked ; 10 and 11 free. Hindwings with the two snbcostals short-stalked, the upper anastomosing for some distance with the costal ; medians as in forewings.
Type : Neothyris aspirans sp. nov.
14. Neothyris aspirans sp. nov.
Forewings: fulvous, suffused with deep brown, and .with blackish brown transverse striae between the veins, forming an incomplete reticulation ; costa with dark oblique striae ; a wavy slightly curved blackish line from one-fifth of costa to one-third of inner margin, less distinct above ; an ill-defined oblique dark wavy line from inner margin just beyond, to beneath costa beyond the cell-spot, the included space generally dark brown : an ill-defined brown cloud beginning narrow at the costa at three-fourths and broadening to anal angle, the space before and beyond it
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brig-liter fulvous ; fringe with the basal half deep brown-hlack, teniiiiial half white, cheijuered with brown boj-oiul the veins ; cell-spot obloni;', formed of dark scales, preceded in cell of c? onl)' by a roundish hyaline spot.
Hindwings : with basal fourth palo fulvous, a central curved brown band, broader towards costa, separated by a curved fulvous fascia from the wholly darker marginal third.
The tints in the c? are throup'hout darker than in the ? ; the central costal and subcostal areas are streaked witii grey scales in the S, the cell-spot being likewise ringed with grey.
Underside pale fawn-grey, speckled with darker, with a broad grey-brown marginal band ; both wings with longitudinal rows of dark dots between the veins; the cell- spots large and black ; large black blotches also below the origin of first median nervule, united to cell-spots by red-brown scales, thus forming a short oblique central streak ; inner marginal area of both wings below submarginal fold without markings. Head, thorax, and abdomen fulvous : undersnrface of antenual involucre, and of first joiot of palpi, and the pi'ctus whitish; legs brown, the tarsi cheiiuered with whitish.
Expanse of wings : 5G mm.
A pair from Woodlark Island, March 1807 (A. S. Meek).
Also a ? from St. Aignan, September 1807, from the same collector.
15. Pharambara subscripta sp. nov.
Forewinc/s: dnll greyish brown, covered with small darker striae, forming indistinct reticulations ; the fasciae darker, more clearly marked on costa and inner margin, at one-fourth, one-half, and three-fourths respectively ; the last strongly angled outwards towards middle of wing, in the direction of a small oval dark blotch before the hindmargin ; four small dark costal blotches before apex ; fringe concolorous.
IIii}ilicings : without distinct fasciae ; the basal third paler, followed by a broad darker shade, not reaching hindmargin except at anal angle.
Underside with ground-colour pale, and all the striae and markings by contrast darker and more distinct ; a row of black and lustrous metallic scales along the median vein, and another along vein 0 at base of the triangular projection of the third fascia, which is also marked with ferruginous scales. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings.
Expanse of wings : 18 mm.
One ? from Warri, Niger Coast Protectorate, June 1897 (Dr. Roth).
Here also belongs the example which, in Nov. Zool. Vol. V. p. 224, I wrongly referred to thiastoralis Wlk., from South America.
Proterozeuxis gen. nov.
Forewiiiys : elongate ; the costa insinuate in middle, strongly depressed at apex ; hindmargin sinuate, strongly bowed below middle : inner margin faintly sinuate.
llinilwinys : small, triangular, the hindmargin sinuate, bulged at middle ; apex subacute ; anal angle subtruncate.
Abdomen (cJ) elongated, the anal segments with expansile tuft. Antennae {6) shortly but distinctly pectinated, the pectinations thickened towards extremity and
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pnbescent ; palpi nptnrned obliquel)' in front of face ; third joint half as long as second. Freiuilnm present ; tongne ill-developed.
Nenration like that of Tli/polampim, bnt instead of S and H, T and 8 are stalked. Cell and main veins of forewiugs beneath clothed with broad shining argyrescent scales.
Type : Proterozeuxis splendida sp. nov.
Distingnished from the other genera by the pectination of the antennae in the S and the stalking of veins 7 and 8 of the forewings.
10. Proterozeuxis splendida sp. nov.
Foi'ewings : pale bright ochreous, with the striae lines and veins bright ferrnginons, the costa shaded with darker : a slightly bent line at one-third of costa to middle of inner margin ; a second from middle of costa, ontcnrved at end of cell, to inner margin before anal angle ; third line from costa at two-thirds, contorted to toncli second line beyond cell, to hiudmargin above anal angle, before which it is forked : fonrtli line snbapical, forked on costa, to end of vein 5 ; marginal line and fringe deep ferrnginons ; spaces between the lines witji fainter rnsty reticulations.
Hindivhu/s : similar.
Underside the same, only paler. Head, thorax, and abdomen oelireous mi.xed with dnil ferrnginons.
Expanse of wings : 34 mm.
One <J from Natal (A. J. Spillev).
IT. Siculodes naevina ab. carneata nov.
Differing from the typical form ot naevhia Moore, from Darjiling, — which is also found in Borneo, the Philippines, and the Arn Islands, — in having the costal and hindmarginal areas of forewings strongly suffused with flesh-colonr ; the hludwings slightly so ; the fringes of both wings flesh-colour. Underside of both wings, except the disc of forewings, the same colour.
One tJ from the Khasias.
Thus also the Khasia Hill form, which I have called tiihcrosnlis, differs from typical Sicidoilf.s aryentalis VVlk., both from India and from the different islands from which it has been recorded.
18. Striglina asinina sp. nov.
Foreivings : dull dark smoky brown, crossed by numerous curved and waved lines of darker striae ; a darker blotch on discocellular and another l)elow it, forming part of the lower half of a median fascia ; costa bright ochraceous between the dark lines ; fringe darker, sometimes tipi)ed with ochraceous.
Jlindtcinr/s : similar.
Underside ferruginous, with the striae and the two blotches blackish and distinct; hindmargin of both wings, especially the hindwings, and the fringes black. Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; palpi paler ; foretarsi internally white, externally black, with the tips of all the joints white.
Expanse of wings : 27 mm.
Six cJ<J, two ? ? , fromSula Mangoli, October— November 1897 (Doherty), and one ^ from Dorci, June lb'.)7 (Doiierty). In this last the underside is greyish ochreous instead of ferruginous, and the black margiiuil area much larger.
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!'■». Striglina mediosecta AVarr., Nov. Zool. Vol. V. p. 424.
The type described from Kei Island, a ^, was the only one sent. I have since seen another <? from Ron Island, accompanied bj' two ¥ ? . These are slightly larger than the cJc?, and ditl'er especially in being rufous instead of brown, closely approaching in appearance the alierration r'llpina of S. deramta Warr.
Family URANIIDAE. 21). Stesichora unipuncta sp. nov.
Intermediate between <S'. nivea Warr. from the Kei Islands, which is spotless, except for three or four costal dots on the forewings, and titdidii Kirsch, from New Gninea, in which the hindwings have three marginal spots. The present species has a single large spot in the tail of the hindwings. The forewiugs have three or funr dots on costa towards base and two larger ones near ajiex.
Expanse of wings : 48 — 52 mm.
Two $S from St. Aignan, August — November 1897 (Meek).
This form also occurs on Goodenough Island.
In view of the sliglit, though constant, dift'erences in these local forms, it seems advisable to consider all three as subspecies of AValker's -S'. pxelhiria, from Amboina and the neighbouring islands, which has always five spots on the hindmargin of hindwings. In all the forms the c? has a well-marked fovea in the forewings.
Family EPIPLEMIDAE. 21. Dirades pendula sp. nov.
Forewings : grey, tinged with fawn-colour ; the costa with fine black scales ; first line blackish, indistinct, outwards curved, from one-third of costa to middle of inner margin, where it forms a small black spot ; second line from five-sixths of costa, strongly curved, black, edged externally with jale, incurved above vein 4, then vertical to inner margin before anal angle ; between veins 4 and 5 the black inner edge swells out into a round spot with black nucleus, and forms another black spot at inner margin ; a row of fine black submarginal dashes : fringe concolorous.
Hindwings : with the outer line yellowish, bluntly angled in the middle, and edged inwardly with black scales below costa and before the inner marginal fold ; some black and fulvons marks along the median vein, and some blackish ill-shaped Innnles along margin between veins 3 and 7, which are slightly produced.
Underside pale grey. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey ; face and palpi brown.
Expanse of wings : 10 mm.
One S from Bali, low country, Jlarch — April 1890 (Doherty).
22. Epiplema atrifasciata sp. nov.
Forewings : dark grey ; the costa black-speckled ; first line from one-fourth of costa to one-fourth of inner margin, very indistinct and interrupted, angled outwards in cell, and shortly followed there by the blackish cell-spot, which is followed by a short dash of pale scales ; outer line velvety black and broad, from two-thirds of costa to four-fifths of inner margin, bluntly angled below the middle, then parallel to hindmargin and fine, but preceded near inner margin by black scales running
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parallel to it ; some black scales above anal augle, and a short dark curved mark before the hindmargiu beyond the cell ; fringe iron-grey.
Hindivinqs : with a narrow sinuoas white postmedian line, which forms a slight blnnt projection in middle, preceded by a broad blackish fascia ; a double dark dash on the discoccllular, forming on the median an acute angle with a broader white dash ; basal area crossed by several broken curved blackish lines ; a blackish snl)- maroinal shade ; a sinuous blackish marginal streak from upper tooth to below lower tooth, crossed by two white dashes ; a pale slightly ochreous spot on costa beyond outer line, which there is less strongly marked.
Underside of forewings uniform dull grey ; of hindwings pale grey with dark speckling between the veins. Face and paljji black ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen "rev ; the shoulders and patagia paler. Antennae with short broad serrations.
Expanse of wings : 24 mm.
One 6 from the Khasia Hills, December IS9(3.
Forewings with apex blnntly rounded, and a slight curved indentation ojiposite the cell ; inner margin sinuous ; anal angle almost lobed ; hindwings witli teeth at veins 4 and 7, and the costa sinuous.
23. Epiplema barbara sp. nov.
Forewings: pale sandy ochreous, dusted and striated with brown : tlie costa minutely dotted with black : first line obsolete ; second brown, from costa just lieyond middle, sinuate outwards to vein 4 and there angled, then oblique inwards, and reaching the inner margin at two-thirds as a vertical brown spot : a small brown curved mark before hindmargin beyond cell, and a ditfuse brown cloud at anal angle ; fringe concolorous, with some brown scales along the base.
llinilirings : with an obliijne brown streak on discocellnlar ; a double pale brown postmedian line, angled before the lower tooth, then bisinuato to anal angle : the inner arm is marked by a black-brown blotch on costa, a smaller one on vein 7, and a brown shade in the sinus below the median vein ; externally it is followed by another brownish line, and the space beyond its angle is filled in with pale grey and brownish scales ; a dark brown curved line from tooth to tooth ; a pale ochreons dash above a brown spot at the lower tooth ; some brown striae towards apex.
Underside of forewings dull grey, of hindwings pale ochreous with a few brown striae. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous ; face and palpi dark brown.
Expanse of wings : 23 mm.
One 6 from Kampala, Uganda, January 1897 (Dr. Ansorge).
24. Epiplema bicolor sp. nov.
Forewings : grey, with a faint pink tinge, sparsely black-speckled ; first line at one-third, angled in midwing and denoted by oblique interrupted marks, those towards costa blackish, the three lower ones rufous ; outer line at two-thirds, starting as a broad oblique costal blotch, blackish on costa, rnfous below, angled on vein 5, then incurved parallel to hindmargin, and rejircsented by a row of red-brown spots between the veins, which are doubled above inner margin ; an obscure sub- marginal row of small dark dots ; a chocolate marginal line from below apex, thinning out towards anal angle : fringe rnfous, with paler basal line ; costa marked with black strigulae, and two or three black spots before apex.
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Ilindwings : rnfons grey, tinged with violet-brown along costa and at apex ; a red-brown postmedian line, parallel to hindmargin, marked with dark dots at the veins ; a more indistinct line towards base, and traces of two others between ; a violet-brown undulating shade along margin from npper tooth towards anal angle ; fringe violet-brown.
Underside of forewings dark grey, dotted with blackish, along costa pale grey ; of hindwings pale grey, with a broad smoky-black snbmarginal fascia. Face and palpi dark chocolate-brown ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen whitish grey.
Expanse of wings : 25 mm.
One c? from Ron Island, .Inly 1897 (W. Uoherty).
Forewings with hindmargin slightly toothed at vein 4, concave above, convex below ; hindwings prominently toothed at veins 4 and 7.
A very distinct species.
25. Epiplema diversipennis sp. nov.
Forewings : bluish white, speckled with smoky grey-brown ; the costa at base, a broadish curved fascia beyond middle, and a marginal fascia suffused witli the same colour ; fringe concolorous.
Iliiidiciiigs : with the base whitish and the apex white ; a postmedian pale line forming a lieak externally on vein 4, preceded by a thick blackish shade, which above vein 4 becomes smoky brown, and followed by a smoky brown shade above vein 4 and a purplish grey one below it ; traces of a fine double dark antemediau line, and another nearer base ; the space below vein 4 marked with yellow scales ; an irregularly waved blackish submarginal line from upper tooth to near anal angle, followed by a brown shade ; fringe brown, white at apex.
Underside of forewings smoky brown ; of hindwings smoky grey. Head and palpi blackish ; thorax whitish ; abdomen grey.
Expanse of wings : 24 mm.
One ? from Ansus, Jobi Island, April — May 1897 (Doherty).
26. Epiplema illineata, nom. nov.
Epiplerna iUiturata Warr., Nov. Zool. V. p. 9.
The name UlitKrota must be altered, as I had already used it for an aberration oi Epiplema angidata. Cf. Nov. Zool. III. p. 275.
27. Monobolodes pallens sp. nov.
Foreioings : pale grey, thickly speckled with dark grey ; the lines nearly as in the following species, but less diffuse, ferruginous, with darker scales at the veins ; fringe iron-grey, with ferruginous line at base.
Ilindwings : similar, the line appearing less curved.
Underside uniform ]>ale grey, with sliglit darker dusting. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings ; face and ])alpi grey-brown.
Expanse of wings : 25 mm.
One ? from Woodlark Island, March 1897 (A. S. Meek).
In both wings the outer line is nearer the hindmargin than in ^f. recti/ascia ; otherwise the markings are almost identical : but they appear to be good and distinct island forms.
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2(<. Monobolodes rectifascia sj). nov.
Forewings : dark purplish slate-colour, in certain lights appearing lilnish or leaden-colonrod ; thickly and confnspdlv' striiited tlironsrhont wit1i darker ; tlio two lines darker, brownish j>nrple ; the first very indistinct, apparently strongly cnrvod outwards in middle, as in J/, subfalcata, from one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin, where alone it is plain ; second, broader and diffuse, nearly straight, from two-thirds of costa to^^three-fourths of inner margin, before whicli it is faintly indented : fringe darker, slightly metallic, prcccilcd by a lino fcrrnginons line, which extends round the apex along the costa ; a faint submarginal shade.
Ilindivings : somewhat paler, with only the outer line, which is curved, more concise, pnrjdish brown mixed with ferruginous.
Underside uniform dull greyish slate-colour. Head, thorax, and abdomen all concolorons ; face and palpi slightly deeper.
Expanse of wings : 25 mm.
Three ? ? from Suer, Mefor, May and June l.>0: (W. Doherty).
Differs from the type sjiecies ^^. sudifdJcutd AVarr. from Queensland in tlio outer line being nearly straight, not strongly bulged lielow the middle.
20. Paradirades farinosa sp. nov.
ForPAcings : pale grey, thickly powdered with darker slightly ochreous strigae ; the costa somewhat darker-marked, but without any distinct dark spots ; no distinct markings ; a dull diti'use dark spot on discocellnlar, and an irregular dark blotch before middle of hindmargin, through which can [sometimes be traced a line submarginal line ; fringe concolorons, with rather darker basal line.
Ilii)dicings : sometimes with faint traces of an antemedian and postmedian darker line ; the striae generally denser before hindmargin.
Face and palpi deep chocolate-brown ; head, thorax, and abdomen like wings. Underside wholly dull grey.
Expanse of wings : 16 mm.
One ?, four S d , from St. Aignan, September — November 1897 (Meek).
Distinguished at once by the absence of all defined markings.
Family GEOMETRIDAE.
Subfamily OENOCHROMINAE.
3(J. Noreia venusta sp. nov.
Forewingi^ : leaden grey ; the costal edge, the cell-spot, the fringe, and the three transverse lines deep rosy ; first line obscnre, at one-third ; postmedian line at two-thirds, incurved to submedian fold below the cell-spot, then vertical ; sub- marginal line parallel throughout to hindmargin; ])oth formed of sagittate markings between the veins.
Ilindivings : the same.
Underside with the cell-spots blackish, and the lines dark grey: fringe reddish. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey ; face and palpi brown-black.
Expanse of wings : 38 mm.
One d from Mount Dulit, Borneo, February — March 1894 (Hose).
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Differing from other species of the trenus ia the more rounded apex of forewiugs and in the character of the marliings ; but the ueuratiou is identical. The hind- wings beneath have no tnfts of hair.
31. Noreia vinacea »p. no v.
Foreicuigs : deep dove-colonr, shot with vinous, especially towards the hind- margin, and with very fine black dusting ; first line slender, from one-third of costa, oblique outwards to near middle of inner margin ; cell-spot linear, black, distinct ; outer line bright vinous edged with pale from beyond middle of inner margin towards apex, rectangularly bent on vein 5 and retracted to costa, the costal arm dark grey; fringe vinous beyond a very concise tine dark basal line.
Ilindwinys : similar, but the vinous line central, the costal area dove-grey ; no cell-spot.
Underside dark dove-grey, deeper towards hindmargins ; the cell-spots and a sinuous line at two-thirds blackish. Head, thorax, and abdomen shining grey ; face and palpi black-brown.
Expanse of wings : 38 mm.
One ? from Ansns, Jobi Island, April — May 1897 (Doherty).
32. Physetostege (?) punctilinea sp. nov.
Forewings : reddish brown, the lines slightly darker, and marked by black vein-dots ; first from one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin, curved ; second from three-fourths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, angled on veins 0 and 4 ; a very indistinct submarginal line; fringe reddish, with minute dark dots at the base ; cell-spot dark.
Hindwings : the same, without first line.
Underside duller, less reddish, with the markings very obscure : the ground- colour becoming darker towards hiudmargin, the fringe paler and reddish. Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; face and palpi dark red-browu ; basal joint of palpi sjjarply white.
Expanse of wings : 30 mm.
One ? from Sumba (Everett).
Referred to FInjsetostcge provisionally in the absence of the i ; the hindmargin of both wings is curved.
33. Taxeotis coUineata sp. nov.
Forewings : pale greyish fawn-colour, with sparse black dusting ; basal and marginal areas usually slightly darker and m(n'e thickl}' dusted than central ; costal edge ochraceous ; first Hue dark ferruginous from before one-third of costa to before one-third of inner margin, dentate outwards on subcostal, median, and submedian veins, concave between ; outer line deep fcrrunrinons, from costa at three-fourths, curved outwards to below vein 7, there acutely angled and obli(|nely sinuous inwards to two-thirds of inner margin, followed from angle to inner margin by a blackish externally dentate line, the space between the two lines 3-ellowish ; a row of round black marginal dots ; cell-spot minute ; fringe concolorous.
Ilimlicings : with the outer line continued at two-thirds ; cell-spot small.
Underside of forewings grey-tinged, of hindwings whitish, both thickly
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peppered with black ; a sinuous postmedian line on Loth wings, thickened on veins ; cell-spots and marginal spots black. Face and palj)i dark I'errnginons ; basal joint of palpi ochreous ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; abdomen beneath and legs whitish, like hiiidwings.
Exjiause of wings : 34 mm.
One c? from Bnrdekin River, County Davenport, Queensland.
Subfamily ORTHOSTIXINAE. 34. Bytharia lucida sp. nov.
Foreidngs : deep yellow, with the costa and hindmargin black-brown, more broadly at the apex ; the inner edge of the marginal border crennlatc ; the costal border slightly lustrous ; along the curved edge of the marginal border is a lustrous lunate-edged fascia : fringe black-brown.
JlindwiM/s : with marginal border narrower, its edge crenulate, ami with a lustrous fascia.
Underside like upper, but with no lustrous scaling. Abdomen, legs, face, and thorax yellow; i)alpi, vertex, and antennae broii/,e-brown.
Expanse of wings : 40 mm.
Two S6, one ?, from New Hanover, February and March 1*07 (Webster).
35. Eumelea apicata (?) sp. nov.
Forewings : yellow, mottled with ferruginous striae ; those along the costa purple; indistinct fulvous shades from inner margin at one-fourth and one-half, becoming obsolete above the median vein ; apical third occujiied by a large purplish chocolate blotch, scarcely reaching lower than vein 3, and enclosing a small yellow space at apex ; fringe of the same colour as the blotch, with lunnles of the same at base.
llindwings : with a central straight slightly crenulated fulvous line, and before the apex four spots of purplish scales in a line to above middle of hind- margin ; fringe jjurple, with a continuous purple basal line.
Underside the same, but all the striae as well as the lines and blotch purple. Head, tliorax, and abdomen yellow, with a few purplish scales.
Expanse of wings : 60 mm.
One ? from Kapaur, Dutch New Guinea, low country, December 1896 (Doherty).
Certainly related to E. genuina Kirsch {= craspedias Meyr.), and possibly an abnormal example of the ? of that species ; the types in both cases were 6 6. I may here draw attention to the fact that in Kirsch's figure the central line of the forewings is drawn too strongly ; it is rarely expressed above the median ; Kirscli called it " se/ir terschwommener
This species is evidently identical with an insect described by Pagenstecher, Jahrb. JS'ass. Ver. Is80. p. 155, from New Guinea, as a further development of the form genuina Kirsch, which he as well as Snellen sinks along with all the other so-called species as synonyms of romlia Cram. Unfortunately he does not give the sex.
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36. Eumelea aurigenaria sp. nov.
d. Forewings : olive-yellow, with dense rosy striae, and with the three lines rosy ; first and second curved, at one-third and one-half, approximating below ; snbmarginal shade broad, diiFase, to before anal angle, and becoming obsolescent towards costa ; a distinct oval ocellus on discocellnlar ; fringe yellow, with a deep rosy line at base, and a rosy line at middle.
Hindwings : the same, without first line ; the shade very broad at apex ; ocellus present.
Underside like upper. Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow, speckled with rosy ; shoulders and collar all rosj'.
¥ . Forewings : yellow, with rusty striae, those along the costa only being purplish ; the lines rusty purple ; first at one-fourth, interrupted ; second a little beyond the middle, subcrenulate ; the distance between these two lines therefore much greater than in the c?, the ocellus being exactly half-way between them, whereas in the i it is nearer to the central line ; submargiual shade much narrower, projecting prominently outwards beyond cell ; marginal line of dark brown-red shallow lunules; fringe as in $.
Ilindtcings : with the central line distinctly crenulate ; the snbmarginal indistinct.
Underside with the striae and all markings rosy.
Exjiause of wings : 52 mm.
One cj, one ?, from Lombok, June 1896 (Everett).
For some time past there has been in the Tring Museum a number of examples of this form, from Queensland, marked aurigeiuiria. As I have quite ftiiied to find any trace of such a published species, I am inclined to think it may have been an error for aureliata, of which it might be considered a form. It differs, however, from typical aureliata in the uniformly smaller size, the absence of the marginal blotches in the ¥ , in the yellower fringe, and in the presence of a distinct ocellus in both wings. Moreover, it occurs, besides Australia, in Borneo (Kina Balu), Nias, Oinainisa (Timor), Perak (Gunong Ijau), and Lombok, and is therefore almost as widespread as aureliata itself, of whicli it cannot be reckoned a subspecies or local form.
37. Eumelea rosalia Cram., Pap. Ex. IV. p. 152. PI. 36ii. Fig. F.
1 have lately seen three S S from Tawaya, Palos Bay, taken by Doherty, which answer precisely to Cramer's figure, which need not therefore be any longer looked upon as inexact. Pagenstecher also mentions {Jahrh. Nass. Ver. XXXIX. lisSO. p. 155) some specimens from the Kei Islands as identical with the typical Amboiua form.
38. Ozola basisparsata AVlk.
Forewings : fawn-coloiu', with a decided pink flush ; thickly sprinkled with darker atoms ; first line very obscure, angled in cell and formed of spots between the veins ; second at two-thirds, curved l)elow costa, then iierfectly straight and slender to four-fifths of inner margin ; beyond its upper half a curved line of small spots is faintly visible ; submargiual line formed of spots, the tour uppermost ones largest, the fourth reaching the margin : a row of minute marginal dots ; fringe rufous, brown-tinged along the excision and above anal angle ; cell-spot small.
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Hindwiiitjs : whitish at base, speckled with black scales : cell-spot blackish ; au almost straight slender Hue at two-thirds ; a submarginal Hue of black dashes on the veins.
Underside whitish, thickly sjieckjed with red-brown ; the outer line red-brown, with a reddish subcostal streak from it to tlie unter Hue of spots. Head, thorax, aud abdomen coucolorous with wings ; i>!iliii and forelegs rosj'-tinged.
Expanse of wngs : \i2 mm.
One S from Penang, November 1896 (Cnrtis).
Allied to O. extersaria Wlk. ; the hindwing rcctangnlarly prodnccd at vein 6 ; forewiugs with apex falcate ; hindmargin angnlated at vein 4, concave above and below.
31). Ozola incompleta sp. uov.
Forewings : whitish, with coarse fnscons atoms ; first line represented by a fuscous costal spot at one-third, not reaching below the median vein ; cell-spot black, with the fnscons atoms denser above and below it ; outer line from costa at two-thirds, concave basewards to vein 2, where it is joined by a second more strongly concave line from the costa, then retracted towards anal angle ; space between these two lines more or less filled np with fuscous ; a triangular blotch of fuscous striae on hindmargin beyond cell, joined by a fuscous line from costa, and a smaller blotch at anal angle ; fringe fnscons, except from veins 2 to 4, where it is whitish ; a marginal row of small black dots.
Hiiuhcings : with a fnscons ajiical blotch, and a fnscous outer line, blnntly angled beyond cell ; cell-spot blackish ; fringe fuscous round the apical blotch, beyond it whitish.
Underside exactly similar. Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings.
Expanse of wiugs : 2T mm.
One c? from S. Flores, November 1896, dry season (Everett).
Forewings long and narrow, costa strongly dejiressed before apex, which is I)roduced but not falcate, the hindmargin being oblique from apex to vein 4, then slightly indented, and still more obliqne to anal angle ; hindwings with both angles rounded, aud the hindmargin bluntly prominent at vein 6.
4(1. Ozola indefensa sp. uov.
Forewings : pinkish ochreous, with coarse fuscous and ferruginous atoms, the lines tine, and sometimes obsolete ; the first basal curved, the second strongly bulged outwards in its upper two-thirds, the curve being crossed withiu by a straight oblique line, whicli with the other forms a small blotch on the inner margin ; a lirown subajncal blotch, and a smaller blotch at the aual angle ; a submarginal line near margin from costa before apex touching the edge of the subapical and anal blotches ; fringe dark fnscous from apex to elbow beyond t he dark blotch, and again beyond that at the anal angle.
Ilindicingx : with two brown lines which are joined on the costa, and recede from each other towards the inner margin ; apex washed with fuscous ; fringes dark half-way from apex ; in both wings a row of minute black dots at base of fringes.
Underside the same, with the markings browner.
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Expanse of wings : c? ? , 24 mm.
Two c? d from Dorei, July 1897 (Dohevtv) ; ulso from Claremoiit Island, in B.M.
Subfamily : PSEUDOTERPNINAE.
41. Actenochroma unicolor sp. no v.
Forewiwjs : olive-drab, speckled with black, the speckles thickest along tbe costa and beyond the outer line, where they are partially confluent ; the lines black, thickened towards costa ; first from one-fifth of costa to one-third of inner margin, slightly angled basewards on median and snbmedian veins ; second from three- fonrths of costa to inner margin shortly before anal angle, thick and concave outwards to vein 4, then obli(|Ue inwards, lunulate anil dentate outwards on the veins ; an interrnpted black marginal line ; cell-sjiot black, slightly angled ; fringe concolorous, chequered with black beyond veins.
llindwinfis : without first line, and the second line lunulate and dentate throughout.
Underside pale stone-colour, with a fiiint pink tinge ; cell-spots black, that in the forewings large ; costa of forewings spotted with black ; a smoky black submarginal fascia beyond second line, tbe area beyond it smoky grey in forewings, and hardly darker than ground-colour in the hindwings. Face black ; palpi, verte.\', thorax, and alidomen concolorous, the abdomen speckled with black.
E.xpanse of wings : 40 mm.
One 6 from Mount Dulit, Borneo (Hose).
42. Hypocliroma multicolor sji. nov.
Forcuiiiy.-< : jiale green, slightly dusted with dark scales ; the costa with fine dark dots ; lines darker, olive-green, passing into blackish towards costa ; first at about one-third, curved outwards above and below median ; second at two-thirds, hardly waved to vein 6, then incurved, dentate, and lunulate ; the first line is preceded and the second followed by a faintly paler shade ; submarginal Hue dentate, whitish green, preceded by a cloudy fascia of blackish scales, mixed towards costa with reddish, and followed by a blackish blotch beyond cell and an elongated cloud above anal angle, also mixed with reddish ; marginal sjiots irregular, lunulate ; fringe pale green, with dark mottling beyond veins ; cell- spot black.
Ilindicings : with thick blackish dusting near base; the tufts green; post- median line regularly dentate, followed by slightly raised pale luuules ; patches of blackish and reddish scales before and beyond the submarginal line, which is slightly raised.
Underside of both wings bright yellow ; the forewings below the median dull rosy, passing into whitish on inner margin ; cell-S2)0t of forewings large, purple ; marginal third of both wings deep purple, separated from the yellow basal areas by a small white space ; in the forewings traversed by a submarginal row of white intraneural spots, the apex and a small patch at middle of hiud- margiu, like the fringes, whitish yellow ; in the hindwings with a ])atch at anal angle and a larger one below middle wliitish yellow. Pace, palpi, and antennae
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rnfous ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen coucolorons with wings ; legs and underside of abdomen ochreous ; the forelegs rnfons.
Expanse of wings : 36 mm.
One (? from !St. Aignan, August— November 1897 (A. S. Meek).
43. Hypochroma pui'piirifera s]i. nov.
Foreicings : a mixture of wliitisli, dull green, and dull reddish scales, the whitish predomiuiiting: the costal area more greenish, and the hiudmargiiial greenish mixed with red : the marginal third with transverse black striae ; the lines blackish, fairly distinct : first at one-third, nearly vertical, but forming three slight curves; secon<l at twu-thirds, irregularly ileiitate, and incurved below vein 4 : sidimargiual line distinct, whitish, strongly dentate, edged on both sides by pinkish and black scales ; a row of marginal black spots between veins ; fringe whitish, mottled witli black at the ends of veins ; ccll-sjiot linear, dark.
Ilinduinys : more reddisli-tinged throughout ; basal area with the usual tnt'ts ; outer Hue at two-thirds, regularly lunulate-dentatc, edged by wliite lunules of slightly raised scales ; submargiual liue whitish, waved ; black striae and s])ots congregated along veins ; basal two-thirds of abdominal margin as well as the fringe goldeu yellow.
Underside of forewings : costal base golden; below nu'dian vein and centre of cell dull ])urple : cell-spot large, velvety black, followed by a subqnadrate white blotch ; a broad black marginal fascia ; the ai)ex and fringe white ; hindwings with basal two-thirds goldeu ; cell-spot smaller, followed by a smaller white blotch ; marginal border complete. Palpi ochreous, the tips of tlie joints pale brown ; face brownish yellow ; vertex and collar ochreous, with a few dark scales ; thorax like wngs ; abdomen smooth, pinkish ochreous, much sjieckled witli black: with a yellow lateral stripe.
Expanse of wings : 48 mm.
One ? from Tugela, 8olomon Islands (AVoodford).
Nearest allied to mbonmta W'arr. and aurantiacea Lucas, and above wonder- fully like muscosaria Guen.
In forewings veiu 11 anastomoses with ]■,', and 10 with 11 ; <> and 7 of hindwings separate.
44. Hypochroma viridicoma sp. nov.
Foreicings : {)ale green, darker at base and along costa, sprinkled in places with black scales ; costa marked with dense short black striae ; inner line from about one-third of costa to one-fourth of inner margin, marked by a darker green shade mixed with black and a few jiiuk scales ; cell-spot leddish ; outer line from a dark spot at two-thirds of costa, oblique outwards to vein C, vertical to vein 4, then strongly oblique inwards to middle of inner margin, fine and slightly dentate, dark green, immediately succeeded by a jiale space ; submargijial lin(? irregularly dintate, pale green, i)receded by a red-brown blotch on costa and by patches of mi.xed pinkish and blackish scales beyond cell and above inner margin, and followed by red-brown patches at the same places ; dark lunulate spots along hiudmargin between the veins ; fringe pinkish, mottled with darker.
Uinduiitijs : witii basal half a mixture of black and dull pink scales, with large
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pale gi'eeu confluent tnfts of long erect hairs in cell and on submedian fold ; rest oi the wing as in ibrewings, with the reddish patches i)aler.
Uuderside of both wings yellow, with a broad purplish border with sinuate inner edge, leaving on forewings the a])ex only whitish, and on hindwings three small white patches, above vein (3, at the end of vein 4, and above anal angle ; preceded on hindwings by a narrow whitish space, and on forewings by an oblong white patch above median ; cell-spots purple-black, much larger on forewings than on hindwings. Palpi ochreous, darker above ; face ochreous below, reddish above, with a jiair of ochreous yellow dots on each side ; vertex greenish, with an ochreous spot in centre ; thorax and patagia green tipped with reddish ; abdomen yellowish ochreous above and below, the basal segments with pinkish scales.
Expanse of wings : 39 mm.
One (J from Tugela, Solomon Islands (Woodford).
Distinguished by the large green tufts of the hindwings and by the very slightly crennlated hindmargins. In the forewings 11 anastomoses with 12, and lO with 11; in hindwings C and 7 are separate.
4.J. Pingasa atriscripta sp. nov.
Foretciiujs : pale greenish ochreous, the costa freckled with blackish ; the lines concisely black ; first from costa at one-third to inner margin at one-fourth, bluntly angled outwards above median, more strongly below, and with sliglit angles inwards below costa and on submedian ; on the costa it forms a black spot, and above the inner margin is edged with reddish scales ; at the extreme base of inner margin are a few reddish grey scales ; second line at two-thirds, curved, slightly indented on vein o, and with minute teeth outwards on the veins, followed by a fascia of grey and blackish scales mixed with reddish beyond cell and at anal angle, the acutely dentate edge of which forms the submarginal line ; a row of round black marginal spots between the veins ; discocellular marked by two obliipiely placed black spots ; fringe concoloi'ons, grey towards anal angle.
Iliiuhciiujs : the same, without first line.
Underside white, with broad marginal fascia, which on the forewings leaves a white patch at apex and below middle, and on the hindwings is irregularly edged with white all round ; a black oblong cell-spot on forewiug,a small one on hiudwing ; the disc and costa of forewings are slightly tinged with pinkish fuscous. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings ; face with a broad central velvety black bar ; tnfts of abdomen edged with reddish grey.
Expanse of wings : 38 mm.
One 6 from Goodeuough Island, December Is'JO (Meek).
46. Terpna tenuilinea sp. nov.
Forcicings: dull olive-green, thickly dusted with darker atoms and striae, and in places with whitish scales ; costa ochreous, with tine dark striae ; basal area narrow, pale green without any dusting, with a rufous mark close to base and edged by a very fine nearly vertical blackish line with rufous on its outer margin ; outer line at two-thirds, distinctly angled outwards on vein 4, above which it is concave, then oblique inwards, lunulate and dentate, to two-thirds of inner margin, finely black with a rufous internal edging ; a linear cell-mark, black and rufous, followed
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by a jiatch of olive scales ; submargiiial line creunlate, white, most distinct towards costa, aud interrnpted below, jjroccded throughout by a broadisli rafous fascia, aud followed from veins 5 to 7 by a subijuadrate whitish patch oa hiudmargin ; marginal line blackish, thickened between the veins ; fringe olive-rufons, chequered with darker at tlie ends of the veins and whitish beyond the white patch.
Hindtcinffn ; similar, without basal line ; submargiiial line shown by white dashes at the tips of the teeth.
Underside white, with a broad lirowu-black marginal i'ascia passing into reddish towards hiudmargin, leaving the snba])ical spot white ; cell-s])ot black- browu edged with reddish ; a pink streak above the snbmedian fold ; hindwings with no cell-spot, the fascia much darker and submarginal. Face rufous, with mixed whitish and darker scales ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen pale whitish ochreous, dusted with rufous aud fuscous scales : the tufts of abdomen slightly lustrous.
Expanse of wings : 4s mm.
One ? from Tambora, June 181J0 (Dohcrty).
Subfamily GEOMETRINAE.
4T. Agathia exqiiisita sp. nov.
Fore/ciiMj.s : pale pea-green, speckled with purplish fuscous; costa grey with darker dots, tinged with purplish towards base aud ajiex ; a dark purplish jiatch at base of inner margin, not reaching above middle ; first line grey, from one-fourth of costa to near middle of inner margin, where it joins the second ; its edges irregularly creunlate ; second line developed into a broad gre3--sliade from three- fourths of costa to before anal augle, its outer edge regularly dentate aud sinuous, its inner edge vnth a biaugulated sinus beyond cell ; above the middle this shade is tinged with purple-grey, especially on its inner edge, and externally runs out above vein 7 to apex ; the lower part contains a small green spot on the subnicdian fold ; a large purplish submarginal spot above vein u, and two smaller ones straiglit above it ; fringe delicate pale grey, with a darker basal Hue, aud flecked with darker at apex and ends of veins 3 and 4.
Ilindioings : with the base narrowly grey ; outer two-thirds a mixture of various shades of pearly grey aud fawn-colour, edged inwardly by a inirplish line, toothed in the middle, and containing traces of a pale grey dentate line, preceded and followed by purplish grey shades ; the outer edge of the grey area is dentate, and cuts off irregular patches of greeu along hindraargin ; marginal line purplish below vein G ; fringe as in forewings.
Underside delicate pale green, with a purplisji Ijlack curved iwstmediau shade on both wings, followed in the hindwings by a second more diffuse and cloudy shade ; costa of forewings whitish, with a purplish blotch before apex ; fringe of forewings pale green, of hindwings greyer green, with dark spots at end of veins 3 and 4. Face aud palpi ochreous aud jjurple ; fillet and autenual shaft purplish ; thorax aud patagia green flecked with purple scales ; abdomen ochreous grey, with green si)ots on each segment.
Expanse of wings : 39 mm.
One ? from Laiwui, Obi, September 1^97 (Doherty).
Allied to A. obsoleta Warr. from Java, but quite different on the uuderside.
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Antharmostes son. nov. Foiririii/jx : with costa sliglitly rnrvcil ; ajiex subacute ; himlniarniii uliliijucly
CIll'VOll.
JJiii<liriii</s : kite-shaped, with a distinct tooth at veiu 4; sinuous above, straight below.
Palpi thick, porrect, the terminal joint- minute. Antennae of J witli short stiflf branches, as in Hrmistohi '\^'arr. ; frenulum and tongue present ; legs short ; hindtibiae thickened, with a groove and pencil of hairs, and four stout spurs.
Keunition : forewings, cell not half the length of wing ; discocellular with upper third vertical, then concave and oblique : first median at tliree-fifths, second close before third ; lower radial from the bend of the discocellular ; u])per stalked witli 7, 8, 9, 10 ; 11 free. Hindwings, with 3, 4, and 0, 7 stalked ; costal shortly approximated to subcostal near base.
Typo : Antharmostrs mcsoh'urii sj). nov.
Wings without markings ; dark green.
48. Antharmostes mesoleuca sp. nov.
Foreioings : dark green ; costa pale with fuscous dots ; a faintly dark(>r cell- spot ; marginal line red-brown, interrupted at the veins ; preceded between veins 3 and 4 by a white, red-edged lunule ; tliickened between 2 and 3, and preceded by a shallow whitish lunule between 1 and '1 ; fringe rufous.
llimhdnqs : similar ; the white lunnlc running into tlie tooth at middle : some whitish scales at apex before marginal line.
Underside glossy whitish green, with a very faint reddish tinge towards base of forewings ; fringe rufous. Face and jialjii above black-brown, palpi beneath ochreous ; vertex and thorax faded, apjiarently green ; abdomen ochreous, dusted towards base with reddish fuscous scales.
Expanse of wings : 34 mm.
One S from Warri, Niger ('oast Protectorate, October 1807 (Or. Itdtli).
49. Chlorochroma (?) marginata sp. nov.
Forewini/A : bright apple-green, without markings ; costa ochreous white ; fi'ingo silvery white, preceded by a d(^ep brown-red uninterrupted marginal line, which is edged inwardly with rufous between the veins, and is continued for a short distance along the costa, strongly lustrous throughout.
Ilindirinys : the same ; the discocellular in both wings appears darker green.
Underside glossy whitish green ; costal edge of forewings ochreous. Face, palpi, vertex, and antennae ochreous white ; thorax green ; abdomen ochreous.
Expanse of wings : 22 mm.
One ? from Little Kei, June 1897 (H. Kiihn).
The right position of this insect is doubtful ; the antennae are thickened basewards and subserrate ; the palpi longer ami thinner than usual ; the hindtibia (?) has a single long spur just above tlie terminal pair. In the forewings veins 3 and 4 are stalked, vein 2 rising shortly before end of cell ; 7,8,9, 10 stalked; 11 free. Perhaps related to leticoincrala Wlk.
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Chlorodrepaua gen. nov.
Forewings : with costa strongly arched, apex acutely iinulm-ed, falcate; liiiid- margin sinuate, hardly o]dir|ne, with a very faint bend at vein 4 ; anal angle rectangular.
Himlwings : with apex curved, hindmargin nearly straight from vriii d tn anal angle, just bent at vein 4 ; anal angle lobed.
Antennae (?) simple, quite short ; palpi thin and straiglit, not reaching front of face ; tongue and frenulum invisible.
Kciirution : forewings, cell not half as long as wing; discoci'llular angalatcd, the lower two-thirds oblique ; first median at two-third.'*, second and third short- stalked; lower radial from the .angulation of discocellular : upper radial sliort-stalkod with 10, 7, S, !i ; 11 free, bent close to costal, but not anastomosing with it. Hindwings, with 3, 4, and 0, 7 stalked.
Type : Chlorodrepana rothi sj). nov.
•">". Chlorodrepana rothi sp. nov.
Forewings: witli basal two-thirds deep green; costa broadly stone-colour, dusted with black atoms ; marginal third, except an elongated green patch between costal streak and vein 6, stone-colour densely dusted with fuscous scales, and witli a small dark blotch between veins 3 and 4 ; the colours are separated by a pale line from co.sta at two-thirds, oblique outwards to vein 'i, vertically curved to vein 4, then curved inwards to inner margin at two-thirds ; a marginal row of blackish lunules between the veins ; fringe fuscous with a pale base.
Ilindtvings : with only the basal half green ; costa broadly rosy ; inner margin narrowly rosy with fuscous speckles ; marginal area darker than in forewings, towards costa mixed with rosy, and with an oval black spot on each side of vein 3.
Underside fulvous ; the marginal row of black lunules preceded by a scries of broad white Innules, then a broad fuscous fascia with lunulate edges, next an ochreons fascia, also with lunulate edges, broadening to anal angle, preceded by another fuscous fascia, which is diffuse inwards. Face and palpi brown-black ; vertex and shoulders stone-colour ; thorax green ; abdomen greyisli ochreous, tinged along the back with ros}-.
Expanse of wings : 39 mm.
One ? from Warri, end of April 1897.
Sent by Dr. Ruth, in whose honour I have named the species.
ol. Comostolodes subhyalina nom. nov.
Eucldoris inductaria Ilnipsn., Fauna Brit. Ind., Mothx, 111. p. 499 (^nec Guen.).
The examples wliich have for some time been standing in the British Museum Collection as inductaria Guen. expand 30 mm.; but (Juenee gives the size of Ids insect, the type of which came from Borneo, as 20 mm. These can hardly be identical. And again, though he acknowledged that his single specimen was in bad condition, Gueuee did not call it semihyaline, but green with a yellow tinge. On the other hand, Ilamjjson's description of his smaragdux, from the Xilgiris, agrees both in size (Is mm.) and colour (yellow-green) almost exactly with Gnenee's own
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acconnfc of intluctnria. If therefore this small Sonth Indian species be taken as identical with Gnenee's trne inductarin, I propose the new name aiih/D/filimi for flu' very much larger North Indian form, which has hitherto passed for indiirhiria.
S2. Eucrostes rubristicta sp. nov.
Forew'mgs : delicate green, tlie veins all darker ; a red, deeper-centri'd ccll-s])ot ; first line represented merel}' b}- a red spot on snbmedian vein at one-third ; onter line from four-fifths of costa, below which it is curved, thence straight and obliipie, to two-thirds of inner margin, marked on its inner edge by three red sjiots, one cm vein 6, a second, larger, between veins 3 and 4, and tlie tliinl on the snlmiedlan ; fringe white.
Hindirings : similar, bnt without the red dot near base, and witli tin' onter line curved.
Underside whitish green, glossy ; costa of fore wings broadly fuscous near l)ase. Head and thorax green ; face damaged ; abdomen wanting.
Exi)anse of wings : 10 mm.
One S from Kami)ala, Uganda, end of January 1897 (Dr. Ansorge).
S3. Euxena crypsichroma Warr., Nov. Zool. III. p. 300 (c?).
The type described was a J from Mount Mulu, North Borneo. Of a pair since received from Mount Dulit, the S agrees well with the type; but as the ? ditYers considerably, it will be well to descrilie it. ftround-colonr dull green ; lines as in the S\ cell-spots much larger, pear-shaped, deep brown-black, the narrow I'ud towards costa ; a crenulate dark line before the fringes. Underside not fulvous, but dull olive-fuscous ; the lines darker, diffuse ; the central line of forewings edged with paler lunules, the submarginal line formed of distinct whitish spots : both pale lines much broader on the hindwings. The 3'ellower green ground-colour of the cJ appears to lie due to the bright fulvous underside showing througli.
04. Gelasma cyntliia sp. nov.
Fori'iriiui-i : dull electric blue, lustrous in certain lights : costal edge yellow ; the lines olive-green, subdentate ; first from one-third of inner margin, where it is subdentate, becoming obsolete in hindwing ; second from two-thirds of inner margin, oblique outwards, dentate externally, diffuse iuternall}-, becoming obsolete at vein G ; the teeth marked with white dashes on veins ; cell-sjiot annular, olive-green ; marginal line blue-black ; fringe yellowish white, chequered with dark at the enils of veins.
Ilind/rim/s : the same, but without first lino ; the postmedian reaching both margins.
Underside dull bronzy yellow; fringe yellow: a jmrple bkitch at apex of hind- wings and anal angle of both wings. Face and top of ])alpi black ; palpi lieneath and third joint ochreons ; thorax like wings ; alxlomen discoloured. ]irobably the same.
Expanse of wings : 30 mm.
One (? from St. Anna (Woodford).
Tielated to (i. elcctrica Warr. from Ron Island,
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r)5. Gelasma siiblustris sp. nov.
Forewings : dull olive-green, with a strong bluish sheeu ; costa yellow ; the lines dull pearl-white ; first from one-fifth of costa to one-fourth of inner margin, faintly curved; second from below two-thirds of costa to three-fonrths of inner margin, regularly crenulate ; cell-spot also dull whitish, with darker green edge; fringe glossy grey, with no marginal line.
Ilindtcings : the same, without basal line.
Underside paler, blue-grey ; fringe grey ; costa of forewings yellow. Face and palpi brown-black ; verte.x and shaft of antennae white, the pectinations forrngiuous ; thorax and collar olive-green ; abdomen ochreous.
Expanse of wings : 37 mm.
One c? from Kon Island, July 1897 (Doherty).
Altliongh from tlie same locality as Gelasma (CZ/ri/soc/iloromc) electriea, described in Xov. Zool. III. p. 363, I cannot think that it is an aberration of tliat remarkable species. They both differ from f'knjsochloroma in having four spurs to the hindtibiae in the cJ.
5(i. Gelasma unicolor sp. nov.
Forewings : uniform jjale olive-green, witli a slight iridescent sheen in certain lights ; traces of deeper green lines at one-third and two-thirds, the latter lunnlate, and more strongly marked on the veins ; fringe paler green.
Hiiu/wings : the same ; both lines angled in the middle.
Underside paler, glossy, without markings. Head, thorax, nnd abdomen concolorous ; vertex and antennae white.
Expanse of wings : 32 mm.
One ? from S. Floras, November 1896, dry season (Everett).
.57. Hemistola simplex s]). nov.
Forewings : pale green ; the costa narrowly yellowisli, and marked with slight pnrple-grey s])ecks ; no lines or cell-sj)ot expressed ; the outer line indicated by a red spot on inner margin at two-thirds ; marginal line bright red, interrupted by pale spots at the vein-ends, which are followed by red dashes in the concolorous fringe ; the marginal line is continued round the ajjex for a short distance along costa.
Hindwings : the same.
Underside whitish green. Face and palpi pale brownish ; vertex white, tliorax and abdomen pale green, the latter with an iiitorrujitcd red dorsal stripe.
Expanse of wings : 35 mm.
One c? from the Xorth Mountains, Formosa, July 1896, 1500—3000 feet (Jonas).
58. Hydata (?) dubia sji. nov.
Forewings : dull mealy green, with the liindmargin and fringe paler, yellowish- tinged, an obscure jiale space beyond cell curving to inner margin.
Hindwings : deeper green.
Underside dull greyish green ; central space of forewings paler. Head, thorax, and abdomen greenish ; vertex white, jialjii ochreous with lilack apex.
Exjianse of wings : 19 mm.
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One ? fmm Warri, Xiji-pr Coast. Protectorate, July 1807 (Dr. Rotli).
Having seen oul}- cue, and that a by no means jierfect, example of this species, J liave referred it provisionally to the American genns Ih/dtita, to some of the species of wliich it bears a certain resemblanee ; bnt it cannot remain there. Tlie liindwings have a rather strongly marked elbow in the hindraargin at the end of vein (i ; the palpi are long, horizontally porrcct, of uniform width throughout, and blunt at apex ; the short antennae (?) have the sliaft broad, loosely lamellate, rough above, and witji two rows of short claw-shaped pubescent pectinations.
no. lodis viridaurea sp. nov.
ForeicirK/s : pale translucent blne-grceu, sjieckled wilh ])ale olive; the costa finely ochreous ; lines thick, dull pale olive, very faint; first line curved, at one- fourth ; second at two-tliirds, diffuse, externally dentate, and projecting on veins 3 and 4, then incurved to two-thirds of inner margin ; marginal area dusted with similarly coloured atoms; the discocellular also olive; fringe concolorous, with faint olive dots at the base.
Ilindwinijs : without first line.
Underside glossy blue-green ; the costa pale ochreous. Face and palpi i)ale brown ; thorax and abdomen ochreons.
Expanse of wings : 23 mm.
One ? from Ron Island, July 1807 (W. Doherty).
A very delicate species.
Leucodesmia gen. nov.
Foreii:inf;s : broad ; the costa sliglitly curved : the hindmargin obliijuoly curved.
Ilituhrings : with hindmargin and ajjcx rounded, the anal angle prominent.
Antennae of c? pectinated, the apical third simple ; of ? filiform ; paljii porrect upwards ; tongue present, frenulum absent ; the hindwing rather prominently shouldered at base. Hindtibiae short, thick, with two pairs of closely approximate sjjurs.
Netirntioii : forewings, cell not half the length of wing, very broad ; dis- cocellnlar twice concave ; first median at two-thirds, second and third from end of cell ; lower radial from between the concavities of discocellular, upper from top end of cell; veins 7, 8, 0, 10 stalked; 11 free. Hind wings with discocellular oblique and straight, the radial from above its centre ; veins 6, 7, and 3, 4 stalked.
Type : Leucodesmia di.yjansa Wlk. {Comibaemt). Chloraryip-a Wlk., conclnjUaa Meyr., and minutata Drnce also belong here. I have hitherto referred them to Comostolodes, from which, however, they differ in the absence of a frenulum, and in vein 6 of forewings not beinsr stalked with 7.
GO. Leucoglyphica (?) fasciata sp. nov.
Foreirings : pearly grey, dusted with olive-green atoms ; the markings olive- green ; these consist of a basal patch, a central fascia with dentate edges, broadest ou costa, where it is paler at centre and contains the dark green cell-spot, a
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postmodian fascia witli the outer edge sinnate, followed liy n thick snbmarginal parallel line.
Ilimhviiig.-i : the same ; fringes gone.
Underside whitish. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons with gronnd- colonr.
Expanse of wings : 30 mm.
One ? from Warri, Nieer Coast Protectorate, April 1807 (Dr. Koth).
Thongh ajiparcutly a ?, judging from tlie aklomcii and long-jointed palpi, this insect has well-i)ectinated antennae. In the forcwings veins 6, 7, 8, 0, 10, 11 are stalked together, II anastomosing strongly with VZ.
I refer it to Leitcoghjphicu provisionally.
CI. Metallochlora proximata sji. nov.
Vorettiiiga : delicate green ; the costa broa<lly ycllnwisli oehreons ; from below middle of costa a deeper green slightly waved broad shade runs to beyond tlie middle of inner margin ; from three-fourths of costa a similar shade runs, strongly angled outwards towards hindmargin on vein 0, then nearly parallel and close to hindniargin to anal angle, edged externally by a line of paler green ; a row of yellowish oehreons lunules between the veins along hindmargin, each containing a pnri)lisli crescent with some purplish scales along the margin ; fringe yellowish oehreons ; cell-spot dark purple, edged with oehreons scales.
Ilindiriiuj.t : the same, without median line, and the outer line curved jiarallei to hindmargin.
Underside pale green : fringes and costa of forewing yellow. Face and palpi pale below, dull reddish above ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen green : abdomen with five dorsal metallic red-brown plates, more brilliant in the c?.
Expanse of wings : S 24 mm. ; ? 24 — 20 mm.
One S, three ? ?, from Tugela, Solomon Islands (Woodford).
Nearest to M. tlotata Warr. from Queensland, and .1/". (liji'erctis from tlie Tenimber Islands.
02. Nemoria pisina sji. nov.
Foreiving.t: bright pea-green : the costa narrowly pale ; lines whitish, the first curved above, vertical below, at one-third ; the second at two-thirds, curved below costa, then straight and oblique, parallel to hindmargin, approaching first on inner margin ; fringe white.
Uimhring^ : with the central line only.
Underside uniform whitish green. Face and palpi dull reddish above, jiale below ; vertex and shaft of antennae white : thorax and abdomen bright green.
Expanse of wings : 22 mm.
Six S (3 from .Selaru, Tenimber Islands, March and April ls97 (Micholit/.).
This species nuist come very near A', delirataria MoescLl. from Surinam. The green is very liable to fade ; of the six specimens two only are bright green, two quite bleached, and two partially worn ; in neither of the fresh specimens, nor in one of those somewhat worn, is there the slightest trace of a discal spot : but in all the other three a minute blackish spot is visible in the forewings, in one example in the hindwings also.
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i'i->. Oeuospila lucifimbi'ia s]>. nnv.
J. Foreirini/.i : deep sea-green ; tlie e.osta yellow : tlie lines ]iale Mnisli <;;rcen : first from below one-fonrtli oi" costa to bej'oinl oiie-thiril of ininM' margin, slightly waved ; second from two-tliirds of costa to two-tbirds of inner margin, irregularly dentatc-lnnnlate ; cell-spot obscurely deeper green ; marginal line thick, deep liurjile, scarcely interrupted on its outer edge by the pali^ veins : fringe glossy yellow.
lliiuliciiigs : without first line.
Underside somewhat paler ; the fringes yellow ; costa of forewing narrowly yellow. Face and j'alpi dull reddish above, paler below ; fillet white : vertex dull yellow ; shoulders, patagia, basal segments, and segmental divisions of abdomen green ; thorax and rest of abdomen dull ochreous, probably faded from green. ? pale apple-green, the lines white, and the marginal line much liner.
Expanse of wings : 29 mm.
One (?, one 9, from Tugela, Solomon Islands ("Woodford).
The worn condition of the ? may account for the difference in coloration and markings. The hindtibiae of the S are large, much thickened, with a largely expansible pencil of pale ochreous hairs, and four spurs : the tarsi short.
04. Syndromodes coerulea.
Microloxid (f) I'ocrulca Warr., Nov. Zooi,, III. p. :!0S.
This species, doubtfully referred to Mirvolcixin. must, as the ueuratiou shows, be transferred to Si/in/romoi/cs.
05. Syndromodes vivida sp. nov.
Foreiriiigs : emerald-green : the fringe green ; costal edge cream-white ; the two lines marked liy inconspicuous pale vein-dots : first at one-fourth, second at three-fourths, sinuous ; cell-spot and marginal dots minute, whitish.
liiridwings : with only the outer line. JCTnderside pale green, darkening towards costa of forewings. Face, palpi, and forelegs rufous ; vertex and shaft of antennae whit(^ ; thorax green ; abdomen ochreous, the basal segments with some red scales above.
Exjjause of wings : 23 mm.
One cf from Natal.
Near to imicolor Warr.
00. Thalassodes gigas sp. nov.
Forewint/s : jiale bluish green, finely ripi)lcd with whitish ; the costal edge finely white ; the two lines represented by diffuse whitish shades : the first narrow, and only distinct on inner margin ; the second just beyond middle broad and waved ; a very fine brown marginal line, slightly swollen at ends of veins ; fringe silvery white, with the tips mixed with brown scales.
Iliudwings : with the outer pale shade angled at vein 3, snbdentate thronghont.
Underside whitish green. Palpi whitish, pale brown above : face whitish, (?) tinged with green ; shoulders, patagia, and first segment of abdomen green ;
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tliornx and rest of alxlomen wliitisli ; forelegs tinged in front with reddish ; antennae femiginons.
Expanse of wings : 54 rum.
One ? from Tugela, Solomon Ishmds (Woodford).
Allied to T. marimiriu Guen., and immissaria Wlk.
07. Uliocnemis elegans sp. nov.
Foiriri7if/s : emerald-green, deeper towards base ; the costa white from near base to three-fourths ; a minnte blackish cell-dot ; lines tine, white ; first from below onc-fiflh of costa, angled on submediau fold, indistinct and vague above, thicker and plain on inner margin ; second from three-fonrtlis of costa straight to tl\e top of a small pinkish blotch at anal angle, which it margins internally ; from the costa to the lower radial this line is faintly w-aved ; snbmarginal line waved, incurved from apex to hindmargin below vein 4, and again to the anal blotcli, which it traverses as three blackisli Inuules, the centre one itself being followed by a distinct black luuule : fringe greyish green, with a fine white basal line; four minute black marginal dots, three subapical, and the fourth below vein 4.
Jlindwinffs : with elongate white cell-spot ; a larger pinkish blotch at apex, bordered internally by the outer white line, which to vein 5 is oblii^ue and wavy, thence turning at a right angle straight to inner margin above anal angle ; snb- marginal line as in forewings, ending in quite a small pale blotch at anal angle containing a large black spot ; two small black marginal dots in the apical blotch : fringe as in forewings.
Underside greenish white, more green in the basal two-thirds ; cell-sjjot and marginal dots of forewings and ajsical blotch of hindwings black ; costa whitish in both wings. Palpi very long, second joint whitish, tinged externally witli greenish ; terminal joint darker ; face green : fillet and antennae white ; thorax (damaged) apparently green, with a white blotch behind; abdomen on dorsum green, with a central white stripe; anal segments and sides wliiti'; tlie antennae in the ? strongly pectinated.
Expanse of wings : 33 mm.
One ? from St. Aignan, November ISOT (Meek).
Allied to L'. partita AVlk., and caUiptrra Moyr., distinguished by the absence of any wliite suffusion ; but vein 5 of the forewings, between outer and submarginal lines, is marked with white. The hindwings have the hindmargin rounded.
68. Uliocnemis pulchella sp. nov.
Forewings : pale yellowish green, thickly powdered in parts with white ; costa irregularly pale grev-brown, towards base somewliat varied with the white scales ; first line at one-fourth obscure ; grey-brown and obliijne, almost horizontal, outwards to below subcostal, then green across the white scales, and marked by a brown spot on the snbmedian fold ; outer line finely white, and irregularly dentate, from three-fourths of costa to three-fourths of inner margin, parallel to hindmargin, edged internally by grey-brown below costa; below vein 5 this line forms an acute angle inwards, its apex being marked by a triangular dark greenish grey spot : submarginal line thick, white, slightly bent at middle, starting from a white blotch at anal angle and diverging from hindmargin, above vein T finer and retracted to
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costa ; a slight wliite cloud from outer Hue at veiu 0 to apex : uiargiual line white preceded by darker greeu spots bctweeu the veins, each of which is joined to subraargiual Hue by whitish scales ; fringe greyish white.
llindicintjs : whitish at base, with a broad greeu curved baud before middle, edged by a white baud aud powdered with white scales, which become fewer towards the submarginal line ; this is broaiUy white and ruus from apex to aual angle, close before the hindmargin, which is like that of forewings ; cell-spot white, indistinct.
Underside of forewiugs white ; the costa, as above, grey-brown ; au elongated roundish greeu blotch bej-ond cell, aud two subcostal greeu blotches before apex ; the disc slightly powdered with greeu ; the spot beyond cell below vein o and the marginal spots olive-green ; fringe whitish grey : Hndwings and the friuge wholly white ; marginal spots dark olive. Palpi olive-brown, each joint tipped with white ; face olive-brown, edged above and below with white ; vertex aud shaft of antennae white ; shoulders olive-brown iu front, white at apex ; patagia aud thorax white : abdomeu greenish with white belts.
Expanse of wings : 35 mm.
One ? from Bon Island, July iN'.iT (Doherly).
The hiudwings are slightly toothed at veiu 4 ; antennae .subscrratc, with fascicles of cilia.
A delicate species, superficially something like f". chul^heata Moore. ■
GO. Uliocnemis woodfordi sp. nov.
Forewings : pea-greeu ; the costa narrowly white excei't at base ; the hues very slender, white; first from below one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin, bluntly angled in cell and on submediau fold ; second line from three-fourths of costa to three-fourths of inner margin, straight, but finely and regularly lunulate ; submargiual line irregularly lunulate outwards, touching hiudmargin at a white spot between veins 3 and 4 ; friuge white, pale green towards base beyond a whitish marginal line : cell-spot minute, red-brown.
Ilindtcinys : with cell-spot white : outer Hue less regularly luuulate, bent at vein 4, and above it forming a broad white dentate edge to a brown and lilac-grey apical blotch ; submarginal line as in forewings, becoming a dark brown-shade through the apical blotch ; a small black dot at the end of veins 0 aud 7. These also are present on forewiugs, but very minute.
Underside whitish green ; brighter green iu forewings from base to second Hue, which, as well as the cell-dot, is distinctly marked ; hiudwings with small brown apical blotch. Palpi white, green-tinged above ; face green ; fillet and vertex white ; shonlders, patagia, and basal segments of abdomen green ; thorax and a central dorsal Hue on abdomen together with the anal segments white.
Expanse of wings : 6 20 — 2y mm. ; ? ;J2 mm.
Four i (J, one ? , from Tngela, Solomon Islands (Woodford).
The ? has the apical blotch of hiudwings larger, purple aud grey, instead of browu and lilac.
Distinguished by the straight second line and absence of anal blotch ou forewinjis.
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Subfamily STEUHHINAE. Til. Chrysocraspeda concentrica sp. nov.
J'orciriixjx : (lull jiiiik, thickly covered with dull red .strigue. which aloiij^ costa uud more broadly along hiiidmiirgin are condensed into a dull inu'ijlish suft'iision ; a curved dull red line at four-fifths, indistinct towards costa, with the pinkish gronnd-colonr paler on each side of it ; liindmargin narrowly yellow, ])oiuted at a})ex ; the edge of the red ground-colour irregularly crenulate and brighter ; a dnll j)ale cell-spot ; fringe yellow.
IliiKliciiiij.'! : with a small round dull red basal patch, edged and centred with darker ; a thick curved dull red line at two-thirds ; the rest as in forewings ; but the whole of the central area paler, not dusted with red.
Underside duller. Face deep red above, paler below ; vertex, antennae, and basal segments of abdomen dark red ; thorax and abdomen generally pinkish.
Expanse of wings : 23 mm.
One (? from St. Aiguan, November 1897 (Meek).
Like ('. regalis sp. nov., with the yellow hindmargiual band uninterrupted in middle.
Another S from Woodlark Island, March 1897 (Meek), has the whole wing deep red.
71. Chrysocraspeda croceomarginata Warr., Nov. Zool. III. p. 370.
AVben describing this species from South Java, I had only a ?. Along with a second ? , evidently referable to this s])ecies, since received from Tambora, Island of Sambawa, came also three S 6 , captured at the same time, and presumably the same species. These diifer rather considerably from the ? ? , and might easily be taken for a distinct species. The ground-colour is a paler greyer rosy, but thickly speckled with deeper ; the costa, deej) red at base, becomes yellow, in one instance broadly yellow, towards apex ; beyond the red cell-spot there are traces in both wings towards the costa of an outwardly bent deep red postmediau line ; the rosy tint reaches the hindmargiu, and there becomes deep red, leaving only some very shallow Innulate sjiaces of yellow between the veins. lu the ? the hindmargin is broadly yellow, with a red tooth at middle to the margin. In the hindwings of the S S the white discal spot is continued, but less markedly, to the base of tlie discocellular.
Three SS, one ?, from Tambora, Island of Sambawa, June 189G, 2500—4001) feet (Uoherty).
72. Chrysocraspeda regalis sp. nov.
ForewiiKjs : bright blood-red, very finely speckled with thirkcr, wit iiout mark- ings ; hindmargin narrowly yellow, acutely pointed at apex and anal angle ; edge of red ground-colour irregularly crenulate and brighter red ; fringe yellow.
Ilin(hrin(j» : the same, but witli a silvery white oval cell-spot. In both wings the red ground-colour assumes a deeper, more purplish tint before the yellow hindmargin.
Underside precisely similar, but paiei' and dulli-r. Head, vertex, antennae, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings.
Expanse of wings : 30 mm.
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One c? from St. Aignau, October Is'.) 7 (Meek).
The liiudmargius of botli wings are romideil ; the red ground- colour does uot 2)rotrude in the middle into the yellow border and fringe.
To. Craspedia albilarvata sp. uov.
Forcir/'/K/s : silk}' white, uniformly dusted with minute bhukisli scales.
Iliudiciiiijs ■■ the same ; fringe of both wings white.
Underside of forewiugs tinged with grey-brown along eosta and on basal half ; traces of two curved and wavy brownish Hues beyond middle ; costa 3-ellowish ; hindwings with an obscure cell-spot. Face and palpi brown above, white beneath : vertex, thorax, and abdomen white.
E.xpanse of wings : 20 mm.
One c? from Keeluug, Formosa, August l.s'JG (Jonas).
In certain lights traces cau be detected of two pale ochreous curved and waved lines beyond middle : possibly in well-marked, fresh specimens they may be plainer. The hindmargin of hindwings is bluntly elbowed in miildle.
T4. Craspedia dissimulans sp. nov.
Fon'wi//(/s: white, s})arsely sprinkled with black atoms: costal edge finely ochraceous, broader towards apex ; lines ochraceous : first very faint, from about one-fourth of inner margin oblicpie to cell, where it fades out ; second line distinct, brownish ochraceous, from below costa shortly before apex to just beyond middle of inner margin fringe ochraceous, the tips browner : cell-spot faint, ochraceous.
IlindiriiKjs : with the line central : fringe and cell-spot as in forewings.
Underside white, without markings. Face and njiper edge of jialpi black- brown : palpi pale below : vertex, basal third of autennal shaft, and collar ochraceous ; thorax and abdomen white.
Expanse of wings : iin mm.
One ? from Warri, Niger Coast Protectorate, May Is'.) 7 (Dr. Roth).
Attention should be drawn to the extraordinary resemblance between this insect and Leucetaera simjAiciata Wlk. from India and Borneo. lu dissimulans the costa of forewings is more broadly ochraceous towards apex ; the outer line of forewings is unite straight, and on hindwings runs to nearly middle of inner mai'gin. In slmpliciata the costa of forewings is darker and more broadly ochraceous near base ; the outer line of forewings is notched ou the veins towards the costa, and in the hindwings reaches the abdominal margin at one-third from anal auglc. The neuration, of course, will at once distinguish the sjiecies.
J>issimiihtiis belongs to a grouj) of species of simple markings, of which five others already described by me occur in Africa : viz. laccijje/inis from the Camcroons ; mcUijlua from X;ital ; and Jlai:i-'<Hiiiia, jii/raliata, and transscda from AVarri.
7.J. Craspedia habilis sp. nov.
J'o/rwi/tgs : bone-colour, dusted with very tine fuscous atoms, particularly towards hindmargin ; a slender, slightly tremulous, fuscous line from iive-sixths of costa to two-lhirds of inner margin, reti'acted a little towards costa : a minute dark cell-spot ; fringe concolorous, with a tine dark line at base.
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Jlimlainys : with the line ceutval, beyond the small cell-spot.
Underside paler, glossy, without dnstiug ; the ibrewings grey-tinged towards costa, and with traces of the line ; no cell-spot ; fringe-line more distinct than above ; hindwings without markings. Face and palpi black-brown ; collar dull ferruginous : vertex, thorax, and abdomen bone-colour.
Expanse of wings : 'Zi\ mm.
One 6 from Warri, Miger Coast Protectorate, May 189T (\)v. Koth).
Hindwings with the hindmargin visibly elbowed at middle.
70. Eois roseocincta sp. nov.
Forewings : olive-ochreons, with two broad oblique deep rosy fasciae : the first from inner margin near base, reaching costa in middle, where it extends from one- third to two-thirds, and contains a small space of the ground-colour in the centre : the second marginal ; fringe deep rosy : cell-spot small, dark, ou the outer edge of central fascia.
Hindwings: with the outer and abdominal margin rosy ; fringe rosy, with a darker tint at base : cell-spot black, following a slight rosy basal blnsli.
Underside duller, the rosy tiuts more dillnsed. Face and palpi dark brown- red : fillet white : thorax and abdomen olive, the latter almost wholly suffused with rosy.
Expanse of wings : 16 mm.
One ? from Dar-es-Salaam, German East Africa.
Both wings elongate and narrow ; the two subcostals in the hindwings not stalked. Unfortunately all the legs of the only specimen are broken off.
Near Eois extjaisita AVarr. from the Upper Shir6 River, but the rosy tints of the forewings quite differeutly arranged.
77. Perixera lapidata sp. nov.
Forewings : pale stone-colour, finely dusted with blackish atoms ; the lines more distinct than usual ; first at one-fonrth, marked by dark grey dots ou veins, outcurved above aud below the median vein : outer line at five-sixths, dark grey, subdentate, the teeth darker ; submarginal line ])ale between two darker shades formed of denser atoms ; a row of marginal black spots ; fringe coiuolorous.
llinduings : similar ; both wings with small black cell-spot.
Underside without dusting : exterior and marginal rows of sjjots blackish ; a reddish grey suffusion in cell of forewing reaching to the costa. Palpi dark red above, pale below ; face olive-fuscous above, jiale below : head, antennae, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings, the abdomen more dusted with grey.
Expanse of wings : 34 mm.
One i from 8t. Aignau, Louisiade Arch., November l.s'.t7 (Meek).
Distinguished by the entire absence of red scaling, except the ujiper side of palpi. The hindtibiue are simple, without fringe of hairs.
78. Perixera venusta sp. nov.
Foreu-inf/s : pale greyish ochreous, with dense dusting of fine dark grey atoms ; first line obscure, grey, twice curved, marked by dark dots ou the veins ; cell-spot black ; outer line at five-sixths grey, denticulate, the tectli denoted by dark dashes ou the veins ; beyond the cell-spot is a distinct sinuate fascia of grey-edged orange
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lunnlet, not reaching above vein 6 ; and beyond the outer line a less conspicnonsly orange fascia, interrupted above and below the middle ; margin beyond the pale subterminal line more thickly dusted with grey : a marginal ro^v■ of black spots between veins, and a row of smaller dots at the vein-ends : fringe concolorous.
lliralicijujs : the same ; the submargiual band less orange.
Underside whiter ; spots of the outer and marginal line distinct ; costa of fore- wings greyish at base, with a rufous subcostal edge. Palpi above deep red ; face fuscous above, paler below ; vertex and antennae white ; thora.x and abdomen pale ochreons, dusted like wings.
E.xpause of wings : 30 mm.
Five <Si, two ? ?, from St. Aignau, September — November 1897 (Meek).
This species is allied to F. cretacea Warr. from Woodlark Island, but in that the ground-colour is chalk-white and the markings less distinct. The hindfemora are smooth, not clothed vnth curved hairs.
T9. Pisoraca inornata Warr., Nov. Zool. V. p. :,'41.
This species was described from ? ? only. The d, whicli 1 have now seen, is a true Pisoraca as far as the spurs of the hindtiliiae are concerned ; but whereas in leonaria Wlk. only the hindfemora are clothed with curled hairs, in inoniata the hindtibiae are also clothed on the inner side with a very dense brush of hairs, which almost conceal the single spur. This single 6 is much less marked than the ? ? , the median shade being quite absent, and only the vein-dots of the inner and outer lines distinct. It was taken at Warri, at the same date as the ? ?, Ijy Dr. Roth.
Si I. Problepsis albidior nom. uov.
Prohlepsis apollinaria Butler, III. Lcji. Iht. VII. j). 7 {ncc Gueu.).
Problepsis deliaria Hmjisn., Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, III. p. 462 (jiec Guen.).
The specimens from Kulu, described by Mr. Butler under the above name, difi'er from (leliaria Guen., to which species they are referred by Hampson, I.e., in having the ocellus of forewing larger, rounder, and paler, and in their larger size (40 mm.), whereas Guenee gives 34 mm. for that of deliaria ; in all other respects Guenee's description of deliaria applies well. I have lately met with a ? from Ichang which undoubtedly belongs to the same form.
81. Ptochophyle tristicula ab. fasciata nov.
Along with seven others, all i S , of this species, four from St. Aignau and tliree from Goodenough Island, is a single e.xample from the latter locality which differs so much from the usual slightly marked type form that it deserves to be named. In the forewing the space between the median shade and submarginal line is filled up with rufous brown, forming a broad fascia, in the inner concave edge of which lies the black cell-spot. This fascia i^ enlarged on the hindwing so as to embrace all the anal area, leaving only the apical and basal areas yellowish ; the white cell- dot of the hindwing lies within the fascia. By way of compensation the j-ellow areas appear to lie less densely strigulated with rufous thiui in the typical forms, so that the contrast between the two shades i» heighleued.
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&•-. Traminda submarginata sp. uov.
Forewings : pinkish ochreons, more or less densely covered with very tine short transverse reddish striae ; a small linear reddish cell-spot, often obscure, or even unmarked ; an obliqao, outwardly pale-edged reddish line from three-fifths of inner margin to four-fifths of costa, generally obsolete before costa, followed shortly by a curved cloudy shade, marked by red dashes on veins, generally, like the preceding line, obsolete before costa ; in one strongly marked example these red dashes arc prolonged along the nervnles to their origin ; fringe concolorons, with sometimes a red speck at apex.
Hindwings : similar ; the cell-spot oval, white ; fringe sometimes with a red speck at the angle.
Underside pale ochreoas, finely dusted with reddish, with a dift'use vinous submargiual fascia, incomplete on hindwings. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons ; the face somewhat darker.
Expanse of wings : 24 ram.
Three ? ? from Tambora, Sambawa, June 1896, 25un_4OU0 feet (Doherty).
Forewings with hindmargin sinuons, the bend at vein 4 inconspicuous ; the angle of hindwings not acute.
Subfamily ASTHENINAE. Asthenotricha gen. uov.
Foreivhigs : broad, triangular ; the costal, hind, and inner margins all curved ; the apex prominent ; hindmargin subcrenulate.
Hindwings : with the costa strongly and broadly shouldered along inner half, hindmargin curved and subcrenulate ; anal angle square.
Antennae lamellate, serrate beneath and pubescent ; palpi short ; tongue and frenulum present ; basal two-thirds of costal area of hindwings above clothed with mealy scales, with a long oblique tuft of hairs rising from near base of shoulder.
Neuration : forewings, cell barely half as long as wing ; discocellular concave, the lower half oblique ; first median at two-thirds, second at seven-eighths ; radials normal; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 11 anastomosing with them to form a simple areole. Hindwings, with costal anastomosing with subcostal for two-thirds of cell ; the subcostal nervnles not stalked. . .
Type : Asthenotricha dentatissima sp. nov.
83. Asthenotricha dentatissima sp. nov.
Forewings: deep yellow, tinged with reddish fulvous, and crossed by many largely dentate fulvous lines, of which the antemedian and postmediau are marked with purplish fuscous; cell-spot purplish ; fringe yellow, with a fine fulvous line at base.
Hindwings : similar ; the mealy scales and tuft of hair brick-red.
Underside pale glossy yellowish, without markings. Thorax and abdomen like wings ; head parts damaged.
Expanse of wings : 30 mm.
One 6 from Mpwapwa, German East Africa.
The only example is not in a good state of preservation ; there appears to be a deeper fulvous streak in both wings through the cell to hindmargin, marked in places with still darker scales.
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SuBFAOTLT TRiCHOPTERYGINAE. Anisocolpia gen. no v.
Foreici/i(/s : like Jidmoi/c.s ; the 6 having an incision on hindmargin above anal angle.
Hinclwings : of ti with a single large lobe at base of inner margin, covered by a membranons lid : the hindmargin blimtly rounded above vein G ; two of the lower veins absent ; costal anastomosing with .subcostal be3-ond the end of cell. Hindtibiae of (? contorted, the tarsi short ; palpi long, porrect..
Type : A. ignobilis Butler.
84. Carige combinata sp. nov.
Forewings : olive-ochreous, thickly dusted with fine black atoms ; the lines all double, somewhat diflfuse, dark olive-fuscous mixed with rufous ; first straight and vertical, from two-fifths of costa to two-fifths of inner margin ; second from three- fourths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, bent outwards in middle of wing ; third line from below apex to anal angle, bent inwards at middle to join the second line, and followed there by an obscure submarginal line ; cell-spot black ; fringe ochreous.
Hiiuhvings : pale ochreous, with grey striae and suffusion ; an indistinct double curved grey postmediau, and blotched submarginal line ; cell-spot dark grey.
Underside yellower, with all the markings reproduced. Head, thorax, and alxlomen concolorous.
Expanse of wings : 30 mm.
One c? from S. Flores, November 180(i, dry season (Everett).
The central pectinations of the antennae unusually long and with long ciliations.
8.5. Coptogonia lucens sp. nov.
Forewings ; bright moss-green, crossed by numerous dull histrous lines, those beyond the middle all bent in below the median and running parallel to the indenta- tion in tlie margin ; of the dark green spaces one subbasal, one antemedian, one just beyond middle, a postmedian and a submarginal, are deeper green than the rest, the last three marked with purplish black below costa, beyond cell, and at submedian fold ; the bladdery fovea at three-fourths of inner margin, which marks the end of the submedian vein, marked above by silvery white scales, surrounded with purplish black streaks ; fringe mixed green and lustrous.
Hindwings ; grey, darker towards apex ; the first lobe small and bladdery, the second ochreous, the third dark grey.
Underside greenish grey, darker towards hindmargin. Head, palpi, and thorax green ; abdomen ochreous green ; antennae black ; tufts of abdomen ochreous.
Expanse of wings : 30 mm.
One i from Woodlark Island, March 1807 (Meek), in very good condition.
Differs from C. tarpipennis Warr. from Batchian, the type -of the genus, in having the anal angle not lobed, and the projection below vein 4 on hiiidwing more decidedlv hooked.
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Episteira gen. nov.
Agrees with Steiropkom Wan-. <and S>/nHeurocles nov. gen. in having a keel beneath abdomen in the S, but possessing in addition a folded and scaled semi- erect lobe at base of biudwiugs ; the palpi are four times as long as head, rongh- scaled, the second joint four times the length of third ; legs shorter and stouter, hindtibiae without spurs. In the hindwings the cell is very wide and short, not being ouc-third of wing ; discocellular concave ; costal appro.ximated to subcostal for nearly the whole length of cell, and there joined by a bar ; vein 0 rises from end of subcostal, which is shortly bent towards extremity, vein 7 rising from the bend and running straight to an angle in hindmargiu, vein G reaching hiudmargin at middle ; vein 4 from lower angle of cell, veins 1, 2, 3 all absent.
Type : Episteira colli goto. sp. nov.
86. Episteira coUigata sp. nov.
Forewings ; bright pale green, tinged in parts with deep green, the markings in the main purplish or black ; the pale ground-colour is confined to the basal patch, a narrow sinuous space in the middle, containing the large oblique oval black cell- spot, a submarginal band, and a horizontal ray along veins 3 and 4 ; between the basal area, which has a black spot on the median, and the central pale space are si.x creuulated purplish black partially forked lines, the ground-colour between them being darker green and the outermost one sinuous ; beyond the centre are six sinuous minutely dentate narrower lines ; a submarginal line of dark blotches, and a marginal line of squarish spots ; from the cell-spot a ray of dull violet runs along the lower radial to hindmargin, and a slight violet-tinge is visible along vein •,' ; fringe green.
Ilindwimjs : fuscous, the cell semitransparent and paler.
Underside dull cinereous. Head, thorax, and abdomen green ; antennae wholly ochraceous ; pali)i ])ale green, marked above with i'uscous scales.
Expanse of wings : 34 mm.
One S from S. Floras, November 1896, dry season (Everett).
87. Holorista (?) spectabilis sp. nov.
Forewi)igi : pale dull olive-green, dusted with darker ; a darker line near base, angnlated on the veins ; a darker spot on costa before middle, from which a double dark line rises, oblique outwards to the median, then inwards, describing a strong angle on the submedian fold towards the basal line ; two double lines beyond the middle, strongly dentate, olive-green below costa, then marked with black along the veuas and touching the autemedian line in the middle ; a partially double sub- marginal line, forming blackish teeth on the veins and green ones between them : a similar marginal line, the black teeth on the veins touching the black marginal spots ; fringe olive-green.
Hindaimjs : deep pink, with a large oval coal-ljlack blotch occupying the centre of the wing ; the lobe and the hyaline space covered by it very ample, the edge of the lobe thickened, deep red.
Underside of forewings olive-green suffused with jiinkish, with a black blotcli at base of the three median nervules corresponding to that on the upperside of the hindwings ; hindwings pink. Head, thorax, and abdomen olive-green ; legs tinged with puikish. The palpi arc three time.i as long as Lhc head, laterally llattened
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and thickly frinijed above and below witli long sligbtly curved hairs ; hindlegs long, withont sjinrs, and with a Innj; tnft of pink hairs from the femoro-tibiaj joint ; there appear also to be the rndiinents of a very short Iceel at base of abdomen ; the antennae are broken olf.
Expanse of wings : ;iT nini.
One 6 from Natal, wliicli may probably re((nii'i' a separate gcnns.
f!i8. Remodes (?) rubriplaga sp. nov.
Forewiiu/s : pale green, with broad darker green vertical liands ; the postmedian band, between vein 4 and the snbmedian fold, filled with brii-l;-red scales.
Ilimhvings : suffused with dnll rosy thronL;hout.
Underside of both wings suffused with rosy. Head, palpi, and thorax green ; abdomen more ochreous ; antennae black.
Expanse of wings : 32 mm.
One ? from Tiaiwui, Obi, September ISOT (Doherty).
The only example is much wasted ; but the red patch on the jwstmedian Iwnd and the rosy-tinged hindwings leave no room lo donbf thedisdnciiies^ of tiie species.
Syuneurodes gen. nov.
liike Steiro)iJuwa, with a keel lieneath the basal segments of abdomen in the c?, the liindwings without a lobe ; differing, first, in the extreme shortness, as compared witli the rest of the group, of the palpi, which reach only a little in front of face, and are rostriform, with the terminal joint decumbent, and, secondly, in the nenration of the hindwings in the 6 ; cell half as long as wing ; discocellular well-angulated ; costal anastomosing with subcostal till close to end of cell ; the two subcostals together from upper end ; radial from the angulation of discocellular ; all three median nervules as well as vein 1 complete ; the hindmargin is bluntly angled at vein 7. Legs long and slender ; hindtibiae witli minute terminal spurs.
Type : St/)iitcurodcs hreripalpis sp. nov.
SO. Synneurodes brevipalpis sp. nov.
Forcn-irxjn : pale green, with the transverse lines dark green and purplish black ; basal area edged by a doulile thick blackish line, becoming green below snbmedian vein, and containing a single tiiick black line, which below the snbmedian is oblique outwards ; central fascia more regular than usual, and not oblique ; its inner and outer edge marked within by blackisli luuules or spots at the veins, and with a double crennlate black line down the centre, the inner and outer edges being themselves double towards costa ; a double somewhat obscure blackish lunulate submarginal fascia, blotched beyond cell : followed by a single line of dark Y-shaped spots, and a row of marginal lunules ; the pale bauds throughout traversed by a waved grey-green line ; fringe green ; cell-spot small, between the two middle crennlate lines.
Iliiuhcivgs : semitransparent, greyish fuscous, darker towards hindmargin.
Underside smoky cinereous, with the dark fasciae all showing through. Head, thorax, and abdomen (apparently) green ; basal segment of abdomen and metn- thorax each with a black ring ; antennae annnlated above, fuscons and green, ochraceons below ; palpi darker beneath.
Expanse of wings : 34 mm.
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One c? from S. Flores. November 1806, dry season (Everett). Much resembling /S. punctatissima Warr., bnt the Ibrewings are not so narrow and elongate, nor the hindmargin and the markings so obliqne.
Subfamily TEPHROCLYSTIINAE. 00. Chloroclystis fragilis sji. nov.
Forririnqs : whitish, with the lines and markings ]):ile olis'e-oclireons ; the basal line and the edges of the central fascia marked with blackish scales ; first line at one-third, cnrved, and slightly waved ; second at two-thirds, bluntly angled on vein 4 ; the first followed, and the second preceded, by an olive fascia, the space between traversed by u waveil line : the central fascia is preceded and followed by a broad pale fascia, also traversed by a waved olive line : submarginal line pale, waved, preceded by an olive band marked by tlurker scales at costa and beyon<l cell, and followed by a paler band ; marginal line dark, interrupted ; fringe concolorous.
Hinchvinys : similar, bnt the postmedian line more sharply angled.
Underside pale whitish ochreons, with the markings faint. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with ground-colour of wings ; the pnlpi, thorax, and abdomen varied with olive-ochreons.
E.^panse of wings : 14 mm.
Two JcJ from St. Aignan, September ISOT (Meek).
91. Chloroclystis infuscata sp. nov.
Foreivinys : dull greenish overlaid with fuscous, so thickly that only the edges of a darker central fascia can be made out, being limited by faintly paler bands ; a dark marginal line, interrupted by paler spots on the veins ; fringe fnscous.
IJiiidwingi : the same.
Underside paler, less clouded with fuscous ; a thick dark shade just beyond the middle, angled in centre : a cloudy roundish cell-spot ; liindmargin more fuscous ; the fringe paler, slightly greenish-tinged, with darker chequerings. Head, thorax, and abdomen dull greenish.
Expanse of wings : 21 mm.
One ? from Baram, Borneo, October 1891 (Everett).
92. Chloroclystis marmorata sj). nov.
Foreicings: dull white ; the basal area tinged with pale ochreous and dusted with black scales ; a broad median fascia dark grey, the edges broadly, and a central line narrowly, still darker, followed by a broad pale fascia with a grey central line ; the inner edge of the median fascia is well curved, the outer strongly indented oiiposite the cell and on submedian fold ; marginal area smoky grey, with faint indications of a pale waved submarginal line ; fringe pale grey, with a still paler base beyond a very fine dark grey marginal line.
Hindicings : similar, only the outer edge of median fascia plainly marked.
Underside whitish grey, with faint markings. Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish : palpi dark at tips ; abdomen with a dark ring at base and the segmental divisions darker.
E.vpanse of wings : 1 7 mm.
Two ? ? from Warri, June 1897 (Dr. Koth).
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03. Megatheca (?) ampla sp. nov.
Forewings : dull pale green ; the transverse lines dark grey and blackish ; b.isal area and central fascia dnsted with blackish, and edged by blackish lines ; central fascia with three internal denticnlate lines, the outer two grey, the inner one lilackish, forming with the inner edgeadarkcr narrower Viand : the i)al(' green liands preceding and following tlie central fascia traversed by a grey thread ; subniargiiial line indistinct, preceded by a darker, externally Innulate-edged liand ; a row of dark marginal Innnles ; fringe greenish.
Hiiifhrinqs : the same, without basal jiatcli ; the lines of the central fascia invisible.
Underside duller ; forewings with large dark cell-spot, which on the upper side is lost in the inner edge of central fascia. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey- green.
Expanse of wings : 22 ram.
One ? from Lombok, 1500 feet, June 1896 (Everett).
As the specimen is a ? , its location is doubtful : but it bears the prominent forehead oi MtyKtlieca.
Genus PasipWla Meyr., Tr. N. Z. T„st. 1883. p. 66.
Heln.-itiode.': Warr., Nov. Zool. II. p. 110.
In proposing the genus Ilelustiodes, I stated that the antennae of the i were pectinated. This is not correct. They are biciliated with fine fascicles of cilia ; and as the type species hilineolatit ^Vlk. was put forward by Jlr. Meyrick as the type of his genus Pasiphilu, which he afterwards sunk to CIdorocbjstis, it follows that if the species with fasciculate antennae are separated from Ckloroclystis, as I think they should be, his name Pasipliila must stand for the genus.
Prorocorys gen. nov.
Agreeing in nenration with Chlorochjstis, veins 10 and 11 of forewings stalked, 11 anastomosing strongly with 12, and 10 with 8, 9. Antennae of ? short, thick, lamellate. Distinguished by the structure and scaling of the palpi ; these are long and porrect, as in Rhimprora, but instead of being smoothly scaled the scales are rough and thickened at the end of first and second joints into a projecting crest, the third joint alone smoothly scaled, its shaft narrow, swelling out into a lengthened clnb.
The lines of the wings formed of lustrous metallic scales.
Type : Prorocorys gemmcda sp. nov.
ti4. Prorocorys gemmata sp. nov.
Forewings : gronnd-colonr pale yellow, bnt almost hidden by rich red-brown suffusion and dnsting ; a roundish blotch in the end of cell, a submarginal series of wedge-shaped spots, and the extreme hindmargin and fringe alone remaining yellow ; a steely spot at base ; basal and subbasal strongly dentated and ontcurvcd steely lines : median and postmedian much interrupted and less dentated lines : a very sinuous and broader outer line, and a wedge-shaped submarginal line, all
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steely : the veins lie^vond the middle are marked with black ; the yellow frinje is slightly mottled with darker at the ends of some of the veins.
Jliiu/u'i/if/s : similar : the yellowish cell-blotch with another between it and the inner margin.
Underside dnll brownish ciuereons, with the cell-blotcbes, hindmargiu, and fringes paler. Thorax and abdomen like wings, a mixtnre of red-brown, yellow, and steely scales ; basal and anal segments of ubdomcn yellower ; .shoulders and collar yellow, speckled with brownish ; vertex yellowish, with a steely spot in middle ; face yellow, with two red spots above ; palpi yellowish, with the ends of all the joints brown.
Expanse of wings : 30 mm.
One ? from Tngela, Solomon Islands (Woodford).
The single ? is qnite perfect, and a very remarkable-looking insect.
!!.'). Tephroclystia devestita sp. nov.
ForeiviiH/s : grey, slightly rnfons-tinged ; the rrosslinos indistinctly marked, commencing as darker spots on the costa, and all angleil below the subcostal vein : traces of basal, antemedian, and median lines, the tirst close to base, the second at one-third, forming the inner edge of the broad central fascia ; outer line ditfuse at two-thirds, the upper arm concave, the lower straight and oblique ; followed by a broad jiale fascia, with its edges and a dark line down its centre parallel to the onter line : marginal area rather darker, with the submarginal line pale and indistinct, preceded by slight dark dashes on the veins ; the marginal area on the costa marked by two dark spots, of which that following the pale fascia is conspicuous ; fringe concolorous, with darker line at base.
Ilindwings : with the onter lines curved.
Underside duller and greyer. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings.
Expanse of wings : 18 mm.
One J from Kampala, Uganda, January .'."ith — oOth, ls97 (Dr. Ansorge).
An inconspicuous species, much resembling T. tenHioM of Europe.
Oii. Tephroclystia medionotata sp. nov.
Forewings : ochreons grey, with very obscure traces of the usual obliijue jiale and dark lines ; a diffuse paler streak from near base along centre of wing to hindmargiu below apex ; crossing this streak in the middle of the wing, the pale ochreons lines become white and the darker grey ones blackisji ; a fine black interrupted marginal line ; fringe grey, silky, with jiale base, and two darker grey lines ; a faint dark cell-spot.
fJindu'inf/s : with hardly any markings.
Underside grey, dusted with dnrker. Head, thorax, and abdomen ashy grey.
Expanse of wings : "JS mm.
Two <? c? from Kukn-nor, Thibet.
Both wings are very narrow and elongate ; hinclmargin of forewing very oblique, as long as inner margin. Ilindwings with apex rounded, and anal angle almost obsolete.
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Si-nFAMii.Y HYORIOMENINAE. Chaetolopha sen. nov.
Forcwmf/s : narrow, elongate ; co.sta ronvex before apex, which is acnte and sliglitly prodnceil : hiudiuargiii oblique, curved towards anal angle.
llindiriiKjx : with well-rounded hindmargiu.
Antennae of S nearly isimple ; palpi jiorrecl, rough : hindtibiiie with four spurs.
Ncunition : as in 'rriihrocl>jMi" : in and 11 stalked, 10 anastomosing with s, 0, and forming a single arcole. ])iseocellnlar of hindwings angled. The abdomen of 6 bears curved lateral tufts of hair, and a similar tuft stands on vein 'I of the hindwings beneath.
Type : Chaetolopha owi/ntis Meyr. {Scordylia).
97. Ochyi'ia minuta sp. nov.
Forewinqs : dull bronzy brown ; the edge of the basal patch, the central fascia, and the edge of the snbmarginal line deeper-coloured than the intervals : the lines edging the basal patch and median fascia, as well as the snbmarginal line, irregularly w.avy, finely bluish wjiite : fringe concolorous : a large dark cell-sjiol.
lliiidiriii(/s : dull grey, \\\{\\ darker fringe.
Underside dull cinereous. Head, tliorax, and abdnmeu like wings.
Expanse of wings : 14 mm.
Two <SS from Moroka, Britisli New (Juiuea, October 189.3, aoOU feet (Anthony).
Unusually small for the genus. The antennae strongly serrate and ciliated.
98. Photoscotosia multiplicata Warr., Nov. Zool. V. p. 28, and ab. atrifasciata nov.
The two ? ? from Mount Arjnno, Java, from which the- description was taken were both worn. I have since seen three quite fresh examples from the same locality, two being S6. The S6 are rather paler both above and below than the ? ? ; the colour of the central fascia above is dull reddish brown, the basal and marginal areas being tinted with grey-green. One of the S <S is, however, very different from the typical form, and may be distinguished as ab. (ifrifusi-iata. In this the basal patch and central fascia are smoky blackish brown, while the space between them as well as the marginal area is dull reddish brown, all the lines being very obscure and undefined.
Propithex gen. nov.
Forewings : elongate, narrow : costa slightly curved throughout : apex rounded ; hindmargiu obliquely curved.
Hiyulwinys : narrow ; the apex rounded.
Antennae of cJ simple ; eyes large ; palpi porrect, second joint very long gradually narrowing ; third short ; frenulum very tine ; hindtibiae with four spurs.
Seiiration : forewings, cell not half as long as wing ; discocellular vertical for two-thirds, then oblique ; first median nervule at two-thirds, second immediately before third : lower radial from above the bend in discocellular : ujiper radial from well below the upper end; 7, S, 9 stalked, 10 and 11 stalked, M anastomosing with 8, 9, forming a single areole. Hindwings, costal anastomosing with subcostal
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to close to enil of cell : (i aud 7 stalkeil : discocellular oblique : radial from the centre ; first median at oue-half, second at four-fifths.
T3'pe : Propitkex alternata sp. nov.
Allied to Chaetolophu Warr.. but the discocellular of hindwings oblique, not angled.
^•0. Propithex alternata sp. nov.
Forewingi : pale pearl-grey, with very fine dark dusting : a purplish brown band at one-third, broader on costa than on inner margin, and edged on both sides witli pale yellow ; outer third of wing purplish grey, limited by a straight oblique yellow line almost parallel to hiudmargin, the dark tint being deepest ne.^t the line ; a faint whitish straight submarginal shade, followed again by deeper purplish ; veins towards hindmargiu yellowish : fringe grey chequered with purple.
Hindwings : uniform dull ochreous yellow, with a faint paler postmedian streak ; fringe dark grey.
Underside of forewings dull coppery red, speckled with black along costa, and marked with black between the veins towards the apex, with two white spots one above the other ; a pale straight yellow band, distinct only near costa. corresi)Ouding to the yellow line of the upper side ; hindwings jjurplish grey, flecked with whitish : the veins and cell fulvous ; a curved yellowish postmedian band, and a submarginal band of whitish spots between the veins. Thorax and abdomen olive-grey, face and tips of palpi whitish, palpi externally olive-brown.
Expanse of wings : 19 mm.
One c? from Ron Island, July 1897 (Doherty).
liKi. Triphosa moniliferaria Oberth. ab. depleta nov.
In this form, which appears very rare, — only one out of forty-two specimens from Ta-tsien-lu, — the abbreviated dark costal half of the central fascia is still further reduced to a simple black oblique mark from middle of costa, formed by the cell-spot being confluent with a black costal spot above it.
One c? from Ta-tsien-lu, West China.
Subfamily: DEILINIINAE. Chloroctenis gen. nov.
Very closely related to AploMora Warr., but, whereas that genus has the antennae perfectly simple, even in the S, the ? of this has them shortly pectinated ; those of the S, which I have not- yet met with, will almost certainly be more strongly pectinated. The palpi also differ, being short, thick, and decumbent, with the third joint hidden in the scaling ; neuration of Aplochloru.
Type : Chloroctenis similis sp. nov.
lul. Chloroctenis similis sp. nov.
Forewings : dull mealy green, with a dark cell-spot and pale green fringe. Hindwings : similar : the hiudmargin faintly elbowed at nnddle. Underside throughout uniform pale flesh-colour, the fringes greenish. Head, thorax, and abdomen apparently concolorons.
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Expanse of wings : 26 mm.
Two ? ? from Wiiri-i, June 1807 (Dr. Rotb).
Very mncli like Aplochlora inrisibiliss "Warr., Nov. Zoni,. IV. p. 70, from Akassa, Hiver Nijjer ; Lnt differing in the underside, which is dull reddish without any dark snbmarginal fascia.
The wings of tliis species appear exceeding]}' fragile.
li»2. Eugnesia fasciata sp. nov.
Foretci/ii/s : yellow, crossed by live orange -red fasciae, basal, antemedian, postmedian, snbmarginal, and marginal, the first abbreviated, the second curved, third and fourth sinuons, coalescent on the median vein ; cell-spot orange-red ; costa metallic grey-brown, formed of coalescing strigae: fringe yellow, cliequered with brown.
I/hir/w//H/s : similar: the cell-spot a blotch ; the postmedian fascia angled in middle. . --
Underside the same, but duller. Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow, varied with orange : the shoulders grey-brown, like the costa of forewings.
Expanse of wings : 36 mm.
Three ? 9 from St. Aignan, October— November 1897 (Meek).
Intermediate between E. riurantiaca Warr. from Queensland and E. M/ic/iti/iufa Warr. from Ron Island.
li»3. Heterostegaue subfasciata sp. no\.
Forewiiujs : yellow freckled with orange : costa marked with metallic fuscons, most densely towards base : no antemedian lines visible ; a small brown cell-spot : a i'aint denticulate orange line at two-thirds, and a metallic brown line from costa at five-sixths to anal angle, slightly irregular and interrupted at the veins ; a row of metallic brown marginal spots ; fringe yellow.
Hindicings : similar : the two outer lines curved, and distinct only at costa and ou inner margin : a dark spot on costa at middle ; cell-spot brown.
Underside ochreous yellow ; the basal third of forewings, especially along costa, dusted with brown : a broad, rather diffuse, brown fascia at one-third, a narrow crenulated line beyond middle, and a broad brown fiiscia at three-fourths, partially connected by a brown shade with hiudmargin above middle and above anal angle ; marginal line continuous, brown ; hindwings the same ; face and palpi ferraginons ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen orange ; collar bronzy brown.
Expanse of wings : 18 mm.
One cJ from Baram, Borneo, (Jctober 1891 (Everett).
SuBF.oiiLY OURAPTERYGINAE.
ltJ4. Thinopteryx marginata sp. nov.
Both wings dull pinkish grey, more pink towards the margins, with the usual oblique yellowish discal space ; the lines dark grey : distinguished by having the marginal space of both wings above and below pale lemon-yellow without striae : fringe of the same colour, with pink basal line.
One d from West China.
Expanse of wing : 52 mm. Smaller than the .lapanese forms.
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105. Arycanda evanescens sji. nov.
Foreicings : dull slate-colour ; all the luiiikiugs, except the cell-sjMt, which is round and black, very iudistiuci ; a small blackish dot at base ; a curved basal line, represented by blackish spots at costa, on lucdiiiu vein, at the base of first median nevvule, and on submcdian at the end of the fovea ; a similar spot at the basal end of the fovea ; close beyond the cell-spot a faint curved median line can be discerned, followed by three cnrvcd lines, of which the second is thickest, and all more or less evanescent before costa ; in the third, between veins 2 and 3, is a spot of black scales ; fringe slate-colour.
Hindtcings : •with a straight antemedinn darker line and the rliree line<, as on forewings, beyond the round black cell-spot.
Underside, with the cell-spots larger and more oval ; no lines, but a liroadish smoky subraarginal fascia on both wings. Head and thorax slate-colour; the face with a slight dark bar above : outside of palpi, tips of shoulders, and a median bar on patagia blackisli ; bnsal segment of abdomen only slate-colour ; the rest dnll yellow.
Expanse of wings : 44 mm.
One J from 8nla Mangoli, November 18'.»T (\V. Doherty).
Nearest to A. obsoleta AVarr.
106. Bracca flavitaenia sp. nov.
Foven-inf/s : black, with white markings ; a semioval blotch at one-third in base of cell, bounded below by the submedian fold : a large irregular oval blotch at two-thirds, extending from base of vein 7 to below vein 2 : a curved subraarginal row of small spots, those between veins 3 and 4 and on either side of vein 7 the largest, and a flattened scmielliptical blotch on inner margin from one-fifth to three-fifths; below the apex beyond the two larger spots of the subraarginal row are two bluish white wedge-shajied marks : the fovea in the S is white: fringe black.
Uiiulwinijs : with basal half white, discolouied at extreme base ; outer hall deep yellow, with a broadish black inner margin, the external edge of which is dentate on the veins ; a marginal row of acutely wedge-shaped black marks, connected by the black veins with the teeth of the inner black margin ; between the veins a subraarginal I'ow of deeji black oblunate spots, the three below apex largest.
Underside of forewings the same, but instead of the submarginal row of white spots a nearly marginal series, interrupted beyond cell : of hindwings with black costa, and a large quadrate black patcli before apex ; the wedge-shaped marginal spots obsolete, except below apex. Head and thorax bl.ick ; thorax witli white lateral spots and one central between the patagia : alxlomen yellow, witli basal segments white.
Expanse of wiuRs : 4"< mm.
One i from Snla Mangoli, November 1897 (Doherty).
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107. Biirsada atribasalis sp. uov.
Foreicings : black, with two Jeep 3-ellow blotches; oue obloug, near base, resting on the median vein ; the other transverse and obliipie, beyond middle, narrowed above and bnlged in the middle, from below three-fifths of eosta towards anal angle ; fringe concolorons.
Hindtcings : deep yellow, with a broad black marginal fascia from before apex to anal angle, its inner edge with slight yellow teeth along the veins; ; basal third black, with sinuons onter edge ; costa narrowly black between basal and marginal Ijlack areas.
Underside like npper. Head, thorax, and abdomen blackish; abdomen with yellow lateral spots ; palpi and some scales externally ronnd the eyes yellow.
Expanse of wings : 35 mm.
One 6 from Pulo Besi, north of Obi, September IS'JT (Doherty).
Distinguished at once by the black basal area of hindwings.
The hindwings are slightly indented opposite cell and near anal angle, and bulged outwards between.
10b. Bui'sada basistriga invadens subsji. uov.
Uirt'ering from the type form ui bn-iintrifia ^Vlk. only in the fact that the two obliijue yellow blotches of the fore wings are produced upwards so as nearly to touch the costa ; in the hindwings of the S S the costal dark border is much narrower than in the ? ? , a difierence which is not noticeable in the type form.
Three ? ?, three S S, from St. Aignau, October and November 1897 (A. S. Meek).
The 6 S all smaller than the ¥ ? .
But along with the examples of this form, and taken flying with them, are eight J (J in which the preponderance of the orange over the black coloration is so striking a feature as to merit a distinctive aberrational name. Though not so much smaller than the ? ¥ as are the c? cf of invadens, they agree with them in the much narrower marginal border of both wings. The two dark fasciae at one-third and two-thirds tend to become split up each into two narrow bands, of which the inner one becomes interrupted or obsolete ; in one example the outer arm likewise is wholly interrupted in the middle, while in a second both fasciae have vanished entirely, leaving only the inner and hindmargius narrowly black ; and iu this case the orange ground-colour passes into yellow. For the less-interrupted aberrations 1 propose the name interruptata, and for the last-mentioned form that of obsoleta. As tending to prove that these are merely aberrations of the snbspecific form incadens, it may be mentioned that iu one of the examples the right wing shows the two fasciae entire, while the outer fascia of the left wing contains indications of its division into the two narrower bauds.
lu9. Bursada interspilata sp. uov.
Fore-wings: brown-black ; a curved yellowish patch, dusted with fuscous scales, at base of cell, extending below it as far as the submediau fold ; at two-thirds a pale cicam-coloured fascia from just below costa to above anal angle, its outer edge sinuous, with a small tail from inside edge towards anal angle ; in the middle of the dark fascia separating this fa.'Doia from tlie yellow patch is a yelhnvish spot on the
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median vein, varying in si^e and distinctness i ia ob^ pxample in which the cell- patch is nearly obsolete this spot is wanting ; fringe wholly concolorons.
Hindwiiujs ; rich oniugp, with u broad brown-black border along costa and hindmargin, swollen ut iuial angle and interrnpted by the orange ground-colour, which is here thickly dusted with fuscous scales, and followed by a black projection pointing towards apex, and produced laterally along vein 1 as a wedge-shaped mark towards base of wing, leaving the inner marginal edge orange.
Underside of forewiugs with the three patches bright orange, all enlarged, the hrst connected with base by a yellow stalk ; the fringe ])alc beyond cell and sub- median fold. Hindwings as above, but the projection above anal angle disconnected, and the inner margin wholly orange. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous ; the abdomen with lateral orange stripes.
Expanse of wings : i 32 mm. ; $ 34 mm.
Four JcJ.two ? ? , from St. Aignan, Lonisiade Islands, October 1897 (A. S. Meek).
■ Distinguished from the nearest allied forms by the absence of the basal shoulder and semihyaline patch of forewings, and by the wholly brown frinpe of the upper side.
ill I. Bursada radicata sp. nov.
Akin to B. basistriga Wlk., bnt the ground-colour velvety olive-brown, with all three yellow markings mnch narrower, the middle one sometimes as slender as the basal streak ; in the hindwings the dark border is mnch broader at the anal angle, and is produced along the inner margin to the base of the wing. In one ? the hindwings are marked with a distinct black cell-spot.
Expanse of wings : 4(i mm.
Four iS, two ? ? , from Goodenough, D'Entrecasteanx Islands, December 1896 (A. 8. Meek).
111. Bursada nnifascia sp. nov.
Forewings : brownish black, with a speck of yellow on the median vein near middle ; a broad postmedian fascia, narrowly touching costa at three-fifths towards anal angle, its margins sinuous and irregularly erenulate ; fringe concolorons.
- Hindwings : yellow ; a broad brown-black marginal fascia from before apex to above anal angle, diffusely extended along inner margin, with a blunt projection in the diffuse area above anal angle, and a similar projection from costa before the commencement of the marginal fascia.
Underside similar, but the forewings with a broad oblique dark central fascia, containing a yellow spot in its midst, and a yellow subbasal blotch prolonged narrowly in the middle to the base. Head, thorax, and abdomen brown-black.
Expanse of wings : 35 mm.
Two iS, three ? ?, from Woodlark Island, 1895 (A. S. Meek).
Nearest to B. interspilata Warr. from St. Aignan.
112. Craspedosis extenuata angustata subsp. nov.
■ Differs from ty-pxcaX- extenuata Wlk. in having the large discal white blotch of forewing, which in that species almost touches the costa, restricted to a small oval blotch between veins 'i and o ; the white fascia of the hindwiug much
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narrower: and the first three segments of the abdomen black above, the "black extending lateralh' nearly to anal segment ; extenuafa has only the basal segment black.
One cT, expanding 48 mm., from Laiwni, Obi, September 1897 (Doherty).
The type of extenuata is from Timor, and 1 have only seen ? ? of this species ; it is possible that this 6 may represent the normal form of that sex ; but bearing in mind the difterence in locality, and especially the difference in the colouring of the abdomen, I have little donbt that it is a good local form.
113. Craspedosis leucosticta candidior subsp. nov.
Differs from leucosticta Warr. from Queensland in having the pale discal streak broader and much purer white, and the slaty tints much more brightly blue-tinged.
Five ii, three ? ?, from St. Aignan, August — October 1897, type (A. S. Meek) : and three Si, one ?, from Goodenough, December 1896 (A. S. Meek).
Of these the Goodenough examples are nearest tyjiical leucosticta, the white markings of forewings in two cases being narrower ; and in the hindwings the white discal band has the jjromineut projection in the outer edge. In the examples from St. Aignan, which are somewhat shorter and broader-winged, this projection is reduced to a slight bend or curve.
114. Craspedosis niveosignata sji. nov.
Foreuings: deep purple-black ; obscure traces of two darker lines at one-fourth and one-half ; beyond the latter a vertical white fascia extending from above vein 6 to the submedian fold ; the inner edge sinuous, the outer crenulate ; this fascia is broadest at vein 5 and narrowed towards each end.
Hindwings : purple-black, with a broad central fascia, not quite touching either costal or inner margin, its inner edge straight, its outer strongly curved and subcrenulate ; fringe of both wings slightly paler.
Underside the same. Head and thorax purple-black ; abdomen with basal and anal segments black ; the rest yellow, with broad black segmental bauds.
Expanse of wings : 44 mm.
One c? from Ron Island, July 1897 (Doherty).
•115. Craspedosis semicrocea sp. nov.
Forewings : uniform dark slaty blue ; fringe concolorous. In some specimens a faintly paler oval blotch in discernible in the middle of the wing.
Hindwings ; the same.
Underside similar ; all the parts of the body concolorous, except the last four segments of abdomen, which are yellow above and below.
Expanse of wings : 45 mm.
Five (S<S, two ? ? , from Suer, Mefor, May aud June 1»97 (Doherty).
116. Pitthea abbreviata sp. nov.
Like P. continua Wlk., but the yellow fasciae are much more restricted ; the first on forewings not more than half as wide as in continm, stopping short at vein 1, and subdivided into three by the thickened black subcostal and median veins. The fascia of the hindwiug proportionally smaller, ending well before
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Lindmargiu. and without aii}' trace of an orange patch beyond it. Underside of forewings like upper ; of hindwiugs like those of coiitiiiua, but the fringe beyond the orange blotch always black.
Expanse of wings : 45 rum.
Several e.xamples from Warri, Niger Coast Protectorate, May 189T (Dr. Hoth).
IK. Tigridoptera sxibradiata sp. nov.
Forewings: pale blnish slate-colunr ; the base narrowly and dilfuscly, and the siibmediaii fold for four-fifths, liufl': a blackish spot near base on submedian fold ; two black spots near beyond, obliquely one below the other, above the subcosta and below the median vein respectively ; basal line bent on the median and swollen on all the veins ; cell-spot oval, black, followed by four lines of black spots all bent on vein (5, the first of largish subconfluent spots on veins, the second of smaller spots not confluent, the third a cloudy continuous shade, the last a row of elongated black spots between the veins, followed by a semiobsolete similar row ; fringe concolorous ; all the rows of spots are interrupted on the submedian fold, e.\cept the last.
IliHduitiijs : with a straight line, swollen on veins near base : a nearly round black cell-spot ; the rest as in forewings, but the cloudy shade is absent ; longitudinal streaks of buff below the costal vein, beyond the cell, and on the submedian fold, all stoj)ping as in the forewing at the last row of spots.
Underside with large round black celI-si)ots and a very broad black sub- marginal fascia, which in the forewings, except at apex, is diffused to the hind- margin. Head and thorax slate-colour ; face with a black bar at toj) ; shoulders and patagia spotted with black ; shoulders laterally buff ; abdomen yellow, with basal segment slate-colour.
Expanse of wings : tio mm.
One ? from Mindoro (Platen).
Allied to exul H. S. and j)ertamia Wlk. from .lava, and to radiolata VVarr. from Palawan ; distinguished by the underside.
118. Xanthomima disrupta sp. nov.
Forewings : deep yellow ; the costa finely black, more broadly at base ; a black central bar from costa towards anal angle, very broad on costa, bent at right angles below vein 3 to inner margin at three-fourths ; a submarginal Ijlack baud, also broadest on costa, bent on vein T, and again below vein 3 to inner margin just beyond the central band ; a black marginal border ; the narrow yellow space between the last two more or less clouded with darker except between v.eins 3 and 4 ; a broad black horizontal streak above vein 1 from base to hindmargin, touching inner margin at base ; fringe black.
Uindtcingi : without the horizontal streak ; the other three much narrower than in forewings, the central one of uniform width ; costal edge narrowly black.
Underside the same, but the two outer bands forming one broad fascia containing an orange-yellow spot between veins 3 and 4 ; central band of forewings showing a black cell-spot attached to its inner edge. Head, shoulders, metathorax, and basal segment of abdomen black ; collar, patugia, and abdomen yellow ; pectus and legs grey.
Ex])anse of wings : 5".' mm.
One 6 from Alu, tShorlland Isluudb (Webster).
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Subfamily BISTONINAE. 11''. Blepharoctenia perclara sp. uov.
Forcwiuys : wholly pale straw-colour, without a trace ol' darker dustiug ; a strong curved black line near base, thickened on costa and produced to base ; a black spot ou costa at middle ; a strongly marked black outer line, also thickened on costa, angled rectangularly on vein 5, and minutely on the submedian fold, strongly concave lietwcen, followed between veins 3 and 4 by a black spot, and from vein 4 to 5 by an irregular black streak, Ijarbed on vein 5, and again followed by a black spot, beyond which the straw-coloured fringes are marked with black.
Ilindwings : with the outer line only, this sharply angled on vein 5; some black scales close to base, indicating first line.
Underside exactly like upper. Head, thorax, and abdomen straw-colour ; face with a broad black bar at top ; palpi dark above ; basal segment of abdomen with an interrupted black ring ; antennae black ; legs spotted with black ; the forelegs almost wholly black.
Expanse of wings : 6U mm.
One J from Keelung, Formosa, August 1896 (Jonas).
120. Eubyja (?) expansa sp. nov.
Forewings : whitish, densely speckled with olive-grey ; the lines all of the same tint ; first curved, at one-fourth, preceded by an ill-defined shade ; median outcurved beyond cell, to inner margin before middle, obscurely crenulate ; this and the first line are thickened at costa ; outer line from three-fourths of costa to middle of inner margin, finer and regularly dentate, approximated to median line from vein 6, and followed by an indistinct shade ; submarginal wavy, white, preceded by a somewhat interrupted lunulate shade, and followed by a less distinct one: fringe whitish, with slight dark marginal sjiots between veins.
Himlwings : similar, but less dusted with darker ; no first line ; outer line not approximated to median ; a small olive-grey cell-spot.
Underside white, not speckled ; forewing slightly snfi'used with grey ; ajncal area dark grey, enclosing a square white apical spot ; outer line distinctly dentate ; submarginal straight ; the angnlated discocellnlar marked in grey ; hindwing white, with grey a2>ex and outej- line marked towards costa only. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous.
Expanse of wings : 68 mm.
One ? from Hiver Niger, between Akassa and Onitsha (Dr. Cook).
Ovipositor exscrted ; tongue present ; palpi very short ; costal area of forewings beneath clothed with down.
121. Eubyja turpis sp. uov.
ForewiiHj.'i : dingy whitish. suU'used and speckled with smoky fuscous anil ochreous scales ; the lines blackish ; first from one-fourth of costa to inner margin close to base, angled on the median vein ; second from three-fourths of costa to three-fifths of inner margin, angled outwards ou vein 5, and again below vein 3, joined at inner margin by a smoky blackish obscure central shade, which passes just outside the dark cell-spot ; submarginal line obscure, preceded and followed by darker clouds ; a row of dark marginal spots.
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Hindivings : with the outer line only, preceded by a distinct linear black cell- spot ; submarginal shade darker and more distinct.
Underside paler, with indications of the enter line. Head, thorax, and abdomen dingy grey, the abdomen with darker segmental rings.
Expanse of wings : 40 mm.
One ? from S. Flores, November 1S90, dry season (Everett).
This, or a ct)gnate form, occurring at Dharmsala, is considered by some to be identical with Gnen^e's North American species cog)tataria.
122. Eubyjodonta comitata >p. nov.
Forewings: white, sparsely speckled with fuscous, the costa more densely marked ; a black crenulated line from one-fourth of costa to one-fifth of inner margin, preceded by a broad brown shade ; a black outer line from three-fourths of costa to three-fourths of inner margin, outcurved from vein 7 to 4, then incurved to the submedian fold, where it is angled, then oblicjue inwards, and again angled on vein 1 ; this line forms small teeth inwards on all the veins, and is followed by a brown shade, which beyond the cell and above the anal angle is diffused to the hindmargin, showing there a faint pale snbmargiual line ; fringe chequered, white and brown ; at middle of costa is a dark grey spot, giving rise to a very faint sinuous median line.
Hindwings : with the base brown edged by a curved black line; the outer black line bluntly angled beyond cell, the brown shade beyond it faint.
Underside with all the markings dark grey, the brown tints hardly visible; cell-spot of forewings black, with the discocellular narrowly white, of hindwings dark grey and linear. Face brown, becoming greyish white above, like the vertex and thorax ; metathorax and tips of patagia brown ; basal segment of abdomen brown and black ; rest of abdomen greyish white, mixed towards liase with rufous and black scales.
Expanse of wings : 70 mm.
Two (? c? from Sidemi, Amurland, July. In one specimen the white is almost pure.
Differs from typical Eubyjodonta, in having only the hindwings excavated in the hindmargin.
123. Eubyjodonta concinna sp. nov.
J'orctcbigs : creamy white: the markings concise and black; first line from one-third of costa to one-fourth of inner margin, vertical to the median, along which it is shortly bent at right angles, then carved towards base ; preceded by a thicker, more diffuse, black shade, which stops at the submedian vein ; outer line at three- fourths, sinuous, bluntly outcurved beyond cell from vein G to 4, and less strongly again on the submedian fold, emitting slight teeth basewards along tlie veins, and followed beyond a narrow pale space by a diffuse ochreous grey band, tlie outer edge of which is lunnlate, the lunules on each side of vein 7 being black and doable, between veins 0 and 4 single and less black, and between 4 and 2 marked only at their edges with blackish scales : submarginal line jjale, with the marginal space be3-ond slightly ochreous-tiuged and marked with blackish scales ; fringe cream- white ; a black spot at middle of costa, from which a slightly outcurved vertical black median line runs, passing over the distinct black cell-spot, and ends in a dark
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spot beyond middle of inner margin ; between this and the costal spot another less distinct but more vertical blackish line runs nearer the base.
Hinclimigs : with neither of the basal lines, the median line single, inside the cell-spot, the onter line angled beyond cell, the snbmarginal Innules distinct below vein 0 to anal angle.
Underside similar, with all the markings less distinct. Face below grey : above and on vertex cream-white ; shonlders cream-white, with thick black tips ; thorax and patagia the same, but the tips of the i)atagia and metathorax and the centre of thorax black : abdomen somewhat darker (probably from grease), with an oblong black mark at the dorsal edge of second segment ; antenual pectinations black, with the shaft white.
Expanse of wings : 52 mm.
One cJ from Hi district, in May.
The same remark applies to this species as to com/fata, only the hindwings having the hindmargins excavated.
Hirasodes gen. uov.
Closely related to Hirasu Moore, both structurally and superficially; but the c? antennae are stoutly and evenly pectinated nearly to the tips. In the forewiugs in both genera the second subcostal anastomoses with the first.
Type : Hirasodes contuhernalis Moore {Hirasu).
Subfamily ASCOTINAE. 124. Alcis rufilimes sp. nov.
Forewiugs : greyish white, speckled with grey ; the basal and marginal areas suffused with rufons ; lines black ; first from nearly one-third of costa to one-fourth of inner margin, curved and waved ; outer line from two-thirds of costa to two-thirds cif inner margin, slightly dentate at the veins, and between veins 4 and G forming a strong external angle touching the snbmarginal line, which is pale and regularly dentate ; the marginal area between the veins is sjieckled with grey, the veins themselves pure rufous ; beyond the cell a dark grey patch stands touching the hind- margin ; both lines start from dark brown costal spots : and there is another midway between these, from which a cloudy curved median shade arises, traversing the wing ; space between outer and snbmarginal lines on the costa deeper rufous ; a row of blackish marginal lunules before the fringe, which is grey and rnfons.
Hindwings : similar, but without any basal patch ; the angle of second line less prominent, and blunter.
Underside dull whitish, with the markings indistinct, excejjt along the costa, which is ochreous ; cell-spots indistinct. Face and palj)i dark brown ; top of face and vertex ochreous ; shoulders pale ; thorax and abdomen rufons and grey.
Expanse of wings : c? 42 — 44 mm. ; ? 56 mm.
Two c?c? from Warri, July 189(3; one 6, one?, Warri, May 1897 (Dr. Roth).
The antennae of d are strongly plumose to four-fifths ; fovea, tongue, and frenulum all present ; the palpi are porrect, the second joint thick, hairy below, bluntly rounded off at apex, the third joint being entirely hidden ; liindtibiae slightly tliickened ; veins lu and 11 short-stalked.
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125. Chogada epistictis Me.\ r. ub. flavifasciata nuv.
Among several examples of this species from St. Aignan, collected by A. S. Meek betweeu August and November 189T, many of them considerably below the average size, there occurs one which differs so much from any forms hitherto distinguished, that I here describe it. Both wings with basal two-fifths whitisli, with i)ale grey dusting; the outer three-fifths suffused with smoky grey and dusted with blackish ; cell-spot blurred ; only the exterior line distinct ; this is followed by a lichen-yellow band : and a spot of the same colour lies on vein C towards the hiudraargin beyond the snbmarginal line.
The specimen is a ? .
126. Chogada munda sp. nov.
Foretcings : white, sparsely speckled with fuscous scales, more thickly striated along costa and in the a{)ical region ; the lines fuscous ; first from one-fourth of costa curved to one-fifth of inner margin ; outer line thick, luuulate-dentate, from three-fourths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, bent outwards slightly beyond cell ; a row of fuscous marginal spots ; fringe white.
Hindwings : with a broad dark line close to base, and a postmedian sinuous line ; cell-spot ocelloid, white, with fuscous edge.
Underside like upper. Head, thorax, and abdomen white, dusted with fiiscous ; tip of metathorax and basal segment of abdomen marked with dark fuscous.
Expanse of wings : 48 mm.
One ? from Eduknmbaan Hills, Zulnland, May 1895.
The sole example is considerably wasted, but appears (piite distinct from any described species ; the forewiugs probably have a discal spot like that of hindwings, when fresh.
127. Darisa adamata.
Boarmia adamata Feld., Reise Nov. t. 126. f. 5. 5a. „ „ C. & S., Cat. No. 3305.
„ „ Hmpsn., Fauna Brit. Lid., Moths, III. p. 273.
The neuration in the forewings of this species is variable. Vein 10 sometimes anastomoses with the costal, at other times not. In one ? the right wing shows it as anastomosing, but no sign of 11 ; in the left wing, however, after the anastomosis, vein 11 is seen separating from 12. In either case it might be said that 10 and 11 were coincident and anastomosed with 12, 11 sometimes remaining coincident with 12. But in many cases vein 10 does not anastomose with 12 at all, and vein 11 is seen rising out of 12. It therefore seems preferable to refer the species to the genus Darisa, belonging to the Medasina group.
128. Deileptenia maculata sp. uov.
Forewings : brownisli ochreous, speckled with blackish ; the lines black ; first at one-third, doulile, irregularly waved and slightly obliipie inwards, tlie included space tinged with rufous ; second at two-thirds, also double, forming a strong narrow projection outwards between veins 5 and 6, then strongly incurved to just beyond middle of inner margin, the included space rufous, marked with a deeper cloud just below costa, and by a large black blotch between veins 3 and 5 ; submargiual line
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pale, lunnlate, esjieciallj' in the iipjtei' half, where below costa and opposite cell the teeth are fiJled in with black ; cell-spot distinct, black ; an obscure waved central shade ; a row of black marginal spots ; fringe concolorons.
Hinfhcitujs : with a dentate curved postmedian and obscure pale snbmarginal line ; cell-spot black ; a dark black-ljrown blotch on inner margin between the two lines.
Underside pale wood-colour speckled with black, and with all the lines marked in dull blackish. Face, palpi, and shoulders rufous brown ; thorax and abdomen paler.
Expanse of wings : 44 mm.
One S from Penang, March 1897 (Curtis).
Forewings of 6 without fovea; veins 10 and 11 coincident, touching 12 at a point.
129. Deinotrichia dentigerata sp. nov.
Foreivings : grev, finely black-speckled ; the lines black, double, and strongly dentate throughout ; first at one-fourth, dentate on the veins, and with a dark line preceding it ; the median, which is single, projecting outwards beyond cell, then running in to touch the base of cell-spot, thence vertical and dentate to inner margin ; outer line slightly projecting beyond cell, then strongly curved inwards from vein 5 to vein 1, followed by a similarly dentate shade ; snbmarginal line pale, uniformly dentate, edged on both sides with darker, the inner dark edge thick and filling uj) the teeth ; all three interrnpted by a pale space between veins .3 and 5 ; a row of dark marginal dots before the grey fringe.
Ilindivings : similar, but without first line.
Underside dingy whitish, with a broad smoky marginal band and black outer line and cell-spot ; the line sinnous on the forewings, angulated on the hindwings. Head, thorax, and abdomen all grev.
Expanse of wings : 36 mm.
One (J from Penang, December 1896 (Cnrtis).
Very much like Aids nilgirica Hmpsn.
130. Diplurodes contacta sp. nov.
Foren-ings : dull white ; basal area darkened with brown and reddish scales, and limited by a double diffuse sinnons line at one-fourth ; a large black-brown blotch on discocellnlar, touching costa, and with a small paler line in middle ; a dark costal spot at two-thirds, from which a median shade descends, marked only by pairs of dots on the veins ; marginal third filled np with brownish purple, its inner edge forming a rounded protuberance between veins 5 and 2, which nearly touches the cell-blotch ; the outer line can be faintly traced within this edge by a row of jiale spots on the veins ; a pale blotch in middle of hindmargin ; a row of dark marginal hinules ; fringe purplish grey, paler beyond the pale blotch ; inner margin broadly sufiused with reddish scales.
llindwinga : with basal two-thirds whitish, varied with greyish striae ; a grey cell-spot, and the beginning of a grey line on inner margin at two-thirds ; outer third purplish brown ; fringe paler except at apex.
Underside similar, but duller. Face and palpi brown : vertex ochraceons ; thorax and abdomen mottled with purjilish and grey ; metathorax paler.
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Expanse of wings : 36 mm.
One ? from Mount Arjnuo, Java (Doherty).
Nearest to D. vestita Warr. from the Khasia Hills.
131. Ectropis nigrocellata sp. nov.
Forewings : pale ochreons, densely covered with coarse and partially confluent transverse fnscons striae, a blotch beyond tlic cill and the apex alone remaining pale ; lines obscure, more or less hidden by the dark tints ; first from one-fourth of costa, curved, to inner margin at one-fifth ; median from a dark spot at centre of costa to two-fifths of inner margin ; outer, partially double, from about three-fourths of costa sinuous to three-fifths of inner margin, followed beyond cell by a darker patch ; submarginal line indistinct, pale : cell-spot represented by a large diilnse roundish blotch of black scalet. ; fringe coucolorons, with marginal black spots at base between the veins.
Jlimlwings : the same.
Underside smoky black ; the cell-marks large, deep bhuk, jjreceded and followed by whitish spaces ; a white patch at apex of forewings ; head, thorax, and abdomen greyish ochreons, dusted with darker.
Expanse of wings : 52 mm.
Three ? ?, one <? ; one ? from Snor, Mefor, May— June 1807 (Dolierty), the others from Ron Island, July 1897 (Uoherty). These last somewhat jniler, more ochreons iu tint, with less dark suffusion, the black dlscal blotches on the upper surface smaller in the forewings and nearly obsolete in the hindwings ; the under- sides are, however, alike iu all the examples.
The neuratiou is somewhat peculiar ; the cell is only two-fifths of the wing, and veins 7, S, 9 are stalked as usual, but both 7 aud 8 rise very much nearer the base than is generally the case.
Lophobates gen. nov.
Forewings : elongate, narrow ; costa almost straight ; bindmargin oblii[ne, slightly curved : anal angle obtuse.
Hinrlwings : broader; bindmargin well-rounded, subcrennlate ; abdoininiil margin sinuous, with a lobe near base, bearing beneath a tuft of hair.
Antennae of <? strongly bipectinate nearly to apex ; paljii porreet, densely haired ; hindtibiae swollen, with a small pencil of hairs and four short spurs.
Neuration : forewings, cell half as long as wing : discocellnlar vertical ; first median at three-fourths, second at eleven-twelfths : radials normal ; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10 and 11 coincident, anastomosing with 12, 10 connected by bar with 8, 9. Hindwings : costal approximated to subcostal for half the length of cell ; vein 7 before end ; medians as in forewings.
Tj'pe : L. ochreicostata sp. nov.
132. Lophobates ochreicostata sp. nov.
Forewings : fnscons brown : the costal area oclircons, thickly dnsted with fuscous, the line dividing the two areas sinuous aud oblique from one-fourth of inner margin to bindmargin below apex ; first line curved, fnscons, from nearly one-third of costa to one-fourth of inner margin, marked by a dark spot on median
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vein : second line from five-sixths of costa, irregnlarly dentate in the jiale costal area, then oblifine and curved inwards to inner margin beyond middle, apiiroaching first line on the median ; snbmarginal line ochreons, preceded on costa by an oblique fuscous blotch, and scarcely visible in the dark area except as a pale lunnlar mark on snbmedian fold : fringe brown, with a slightly paler basal line ; a small black cell-spot.
Hindiciiigs : wholly fnscons brown, except the extreme base.
Underside cinereous ; costal area of forewings ochreons, much striated and spotted with dark fuscous. Face, palpi, and abdomen fuscous lirown ; vertex, thorax, and basal segment of abdomen ochreons.
Expanse of wings : 32 mm.
In some numbers from the Khasias.
133. Psilalcis intermedia sp. nov.
Forewings : ochreons grey, speckled with fuscous, and towards hindmargin with fine blackish striations ; costa ochreons, dotted with black, and with four black spots, at one-fourth, two-fifths, three-fourths, and five-sixths respectively, from which the lines run : first and second simply curved inwards : third, indistinctly denticulate and marked with black dots on veins, angled on vein Ci, and oblic[ne to inner margin, almost touching the second line ; snbmarginal pale, wavy, with dark clouds before it beyond cell and above anal angle ; a row of distinct black marginal spots ; fringe pale, mottled with darker at ends of veins ; cell-spot blackish, just beyond second line.
Jlindwings : with a dark cloud near base : a linear dark cell-spot ; an obscure waved double postmedian line, the inner area fuscous, the outer ochraceous ; sub- marginal line interrupted, dentate, with mixed darker shading on both sides.
Underside greyish ochreons ; base of forewing discoloured with grey ; first and second lines marked on and near costa ; a broad blackish marginal band, leaving pale spaces on costa, at apex, and below middle of hindmargin ; hindwings with this band shown only at apex ; both wings with dark cell-spot. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons.
Expanse of wings : 28 mm.
One (? from Mount Arjnno, Java (W. Doherty).
This species is very much like Boarmia thricophora Hmpsn. from Sikkim ; but the antennae are merely pubescent, and the hindwings have no fringe of long hairs along inner margin ; the forewdngs have a small fovea.
134. Racotis boarmiaria illustrata snbsp. nov.
Foreivings : pale olive-green, thickly peppered with olive-brown ; the markings olive-brown ; costa with a few fine l>lack strigae, and three dark brown spots at one- fourth, one-half, and three-fonrths, denoting tlie origin of the lines, which are diffuse and interrupted, marked by brown dashes on the veins ; the first at one- fourth, slightly curved : second sinuons, curved below costa, then oblique, touching the lower end of the large Innate olive-browu cell-spot, to inner margin before middle ; both the first and second lines marked with rufous blotches on inner margin ; outer line broader and very diffuse, marked by a double series of brown vein dashes with a paler one in centre ; snbmarginal line pale, denticulated.
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preceded and followed by irregular rufons shadinw, with a pale spot of the groand- colonr in middle tonching hiudmargiii : olive-browa luargiual spots between the veins ; fringe pale greenish.
Hindivings : similar ; the cell-spot smaller.
Underside pale ochreous, without speckling : costa with iine black striae and three dark spots ; cell-spot black, larger on forcwings ; a broad smoky black snb- marginal fascia diffnsed to hiMdmargin of forcwings beyond cell. Head, thorax, and abdomen oclireons green mottled with brown.
E.xpanse of wings : 48 mm.
One 6 from Penaiig (Cnrtis). A distinct pale local form.
135. Racotis zebrina sp. nov.
Forcwings: with the ground-colour, where visible, niucli palor and brighter than in R. s<jiiali<l(i Hutler, or boarmiaria Gnen. ; the dark markings being like- wise deeper and more defined ; the fovea in i glassy and conspicuous ; basal patch formed of dark olive streaks, mixed with black, and edged by a distinct pale thick line ; inner edge of central fascia dark olive, fnllowed in cell liy a cloudy black spot ; discal ocellus very black and jjlain, followed immediately by the central shade : outer edge of fascia formed of snbcontiguous blackish vein-spots, succeeded by an inter- rupted pale line ; the broad dark fascia beyond much more distinct, especially the series of dark luunles which are edged by the pale submarginal line ; marginal spots blackish ; fringe fuscons olive.
IIi)ulirings : the same.
Underside bright pale ochreous, with broad smoky black submarginal fasciae and cell-spots ; the basal area mottled with coarse smoky brown blotches. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark olive-fuscous.
Expanse of wings : 4.s mm.
Two SS from AVarri, Niger Coast Protectorate, June Is'JT (Dr. Roth).
Over and above its smaller size and more brightly contrasted markings, ^the species may be distinguished at once from A'. Hqualida Butler by the i antennae. In sqttalkia the pectinations are quite short and straight, nearly at right angles to the shaft, ciliated laterally and apically ; in zebrina they are much longer and coarser, oblique and thickened towards the tips, with strong ciliations.
130. Serraca spissata sj). nov.
Allied to S. cosfaria Guen., but rather smaller, the ground-colour brighter, more ochreous ; the markings and lines darker. The hindwings, instead of having the hindmargiu fully rounded, are narrower, and towards the anal angle subtrnncated ; the inner margin beneath with three parallel rows of brushlike hairs, and above also hairy below vein 2, which has the same direction as in costaria, leaving the median at right angles just before 3, and then curved and running parallel to it. In one example the whole width of the central fascia is occupied by fuliginous, this tint extending also, but narrowed, from inner margin of forcwings to the middle. Underside and body as in costaria.
Two <J d from Nias Island.
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Sysstema gen. nov.
Forciriiif/x : ainjile, triangnlar ; costa noarly straiglit, convex at. apex : apex ronnded ; hindmargiu oblir^neh' curved.
llinihriiu/s : ronnd, with ronnded liindinargin and rather prominent anal angle.
Antennae of <S bipectinated to tlirec-fonrths, the branches long ; palpi porrect, hairy, terminal joint short and liardly visible ; tongne and frennlnin present ; no fovea.
yrnrafinn : forewings, cell half as long as wing ; discocellnlar vertical ; tirst median nervule at two-thirds, second and third from end of cell ; radials normal : 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10 and 11 coincident. Hind wings with costal approximated to subcostal for nearly one-half cell ; 0 and 7 from end of cell ; 3 close before lower end.
Type : S. seniieiirHktta Moore (Ei/pifhec/a).
In this genus I include also deiitilinea '\\a,rT.,al6ibasisllini)s,n.,concinna Warr., and ulhipieta Warr., placed together in one subsection by Hampson, and said to have vein lii of forewings stalked with 7, >*, 9; but this I do not find to be the case in the examples I have seen.
Subfamily SEMIOTHISINAE.
137. Acadra ancillata sp. nov.
Foreu'iiH/.-i : whitish, dusted with olive-ochreous and fuscous, and with greyish suffusion in places ; the lines dark brown, oblique ontwards from costa, bluntly angled below it and oblique to inner margin ; first from costa at one-fifth to near base of inner margin ; second from middle of costa to one-third of inner margin ; third from two-thirds of costa to middle of inner margin, broad and straight, the first and second being tine and waved ; followed closely by a darker, more diffuse shade, which runs to hindmargin below apex ; snbmarginal line indistinct, indicated by a brown costal spot; a small pale spot beyond the angle of third line ; each of the three lines is accompanied on the inner side by an obscure grey shade or line ; a marginal row of dark brown dashes ; fringe pale, chequered with brown ; cell-spot blackish, sometimes obsolete.
Hind wings: with straight dark brown antemedian line, preceded by an olive- fuscous shade, and followed immediately by a black cell-spot ; an irregularly waved postmedian line, obscurely double and followed by a broad olive-grey fascia.
Underside white, coarsely speckled with dark brown ; a dark brown central shade, crennlato postmedian line, and broad snbmarginal fascia ; costa of forewings and veins yellowish. In the $ the postmedian line of hindwings is preceded and followed beyond the cell by spots of black scales. Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish, varied with greyish ochreous.
Expanse of wings : 30 mm.
A pair from Goodenough Island, December 1896 (Meek).
138. Acadra tessellata sp. nov.
Forewings : whitish ochreous, thickly and rather coarsely speckled with fuscous; first line from a brown costal blotch at nearly one-fonrth, bent in cell, then oblique and curved to inner margin below fovea ; outer line from a brown blotch at two-thirds,
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obliqne outwards to near hindmargiti, sharply angled above vein 6, then straight and ol)li(|ne to inner margin before middle ; in this lower eonrse it is double, the outer arm darker and rnuning into the depressed apex, which is black ; the npper part of outer line is followed by a chestnut costal blotch, beyond which the apex itself is white, filled in with fascons speckles ; an aggregation of dark striae at anal angle ; from costa a little before middle an oblique brown blotch is attenuated to the middle of the angle of the onter line ; from inner margin just before outer line an njiright line is dimly visible, seen through from the underside ; fringe and marginal line below apex black, ochreons below middle.
JIi)!f/iii7iffs ■■ (jnite different : a blackish mark close to base ; an obscure double waved dark line before middle ; a dark ftiscons postmediau line angled on vein 4, and followed by an ochreous line ; a similar ochreous submarginal line ; the space between these two, of uniform width throughout, olive-ochreons, densely dusted with blackish and divided by the ochreous veins into oblong patches : the basal and nmrginal areas ochreous, speckled with black : fringe oclireous.
Underside pale ochreons, speckled with fuscous ; the lines dark fuscous ; forewings with a somewhat interrupted narrow submarginal fascia ; hindwings with it broad. Face and palpi dark fuscous ; thorax and abdomen ochreons, speckled with fnscons.
Expanse of wings : 30 mm.
One (J from Dorei, Dutch New Guinea, June 1807 (Doherty).
A peculiarly marked and elegant species : the apex of forewing is depressed and subfalcate ; hindmargin sinuous, the anal angle rounded off. Hindwings with slight tail at vein 4, crenulate above, nearly straight below.
130. Azata costiguttata sp. nov.
ForeiiimiA : greyish fawn-colour, with fine fnscons and blackish speckles, the marginal third darker, being snffused except at apex witli olive-brown : the lines olive-brown, thickened towards costa, bent below the subcostal vein, then oblique and parallel inwards, at one-fourth, one-half, and two-thirds respectively ; the first and second indistinct, the latter broadened at costa, the exterior darker, edged vrith paler, and slightly tremulous ; followed on costa by a large brown triangle with rounded apex, between veins 3 and 4 by a round black spot, and above inner margin by a black cloud ; marginal line brownish, thicker along the excision, which is very inconspicuous ; fringe pale ochreous, darker beyond the excision ; cell-spot blackisli.
tlimhrimjs : similar, the base paler : no first line ; outer line distinct and wavy : submarginal line indicated by a sinuous series of obscure blackish clouds.
Underside yellow, with fulvous speckles ; the three lines fulvous, indistinct ; the third followed by a broad brown fascia, which beyond cell and above anal angle reaches to hindmargin, leaving paler spaces at middle and below apex : between veins 0 and 7 beyond the outer edge of this fascia is a paler yellowish oval space containing some massed blackish scales towards margin. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings ; the face and palpi slightly darker.
Expanse of wings : 29 mm.
One ? from Mikindani, German East Africa, January — May ]s07 (Reimer).
Hindmargin of hindwings faintly crenulate in upjicr half.
From the description Mabille's crassilembaria from Madagascar must largely resemble this species, but in that the hindmargin of hindwings is said to bo produced into an angle at middle.
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140. Azata separata sp. nov.
Foreivings : dirty whitish, thick!}' striated and dappled with fuscons ochreons ; beyond the onter line wholly suffused with fnscons, except towards apex ; first and second lines dull brown, indistinct ; first at one-fourth, second before middle, both cnrved ))elow costa, then vertical and approximated ; outer line thick, brown, nearly straight from two-thirds of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, edged internally with yellowish ; a dark spot between veins 3 and 4 between outer line and hind- margin ; fringe concolorons, with paler base beyond a dark marginal line ; no distinct cell-spot.
Ilindwings : similar, without first line.
Underside white, with dense and longer fuscous brown striae ; costa and veins tinged with yellowish ; outer line followed by a broad fuscons and fulvous fascia, not reaching hindmargin. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreons cinereous ; the face dark brown.
Expanse of wings : 26 mm.
One ? from Mikindani, German East Africa, January— May 1807 (Reimer).
Hindmargin of forewings hardly emarginate below apex ; of hindwings with slight tooth at middle.
141. Azata triplaga sji. nov.
Foi-ewiiiys : pale wood-brown, dark brown beyond onter line, sprinkled with short brown and black striae ; the three lines brown, obscurely edged with dull lustrous scales, each starting from dark brown costal blotches, at one-fourth, one- half, and before tliree-fourths, the first angled in cell, the second and third on vein (3, the last double, and followed on costa by a larger brown triangular blotch, and by black and lustrous scales between veins 3 and 4, and on submedian fold ; ajncal area paler than the rest of marginal space ; fringe dark brown with paler base, beyond an interrupted blackish marginal line : cell-spot obscure, dark.
Eindwinqs : with diftnse antemediau brown line incurved at middle before the distinct black cell-spot ; a brown lustrous-edged irregularly crennlate postmediau line, and traces of a submarginal line in the dark brown marginal area.
Underside yellow, speckled with black-brown ; central line and submarginal fascia deep ferruginous, the latter running to hindmargin on forewings beyond cell, and sometimes marked by black spots on both edges. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreons, with deeper ochreons speckles.
Expanse of wings : 28 — 33 mm.
Two ? ? from Mikindani, German East Africa, January— May 1897 (Reimer).
Hindmargin of forewings only faintly emarginate below apex.
142. Nadagarodes flavipectus sp. nov. Forewings : pale silvery slate-colour, with an iridescent sheen ; the costa spotted yellow and fuscous ; four oblique slightly darker bands : the first from middle of costa to before middle of inner margin, narrow ; the second broader and bent below costa, from two-thirds of costa to two-thirds of inner margin ; the third and fourth submarginal and marginal, with the jialer and regularly crenuhited submarginal line between them ; a row of black marginal dots ; fringe concolorons, glossy.
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Hinfhvings : the same.
Underside duller, withont any marking ; the marginal third deejior ; the costa of forewings marked with yellow. Thorax and abdomen like wings ; face and vertex chocolate-hrown ; tillet and hasc of antennae whitish : palpi, pectns, and fore- coxae bright orange.
Expanse of wings : 6 37 mm. : ? :57 — 39 mm.
One 6, three ? ?, from Tngela, Solomon Islands (Woodford).
143. Hyperythra simplex sp. nov.
Forewings : dnll greyish olive, with a few fnscons strignlae, and tinged with reddisl) except along costa ; the lines dull reddish except on costa, where they are olive-brown ; first at oue-fonrth, indistinct, narrow, curved ; second in middle, diffuse and thick, but narrowing towards inner margin ; third at three-fourths, curved, followed by a dull reddish grey shade, diffused to hindmargin except at apex ; fringe dnll reddish.
Ilimhcings : mostly rufous, yellower along inner margin, withont first line.
Underside deep yellow, dotted and striated with' fulvous red ; central line fulvous, blotched ; cell-spots pnrjtlish, edged with fulvous ; marginal area of fore- wings wholly fulvous, except a pale triangular and subapical patch ; of hindwings mixed with yellow. Palpi yellowish, apical joint wliite al)0ve ; face reddish grey and yellow, tlie sides white ; head, thorax, and aljdomeii dull yellowish.
Expanse of wings : 35 jum.
One cf from Sula Besi, October 189T (Doherty).
Superficially like //. lutea Cram., and like tliat species, with the cell of hindwiug only one-fifth of wing, but entirely withont its distinguishing secondary sexual characteristics ; hindmargin of both wings curved, not crenulated. But for the length of cell, it would be a Petrodava.
Idiotephra gen. nov.
Forewings : elongate, narrow ; costa faintly sinuous, being slightly convex near base and towards apex ; apex blunt ; hindmargin strongly oblique, scarcely curved.
llinciwings : twice as broad as forewings, the costa strongly gibbous ; hind- margin bluntly prominent in middle, and somewhat lobed at anal angle.
Antennae of cJ long, bipectinate, the apical third filiform ; palpi porrect, ronghly haired, the joints indistinct; tongue and frenulum both well-develojied ; hindtibiae much thickened, with four spurs, the inner middle one longer than the other three, which are quite short; jiatagia lengthened ; pectus densely haired.
Neuration : forewings, cell nearly half as long as wing ; discocellular vertical ; first median at three-fifths, second close before end of cell ; radials normal ; ~, S, 9 stalked from close before end of cell ; 10 free, anastomosing at a jioiut with 11, which rises out of 12. Hindwings with the costal vein running nearly straight ; subcostal curved upwards, the first subcostal branch rising at one-half, and slightly curved at first away, but approximating to the second at an equal distance beyond the discocellular, then widely diverging ; first median at one-half, second and third from end of cell, and widely diverging ; a strong straight fold from base close above the median, almost touching third median, and curved to hindmargin just below the second subcostal ; the submedian fold straight, and similarly strongly developed.
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Type : Idiotephrn curvieena sp. uov.
Easily distiuguisbed by the abnormal shapu aud ueuration of the hiudwiogs. Perhaps allied to Tepkrina.
144. Idiotephra curvivena sp. uov.
Forewings: pale mouse-colour, slightly freckled with darker; inner line very obscnre, at one-fifth, marked by a darker spot ou the median ; outer line at four- fifths, slightly bent on vein 6, then oblique, parallel to hindmargin, slender and marked by largish dark spots on veins ; submai-ginal very faint, pale, aud denticu- late ; marginal spots small, black ; fringe concolorous ; cell-spot large, black.
Hind icings : with the outer line at two-thirds, hardly curved ; cell-spot very large, black ; hindmargin darker.
Underside whitish grey, more or less suffused in forewings with darker, in the hindwings with only the hindmargin darker ; lines aud cell-spots obscurely darker ; costa of forewings pale ochreous, spotted with fuscous. Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; face and palpi brown.
Expanse of wings : 33 mm.
One cJ from liiver Niger, between Akassa and Onitsha (Dr. Cook).
145. Petrodava olivata insularis snbsp. nov.
Since describing the type specimens of this species from Dar-es-Salaam, I have seen others agreeing with them in all respects from Barberton and Mikindaui, both on the east coast of Africa. The present form from Madagascar differs from them all in several points, so that it seems necessary to describe it as at least a subspecies.
cJ. Forewings : not olive-green, but yellow as in the ? of olimUa ; first line scarcely expressed ; middle liue oblique, not vertical ; marginal brown area with three darker chestnut blotches, touching the third line, at costa, beyond cell, aud at anal angle ; the costal blotch followed by a small yellow patch.
Hindwings : as in the type, both above and below.
Underside of forewings with no yellow patch in middle, and at ape.x of hindmargin only the costa remaining yellow. Vertex, thorax, and abdomen yellow.
Expanse of wings : 34 mm. only.
One (S from Antanambe, Antongil Bay, Bladagascar, March and April 1897 (Mocquerys).
141). Tephrina (?) convergens.
Forewings : pale brown, dusted and suffused with darker brown ; the lines dark brown, thick, with slight lustrous edging externally ; first from two-fifths of costa to one-third of inner margin, angled in cell; second from three-fourths of costa to beyond middle of inner margin, acutely angled close to hindmargin ; submargiual at seven-eighths, angled in the hindmargin ; a subcostal diffuse brown streak, through the angles of all the lines ; fringe brown, with two dark lirown lines, one at base, the other in the middle.
Hindwings : witli the two onter lines only, the first central, the other half-way between it and hindmargin, parallel to each other.
Underside yellow, slightly striated with brown ; forewing with a short brown
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line from iuuer margin before middle, and a curved brown line at two-thirds, beyond which the whole marginal area is brown except the apex ; hindwing with similar lines, but no marginal shade. Abdomen grey-brown, short (?). Head wanting.
Expanse of wings : 28 mm.
One ? from West China.
Subfamily ENNOMINAE.
Adelphocrasta gen. nov.
Forewings : shaped very much as in Gonodontis delta, but with more prominent apex ; the inner margin before the lobe at anal angle straight.
Ilindiviiif/s : also like Gonoilontis ; bnt the tooth at vein 4 more prominent, the costal margin straight, the shoulder at base being scarcely jjerceptible.
Antennae of i simple, filiform ; hindtibiae thickened, with four spurs. The rest as in Gonodontis.
Xeuration : forewiugs, cell nearly half as long as wing ; discocellnlar concave ; first median at three-fourths, second at eleven-twelfths ; radials as in (ionodontis, 7, 8, 9 stalked from before end of cell; 10 free ; 11 out of \'l.
Type : Adelphocrasta hypocausta sp. nov.
It seems certain that this species cannot be considered congeneric wilh clelia Cram.
147. Adelphocrasta hypocausta sp. nov.
Forewings : pale dingy ochreons, speckled with fuscous ; costa with a dcej) brown blotch at base, an oblique one at one-fourth, a double one at three-fifths, and a paler brown mark at five-sixths ; the inner line starting from the second blotch is acutely angled on the subcostal, then runs obliijue to one-fifth of inner margin ; the outer line from the outer spot of the third blotch is angled on vein 6, then runs oblique to middle of inner margin, subdentate and marked by dots on veins ; the median line, only plain from inner margin to median vein, runs oblique from the first spot of the double blotch: a slightly curved line runs from three-fourths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, where it is followed by a large chestnut-brown blotch ; submarginal line very obscure, starting from the subapical blotch, is marked by a small white spot below vein 7 ; fringe brown ; cell-spot dark.
llindwings : with obscure diffuse central and submarginal shades, an<l a nearly straight denticulate postmedian line.
Underside yellowish, speckled with ferruginous ; the three lines ferruginous interrupted ; marginal third, ferruginous and dove-colour, edged internally by a dark fuscous line, the apical and anal areas remaining pale yellow ; submarginal line more visible than above ; hindwings with a ferruginous broad submarginal fascia with distinct dentate edge externally, beyond which the marginal area is uniform dove-colour. Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings above.
Expanse of wings : 44 mm.
One (J from Penang, 1897 (Curtis).
The intervals along the submedian fold between first and second line, and again beyond third line, and the discal area just beyond cell are all paler and whiter, but can hardly be called semihyaliue.
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148. Coenina cervina sp. uov.
Forewings : pale pearl-grey, thickly dusted with fine black atoms ; a double oblique sinnate line from costa at tliree-fuurths to inner margin beyond middle, the inner arm fulvous, the outer grey ; inner margin from base tinged with fulvous, and a patch of the same at anal angle ; fringe pale, with a dark line at base.
Wndwim/.i : with the postmcdian line white, broadening towards apex, pre- ceded by a broad fulvous orange shade, and followed by a grey-brown shade, which along the hindmargin becomes bright fulvous ; abdominal margin whitish ; fringe white.
Underside whitish, with grey speckliugs ; the bright fulvous tints much more diffused. Face and palpi whitish, varied with fulvous ; thorax pale grey ; abdomen darker.
Expanse of wings : 32 mm.
One cj from the Congo, 18T0.
Also from Abyssinia, in the British Museum Collection.
149. Corymica fulvimaculata sp. nov.
Forewings : yellow, much speckled and varied with fulvous dots and patches ; the costa more finely dusted with dark brown scales ; fovea large even in the ? ; first line angulated, represented by fulvous patches, one in middle of cell, and two obliquely below it, above and below the submedian vein, its upper half marked by a patch of dark brown scales on the subcostal vein and a less conspicuous brown mark on costa near base, before and beyond which the costal edge is whitish ; cell- spot fulvous, with a darker centre ; before the anal angle a large diffuse sinuous fulvous patch, which above vein 3 resolves itself into two series of fulvous spots on veins, the inner larger than the outer ; the inner with a spot on vein 6 and none on vein 5, the outer with one on vein 5 and none on vein 0 ; a smaller fulvous patch at anal angle ; a small triangular chestnut patch on hindmargin below apex, which is acute.
Hindwings : with all but the costal area suffused with fulvous, containing darker spots and blotches between the veins ; cell-spot small, brown.
Underside pale yellow ; forewiug with brown speckles : the fulvous markings dull and blurred, the subapical triangle deeper chestnut ; cell-spot bright brown ; hindwings with sandy brown freckles ; cell-spot linear, brown ; a whitish grey, brown-edged triangle on costa before apex. Head, vertex, and palpi brownish fuscous ; thorax and abdomen yellow, with some scattered fulvous scales ; the base and apex of abdomen suffused with fulvous.
Expanse of wings : 39 mm.
One ¥ from Penang, 1897 (Curtis).
In the subapical patch agreeing with exiyninota Hmpsu. from the Nilgiris.
150. Epigynopteryx brunnea sp. nov.
Forewings : uniform brownish fawn-colour, indistinctly dappled with darker ; first line indistinct, smoky brown, at one-fourth, angled on the subcostal : second line dark brown, distinct, from costa at five-sixths, below which it is twice miuutelj' dentate, to two-thirds of inner margin, straight and obliijue, containing on its outer edge pale points on the veins ; submargiual line represented by a brown spot above
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and below vein 3 ; fringe concolorous : an obscnre dark cell-spot, throngh which a fine waved median line can jnst be traced.
Hindwingg : with costal area whitish ; the oblique brown line central, followed by an obscnre Innnlate dark grey line.
Underside brown ; the inner margin of both wings paler ; forewings with the ends of enter and submarginal lines on the costa whitish. Face and paljii dull brown ; thorax and abdomen paler ; base of antennae and vertex whitish.
Expanse of wings : 38 mm.
One S from Warri, Niger Coast Protectorate, May 1807 (Dr. Roth).
Iridoplecta gen. nov.
Forewinqs : with costa faintly convex ; apex rectaugnlar, blnnt : hindmargin finely crenalate, vertical to third median, where there is a slight elbow, thence oblique to anal angle.
Ilinilwings: hindmargin strongly crenulate, with five prominent teeth, of which the middle one at end of the third median is longest.
Antennae of S very finely pubescent ; palpi very short, not reaching beyond forehead ; hindtibiae somewhat dilated, with four spurs.
Neuration : forewings, cell half the length of wing ; discocellular curved, very fine ; first median at three-fourths, second and third together from lower angle ; radials normal ; last three subcostals stalked from some little way before end of cell, third and fourth forking only just before apex ; first and second absent ; costal running nearly to apex, close to the stem of the other three subcostals. Hindwings with first subcostal and second median each leaving jnst before angle of cell. Wings semihyaline, iridescent.
Type : Iridoplecta ferrif era Moore {Trygodes).
An example of this Indian species has been sent by Doherty from Bali (March- April 1896), differing only in the hindwings being less strongly crennlated.
151. Miantochora incolorata sp. nov.
Forewings : pearl-grey, slightly lustrous, speckled and suffused in parts with darker grey ; the costa pale, with coarse fuscous mottlings ; the lines somewhat diffuse and inconspicuous, dull ferruginous ; the first curved, at one-third, the second, in the middle, nearly vertical : the third from five-sixths of costa to inner margin before anal angle, incurved below the middle, its inner edge marked by dark vein- dots; on the lower radial beyond it is a dark spot; a triangular dull ferruginous patch on hindmargin below apex ; marginal area beyond outer line from vein 5 to anal angle, and the iuner margin between the middle and outer line occupied by pale patches of the grouud-colonr ; fringe rufous towards apex, pale grey below ; cell- spot dark, indistinct ; the veins towards hindmargin pale ochreous.
llindwimjs : paler ; an indistinct ferruginous antemedian and more strongly marked postmedian line, the latter, as in forewings, preceded by black spots on veins, and followed by a darker cloud ; marginal area darker grey.
Underside whitish, freckled with grey : the outer line only marked by dark spots on veins ; costa of forewings ochreous chequered with fuscous : the subapical ferru- ginous triangle distinct. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with ochreous.
Expanse of wings : 50 mm.
One <J from Warri, Niger Coast Protectorate, June 1897 (Dr. Roth).
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This species differs from the type of the genus, inaequilinea Warr., in having a much blunter and less prominent projection in the hindmargin of both wings. In the original description of the genus I stated that the fovea was absent, biit this must be corrected : in the forewings veins 10 and 1 1 are stalked.
152. Omiza lubricata sp. no v.
ForeiDings : pale olive-yellow, varied with fine leaden grey striae, which are most numerous along costa and in the marginal area ; the lines brown-red, first from beyond middle of costa to one-third of inner margin, slightly concave basewards, edged along its ujiper half with leaden grey scales, which form a spot on costa ; second line from about three-fourths of costa to beyond middle of inner margin, bluntly angled outwards between veins 6 and 7, thence slightly concave outwards, edged outwardly with leaden grey scales and striae ; at the anal angle rises a large blotch of fuscous and leadeu grey scales, expanding upwards to vein 3 and partially across the median area, where the scales become red-brown like the outer line ; cell-sjiot ocelloid, with red-brown ring and i)ale slightly shining centre ; fringe tinged with red ; the central area is paler yellow than the basal and marginal areas, except where it is clouded in the middle.
Hindwiiiys : with an outer red-brown line, not reaching above vein 7 ; from the anal angle, parallel with it, runs an elongated blotch of glossy fulvous scales, with some leaden grey spots aud striae interspersed.
Underside of forewings dull red-brown, the inner margin broadly white ; the costal area to the outer line orange spotted with red : of hiudwings orange, with sparse large red sjiots and the line red. Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; face dark brown, fillet whitish ; antennae dark grey.
Expanse of wings : 38 mm.
Three S S from S. Flores, November 1890, dry season (Everett).
Evidently related to U. sHbanraiitinrn Warr. from Dili, Timor, with which it agrees in the peculiar glassiness of the anal blotches.
The second specimen is dull greenish grey in basal aud marginal areas, with the median area flesh-coloured ; the anal blotches scarcely darker, but equally shining. In the third the ground-colour is wholly glaucous olive, the lines aud ocelloid spot being deep vivid red, and the anal blotch of forewings black.
153. Stenorumia kashmirica sp. nov.
Forewiiujs : very pale yellow, faintly ochreous along costa, the costal edge ochraceous ; no vestige of darker dusting; the lines olive ochreous; the first from below costa before apex to base, before which it is slightly curved as in oMunaUh Guen., the second from apex to above two-thirds of inner margin ; both lines obsolete below vein 1 ; fringe coucolorous, with the base rufous towards apex of wing.
Hin</w>i!i/s : without any markings whatever ; fringe the same.
Underside without markings ; the costa of forewings broadl}- ochraceou.'- throughout. Head, thorax, and abdomen- -cencolorous : palpi and autennai- ochraceous or rufous.
Expanse of wings : 45 mm.
Three 6 S from the Gourais Valley, Kashmir, Tuuu feet, June l^sT.
Distinguished from uOlunata by the immaculate hindwiugs with pale fringes.
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Trotocraspeda gen. nov.
Forewings : with costa aiohed from base, then straight, aud agaiu strongly convex towards apex, which is dedexed aud rounded : hiiidmargin elliowed at the end of third median, above which it is indented, then straight aud obliijue to anal angle, which is blunt.
Hindwings : with apex rounded : a blunt tooth at end of first subcostal, and a much larger one at end of third median ; the margin between the teeth strongly incurved, and containing traces of a minute tooth at the end of the second subcostal : hindmargin from anal angle to middle tooth straight, but faintly waved.
Forehead projecting in front ; antennae half as long as wing, with short, regular, gradually decreasing pectinations; palpi porrect, second joint long aud stout : third minute, decumbent : tongue present : hiudtibiae with four spurs.
yeiiratioii : forewiugs, cell half the wiug : discocellular obliipie : first median at two-thirds, second just before end of cell, third from end ; lower radial from a little above centre of discocellular ; upper from the upper angle : last four subcostals stalked, first free : discocellular of hindwing curved, the lower arm oblique ; first subcostal just before end of cell ; medians as in forewings.
Tyjje : Trotocraspeda divaricata Moore (Agat/iia).
154. Zethenia obscura s]i. nov.
Forewings : dull olive-brown, thickly speckled with blackish, and with some rufous scales intermixed : the lines smoky blackish ; first at one-fourth, angled in cell, then oblique to inner margin at one-fourth ; median shade thick, dilfuse, from two-thirds of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, slightly sinuous ; outer line fine, dentate-lunulate, from three-fourths of costa, incurved below middle to join the central shade near inner margin, and followed between veins 3 and 1 by two irregularly limulate white blotches, which are succeeded by a large blackish cloud, obscurely produced to costa as a submarginal shade ; fringe dai'k fuscous ; cell-spot obscure, blackish.
Hindtcings : with only the outer dentate blackish line, preceded and followed by broad smoky fuscous fasciae.
Underside more tinged with rufous, with dift'use broad fuscous postmediaii and submarginal fasciae : the cell-spots larger, blackish ; inner margin of forewings pale. Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown.
Expanse of wings : 38 mm.
One (?, one ?, from North Mountains, Formosa, 500— 1.500 feet, July 1890 (Jonas),
Hindmargin of forewings strongly curved, but uot angled above middle ; of hindwings crenulate. Thp $ has the apex of forewiugs slightly more prominent.
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SOME NEW EASTERN LEPIDOPTERA.
By the HON, WALTER KOTHSCHILD, Pii.I),
PAPILIONIDAE.
1. Troides aeacus formosanus subsp. uov.
i. Differs from the ludian form of aeacus in the white spots of the fringe of the forewing being much smaller, iu the wedge-shaped interuervular portions of the black marginal baud of the hindwing being longer, in the abdomen being clothed with red hairs beneath at the base and bearing (like aeacus from Central and West China) two rows of black ^Mis ou each side ventrally.
Hab. South Cape, Formosa (received from Monsieur de la Touche), ii i 6 .
2. Papilio nubilus musianus subsp. nov.
S. Differs from the Boruean form of nubilus, Iris VII. p. 314 (1894) (Brunei), in the following points : Forewing above with three postdiscal white patches, the uppermost between SC^ and SO"", the following two longer, between SC'' and R-, all three sinuate externally, an indication of a fourth patch between R- and R^ 7 mm. from edge of wing ; marginal spots nine in number, ujipermost between SC^ and SC^, spot between SC* and SC* extremely small, visible only with a lens. Hindwing above as in nubilus nubilus, no submarginal spots.
Underside. Forewing with four postdiscal patches from SC^ to R'*, upper three
just beyond apex of cell, fourth smaller, a little closer to cell than to outer margin ;
in inner angle, between M- and SM-, a small patch with a small spot in front.
Hindwing : submarginal lunules R^ — M- very faintly marked ; third discal patch measuring 10 mm. in length, externally obliquely cut off', slightly concave, the fourth more regular, '.i|l mm. long.
Hab. Upper Palembang district, o' s. lat., !l03' long. ; \ S, received from J\Ir. J. Volcker.
NYMPHALIDAE. 3. Cynthia obiensis sp. nov.
(?. Wings above deeper iu tint than in arsinoc h-ova Amboina — • — Forewing : median series of bars heavy, very oblique, upper one close to upper angle of cell, bar M- — SM- 6 to 7 mm. from tip of SM- ; admarginal line of lunules as in
arsinoc, submarginal lunules very faint, except the last. Hindwing : median
series of bars very heavy, the line broken at veins, upper bar curved like letter S, bar R'* — M' more or less longitudinal, being mostly j)laced along D', bar M- — (SM') also marked.
IJndei'side from base to median lines of bars rufous red, especially ou
hindwing. Forewing : median bars not so heavy as above, but also placed in a
very oblique row ; apical white spots larger than in arsinoc, brown spot in inner
angle small. Hindwing : outer half rather heavily shaded with rnibus red :
median line of bars somewhat concave.
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? . Uppenide macli darker than in arsino'e, henoe the cell-bars and the bars in marginal region not very conspicnous, mummy-brown. A broad pure white band across disc, 9i to lOi mm. wide at SC'*, its inner edge oblique (as line of bars in S), indented at U', M' and M-, very obliqae between (SM'j and SM- ; the band is limited distally betweea SC'^ and 11- by two blackish brown luuules, the ni)per lunule nearly entirely fused with the blackish brown marginal area, there being only a very few white scales at its distal side ; the second Innnle more distinct, separated by a luniform white spot from the band ; a third, very indistinct, brown lunnle in the white baud between R- and U' ; postdiscal bars appearing as black spots jnst at the outer edge of the band between U- and SM- ; two small submarginal white dots between SC^ and It', the second in one of the two specimens
absent. Hindwing mummy-brown up to median line of bars ; these bars heavy
as in <S, followed by a russet tawny baud, which becomes grey behind C, outer edge of band ill-defiued, nearly straight, touching eye-spots ; area between this band and submarginal Hue of bars darker brown ; eye-spots with a rather large blue dot.
Underside russet, outer half paler. Forewing : white band as above, discal
and postdiscal luniform bars feeble, submarginal line indistinct behind, admarginal
distinct, but not strongly marked. Hindwing: discal band much paler than
above, becoming whitish from R' to C.
Hah. Laiwui, Obi I., September 1897 (W. Doherty), 5 tJJ, 2 ? ?.
Easily distinguished from all races of arainoc by the obliipiely placed series of median bars of the forewing.
4. Acraea parce buruensis subsp. no v. .
c? ?. Differs from .1. parce parce Stand., Ins IX. p. 193. t. 1. f. 8 (1896J, from Mangiola, Sula Archipelago, in the following points : The basal half of the forewing from cell to internal margin is much more diaphanous, there being much less black scales on the npperside. On the underside of the hindwing the discal band and the submarginal spots are more ochreous ; the partially scaleless patch in and before cell is very variable in extent, but it is always much smaller than in the Mangiola race, the posterior half of the cell remaining always black ; the subbasal I)atch between costal and subcostal nervules is also much smaller, often absent. The submarginal spots are generally somewhat smaller than in parce puree ; the posterior ones much shaded with black in 3, sometimes scarcely traceable.
Ilab. Mount Mada, Burn, Soptem])er 1898, 3000 feet (Dumas).
PIERIDAE.
5. Delias funerea buruana subsp. nov.
S. Differs from the Halmahera form oi m\ funerea, figured in Smith & Kirby, Rhop. Exot. II. JJelias t. VI. f. 1. 2 (1890), in the apex of the forewing above, the fringe of the forewing (except at inner angle) and of the hindwing, being black ; the apical black area is small, extending 7 mm. along lower subcostals, but black colour of cellule before R- very restricted.
Underside : black apical area of forewing much smaller than m funerea funerea, {he spots in it yellow, not white. Red markings of hindwing thinner, outer margin shaded with wliite scales.
Ilab. Mount Mada, Burn, September ls98, 3000 feet (Dumas).
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SPHINGIDAE. 6. Cephanodes titan sp. uov.
This is the largest species of the genus, only being approaclied by Cephanoilea u'OodfonH Bntl.
?. U p per side : wings diaphanous, base, costal margin, and apex black, this apex If mm. wide between lower subcostal nervures, inner margin also black along its basal half. Base and abdominal margin of hindwings black.
Underside same as above, but margins brown, and base of both wings orange.
Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen above deep velvety black with iridescent steel-blue lights. Anal tuft orange-tawny in the centre. Underside, jialpi bnff, legs and thorax orange, abdomen as above, sixtli and seventh segments strongly intermixed with orange, anal tuft more heavily marked with tawny orange than above, eyes bordered with white beneath.
Length of body 41 mm. ,, „ forewing 38 mm.
Hab. Amboina.
7. Panacra buruensis sp. nov.
This very distinct species is most nearly allied to P. mira Wlk. (= tiirneri Misk.).
Head and thorax above blackish chocolate, both with a stripe on each side fawn- colour, thorax besides with a central stripe of tlie same colour ; abdomen dark brown, with a whitish grey middle line, sides much mixed with red. Underside of body deep dragon's-blood red (Ridgway, NomencL of Col. PI. VII. 8). Palpi above dark fawn-colour, more reddish below.
Wings above brown. Forewing much clouded with deep chocolate, this colour
forming a large irregular patch extending from R' to costal margin, narrowing in front, connected by a narrow band with a second patch situated at internal margin, botli patches ill-defined, a third patch at internal margin near hinder angle of wing ; from the inner side of this last patch runs a deep chocolate line to the apex of the wing, the line curved distad between the nervnles, 5 mm. distant from outer margin at W, slightly curving ontwards from JP to R' ; disc at proximal side of this line with glossy grey scaling ; a band of li mm. width from apex of wing R^, curved, not composed of lunules, continued as an indistinct line to patch at inner edge of wing, 3 mm. distant from postdiscal line at M\ touching it in front, interspace faintly tinged with ochreous ; a submarginal line, consisting of lunules curved
I)roximad, less distinct than postdiscal line. Hindwing : Prout's brown (Ridgway,
I.e. PI. III. II), paler towards base, a deeper brown submarginal band, very ill- defined, shading off at both sides into ground-colour ; fringe up to middle of outer margin nearly white.
Underside dark rufons ; interno-basal area of forewing and outer margin of fore- and hindwing dark drab-brown ; two parallel lines across disc of both wings of same colour, upper ends somewhat curved proximad, with an indication of a third line between the two.
Length : forewing 34 mm. „ hindwing 20 mm.
Hab. Mount Mada, Burn, 3000 feet, September 1898 (Dnmas)
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RATTTRNIIPAE.
8. Coscinocera hercules heros snbsp. nov.
(?. Differs from the three known forms of lurculi's (see Nov. Zooi.. Y. p. 09. 1898) especially in the shape of the small eye-spots.
Upjierside somewhat darker than in hercnlcs hcrriile!<, i\w bamls a little more obscure. Eyc-si)ot of forewiug :3J mm. distant from discal baud, ulilinue, irregularly ovate, costal and basal sides forming almost a semicircle, ontwardly as bluntly pointed as in (?w/>/;a/«, diameters 11 and 7 mm. : hyaline centre 6 mm. long, standing obliquely to veins, triangular, but the angles rounded off, upper edge only 21 mm. long (in the direction of veins). Eye-spot of hindwing transverse, ~\ mm. long, slightly oblique, ovate, pointing backwards, ii mm. wide, outer side more oblique than inner side, 6 mm. distant from black discal line ; hyaline centre transverse, a mere dash, of barely 1 mm. width.
On underside the hyaline spots are encircled with a dirty ochraceons line npon which follows costally and proximally a purplish black line, the hyaline spot of the hindwing longer than above and wider.
Hal. Rossel I., Louisiade Archipelago (A. S. Meek, March 1898), 1 cj.
I have also received a pair of Coacinoccra hercules from Sudest Island : the cJ (which is badly damaged, both tails being wanting) agrees with the type of hercules heros almost perfectly, only the eye-spots of the wings being more rounded and slightly smaller. The ? has the bands on both wings much more strongly and clearly marked than the S, the eye-spots agree in shape with those of the S , but are larger : widest distance of black ring of the spot of the forewiug from lilack half-moon of cell 4J mm., shortest distance from discal black line U mm.; black ring of the spot of the hindwing 9 mm. distant from subbasal black line, 4 mm. from discal black line.
GEOMETRIDAE.
9. Milionia pumilio sp. nov.
?. Body above and below glossy metallic green-blue : abdomen black beneath.
Wings black. Upperside, forewing without gloss, except at extreme base, faintly bine in sidelight, a short streak at base before SM-, and a curved band across disc orange-ochraceous ; the band of nearly even width, 4 mm. broad at R^, more distal anteriorly than in laticitta, and more distal posteriorly than in glauca
fflauca ; fringe all lilack as in (/laxca. Hindwing as in ijlmira from the Southern
Moluccas.
Underside : band as above, metallic gloss as in yhca'a. more gi'cen-blue.
Length of forewing : i.'l J mm.
Hah. Sumba, September 1890: 1 ?, received from Mr. II. Frnhstorfer Probably only a small race oi (/huiea.
AGARISTIDAE.
I'-i. Episteme conspicua sumatrana snbsp. nov.
?. Body as in Bom&an conspicua, Nov. Zooi,. III. ji. 29. n. 0. (1896), bnt spots on mesonotnm larger, with a bluish tint.
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Fovewiug : whitish blue basal spots much larger than in conspicwi, a small pale yellow spot at base of cell, extending a little beyond M ; a transverse spot of same colonr beyond middle of cell, 3 mm. broad, extending beyond SC, bnt not reaching edge of wing, followed behind by a large trapeziform patch, that expands lietween coll and SM-, witli a fo^ yellow scales behind SM-, widest behind, deeply concave proxiraally ; dirical band as in conspicim ronspicua, deeper yellow ; a series of eight small white submarginal dots between SC and SM^, the last of which before SM- in the same place where there stands a larger yellow spot in 'RorneAw conspicua,
the upper six dots closer to band than in conspicua. Hindwing as in conspicua,
black discal half-band narrower.
Undei-side : postmediau cell-spot of forewing and patch behind it fused to form a pale yellow band ; both this band and the discal one deeper in colour than in conxpictw conspicua ; submarginal spots all white as above (inclusive of posterior one).
Hah. Padang 8idempoean, West Sumatra (Ericsson, 1898), 1 ?.
Ii. conxpicH'i was hitherto known fnily from IMonnt Kina Bain, North Borneo.
Sysony.mical Xote.
Ambulyx scxoculata Grote is not a variety of A. gannascus. The description given by Grote agrees exacth- with the beautiful insect figured by Oberthiir as ^'1. depuiaeti, Ft. (FEnt. VI. p. 31. t. 5. f. 3 (1881). I possess three specimens from Colombia and Merida, Venezuela ; tlie one f'olomliian example was caught by Professor Burger in Bogota, in December 1800, at the electric light. The name of depuiseti sinks as a synonj-m oi sexocnlnta.
A. crpthon Boisd. from Peru (?) and i<chau»i Rothsch. from Petropolis are the same species as A. enrysthenea Feld. from Colombia, though they represent most likely geographical forms. Felder's name has priority.
" Eusemia " glossatrix Westwood (1881), erroneously said to be from South Africa, is a synonym o( Scrobigera viilcania Bntl. (1875) from Burma.
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FURTHEE NOTES ON HUMMING-BIRDS.
By ERNST HARTERT.
Spathura underwoodi (Lesson).
WHEN examiiiinjj tlio series of these birds in Mr. Rothschild's wonderfully growing collection of Trochilklne, I was at once strnck by a generally very well-marked difference in the coloration o{ i\\Q femnlci from the mountains of Venezuela and those from ( 'olombia. From Venezuela we have a fine series, collected in the Andes near Merida, at elevations of from 2100 to 4000 metres, by Messrs. Salomon Bricefio Gabald<'>n k Sons, and from C'olombia a number of Bogota skins. The latter are to be regarded as typical mulrrwoodi. Their nndersnrface is somewhat equally spotted with green, these spots being larger and closer together along the sides of the neck and body, somewhat less frequent along the middle, and almost or quite absent from the upper part of the throat near the chin. In all the adult females from Veneznela, however, the throat and chest are white without spots, or only with a few very minute ones, so tliat there is a very marked contrast between the throat and abdomen. Yonng wrt/cs are darker below than /?//(r///',s. I cannot find any difference between the males from the two countries, except that the bills of those from Bogota are only from 11 v) to 12 mm. long, while they are abont 13 mm. long in those from Merida, the e.xposed part of the cnlmen only being measured. Small as these differences are, they are worthy of notice, and I propose the name of
Spathura underwoodi bricenoi subsp. nov.
for the Merida form.
There has been some uncertainty abont the specific name underwoodi, as Lesson, having before him an unartistic drawing only, figured and described the male with a white band across the rnmp. This character, however, does not exist in the types in the Loddiges Collection, and is not to be found in any species of the genus. There is, therefore, no reason to reject the name underwoodi.
Spathura jjertiana can only be subspecifically related to .S'. solstitinlis, or is not even a subspecies, the only difference apparently being the deep blue-black outer web of the lateral rectrices. The distribution of S. peruana and S. solstifialis— i{ they are different forms — is not sufficiently clear.
Genus ERIOCNEMIS.
I cannot see the necessity of splitting this genus np into several ill-defined gronps, and I shall therefore accept it in the same sense as Salvin did in the Catalogue of Birds.
Baron has discovered that {\\e female of/.', russata differs from the male, which has the tibial tufts partly white, partly cinnamon, in having the tibial tufts quite white, the wing shorter, the bill longer. This being an established fact (see Nov ZooL. Vol. n. p. 00), there is no longer any reason to regard A", squamata and
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E. lugens as two species, the latter uo doubt being tlie female, the former the 7nale.
In the Catalogue of Birds and elsewhere the female of E. aureliae has been said to be " similar to the male." This is not exactly right. The female of E. aureliae differs from the male in having the tibial tnft less largely developed, and only tinged witli brownish cinnamon near the body, not half cinnamon as in the male. The wing is also shorter, the tail more distinctly tinged with green towards the base. Yonng birds resemble more the fenude ; the feathers of the underside, however, are dnsky black ; the base of the mandible is flesh-colonr. This last character is fonnd in most or all species of Eriocnemis when very young.
Genus METALLURA.
Mr. Baron has collected a fine series of Metallura smanuidinicollis in North Pern, at Cajabaniba, Cajamarca, Hnamachnco, Levanto, and Celendin (cf Nov. Zool. Vol. IV. No. 1). All these differ considerably from specimens of ^[. .vmimgdinicoUis from the more southern parts of Pern and Bolivia (Maraynioc, f 'achnpata, Tilotilo, S. Jos^, and Araca) in the following characters : —
They are slightly ligliter green above. They are much paler below, the tips of the feathers being pale greenish bronze and less large, thns showing more of the huffish subterminal colour of the feathers. They are slightly larger. They require a name, and I name them
Metallura smaragdinicoUis septentrionalis subsp. nov.
Boueard's .1/. periitiaiw {Gen. Ham. J>. p. 73) seems to belong to typical itnuiragdinirollis. Some of the type-specimens have rather longer wings than other smaragdinicolUs ; bnt they are not, according to their coloration, my septentrionalis.
Boncard's M. griseocyanea (Gen. Hum. B. p. 75) is a semialbinistic variety of ^^. tyriaidhina.
It is hardly possible to believe that the imperfect skin from Santa Marta in the British Museum belongs to Met. smaragdinicolUs. Adult specimens will no donbt prove to belong to a new form.
Nearly all or all nests of the various species of Metallura^ of which we have received several from Ecuador (from Baron) and from Venezuela (Briceno), are raised at the back so as to somewhat resemble a short slipper withont heel.
Genus CHALCOSTIGMA.
Elliot and Salvin nnited Chnlcostigmn with Tthamphomicron. I cannot agree with them, nor with Salvin's contention that his genus Rkamphomieron (including Chalcostigma) " might perhaps be separated into three or four genera" ; bnt I follow Simon {FcuUle Jeunes Nat. 1898. p. 125) and Berlepsch (w litt.) in separating Chalcoxtigma, with heteropogon, oUcaceum, stanlegi, vulcani, herrani, rujiceps, and purpareicauda, from Rkamphomieron, with microrhynchum and dorsale. The former genus differs from the latter in having a longer bill (longer than the head or equal to it, while it is shorter than the head in EhampJiomicron), broader rectrices, and an elongated bunch of feathers on the throat. If such characters are
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not considered sufficient for generic separation in Humming-Birds, wo must at once unite alxint thirty or forty other genera of Trochilidae.
lilwmph. microrlnjnchum, hitherto only on record from ("olomhia and Ecuador, has been also received from Mr. Salomon Bricefio from tlie Andes, near Merida in YenezTiela.
Cludcost. rufr-ep$ was found by Baron in Southern Ecuador (Loja). The Ecuadorian specimens, however, diftVr from ty[)ioal rufcepri from Bolivia, whicli have the glittering gnlar stripe uniform green, in having the tip of this stripe beantifnlly golden. I call this subspecies
Chalcostigma ruficeps aureofastigatum snbsp. nov.
It occurs also in Northern Pern.
The supposed female of C. herrani described on p. 34fi of Tol. XVI. of the Cat. B. Brit. Mus.