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:^^OVITATES ZOOLOGICAE, Vol. XIX, 1912.
NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE
H Journal of ZooloQ^
IN CONNECTION WITH THE TRING MUSEUM.
EDITED BY
The Hon. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, F.R.S., Ph.D., Dk. ERNST HARTERT, and Dr. K. JORDAN.
Vol. XIX., 1912.
(WITH FOURTEEN PLATES.)
Issued at the Zoological Museum, Thing
PRINTED BY HAZELL, WATSON & VINEY, I,D., LONDON AND AYI.ESBURV.
1912—1913.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME XIX. (1912).
GENEUAL SUBJECT.
PAGES
1. On the Term "Subspecies" as used in Systematic Zoolog)'. Wai.teu
EoTnsciiiLD ........... 13a — 136
MAMMALIA.
1. Descriptions of Two Giant Rats from New Guinea, pre.sented to the British Museum by tlie Hon. Walter Rothschild, F.R.S. Oldfield
Thomas 91—92
AVES.
1. Note on Conurus asruyinosus and the allied species. T. Salvadori . 84 — 85
2. List of a Collection of Birds made by Mr. Albert Meek on the Kumusi
River, North-Eastern British New Guinea. Walter Rothschild
and Ernst Hartert ......... 187 206
0. List of Birds collected by Mr. A. S. Meek at Haidana, CoUingwood
Bay, in North-Eastern British New Guinea. Walter Rothschild
and Ernst Hartert ......... i.'U7 — 2iJ9
4. Description of Two New Binls from tlie Timor Group of Islands.
C. E. Hellmayr . . 21U — 211
."). The Birds of Yunnan. Collingwood Ingram ...... 269 — 310
6. Ornithologlsche Miszellen aus dem Imlo-Australischen Gebiet. EitwiN
Stresemann 311 — 35]
7. On some unfigured Birds. (Plates I. and II.) Ernst Hartert . . 373 — 374
COLEOPTERA.
1. List of the Anthi-ibidae in the Congo Museum at Tervueren. K. Jordan 63 67
2. New A nthribidae in the Collection of H. E. Andrewes. K. .Jordan . 87 90
3. Neue Apionen des Nord- und Siid-Amerikanisi-hen F.iunengebietes.
(Illustriert.) Hans Waoner ........ 97 118
4. Formo.san Anthrihiilae collected by H. Sauter. K. Jordan . . . 137 II.")
5. De.scriptions d' Esp^ces et Varietes Nouvelles de Coecinellides du British
Museum. DocTEUR Sicard ........ 247 268
( vi ) LEPIDOPTERA.
PAGES
1. New Nocliddae in tln' Tring Museum, mainly from tlio Tnclo-Orieutal
Region. \V. Wahren ......... 1 — 57
2. New Geomelridae in the Tring Museum from New Guinea. W. Warren 68 — 83
3. Caligida Hybr. salmoni, a new Hybi'id of .Satiirniidae. (Illustrated.)
J. Henry Watson 86—87
4. On an apparently New Form of Lambessa from Algeria. Walter
RoTILSCniLD . . . . . . . .118
5. A Synonymic Catalogue of the Syntomid Genus Balacra Walk., with
Descriptions of New Species. (Plates XIII. — XIV.)* WAi/rER
EoTiiscHii,D 119 — 122
G. New Bornean Aegeriidae and Syntomidae. Walter Rothschild . . 122 — 124
7. New Mauretanian Moth.s. Walter Rothschild ..... 125 — 127
8. Some New Sphiit/jid(ie. (Illustrated.) Walter Rothschild and K. Jordan 128 — 135
9. Some New Oriental Zygaenidae. K. Jordan ...... 146 — 150
10. New Syntomidae. Walter Rothschild. ...... 151 — 186
11. New Lithosianae. Walter Rothschild. ...... 212 — 246
12. Some \miig\ive({ Sipilomklae, Aeijerladae nni\ Arctianae. (Plates III. — V.)
Walter Rothschild 375 — 377
SIPHONAPTERA.
1. List of Siphonaptera collected in Eastern Hungary. (Illustrated.)
K. Jordan and N. C. Rothschild 58 — 62
2. On Siphonaptera collected in Algeria (Plales VI. — XII.) Karl Jordan
and N. 0. Rothschild 357 — 372
RHYNCHOTA.
1. Notes on the structure of the sexually modified segments of the Cimlcidne
( = C'linocoridae), with special i-ef erence to Cliiiocoris columharius
(Jenyns). (Illustrated.) N. Charles Rothschild .... 9:1— U6
2. Notes on C'linocoridae, a family of Rhynchota, with the descriptions of
a New Genus and Species. Karl Jordan and N. Charles Rothschild ' . . . . . 352—356
INDEX 379-403
• N'ot Plates I. and II. .is given in the text.
LIST OF PLATES IN VOLUME XIX.
I. Manias henschi Oust, ami G'l'.andid, By II. Gronvold.
II. Leucopsar rothschildi ;iuil (rmcujjic/c tertia. By H. Grouvold.
III. Si/Htomidae. By Horace Knight.
IV. Si/iitoniidae and Aeijeriadae. By Horace Knight. V. S ijntomidae and Arclianue. By Horace Kniglit.
VI. — XII. Algerian Siphonaptera. By K. .Jordan.
XIII. SijntomidcK (Genus Balacra). By Horace Kniglit.
XIV. Si/ntomidae (Genera Balacra and Metarclia), By Horace Knight.
The Parts of this Volume were issued as follows :
No. 1, containing pages 1 — 1.50, issueil April 30th, 1912.
No. 2, containing page.s 151 — 377 and Plates VI. — XII., issued December 21st, 1912. No. 3, containing pages 379—403 .and Plates I. — V. and XIII. — XIV., issued April l-lth, 1913.
ERRATA.
Page 91, line I) from bottom, and 02, line 10 from bottom, collector's name slioii be " KeyssBv " instead of " Keyser." 11!)— 122, the Plate.s for this article are XIII. and XIV., and not " I. and II 121, No. 10. This species is figured on Plate XIV. (ig. 38.
„ line t, after "fig. 40,'' read '^ and ? fig. 39." 185, No. 1G7, the specific name should read roscipemiis not roseipeunis. 194, No<. 49 and 50: the generic name should read " liorics," not " Lori»is." 312, liiK- 1 from bottom read : nicht mehr instead of uielir nicht. ,, ,, iiudayensis „ ., malai/aims.
., ,. malat/eiisis ,, ,. malayanus.
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NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE.
V^
H Journal oX Zoolotj^.
EDITED BY
The Hon. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, F.R.S., Ph.D., Dr. ERNST HARTERT, and Dk. K. -JORDAN.
Vol. XIX.
No. 1. Pages 1—150.
Issued April 30th, at the Zoological Museum, Thing.
PRINTED BY HAZELL. WATHON & VINEV. Ld.. LONDON AND AYLESBURV.
1912.
Vol. XIX.
NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE
EDITED BY
WALTER ROTHSCHILD. ERNST HARTERT, and KARL JORDAN.
CONTENTS OF NO. I.
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18.
NEW XOCTVIDAE IN THE TPJNG MUSEUM, MAINLY FROM THE INDO-ORIENTAL REGION
LIST OF SIPHONAPTERA CiOLLECTED IN EASTERN HirNGARY. (IlluslraUd)
lAHi: OF THE AXTHRIBIDAE IN THE CONGO MUSEUM AT TERVUEREN .
NEW (iKOMETKIDAE IN THE TRING MUSEUM FROM NEW GUINEA
NOTE ON CONURUS AERUGIXOSUS AND THE ALLIED SPECIES ....
CALIGULA iiYUR. SALMONI, A NEW HYBRID OF SATURXIIDAE. (Illustrated) .
NEW AXTHRIIilDAE IN THE COLLECTION OF H. E. ANDREWES
DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO GIANT RATS FROM NEW GUINEA PRESENTED TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM BY THE HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, F.R.S. .
NOTES ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE SEXUALLY MODIFIED SEGMENTS OF THE CIMICIDAE (= CLIXOCORIDAE) WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO GLINO- CORIS COLUMIiARJUS (JENYNS). (Ilhis- tra(ed)
NEUE APIONEN DES NORD- UND SUD- AMERIKANISCHEN FAUNENGEBIETES (Illm(rie>-t)
ON AN APPARENTLY NEW FORM OF LAMUESSA FROM ALGERIA .
A SYNONYMIC CATALOGUE OF THE SYN- roitll) (3ENUS BALACRA Walk., WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. (Plates I. and II.) ......
NEW BORNEAN AEGERJIOAE AND SYK- TO ill DAE
NEW MAURETANIAN MOTHS
SOME NEW Sl'llIXGIDAE. {Illustrated)
ON THE TERM "SUBSPECIES" AS USED
IN SYSTEMATIC ZOOLOGY' FORMOSAN AXTHRIIilDAE COIXECTED
BY H. SAUTER
SOME NEW ORIENTAL ZYGAEXIDAE
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Vol. XIX. APRIL, 1912. No. 1.
NEW NOCTUIDAE IN THE TRING MUSEUM, MAINLY EEOM THE INDO-ORIENTAL REGION.
By W. warren, M.A., F.E.S.
Subfamily ACRONICTINAE.
1. Canna javensis spec, no v.
Forewiny : differs from spleiideiis Moore, which it most resembles, in the following particulars : the median and inner-marginal fasciae have the brown much mixed with green, especially towards costa ; the inner edge of the median fascia is s(|uarely angled below the subcostal vein, and its outer edge is obliijue inwards at costa instead of outwards ; both stigmata are more distinctly marked ; the onter area is more uniformly green, the oblique streak from reuiform to apes not being marked, and the inner-marginal band is more broadly interrupted by green towards the base.
HiiidwuKj : white, with the submarginal fuscous band mncli reduced and restricted to the costal half of wing.
Underside with the ground colour whiter, the submarginal bands reduced to patches in costal half of wings ; the patch at end of cell of forewing nearly obsolete.
Expanse of wings : 34 mm.
1 (J from Java.
2. Acronicta nigromaculata spec. nov.
Forewing : white, the basal two-thirds more or less wholly suffused with olive- fuscous thickly speckled with black, which leaves pale spaces above median before and after inner line and at base of inner margin ; costa at base, the base of cell, and submedian fold black to inner line, the pale space above it extending below cell to submedian fold and there white ; space beyond inner line containing the round orbicular with brown centre, whitish annulus, and black outline ; inner line black and double, squarely projecting outwards above vein 1 ; median line black and double, waved, more or less lost in the broad dark suffusion, which also envelopes the reniform, and is marked along submedian fold by blacker streaks continued vaguely to termen ; outer line finely double, lunulate-dentate, followed by three dark blotches, one at costa and one on each fold, connected with a row of submarginal olive lunulcs, between which aud a terminal row of black stud- shaped marks the narrow submarginal line lies ; fringe chequered black and white.
Hindwing : white in S , fuscous grey in ? , with dark cell-spot, outer line, veins, iind terminal shade, which are all obscured in the darker ^ , J
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Uiulersiile white, suffused with fuscous in forewing, except the costal streak and inner-marginal area, speckled with fuscous in hindwing along costa only, with a dark bar from costa before middle, and the outer line marked by dark spots at and below costa and on each fold ; the cell-spot large and dark in both wings.
Head and thorax whitish, mixed and lined with olivc-fuscons, the abdomen grey ; paljii extenuilly with second segment black, its tip and the third segment pale grey ; tarsi spotted black and white.
Expanse of wings : 40 mm.
2 (?<J, 2 ? ? from the Khasia Hills (types), the SS taken in February and May 1896, the ? ? in October and November 189.3 ; 1 cJ from Darjiling (F.'Moller); 1 cJ Sikkim, April 1888 (Col. Pilcher).
3. Thalatha argentea spec. nov.
Forewing: silvery white; the narrow basal patch, reaching from margin to margin, a truncated conical patch on costa before middle, a triangular patch on inner margin at middle, and a diffusely edged smaller patch on costa before apex, black ; a slight brown smudge on termeu between veins 3 and 5 ; a few scattered black scales above anal angle ; fringe mottled black and white.
Hindwing: dark fuscous grey, paler towards base and inner margin, darkest apically ; fringe dark, paler at anal angle.
Underside glossy iron-grey in ibrewing ; the costa sprinkled with white scales, and with a small white spot at three-fourths and a white streak just before apex ; fringe with white chequering along base ; hindwing whitish, with the central area and apex bronzy grey speckled with white ; a dark cell-spot and outer line.
Palpi black, with the tips of second and third segments white ; head and shoulders, and the metathoracic tuft white, the shoulders tijiped with rufous ; thorax black ; abdomen fuscous grey ; pectus, legs, and venter black ; the legs dotted with white.
Expanse of wings : 24 mm.
2 JcJ from British New Guinea, from Welsch River (type) and Area River respectively (Weiske).
Subfamily MOMINAE.
4. Trisuloides pygaria spec. uov.
Forewing : fuscous grey, with darker fuscous suffusion in parts ; the oval space before outer line from subcostal vein to vein 3, the filling up of outer line itself, and the subterminal line below vein 5 whitish ; inner line blackish, inwardly pale- edged, waved and oblique outwards; median shade thick, strongly developed, oblique outwards to below vein 3, then oblique inwards ; orbicular stigma round, filled up with brown ; reniform a narrow grey lunule witli pale edging ; inner arm of outer line dark grey ; outer arm fine, but swollen into a brownish blotch on submedian interval ; subterminal line from costa to vein 5 thick and black ; terminal lunules brown edged with white; fringe yellowish at base, grey at tips.
Hiniltcing : yellow ; a fuscous terminal border, of even width from costa to vein 3, the inner edge only continued to anal angle ; the fuscous terminal lunules broadly edged with pale yellow ; fringe mottled yellow and fuscous.
Underside yellow ; the forewing with the costal streak, a large blotch on discocellular, and the rest of wing to subterminal line, except along inner margin,
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blackish fuscous ; a yellow blotch beyond cell ; the outer and subtermiual lines jialer ; hindwing with the costal area and the terminal third of wing black and white speckled ; two black lines from costa ; the first, before middle, short, coalescing with the black cell-mark ; the second, from middle, curved to vein 3 ; fringe yellowisli grey.
Face, vertex, and antennal tuft pale oclireons ; pali)i in front pale ochreous, externally black, the terminal segment wholly black ; shonlders yellower ochreous ; thorax olive grey mixed with yellowish ; abdomen dingy grey, the anal segments tlnckly clothed with masses of grey woolly down ; pectus and legs ochreous ; the tarsi black spotted with ochreous ; antennae black, shortly pectinated.
Expanse of wings : 66 mm.
1 ?, considerably worn, from Benkoelen, W. Sumatra (Ericsson).
Differs from tyjiical Trisuloides in the antennae (?) being pectinated instead of simply serrate and in the woolliness of the anal segments.
5. Trisuloides papuensis spec. nov.
Foreiviruj : fnscous varied with black and white dusting, but, except in the terminal area beyond subterminal line, without the brown tinge of sericea Btlr., which it otherwise much resembles ; the inner black line is more oblique inwards, and straighter, less wavy ; followed by a black median shade, which at costa is oblique inwards, is then curved outwards and Inuulate-dentate to vein 2, then inbent and ending on inner margin as a diffnse shade beyond inner line ; orbicular stigma absent in the only specimen ; reniform indicated only by a brown liar ; outer line Innulate-dentate, double, filled in with white instead of brown, and without the large whitish lunule beyond it on submedian fold; subterminal line also narrowly white, the space between them brownish fuscous thickly irrorated with bluish white ; the space beyond cell before the outward curve of outer line diffusely whitish ; a triangular patch of wliite scaling beyond subterminal line on submedian fold ; fringe brown, dark mottled, white bejond the submedian interval.
Rindiving : brownish fuscous, with the centre dull yellow, running through from costa to inner margin above anal angle ; a small white triangle on termen in submedian interval, with the fringe beyond it white.
Underside with all the markings blurred and confused ; the basal two-thirds dull yellow, the outer third dark fuscous and brown ; a diffuse dark median cloud across discocellular ; the outer line dark above the submedian fold ; the white marks present at anal angle in both wings.
Face, vertex, and palpi fuscous and ochreous, the palpi externally browner ; shoulders paler ; thorax and abdomen fuscous grey and ochreous ; the dorsal tnfts darker; pectus, venter, and legs brownish.
Expanse of wings : 50 mm.
One (? from Biagi, Mambare River, British New Guinea, 5000 ft., March 1906 (A. S. Meek).
0. Trisuloides polyphaenaria spec. nov.
Forewing : greyish ochreous with a faint olive tinge ; the markings olive green ; basal patch olive, its edge slightly curved, nearly vertical, followed by an olive green line ; median shade olive green, oblique outwards frou; costa to median, then
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less distinct and oblique inwards ; the dark green cell-spot lies on its njiper arm ; outer line dark olive, double, filled in with pale, oblique outwards to 6, vertical to 4, then incurved ; the inner arm lunulate-dentate, the outer obscured by the olive shade following, which is itself obsolescent below vein 4 ; this shade is limited externally by the i)ale subterminal line, which is oblique inwards to vein 7 and angled outwards on veins 6 and 4 ; terminal area beyond it, especially at apex, brownish olive, below the middle all the markings are i)ale and blurred ; a row of terminal olive lunules ; fringe olive and greyish ochreons.
Himhiing : bright yellow, with a broad greenish fnscous terminal border, indistinct below 3 ; olive green pale-edged terminal lunules ; fringe pale grey.
Underside yellow in basal areas, the outer fawn-colour speckled with grey ; costa of forewing fawn-colour ; a diffuse blackish blotch on discocellular of forewing, and a less distinct blotch on hindwing from costa over end of cell ; a dark olive fuscous fascia in forewing beyond outer line.
Head, forelegs, and thora.K jiale fawn-colour, the face and outside of palpi browner ; legs brownish fawn ; the abdomen is entirely denuded of scales.
Expanse of wings : 46 mm.
One ? from Palaboehan, Ratoe, Java, Wynkoopsbaai (Fruhstorfer).
Differs from typical Trisuloides in the antennae of the ? being almost simple, with a few short bristles, but without visible serrations.
T. Trisuloides albiplaga spec. nov.
Forewing: red-brown with some white irroration along costa and inner margin, and black and white dotting along veins, towards inner margin with dark and pale speckling ; inner line black, oblique from costa to submedian fold, thence inwardly obli(ine, edged on each side by lines of white and red-brown scales, followed by a short streak of white and reddish scales along submedian fold ; outer line black, lunulate, bent at vein 4, followed by a snow-white line and preceded from costa to vein ^ by a whii;e line swollen into a blotch between veins 5 and 7, and running inwards along vein 5 to below reniform ; the stigmata large and dark with thick black outlines ; subterminal line reddish brown mixed with white, whiter at each margin, sharply inangulate on vein 7 and indented only on vein 1, l)receded by large dark wedge-shaj)ed spots between the veins, edged with reddish, and on costa by a black blotch reaching outer line ; terminal black lunules edged by white and reddish scales ; beyond submedian fold a black triangle ; fringe browu, varied with pale scales.
Ilimiwing : orange with broad black terminal border narrowing off to an angle ; fringe mottled brown and white.
Underside orange at base between subcostal vein and submedian fold in forewing, in hindwing along inner margin from costa to terminal border ; outer two-thirds of forewing fuscous with a broad oblique white band from costa beyond middle to vein 3, and a white erect spot at anal angle ; hindwing with a largo fuscons blotch from costa to discocellular and a broad terminal border, preceded from costa to vein 3 by a broad white blotch.
Face and vertex fuscons with the sides whitish ; palpi white in front, the terminal segment and second segment externally blackish ; shoulders fuscous, with the bases and tips ochreous ; patagia olive brown, darker at base, the tips in place:} white; dorsum orange with the line of tufts and the anal segments fuscous;
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venter blackisb, with wliite segmental rings ; pectns dull orange : legs ochreons thickly dnsted with brown.
Expanse of wings : c? 66 mm. ; ? 70 ram.
2 ^tJ, 5 ? ? from the Khasia Hills, Assam (t3-pe) ; one cJ from Darjiling (F. MoUer). The last is smaller, and less distinctly marked.
The ? has the antennae almost simple, with a few short bristles.
8. Tambana nigra spec, nov., a^id snlisp. fuscipennis subsp. nov.
Foreicinq : purplish black ; the lines, which are dimble, the edges of the stigmata, and tlie praesubmarginal shade deep black ; the narrow terminal area, the centres of stigmata, and the costal spots dark grey ; the inner and outer lines conversely lunnlate-dentate ; a dark median shade ; fringe purple grey.
HiiHlwiiiy : yellowish straw-colour, deeper yellow in the ? ; veins towards termen black; fringe lilack ; a fuscous terminal border, ill-defined in the tj, com})lete in the ? .
Underside of forewing dull blackish, the cells and inner margin dull straw- colour ; of hindwing mainly straw-colour, becoming blackisli terminally; both wings with large difl'use discal blotch and dark outer line ; fringe dotted with white beyond the veins.
Head, thorax, and legs blackisli mixed with pale grey hairs ; abdomen black, its sides in basal half with luteous hairs ; pectus woolly, olive grey.
Expanse of wings : 46 mm.
2 (?(?, 1 ? from the Khasia Hills, Assam.
In the form from Burma — subsp. fuscipennis subsp. nov. — the upperside of hindwing and the undersides of botli wings are dingy fuscous with a luteous tinge ; the outer line on both wings on underside is more strongly bent at middle.
Expanse of wings : 50 mm.
1 ? from Bernardmyo, Burma, 7o00 ft.. May 1890 (W. Dohcrty), from the Elwes Collection.
9. Tambana pallidipennis spec. nov.
Forewing : like nigra, but the ground colour paler, greyer ; the black suffusion not so complete ; the lines filled up with pale grey.
Hindwing : uniform pale straw-colour, witii the fringe dark fuscons ; in some cases, especially in the ? ?, with traces of a faint subterminal shade.
Underside dirty straw-colour ; a diftuse dark discal blotch in forewing ; the outer lines and terminal border fuscons.
Head, thorax, and legs blackish with a stronger admixture of pale hairs; the hair at base of abdomen at the sides paler.
Expanse of wings : 46 mm.
10 c?c?, 3 ? ? from Java: Pengalengan, Preanger ; Bandong ; Palaboehan.
Subfamily EUXOINAE. 10. Euxoa fumipennis spec. nov.
Forewing : luteous grey, suftused throughout with deep smoky blackish, the paler ground colour showing as a diffuse band only beyond outer line ; markings mnch as in E. radians Guen. from Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand ; the filling up of the inner line, the median nervure, the annulns of the orbicular stigma,
(6)
and the sabterminal line are all pale and distinct ; the last sometimes broken up into separate spots ; a thick, blackish, nearly vertical, median shade passes over the reniform.
Iliixliriiig : white, the veins strongly brown ; the whole wing, excei)t the cell and space beyond it, tinged with pale fuscons, more thickly along the margins ; the termen with a broad diffuse blackish border, partially darkening the fringe.
Underside of forewing dull grey with the termen darker; of hindwing white with all the margins blackish.
Head, thorax, and abdomen all dark fuscons blackish.
Expanse of wings : 42 mm.
4 ¥ ? from Lifu, Loyalty Islands.
Larger and darker than radians, to which it is nearest allied.
11. Rhyacia spilosata spec. nov.
Foreirini) : uniform dull grey-brown, with all the markings obscnred ; orbicular and reniform stigmata filled up with darker, without distinct annnli or outlines ; inner and outer lines conversely dentate-lunnlate, the teeth of the former pointing base- wards ; those of the outer, as usual, double ; subterminal line marked by a double row of brown spots, the inner between, the onter on, the veins ; a row of terminal black dots ; the terminal area narrowly darker.
Ilindwiinj : somewhat paler than forewing; the fringe concolorous.
Underside of forewing dark, of hindwing paler ; the latter with cell-spot and outer line.
Head, thorax, and abdomen all concolorous.
Expanse of wings : 36 mm.
1 cf without locality, from the Elwes Collectio.i ; 1 ? from Phallalooug on tlie Nepal frontier, taken at an elevation of 12,0U0 ft., July 190.i.
12. Rhyacia papuana spec. nov.
As large as triangularis Moore, which it most resembles.
Forewing: purplish brown, without the reddish tinge of triangularis ; the costal streak broadly pale to beyond the reniform ; the two stigmata pale, both confluent above with the streak, and both touching median veiu below ; the cell blackish throughout ; claviform stigma pale, with diffuse dark purplish outline ; outer line purplish, lunulate-dcntate ; the subiuargiual preceded by a row of dark luuules.
Hindwing: dull pale grey, darker towards termen, showing a dull grey cell- spot and outer line.
Pal])! extcrniilly, vertex of hea<l, collar, the thorax and jiatagia deep brown- black ; tips of palpi, face and tegulae rufous ochreous mixed with grey, the tegnlae with a broad but diffuse blackish middle line ; abdomen furry grey.
Expanse of wings : 42 mm.
1 i from the Angabuiiga River, British New Guinea, OOUU ft., November 1904 to February 1005 (A. S. Meek).
13. Rhyacia praetermissa spec, nov., and subsp. insulata subsp. nov.
Forewing: purplish fuscous in the ?, jiale reddish Ijrown in the S ; costal streak whitish from base to reniform stigma, dotted with grey, sometimes pink-
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tinged, plainer iu ? than c? ; lines finely lilaok, conversely edged with paler ; the inner obliqne and double, the internal arm slender, preceded by a diffuse grey space; tbe outer lunulate-dentate ; submarginal obscurely paler, indicated by the terminal area beyond it being darker, preceded at costa by a black bar ; cell and a blotch at base of submedian fold blackish ; orbicular stigma pale, dependent from the costal streak, ronnded triangular ; reniform with j)ale curi'ed inner edge.
Hindwing : fuscous grey, paler basewards.
Underside with outer line and cell-spot on both wings.
Head, palpi, and patagia purplish grey ; tegulae oohreou-!, with two rufous lines and the tips velvety black ; abdomen, underside, and legs brownish grey.
Expanse of wings : 42 mm.
1 d', 3 ? ¥ from the Nilgiri Hills ; 1 i from Ooty, S. India.
Closely allied to this species, but differing in being slightly smaller, with the hindwings pale at base, 2 ? ? from Bonthain, Celebes, taken between .OOUO and 60U0 ft., October 1895, by A. Everett, may for the present be separated as subsp. insulata subsp. nov.
14. Rhyacia stigmatias spec. nov. and ab. pallidistigma ab. nov.
Foreicirtff: of S jiale lilac grey or luteous grey, dusted with darker and more or less strongly tinged with pink ; of ¥ wholly dull brick-red ; costal edge red ; the lines dark, marked by dark spots on costa, disposed as in the allied species, but rarely clear; the outer line outcurved and emitting rather long dark teeth on the veins ; stigmata of the pale ground colour edged with brown ; the lower half of reniform always black in the cJ, unicoloroas in the ¥ ; snbterminal line sometimes indicated by a dark shade on each side ; fringe reddish with a dark marginal festoon in the pale grey examples, without the festoon in the red forms of the i, and in the ¥ ?.
Hind winy: pale luteous grey.
The colouring of the thora.x varies with that of the forewing.
In the ab. pallidistigma ab. nov. all three stigmata are pale ochreous, and the lower half of the reniform stigma velvety black.
E.xpanse of wings : 32 — 36 mm.
(i c?c?, 3 ¥ ¥ from the Angabunga River, British New Guinea, GOOD fc, November 19U4 to February 190.5, and 1 3 from Biagi, Mambare River, .5000 ft., April 1906 (A S. Meek).
15. Rhyacia griseithorax spec. no7.
Forewing: pale lilac grey with a faint greenish tint; the sp.'ckling and lines olive brownish ; inner and outer lines double, filled in with pale grey ; the inner strongly angled outwards below vein 1 ; outer line sinuous, followed by black and white dashes on veins ; submarginal line double, brown filled in with paler, hardly bent, preceded by a chocolate brown costal shade; stigmata all large, grey with paler annnli and brown outlines, the claviform reaching to be\-ond orbicular, and the reniform produced inwards along median vein ; fringe brown and grey, with a bright rufous white basal line ; costal elge pale greenish ochreous for three-fourths.
Hindwing : fuscous grey, dark before termen ; fringe white, tinged with rufous.
Underside blackish grey ; costa of both wings and termen of forewing broadly brick-red.
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Face, slionldors, patasiiii, and thorax ver}- i)ale greenisli grey ; dorsnra darker grej- tiuged with red ; venter, pectus, iuside of legs, and palpi externally deep red ; tips of palpi reddish ochreons. Expanse of wings : W) mm. 2 ? ? from the Khasia Hills, Assam.
« Hi. Rhyacia mundipennis spec. nov.
Fm-eiving : pale clear ochreons, only the costal streak and the basal area o-rey-brown ; lines scarcely visible, but the inner liae appears to be toothed out- wardly above and below vein 1 ; clavifurm stigma with a dark dot at its apex ; orbicular a flattened oval, the centre blackish in a wide ochreons ring, outlined with pale brown ; reniforra an obli(|ue figure of 8, filled up with black in an ochreons ring, of which only the inner half is wide and edged with brown ; slight black-brown streaks at termeu on veins (5, 5, and 2, and slighter ones on vein 1 and the submedian fold ; those on 0, 5, connected by faint brown streaks with the reniform ; fringe ochreons, scantily mottled with brown.
IlincliciiK/ : pale ochreons with slight brown terminal dashes ; fringe ochreons.
Underside ochreons, with the costal half of forewing and costal edge in hindwing dull brownish.
Head, jialpi, and tegulae pale oclireous, tinged with rather bright fulvous ; thorax and patagia dark brown ; abdomen dark grey.
Expanse of wings : 30 mm.
1 ? from Bandong, Java.
17. Hermonassa stigmatica spec nov.
Forewiiicj : olive-fiiscons, often with a slight reddish tinge ; the lines pale ; the subbasal and inner distinctly edged with black, the former emitting along subcostal vein a sharp, pale, angulated line towards the latter; outer line dentafe- lunulate ; the subterminal preceded by a dark shade ; all three stigmata large, black, and distinct, broadly outlined with ochreons.
Ilindwimj : dirty whitish, sometimes tinged or even suffused witli grey in the ?.
Underside of forewing brownish grey, the costa oclireous speckled with rnfons ; an obscure dark cell-spot and outer line: of himlwing whitish with blackish cpll-s])ot and an outer line from costa to vein 0; costal area broadly ochreons, tlecked with fuscous.
Head and thorax concolorous with forewing ; the abilomea greyer ; the legs redder.
Expanse of wings : ;{() — W'l mm.
4 fJc?, 4 ? ? from Bhntan (type); 1 ? Darjiliiig, A].ril 18S9 (Pilcher) ; 1 i Darjiling (Dr. Lidderdale) ; 10 cjc?, 1 ? Darjiling (F. Moller) ; 1 $ Naga Hills, July— August 1889 (W. Doherty).
18. Hermonassa furva spec nov. Forewimj : didl brick-red with an olive tinge; all the lines and markings blurred and obsolescent ; the lines accompanied by dull lustrous bluish scales, more esjiecially the outer line; costa marked by blackish spots edged with
blnish scales at t-lio origin of the lines ; stigmata black, with ditl'ise out ine ; the claviform apparently continued inwards to base ; the orbicular diffusely elongate ; the reniform Innate, more conspicuous, limited inwardly by a grey crescent ; a row of distinct black terminal Innnles.
Hind wing : dull whitish.
Underside of forewing olive brown ; the costal elge from before middle to apex pink; of hindwing whitish, the costal region pale greenish brown.
Head, thorax, jiectns, and legs reddish ; the abdomen reddish grey.
Expanse of wings : 32 mm.
3 c?<? from the Knlu district, The Punjab, N. India.
10. Hermonassa lineata spec. nov.
Forewing: olive brown, speckled and shaded in jilaces with darker; all the veins and outlines of the three stigmata finely ])ale ochreous ; the stigmata large and well-defined; lines all jiale ochreous and distinct, edged with dark; the outer dentate-lnnulate, oblique inwards below vein 5 to just beyond middle of inner margin ; a row of dark (errainal lunules ; fringe brown, like wings.
Hindwing : uniform dull luteous grey.
Underside of forewing dark grey, the costa ochreous towards base, becoming reddish at one-third ; of hindwing silky whitish, the costal area ochreous, dnsted with olive scales, with traces of the commencement of a dark outer line and submarginal shade.
Head and thorax dark glossy red-brown ; tegnlae pink-edged ; dorsum greyish fuscons, the anal tuft rufous ; legs dark red-iirowu ; venter and pectus and the tibial tufts bright rnfons.
Expanse of wings : 40—44 mm.
2 6<S from Tonglo, Sikkim, ](i,000 ft., July 1886 (H. J. Elwes).
Distinguished by its large size and conspicuous markings.
20. Eurois perviridis spec. nov.
Smaller than either drcns Btlr. or magnifica Moore ; the green scaling predominant throughout the wing ; veins and centres of upper stigmata lilac grey, speckled with black ; the cell black ; claviform stigma quite small, green with black outline ; the other stigmata without any red scaling ; the black wedge-shaped marks before subterminal line complete and distinct.
Hindwing : fuscous grey, darker terminally ; the fringe white.
Expanse of wings : .00 mm.
21. Ectopatria renalba spec. nov. Foreioing : brownish fuscous, faintly rufous-tinged ; in basal area and along costa paler, being much mixed with whitish scales; inner and outer lines black, conversely pale-edged, the outer lunulate-dentate ; orbicular and reniform stigmata with rufous brown centres and pale annuli defined by black ; the orbicular round, small and indistinct; the reniform deeply indented on outer edge at middle ; the annulus broadly white, with a white spot on costa above it ; subterminal line pale, interrupted, preceded and followed by black streaks in the intervals ; those below veins 5 and 6 continued to outer edge of reniform stigma; a row of black lunules along termen ; fringe brown, with pale line at base.
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Ilindwinq : fuscous, with the basal half whitisli. Underside of hindwing white, with the terminal border fuscons. Head and tliorax like forewings; abdomen greyer, whitish beneath. Expanse of wings: 30 mm.
1 ¥ from Tasmania, 1891 (Barnard Coll.). «
Subfamily HADENTINAE. 22. Craterestra postlineata sjiec. nov.
Resembles C. hifaacia Hmps. from S. India, Init only two-thirds of the size.
Foreu'iny : brownish fnscons, the costal streak pale with oehreous lines as in that species, bnt the inner margin remains of the dark gronnd colour except at anal angle ; the orbicular and reuiform black in the brown ground colour iu the c?, partly in the i)aler costal area in the ? ; outer line of points sometimes continuous, the line being dentate-lunulate ; terminal spots black ; fringe brown.
Hindwing : dnll whitish, with dark cell-spot and outer line of points before the darker shaded terminal border ; fringe grey; in the ? the whole inner margin from base widening to terraen is pale red-brown.
Underside of forewing grey, tinged with oehreous and dark-dusted along costal streak, whitish towards inner margin ; of hindwing whitish, brown-speckled along costa ; terminal area of both wings darker grey, outer lines and terminal spots black and distinct ; a black cell-spot on hindwing.
Head and thorax black : abdomen red-brown ; pectus, legs, and venter blackish ; underside of thorax i)ale.
Expanse of wings : 20 mm.
2 Jcf, 1 ? from the Elwes Collection, from Maudi, N.W. Himalayas, 300U to nOUO ft. (Sir (i. Young), 1883.
23. Craterestra scalata spec. nov.
Foreioinq : oehreous tinged with brownish or pinkish ; the base of cell, a broad streak along median and another with irregular edge along inner margin and the termen broadly blackish brown, the latter limited above by an oblique line from apex to vein 4, followed by a yellower oblique pale space from costa to median, crossed by distinct black veins and grey interspaces; a white dot at lower end of reuiform ; the inner and outer lines slightly marked by black dots ; fringe black brown.
Hindwing : white, with a slight irregular grey border as far as vein 1 ; some black terminal dots ; fringe grey above vein 1.
Underside of forewing grey-brown, paler along inner margin ; of hindwing whitish, tinged with grey-brown at apex ; fringe of both wings brown.
Head and thorax greyish oehreous, tho dorsum darker ; palpi externally blackish.
Expanse of wings : 20 mm.
2 ? ? from Mt. Marapok, British North Borneo.
24. Tiracola rufimargo spec. nov. and abb. grisescens, pallidistigma, and
venata abb. nov.
Forewing : greyish oehreous faintly tinged or often wholly suffused with deep pink : the costal edge often whitish ; sometimes the median area, at others the
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terminal, more rarely both, deeper red or brownish red ; lines marked by black vein- dots, those of the inner line sometimes connected by a grey thread ; orbicular stigma a white dot; reuiform conspicuous; the inner edge consisting of a narrow black crescent with gre} scales preceded by five velvety red-brown or black-brown spots ; the onter edge also of five spots, the two between veins 5 and 6 confluent ; joined at the inner lower end by an oblique black bar from costa, representing the upper part of median shade ; submarginal line inconspicuous, slightly paler with darker edges ; apex always pale ; tlie whole wing is covered with faint elongate striae of dull olive scales mixed with black atoms ; fringe concolorons, with a bright pale line at base beyond a row of dark terminal dots.
Hindwing : dull greenish fuscous, the costal area above vein G and the terminal area dull pink ; the fringe pinkish grey, beyond black terminal spots.
Underside of forewing dee]) ]iiiik with the costal and terminal margins ochreous ; of hindwing ochreons with the costal and terminal margins reddish speckled with dark.
Head and thorax concolorous with forewing, the dorsum always greyer, but laterally pinkish ; palpi externally, except terminal segment, deep red-brown or blackish.
Expanse of wings : 5U — 58 mm.
7 c^fT, five from Biagi, Mauiliare River, British New CJuiuea, 5000 ft., April 1906 (type), and two from the Upper Aroa River, April 1903 (A. S. Meek).
Of this species, separable at once by the deep pink margins of hindwing from T. plagiata Wlk. — which species also occurs in New Guinea — three quite distinct al)erratious come from the same locality.
The first — ab. grisesceiis ab. nov. — has the whole forewing olive grey, with the costal edge whitish and dotted with black ; the lines less distinct, except the teeth of the outer line ; the reniform stigma and costal bar equally obscured ; the hindwing with the fuscous and jiink areas both darker and more contrasted.
0 (JcJ, 1 ? of this form from Biagi, all slightly smaller than the typical form.
The second — ab. palUdistigma ab. nov. — is larger than the type form, the fore- wing suffused with deeper red and darkened by olive-fuscous striations and black atoms ; the dots of the lines accompanied by dark shades ; the median shade dark and diffuse throughout, tiie upper arm not forming a black bar ; reniform stigma filled up with whitish ochreous more or less mixed with grey and outlined with didl red- brown ; the subterminal line paler and more conspicuous ; the whole underside deeper red.
5 cJcJ, 1 ? from Biagi ; the single ¥ smaller and duller than the <S S ■
The third — ab. venata ab. nov. — is a development of the last, being darker, owing to the greater intensity of the olive-fuscous striations ; the median area and the terminal as well is deeper than the rest of the wing ; the subterminal line standing out finer and jjaler ; the centre of the reniform stigma darker grey, while the median shade is sometimes continuous across wing, at others confined to the dark costal portion ; the veins, especially towards termen, are finely whitish.
2 c? J, 1 ? from Biagi, and 1 ? , smaller and paler, from the Upper Aroa River.
Genus Hypopteridia gen. nov.
Differs from Dasijgaster Guen. in the abdomen of the <S being elongate, with the anal and praeanal segments clothed with very long tufts of hair, and without the shaggy lateral tufts which distinguish that genus; while the thorax lieneath bears
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large lateral tufts, expansible as winglets, beneath tbe hindwings ; the antennae of the S are ciliated and armed with bristles ; the termen of hind wing is strong!)- excised between apex and middle.
Type : //. reversa Moore. '
25. Sideridis lineatissima sjiec. nov.
Foreu'ing : ochreons gre_v with numerous black speckles ; veins all tinel}- white, the intervals with rufous grey lines ; median vein white in outer half, thickening towards end of cell, where it is slightly hooked, preceded by a minute dark dot, and followed by dark scaling on each side of vein 4 at base ; the orbicular and reniform stigmata ditfusely yellowish ; lines marked, as usual, by blackish vein-spots ; a pale yellowish space above vein 1 from base to inner line ; a diffuse pale streak from apex, with a dark terminal triangle beyond it above vein 4 ; a row of minute dark terminal dots ; the alternate dark and ligiit lines of the wing continned through the fringe.
Hindicing : blackish fuscous, with some black terminal dots ; fringe white witli a grey line beyond middle.
Underside pale ochreons speckled with blackish ; the forewing suffused with fuscons in and beyond cell ; a dark outer line starting from a black costal sjiot, becoming punctiform on hindwings ; terminal spots black ; fringe concolorous.
Head, thorax, and abdomen grey tinged with rufous, the dorsum with dark grey ; palpi externally brown.
Expanse of wings : 46 mm.
1 ? from Darjiling (F. Mnller).
26. Hyphilare binigrata spec. nov.
Forewing : grey drab speckled with fuscous ; the cell and space beyond ochreons without dusting; the costal area usually somewhat greyer; inner and outer lines marked by dark spots on veins, the outer widely double ; reniform stigma pale with a round black dot at its lower end, followed between the bases of veins 3 and .5 by a quadrate black blotch with diffuse outer edge ; the snbterminal line hardly marked ; terminal dots small and black ; fringe iron-grey.
Hindwing : dark fuscous terminally, becoming whitish towards base ; the cell-spot and veins darker, the fringe whitish.
Underside of both wings of c? silvery whitish, of ? glossy ochreons grey ; terminal dots in both wings, the cell-spot in liiadwiag, and a costal sjiot at two-thirds in forewing black.
Head, thorax, abdomen above and below, and legs all greyish ochreons, like the forewings ; the ventral tufts in t? black.
Expanse of wings : 34 mm.
2 cJ(J,2 ¥ ? from the Khasia Hills, a pair dated October 189.5, and 1 <? Shillong May 1893.
27. Hyphilare ossicolor spec. nov.
Forewing : bone-colour with slight dark dusting and a very faint tinge of rufous terminally; inner line marked by dark points on veins, oblique to submedian fold, then bent inwards ; outer line lunulate-dentate, appearing double, the teeth on the veins forming the outer and the Innules between them the inner arm; reniform stigma paler with a dark dot at lower end and slight grey cloud beyond ; tht
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end of the median vein whitish ; a slight oblique grey shade from apex ; a row of distinct black terniiniil dots ; fringe concolorons.
Hindwimj : dark grey ; the costal third bone-colonr ; a dark cell-spot and the veins darker; in the 9 a dark curved onter line, followed by a darker border; fringe bone-colonr.
Underside bone-colonr ; the cell of forewiiig dark grey, and in the ? a dark grey outer line in botli wings; terminal black spots ; a dark cell-spot in hindwiug ; costa of both wings pale brownish speckled with black.
Head, thorax, and abdomen bone-colonr; ventral tuft blackish.
E.xpanse of wings : S 30 mm. ; ? 40 mm.
1 c?, 1 ? from Darjiliug ; the (? captured by F. Mdller, tlie ? by Knyvett, May and June 1889, 75UU ft.
Allied to Aavistigma Brem. and inomaia Leech.
Subfamily GUCULLIANAE. Genns Isolasia gen. uov.
Allied to Elwesia Hmps., with which it agrees in the main, and especially in the upstanding prothoracic crest ; but the dorsum is also strongly tufted with similar long spatulate-tipped hairs ; the praeanal segments of the abdomen are armed with lateral tufts of hair, which are equally strong in the ? and in the c? ; jjcctus and femora densely woolly ; termen not so deeply crenulate as in Elwesia. Type : Isolasia biramata spec. nov.
28. Isolasia biramata spec. nov.
Fore.wing : pale ochreous, slightly rufous-tinged, with the basal area to beyond middle of inner margin, a triangular blotch on middle of costa, and the terminal area beyond subterminal line dark brownish fuscous ; the pale ground colour therefore forms a large V, of which the longer outer arm runs from before apex to inner margin and the shorter inner arm begins with the pale orbicular stigma ; the lines pale with dark edging ; the subbasal angled ; the inner oblique outwards, hardly waved; the outer forming outer margin of the costal triangle and marked as two dark lines across the shorter arm of the V ; snbterminaj line edged outwardly by the dark terminal area, sometimes bright ochreous, preceded by brown wedge-shaped spots ; reniforra stigma obscured by the brown of the costal triangle, but slightly edged with ochreous ; a wavy dark terminal line ; fringe fuscous brown with pale chequering and pale basal line.
Hindwing : brownish grey, paler towards costa, with dark cell-spot and terminal line.
In the ? the contrast between the dark and light areas is less consjiicuons, the ochreous ground being browner and the fuscous areas paler and more broken up ; the reuiform stigma pale; the hindwing more uniformly fuscous.
Underside pale ochreous in the c?, greyer ochreous in the ?, dusted with fuscous and rufous ; cell-spots and outer line dark brown.
Head, thorax, and abdomen brown with ochreous speckling ; the lateral tufts of abdomen rufous.
Expanse of wings : 36 mm.
1 9 from Sikkim (0. MoUer), 3(?c?from Sikkim (Darjiling), taken by Col. Pilcher in August ISbU,
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Subfamily AMPHIPYRINAE. '29. Dipterygia multistriata spec. nov.
?. Forewing : ])ale grey-biowii suffused with fuscous in the basal two-thirJs, and in terminal third dusted with bright i)ale scales ; inner line black, forming strong outward teeth in the intervals ; the outer line lunulate-deutate, oxcurved above middle; subterminal line pale brown, preceded and followed by black streaks in the intervals from apex to inner margin, the veins also showing finely black ; the space beyond outer line from inner margin to vein 2 and to vein 3 at termen paler brown streaked with fulvous ; the upper stigmata pale brown defined by darker ; in the cT the fuscous suffusion is darker and embraces almost the whole wing except the pale area round anal angle, atid the markings are conse(}uently much obscured.
Uindwing : pale luteous, whiter towards costa, slightly suffused with brownish, which is deeper along termen and inner margin ; a dark cell-spot, veins, and outer line ; fringe paler.
Underside of forewing dull grey-brown, slightly dusted with ochreons ; the costa and some streaks at termen above anal angle ochreons ; hindwing ochreons, dusted and streaked with reddish along costal and a[)ical areas ; a large dark cell-spot, and rufous outer line in costal half.
Head, shoulders, and patagia fuscous brown : lower half of face ochreons ; thorax pale brown ; dorsum ochreons dilfused with grey ; j)ectns ochreons ; legs blackish ringed with ochreons.
Expanse of wings : S 38 mm. ; ? 42 mm,
1 c?, 1 ? from Sikkim ; the S taken by D. MdUer in June 18^8, the ? by Col. Pilcher in June 1880.
Nearest apparently to the Bornean ivi(/ir/tfa Wlk. ; easily distinguished by the pale hiudwings with dark cell-spot and the absence of a pale streak along inner margin of forewing.
3U. Stenopterygia commixta spec. nov. and ab atribasalis ab. nov.
Forewing : brown, speckled and clouded with darker brown, and in parts suffused with brownish fuscous ; a slight leaden ]>urplish patch at base of vein 1, and another on the same vein beyond outer line; lines black and double at costa, the inner and median partly filled in with blackish, the median separating the pale brown stigmata and sometimes forming a dark patch in submediau interspace ; a black streak above inner margin before inner line, stronger in the ? ; outer line strongly luuulate-dentate ; subterminal line pale brown, interrupted, with a pale patch above vein 4, crossed i)y darker streaks above veins 3 and .5 ; the anal angle and terminal area, especially in the ?, sufl'used with darker; terminal black lunnles ; fringe dark brown.
Jlim/iriiig : dark brownish fuscous, with the fringe jialer.
In the ab. atribas'dis the whole basal two-fifths, except narrowly along inner margin, is snlfused with black, obscuring all markings, the terminal area and space before anal angle being also clonded with dark. This may be a distinct species.
Underside dark brown, the costa in both wings with pale speckling ; hind- wing with basal half ochreous and a large dark cell-spot ; both wings with diffuse darker outer line.
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Head and tliorax of S jiale and dark brown mixed ; the dorsnm greyer ; pectus and femora and nnderside of palpi ochreous ; legs lilack ringed with ochreous ; in the 5 the shonlders and jiatagia are dark.
Expanse of wings : 34 mm. ; the aberration 37 mm.
1 t?, 3 ? ? from Penang (Curtis).
31. Sasunaga interrupta sjieo. no v.
Resembles leuaorina Hmps. and oUvaria Hmps. in both sexes, but certainly distinct. The S is larger, with pile ochreons ground colour ; an oblique black streak above inner margin before inner line ; the cell black before and beyond orbicular stigma, which is gre)^, small, and quadrate ; reniform inwardly brown, outwardly diffuse and jagged ; outer line, instead of showing the strong curve beyond cell, always interrupted by olive brown and pale horizontal stripes and the black veins ; a pale streak from reniform along vein 5, continued beyond snbterminal line to termen ; ? with the broad white streak from base cut by the dark median line, beyond which the streak is narrower ; the pale streak on vein 5 beyond snbterminal line is always present ; and, as in the S , the outer line is interrupted, but in this case by the pale groundcolour from the apex; the hindwing is olive fuscous, darker in ? than cJ.
Expanse of wings : 44 mm.
Upper Area River, Biagi, Mamliare River, Angabunga River, Upper Setekwa River, and the Ninay Valley, New Guinea: Icucorina also from all these localities.
3:3. Sasunaga longiplaga spec nov.
cJ. Forewing : greyish ochreons slightly tinged with pale brown ; the veins finely black ; costa tinged with olive and marked with pairs of short oblique dark strigae ; the costal blotch before subterminal line olive grey, with only the narrower end above vein 7 blackish ; a fine black streak from base below cell ; an oblong blackish fuscous blotch from inner line to termen including cell and space below it, beyond subterminal line comprising a pale streak on vein 5 ; orbicular stigma pale, roundish ; the reniform obscnre and undefined ; before the oblong dark blotch and beneath the outer end of the black basal streak is a short white streak.
Hindwing : dark fuscous, with fringe pale.
Expanse of wings : 30 mm. to 40 mm.
3 c? jj from Penang, April 1898 (Curtis), (type), and 1 ^ from Gunong Ijau, the latter browner and larger.
33. Sasunaga apiciplaga spec. nov.
?. Forewing : purplish black in costal half of wing as far as snbmedian fold ; an oblique white streak from base of costa along vein 1, followed above by a black triangle before inner line ; inner margin below the white streak greenish grey, beyond inner line dull rufous dusted with fuscous ; cell black ; orbicular and reniform leaden grey, the latter outlined with white, followed by a pink streak to outer line ; outer line white just below costa, then dentate-lunulate, filled up with greyish fuscous and pink ; a roundish white spot at apex tinged with pink ; snbterminal line ill-defined, pinkish, preceded and followed by black streaks and dashes ; fringe fuscous and pinkish, pale pinkish at apex.
Hindwing fnscons, the fringe pale.
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Underside glossy grey with a faint red tinge ; costa of linth wings dusted with dark grey and fuscDUs.
Head and shoulders blackish ; thorax and patagia (damaged) pinkish ochreous, jirobahly redder and darker when perfect ; dorsum grey ; venter, pectus, and femora rnfons grey ; legs black ringed with pale.
Expanse of wings : 3(j mm.
1 ? from Kei Island, December 1896 (H. Kiihn). t>maller than oe/iistin, and without the vinous tint of that species.
34. Sasunaga basiplaga spec. nov.
<S. Forewinq : very much like that of interrupta Warr. but smaller and more uniformly grey-brown ; the veins finely black and the intervals streaked with dark ; a small blackish blotch at base of inner margin, and an oblique black streak above it before inner line, which is strongly dentate, pale edged with black ; orbicular stigma annular, with brown centre, white ring, and black outline ; reniform ill- defined and outwardly diffuse, followed along vein 5 by a pale streak, running beyond subterminal line to termen.
? whitish ochreous tinged with olive green ; the costa dark in basal half and before subterminal line, and the terminal area from above anal angle to middle ; the base of cell with a wedge-shaped black mark.
IliiidwiiK/ : fuscous, darker in ? than in <?.
Underside of forewing grey-brown, with the costa at base, some streaks towards apex, and a terminal dash below vein 5 ochreous ; the inner margin white; hindwing ochreous speckled with brown along costa, towards termeu suffused with brown ; a large dark cell-lunule and curved outer line ; the veins brown.
Head and thorax ochreous mixed with olive brown and grey ; the dorsum grey, sometimes dark grey ; pectus, venter, femora, and underside of palpi ochreous ; venter with a middle row of double black spots.
Expanse of wings : 40 mm.
2 <Si, 1 ? from the Khasia Hills; 1 ? from Waigieu (Waterstradt) ; 1 ? from Ninay Valley, Central Arfak Mts., Dutch New Guinea, February and March 1009, 1 ¥ from Kumasi River, British New Guinea, June 190" (A. S. Meek).
3.i. Euplexia exangulata spec. nov.
The species much resembles £. pct-tinata Warr., but differs as follows : it is always smaller^SO mm. only as compared with 36 ram.; the dark median area is at once narrower and paler ; the amount of brown scaling in the basal area is greater ; the inner white band forms an angular projection on submedian fold into the median area, stronger than that in ijectinata, but much less prominent than in sinuata Moore : and the reniform stigma is more strongly marked with leaden grey at top and bottom. Sikkiui and Bhutan only. The antennae of the tJ are bi2)ectinate.
30. Euplexia rostrifera spec. nov.
Foi-ewing : white ; the markings black ; neither the basal nor median area nor the terminal black markings reaching inner margin ; basal area traversed by a curved white snbbasal line ; inner white band narrow at costa, broad at middle, constricted on vein 1 by the inward projection of median area, then running in to base and out- wardly confluent with the outer white area ; orbicular stigma dark plumbeous very
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faintly defined by paler ; reuit'orm white formiug part of outer area, the median area formiug a black hook beyond it and ending in a brown point above inner margin; onter line scarcely defined by two i)aral]el series of black atoms ; terminal area above middle pnrple blackish, inwardly edged with black, the edge extending to snbmedian fold, beyond which the termen is white ; fringe purplish with a whitish basal line swollen into spots at the veins.
Hindwing : dark brownish fuscous, paler basewards, witii a white terminal streak from vein 1 to 3 separated by a black streak from white spots on veins 2 and 3 ; fringe black at apex, below vein (i witii the tips white.
Underside blackish irrorated with bluish white scales, and deep black along termen ; base and inner margin white ; cnll-spots wliite, that in forewing conspicuous.
Head, thorax, pectus, and legs black ; abdomen blackish, whitish at base, the tufts black ; metathoracic tuft, tips of palpi, and basal segment of antennae white.
Expanse of wings : 30 mm.
1 ? Bonthain, Celebes.
37. Euplexia nigroplumbea spec. nov.
Forewinq : bone-colour, sutt'used to a large extent with purple black ; the median area below middle, the cell on each side of orbicular stigma, and a sub- marginal band deep velvety black brown, the paler spaces below middle flushed with brownish flesh-colour ; median area projecting beaklike inwards in submedian interval, the pale band before it excurved at median and strongly below vein 1, its centre j)nr|)lisli ; outer edge of median area oblicpie and straight from vein 8 to 4, then slightly inbent and again oblique to below vein 1, shortly bent outwards again along inner margin ; followed by an obli([ue pale space, brown-tinged below middle with two purplisli ])arallel transverse streaks above and a broad ditfuse purple shade below ; a velvety black shade from below costa before apex to anal angle, above which it is widened and diffuse and followed by a brown patch ; fringe purplish, with pale dots at the vein ends ; upper stigmata like the costal sti'eak purplish black ; the orbicular finely, the reniform more strongly outlined with ochreous, the latter with an ochreous streak across its middle ; the orbicular reaching below median vein, tiieir converse edges contiguous at lower end.
Hindwing : dull ochreous whitish, becoming dark smoky fuscous along termen ; the veins dark terminally, vein '^ black and thick, marked by a subterminal pale spot and crossed by a terminal pale streak; the inner margin narrowly fuscous ; the fringe purple black with the tips wliite.
Underside of forewing leaden fuscous sprinkled with blue-grey scales towards termen, the inner margin whitisli ; costa before apex with four white spots ; fringe deep brown with yellow dots at the vein ends and a bluish middle line ; hind- wing whitish, the costal and terminal areas fuscous, thickly sprinkled with bluish scales.
Head, thorax, pectus, and legs purple black ; palpi internally and in front pale ; metathoracic tuft ti[iped with white, base of dorsum and lateral hairs pale ; anal segments fuscous ; the dorsal tufts black.
Expanse of wings : 34 mm.
1 (J from Kina Balu, N. Borneo. 2
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38. Euplexia submarginata spec. nov.
Foi-eniiiq : paler, more nit'oiis brnwii than in novaeytiiiieae Betb.-Baker; the claviform stisjiiia luur.h narrower, and, liUe the other stigmata, more greenish white ; the enter line with its outer erlgc paler and more histrons; the snhmarginal line distinct, silvery green, oblique from costa before apex to vein T, along which it nuis outwanls and is angled, curved inwards to above vein .5, curved outwards to vein 2, along which it runs inwards, then vertical to inner margin ; terniiriiii lunules cream- colour, in one specimen with brown lunules behind them.
Hindwiny : rufous brown, paler basewards.
Paljii beneath, the top of second segment, and the third wholly white ; the shoulders rufous like thorax, tipped with greenish white.
Expanse of wings : 36 mm.
"i a, one from the Angabunga River, the other two from Biagi, Mambare River, British New Guinea.
Distinguished by the more rufous brown wings.
39. Euplexia tenuilinea spec. nov.
Fori'iviiiq : olive fuscous, more sombre in appearance tlian noraeguineae Beth.- Baker or suhmaryiimtu Warr., but agreeing in the main in the markings ; the white lines, however, are much narrower ; the inner line is edged externally with black ; claviform stigma longer : subterminal line very obscure and interrupted : a row of large black terminal lunules edged with pale : fringe brown with a dark middle line.
lUndtcinq : dark fuscous along eosta and terinen, narrowing off to anal angle ; the inner margin whitish, with the lower end of outer line marked in blackisli from vein 2 to inner margin ; the fringe of inner margin white.
Underside of hindwing with a dark streak in cell along the fold before the dark cell-spot.
Head and tiiorax much less varied with wliite scales, the shoulders glossy whitish with some brown scales intermixed in basal half only ; the abdomen fuscous withciut any rufous or brown tinge.
Expanse of wings : 30 mm.
2 (Jc?, one from Biagi, Mambare River, the otlier from the Angabunga River, British New Guinea.
40. Euplexia argyrospila spec. nov.
Foiewiny : brown, appearing in certain lights golden brown, in otiiers purplish) sprinkled with lilac scales, which also appear at times obsolete; markings consisting of silvery white sjiots and blotehes, tlie lines themselves and the edges of the white marks deeper brown ; subbasal line preceded by a single costal spot and followed by a streak below subcostal vein and another costal sjiot ; inner line preceded by a white costal spot, a triangular blotch in submedinn interval, and a flattened one below vein 1, and followed by a large round-ended claviform stigma ; three or four small white spots along middle of inner margin ; orbicular large and round : reniform 8-shaj)cd, with a brown spot at centre of each half; outer line starting from a white costal spot above reniform, followed by a flattened subcostal white blotch, a rounded one above vein T), and another elongate flattened one in sub- median interval ; submarginal followed by two small spots on costa and below
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before aj)ex, and six white spots before termeii, the two beyouJ cell elongate, and the two below them smallest ; fringe brown with lilac scaling.
Jliiulwing : pnre white, the terminal line from apex to vein 2 thick, brown ; the veins towards termen brown, a faint outer line and submarginal shade at apex ; fringe white, lined with brown as far as vein 2.
Underside of forewing brown shaded with redilish, white basewards and along snbmedian fold ; cell-sjint brown with some wiiite roimd it; a row of white spots before termen ; fringe brown and lilac ; hindwing white, brown-speckled along costa ; an oblique inner line from costa to cell, the cell-si)ot, a curved lunulate outer line, and the thick terminal line brown.
Palpi brown with the tips of each segment white ; frons brown with a white spot at each side; basal tuft and shaft of antennae brown ; vertex, collar, and shoulders white, the last faced with smooth leaden-grey scales ; thorax, patagia, and crests there and on dorsum brown tipped with white scales ; the centre of patagia with a blotch of silvery white scales ; dorsum white with the anal tip red ; underside and legs brown sprinkled witli white, the joints of tarsi white.
Expanse of wings : 33 mm.
1 ? , 5 c? (J from the AugabuQga River, British New Guinea, 6000 ft., November 1004 to February 1905 (A. S. Meek).
41. Euplexia moneta spec. nov.
Forewing : resembles the last species ariii/rospila in colour and disposition of markings, but the brown is paler and redder, the lilac scales stronger, and all the white markings, except the costal spots, shading into golden green; an interrupted subcostal streak of golden green ; the outer line more distinctly lunulate-dentate and followed by a line of golden lunnles, with the three spots smaller than in argyrospila ; subterminal line waved, formed of small golden green spots ; the stigmata all a little smaller ; a row of deep brown terminal luiuiles ; fringe brown with j)ale lilac mottling.
Hindwing : dirty whitish sutl'ased with brownish, deeper at apex and along termen ; the cell-spot, veins, and outer line darker ; fringe brownish, mottled with pale grey.
Underside of forewing rufous brown, speckled at apex and termen with bluish white ; traces of a dark brown outer line and whitish submarginal line of spots ; hindwing whitish, with cell-spot, outer lunulate-dentate line, a subterminal shade, and the terminal line red-brown ; traces of a short inner line close before the cell- spot ; fringe brown and lilac.
Head, face, and palpi red-browu mixed with whitish ; the tips of segments (if palpi and the sides of frons white; shoulders shining yellowish white, with a greenish shade ; patagia and thorax red-brown mixed with whitish ; the base and margins of patagia banded with golden yellow ; dorsum rufous brown mixed with whitish, tlie tufts red-brown ; underneath and legs red-brown white-speckled ; the joints of tarsi white.
Exj)anse of wings : 36 mm.
'■ids from the Angabunga River, British New Guinea, taken along with tlie last species.
42. Euplexia magnirena spec. nov. •
Forewing : deep flesh-colour, tinged in parts with olive brown ; the median area deep olive fuscous and brown ; snbbasal line shown by a due black stria above and
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below subcostal vein; a black blotch at base of siibmeJiau interval, and a wedge-shaped lilack blotch below veiu 1 ; basal area traversed by two dilfuse olive l)rowu wavy lines, both darker on costa ; inner line thick, flesh-colonred, vertical, bent ontwards on subcostal vein and excnrved belew vein 1 ; orbicular stigma olive brown, open above, narrowed below, edged with pinkish ; claviform brown edged with black, with a sort of additional stigma above it, longer and touching median ; reniform a very large yellowisli white space with some dark dots before the lateral edges ; outer line flesh-coloured, double, edged with brown, Inunlate-dentate ; veins slightly browner ; snhmargiual line a row of pale flesh-coloured lunules, jjreceded by brownish suffusion and above vein 6 by blackish, and followed by a black terminal blotch between veins 4 and 0, the apex above it pale; fringe pale flesh-colour, tipped with black.
Hindwing: blackish fuscons, with a [lale line before terraeu from anal angle ; fringe pale flesh-colour with black tips.
Underside fuscons ; forewiug with large cell-spot, the row of submarginal spots, three apical spots and the outer line to vein 5 bone-colour ; hindwing speckled with pale, with dark cell-spot and outer line and submarginal series of bone-coloured spots.
Head and thorax, pectus, pal])!, and legs blackish fuscous, the legs with the joints pale ; palpi with third segment and tips of second pale in front ; metathoracic tuft flesh-coloured ; abdomen greyish fuscous.
Expanse of wings : 42 mm.
1 ? from the Khasia Hills, Assam, May 1895.
43. Euplexia discalis spec. nov.
Forewing : purplish brown, mixed with moss-greeu and reddish scales ; the subapical area with a dull rufous patch ; lines pale greeuish, in places mixed with reddish ; snbbasal Hue double, blackisli, interlined witli pale green, especially at base of submedian interval ; inner line of the ground colour edged on both sides with yellowish green, the inner edge more curved and running in basewards, forming a pale yellow patch on inner margin ; onter line indistinctly treble below veiu 8, obliquely sinuous inwards and approaching inner line on inner margin, their converse edges ajipearing to meet ; lielovv vein o the outer Hue is followed by a pale green band, on which the teeth of the line are marked in blackish ; subterminal line broadly pale green, lunulate-dentate, preceded below vein 5 by a broad purplish brown shade, and followed by a similar shade, which is blacker close to the green ; veins rather darker ])urple, tlie base of vein 2 bright red ; claviform stigma dark, obscurely defined ; orbicular obliijne and oval, purplish red in centre with pale green outline ; reniform oblong, narrow, bright sul])hur yellow, witii the centre greenish mixed with yellow aud reddish.
Hiudaiiig : whitish in middle, the cnstal aud inner margins broadly smoky fuscous ; the terminal Ijorder l)roadly dark fuscous ; the fringe rufous ; cell-spot blackish, large.
Underside of forewing with large whitish discal spot on a fuscous ground, of hindwing with a large black one on the white basal area.
Head and thorax dull purplish reddish, mixed with grey ; palpi beneath ochreous rufoas ; metathoracic tuft rufous ; abdomen greyish fuscous.
Expanse of wings : 36 mm.
1 ? from Teugaleugau, Freanger, Java.
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44. Eiiplexia smaragdifera wnn. nov.
In Cat. Lep. Pkal. B.M. vol. vii. j). 137, Hampsuu proposed the name smarag- (lixtiii for E. smaragdina Beth .-Baker from New Guinea, nee Neumoegen from N. America ; bnt lie seems to have described and figured an Australian species, which, though very much like it, is certainly different from the New Guinea form. For this New Guinea species 1 propose the name smaragdifera, smaragdina Hmps. standing for the Australian.
45. Euplexia esmeralda spec. nov.
Differs from smaraqdifera Warr. in beinf; smaller ; the ground colour velvety black, and the markings all brilliant emerald green ; the subbasal line formed of two thick angled lines ; all the lines thicker, the outer irregularly crennlate, inbent beyond cell ; the terminal rays shorter and Idunter, not actually reaching terraen ; the terminal lunules and fringe bright pale green, without any black terminal line.
2 S S and 1 ? , from the Angabnnga River and Biagi, Mambare River, respectively.
46. Euplexia delineata spec. nov.
Foreivinq : with the median area between subcostal vein and vein 1 and the terminal area deep olive fuscous ; the lines and shading pale olive green : the costa, inner margin, basal area, and a band beyond outer line ditfnsely olive ; subba=al line obscure, but angled outwards below vein 1 ; inner line oblique, edged inwardly with a black line, to vein 1, joined by a fine curved line from base of reniform stigma ; outer line bent outwards below costa, evenly curved from vein 8 to 2, and sharply inangled in submedian interval, and more shortly and obscurely below vein 1, outwardly edged by a fine dark line ; orbicular and reniform stigmata with tine green outlines ; the former oblique, open below ; the outer edge of reniform a narrow lunule ; a fine oblique pale green streak from apex to outer band ; veins finely pale green, veins 1 to 4 with oblique lines on each side meeting at termen ; fine terminal dark lunules jjreceded by pale green ones ; fringe pale olive green.
Hind wing : dark bronzy fuscous, with the veins slenderly pale beyond middle and the fringe pale olive green.
Underside of forewing dark grey tinged with olive ; the veins and fringe pale green ; of hindwing whitish tinged with green along costa and termen ; a dark curved outer line and brown oval cell-spot, which are both present Imt indistinct in forewing.
Head and thorax olive green mixed with white : jialpi fawn-cohmr, externally dark brown ; abdomen reddish grey, the venter paler ; legs and jiectus j)ale green and white ; tarsi fawn-colour.
Expanse of wings : 38 mm.
1 ? from Biagi, Mambare River, British New Guinea, .5000 ft., Ai)ril 1906 (A. S. Meek).
47. Euplexia lucisquama spec. nov.
Foreirinq : whitish ochreous, flushed with olive ochreous and flesh-colour ; some blotches in basal area, the upper part of median area below subcostal vein, some terminal blotches, and costal spots at rise of the lines deep olive fuscous ; subbasal line marked by two dark fuscous spots, at base of costa and cell, edged with whitish ; inner line diffusely white, obliipie, and slightly waved to vein 1, then
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sharplv angled and oMii|nc inwards, preceded by two deep olive-fnscons blotches above and below vein 1, and followed by dark spots on costa and the veins ; outer line bent outwards below costa, ontcnrved and hmulato-dentate from vein 8 to submediau fold, and there angled, blackish followed by a whitish line ; orbicular stigma small, dark, externally white-edged ; reniform a yellow-green lunule pre- ceded by an angled white line ; claviform pale green with a dark line edged with white below ; inner margin below submedian fold ])ale yellow-green ; snbterniinal line scarcely marked ; a dark olive-fuscous praeapical spot on costa, some ter- minal streaks below, and a broad blotch between vein 3 and submedian fold ; a terminal row of pale Innnles ; the fringe {tale.
Hnuhriixj : dark brown, paler, more olive ochreous, at base and on inner margin ; fringe pale greenish ochreous.
Underside pale olive ochreous, whiter along inner margin, the middle of wing to outer line dull fuscous ; hindwing ochreous with a slight olive-fuscous curved outer line and large oval cell-spot.
Head and thorax rufous ochreous ; the palpi dai'k above ; abdomen ochreous, tinged laterally with blackish in anal half
Expanse of wings : 30 mm.
1 S from Mt. Dulangan, Mindoro, 4.")00-~r).")iiii ft., November 1S9.5 to January 1896 (J. Whitehead).
48. Euplexia carnefusa spec. nov.
Forewing : whitish, suffused in the main witli deep flesh-colour; the middle of inner margin and a band beyoiul outer line below middle pale green ; the lines black; subbasal line oblique, projecting lielow costa and cell ; inner line similarly oblique, black-edged below costa and cell, and sharply angled outwards below vein 1 ; the broad oblique baud between these lines white jiowdered with rufous ; outer line lunulate-deutate, ontcurved above, then slightly oblique, followed by a white line; orbicular stigma a black spot edged ontwardl}' with a white one; reniform lost in a large white cloud reaching from middle of costa to below vein 3, where it is limited by a broad black bar from inner to outer line above submedian fold, the part below being deep olive; terminal area powdered with white; a row of black terminal lunules, with the ends of the veins black between them, and inwardly edged with white lunules ; a black submarginal blotch beyond cell, and black lunules on each side of vein 2 ; fringe flesh-colour, chequered with white and tipped with black.
Hhuhmng : olive brown suffused with fuscous ; the veins and cell-spot darker ; some obscure dark pale-edged lunules along termen ; fringe brown and whitish.
Underside of forewing dull brownish fuscous, the inner margin paler : traces of a dark outer line ; hindwing ochreous white dusted with brown along costa and termen, with a large blackish triangular cell-spot and brown curved outer line.
Head, thorax, and abdomen flesh-colour ; the metathoracic tuft white.
Expanse of wings : 32 mm.
1 c? from the Naga Hills, Assam, 5000 to 800i) ft., Julv to August 1889 (W. Doherty).
49. Euplexia resplendens spec. nov.
Fore/riiif/ : greenish black ; the shadings shining pale green ; the lines finely yellowish or white ; veins of terminal half marked with blue-green ; base
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green ; subbasal Hue slenderly bluish white, sharply angled on subcostal vein and below median ; inner line nearly straight and minntely waved, angled outwards on subcostal vein, preceded by a band of shining pale green scales ; outer line bent outwards below costa, then sinuous, incurved at vein 4, shining yellow, followed by a broad shining pale green band, the outer dentate-lunnlate edge of which is the snbterminal line ; the veins across it bluish green ; before the outer line in the deep green of the median area can be detected another obscure dentate- lunnlate line ; orbicular stigma annular, shining pale green with deep green centre, attached by similar green scales to inner line ; reniform large, bright green, the inner edge straight, the outer waved, whitish ; bright white and green sjiots on oosta at rise of the inner and outer lines ; a terminal Innnlate line of green and blue scales enclosing black lunnles; fringe green in inner half, mottled black and ochreous in outer.
Hindwing : dark greenish fuscous, paler along inner margin ; a thick blackish terminal line with a slight white streak below vein 'Z ; fringe fuscous, the tijis whitisb.
Underside shining bronzy fuscous, tinged with green along costa and termen : dark thick outer lines and cell-spots ; inner half of hindwing ochreous.
Head and thorax green and brown ; basal half of dorsum ochreous with the crests green ; anal half fuscous ; tarsi black with ochreous joints ; the tibiae greenish.
Exjianse of wings ; 4M — 42 mm.
5 ? ?, 3 (J'c? from the Angabnnga River, British New Guinea, 6UU0 ft., November 1904 to February 1905; 1 ? , 1 c? from Biagi, Mambare River, March 1906 (A. S. Meek).
50. Euplexia multicolor spec. miv.
Forewiiig : pinkish grey suffused with rufous and Ijrown towards base, the inner margin below vein 1 and the terminal area below 3 pale green ; the outer half of wing before outer line triangularly suffused with fuscous ; lities double, the arms well apart ; subbasal oblique at first, then vertical ; a black spot at base of snbmedian interval ; a pale patch at base of inner margin edged with brownish and with deep black scales on inner margin, followed by a pale green patch on submedian fold, vein 1 beyond it brown spotted with black ; inner line dentate- lunnlate, the teeth pointing inwards and black, the lunules brown, oblique outwards to middle of wing ; the claviform stigma small, brown-black, beyond middle of wing ; orbicular stigma round, purple black ; reniform narrow, oblique outwards, produced and swollen outwards at top and filled with red-brown, having beneath the pro- jection a diamond-shaped pure pinkish-white spot pointed at each end; outer line double, oblique to vein 0, then vertical, and inwardly obliipie aud lunulate-dentate below 4, the inner arm thick aud diffuse, the outer fine, the teeth on veins 1, 2, 3, 4, very long, marked with black and white dots ; apical area whitish washed with pale red-brown ; the subterminal line pale and waved above, then greenish, preceded by a red-brown shade from vein 6 to 2; terminal lunules black, those beyond cell larger and containing between them a green wedge-shaped mark ; fringe pinkish ochreous mottled with brown above vein 5, deej) brown below.
Hindwing : fuscous brown, paler basewards, and deeper brown along termen ; the veins and cell-spot darker ; fringe grey-white.
Underside ochreous ; the forewing suffused, except along the margins, with
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fuscous and red-brown ; the submarginal line, the costal part of outer line, and the apex ochreous : outer line blackish, hindwing with large triangular black-brown cell-spots and dark brown outer line, interrupted between (> and 7 ; the terminal area beyond it washed with brown ; the terminal spots large and quadrate, red- brown, from apex to vein 'Z : sjjace between veins 8 and (i from base to outer line yellow and mealy.
Palpi red-brown, terminal segments and tips of second, the face and vertex yellow ochreous ; shoulders brown with a dark line above ; jiatagia greenish brown ; dorsum red-brown ; pectus yellowish.
Expanse of wings : 40 mm.
3 cJ(? from Upper Aroa River, British New Guinea, March 1903 (A. S. Meek).
51. Euplexia cervinipennis spec. nov.
Forewiiig : pinkish brown-grey irrorated with darker and mixed with greenish, especially below middle ; subbasal line black edged in wardly with green ; a pale iichreous patch at base of inner margin with a black spot at base of vein 1 ; inner and outer lines black, conversely edged with jiinkish brown above and jiale green below ; the inner outwardly oblique and waved, green-edged below middle only, followed by a small green spot at place of claviform stigma, and preceded below middle by a band of dull slaty scales, with a large greenish blotch before it in submedian interval; outer line oblique outwards to vein 6, where it is dentate, vertical to 4, then inwardly oblique and dentate-luiinlate, edged inwardly with green below vein 6, followed by a band of dove-coloured pink ; subtermiiial line pale green, dentate below vein 4, with, brown shading before it, above middle with black marks, followed by a darker 'green shading before the large jiale green terminal lunnU's, which are outwardly edged by black lunules ; fringe jiink with a dark mid lie line and the tips pale ; orbicular and reniform stigmata with broad pale green outlines, connected above median, and in the latter mixed with whitish, their centres brown ; cell before and beyond the reniform black-green ; median area below middle mixed with green ; veins tinged with jiink.
Hiiultciny : blackish fuscous with a dark paler-edged outer line ; fringe rufous
Underside of forcwing rufous fuscous, the basal half darkest ; inner margin whitish: terminal area rufous ochreous; cell-spot and outer line blackish; hindwing ochreous sulfused and irrorated with fuscous ; a large black cell-sj)Ot and black curved outer line.
Head and thorax reddish brown ; basal half of dorsum rnfons, anal half more fuscous ; pectus, legs, and venter rufous, browner in front ; tarsi black with the joints yellowish ; palpi externally black-marked.
Expanse of wings : 48 mm.
1 ? from Angabunga River, British New Guinea, OooO ft., November lOiU to February 190.5 (A. S. Meek).
52. Euplexia muscosa spec. nov.
Forewing : purplish vinous intermixed with green ; the npper stigmata pale green; the terminal area i)ale green frosted with olive; costal edge purplish vinous, the subcostal vein streaked with moss-green to outer line ; the inner margin green below vein 1 ; subbasal line two dark pnrple sjiots followed by pale green scaling; inner line double, waved, deep purple tilled in with pale
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gvpeii ; outer line dull green above middle, vinons below ; submarginal line white from below costa, strongly toothed below middle, iireci'ded by a deep pnrple-red shade from below costa ; upper stigmata conversely oblique, pale green, the cell to outer line deep purple ; median vein jiale green below the stigmata ; a dull green patch below reniform between veins 2 and 4 at base ; fringe yellow-green.
liindiring : dark olive fnscous, paler towards base ; fringe pale green.
Underside of forewing fuscous, tinged with vinons along costa and termen ; submarginal line and fringe yellow-green ; praeapical costal sjiots snow-white ; hindwing ochreous white speckled with dark ; a large dark cell-spot; the termen shaded with fuscous beyond a dark outer line indented beyond cell.
Head and thorax bright rufous ; dorsal crests and anal tuft riifons ; dorsum dark green and rnfons.
Ex]ianse of wings : 3(1 mm.
1 ? from Angabunga River, British New Gninea, 6000 ft. November 1904 to Febrnary 1905 (A. S. Meek).
53. Euplexia connexa spec. nov.
Forewing: pinkish grey densely speckled with darker; the bisal area, the upper stigmata, and the terminal area pale green, the last thickly freckled with brown ; snbbasal line obscnrely double and angled, followed by a patch of pale green which emits a sharp-pointed streak along snbmedian fold to inner line ; inner line oblique, brown, inwardly edged with dull green, outwardly with pale; outer line oblique inwards, slightly curved outwards between veins and indented on snbmedian fold, edged inwardly with pale, outwardly pinkish grey, toothed on the veins, their converse edges meeting on inner margin ; median area olive fnscons ; the stigmata pale green with darker centres ; the veins all pinkish grey ; subterminal line broadly pale green, formed of contiguous lunules above middle and sejiarate angles below, preceded between 4 and 7 by an olive-fuscous blotch ; fringe with three dark lunulate lines, intersected by pale rays from yellow spots at the ends of veins.
Hindwing : whitish, with a slight brownish terminal cloud in the S , the whole outer half of wing brownish in the ? : cell-spot large and grey.
Underside whitish ; tinged in forewing with ochreous grey towards centre, and speckled only in hindwing; cell-spots and outer lines marked, darker in hindwing.
Head and thorax rufons ochreous mixed with darker ; alKlomen pale ochreous white with the tufts jiinkish.
Expanse of wings : 27 mm.
1 c?, 1 ? from Angabunga River, British New Guinea, fiOOi) ft., November l'.»U4 to February 1905 (A. S.Meek)
Still smaller than miiscosa, distinguished by the pale hindwings and interlined fringes.
54. Euplexia figurata sjjec. nov.
Foreiring : dark olive fnscous ; a broad costal streak ochreous tinged with brown ; basal area slightly greenish tinged ; snbbasal line black, twice curved ; inner line oblique and nearly straight, inwardly darker, outwardly jialer ; stigmata pale green, united along median, and both coalescent with a triangular green blotch extending from vein 2 to 4 and reaching outer band : this band is oblique inwards, bone-colour shaded with pinkish and with a faint middle line, indented
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on snbmeilian fold ; terminal area pale green, marked between veins 2 and o b)' j)nr|ilish blotches ; a row of black terminal lunules ; fringe with three dark Innnlate lines and intersected by pale rays heyoud veins.
Hindicinq : wholly white, with a very faint pinkish tinge towards apes.
Underside ochreous white; the fringe of forewing dark brown ; hindwing with dark cell-spot ; tiie fringe yellowish ; the costa freckled with brown.
Head and thorax olive fuscous mixed with pale green and ochreous ; abdomen pale ochreous.
Expanse of wiags : 20 mm.
I ¥ , 2 (? cJi'from the Angabunga River, British New Guinea, GOMO ft., November 1904 to February 1905 (Meek).
5o. Euplexia carneola spec, no v.
Forewing : deep olive brown ; the costal streak and all the transverse bands ochreous flashed with flesh-colonr ; inner band outwardly oblii|ne, brownish flesh- colour, the outer edge tiiiely pale, joined above vein 1 by a similarly coloured streak from base ; outer band inwardly obliciue parallel to termen, fiuely edged inwardly with pale and slightly wavy, approaching inner line on inner margin ; reniform stigma flesh-coloured, expanding along median vein ; orbicular narrow, oblique, ])ale ochreous with no flesh-coloured tint ; vein 2 also ochreous ; snbterminal line narrowly white, inwardly black-edged, zigzag below 4 ; the terminal area pale flesh-colour above, mixed with grey below middle, the ends of the veins dark to termen ; fringe flesh-colour.
Ilindicing : glossy ochreous, tinged with flesh-colour terminally, with traces of a darker snbterminal line.
Underside ochreous tinged with flesh-colour, the markings faintly showing through.
Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous.
Expanse of wings : 32 mm.
1 S from the Angabunga River, British New Guinea, HOOO ft., November !9o4 to February 1905 (A. S. Meek).
56. Euplexia complicata spec. nov.
Forewiiiq : deep/>live fuscous; the markings bone-colour tinged with green; the costal streak flesh-colour; subbasal line bone-colour, enclosing two small brown spots at base; inner band oblique and straight from subcostal vein to inner margin ; between it and snbbasal line a diffuse pale spot above vein 1 ; the median vein and vein 1 both pale and thickened in places ; outer band inwardly oblique from a little before apex to inner margin, where botli it and the inner band are united by an oblong patch below vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform bone-colour with greenish centres; the former oblique, oval; the latter with inner edge sinuous and curved inwards along the median vein, the outer edge concave ; the median vein and bases of veins 2, 3, 4 thickened into a triangular blotch ; submarginal line close to termen, pale and wavy, toothed inwards along vein 2 ; veins 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7 continued, pale rufous, through the fringe, which is pale green, with ochreous tips, the two shades separated by a fine dentate-lunnlate line of dark atoms.
Hindwing : ochreous, clouded in outer half with greenish fuscous.
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Underside ochreous, tinged in forewing with greenish, mixed with fnscons be3'ond middle ; hindwing with costa green-speckled ; the cell-spot and ontei' line dark green.
Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreons ; the face and shonlders nifons-tinged ; the thorax tipped with green and brownish ; anal taft ochreons ; pectus, forelegs, and palpi externally brownish.
Expanse of wings : 30 mm.
1 (S from the Angabuuga River, British New Gninea, 0000 ft., November 1904 to February 1005 (A. S. Meek).
Superficially resembling E. carneola.
57. Euplexia alboguttata spec. nov.
Forewing: brown, shaded with darker and intermixed with violaceous and greenish in places ; the stigmata, the lines, and a patch on inner margin before middle pale yellow-green ; subbasal line black, starting from middle of a yellow- green costal spot and edged outwardly with black ; a black spot above inner margin l)efore the large yellow patch ; inner line ill defined, plainest across the dark submedian interval, which is olive brown from base outwards ; claviform stigma large, subcpiadrate, olive brown, edged at, end with black, and followed by a white drop-shaped mark from vein 2 ; orbicular and reniform conversely oblique, yellow-green, with olive centres, open above and below, and connected along median vein, and edged laterally with black ; the cell before and beyond reniform brown : outer line yellow-green, edged externally with blackish, outcurved round cell, incurved from 4 to 2, then vertically waved; sabterminal line pale green, indented on both folds, preceded by some chestnut-brown scaling, before which there is an obliijue violaceous band edged with pnrple ; terminal area purplish grey, darker beyond cell and snbmedian interval ; fringe yellow-green ; costa pale yellowish along median area, the costal edge spotted with brown throughout.
Hindwing : pale ochreous, with dark grey cell-spot and outer line ; the terminal area washed with brownish, especially on the folds.
Underside pale ochreous ; cell-spot and outer line black, strongest in hindwing, which is sprinkled with black along costa and has a long spot in base of cell.
Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous, slightly speckled with blackish ; the thorax tinged with brownish.
Expanse of wings : 40 mm.
1 ?, 3 (JrJ, from Kina Bain, North Borneo.
58. Euplexia tibetensis spec. nov.
Forewing : very dark olive green shading in places to blackish ; basal patch pale green, with the subbasal line obscurely black across it ; a black pointed mark on inner margin before inner line; inner and outer lines very indistinct ; the inner preceded by a green mark on costa : the outer curved outwards above round cell, and oblique inwards below middle; orbicnlar and reniform stigmata pale green, with slightly darker centres, coalescent along median vein and below; a green pear- shaped mark from vein 2 near base ; snbterminal line pale green, angled slightly outwards on vein 7, dentate on veins 3 and 4, and indented on submedian interval ; the terminal area dark above middle and at tornus ; fringe pale green.
Hindwing : white in basal half, dark fuscous in outer ; the fringe fuscous.
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Underside of forewiiia; dark fnscons, the inner margin wliite ; cell-spot and siibtenniiial line whitish ; hindwing white, tiie costa, termen, and cell-s])ot fiiseons.
Head lilackish ; thorax and abdomen fnscons njised with greenish; the underside and legs blackish.
E.\]ianse of wings : :}0 mm.
I (? from Chnrabi Valley, Tibet. The only specimen is mnch discolonred towards base and along inner margin, but is certainly a distinct species.
oO. Data rectisecta spec. nov.
Like r>. thalpophiloidcs Wlk., but smaller; the yellow of the hindwing paler ; its terminal border broader, blackish fuscous, not reddish brown ; its inner edge straight across wing, not insinuate at middle, curved inwards only just before costa; in callojHStrioides Moore the inner edge is also straight, but in that species the veins of forewing are pink.
1 ? from Tachar ; 1 ? fi(im ^Vest Java.
CO. Eriopus nivetacta spec. nov.
Smaller and darker than Mrigilineatii Hnips.
Foreiciixj : blackish fuscous dusted witii olive, suffused on median vein with violaceous ; veins pinkish, becoming olive terminally ; subbasal line white, edged with black; inner line strongly e.xcurved, black, edged on both sides with yellowish white, with an oblique white mark from snbmedian fold to vein 1 ; orbicular stigma obli(|UP, brown, with a white ring, broader above; reuiform obli(iue inwards, edged with a white line on each side meeting in a curve at top, the centre reddish on a brown ground, the lower outer end swollen and followed by an oblique wliite dash ; outer line rufons olive, jireceded by a row of black Innules and followed by a belt of violaceous grey ; subferminal line marked by large snow-white elongate spots above veins 7, 6, and 4, and a small dot nearer outer line above 5 ; before the ternieu a row of snow-white Innules edging black terminal spots ; fringe blackish mottled with white, and with a yellow basal line.
IliitrhriiKj : dark fuscous, paler towards base and costa.
Underside of forewing brownish grey, the costal margin and termen dusted with brown and white scales ; the white marks of upperside showing through along termen and outer third of costa ; hin<lwing whitish powdered with olive brown excejit in abdominal third ; an obscure iirown cell-spot; a waved outer line, an indistinct submarginal shade, and dark terminal Innules, not extending below middle of wing.
Head, thorax, and abdomen olive fuscous varied with white scales; tegulae, patagia, and jialpi tipped with white.
Expanse of wings : J 2() mm. ; ? 28 mm.
4 (J J, 6 ? ? from the Khasia Hills, Assam.
<;i. Condica albiorbis spec. nov.
Forewing: red-brown dusted with darker; the lines and shadings black and thick ; lines double tilled in with reddish ; the subljasal angled on median vein, the inner on snbmedian fold, touching both orbicular and claviform stigmata ; the claviform large, dark brown edged with black ; the orbicular oblique, oval, brown at centre witli a white annulus edged with black ; rnuiform large, its inner edge
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straight ami black, with a white dot at each ciul ; its outer with a large white blotch at middle, a white dot at upper end, aiul two at lower, all alike tipped with black ; outer line luiuilate-dentate, oblirjue to vein 3, then incurved ; siibtermiual line yellowish, broken up into spots, preceded 1)V strong black wedge-shaped marks, and joined by black streaks to the terminal Innules ; the termeu itself and the costa at apex being darker ; veins dotted with pale ; fringe with a pale line at base.
Hindwinq : bronzy brown, with dark terminal line; the fringe brown.
Underside of forewing dull fuscous, the costa reddish grey and termen paler ; of hindwing pale, reddish tinged towards costa and dusted with fuscous and white, with black cell-spot and outer line.
Head and thorax dark red-brown ; the abduiuen fuscous grey.
Expanse of wings : 42 mm.
1 cJ, 2 ? ? Darjiling (F. M.iller).
02. Condica albiliueata spec. uov.
Smaller and redder than albiorbis, the forewing narrower and more pointed, the termeu more oblique ; lines black and indistinct ; veins dark dotted with white ; claviform stigma square, dark red-brown edged with black ; orbicular as in albiorbis; reniform much narrower, red-brown, with a large white spot in middle of outer edge and two white dots below it ; from the white dot above it a continuous sinuous white line runs above and inside the stigma to its lower end on median vein ; the subterminal line is plainer.
HindwiiKj : bronzy brown with dark terminal line and cell-spot ; fringe brown.
Head and thor.i.-c reddish brown ; dorsum reddish with the tutts red.
Expanse of wings : 34 mm.
1 ? from the Khasia Hills, Assam.
03. Condica connotata s|iec. nov.
Intermediate between conjundem Wlk. and siihtdtirata, ochreous or j)ale brown tinged with rufous; the claviform stigma and the dark patch between the upper stigmata not so dark as in coiifimdens ; the reniform externally with a whitish lunnle, with two white dots below and one above it, and a white dot, more or less evident, at each end of its inner edge ; terminal area with a dark blotch beyond cell and another above anal angle, the latter extending inside subterminal line.
lli)idifiiHi : brownish fnscous, always darker than iu coiij'iindens, but not so deep as in subnigrata.
Underside as in con/tmdens.
Expanse of wings : 38 mm.
8 ? ¥ from Ceylon, S. India, and E. i'egu.
04. Condica sabnigrata spec. nov. and ab. uniformis ab. uov.
Differs from ' '. coiifandeiis Wlk. in being dark red-brown sutinsed with fuscous, instead of rufous grey, with the lines and markings less clear ; in particular the large blackish claviform stigma does not extend so far outwards and consequently does not form an even line with the inner edge of the reniform stigma ; the reniform is larger, marked internally with a thick black bar, and
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with tlie hollow in the middle of the outer edge filled ii]) with pale luteons instead of white, with two whitish dots, sometimes faintly marked, at the lower outer end, but general!}' with all the white dots absent ; the terminal area beyond the Inteous subterminal line always darker.
Iliiichcitx/ : dark reddish brown, with terminal blackish hmnles ; the fringe rnfoiis orlireons, tingeil with fuscous.
Underside of forewing deep velvety liiaek-brown, with the costal anil terminal margins reddish ; hind wing ochreou-;, the costa speckled with reddish ; cell-spot and outer line prominently blackisli.
Head, thorax, and abdomen dark red-brown.
1 ?, 3 cJcf from the Nilgiri Hills, Madras ; 1 ? from Ceylon.
The ab. unifonnis is more uniformly red-brown, without the fuscous suffusion or darker blotches ; the claviform and the space between upper stigmata being also red-brown ; the lunule on outer edge of reniform dull yellow ; the snbterrainal line more precise ; the fringe of hindwing pure rufous.
2 SS from Ceylon.
65. Prospalta ochrisquamata spec. uov.
Forewing : dull olive brown, faintly red-tinged, and sprinkled with pale ochreous scales ; a patch of ochreous scales on inner margin near base, and an ochreons spot at base of submedian interval ; the costa marked by small ochreous dots at origin of lines ; inner line sometimes denoted by jiale dots on the veins, often obsolete ; outer line lunulate-dentate, blackish, the teeth marked by sligl)t ochreons dots on veins, the Inunles sometimes followed by a few ochreous scales, that above vein 5 always by an ochreous spot ; spots of the two outer rows whiter and irregular in shape, those of the subterminal row on each side of vein 5 and on submedian fold larger and diffuser ; a black lunnlate line along termcn swollen into black spots between the veins ; fringe blackish with ochreous spots at base and intersected by ochreons rays ; orbicular stigma oblique, with reddish centre outlined with ochreous scales ; reniform with an ochreous lunule at centre and interrupted ])unctu!ate ochreous outline, showing, when complete, four dots internally and three externally, with a lunule between.
Ili/idiciny : luteons ochreous in basal half, brownisii fuscous in outer, with dark lunnlate terminal line and pale ochreous fringe.
Underside glossy ochreous in basal half, the costa liroadly sprinkled witli red scales ; forewing with dark grey celi-spot, outer waved line and fuscous baud before subterminal line; hindwing with cell-spot, outer line, and dark terminal band.
Face and vertex ochreous with black bars ; jialpi ochreous internally and in front, black externally ; shoulders and patagia brown ; thorax and metathoracic tnft ochreous, the latter with a double black line in front near base; dorsum grey-brown, more ochreous below ; pectus and legs fuscous grey ; tibiae black with ochreous rings.
Expanse of wings : 4(1 mm.
1 (S,:i ? ? from the Khasia Hills, Assam, the S dated September 1895.
I'll!. Prospalta praesecta s])ec. nov.
Foreiri/it/ : brown-black glossed with jiurple ; subba^^al and inner lines unmarked, except by a few pale scales on veins ; a fine black streak from base along submedian fold, containing a deep yellow spot, and ending in a long elliptical
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claviform stigma ; orbicular obscure, oblifjiie with some fine yellow scales round it ringed witb black ; reDiform large, 8-shaped, its upper half iudicated only by yellow lines and ]iale dots edged by black ; its lower half with a round white spot ringed with black, followed by two white dots and witli a yellow curved line below ; outer line black, lunulate-dentate, the hinulo-i filled up with yellow; snbterminal line formed of irregular patches of yellow scales preceded by black wedge-shaped marks, the spots oil each side of vein 3 dotlike ; a row of yellow dots just before termen between the veins, and a row at base of fringe at the end of the veins.
lliiulwing : olive fuscous, the basal half in $ paler with dark veins ; a row of pale luiiular spots before termen ; fringe rufous ochreons.
Underside glossy olive grey in forewing, with the outer and snbterminal lines pale, the space between them darker ; fringe rufous ; hiudwing dull whitish, liroadly speckled with rufous olive along costa and termen, with a fuscous terminal band and outer line, not reaching inner margin.
Head, inside of palpi, base of shoulders, the jirothoracic and metatlioracic tufts, and the basal tufts on dorsum dull brick-r(Ml ; palpi externally, a bar across face, the ujiper half of shoulders and the patagia blai^k ; dorsum fuscous with the tufts black; anal tufts beneath ochreons and deep yellow.
Expanse of wings : 40 mm.
1 ? from Amboyna, February 1892 (Doherty) ; 1 ? from Fergusson Island, December isOo (Meek) : 2 ? ? from St. Aignan, November 1897 (Meek) ; 1 ¥ from Great Kei, March 1897 (Doherty) ; 2 ? ? from Kei, November 1895 (Kilhn); 2 ? ? from Geraldton, Cairns, Queensland (Meek); 1 c?, 1 ¥ (type) from Ninay Valley, Central Arfak Mts., Dutch New Guinea, December 1908 to January 19o9.
07. Prospalta subhicens spec. nov.
Forewing : greenish fuscous on a pinkish ochreons ground, which shows only along the course of the lines and slightly along inner margin ; lines double, blackish, containing an ochreons spot on costa ; inner line obliipie, angled outwards below vein 1 ; outer line bent outwards below costa, dentate-lunulate, incurved from 4 to 2 ; snbterminal formed of ochreous lunules, preceded by black wedge-shaped marks, and followed by narrower ones, each ending in a pale dot before termen ; median shade distinct, bent in middle, zigzag above inner margin ; (davifonn stigma obscure, narrow, with dilfuse dark edges ; orbicular short and broad, with its lateral edges first pale, then Idack ; reniform large, 8-shaped, ochreous tinged with dark, edged with black, and containing within it in outline another figure of 8 ; a terminal series of dark pale-tipped sjiots ; fringe brown with dark crenulate line near base.
Rhidwini/: whitish with broad fuscous terminal border and black lunulate terminal line ; the fringe whitish ; veins and cell-spot dark.
Underside shining whitish tinged with grey ; costa ochreous dusted with greenish grey ; a grey cell-spot, outer line, and broad submarginal hand, which on costa of forewing is black with a ])alc spot in middU'.
Head and thora.K greenish I'uscons ; the aliiliinicu grey ; pectus and legs grey speckled with jiale ; the tarsi blackish with the joints jiale.
Expanse of wings : 34 — 38 mm.
1 ¥ from Ganjam (Coll. Elwes) ; 1 S from Madras, March 1897 : 1 c? from Astrolabe Bay, German New Guinea, July (Wahnes); 1 S, Burdekin River, Queens- laud (Simsou) (type). The green tinge is very much more pronounced in the single ? than in any of the rJcJ.
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08. Frospalta pulverosa spec. nov. and ab. varieg'ata ab. nov.
ForewiiHj : ulive grey tliickly liiisterl witb darker mixed with some pale scales ; Rubbasal and iiiiier lines donblo, dark, filled in with ochreoiis; the inner line dentate inwards on tiie veins ; tiie onter Innnlate-dentate, much more sinuous than in the allied species, followed by an ochreons band, which is traversed by a double fuscous line; snbmarginal line macular, ochreons, j)receded by a dark shade; claviform stigrma olive, outlined with bhu-k : orbicular round, with grey centre in an ochreons ring outlined with black; reuiform snbqnadrate, with a dark line on discocellidar edged on both sides with whiti>h, inwardly black-edged, externally with a brown lunule followed by ])ale points.
llhalniiiij: olive fnscons in both se.xes, rather [laler basewards ; fringe tipjied with white.
Underside whitish, dusted towards costa with olive scales, the disc in the forewing grey ; the termen with an obscure snbmarginal clond ; hiudwing with a black border from apex to below middle, a grey cell-spot, and slight outer line at costa.
Head, thorax, and abdomen olive grey.
Expanse of wings : 30 mm.
1 i, Brisbane district, Queensland (type) ; 1 ?, Geraldton, Cairns, Queensland (Meek) ; 1 ?, Parkside, S. Australia ; 2 ? ? from the Barnard Collection, without exact locality, one of which is the t\'pe of variegata.
60. Frospalta pallidipennis sjiec. nov.
This species much resembles 1'. capens/s Gueu., but is smaller and paler, greyer without the red-brown tinge, bnt slightly brownish or reddish along the folds; the markings of forewing similar; distinguished by the hindwings, which are white with a dilfuse fuscous terminal border; the veins dark.
4 c?(^ from the Nilgiris ; 1 S from the Khasia Hills, Assam; 2 Si from Kulu ; 1 S from N.'W. India.
70. Perigea ochracea spec. nov.
Forewing : greenish ochreons along costa above median vein and terminally down to vein 3 ; the lines marked on costa by pairs of oblit|ue darker green strigae ; from median vein to vein 1 the ground colour is more fulvous with a tinge of olive; inner margin marked with dark grey or pale grey or whitish scales, and with a patch of white beyond outer line ; inner line double, obliqne and obscure, but strongly angled on vein 1 and oblii[uely straight towards base of inner margin ; the median shade olive at costa and darker from vein i) to 1, beyond the reuiform forming a darker blotch ; stigmata variable, sometimes hardly marked, in other cases distinct, the reuiform with two dark dots on outer side before the dark blotch ; anal angle region snlfnsed with olive fuscous or brown, darkening the fringe; the submarginal line and the dark ai}ical streak both slight.
Hindwing : reddish luteous or fuscous, with the terminal area from costa to vein 1 reddish fuscous or dark fuscous, its inner edge straight ; extreme termen pale with dark dots ; fringe pale with an irregular dark line through it.
Underside ochreons, in the forewing tinged with reddish, leaving inner margin whitish, the costal and terminal areas ochreous dusted with dark, a reddish outer
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liue and l)road shade be)'ond it ; hiiidwing paler ochreons, the costa speckled with reddish ; a ring spot, onter line, and shade beyond it reddish.
Head ochreons mixed with browQ ; shoulders dark brown, pale in front ; patagia fulvous ; thorax pale grey ; abdomen fulvous ochreons.
Expanse of wings : 36 mm.
2 d'cJ, 2 ??, from Biagi, Mambare River, British New Guiuea, 5000 ft., February to April 1900 (Meek).
The ? ? have the hindwings redder, the cJ c? more fuscons.
71. Perigea hilaris spec. nov.
Forewing : bright fulvons yellow ; the inner margin brownish, with a bluish white streak from near base to inner line at vein 1 ; inner liue double, brown, oblique ; claviform stigma fulvous with black spot at extremity ; orbicular round, with brown outliue ; reniform large, figure-of-8-shaped, containing some black dots and brown scales ; median shade forming a large brown cloud on costa above stigmata, then reappearing as a curved brown shade from vein 5 to vein 1, touching outer line, which is Innnlate-dentate, brown and double, with black and white teeth on the veins ; an oblique brown line from below apex to outer line at vein 5 ; snbterminal line pale, defined by a dark shade preceding it, the inside of which is tinged with bine-grey between veins 2 and 5 ; a whitish patch on iiiuer margin at end of onter line ; anal angle shaded with dark fuscons running out into the fringe, which is brown, preceded by a row of small dark dots before termen.
Hindwing : reddish suffused with fuscons.
Underside glossy reddish ; costal area of both wings ochreons dusted with fuscous ; a dark cell-spot, onter line, and shade beyond it.
Head dull fulvous; shoulders fulvous with upper half brown ; patagia brownish fulvous ; abdomen bright fulvous ; thorax and tuft on basal segment of dorsum pale grey ; palpi externally blackish.
Expanse of wings : 48 mm.
2 ? ? from Milne Bay, British New Guinea, December 1898 (Meek); 3 ? ? from the Upper Setekwa River, Snow Mts., Dutch New Guinea, 2000 to 3000 ft., August 1910 (Meek); 1 ¥ from near Oetakwa River, Snow Mts., Dutch New Guinea, 3500 ft., October to December 1910 (Meek) (type) ; 1 ? from Fergusson Island, September to December 1894 (Meek).
Allied to P.fuscostrigata Beth. -Baker, but much brighter and. paler ; ail the examples hitherto seen are ¥ ¥ .
72. Perigea olivacea spec. nov. Forewing : bone-colour suffused with olive grey, deeper towards inner margin and termen, and slightly brownish along the folds, but without any admixture of yellow or fulvous ; inner line marked only by white dashes on the veins edged with deep brown ; outer line the same, only visible below vein 6, the dashes lying on a red-brown shade which, above vein 6, runs obliquely to termen below apex ; stigmata hardly visible, except for some red-brown scales within them ; two red-brown spots beyond lower angle of cell ; submarginal liue marked by a rather olive-brown shade ; a row of small black dots before termen ; inner margin broadly streaked with red- brown, marked at two-thirds by a whitish blotch, where the outer line curves into it ; the anal angle darkened by a greyish black patch, running out into tlie fringe, which is darker also below apex. 3
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Himlirinq : olive fuscous, the fringe olive ochreous.
Underside of forewing grey tinged externally with reddish ; the costal and terminal areas pale ochreous sjieckled with grey; the fringe grey-brown ; hiudwing pale ochreous, darker terminally with dark dentate outer line and dilfnse submarginal shade.
Head and thorax olive ochreous ; upper part of face and palpi externally darker ; abdomen ochreous, the dorsum tinged with grey.
Ex])anse of wings : 40 mm.
3 ? ? from Sikkim, two taken by 0. Moller, dated May 1888, and the third by F. Moller.
73. Perigea turpis spec. nov.
Fomc/iif/ : pale dull greenish in costal half (becoming more ochreous when wasted), dull fulvous ochreous below middle, and fuscous brown along inner margin below vein 1, the whole dusted and suffused with grey; the inner line outwardly oblique and strongly angled, below vein 1 running obliquely inwards and filled up with white, which also runs diffusely along inner margin to a white blotch at end of outer line, which itself is filled up with white below vein 5 ; the stigmata of the usual shape, but ill-detined ; median shade forms a slight dark costal cloud, and a dark blotch beyond reniform, from which in most cases a dark band runs to inner margin before outer line ; terminal area more or less clouded with grey and fuscous, the outer half generally paler beyond the subtcrminal line, which is yellowish and regularly waved ; the oblique shade from apex not very strongly marked ; fringe olive, dark brown at anal angle.
Hindwing : blackish, tinged towards anal angle and inner margin with reddish fulvous.
Underside of forewing reddish ; the costal and terminal areas ochreous dusted with grey ; a dark outer line and diffuse fuscous-edged band ; hindwing ochreous dusted with rufous at custa, tinged with rufous below cell, with dark cell-spot, outer line, and submarginal shade.
Face and palpi ochreous ; shoulders ochreous mixed with dark brown ; patagia ochreous ; thorax pale grej' ; abdomen ochreous, the dorsum in cf tinged with dark fuscous ; pectus and legs ochreous ; tarsi fuscous with pale joints.
Expanse of wings : 48 mm.
1 cJ, 2 ? ? from Upper Setekwa River, Snow Mts., Dutch New Guinea, September I'JlU (Meek); 1 ¥, 2 cJcJ from near Oetakwa Uiver, Snow Mts., Dutch New Guinea, October — December 191U (^Meek) (type) ; 1 J',2 ¥ ? from Milne Bay, British New Guinea, November 1898 — January IsyU (Meek).
74. Perigea semirufa spec. nov. and ab. rubrisufiusa ab nov. Forewing : olive more or less suffused with reddish, the olive remaining strongest at base, along costa, and towards termen ; or the suffusion is darker green with some brownish ; the inner margin is marked with white at the end of the inner, outer, and submarginal lines ; the costa is sprinkled with white beyond the outer line ; median shade dark olive, strongly angled on median vein before outer line; the outer line generally has the teeth strongly marked with white ; subtermiiiiil line yellowish, preceded by a dark green or reildish shade ; stigmata very indistinct ; sometimes the wing is varied with white scales ; there is generally a rufous shade running along subiuedian fold ; no dark oblique streak from apex, nor dark shade at anal angle ; fringe olive.
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HindiriiHi : brig'ht red, with greenish terminal spots and fringe.
Underside ocbreons, tinged with bright red in cell of forewing ; the costa speckled with browu, the termen snffnsed with grey-browu ; a dark red outer line ; hindwing with costal area thickly red-speckled, tlie inner half jiale ocbreons ; a browu bent outer line in upper half.
Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous.
In the ab. rubrisujfusa the forewing is almost wholly reddish, only the costa and apex remaining olive ; the median shade is absent, and only the outer and subterminal lines are visible.
Expanse of wings : 40 mm.
2 cJc?, 2 ? ? from Upper Setekwa River, Snow Mts., Dutch New Guinea, August — September 1910 (Meek) ; 1 ? from near Oetakwa River, Snow Mts., Dutch New Guinea, October — ^December 1910 (Meek) (type) ; 1 ? from Biagi, Mainbare River, British New Guinea, October — December 1906 (Meek), type of ab. rubrisujfusa.
75. Acrapex melianoides spec. nov.
Forewing : dull greyish ochreous with fuscous suiFnsion ; the paler ground colour forms two broadening streaks along the cell and submedian interspace, in the former case running up to apex ; costal area diffusely fuscous in the interstices, the veins remaining jiale ; a dark olive-fuscous streak below cell from base widens outwardly beyond middle, becoming more diffuse, its upper edge running oblirjuely to just below apex ; a third fuscous sufl'nsion along inner margin ; in the terminal darker area the veins are slightly paler ; orbicular and reniform stigmata indicated only by blackish dots above and on median vein ; faint traces of a dark dentate outer line ; some dark terminal spots ; fringe grey with a darker line at middle.
Hindwing : dull dirty grey, darker at termen ; fringe pale with slight rufous tinge.
Underside dull ochreous grey, the folds of forewing and the whole hindwing rather paler.
Head, thorax, and abdomen all dull grey.
Expanse of wings : 40 mm.
4 ? ¥ taken by A. S. Meek on the Upper Setekwa River, Snow Mts., Dutch New Guinea, 2000 to 3000 ft., June— September 1910.
The pale streaks along the folds show traces of a flesh-coloured tinge, which is probably stronger when the insects are quite fresh. Sn[)erficially the insect resembles the European Meliana Jiammea. Its nearest ally seems to be A. hrunnea, Hmps., from S. Africa, which is also recorded from Ceylon, Borneo, New Guinea, and Australia.
76. Sesamia grisescens spec. nov.
Forewing : dull cinereous dusted witli dark atoms ; the two folds and the inner margin dull flesh-coloured ochreous, the streaks reaching subterminal line ; inner line marked only by a dark spot on submedian fold ; outer line luiiulate-dentate, very obscure, the tooth on submedian fold marked by a dark spot ; a blackish spot on discocellular and another beyond cell ; fringe concolorons.
Hindwing : dirty whitish, grey-tinged towards apex and termen ; fringe whitish.
Underside slightly glossy, uniform dull grey, the iiindwing somewhat paler.
Head, thorax, aud abdomen dull grey ; palpi externally darker.
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Expanse of wings : S 32 — 40 mm. ; ? 42 mm.
4 (?<J, 2 ? ? taken b)' A. S. Meek ou tbe Upper Setekwa River, Snow Mts., Dutch New Guinea, 2(i00 to 3(i00 ft., Augnst and September 191U. The 9 is larger than the c?, bnt the S d appear to vary considerably in point of size. Its nearest ally is S. calamistis, Hmps., from 8. Africa.
77. Chasmina gracilipalpis spec. nov.
Forcicing : shining white ; three black spots in basal half of costa at the usual place of subbasal, inner, and median lines ; a subterminal dark brown gamma-shaped costal blotch, obliquely placed, with two whitish dots on costa and paler centre ; a faint row of black striae before termen joined at anal angle by an equally faint yellowish shade from vein 2 ; fringe white ; outer and terminal lines absent.
Hindwing : white ; the fringe white.
Underside of both wings white ; hindwing with small dark dots on termen beyond veins 4, .5, 6.
Head, thorax, and abdomen shining white ; top of face with pale brown bar ; terminal segment of palpi pale brown ; tibiae and tarsi spotted as in rejecta F.
Expause of wings : 30 mm.
1 ? from Darjiling, Jnue 1886 (H. J. Elwes).
Distinguished from the other species by the more slender and curved palpi, the terminal segment of which is twice as long as in rejechi and acute ; the shape of the subterminal costal blotch is also characteristic.
78. Dadica albanalis spec. nov.
Forewing : dark fuscous, rather greyish fuscous in the <? ; lines and markings almost jjrecisely the same as in D. lineosa Moore, but the distance between the inner and outer lines less.
Hindwing : of ? dull pale grey, only slightly paler than in lineosa; of cj much paler, the contrast being greater in that the hindwing of lineosa is blackish fuscous ; the termen of hindwing is rounded in both sexes, whereas in lineosa 6 the termen is straight from tornus to vein .5, then rounded.
Underside pale grey thickly speckled with coarse fuscous scales ; the outer lines and cell-spots thick and dark ; in the c? the space between the rough scaled costal area and the fringed area of inner margin is whitish, uuspeckled, interrujitiug the outer line.
Head, thorax, aud abdomen dark fuscous ; anal tuft of the 6 white.
Expanse of wings : 34 mm.
1 c?, 1 ? from Ceylon (type) ; 1 ? from the Khasias appears to be the same species, but is paler; and the outer line of forewing is almost straight.
The species agrees with lineosa in having veins 3 and 4 ot hindwing from cell ; whereas in bipuncta Snell (= stellata Moore) these veins are strongly stalked.
Subfamily ERASTRIANAE. 79. Leptosia griseimargo spec. nov. Fon'tcing : pale sandy rufous, except the narrow terminal area beyond sub- terminal line, which is grey, well defined by the crenulate subterminal line ; lines somewhat deeper rufous ; the costal streaks rufous ; inner-marginal area beyond middle diffusely tinged with grey.
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Hindiring : quite pale grey, especially the nnmarked areas in costal half of wing and along snbmedian fold.
Underside wholly pale grey.
Head, tiiorax, and abdomen pale rufous ; the middle segments of dorsum darker.
Expanse of wings : 17 mm.
1 ¥ from Algeria.
80. Arisada mollis spec. nov.
Forewing : pale yellowish ochreous ; the costal streak whitish ochreous ; crossed by five inwardly obliijne dull reddish bands ; the two antemedian narrow, wavy ; the median thicker, touching the cell-sjiot, which is large and ronnd, dark grey with a paler centre ; of the two postmediau the outer is strongly zigzag and angled outwards just below middle ; terminal area pale grey, with Innulate inner edge, which is a little darker and projects inwards between veins 5 and 0 ; a row of black terminal spots; fringe yellowish grey.
IJiiidicimj : with a straight pale yellow median line, the basal area dark grey towards the line and ochreous at base ; terminal area grey, as in forewing, preceded by a curved and waved grey band ; a slight dark cell-spot.
Underside pale ochreous, washed in the forewing, except along inner margin, with dull greyish brown, with three darker bands, median, outer, and submarginal ; hindwing with grey cell-spot, straight median grey belt and curved snbmarginal band.
Head, collar, and forelegs black-brown; thorax and base of dorsum pale ochreous ; rest of dorsum yellower and greyer, showing the pale line of hindwings before the anal segment ; pectus, legs, and venter ochreous.
Expanse of wings : 30 mm.
1 c? from Penang, Malay Peninsula, April 1898 (Curtis).
81. Bostrodes sagittaria spec. nov.
c?. Forewing : red-brown speckled with black ; costal streak snow-white, the extreme edge remaining red ; inner line whitish, outwardly dark-edged, inwardly oblique and slightly curved ; outer line snow-white, slender, inwardly oblique and straight ; subterminal line waved, whitish, externally dark-edged ; two blackish dots on discocellular one at each end, outwardly tipped with white ; from between them a slender straight white streak runs between veins 5 and 6 to termen ; black terminal spots ; fringe reddish.
Hindwhig : with the outer line curved, broader, snow-white ; the subterminal line distinctly angled outwards between veins 5 and 6 ; a white line from outer line to termen through the angle ; cell-spot black.
? darker red-brown ; the costal streak cream , white ; the transverse lines greyish yellow ; the black dot at lower end of cell followed by a short oblique pure white dash ; no white streak to termen between 5 and 6 on either wing.
Underside shining whitish, greyer in forewing, especially in ?.
Head, palpi, forelegs, and shoulders red-brown ; base of patagia white, con- necting the costal streaks ; rest of thorax and dorsum red-brown.
Expanse of wings : c?(? 30—32 mm. ; ? ? 28—30 mm.
2 c?(?, 3 ? ? from the Khasia Hills, Assam, the S <S taken in April 1896 and 1897, the ? ¥ in February and May 1896.
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82. Bostrodes rufisecta spec nov.
Foreiriiiq : dec]) red-brown, darker in the lisisal area bounded li}- the outer line ; a snow-white costal streak witli the extreme edge red; outer line from a red spot in rostal streak at two-thirds, bent out below costa, then obliquely sinuate inwards to before middle of inner margin, curved between veins ; snbterminal line shown by a row of dark spots between the veins ; at the lower end of cell a round pure white black-ringed dot ; a row of large black lunules along termen ; fringe red-brown.
llimhrinq : with the base browner ; a straight, snow-white, unevenly crenulate line just beyond the middle on a band of bright brick-red ; the area beyond red- brown, with two blackish waved bands.
Underside dull grey-white in hiudwiug, suffused with dull brown in the fore- wing ; the hindwing showing a dark grey pale-edged line.
Head, pal|)i, forelegs, tegulae, thorax and dorsum deep red-brown ; base of patagia snow white connecting the costal streaks ; venter grey-white, like underside of hindwings.
Expanse of wings : S 32 mm. ; ? 40 mm.
1 c?, 1 ?, from the Khasia Hills, Assam ; the S taken in October 1895, the ? in April 1896.
83. Micardia flaviplaga spec. nov.
Forewing : a mixture of purjdish and olive, towards base and along cell diffusely varied with fulvous scales, the inner margin between the lines pale yellow tinged with fulvous; inner line oblique from inner margin near base to submedian fold; the outer from costa before apex is ontcurved to vein 6, whitish with a dark line at middle, then incurved to submedian fold, fine and obscure, thence oblique parallel to inner line to inner margin, broad and snow-white ; a small black spot on disco- cellular ; terminal area darker olive with a white snbterminal line, brightest at costa, and towards anal angle followed by fulvous scaling.
Hindwing : brownish fuscous.
Head, pectus, and prothorax pale lilac grey ; patagia yellowish, dorsum dark fuscous.
Expanse of wings : 26 mm.
1 (? labelled simply Japan. The specimen is slightly worn, and the course of the markings not in all places distinct ; it differs from typical Micardia in having much longer ciliations to the antennae.
Subfamily ACONTIANAE.
84. Aiteta angustipennis spec. nov.
Like trigoniphora Hmps., but smaller, and with much narrower forewings, the lobe of inner margin nearer the middle ; ground colour more uniformly grey ; the green triangle edged with pinkish ; fringe of hindwing dark fuscous like the wing.
Underside with the pink areas duller, diffused with grey.
1 ? from Engano, September 1890 (W. Doherty).
85. Aiteta careoides spec. nov. and ab. nigrimacula ab. nov.
Forewing : fawn-colour, speckled and tinged with brown ; inner and outer lines brown, conversely pale-edged ; the inner oblique and slightly curved, the outer bent
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below costa, then iuwardly oblique, parallel to termeii ; this Hue is precedeil by a fuscous shade at costa, and the pale line edging it is itself followed by a dark line ; subtenuinal line represented by a row of dark spots ; a brown clond before termeu at middle; fringe dark brown; cell-.^iiot brown, preceded by a brown dot in cell.
Hindwing : Inteons in basal half and along inner margin, the terminal area dull orange, like the fringe.
Underside of forewing deep lirick-red ; the inner margin whitish ; the costal streak and apex dnll pink, sjieckled with dark ; hindwing ochreons, the costa and apex reddish speckled with brown : fringe red, in the forewing with the base dark brown.
Head, shonlders, and palpi externally brownish fnlvous ; thorax and abdomen ochreous ; venter red.
Expanse of wings : 30 mm.
A d (type) and ¥ from Penang, 1896 (Curtis) ; 2 ? ? from Yonboi, Hainan, Jnne 1904.
In the ? from Penang and one ? from Hainan the inner line of forewing is preceded on inner margin by a round velvety black spot = ab. nigrimacula ab. nov.
86. Aiteta famata spec, nov, and subsp. griseomixta subsp. nov.
Forewing: like that of elaina iSwinh. in markings, but differs in the fawn- coloured ground being almost obscnred by dense olive-fuscous irroratiou, showing chiefly, as also in elaina, in a patch before subterminal line on costa ; the scales are arranged in such a manner that they appear shagreened wlien viewed from the base outwardly ; the fringe has the inner half deep pink, the onter white.
Hindwing : suffused with fuscous, paler below median, especially in the S, where the fuscous is blacker and the veins more strongly marked ; fringe as in forewing.
Underside of forewing in both sexes blackish, with the costa narrowly and the apex and termen broadly dull {)ink ; of hindwing fuscous, broadly dull pink along costa, with the veins in ? pink.
Head and thorax dark purplish brown ; the dorsum blacker than in elaina.
Expanse of wings : 4.5 mm.
3 c?(? from Ninay Valley, Central Arfak Mts., Dutch New Guinea, November to January 1909 (type) ; 1 ¥ from Setekwa River, Snow Mts., Dutch New Guinea, October to December 1910 (Meek) ; 1 ? from Angabnnga River, British New Guinea, November 1904 to January 190.5 (Meek).
The form occurring in the Solomon Islands — subsp. griseomixta nov., as represented by a single, somewhat worn ? from Tulagi — is much greyer, the fawn-colour of the upperside and the pink of the underside being all but obsolete.
87. Aiteta nifula spec. nov.
Forewing : rufous o?.hreous mixed with grey : the basal patch, central area, and termen tinged with fnlvous ; basal patch edged by a dark curved line, not reaching below submedian fold ; inner and outer lines blackish, conversely edged with white, coalescing on inner margin, the fulvous area enclosed containing some irregular dark patches and a black cell-spot, followed on costa by a grey
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patch across which the veins are whitish ; snbmarginal line whitish at costa, preceded by dark spots between veins ; the terminal area greyish fnlvous.
Hindwing : brownish fuscons.
Underside of forewing dull pink tinged with grey ; a dark blotch at end of cell ; hindwing whitish, Iwith costa, termen, and onter line greyish pink ; a large dark grey cell-spot.
Head and thorax rnfoiis ochreous ; dorsum dark grey with paler rings.
Expanse of wings : 30 mm.
1 ? from Cherrapnoji, Assam, September 1893.
88. Carea nebulifera sfjec. nov.
Forewing : fawn-brown with a violet tinge, thickly speckled with black ; viewed from the base outwards lustrous violet grey ; lines brown, straight and parallel, conversely pale-edged, each followed by an olive tawny shade ; cell-spot black, above a small dark cloud ; faint traces of a dark submarginal line ; termen, apex, and fringe pale brown ; apex slightly produced, termen somewhat sinuous.
Hindwing: dull orange, the inner margin olive grey.
Underside olive ochreous along costa of forewing, whitish along inner margin, reddish orange between : hindwing ochreous, the costal and terminal areas reddish speckled with olive brown.
Head and shoulders pale rufous ; thorax and patagia darker, more brownish ; dorsum dark olive fuscous ; venter and legs ochreous tinged with rufous.
Expanse of wings : 36 mm.
1 S from the Khasia Hills, Assam.
89. Carea trilineata spec. nov.
Forewing : dull brownish fnlvous speckled with black ; lines blackish ; inner and outer nearly vertical on each side of the black cell-spot, the outer slightly bent below costa ; submarginal line thicker, dentate, somewhat interrupted between 4 and 6; a diffuse dark cloud oblique from bottom of inner line to end of cell ; fringe dark brown, marked with two white lunules at anal angle ; in the ? with short white dashes at ends of veins.
Hindwing : orange reddish, paler towards base and costa, olive grey along inner margin.
Underside of forewing fawn-colour along costa, glossy bone-colour along inner margin, orange red between ; termen fuscous-speckled mixed with white scales at apex ; fringe dark brown ; hindwing yellow ochreous, tinged with reddish along costa and termen with darker speckling ; an angulated red cell-spot.
Head and thorax brownish fnlvous ; dorsum olive fuscons ; venter and legs rufous ochreous ; tarsi brown with pale joints ; palpi externally brown.
Expanse of wings : 38 — 41 mm.
1 S from the Khasias, July 1896 (type) ; 1 ? Poeh Mts., Sarawak, Borneo, July 1892 (Everett) ; 1 ? from Penang.
90. Carea diluta spec. nov.
Closely resembling C. trilineata Warr., but larger ; the forewing more fnlvous, and clouded with dark shades.
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Hindioing : paler, suffused all over with pale orange, the inner margin hardly grey.
Underside of both wings pale ochreous, tinged with rnfous along costa and termen, without dark speckling or white scales at apex of forewiug ; the disc of forewing not orange red.
Thorax and patagia brighter fulvous.
Expanse of wings : 44 mm.
1 3 from Rukit Putus, Selangor, 30U0 ft., May 1896 (Curtis) (type); 2 (?(? from Gnnong Ijau, 20U0— 3000 ft., March 1898 (Butler).
91. Carea venusta spec. nov.
Forewing : rich deep vinous fulvous, the Hues aud shadings purplish black ; the base, costa, inner margin, and termen beyond subterminal line all suffused with dark; inner and outer lines thick, vertically waved; a large subqnadrate blotch at end of cell, connected with an oblique blotch from inner margin ; fringe purplish black.
Hindwing : pure white : the termen from apex to vein 2 dusted with dull pink ; the veins pale pink.
Underside of forewing purple red in costal half, pale ochreons below middle ; the costal streak and termen, especially towards apex, dusted with white scales ; hindwing white, dusted with purple scales on costal half and termen above middle.
Face, vertex, and shoulders bright fulvous red, the last black-edged ; thorax and patagia dark purple ; dorsum olive fuscous, purplish towards anus, the tufts of which are yellow ochreous ; venter and legs pale purplish and white ; tarsi purple black and snow-white ; palj)i dark purple pepi)ered with white.
Expanse of wings : 40 mm.
1 S from the Taiping Hills, Malay Peninsula, August 1904 (F. M. S.).
92. Carea balteata spec. nov.
Forewing : rufous ochreous with a few brown speckles ; crossed by a broad, dark brown median fascia, bounded by the slightly darker brown inner and outer lines, both excnrved below middle ; subterminal line brown, forming a thick crescent at costa, sharply angled outwards on vein 6, then slightly marked to anal angle; cell-spot black, preceded by a small fulvous mark ; a fulvous tinge along submedian fold across the band ; fringe chequered dark and light, beyond a fine dark terminal line.
Hindwing : yellowish orange.
Underside ochreons : costa and termen of both wiugs speckled with reddish ; disc of forewing orange red, cell-spot of hindwing red.
Head and thorax rnfous ochreons ; dorsum grey ; venter and legs rufous.
Expanse of wings : 38 mm.
1 ? from Rukit Putus, Selangor, Malay Peninsula, 3000 ft.. May 1896 (Curtis).
93. Carea carneplagiata spec nov.
Forewing ; flesh-coloured ochreous suffused with deep purplish brown, the pale ground colour shown only in an irregular oval patch from costa to vein 1, bounded externally by the waved double outer line, and containing some brown
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flecks and the black cell-spot ; space between outer and siibterminal lines deeper flesh-colonr above vein 3 and interrupted beyond cell; tbe veins finely flesh-colour towards tcrmen ; fringe deep red or iiur|)lish.
Himlwing : whitish at base, olive grey along inner margin, the termen bright rosy pink.
Underside of forewing pink, along inner margin glossy white ; the costa pale fawn-colour ; apex with a dark purplish brown cloud sprinkled with white scales ; fringe deep red ; hindwing ochreons, dusted with rufous along costa; the teriuen from apex to vein 2 tinged with purple brown ; fringe jiink.
Head, shoulders, patagia, and thorax deep j)ur[)le flecked with fnlvous ; dorsum grey with whitish segmental rings ; venter and pectus pure white, legs white flecked with purplish.
Expanse of wings : 30 mm.
2 ? ? from Penang, 1896, and May 1897 (Curtis).
94. Carea albimargo spec. uov.
Forewing : rich dee]) fnlvous, more or less obscured by olive-fiiscous suffusion ; costal streak snow-white almost to apex; a subcostal streak, the cell before cell-spot, a streak along submedian fold from near base, the space immediately preceding outer line below middle, and the veins before termen are all fnlvous; the cell-spot lies in a broad dark shade running externally towards apex and internally towards bottom of inner line ; the dark waved outer line, which is plain, forms a strong projection outwards between veins 3 and 4 ; terminal intervals between veins olive fuscous, on which the subterminal line is marked by ])atches of white scales edged with black, the terminal spots being similar, but smaller : fringe with basal half fnlvous mottled with olive fuscous, the tips silvery white.
Hind wing : glossy olive-grey, the veins towards termen and fringe dull pink ; basal area and inner margin somewhat paler.
Underside of forewing fuscous and grey ; costa reddish ; veins towards termen reddish ; a broad dark fuscous snbmarginal shade beyond which the termen is speckled grey and black ; an ochreons ])atch at end of cell ; fringe red in basal half, white in apical ; hindwing whitish, with dark cell-lunule ; the veins [link ; costa and termen broadly speckled with purple; fringe as in forewing.
Head, shoulders, and patagia purplish brown ; the thorax reddish fulvous ; dorsum glossy olive-grey ; venter whitish ; fore and mid legs purplish fawn- colour ; the first segment of foretarsus broadly white externally.
Expanse of wings : 40 mm.
1 ? from Kiiia Balu, N. Borneo (Everett).
95. Carea vulpina spec. nov.
Resembles C. albimargo in markings, but smaller in point of size.
Foreu'ing : with the ground colour olive rufous, mucli less suffused with grey, which is confined to tlie basal and terminal areas and the clond around and below cell-spot ; inner and outer lines olive ; the inner oblique and irregularly waved ; the outer formed of lunules between the veins, indented on the folds and excnrved between, not forming so strong a projection between veins 3 and 4 ; veins towards termen more finely rnfous, the dark intervals broader ; subterminal line formed of wedge-shaped dark spots edged with white scales ; fringe rnfous ; costal streak more narrowly white.
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Hiiulwiny : olive fuscous, with veias towards termen and the fringe dull pink.
Underside of forewing rufous, diffusely fuscous in and beyond cell; the intervals dusted with fuscous ; some white scales before apex ; fringe rufous ; hindwiug whitish speckled with fuscous and rufous along costa and broadly along termen ; the veins and fringe rufous.
Head and thorax bright rufous ; dorsum glossy grey, the aual tip rufous • venter whitisli ; first segment of foretarsus broadly white.
Expanse of wings : 37 mm.
1 ? from the Poeh Mts., Sarawak, Borneo, July 1892 (Everett).
96. Carea hepatica sjiec. nov.
Forewing : dull red-brown with an olive tinge ; the lines and shadings purplish ; the basal and terminal areas purplish ; the lines dark brown, oblique and slightly waved ; the outer projecting strongly below middle, as in vulpina and albimargo, and followed by another dark line ; subterminal line formed of darker spots between veins, outwardly edged by spots of bluish grey ; cell-spot diffuse, dark, on an obliquely transverse deeper shade ; fringe concolorous.
Hindwing : dull orange red terminally, the inner margin olive grey.
Underside of forewing dull reddish, darker terminally ; hindwing ochreons, tinged witii reddish along costa and termen.
Head and thorax like forewings ; dorsum olive grey ; venter and pectus white.
Expanse of wings : 36 mm.
One ? from Ramboekers, Tondano (Weigall).
This species is closely allied to C. vulpina and C. albimargo Warr.
97. Carea mediogrisea spec. nov.
Forewing: dull red-brown, speckled with dark brown; inner and outer lines dark brown, tbick, conversely concave, farther apart on inner margin than on costa, enclosing a wide oval space of lilac grey with the black cell-dot in middle; the costa between and on each side of the lines marked with whitish grey scales; subterminal line preceded on costa by a brown blotch, interrupted below 6, and cloudy to anal angle ; a pale grey blotch at apex ; fringe brown with large white spots at the ends of the veins.
Hindwing : pale orange red, along costa whitish.
Underside ochreous, in the forewing suffused, in the hindwing speckled with rufous ; some dark grey mixed with white scales at apex of forewing ; fringe of forewing deej) brown with round white spots.
Head and thorax fulvous brown ; dorsum dark grey ; venter and legs rufous ochreous.
Expanse of wings : -44 mm.
I 6 from Mt. Mulu, N. Borneo, 1000—4000 ft. (Hose).
98. Carea antennata sjicc. nov.
Forewing : rufous brown, rather darker in the ¥ ; lines ferruginous, oblique and parallel, the inner slightly, the outer more strongly sinuous ; subterminal line marked by chocolate brown spots between the veins, outwardly edged with pale scales ; some pale scales also at termen between the veins which are rufous ; fringe
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dark brown in basal half, white mottled with pink in apical ; cell-spot obscure, placed on a diffuse oblicine dark shade ; onter line often followed b)- a dark shade ; owing to the dark brown sntfasion all the markings are more obscure in the 5 .
Hindicinq : olive grey at base, terminally reddish, brighter in S than ?.
Underside of forewing deep rufous, sprinkled with white along costa; some brown scales mixed with white before apex ; fringe dark brown ti{)ped with red ; hindwing ochreons thickly irrorated with rufous, mixed along costa with brown.
Head, thorax, and dorsum dark red-brown, paler in 6 ; venter, pectus, and legs rufous ; tarsi white flecked with purple.
Expanse of wings : 40 mm.
2 (?£?, 2 ? ? from Kina Balu, N. Borneo.
The ciliations of the antennae of the i are longer than usual in the genns.
99. Carea fulvescens spec. nov.
Forewing: deep fulvous red, more or less entirely obscured by deep purplish suffusion ; a small patch near base of inner margin, a patch in cell, and the space before and beyond the praesnbmarginal shade alone remaining fulvous ; costal edge fulvous red ; lines very indistinct; the inner obliijue, the outer nearly vertical, both slightly waved ; fringe purplish.
Hindwing : whitish along costa, olive grey on inner margin, terminally rather bright orange red.
Underside of forewing rufous, deeper in cell ; some brown scales along costa towards apex ; fringe dark purplish brown marked with white at tornns ; hindwing ochreons tinged with rufous along costa and termen with some brown scaling.
Head and thorax purplish brown ; dorsum olive grey ; venter ochreons ; legs tinged with rufous.
Expanse of wings : 30 mm.
1 i from Mt. Gede, West Java, 4000 ft., 1898 (Fruhstorfer) ; 2 ? ? from Little Kei Island (H. Kiihn), both somewhat worn, appear to belong here; in the forewing they are more suffused with deep purple, and the hindwing is much deeper red.
100. Carea papuensis spec. nov.
Forewing : dull red-brown irrorated with black, with a bronzy purplish flush ; inner and outer lines chocolate brown, oblique and parallel, enclosing the black cell-spot, below which a diffuse dark shade runs obliquely from bottom of inner line to lower end of cell ; basal area and space between outer and snbterminal lines darker, especially along a shade immediately preceding the latter line; fringe bronzy purplish, with a white spot at anal angle.
Hindwing : deep red ; the inner margin olive fuscous.
Underside of both wings deep brick-red; the inner margin of forewing pale; apex of both wings sprinkled with purplish scales ; fringe of forewing deep purple; of hindwing red mottled with purple towards apex.
Head, thorax, shoulders, and patagia olive brown ; dorsum olive grey ; the anus red; venter, pectus, and legs red; forelegs with first tarsal segment broadly white externally.
Expanse of wings : c? 30 mm. ; ? 34 mm.
1 cJ, 1 ? from Biagi, Mambare River, British New (iuinea, oOOO ft., April 1906 (A. S. Meek).
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Genns Autanthema gen. nov.
Tongue present ; frons smooth, with a slight tni't above, thinly scaled below; palpi upturned, the second segment broadly scaled in front, the third pointed ; antennae of <S filiform, simple, in both sexes nearly as long as forewing ; thorax smoothly scaled ; the metathorax with a flattened tuft ; two small tufts on basal segments of dorsum ; pectus and femora woolly ; forewing of equal width through- out ; the costa curved, apex rounded, termen curved ; veins 7, 8, 9 quite shortly stalked; hindwing with veins 3, 4 stalked; the coloration in the sexes different. Type : ^1. dicersicolor spec. nov.
101. Autanthema diversicolor spec. nov.
(?. Forewing . bright olive green in basal half, crossed by a wavy white line near base, and limited by a white line running from costa before middle to inner margin before anal angle, angled outwards at ujjper end of cell, then sinuate, vertical below 2 ; beyond this line bright blue, becoming deep blue mixed with black before the white subterminal line, which forms a white blotch at anal angle running out into the fringe, and is followed by a blue-black spot on costa and a blue-black band below vein 6, the apex and apical fringe being white ; some black terminal lunules between veins 2 and 6 ; fringe grey from 6 to 2, white above and below.
Hindwing : black ; the fringe grey, paler in apical half.
Head, shoulders, patagia, and dorsal tufts on basal segments olive green ; thorax green and white ; abdomen orange.
Underside of both wings black with the apical fringes white.
? . Forewing : with a deep green patch at base of costa, followed by an oblique baud of pale fawn-colour speckled with green, edged by the white inner line, which is angled outwards on subcostal vein, indented on median, then excurved ; outer line as in the c?, but bent inwards below vein 2 to beyond middle of inner margin ; the area between the lines deep green ; the area beyond outer line bright brick-red, edged by the diffuse white subterminal line, which is less distinct than in the cJ, and is followed by a red spot at costa and reddish baud from 0 to 2, where there are black terminal lunules ; fringe red in middle, white at each end.
Hindwing : black ; the fringe brick-red, black below vein 2.
Head pale green ; shoulders and patagia dull ferruginous ; thorax white tipped with ferruginous orange ; the basal tufts of dorsum orange ; abdomen green overlaid with yellow.
Underside of both wings black in basal half, dull red in outer.
Expanse of wings : S 28 mm. ; ¥ 32 mm.
1 c?, 3 ? ? from Upper Setekwa River, Snow Mts., Dutch New Guinea (Meek).
Genus Tridentifrons gen. nov.
Tongne absent ; frons produced into a conical process ending in front in a trifid beak ; the frons itself and the vertex above rough-haired ; palpi porrect, the second segment densely rough-haired, the third short, rounded, depressed ; antennae of cJ (?), of ? lamellate, with short fine bristles ; abdomen elongate ; forewing elongate triangular, the costa slightly arched at base, the apex prominent, termen obliquely curved, hardly crennlate ; neuratiou normal. Type : T. insuLaris spec. nov.
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ln2. Tridentifi-ons insularis spec. nov.
Foreidng : greyish ochreutis, tinged in and below cell and along ternien with brownish fuscous ; a black streak from base below cell ; the lines very indistinct ; the inner excnrvod above and below mediau vein, on which and on vein 1 it is inwardly dentate ; outer line lunulate-dentate, outcurvcd above round cell ; orbicular stigma small, round, dark at centre with a pale ring ; reniform limited internally by a jiale Innnle followed by a dark one and externally undefined ; subterminal line pale, but ill-defined, precedeU by a row of curved blackish wedge-shaped marks between veins 2 and 7 ; median vein and veins towards termeu pale grey ; the terminal dark shade obliquely limited above by a pale streak from apex ; a row of terminal black Innules ; fringe with dark brown traversing line.
Ilin<lirin<j : pale grey, darker along termen ; fringe pale with base yellow and the tips white beyond a dark dividing line.
Underside greyish ochreons, greyer in forewing ; terminal liinules and fringe as above ; hindwing ochreous with round dark cell-sjiot and obscure curved outer line.
Head, shoulders, and patagia brownish : thorax aud abdomen shining grey like Lindwings.
Expanse of wings : ? , 44 mm.
2 ? ? from Palabuan, Java.
II '3. Beara simplex spec. nov.
Forewing: dull lilac grey, slightly dusted with olive rufous; the lines very obscure, placed as in nubiferella Wlk. ; the shade from anal angle present beyond outer line ; the subterminal liue indented only on vein 5 ; the terminal dots minute ; fringe grey with a rufous flush.
Hindwing: greyish white, washed with olive rufous in outer half; the fringe rufous grey.
Underside whitish tinged with grey in forewing, with the interior dull rufous ; hindwiug dusted with rufous at apex.
Head and thorax olive grey ; the abdomen rufous grey ; pectus, venter, and legs whitish.
Expanse of wings : 26 mm.
1 ? from Adonara, November 1891 (\V. Doherty).
The termen of forewing is quite simple, neither indented below apex, nor gibbous below middle ; veins 3, 4 of hindwing stalked.
104. Ariola triangulifera spec. nov.
This species difi'ers from A. coelistgiia Wlk., the type of the genus, in the wings being shorter aud broader ; the dark green costal area, instead of being a shallow curve, is triangular in shape, the apex of the triangle lying on submedian fold ; the inner edge starting from costa near base instead of from the base of wing itself; the white limiting patches interrupted at the apex.
New Georgia (type) aud Gnadalcanar, Solomon Islands ; Milne Bay, New Guinea ; Amboina.
105. Ariola pallidithorax spec. nov.
Like coelinigna Wlk., but smaller ; the thorax and patagia white instead of greenish ; the white patch at base of inner margin, as well as the smaller violet
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patch on it, broader. In the hindwiug veins 3, 4 are on a longer stalk, and 5 is stalked with them.
3 (J (J from Tambora.
The two species of Ariola above described belong to a different section of the genus from coelisiqna Wlk., the S of which possesses a small gland in the anal angle of hindwing.
lo6. Tathothripa abbreviata spec. nov.
Forewing : differs from T. continua Wlk. $ {= de/fexu ^Vlk. ? ) in the white area of the inner margin being cut short jnst beyond the indentation, which in this species is just beyond and not before middle of wing, almost the anal third being dark ; the dark costal portion of wing is obscurer, the cross-lines not being followed and emphasised by paler scaling ; both wings are darker, deeper fnscons, l)oth above and below ; and the abdomen is blackish grey.
1 S, the same size as continua, from the Upper Setekwa River, Snow Mts., Dutch New Guinea, 2UU0— 3000 ft., September 1910 (A. S. Meek).
The species is remarkable on account of the exaggerated length of the abdomen.
107. Tathothripa nigricristata spec. nov. and ab. inversa ab. nov.
Forewing : with the white inner-marginal area, as in abbreoiata Warr., interrupted beyond the indentation, which, as in continua, is not beyond the middle of wing, but the curved u[)per edges of the two patclies towards anal angle remain grey, and the dark cross-lines are very clearly followed by pale grey spaces ; the hindwiug is black with pale fringe ; the white tuft on metatborax is tipped with black scales ; the abdomen, which in this form is not particularly elongate, is dull blackish with yellowish anal tuft ; in all tlie specimens of continua Wlk. that I have seen, those with the whole inner margiu white are SS, and those with the curved basal portion only white are 2 ? ; iu one of three specimens of tiie present species — ab. inversa ab. nov. — this distinction does not hold good, as, though an undoubted S, it shows only the white basal area of the ?.
All three examples are from the Ninay Valley, Central Arfak Mts., Dutch New Guinea.
108. Tympanistes alternata spec. nov.
Forewing : pale greyish ochreous with a greenish tinge ; the lines purplish grey, wavy, double ; the arms far apart ; inner line oblicpie outwards to median vein, then inwards ; the space between them filled in with olive brown tinged with reddish ; a reddish blotch at base of inner margin, with a black dot above on median vein ; outer line excurved from subcostal vein to vein 2, the space between the arms tilled in with olive brown or reddish ; subterminal line very strongly waved, projecting outwards between veins (J, 7 and 3, 4, also followed by a less distinct grey arm ; terminal spots round and black ; fringe pale ochreous ; the median area between the two fasciae is generally filled up with reddish fuscous below submedian fold.
Hindwing : deep briclc-red, paler along costa ; fringe red.
The ? is much paler in both wings.
Underside of cT dull red, of the ? more ochreous red.
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Head and thorax concolorons with the pale gronnd colour of forewing ; dorsum deep red in <J, ochreoiis tiii{,axl with red in ?. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 2 (?c?, 1 ? from the Khasia Hills, Assam.
101). Maceda rotundimacula spec. nov.
Forewing: pale grey tinged with olive and much snflfnsed with dull rufous; the apical area blackish fuscous, its inner edge diffuse, curved from just beyond middle of costa to above tornus ; at the apex a round whitish spot ; before the dark apical area the ground colour is grey without any rufous mixture ; the upper part of it is formed by the broad black outer line, which below vein 5 becomes vertically dentate and olive rufons ; snbbasal line black, swollen on inner margin ; inner line interrupted and obscure, apparently shaped as in rufescens Beth. -Baker, marked by a dark spot on costa and inner margin, and indented on submedian fold; cell-spot black.
Hindicing : black along termen and inner margin, smoky fuscons towards base, with tlio veins black and a whitish patch between the bases of veins 2 to 5 ; the fringe with a white patch beyond submedian fold.
Underside fuscous with the apex brown ; the foveal space in cell small and inconspicuous ; hiudwing white ; the terminal border broad and blackish, not reaching above vein 6, its inner edge angled inwards on submedian fold, its outer with a white terminal patch on it ; cell-spot black ; fringe white.
Head, palpi, and tegulae dark fuscous ; thorax and patagia rufous, like basal area of forewing ; dorsum fuscous ; the anal tuft of cJ ochreous yellow ; venter and pectus dull white.
Expanse of wings : 30 mm.
2 cJJ from the Augabunga Kiver, British New Guinea (type), and Mackay, Queensland.
110. Maceda ignefumosa spec. nov.
ForewiiKj : olive cinereous ; a fiery red patch at base of costa traversed by the black snbbasal liue, and ending just below median vein in two bright yellowish white spots, one on either side of the liue ; inner line blackish, thick and difi'use from costa to median vein, on which it is indented, again indented on vein 1 and outcurved above and below it ; at costa it is preceded by a dark cloud of black and red intermixed; cell-spot narrow, black ; outer line black, shaped much as in inansueta Wlk. ; subterminal line marked only by the edge of the dark shade preceding it, which at costa is mixed with reddish ; terminal shade slightly darker ; fringe dull j)urple, with minute wiiite dots at base.
Hintliviiiy : dull smoky purplish grey, with the veins blackish and the terminal border broadly black ; a uarrow whitish streak at base of submedian fold ; fringe fuscous from apex to vein 4, fuscons and white below, wholly white and broader beyond veins 3 aud 4.
Underside of forewing fuscous, the inner margin narrowly white, the costa and apex reddish brown ; hiudwing bluish white with a black cell-spot ; terminal border broadly black ; fringe black above vein 3, white below.
Head and palpi black ; thorax olive cinereous ; base of tegulae with a fiery orange belt ; abdomen olive brown tinged with fuscons ; pectus, venter, and
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inside of legs white ; legs black mixed with white, the tarsi black with the joints white.
Expanse of wings : <? 36 mm. ; ? 40 mm.
5 <?(J, 12 ? ¥ from Now (Jninea : Biagi, Marabare River; Angabunga River; Upiicr Setekwa River ; Ootakwa River ; Ninay Valley.
111. Maceda riifibasis spec. nov. and ab. interjimcta ab. nov.
Forewing : with the basal area olive rufons ; the subbasal line black, projecting and swollen along inner margin : the rest of wing snffnsed with purplish fnscoQS, the median area darkest, leaving the apical space above vein 6 between the outer line and terminal sliado wliitish or brownish, traversed by the blackish snbterminal line, preceded on costa hy a dark blotch ; the median area is edged internally by a broad pale oblique slightly curved whitish line, which sometimes is absent ; the outer edge of median area at costa and inner margin is followed by a whitish ochreous line, which often reaches across wing; tlie black eell-s])ot is followed by a white dot ; fringe brownish fuscous, with a pale line at base.
Hindwing : with broad black marginal border running up below cell to base; the base of veins 2 to .5 white, the cell and space beyond smoky grey, with the veins and cell-spot black ; fringe white from vein 5 to anal angle, with a slight white tooth at end of submedian fold.
Underside of forewing fuscous with the ape.x brown ; in the c? the costa at base and the interspaces between the bases of veins 2 and 4 white ; the outer half of cell hyaline white ; hindwing white, with broad black terminal border leaving two white patches along termen ; cell-spot black : fringe white except at apex.
Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with basal area of forewing, the dorsum blackish ; venter and pectus white ; legs fawn-colour ; tarsi black with white joints.
Expanse of wings : 34 mm.
" c? c?, 2 ¥ ? from New Guinea : Upper Aroa River ; Biagi, Mambare River ; Angabunga River ; Ninay Valley, Arfak Mountains (type) ; and Brisbane, Queensland.
A form analogous to one of the aberrations of mansueta Wlk. occurs also in this species — ab. interjuncta ab. nov. ; the outer third of forewing is brownish or brownish flesh-colour, with the submarginal line black and strongly dentate across it ; the outer line also acutely dentate, and emitting a dark streak along vein 6 to the terminal cloud ; the median area in this form docs not remain black, but becomes either rufous olive like the basal area or whitisli with the lower third black.
2 (? c? from the Ninay Valley, Arfak Mts.
Subfamily NOGTUINAE. 112. Arete papuensis spec. nov. and ab. albimixta ab. nov.
Forewing : brown suffused with darker, and sparsely dusted with bluish
scales; the lines black; a large black blotch at base above vein 1, sometimes
reaching through cell to costa ; the subbasal line marked narrowly on costa ; inner
line black, angled outwards on submedian vein and outcurved above and below
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vein 1 ; a hlaokish lilotoh on subcostal vein above reniform ; orbicnlar a small black dot; reniform brownish oclireous, marked with black spots as in modesta; median shade thick, twice incnrved below the median vein ; enter line oblique outwards and sharply angled on vein 4, then obliiiiie inwards, twice incnrved below vein 2 and aiigleil outwards on vein 1 ; beyond it a thick black obliijae shade from costa, followed by a i)atch of white scales on costa ; submarginal line pale, preceded by a large black patch below vein C and again from 2 to inner margin ; terminal area with black marks between the veins below (i ; a row of black terminal s])<its : towards the termen tlie brown shows coppery I'nlvons reflections.
Him/icing : slaty blackish ; the markings as in graniilntii.
Underside slaty black ; a broad slaty blue band beyond outer black band and the terminal area slaty blue with some dark shades ; an oblong slaty blue streak before the black band bevoud cell in forewing and a series of them between the veins in hindwing ; costa of forewing bright fulvous.
Head and thorax rufous olive brown mixed with bluish scales; dorsum slaty fnscons.
In the ab. albimi-vta ab. nov. the median area of forewing along costa, the cell and space beyond, and that below median vein beyond inner line, are all marked with white scales.
Expanse of wings: 85 mm.
2 Si, ~ ? ? — one pair representing the type, the otlier the aberration — from Ninay Valley, Central Arfak Mountains, Dutch New Guinea, ;i.5U0 ft., November 190S to January 1009.
The wings are broader and sliorter than in gninulata Guen.,the hindwing more rounded.
113. Carteia subpallida spec. nov.
Eesembles C. luteiceps Wlk., but smaller; the S darker, the ? paler; the lines in the ? paler, rust-colour; the reniform stigma darker; the chief dilferences are found on the underside ; this is ochreous instead of yellow, without black speckling; the forewing with scarcely a trace of outer line, and the terminal border of hindwing as broad and dark as of forewing in both sexes ; the ab. deminuta ab. nov. is a small grey form with the reniform stigma ])rominentIy black.
Exj)anse of wings : S 30 mm. ; 28 mm. ; of deminuta 24 mm.
A very large number from various localities in Hainan, including three examples of the aberration.
114. Carteia stigmatica spec nov.
(J. Foreioing : fawn-colour; the lines dark brown and straight; the inner vertical and thick ; the outer, beyond one-third, finer, followed, after a narrow pale interval, by a thick brown slightly curved line with a faint brownish dentate-edged shaile beyond it ; space between inner and outer lines suffused more or less with brownish ; reniform stigma large, pale green edged with brown ; a faint row of dark dots before termen ; fringe paler.
llindirinq : fuscous ochreous or fuscous grey, with a broad blackish terminal border preceded by a dark outer line ; fringe rufous.
?. Foretping: much paler; tlie lines thinner; the slender outer line hardly marked ; the reniform smaller.
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Hindwing : with inuer two-thirds dirt)' whitish.
Underside ochreons ; the costa and fringe of forewing yellow ; a large cell- spot and broad terminal border blackish ; hindwing brown-speckled ; the cell-spot smaller ; the border fainter.
Expanse of wings : 30 ram.
1 S from the Khasia Hills, Ma}' 1894 (type); 1 $ from Maymyo, Upper Burma, May 1000 (Col. Bingham); 1 ? from Haipaw, N. Shan States, February 1897.
The Burmese $ is darker than the typical S from Assam ; the ? from Haipaw is much paler, but is somewhat worn.
115. Carteia grisea spec. nov.
Forewing : dark brownish grey; the costal edge narrowly ochreons, with a brown spot at the rise of the lines ; inner line very indistinct, pale grey, marked externally with dark above and below the median vein ; outer line oblique to vein 8, then straight and vertical, pale ochreons, with both edges crenulate, touching a diffuse dark fuscous line, which curves outwards towards costa, followed by a brownish fascia edged by the dark wavy subtermiual line ; terminal area blackish grey ; terminal dots black ; fringe pale grey.
Hindwing : dirty grey ; the terminal border broad and black, with straight inner edge ; fringe whitish.
Underside of forewing white with costa broadly ochreons ; a dark cell-spot and outer line of spots between veins, angled at vein 8 ; terminal border broadly blackish; hindwing the same ; fringes pale.
Face and palpi ochreons ; thorax (damaged) grey ; dorsum dark fuscous ; venter, pectus, .and legs ochreons.
Expanse of wings : 36 mm.
1 ? from Oinaiuisa, Dutch Timor, November — December 1891 (W. Doherty).
110. Carteia taeniata spec. nov.
Foreiving : pale fawn-colour, speckled with brown and fuscous ; inner and outer lines very obscure, marked by dark dots between the veins ; reniform stigma a faint brownish lunule with a dark dot at middle ; close beyond the outer line a thick brown line, slightly concave outwards, followed by an olive brown shade with irregularly dentate outer edge, defining the subtermiual line ; terminal dots minute ; fringe coucolorous.
Hindwing : fuscous grey, with dark cell-s]>ot and outer line ; a broad black terminal border with straight inner edge ; fringe white.
Underside ochreons, dark-speckled, with cell-spot, outer line of spots, and terminal border blackish ; fringe ochreons.
Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish ochreons ; the palpi paler ; pectus, venter, and legs pale ochreous, the tarsi brown.
Expanse of wings : 30 mm.
1 ? from Peiiang, May 1S98 (Curtis).
Allied to C. grisea from Timor, both species having a brown fascia before subterminal line ; distinguished by difference in size and coloration ; both are nearly allied to V. nebulilinca Wlk. from Borneo, the type of the genus.
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Genns Bessacta gen. nov.
Tongue present ; frons smooth ; antennae of S typicall.v armed with bristles, sometimes pectinated ; forewing elongate triangular, the costa straight, the apex snbacnte; hindwing of <J with apex rounded ; palpi upcurveil in frout of face, the second segment well-haired ; the third erect ; legs of S all hairy ; the mid and hind tibiae broadly fringed ; the fore coxae and femora hairy ; forewiugs fawn- colour, with velvety black markings broken uj) by the pale lines and veins. Type : B. poli/KpUa Wlk.
117. Bessacta javensis spec. nov.
Resembles B. pectinata Hmps. in the structure of the antennae of the c?, but se])arated by numerous differences in the shape and arrangement of the black markings, in some of which it is nearer to pobjupila Wlk.
I'orewinq : with the ochreous ground colour suffused with brownish grey and dusted with fuscous, the costal edge remaining yellow ochreous ; the inner line runs obliquely outwards, pale, to median vein, marked by dark dots on subcostal and median, joining there the black blotch, which is somewhat broader and not pointed at top, preceded on inner margin by a diffuse black spot, and followed immediately on median vein by two black spots with pale edges, of which the round upper one represents the orbicular stigma ; reuiform broader and more conical, the black blotch below also broader and reaching inner margin, more plainly marked by slight yellow curved lines ; vein 3 and the other veins towards termen more prominently yellowish ; the black luuules before outer line only four in number, the fifth being confluent with the reniform ; the black apical blotch larger ; the quadrate black blotches before subtermiual line larger and with a narrower one above tliem ; the lower two of the other three spots larger and rounder ; the space between the lines black ; the terminal black spots larger and the fringe darker-mottled.
Hincluing : with the basal area more conspicuously pale.
The underside of wings, the head, thorax, and abdomen do not appreciably differ from those oi pectinata, with which it also agrees in siise.
1 c? from Java.
118. Bessacta columnaris spec. nov.
Forewing : quite pale ochreous, faintly speckled and tinged with grey-brown ; all the veins and margins of the black marks conspicuously pale ochreous ; subbasal line represented by two black spots, above and below subcostal vein ; inner line marked by black dots on costa, subcostal, and median veins, the last followed by a subquadrate spot in cell, obliquely below which is a large trapezoidal blotch in submedian interval, and below vein 1 nearer base a smaller black blotch traversed by a pale line; reniform stigma bluntly conical, forming with the black blotches below it a })illar-like mark with pale uneven edges, quite separate from the five black spots before outer line, which is bent inwards along vein 3 ; the .pale edgings of the submarginal black blotches broader, the upper ones three in number like the lower ; a row of black terminal triangles edged with pale ; fringe pale ochreous.
Hindwing : fuscous, paler basewards, with a pale sinuous outer line before the darker terminal border ; cell-spot dark ; fringe pale.
Underside grej-ish ochreous, the terminal area of forewing diffusely fuscous.
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with two consjiicuous white spots on each side of vein 7 before termen, preceded by two 3'ellowish spots beyoud two dark ones ; a terminal row of dark brown Innules edged with pale ochreous ; fringe pale ochreous, strongly chequered with brown ; hindwing brown-dusted on costa and termen, with grey cell-spot and outer line.
Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous ; palpi externally, vertex, shoulders, base of patagia, and tips of metathoracic and dorsal tufts brown ; antennae of <? ciliated, and with curved bristles.
Expanse of wings : ? 40 mm. ; c? 42 mm.
A pair from Bunguran, Natuna Island, July to October 1894 (Hose).
CJenus Trichoptya gen. nov.
Distinguished from Bocula Guen. by the hindwing of S possessing a long pencil of hairs lying along costa on npperside, capable of being expanded in the form of a tan ; anal tufts of S , when uuexpanded, covered by a chitinous shield ; when exjjanded, showing a pair of lateral tufts from the praeanal segment ; antennae of S ciliated, with curved bristles from each segment.
Type : T. sejuncta Wlk.
119. Trichoptya inquinata spec nov.
Forewing : fawn-colour tinged with grey ; inner and outer lines gre)'-brown, interrnpted, and only just traceable; median shade thick, diffuse, and wavy; subterminal line pale, defined by grey shading on each side, externally by a dark apical streak and slight patches on the two folds ; an oblique black spot in cell and another at its end in the median shade ; large black spots along termen.
Hindwing : fuscous ; the cell and costal area above it blue-black ; the costal tuft of hairs black with the tips yellowish.
Underside of forewing fawn-colour ; the inner margin dull white ; the cell purple black ; hindwing greyer freckled with brown, darker grey along costa; cell-spot grey ; a faint curved outer line.
Head and thorax fawn-colour ; dorsum grey-brown.
Expanse of wings : 30 mm.
1 (? from Tambora, low country, April — May 1896 (Doherty).
120. Trichoptya expansilis spec. nov.
Forewing: of? pale greyish fawn-colour, dusted with black and olive scales and with a violaceons tinge in certain lights ; of 6 darker grey; a black speck at base of cell and one at its end on discocellular ; the lines oblique and wavy, diffuse, formed of olive scales, and very indistinct in the dark tJcJ; subterminal line marked by black Innules between the veins, inwardly pale-edged, oblique from apex and indented on eaeli fold, followed by a darker tint, especially at apex, all indistinct in the S ; terminal dots black ; fringe concolorous.
Hindwing : fuscous grey in the ? , blackish in tJ ; the costal tuft fawn-colour.
Underside silky fawn-colour, thickly black-speckled, with dark cell-spot and enter line.
Head and thorax like forewing ; dorsum darker, like hindwing; palpi exter- nally fuscous, the tips paler.
Expanse of wings : 30 mm.
3 c?c?, 4 ? ? from Townsviile, Qneenslnnd (Dodd).
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121. Trichoptya nigropunctata spec, uov., and ab. pallida ali, uov., and subsp. mag'na subsp. nov.
Forewing : |1inkl^h ochreous dusted with grey and olive; tlie ground colour rather darker in the .-? ; the lines formed of olive scales, sliglit and diffuse, indented on the folds, the outer lunulate-dentate ; a black speck at base of cell and at its end ; subtenuinal line indented on the folds, Innulate-edgcd iuternallj", the Innulcs filled up with deep black in the ?, those on the folds largest, starting from a blackish cloud at apex and ending in another at anal angle ; the terminal area beyond it partially or entirely grey ; in the c? only the black sjiots on the folds are conspicuous, the others being less visible, and the blackish ajjical cloud is present ; terminal spots black, larger in the ? ; fringe concolorous with ground colour of wing.
Il'imlwinq : of <? blackish fuscous, of ? paler ; the costal tuft of S fuscous.
In both sexes the ground colour when worn becomes bone-colour ; but good specimens occur with the ground colour pale ochreous and the subterminal bhu'k spots well marked = ab. pallida ab. nov.
Common throughout the Solomon Islands, the type form occurring in Gnadal- canar and Bougainville, while the aberration comes from Hendova, Isabel Islaml, and Guizo Island ; this form also occurs in Kei Island.
A form from Kiriwini, Trobriand Islands, subsp. magna subsp. nov., is larger ; the subterminal line without any black a])ical streak, and with three small black spots beyond cell, and one on the submediiin fold ; the hiudwing deep black ; of this form only 3 S arc yet known.
122. Trichoptya subspurcata sjiec. nov.
Resembles nigropunctata from the Solomons in size and coloration, but the three lines are not waved and indented on the folds, as in that species, but straight and faintly outcnrved across wing ; the very slightly darker terminal area is edged above by a distinct broad black apical mark, and by a single black spot on vein 0 ; a black spot at base and another at end of cell.
Underside of both wings suffused throughout with coarse olive fuscous on an ochreous yellow ground ; the hindwing without cell-spot and outer line.
3 ? ? from St. Aignan, October 18i)7 (Meek).
Genus Sillophora gen. uov.
Distinguished from Trichoptya by the costa ot hindwing being folded over beneath to form a flattened pleat, the upperside coatainiog at base of costa a small pouch from which the long hairs of the costal tuft are protruded. Type i S. bimaciilatd spec. nov.
12:5. Sillophora bimaculata spec. nov.
Forewing : pale fawn-colour dusted with olive, with a strong violaceous tint except along costa and beyond subterminal line ; lines oblique inwards, very indistinct, and only sliown by slightly darker scaling ; the terminal area olive grey; the subterminal line before it being shown only by a black triangular mark lying across vein 5, and a larger one extending between veins 1 ami :i ; a black cell-dot and row of black terminal spots ; fringe concolorous.
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Hindwing black ; fringe gre}' ; the costal tnft of hairs black, with the tips pale.
Underside of forewing blackish fnscons ; the costa and termen dark grey ; the inner margin whitish ; hindwing black.
Head and thorax like forewings ; dorsum blackish, the anal segment paler ; abdomen laterally and beneath glossy white; legs brown; palpi with the second segment externally brown, the tips of second segment, the third segment, and the inside white.
Expanse of wings : 32 mm.
1 cJ from Tawaya, north of Palos Bay, Celebes, August and September 1896 (Doherty).
Genus Lasionota gen. nov.
Tongne well developed ; frons smooth ; palpi upturned, the second segment thickly scaled, the third rather long and slender, pointed ; antennae of S simple, filiform ; thorax and abdomen stout ; the thorax smoothly scaled ; the basal segments of dorsum of ¥ with small tufts ; basal half of dorsum of c? clotlied with a matlike covering, concealing a mass of woolly down ; legs short and stout; fore- wing with costa curved at base ; apex rectangular ; termen curved, hardly oblique ; hindwing with vein 5 from close above 4 ; in the upper half of submedian interval beneath median vein and base of vein 2 an elongated thinly scaled brand.
Type : L. hi/penoicles Moore {AcanthoUpes).
124. Bocula brunneata spec. nov.
Forewing : ochreous, suifused, except at base, with dark grey-brown ; the lines dark, inwardly oblique ; the inner edged internally with ochreous, shortly angled below costa ; the outer, less oblique, irregularly sinuous, outwardly edged with pale ; the median double, dark brown, the outer arm diffuse, touching cell- spot, which is black in a pale spot ; termen fuscous, black-brown along upper half of inner edge, which is margined with pale; the edge runs oblique from ape.x to vein 7, where it forms first a slight inward, then a slight outward angle, is then curved inwards and upwards to vein 6 near outer line, to which it runs parallel to 4, then after a short outward course runs agaiu parallel to outer line to inner margin before anal angle ; terminal spots ochreous ; fringe dark.
Hindwing : fuscous ; the fringe fuscous.
Underside greyish fuscous, somewhat glossy; the hindwing paler, with dark cell-spot and outer line.
Head and thorax pale brownish ochreous ; the dorsum tinged with grey.
Expanse of wings : 34 mm.
1 S from the Khasia Hills, June 1896.
125. Bocula mollis spec. nov.
Foi-ewing : uniform pale fawn-colour, unspi-okled ; the costal edge yellower ; lines slightly yellow, otherwise unmarked, except the outer, which is brown-dotted on the veins ; terminal area brownish fuscous, slightly darker along inner edge, which after a slight inward bend at vein 8, runs inwards along vein 6 to near outer line, then still inwards and oblique to vein 3, thence outcurvcd to anal angle; terminal spots fawn-colour ; fringe brownish fuscous.
Hindwing : pale fuscous ; the fringe pale grey, with pale spots at base.
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Uuderside pale ochroons ; the disc of forewing grey ; costa of both wings freckled witli grey-browu ; grey cell-spots and curved outer lines.
Head and thorax pale fawn-colour ; the dorsum grey-tinged ; palpi externally dark brown, the tips ochreous.
Expanse of wings : 34 mm.
1 ? from the Khasia Hills, Assam, April 1S95.
126. Bocula undilineata spec, no v.
Forewing : fawn-colour, with brown suffusion in places ; the lines dark brown ; the costa brownish ; subbasal line swelling out into a blotch below median vein ; inner line angled below costa, then waved, inwardly obliiiue, preceded by a line of pale ochreous ; median line double, bent outwards below middle, the small brown cell-dot beyond its outer arm ; space between inner and median lines filled in with brown ; outer line wavy, Innulate below, indented beyond cell and inangled on vein 1 ; followed by a less distinct parallel arm ; terminal area brownish fuscous, darker along inner edge, shaped almost precisely as in B. marginata Moore ; fringe concolorous.
Ilimhchig : fuscous ; fringe fnscous.
Underside of forewing grey-brown; of hindwing ochreous speckled with brown, darker along termen.
Heail and thorax ochreous ; the dorsum fnscous ; palpi externally brownish, the tips ochreous.
Expanse of wings : 3i) mm.
1 (J from the Khasias, June 1895.
127. Baputa bipartita spec. nov.
Differs from the type of the genus, Baputa dimidiata Wlk., in the orange colouring being uniformly deeper ; the line dividing the orange basal from the black terminal area of forewing is curved from before middle of costa to just beyond middle of inner margin, instead of shortly before anal angle ; the hindwing is not entirely black, but has the basal area orange, separated from the dark terminal area by a straight line from middle of costa to middle of abdominal margin ; the abdomen, except the last three segments, is orange, like the head and thorax.
The same size as dimidiata.
1 c?, 1 ? from Ansns, Jobi, April— May 1897 (W. Doherty), type; 1 <J, 1 ? from German New Guinea, October (('. Wahnes); 1 c?, 2 ? ? from the coast near Arfak, New Guinea, and 1 S from Waigien.
The type oi dimidiata was from New Guinea, and it also occurs in Waigien.
128. Buzara circumducta spec. nov.
Differs from Buzara chrijsomela Wlk. (= eurychrysa Meyr. = gestroi Oberth.) in having the orange of the hindwing in the ? extended as a broad band to anal angle, while in the cf the tip of the projecting centre of termen is also broadly orange ; the anal segments of the abdomen in both sexes are deeper yellow than in c/tri/nomela ; in most cases the orange band of forewing is decidedly broader than in the other species.
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5 c?t^, 4 ? ? from Si. Aignan, September— December 1897, type; 2 c?<?, 3 ? ?, November — December 1894 ; 3 ? ? from Kiriwini, Trobriand Islands, March- April 1895; and 1 J from Woodlark Island, March — April 1897 (A. S. Meek).
B. e//n/so//i(>l(i, wliicli appears to be fairly common in New Guinea, whence it was originally descril)ed, is also found in tlie Kei Islands and Waigieu.
Subfamily DELTOIDINAE. 129. Bertula fulvistrigalis spec. nov.
Forewing : dark fuscous brown ; a fulvous subcostal streak from base to ape.\ ; lines white, inwardly oblique, parallel to each other; the inner near base, tinged with fnlvous towards costa ; the outer at two-thirds, sharply and shortly angled outwards on subcostal vein and there fulvous-tinged ; snbmargiual line indistinct and interrupted above, indented on snbmedian fold, ochreous tinged with fnlvons ; veins 3 and 4 white tinged with ochreous ; a pale mark on discocellular, fulvous- tinged in upper half, widened below and white ; a small fulvous dot in cell beyond inner line ; fringe concolorons, with ochreous terminal dots between the veins.
Ilituhving : with outer and submarginal lines, distinct only below the middle ; the outer white, the submarginal ochreous tinged ; veins 3, 4 slightly paler.
Underside much speckled with greyish white ; the fulvous tints stronger ; the spots in cell black, the inner round, the outer vertical, both large ; outer line black, dentate ; submarginal fulvous ; terminal black lunules edged with fulvous.
Head and thorax dark brown ; patagia laterally marked with fulvous near base ; abdomen brown speckled with greyish, the second segment with a fulvous belt; palpi externally dark brown, internally fulvous, becoming ochreous white towards tips ; pectus, venter, and legs brown speckled with ochreous ; the front of fore tibiae and all the tarsi fulvous-tinged.
Expanse of wings : 36 mm.
1 cJ from Mt. Marapok, Britisli North Borneo.
Another <S , somewhat smaller (32 mm.), from the Sarawak Museum, labelled "Matang Road, March 1911," has the fulvous tints more largely developed, especially the submarginal line, which is complete, and the veins 3, 4 not marked paler, but the discal white mark continued angularly along vein 4 to touch outer line.
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LIST OF SIPHONAPTERA COLLECTED IN EASTERN
HUNGARY.
By Dr. K. JORDAN and the Hon. N. CHARLES ROTHSCHILD, M.A.
DURING Jalj and earl}- Augnst of last year the senior author s()ent some four weeks at Biharfiired (= Stina de Vale) in the forest-clad Bihar Mountains of Eastern Hungary. The insect fauna of that district proved to be very poor, there being hariUy anything among the Lepidoptera which is worth recording. The high-lying parts are open grazing ground, where large herds of horses, cattle and sheep are encountered, and on these closely-cropped hills hardly any Lepidojjtera were seen but Hepialus fiiscoiiebulosiis and some Pyrals. The virgin forest, which covers the mountain-sides nearly without iuterru])tion, consists almost exclusively of beecli and pine, there being hardly any brush- wood and no oak I'rom about 7UU metres upwards. The woods are very dam]), springs being found almost everywhere, and the amount of rainfall is very high. Bihilrfilred, which has a season of barely ten weeks, is noted for its low average temperature and pure ozonified air, and remained trne to its reputation even in the exceptional summer of 1911. While the rest of Earope was being baked and parched, the rainy days were in the majority at Biharfiired, and the guests often gathered around the stove to warm their benumbed fingers, attempts even being made by enterprising people to light the stove in their bedroom, the attempt generally ending in smoke.
As a rule, trajjping for small mammals was only attended to on rainy days, when it was impossible to make excursions to the hunting grounds for Lepidoptera, situated on the slopes towards Belenyes between 8t)0 and 13ii0 m. The number of species obtained was only five, of which four {Sorex araiii'iis, Mus silvaticus, Hypudaeus glareolus and Microtus agrestis) were quite common in the beech-woods and on the meadow before the bungalows, while Sorex miiiutus appeared to be rare. These mammals frequented the same places and even the same holes — which accounts for the fact that the species of fleas were greatly mixed up on the various hosts.
As among the fleas collected there are several species not previously recorded from Hungary, we deem the captures of sufficient interest to be recorded here.
No bird-fleas were obtained. Bird-life was even poorer at Biharfiired than the Lepidoptera. Besides two species of Motacilla, a solitary couple of swallows, an occasional jay and nnthatch, and some woodpeckers, there was nothing in the hollow where the " Luftkurort " is situated — not even a sparrow. The place is too densely wooded, and the warm season too short, being moreover fre(inently interrupted by a sudden fall of the thermometer to freezing-point, for harbouring an abundance of insect and bird life, which flourishes more on open, sunny glades than in a pure, bracing atmosphere with a high percentage of ozone.
Pulex irritans, Ctenocuphalus canis, anil Ct. folix do not ajipear in our list of captures — from which fact, however, it would be hasty to draw conclusions as to their absence.
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1. Ceratophyllus penicilliger Gnibe (1852).
6c?r?, 7 ? ?; July 12 and 31, and Angnst 2 and 3, oS Microtus agiestis.
1 ? ; July 12, oft" Hi/pudaeus ylareoliis.
Not previously recorded from Hungary.
The specimens agree with the insect identified by Wagner as yemciUUjer.
C. pedias Roths., Ann. Sci. Nat. p. 231. no. 21 (1910), based on a single S from Finland, is close to penicilliger, but differs in the ninth abdominal sternite of tiie (? bearing only thin hairs proximally to the sinns of the horizontal arm, while in penicilliyer there is a short spine among the hairs.
2. Ceratophyllus sciurorum Sehrank (1803).
1 ? ; July 8, off Microtus agi-estis.
The occurrence on this host is certainly accidental. The presence of squirrels in the woods was testified by the fir-cones on which they had been at work.
3. Ctenophthalmus agyrtes eurous subsp. nov.
Ti/plilo/i.-ii/lla ,ir,,jrl,'^ (Heller), Wagner, //.»■. S„r. Ent. !l„..<.-<. xxxi. p. 589, tab. 9, fig. 23 (1898).
3 cJcJ, 11 ? ?; July 8, 11, 12, 21, and August 2 and 31, off Microtus agrestis. 6 (?<?, 3? ?; July 12 and August 3, off Ili/pudaeus glareolus.
2 c?(5', 2 ? ? ; July 11 and 18, off Mus silcaticus.
1 J, 2 ? ? ; July 31 and August 2 and 3, off Sorex araneus.
This is a j)articnlarly interesting form of agi/rtes, inasmnch as it goes far to prove that aqi/rtcs Heller (189G) and protincialis Roths. (1910), and presumably also baetici.is Roths. (1910), are geographical races of one widely distributed species. This species appears to respond more readily to differences in its surroundings than any other European flea. The specimens wliich we have examined from a number of countries confirm Dr. A. Dampfs view, expressed to us //; lift., that C. agyrti's would be a profitable subject for tlie study of the geograpliical variation of the clasping organs.
The Hungarian examples before us agree very well in the c?-genitalia with the figure given by J. Wagner of a Russian specimen, and differ markedly from the figure we published of true aggrfi's in Noe. ZooL 1898, tab. 15a, fig. 1, and tab. 17, fig. 12. Wagner and others attributed the differences in the figures to incorrectness of our drawings. Although our figures were not so good as one might have wished them to be, still the most conspicuous characteristics of true agi/rtes are nevertheless well brought out in them.
From the specimens we have examined true aggrtrs appears to occur, rougliiy speaking, only west of the Elbe, and the present new geographical race in the countries east of the Elbe. We believe that we can distinguish several more (undescribed) geographical forms. We are, however, not yet in a position to elucidate the question satisfactorily. C. agijrtes eurous is, from the point of view of the clasping organs of the (J, intermediate between C. aggrtes aggrtes and C. promncialis ; and, in the ?, closely approaches y^z-ot-iw/a^/i* in the shape of the seventh abdominal sternite.
6. The eighth abdominal sternite bears a row of three instead of four bristles, besides a number of bristles more proximally j)laced. The clasper (text-fig. 1) is divided, as in C agyrtes agyrtes, into a long and conical upper process (P') and shorter and broader lower jirocess (P^). This second process is again divided into a conical
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upper lobe (L'jaiid a more or less truncate lower one (L^). For comparison we figure these organs of an Hungarian example and of an (tgi/rtes from Borkuni (the original locality of agyrtes). It will be noticed that in true agi/rtes (text- fig. 2) the lobe L-' is obsolescent, while it is well produced in all examples of eiiroKS. There is some variability in the length of L' and L- in fnioux, bnt the sinns between them is never so deep as in jnoeinciidix.
?. The seventh abdominal sternite is deeply and broadly sinuate vent rally, there being one large lateral lobe, which is broader than in ayi/rfe.t. There is no narrow lobe beneath this broad one. The eighth tergite has vcntrally a row of five bristles as in agi/rtes, the last one being short, and above this row one long bristle accompanied by one, two, or rarely three small ones.
C. agyrtes has not previously been recorded from Hungary.
Text-fig. 1.
Text-fio. 2.
4. Ctenophthalmus obtusus spec. nov.
3 c? (?, 4 ? ? ; July 12 and 21, and August 2, off Microtus agrestis.
2 ? ? ; July 12 and August 3, off Ilijpudaeus glareolus.
Very near C. uncinata Wagn., Hor. Soc. Ent. lioss. xxxi. p. S90 tab. 9. fig. 24, tab. 10. fig. 29 (1898), described from 2 cJcJand 1 ? found on Putorius vulgaris at New Alexandria. The occurrence of uncinata on Putorius we believe to be accidental, the true host probably being Microtus, as in the case of obtusus. As we have no example of uiwi/iuta in the collection, we rely on Wagner's figures, wiiich represent the claspers of the <J and the head, and tlierefore restrict our descrijition to the modified abdominal segments, whose structure affords the best and perhaps the only distinguishing characters. Tiie cliaetotaxy of the body and legs in uncinata according to Wagner is the same as in C assimilis Tasch. (188U), but diflers appreciably in obtusus, especially in the ? .
c?. The clasper (CI) agrees perfectly with the figure given by Wagmr of that sclerite of C. uncinata, the nose-like process varying a little individually, being sometimes more rounded, sometimes more jwinted. The movable process (F) is more than twice as long as it is broad in obtusus, whereas it is only half as long again as it is broad in Wagner's figure of uncinata ; its proximal margin is incurved, not straight, the upper margin also being distinctly excised. The upper distal corner, which is produced into a hook in uncinata, i)ri)jects very little in the new species. But there is on the inner surface of F just below the corner a groove
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above which F is somewhat iiicrassate, this iiortioii of F corresponding to and somewhat resembling the hook of uiiciimta. The tipper edge of F is distinctly incurved, not straight as in uncinaia. The ninth sternite (is. st.) is very much the same as in C. assimilis. The eighth tergite (viii. t.) bears on each side a
Vlll.st.
Text-fig. 4.
postmedian row of three bristles, and proximally to this row five or si.K additional bristles.
? . The ? of uncinata is said by Wagner to agree with assimilis, no distinctions between the ? ? of the two species being mentioned. The ? of obtusus, on the other hand, is distinguished from assimilis by the smaller number of bristles on the abdominal segments ii. to vii. The basal sternite bears only a pair of ventral bristles, no lateral bristle, and the numbers on the sternites of segments iii. to vii.
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are ou the two sides together : iii. 5, 9 ; iv. '-'.), 10 ; v. G-11, 8 or 9 ; vi. 0-11, 8 ; vii. 3-7, 7 or 8 ; the second figures referring in each case to the postmedian row of bristles, and the first numbers to the additional bristles jilaced in front of this row. Tlie numbers are in «.s.s///»7/.s- on sternites iv. to vii. as follows: iv. 9-14, 11 or 12 ; V. i:i-l(l, 1 1 or 12 ; vi. 15, 10 or 1 1 ; vii. 12 or 13, 12 or 13. The eighth tergite (text-fig. 4, viii. t.) bears in obtusas a row of five bristles along the ventral margin, a sixth bristle, which is short and thick, being placed above the last as in u.^simdis, but the row in (issimiUs contains only four bristles. Above the row there is in both species a single long bristle accompanied in obtusus h\ 0 to 2 bristles and ia assimilis by 4 to 6. The outline of the seventh steruite is nearly the same in the two species. The apical margin, however, is in axximi/is rather strongly convex below the large lobe, or even produced into a short lobe recalling the narrow lobe of C. agi/rtes agyrtes, whereas in obtusus (text-fig. 4) the margin is only very faintly convex. The oviduct is strongly chitinised near its orifice.
o. Ctenophthalmus pentacanthus Roths. (1897). 1 ? ; Augast 3, off Ihjpudaeus glurcolus. Not previously recorded from Hungary.
Doratopsylla gen. nov.
As A. Dampf * has already pointed out, the species described as Ti/pklopsylla dasi/ciiemus Roths. (1897), and now either placed into Ctcnophflinlmus or Palneo- ps'/l/a, does not agree with either of them and requires a new genus for its reception. The rostrum consists of only four segments instead of five, and the fifth segment of all the tarsi bears four lateral pairs of bristles and a ventral proximal pair as in Palaeopsylla.
There are also tropical species under Ctenophthalmus or PitlaeopsijUa which have the rostrum four-jointed — for instance, intermedia Wagner (190ii) — which, however, do not concern us here.
6. DoratopysUa dasycnemus Roths. (1897).
3 (Jc? ; July 12, off Sovex araneus.
3 (?<J, 2 ? ? ; August 2, ofi:' Sorex araneus.
1 ? ; August 3, off Sorex araneus.
Not previously recorded from Hungary.
7. Palaeopsylla sorecis T)ale (1878). 1 ff ; July 12, off Sorex araneus.
3 ? ? ; July 31, off Sorex araneus. 1 ? ; August 2, off Sorex araneus.
1 c?, 1 ? ; August 3, off So)-ex araneu.f. Not previously recorded from Hungary.
8. Hystrichopsylla talpae Cnrtis (182()).
1 c?, 1 ? ; July 12 and August 2, off Hi/pudaeus glareolus.
4 (?(?, 3 ? ? ; July 12, 21 and 31, August 2, off Microtus agrestis.
' Z(Hil. Jahrb., Suppl. 12. p. 632 (1910).
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LIST OF THE ANTEBIBIDAE IN THE CONGO MUSEUM
AT TERVUEREN.
By Dr. K. JORDAN.
THE specimens eiiiuuerated came i'rom the Belgian Congo. The types of the few new forms are in the Mnsee du Congo BeJge, if not stated otherwise. Besides the species mentioned below there are about a dozen additional forms in the collection represented by single specimens. These are mostly undescribed, but for various reasons I consider it for the present inopportnne to publish descriptions of them. Moreover, a number of species have been added to the collection from our own material, so that the Congo Museum now contains the greater proportion of the Antkribidae known from the Congo basin.
1. Mecocerus mniszechi Thoms. (1858).
The commonest species in the Congo region. A series of specimens in the collection from : Lukombe (A. Koller) ; Leo-Stanleyville (Weyns) ; Kisantu (R. P. Goossens) ; Kasai (Coart) ; Kabambare (Delhaise) ; Manyema ('Dupuis) ; Leopoldville ; Galli-Koko, Kasai (R. Cauliev) ; Uele (Leret) ; Sassa (Colmant).
2. Mecocerus rhombeus Qued. (1886).
This conspicuously marked species {i.e. conspicuous in a collection) is repre- sented by a series from: Sassa (Colmant); Mayumbe (Deleval) ; Lukombe (A. Koller); Lukenge, Kasai (Fontainas) ; Dinia (A. Koller); Katanga (Lemaire); Ldopoldville.
3. Mecocerus oculatus Jord. (1895).
3 <?c?, 2 ? ? ; Sassa (Colmant).
The species is much rarer in collections than the previous ones.
4. Phloiophilus sulcifrons Fahrs. (1839).
Tlie sexes are very similar; but the S S are easily recognised by bearing, anteriorly on the metasteruum, a ronnd median impression which is filled in with short hair, and by the midtibia being armed with a tooth at the apex.
2 <Jc?, 3 ? ? ; Sassa (Colmant).
2 c?(? ; Lukombe (A. Koller).
1 S ; Galli-Kokor, Kasai (R. Carlier).
5. Apatenia annulipes Jord. (1894).
1 (?, 1 ? ; Sassa (Colmant).
These are the only specimens I have seen beside the type.
6. Chirotenon adustum Labr. and Imh. (1842).
A series from : Sassa (CJolmaut) ; Lukombe (A. Koller) ; Galli-Koko, Kasai (R. Carlier) ; Lukenge, Kasai (Cabra).
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7. Phloeotragus hottentottus imhoflB Boh. (1845).
This is the West AlVicaii roiireseattitive of hottentottus Schoiih. (lS:i'.)), which is found on the eastern side of the Continent ; albicans Fahrs., from Madagascar, is a ver_v close ally and iicrhaps also not specifically distinct.
1 (J, 1 ? ; Sassa.
2 <? cJ, 2 ? ? ; Lukombe, October (A. Roller). 1 ? ; Katanga (Lemaire).
1 ? ; Dima, September (A. Roller).
8. Phloeotragus heros F. (ISol).
A common species, of which the collection contains nuraerons specimens from : Lfiopoldville ; Banzyville ; Manyema (l)iipuis) ; Tanganika (Hecq) ; Sassa ; Lnkorabe (A. Roller) ; Ratauga ; Maynmbe ((Jabra).
Many specimens have a rather strong greenish tint, resembling to some extent the next s]H'cies. P. heros and poliojirns, however, can easily be distinguished by the following differences in strncture :
a. heros: The upper edges of tlie right and left antennal grooves are nearly parallel. The antenna of the S bears on the inner side small hairs, not short and stumpy spines; and the tenth segment in the ? is broader than long. Tlie elytra are deeply emarginate together at the base ; the basal edge is strongly elevate and this raised margin qnite distinct around the shoulder-angles. The intercoxal process of the mesosternum is broad as far as the middle and then narrows strongly to the apex.
b. poliojtras : The upper edges of the antennal grooves are strongly divergent. The antenna of the S bears minute sensory cones instead of hairs on the inner surface, and the tenth segment of the ? is longer than broad, the seventh and eighth being somewhat shorter than in the 9 of heros. The prothorax is shorter than in heros and the elytra less coarsely punctured. The base of the elytra is less emarginate and the raised margin much less elevate, being obsolete at the shoulder-angle ; the shoulders as well as the subbasal dorsal callosity are more raised than in heros, and the mesosternal process is much narrower.
9. Phloeotragus poliopras Jord. (inici).
3 <?(?; Sassa (Colmant).
3 (? c? ; Lukombe (A. Roller).
1 6 ; Lukenge (Fontainas).
111. Phloeotragus prasinus l>nv. (1802).
One of the rarer species, which is easily recognised by Hie elytra bearing a black patch at the centre of the lateral margin and a prominent tubercle before the apex.
2 c? (? ; Sassa (Colmant).
One of the two specimens is entirely dirty clay-colour on the ujipor surface instead of green.
II. Phloeoti'agus gigas F. (1801).
3 (Jc?, 3 ? ? ; Lukombe (A. Roller). 1 c? ; Sassa (Colmant).
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12. Decataphanes punctipennis Jord. (1895).
1 ? ; Sassa (Colmant).
The specimen, which measures only 12 mm., is the second which I have seen of this species. It agrees with the name-type in the dorsal carina being nearly quite straight.
13. Decataphanes posticatus Jord. (1903).
2 <J cf ; Sassa (Colmant).
14. Gnoticarina cristulata Jord. (1894). 1 cJ; Sassa (Colmant).
15. Deuterocrates cavicollis Honr. (1879).
1 c?; Sassa (Cblmant). 1 <?; L^opoldville.
1 <S ; Maynmbe (Cabra).
16. Deuterocrates canescens Qaed. (1886).
2 cJc?, 1 ?; Sassa (Colmant).
1 ? ; Eastern province of Congo Free State (Weyus). 1 ? ; Galli-Koko, Kasai (R. Carlier).
IT. Deuterocrates nigropictus Qued. (1886). 1 <?; Leopoklville. 1 <J ; Sassa (Colmant). 1 ? ; Galli-Koko, Kasai (R. Carlier).
18. Deuterocrates armatus spec, no v.
cJ. Oculis subrotundis, antice levissime emarginatis. Cariuae prothoracicalis angnlo recto fere acuto. Antennarum (<?) articulo 1° sine impressione rotunda velvetina, 10" brevi. Tibia media (cJ) in dentem acutam producta.
1 cJ ; Manyema (R. Grauer) in Mns. Tring, ti/pe.
5 (? c? ; Sassa (R. Colmant).
Agrees in colour closely with the form known as D. canescens Qaed. (1886). Rather narrower, the prothorax especially being longer, Imt not so long as in I), cavicollis Har. (1879). At once recognised by the eye, pronotal carina, the antenna and midtibia, at least in the c?.
The other species of Deuterocrates have the eye very distinctly sinuate, while in the new one the sinus is barely indicated. The first segment of the antenna bears in all the other Deuterocrates in the c? at the apex a round pit filled in with a long pubescence, and is devoid of this organ in armatus. The tenth anteiinal segment is less than half the length of the eleventh. With the exception of armatus the lateral angle of the pronotal carina is obtuse in Deuterocrates (cJ ?), and the short longitudinal basal carina is .so oblique as to divide more or less evenly the convex angle formed by the dorsal and lateral carinae. In armatus, on the other hand, the carinae meet at right angles and the short longitudinal basal carina is horizontal, having the same or very nearly the same direction as the main lateral
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carina, a cliaracter wkich may be expected to hold good also in the $ (as yet nnknown). The sharp tootli which we tinil at the apex of the midtihia in tlie c? of armat/ts is not met with in any nthcr known sj)ecies of Deuterocrates.
The species varies considerably in size, like its congeners. In none of the six specimens are the antennae more than twice the length of the body inclusive of the heail.
I'J. Anacerastes geometricus JurJ. (1894).
1 6; Lukenge, Kasai (Foutuinas).
~ii. Anacerastes geometricus ah. cinerascens Jord. (1894).
1 ? ; Mayuiube (( 'abra).
21. Anacerastes scriptus .lord. (1910).
2 Jc?, 1 ?; Sassa (Colmant).
One of the Si h entirely pale yellow, having apparently been taken from its pnpal berth.
22. Epicerastes undulatus Qued. (1886). 1 c?, 1 ¥; Sassa (Colmant).
23. Xylinades sinuatocoUis Qiied. (1886).
1 ? ; Sassa (Colmant).
24. Xylinades alternans Kulbe (1895).
2 ? ? ; Lnkombe (A. Roller).
25. Syntophoderes guineensis Kolbe (1895). A series from Lnkombe (A, Roller) ; Risautu (R. P. Goossens) ; Galli-Koko, Rasai.
26. Aneurrhinus pantherinus L:ilir. and Iiuh. (1834).
3 d"c?, 1 ? ; Lukombe (A. Roller). 2 c? cJ ; Sassa (Colmant).
27. Aneurrhinus leucomelas Qned. (1886). 2 cJcJ, 1 ? i Sassa (Colmant).
28. Phloeobius podicalis Rolbe (1894).
Originally described from German East Africa. 'i SS ; Sassa (Colmant).
29. Phloeobius retusus Labr. and Imh. (1842).
1 S ; Sassa (Colmant). 1 ¥ ; Dima (A. Roller).
30. Phloeobius affinis Rolbe (1895).
4 (^ J , 1 ¥ J Sassa (Colmaut;.
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31. Phloeobius catenatus Kolbe (1895).
1 <? ; L(:'opoldville.
2 (?<?, 3 ? ¥ ; Sassa (Colmaiit).
32. Phloeobius humilis Kolbe (1895). 1 c?, 1 ? ; Lnkombe (A. Kulk-r).
33. Phloeobius pustulosus Gerst. (1871).
1 ¥ ; Sassa (Colmaiit).
34. Gynandrocerus antennalis Lacord. (1866).
2 cJcJ, 1 ¥ ; Sassa (Colmant).
2 (?(? ; Lukenge, Kasai (Foutainas). 1 S ; Dima (A. KoUer).
35. Gynaudrocerus praecox Kolbe (1894). 1 c? ; iSassa (Colmant).
37. Litotropis afer spec. nov.
c? ¥ ; Niger, sparsim griseo pnbesceiis ; prothorace macula apicali mediana fulva notato ; elytris in interspatiis 3'" at 5" nigro-fasciculatis ; antennis rafescentibas ; pjgideo fulvo. Long. (cap. excl.) 4-5 — 5 mm.
1 (?, 2 ¥ ¥ ; Lnkombe, October 1908 (A. Koller).
The colonr ot" dark slate, the grey pnbescence being mnch less in evidence on the npper side than on the under. The antennae are rufescent, with a darker clnb ; the tarsi and, to a lesser degree, also the tibiae have likewise a reddish tint. The fiilvons median spot at the a,pex. of the prouotum varies in size, and in one of the ¥ ¥ there is a fnlvescent spot before the apex of each elytrnni. All three specimens have a fnlvous pygidinm. L. afer comes nearest in size and shape to L. proridiis Fahrs. (1839), but the rostrnm is shorter, being apically broader than it is long. There is a donlile tuft of black pubescence on the basal callosity of the elytrum, and the third and fifth interspaces bear, moreover, four or live smaller tufts, the posterior ones being especially small.
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NEW OEOMETEIDAE IN THE TRING MUSEUM FROM
NEW GUINEA.
By W. WABREN, M.A., F.E.S.
Subfamily ORTHOSTIXINAE.
1. Ozola violacea spec. iiov.
Forewing : ypllowochreoiis, the o;TOund colour almost entirely hidden by reddish iind violet-brown suffusion; costal edge yellow dotted with black ; the costal streak filled with deuse reddish striae; inner line oblique outwards from one-third of costa to middle of cell, blackish, thence nearly vertical or slightly curved inwards and ill- defined to middle of inner margin, the basal area witliin it red, being almost covered with confluent vinous striae and suffusion ; outer line from two-thirds of costa, dark and sinuous, to inner margin a little beyond inner line, the excurved portion between costa and vein 2 filled up with deep red ; the central area hyaline white with coarse red granular speckling and with a red triangle at top below subcostal vein ; sub- terminal line formed of black blotches between the veins, often indistinct ; area beyond outer line vinous red-brown glossed with violet, containing a small yellow red-speckled ]iatcli on termen from vein 4 to 2 and a slighter patch at apex ; terminal dark dots between veins ; fringe reddish except beyond the yellow areas.
Ilindwing : with the whole basal half yellowish hyaline with partially contiuent red speckling ; the outer half as in forewing, but without any yellow patches.
Underside similar to upper ; the outer lines blacker, distinctly crenulate.
Head, thorax, and abdomen red speckled with yellow, the dorsum more solidly red ; venter, pectus, and legs variegated red and yellow.
The ? is less strongly suffused with red, the pale ground colour being more in evidence.
Exjjanse of wings : 35 mm.
A series from near Setekwa River, Snow Mts., Dutch New Guinea, up to 3500 ft., October and December I'JlO (A. S. Meek).
Subfamily GEOMETRINAE. 2. Agathiopsis maculata angustifascia subsp. nov. and unanimis subsp. nov.
In Soc. Zoo/, iii. p. -SO I described this species from Fergusson Island ; in it the c? (lifters from the ? in having the marginal dark border narrower and darker, with straigbter inner margin, than in that sex ; of the four from the Solomon Islands (Bougainville), subsp. a/u/us/i/'ani-ia has this border still narrower and more concise, the inner edge white ; on the other hand, of four examples from Ninay Valley, Central Arfak Mts., Dutch New Guinea, subsp. ui/aHimin, the '2 <S S are only distinguishable from the ? ? by the round green terminal blotch between veins 3 and 4, the border in both sexes being of the same colour and shape as in typical ? ?.
3. Anisogamia absona Wan-, ab. exalbata nov.
Differs from the tyjje in having all tlie white spaces exaggerated ; in the fore- wings the spots forming the outer line and the inner of the two submarginal lines
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confltient into uneven bands, partly joined alons^ snbmedian fold with a short inner band below the cell-spot ; the outer bands broad also in the hindwin<<s ; the patagia white instead of green ; the dark blotch at apex of hindwings hardly visible above, thongh equally strong below. 1 S from Ninay Valley, Central Arfak Mts., Dutch New Guinea, 3500 ft., November 1908 to January 1909, along with 8 typical d d and 1 ?. Both sexes are slightly different from the Australian /'(.sv/z/'^f/^* S Lucas = dentata ? Warr. In the i the hindtibiae are grooved, with an expansible pencil of long dark hairs concealed therein.
4. Anisogamia albiguttata sjiec. nov.
Forewing : white; the basal three-fiurths traversed by numerous irregular green vermiculations thickened into blotches between veins :.' and :! and in sub- median interval ; a brown subcostal sjiot at one-fourth and a dark green spot at each end of discocellular ; the limit of basal area and the inner edge of central fascia can be imagined only ; the outer edge of the latter is marked by a lunulate-dentate green line, followed by a dentate white band ; terminal area dark green, containing two rows of white lunnles, separated by the green veins ; those of the inner series more elongate ; marginal line deep green interrupted by large white dots at the vein ends ; fringe green, with the tips grey-brown dotted with white beyond the veins ; co.sta with a few earth-brown speckles at base, thickened at middle, and confluent towards apex, which is brown with white dots.
Hindiviiig : similar, but the white spaces and the green striae larger and clearer, more regular.
Underside pearly white, the green markings of upperside showing by trans- parence only, except above median in forewing, where the discocellular, an outer, and subterminal line are marked in green below costa, the subterrainal by four green lunules ; the costal streak, the terminal lunules below apex and the fringe tips fawn-colour.
Head, thorax, and abdomen green powdered with white, the last with dorsal and subdorsal mws of white spots ; pectus, venter, and legs white ; forelegs tinged with tawn-colour; antennae with the shaft white and the short rigid pectinations dark fawn-colour.
Expanse of wings : 27 mm.
1 c? from near Setekwa Kiver, Snow Mts., Dutch New Guinea, up to 3500ft.; October to December 1910 (A. S. Meek).
5. Anisogamia fragmentata Warr. ab. major ab. nov.
Like so many other New (luinea insects, this species occurs of two sizes ; of 5(?(Jand 2?? from Ninay Valley, Central Arfak Mts., Dutch New Guinea, 1 (? only agrees in size with the typo specimens from Biagi ; the rest expand 3(i mm. and the ? ? 38 mm. These examples — which may be separated as ab. major — agree exactly with the type, but the white markings are clearer and more distinct ; the ? ?, as usual, are quite dillereut. The pale costal streak is thickly dusted with fuscous atoms ; the outer line from two-thirds of costa to two-thirds of inner margin is white inwardly edged with lilac grey, more broadly above vein 6 ; between veins 6 and 5 the line forms a small sinus outwards and is abruptly broken off at vein 3 ; the terminal area beyond is greyish white, containing a green blotch beyond the sinus, below which the white line is outwardly as well as inwardly edged with lilac grey ;
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between veins 3 and 1 tlie grey termen is qnite narrow, ending in a ronnded white blotch at two-thirds of inner margin ; veins across border darij ; marginal Innnles blackish ; fringe grey ; in the hindwiiig the terminal bonier is narrower at costa and very narrow before toruns ; on middle of inner margin is a narrow grey streak expanding towards base.
6. Anisogamia reducta spec. nov.
<?. Forewing : pale semitransparent green; the veins deep green witli jiale dots; costa deep brown dotted with wliite ; basal area crossed by three or four interrupted pale lines, most distinct on inner margin; at one-third an obscure cloudy pale curved band ; two submarginal rows of pale spots between the veins, those on each side of vein 4 swollen ; a row of pale dots close before termen ; terminal line crennlate, dark green, with pale dots at the vein ends ; fringe grey-green.
Himlwimj: Similar, without the pale band; a brownish blotch at apex between veins 7 and 8.
Underside iridescent pale green, with the white marks showing through ; costa of forewing yellowish, with slight fuscons markings.
Head, thorax, and abdomen dark green, mixed with whitish scaling ; lower part of face and outside of palpi greenish white ; dorsal segments of abdomen with white spots at their hinder edge ; segments 5 and 6 dorsally dark fuscons.
?. Forewing with the pale band ending in a brown spot on inner margin; termen dark greenish fuscous, its inner edge projecting roundly on vein 5, and followed by a deeper shade; terminal line crennlate, blackish ; fringe fuscons, with pale dots at base between veins.
Ilimhriiig : the same.
Underside with the terminal band whitish, edged inwardly by a narrow dark band indented in middle in both wings ; costa of forewing yellowish. Dorsum dark fuscous, mixed with a few greenish scales ; anal tuft whitish.
Expanse of wings : <? 25 mm. ; ? 25-28 mm.
1 c?, 4 ? ? from Ninay Valley, Central Arfak Mts., Dutch New Guinea, 3500 ft., February and March 1909.
The ? resembles that of dentatn Warr., but is smaller, and the dark border is without any reddish tinge.
7. Anisogamia semilineata spec. nov.
Foreirinq : deep green, very slightly transparent ; costa dark brown with white dots and a quadrate white spot at one-third ; a white dot at base of each fold and a larger one beyond the lower one ; a narrow white spot across each fold, hardly forming a line ; inner line starting from the white costal spot forms a bracket-shaped white mark across cell, below middle marked by two white dots, on median vein and vein 1, and two more, on submedian fold and inner margin ; outer line at four-fifths, lunulate-dentate, but very obscure, the teeth forming white dots on veins, and the lunules white dots between them, starting from vein 6 ; two submarginal rows of white spots, the inner somewhat elongated vertically, the outer horizontally ; a fine dark green crennlate terminal line, with white dots at the vein ends ; fringe pale green tipped with white.
Hindwing : with two white spots at base and a white cell-spot on upper half of discocellular, preceded by two large white spots in cell ; three white spots below
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snlimedian fold, the first joined by a bar to median vein ; a white spot at base of veins 2 and 3 ; outer line zigzag, white, interrupted in cell and marked by a white spot on vein 5 nearer base ; the rest as in forewing.
Underside very pale whitish green, the white marks of upperside showing through ; costa of forewing yellow, with a few brown speoklings ; the outer line and inner of the two submarginal lines marked at costa liy darker green and fuscous; three dark terminal dots lielow apex.
Head, thorax, and dorsum dark green ; lower part of face white ; palpi pale pinkish brown ; three rows of white dorsal spots on abdomen ; the middle row on the hinder edge of the segments, the lateral rows on their middle ; pectus, venter, and legs white ; the forelegs in front dark brown, with the joints white.
Expanse of wings : 2(5 mm.
1 c? from the Ninay Valley, Central Arfak Mts., Dutch New Guinea, 3500 ft., November 10i)S to January 1000.
8. Anisogamia veniplaga AVarr.
In Xop. Zool. xiv. p. 130 (1007), the S only of this species was available for description : I am