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NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE.
Vol. IV., 1897.

NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE

H Journal of Zooloo^

IN CONNECTION WITH THE TRING MUSEUM.

EDITED BY

The Hon. WALTEE EOTHSCHILD,
ERNST HARTERT, and Dk. K. JORDAN.

Vol. IV., 1897.

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Issued at the Zoological Museum, Trino.

PRINTED BY HAZELI., WATSON, & VINEY, Ld., LONDON AND AYLESBURY.

1897.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV

MAMMALIA.

PAOE

1. Neumann's Hartebeest (Plato XIV.). Walter Rothschild .... 377

(,SV aho pp. aO.I aii.l 514.)

AVES.

1. Notes on the Localities visited by (). T. Baron in Noithern Peru and on tlie

Trochilidae found there (Plate I.). O. T. Baron ..... 1

2. On some Necessary and some Desirable Changes of Names lately used in

connection with Philippine Birds. Ernst Hartert . . . . .11

3. Notes on Palaearctic Birds and Allied Forms. Ernst Hartert . . .131

4. Notes on Humming-Birds. Ernst Hartert . 148

5. Mr. William Doherty's Bird-Collections from Celeljes. Ernst IIartekt . . 153
G. On Difl'erences between Giildenstiidt's Redstart and its Eastern Ally. Walter

Rothschild ............ 107

7. Description of a New Hill-Wren from Flores. \\'alter Rotuschild . . 1G8

8. On the Figures on Plate II. (Plate II.). Walter Rothschild . . 169

9. Descriptions of Seven New Species of Birds and One New Subspecies from

Flores, and of One New Sub-species from Djampca. Ernst Harteut . 17(1

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PAGE

1(1. On a Complete Skeleton of Megalaptn-iix teniiipex in the Tring Museum

(Plate VI.). C. W. Andrews 188

11. On the Bii-ds Collected by Mr. Everett on Savu. Ernst IIartert . . . 263

12. On some Meliphagidae and other Birds from New Guinea. Krn'ST Hartert . .309

13. Coviatibis eremita (Linn.), a European Bird (Plates VIH., IX., X.). Walter

RoTHSc-niLD, Ernst IIartert, and O. Kleinschmidt 371

U. On the Birds Collected by Mr. Everett in South Flores. Part I. (Plate III.).

Ernst IIartert ............ 513

15. Various Notes on IIumming-Birds. Erhst Hartert 529

REPTILIA ET AMPHIBIA.

1. Descriptions of New Specie.s of Lizards and of a Troc-Erog from N.E. Queensland

(Plat&s XL, XIL). A. Guntheb 403

2. Further Notes on Gigantic Land Tortoises (Plate XIII. ). Walter Rdtuschild 4o7

COLEOPTEKA.

1. On a New Gatharsiua from Western Australia. John W. Shipp . . . 152

2. TroLs E.speces Nouvelles d'Eucn^mides de la Collection de Tring. E. Fleuitaux 177

3. Die Passaliden dichotomiscb bearbeitet. 2"" Theil. — Die Arten. A. Kuwert. 274

4. Some New Anthribidae. Karl Joedan . . . . . . .170

5. On Three Undescribed Coprophagous Lamellicorns. John W. Shipp . . 185

LEPIDOPTERA.

1. New Genera and Specie.s of Moths from the Old-World Regions. W. Warren 12

2. Descriptions of some New Species and Subspecies of Lejndopiei-a. Walter

Rothschild 179

3. New Genera and Species of Drepanulidae, Thyridid<ie, Epipleniidae, Uraniidae,

and OeomeVridae (Plate V.). W. Warren. . . . . . . 195

4. Some New Species of Heierocera (Plate VII.). Walter Rothschild . . 307

5. Two New Species of Butterflies. H. Grose Smith 313

6. Notes on Ileterocera, with Descriptions of New Genera and Species (Plat« IV.).

Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan .... . . 314

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7. Desci'iptioiis of Five New Species of L>/caeiiul(ie, captured by Mr. Doherty.

H. Grose Smith 366

8. New Genera and Species of Moths from the Old-World Regions. W. Warren 378

9. New Genera and Species of Thyrididae, Epiplemidae, and Geometridae. W.

Warhen 408

10. On some New Butterflies and Moths. Walter Rothschild .... 507

FOURTEEN P1.ATES.

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NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE.

Vol. IV. APEIL, 1897. No. 1.

NOTES ON THE LOCALITIES VISITED BY 0. T. BARON

IN NORTHEEN PERU AND ON THE TROGHILIDAE

FOUND THERE.

By O. T. baron.

(Plate I.)

SOJME of the localities mentioned in the following notes are referred to in the
first paper on the birds collected by me in Peru, and published by Mr. Salvin
in the second volume of this journal (Nov. Zool. II. pp. 1-22). The rest will be
included in a second paper shortly to appear.

I paid special attention to the humming-birds wherever I was, and the following
observations on them will, I hope, prove of interest.

PACASMAYO.

Pacasmayo, the seaport of Cajamarca, is situated on the beach, so that waves
of exceptional size wash into some of the houses facing the ocean. It is a place
of very little interest, being built upon sand-dunes without vegetation.

This causes a great scarcity of birds in the immediate vicinity of the town.
I saw only a few sparrows and one humming-bird during my stay there. The
humming-bird, Amuzilia leucophaai, was seen feeding from a few flowers, raised
in pots and boxes in the hotel garden.

I remained only one night, and took the weekly train in the morning for the
interior, arriving at Tembladera, 54 km. distant, after a ride of four hours.

TEMBLADERA.

Tembladera is located on a large dry tract near the liver Yonan. Nothing grows
away from the ditches excepting cacti and some desert-bushes. Over the irrigated
parts grow various trees, and rice is the principal cereal in the bottoms.

The large cactus, not unlike one of Arizona, differing, however, from it by having
small pink flowers along the sides of the stems, instead of white ones on the crown
as in the latter, furnishes the source of the principal food oi Rhodopis atacaniensis,
not only while in blossom, but also when the fruit is ripe and partly eaten by ants
or birds.

The flowers are first visited by these humming-birds so early in the morning that
one can hardly distinguish them when feeding. They continue to feed till 9 a.m.,
when the flowers close in the hot sun, to partly open again after 4 p.m.

Hipe fruit exists nearly at all times, and grows to the size of a small apple. It

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is of a sweetish taste, and sticky, so that when a bird sucks at it, it leaves a long
thread of glittering juice between its bill and the fruit when flying away.

The little Myrmia micrura is also found in this locality, feeding from some
small flowers which grow along the dykes. This bird here breeds in June, and
frequently builds upon its old nest of the previous season. It selects a bush not
over 50 cm. in height, and then places the nest between the top branches.

The Tnale at that season watches the female from a high twig iu the vicinity,
and whistles a note very much like that of Attkis fieloisat of Mexico, tjccasionally
he descends and flies in a vertical semicircle, always making a sound with the tail
when on its downward course. The female sits in a thick bush, and at about the
centre of the circle so made.

Arnazilia leucophaea is also quite common near Tembladera, and also a few
Agyrtria tct^zanmvskii were seen in that locality.

SAN PABLO.

fan Pablo is two days' travel along the river Yonan from Tembladera. The
place has an elevation of 7500 feet, just above the level of barren lands. Above the
town brushwood is seen along the cations, and even trees grow above 9000 feet. I
remained only one day at this place, time enough to recuperate the tired pack-animals.

Several species of humming-birds were seen in this neighbourhood, but few in
numbers. I saw a Diphlofjaena, probably D. aurora, in a deep caiion near the town,
but in spite of all attempts could not get a shot at it.

Of other humming-birds Patagona gigas was the most prominent one. This
species is far more plentiful in Peru than in Ecuador, where I have only obtained
a few after a great deal of work.

Addornyia melanogenys and Aglaeactis cujyreipennis complete the list of
hummers in this locality; the latter were in large numbers above the town. They
are very aggressive birds, and even put the Patagona gigas to flight.

Crossing the range towards Cajamarca, and all along the elevated grassy plains,
were varieties of agaves in blossom. These were visited by Pterophanes temmincki
and (h'eotrochilus stolzmanni.

CAJAJIARCA.

After travelling eleven leagues from San Pablo over the high plains of 11,500 feet
elevation, the road leads downward to Cajamarca.

This principal town of North Peru has about eight thousand inhabitants, and lies
on the eastern slope of the coast range.

On three sides it is surrounded by barren hills, partly cultivated by Indians,
whose huts are always surrounded by cacti. Agaves also form a part of the fences.
Both of the above-mentioned plants were in bloom, as well as other AmaryUidaceae,
and among those I observed on the subsequent day after my arrival a large humming-
bird with long tail at a considerable distance.

I advanced as quickly as circumstances would allow, and although out of breath
and probably a little excited, I had the satisfaction of seeing the bird fall after the
shot. I did not know the bird, and considered it entirely new. It proved to be
Cyanoleahia griseiventria !

The entire morning was spent in searching for more specimens of this species,
but I only obtained one more nude that day. From subsequent observations I

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concluded that C. griseiventHs is one of the rarer species of humming-birds. It
lives singly among rocky and inaccessible places and in deep canons. Many times
the collector has to shoot away several Patagona gigas in order to allovp
C. griseiventris to approach certain flowers. During two weeks' stay in Cajamarca I
obtained only eight specimens of this species.

The Mefallura opaca also may be seen around Cajamarca. I found in !May a
nest attached to an adobe house, with two grown young. Generally this bird builds
under the roof of a house or under an overhanging cliff.

On a hunting excursion up a cation which furnishes the water supply of
Cajamarca, I found a nest of Patagona gigas placed on the ground in a little
depression in a bank. The nest must have reared many generations of birds, judging
from its dimensions of 20 cm. diameter and 15 cm. height.

I also found the nest of the same species with j'oung, attached to a branch of :i
cactus.

Arriving at an elevation of 11,000 feet and entering a cave, I noticed a
female Oreotrochilus stolztnanni flying through the entrance. I searched the cave,
and was rewarded by finding a nest with eggs attached to the roof of the same. The
bird manages to stick some wool into a small crevice very tightly, and then builds
from it a hanging nest. Having made this observation, I had no difficulty in finding
other nests.

At the Hacienda Santa Ursula, near Cajamarca, I saw a Patagona gigas fly from
ti large boulder of limestone, which was overgrown with lichen. Suspecting it to be
a female I searched for a nest, the bird coming sometimes within a few feet of my
head. This strengthened my supposition, but I had to give up the search. Next
day I again started the bird from the supposed nest, but did not see the exact place
from whence she flew, and did not find it. I had to use strategy by hiding behind
rocks, and only then was it possible to see the bird retuni to its nest, which was
placed amongst the lichen on a protruding piece of rock, and almost impossible to see
from any part.

SAN IMARCOS.

San Marcos lies about tweh'e leagues from Cajamarca, to which it is connected
by one of the best roads in Northern Peru. It is a small place, but has a considerable
extent of cultivated area in the neighbourhood.

Wood is not so scarce as in Cajamarca ; all creeks and cailons ha\'e plenty of
brushwood. Here I discovered my first specimens of Cyanomyia cyaneicollis feeding
from \he flowers of an agave in company with Petasophora iolata, Patagona gigas,
and Myrtis fanny.

Although the first-named species, the C cyaneicollis, had difficulty in
obtaining food from flowers where the Petasophora also fed, the Myrtis fanny was
entirely overlooked or tolerated, not only by the Petasoplwra, but also by the
Patagona gigas.

After a day's travel, crossing the Cajamarca river and also the river Huamachuco,
I arrived in the Hacienda Malca.

MALCA (CA.IAKAMHA).*
Hacienda i\Ialca lies on a level with the river bottom of the Huamachuco, and
has a temperate climate, where sugar-cane is grown. The hills are covered by low
Ijrushwood and cacti, the cafions with willow and pepperwood.

* TIii> name is given as Malea in .Mr. Salvin".s pajser.

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Of humming-birds are found AgyHHa taczanowskii, feeding principally from
Amaryllidaceae, and Patagoiui gifjas, with Petasophm-a iolata and MyHia fanny
from the agave. I also shot Cyanoinyia cyaneicoUis near the river.

CAJABAMBA.

About six hours' travel from Malca, mostly up-hill, is Cajabamba, a town of about
four thousand inhabitants. It lies on the western slope of a mountain which has an
elevation of over 12,000 feet. To the westward is the Iluamachuco river, the margins
of which are covered with sugar-cane. The hills are clothed with small brushwood ;
only the caijons contain some small trees.

In the deep cations Diphlogae^ia eva* is found feeding on various flowers,
including the agave. It is a shy bird, and difficult to get, owing to the thickets in
which it flies. Often one may watch a flower an hour or more before one of the birds
nn-ives to feed, and then, after shooting it, it falls into the creek and is carried down
with the rapid-flowing water. Thus manj' specimens are lo.st to the collector.

The Cyanoleshia gnseiventris and AgyHria taczanowskii are also found below
the town. At an elevation of 8000 feet I saw the first Sappho caroli. It proved to
be a very shy bird. In spite of all I could do I could not get a shot that day. It was
the next morning that I was enabled to discover the hiding-pl.ace of the bird, when it
returned from feeding. It sat in a thick bush not over lA feet above the ground.
This, as I have experienced subsequently, is the habit of the species ; in all instances
they return to their cover after feeding, or when persecuted by other humming-birds.

Up the mountain above an elevation of 10,000 feet Lesbia (the species near
vietoriae) is found. It is a noisy bird, and can be heard at a distance when in flight,
chasing another male which happens to get within its feeding ground. The
females keep generally in the brushwood, and are difficult to see. During .lanuary and
February is the pairing season, and the birds are then in their best plumage. Then
one sees the 'male rise high in the air, and come down with spread tail like an arrow,
making a noise like a ribbon exposed to a very strong wind. This is repeated many
times, or till the female has shifted to another bush. It is eWdent that the performance
of the nude is intended to attract the female.

HUAiMACHUCO.

One short day's travel from Cajabamba, passing over a very broken country, partly
cultivated and partly covered with brushwood, brings the traveller to Huamachuco.
It is a small town, and has an elevation of 10,400 feet. Around the town the laud is
mostly barren, but the creeks are lined with small trees, principally' alders. In these
bushes I found Buarremon rvfigenis and B. haroni. They feed principally under
cover, and are only seen when flying from one thicket to another. B. rvfigenis
seems to be rather a rare bird, at least in this locality.

The commonest humming-bird around is Aglaeactis cupreipennis, and a great
many may be seen about a bush common in the ranges of Ecuador and Peru. It is
very much covered with spines, has small leaves and a pink composite flower. The
Metallura Ofiaea is not uncommon in cafions above the town, and is generally to be
seen sitting on a root under the bank of a creek.

Interesting is the Oreotrochilus siolzmanni. It seldom rests on a branch,
jireferring a high boulder from which it commands a good view over its feeding grounds.
Its food is taken from the same composite flower which is sought by A. cnpreipennis,

* Oiphlojaina era Salvin. Bull. B.O.C. No. xlii. p. xxx.

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and if a bird of that or any other species attempts to feed, it comes down from its
perch and always drives the intruder away. It seems that rights of occupation
are always respected by humming-birds, and intruders must give way.

On such occasions I have seen two obstinate 0. stohmanni fly high in the air,
there get hold of each other with claw and bill, and come down heavily to the
ground, still holding fast, till my gun made an end to the fight, and caused them to
be preserved for future reference.

All Oreotrochili feed while sitting on the flower.

Other humming-birds seen near Huamachuco are : Patwjona gigas, Lesbia
gouldi, Lesbia (the one near victoriue), Metallura smaragdinicollis, and Myrtis
fanny.

CHUSGON (HUAMACHUCO).

The Hacienda of Chusgon is about eight leagues eastwards of Huamachuco,
and has an elevation of about 8700 feet. A considerable amount of cultivated land
belongs to it, all near the river. The hills are covered with brushwood to about
10,000 feet elevation, and above that only grass grows.

In all my travels I have never seen Petasophora iolata more jilentiful than in a
canon, full of blooming sage, in the neighbourhood of the Hacienda. They actually
swarmed there, and did not even permit the strong Patagona gigcos to get a footing
Among them.

If one of them approached, three to four of the P. iolata would immediately set
upon it and drive it out of sight.

The Lesbia gouldi managed to get along by sucking a few flowers and then
dodging quickly into the bush.

From Chusgon a trail leads over a range of mountains, 12,200 feet high, to the
Hacienda Succha, eight leagues to the eastward.

SUCCHA (HUAMACHUCO).*

Succha is a very interesting place for a collector of birds, hawng all climates
within a short range, the Hacienda being nearly in the middle. The elevation of the
place is about 9000 feet, and really is on the slope of the JIarafion gorge.

I made an interesting observation here with Dipldogaena eva in shooting six mule
specimens from one and the same little twig, each several days apart from the other.
The birds chose the position on the twig because they could overlook a pretty large
extent of flowers from that place, and drive away any intruder which happened to
come there. Of com-se the position of the watching bird was known to other birds of
the species, and after I shot the watching one, others would soon find out that the
preserve was free to be taken up, and they chose the same favourite position of the
twig, only to be shot again at my next visit.

Above the Hacienda, and above an elevation of 10.000 feet, I found Aglaeactis
aliciae'\ feeding from parasitic flowers which abound upon alder and other trees.

The flower is orange-red, and grows in clusters like the mistletoe of otlier
countries.

They also feed fi-om a bush, the leaves of which are similar to oleander; the
flower, however, is more like that of the bean, and is white. The seeds are enclosed
in a beanlike pod.

* Suecha instead of Succha in Jlr. Salvin's paper. f I'late I.

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The bush grows in high mountains, above 8000 feet elevation, in Ecuador and
Peru.

Chaetocerciis bombus also can be found, at an elevation of 10,000 feet, during
-March, and Patagona gigas descends to 6000 feet west of the Marafion, feeding
from Amaryllidaceae.

VIJJA (HUAMACHUCO).

Going down-hill about four hours from Hacienda Succha we get to the river
Marafion, along which is a nan-ow strip of cultivated land, planted with coca and
>ome fruit-trees. This is called ^'ifla. The banks along the Marafion are completely
barren up to about 7000 feet elevation, and the strip of land along the Marafion is
only fertile because irrigated by a small creek from the mountains.

Agyrtria taczancnuskii seems to claim the exclusive right to feed from the
banana flowers in this place, Cyanomyia cyaneicollis seldom getting an opportunity
to \isit a flower.

I have seen one male specimen of Ghaetocercus hombus ; attracted by my butterfly
net, it came very close to me, the eyes evidently expressing the greatest curiosity.
The bird had a narrow escape from becoming a cabinet specimen.

The small parrot \fhich I discovered, Psittacula xanthops Salv., is not rare in
tliis locality. They fly in flocks, and feed on the seeds of the balsas tree and cactus
seeds.

A large pigeon feeds on the ripe seeds of the coca plant, and gorges itself to such
an extent as to burst its crop when falling from a tree after being shot.

In the morning the crops of the birds were always empty if shot before 8 a.m.

CHEPEN.

Chepen, a small town on the sandy plains irrigated by the Yonan river, is four
hours' distance by rail from Pacasmayo.

Near the ditches and on the river banks can be found large quantities of willows.

The hills are generally barren, but in the depressions grow large mesquits.

Large quantities of parasitic flowers cover the bushes of every kind, and attract
the two species of humming-birds found in this coast region.

Araazilia leucophaea is very numerous and Myrmia ynici'ura is not rare, both
feeding from the same flowers.

It rarely happens that the AmazUia drives away the Mynnia ; the former seems
to ignore the presence of the latter.

The white-winged pigeon (Melopelia meloda,) is rare here, but quite numerous
higher up among the hills along the river Yonan.

I have seen and heard the same bird among the reeds on river and ditch,
travelling towards Truxillo from the mountains.

SANTIAGO.

Leaving Huamachuco and following along the river to its source, thence crossing
a ridge at an elevation of about 12,000 feet, one comes, by descending some 2000 feet,
to a Hacienda called Porcon. The place has about 10,400 feet elevation, and is near
t he town of Sant iago.

The Hacienda has a very cold climate, and iiroduces only potatoes and barley.
The rest is pasture.

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It would be interesting to examine into a local plague or pest of the potato. The
tubers are full of larvae of a beetle while in the ground, and are destroyed by the same
insect when stored. A larva of a moth adds to the destruction of the stored potatoes.
The beetle did not exist in its perfect state during the month of April.

The people credit the hail, which falls quite often, with producing the worms,
and nothing to the contrary will convince them of their error.

Petasophora iolata is the most common of humming-birds here, and Oreotro-
cliUus stolsmanni, Patagona gigas, Metallura opaca, and Lesbin (near victwiae)
are also found.

Here also I observed 0. stolzmanni invariably sitting on rocks instead of on dry
twigs like other humming-birds.

OTUZCO.

Two days' travel from Porcon, over several ridges more than 12,000 feet high, one
comes to Otuzco. The roads are very bad, and during the rainy season quite imjjas-
sable for pack-animals. There is no shelter for the traveller, with the exception of a
rock, in the lee of which the night may be passed, though not without some
discomfort.

Otuzco has an elevation of about 9000 feet, and lies on an inclined ledge of
sandstone, upon which not a tree or bush grows.

A few miles down the road towards Truxillo some little vegetation and brushwood
can be found. The latter is principally found along gulches and creeks.

Along the barren hills, where only a few small flowers could be seen, I found the
first Thauviastura cora. The male bird generally rests upon some dry limb, and can
be seen a long distance away on account of its long whitish tail playing in the wind.
It is a known fact that every humming-bird sits head to the wind, and so it is not
difficult to go in the proper direction for a shot.

During the pairing season the male is often seen with the tail spread so that the
two longest feathers form nearly a straight line, and thus it flutters before the female,
which may be sitting in a small bush. The male also flies, like the Leshiae, high up
in the air, and then comes down swiftly, making a noise with the tail like a ribbon in
a strong wind.

I have found the nest and eggs of this species in the latter part of April. The
nest is built between small twigs near the top of a bush.

Sappho caroli is also to be found in this locality. The retiring habit of this bird
could be better observed here than in Cajabamba. The birds always sit inside a bush,
especially preferring one in or above a ravine. After feeding they always return to
their old place of rest.

Myrtis fanny, Petasophora iolata, and Patagona gigas are the only other
hummers in this locality.

PLATANAR.

Half a day westerly from Otuzco is the Hacienda Platanar. The elevation of the
place is about 4500 feet.

Nothing but barren rocky mountains surround the narrow strip of cultivated
land which lies along both sides of the Tnixillo river.

Bird life is exceedingly scarce — too far inland for coast birds, and no( high enough
for those of the mountains.

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Of humming-birds I only saw one nude, Thaumaatura cora, and a number of
Amazilia leucophaea, the latter with nest and two eggs on May 10th, 1895. The
nest was attached below the roof of the main building of the Hacienda. >

TKUXILLO.

One day's travel from the Hacienda Platanar is the largest town of North Peru,
Truxillo, surrounded by a vast sandy plain, mostly cultivated with sugar-cane.

In the interior from Truxillo, at an elevation of about 1700 feet, I found various
birds of interest, far more than at Truxillo itself.

Myrmia micrura was not uncommon at that place, and had mostly young in
their nests on May 15th. Avuizilia leiccophciea, the mo.-it common bird along the
North Peruvian coast, is also well represented here, and also a few female Rhodopis
were seen near the large cacti which grow on the hills near the coast.

CELENDIN.

From Cajamarca eastwards across a ridge of mountains over 12,200 feet elevation,
and after two days' travel without a hut to give shelter for the night, the beautiful
vallevs of Celendin and Vacapampa were reached. The valleys are in a high state of
cultivation for Peru, but the hills around are covered with small brushwood. Very
few species of birds are to be seen in these localities.

I remained here only a few days, long enough to obtain pack-animals to cross the
Maranon to Leimebamba.

From the valley of Vacapampa, 8500 feet elevation, it is necessary to climb a
ridge 1000 feet higher, and thence continue to descend over 6000 feet to the
Maranon. The country passed over is brushy, showing more varied vegetation than
the part gone over to reach the same river at Vina.

Below 6000 feet elevation the brushwood and cacti are covered with landshells,
which are also different from those of Vina. The river is passed at an elevation of
about 2900 feet.

On both banks of the Maranon I found Psittacula xanthops, and shot four
specimens. I saw other birds which belonged to the same species as those shot
at Vina.

Gladly would I have stayed a few days along the banks of the river, but as the
contract had been made to deposit my goods at Leimebamba, no inducement would
be accepted by the arrieros to alter the arrangement.

LEIMEBAIMBA.

On the descent towards Leimebamba, at an elevation of about 10,500 feet, already
in the timber-belt of the Rio Utcubamba (cotton river), I remained nearly fourteen
days. This jiroved to be about the best place to collect birds on my entire voyage,
being within easy distance of the high ground above which no trees grow. It was
necessary for the birds which adapt themselves to woods to remain some time at the
end of their daily upward search for food, and thus they became easy game, or else
I could get shots at them on their return to the lower levels in the evening.

Here I found the new Eriociwmia catharina Salv.* feeding on various parasitic
flowers. It is more of a forest species than Eriociieinis dybowakii, found in openings
on the way to Guayabamba at an elevation of 7300 feet.

* Ji. eatltarina Salvia, Bull. B. 0. C. No. Jtlii. p. xxx.

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Diphlogaena iris also flies in this region. I shot several specimens from my
tent while I was busy skinning birds.

Although I searched carefully for Loddirjesia mirnbHis all around my camp, none
were found till after descending to Leimebamba.

The town of Leimebamba is merely a collection of huts, at an elevation of VISoO
feet, having little cultivated land, most being forest. Here I again searched for
Loddigesia mirabilis, and had the satisfaction, after two days' search, to obtain a inale
with the two outer tail-feathers barely developed. Otherwise the bird was in old
plumage, indicating the necessity of waiting a few months more for full-plumaged
specimens.

For the first time in my collecting experience of humming-birds I shot three
adult birds (Adeloniyia inelanogenys) with one shot, two 'males and one female.
Four birds were flying together, evidently one female and three males, when I fired.
Searching carefully I found three birds ; one wMe probably escaped.

LEVANTO.

Levanto is a small town, a mere collection of huts with stone walls, mostly laid
loosely together. It has an elevation of 8800 feet, and is one and a half day's distance
from Leimebamba towards Chachapoyas. It is surrounded by forest, some of it quite
heavy.

In the canons, among thick brushwood, can be found DipJilogaena iris and
Loddiges ia mirabilis.

Heliotrypha viola is not uncommon in the vicinity, feeding from the same
flowers as the D. iris.

Besides the above-named species, the following are also found : Aglaeactis
cupreipennis, Docimastes ensiferus, Lesbia gouldi, My His fanny, Metalliira smarag-
diQiicollis, and Panoplites mattheivsi.

SAN PEDRO.

San Pedro is a little town or village some four or five hours to the south-east from
Leimebamba, and has an elevation of about 8900 feet. The town lies upon a hiU-side,
-cultivated towards the Utcubamba river and wooded to the south and up the liill.
It must have been a very important place during the times of the Incas, which is
indicated by the very large number of burial buildings, still in a pretty good state of
preservation. They are all circular structures of stone, some three metres high and
four metres diameter. All of them are along the ridge of the mountain.

Here I collected the best specimens of Loddigesia mirabilis during December.

Lesbia gouldi is very common in this vicinity, and frequently makes it difficult
for the above species, which is a more retiring bird, to feed from the raspberry
flowers.

CHACHAPOYAS.

Chachapoyas is situated upon an open plain between the rivers Utcubamba and
Ventillas, and has an elevation of about 7800 feet. To the south-east is a ridge of
wooded mountains. Upon the slope of that ridge, about four hours from the town,
are the ruins of a former Hacienda, once the hunting ground of Mr. Stolzmann,
where I also collected some twelve davs.

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I found, as above stated, only ruins, and was compelled to pitch my tent. It so
happened that the favoured locality for it was very near a thick bush full of flowers.
Hardly was the tent up when I heard the alreadj- familiar sound of the wings of
Loddigesia mirabilis. Immediately other arrangements were left and gun seized.
I saw a beautiful male L. rnirabilis in the bush, too near to shoot. A thought came
to me to save the bird for observation, for which I have never been sorry, although I
may have run the risk of losing so fine a specimen.

Shortly after a. female arrived and rested upon a small limb. Immediately the
vude bird discontinued feeding and flew forward to the female, the tail so spread that
the spatules were protruded in front of his bill. In this position it hovered a short
time, when a young male appeared upon the scene. The adult male discontinued his
performance and sat upon a little branch ; the young hovered before it, flying from
side to side about ten inches, and flipping its two long tail-feathers at every extreme
of its course, producing a sound as if two fine leather belts were flipped together.
The old male soon tired, forced the young to sit down, and then performed in the
same way, but flipping the spatules together above instead of below the tail as the
young one did. At times the adult male would also fly before the female from side
to side, making a noise with the spatules so as to be heard thirty metres off. If the
young returned alone and had nothing to play with, he would attack a dry leaf
furiously, pick at it, and flap the tail for many minutes at a time.

Once two young birds met, one attacking the other. The sitting bird would
watch the flying one, moving its head from side to side, and suddenly slip on the
branch and into a hanging position. The flying bird would still attack it ; yet the
hanging one, although imitating death, had its eyes wide open.

GUAYABAMBA (= HUAYABAMBA).

Guayabamba is the valley along the river of that name, and has several settle-
ments at various elevations. AU is hea\dly wooded, and is a part of the great Amazon
forest. I descended to a place called " Huambo," also the former hunting ground of
Mr. Stolzmann, one corner-post of whose hut was still standing.

The fauna of this place, 4000 feet elevation, is verj' similar to that of Zamora in
Ecuador.

I found it a difficult place to hunt, because the former settlement had been
abandoned and nearly all paths were overgrown.

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ON SOME NECESSARY AND SOME DESIRABLE CHANGES

OF NAMES LATELY USED IN CONNECTION WITH

PHILIPPINE BIRDS.

By ERNST HARTERT.

1. Ciiviiyris excellens Grant, Ball. B.O.C. No. XXIII. p. xviii (1895), and lids, 189.'),
p. 2o.'), should stand as Cinnyris fiagrans (Ou.«t.), having been described nearly
twenty years before by Oustalet under the name of Aethopyga jlagrans in the Journ.
de I'Institut, 1876, p. 108, and being excellently figured and described by Shelley in
his admirable monograph of the Nectariniidae. The type of G. fiagrans came from
Laguna, the same place whence E\erett sent a fine series to the Tring Museum (see
Nov. ZooL. II. p. 488).

2. Artamides minda'iiensis Steere is the name still used for a Graucahis with
generallj' pure white under tail-coverts inhabiting Jlindanao, Basilan, and some
other islands, but it must be called Graucahis hochii Kutter, having been clearly
described under that name by Kutter in Ornith. Centralhl. 1882, p. 183. See also
Journ. f. Orn. 1883, p. 308, and 1891, p. 293. One might, of course, use the generic
name Artamides for it, but I do not consider the differences important enough for
generic separation.

3. Alcedo ispida L. from the Philippines would be with more accuracy called
A. ispida bengalensis, only the small Eastern subspecies of our kingfisher occun-ing
there.

4. Macropte'i'yx coniata would be better called M. comata tnajor Hart., all
Philippine birds having very long wings (Nov. ZooL. II. p. 473).

5. In Ibis, 1896, p. 554, Grant has declared that " Munia brunneicepjs is merely
the wora autumn plumage of M. jagori." With this sentence he evidently means to
say that the birds of Celebes, North Borneo, and the Philippines all belong to the
same species, in which he is doubtless right. It seems, however, still a question
whether the Celebes birds are not in the main slightly different after all, thus being
subsjiecifically separable. In any case Grant has, I think, pointed out the true
relationship of the so-called M. brunneicepjs, and it may be further considered whether
M. jagori is more than subspecifically different from M. atricapnlla.

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NEW GENEEA AND SPECIES OF MOTHS FEOM THE
OLD-WOELD EEGIONS IN THE TEING MUSEUM.

By W. WAKREN, M.A., F.E.S.
Family DREPANULIDAE.

1. Albara gracillima sp. nov.

Foreivings : pale silky straw-colour, tinged with pale brownish towards costa and
apex; the costa yellow; the two lines brown, situated exactly as in A. lilacina
Moore ; fringe brown, straw-colour towards anal angle ; no discocellular mark
visible.

Hindiviiigs: still paler; a brownish postmedian line only visible on inner
margin.

Underside like upjJer. Face, palpi, and vertex dark brown ; collar ferruginous ;
thorax and abdomen pale straw-colour.

Expanse of wings : 27 mm.

One S from the Khasias.

2. Albara opalesceus sp. nov.

c? . Foreivings : pale or dark mouse-colour ; the costa burnished brown towards apex ;
lines dark chocolate-brown; first line curved and wavy, verj' indistinct ; exterior line
from costa at two-thirds, outwardly oblique and indistinct to near hindmargin, then
acutely angled and running nearly straight and thickening to inner margin beyond
middle ; apex dark ; an oblique dark line from the apex all but touches the exterior
line at its angle, and is continued as a very faint dark line outside it to inner
margin and as a series of dark dots on the veins parallel to hindmargin ; fringe dark
brown, with the basal line burnished brown; cell-spot very indistinct ; at the lower
end of the discocellular is a pale yellow trifid spot.

Hindioinga : with costal area pale, the dark oblique line median ; faint traces
of a denticulated submarginal line ; fringe as in forewings.

Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous ; face and antennae dark brown.
Underside opalescent grey, unmarked.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

Several <S <S from the Khasias.

Nearest to A. reversaria Wlk., from Borneo, which has a burnished blotch in
the angulation of the outer line.

3. Ausaris fulvilauta sp. nov.

ForeiviTigs : yellow, washed with fulvou.s-orange, the whole surface sprinkled
with shining silvery scales, not massed, a? in argeMeola Moore and other species,
along the veins; a straight slightly fulvous line from near apex to inner margin
at three-fourths ; fringe fulvous, with a basal line of silvery scales.

Hinchvinga : the same, the costal area paler.

Underside wholly fulvous, without any markings. Head, thorax, and abdomen
all orange-fulvous.

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Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

One ? from Sandakan, March 1891.

Distinguished from the aUied species by the orange-fulvous coloration.

Walker's generic name Ausm-is (Wlk., Cat. XXVI. p. 1632. 1862), the type of
which, scintillata, is very close to, if not identical with, arrjenteola Moore, must
supersede Felder's Callidrepana, which dates from 1867 only.

4. Auzata simpliciata sp. nov.

Forewings: white, very thinly scaled; costal edge ochreous white; the lines
exceedingly faint, formed by sparse blackish scales ; first vertical, beyond one-third,
projecting outwards on the median vein, preceded by a fainter line ; second at two-
thirds, excurved beyond cell to inner margin near first line, followed by a fainter
line containing a dark blotch and dot on vein 4, and a black dot on each vein below
and above it ; a strongly dentate but very obscure submarginal line ; fringe white.

Hindwings : the same, but the lines single, and no black blotch beyond the
second.

Underside iridescent white ; costa of forewings fuscous towards base. Face and
forelegs brown ; antennae ochreous ; thorax and abdomen white.

E.xpanse of wings ; 32 mm.

One c? from the Khasias, May 1896.

5. Cobanilla cardinalis sp. nov.

Fm^eivings : deep brick-red, with some deeper red and, towards the hindmargiu,
blackish strigae ; an obscurely darker postmedian line, angulated beyond the cell ;
a sinuate blackish cell-mark with grey centre ; fringe red.

Hindivings : red, with a black grey-centred spot at each end of the discocellular.

Underside paler and duller ; the margins suffused with grey ; the strigulae
blackish ; both discocellulars blackish ; the line of forewings hardly marked. Lee's
bright red ; face dark brown ; thorax red ; abdomen pale grey, flushed with red above.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One S from Penungah, N. Borneo, December 1893 (Cator leg.).

6. Cobanilla hepaticata sp. nov.

Forewings : pale liver-colour, with some sparse brown strigulae ; costa with
a somewhat diffuse brown triangular Ijlotch at middle, followed by a patch of pale
grey scales reticulated with brown ; one or two brown spots near anal angle ; the
lines indistinct ; first starting from inner edge of the triangular patch, incurved in
middle, to inner margin at one-third ; outer line from outer edge of patch, bent out
along vein 6, sharply angled towards hindmargin, then nearh' straight to inner
margin before the anal angle ; fringe darker, with slight projecting scales at the
veins ; discocellular marked by pale grey scales.

Hindwings : with scattered blackish dots, and a minute whitish cell-spot.

Underside paler, without markings. Face and vertex dark brown ; thorax and
abdomen pinkish grey.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One (? from Sandakan, April 1894 (Cator leg.).

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Cyclura gen. no v.

Foreivings : with costa strongly curved throughout ; apex blunt ; hindmargin
slightly incurved to vein 3, then oblique.

Himhohigs : with apex rounded ; hindmargin rounded to beyond vein 3 ; inner
margin shortened, the anal angle truncate, with a semicircular excision before vein 3.

Tongue and frenulum both absent ; palpi short ; antennae flattened and
compressed ; hind tibiae with terminal pair of spurs.

NewraMon : forewings, cell more than half as long as wing ; discoeellular nearly
vertical, slightly incurved; vein 11 free; 10 and 9 stalked; 7 and 8 stalked;
9 becoming coincident with 8.

Type : Cyclura excisa sp. nov.

7. Cyclura excisa sp. nov.

Foreivings : rufous fawn-colour, with a few brown striae; the lines dark brown; first
from costa shortly before middle, acutely angled close to costa, then oblique to near
base of inner margin ; second from just beyond middle, running obliquely outwards,
with two bright brown velvety blotches on it, acutely angled outwards and incurved
to near middle of inner margin ; a minute white cell-dot.

Hindwings: with costal area whitish; a fine slightly curved central brown line,
with a dark brown cloud beyond it.

Underside pale pinkish grey, flushed with reddish in the middle towards hind-
margin of each wing. Face, thorax, and base of abdomen reddish ; rest of abdomen
pale silky ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One S from Penungah, N.E. Borneo, December 1893 (Cat or leg.).

Dipriodonta gen. nov.

Forevnngs : with costa arched throughout and rough-scaled; hindmargin
obliquely curved ; anal angle obtuse.

Hindwings : with apex and hindmargin rounded ; anal angle square.

Palpi short, porrect. Antennae of tj flattened laterally, uniserrate below ; the
teeth broad, close together, and curved; above appearing rasped, with short sharp
teeth.

Newration : forewings, 10 and 11 stalked, 11 from the areole ; 10 anastomosing
with 8, 9, to form the areole ; 6 and 7 both from the areole. Scaling thin ; forewings
in disc with oval hyaline patches. Frenulum and tongue both present.

Tj'pe : Dipi'iodonta sericea sp. nov.

8. Dipriodonta sericea sp. nov.

Fwewings : silky white ; two very faint brown lines near base, strongly curved
in cell ; a waved brown line from costa before middle to inner margin before
middle, distinct below the median ; a similar outer line from two-thirds of costa
to three-fourths of inner margin, strongly excurved in middle ; a brown shade on
costa beyond it, approximating to outer line, and forming two dark lunules and dots
between veins 2 and 4, and a dot on inner margin ; a grey marginal shade rising from
two black subapical dots ; some black specks at apex ; a black spot at base of dis-
coeellular, and a minute black dot on inner margin close to base ; lower half of cell

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tind space between median vein and subniedian fold as far as outer line semihyaline ;
fringe white, with a few dark scales along the white basal line.

Hindivings : with a faint median line, double grey postmedian, the outer arm
marked with black dots on veins, and single cvu^ved submarginal line ; a minute
black dot at lower end of cell.

Underside silky white, with costal area of forewings for three-fourths broadly
smoky black. Face, vertex, thorax, and abdomen all white.

Expanse of wings : 21 mm.

Three examples from the Khasias, June 1896.

9. Drepana forata sp. nov.

Forewings: fulvous-yellow, becoming fulvous-brown towards hindmargin ; outer
line from costa at three-fourths, sharply angulated towards hindmargin, then oblique
to inner margin at two-thirds, dark brown in its upper part, becoming orange-
red below ; traces of a curved orange median line at costa ; the outer line is pre-
ceded by fom- hyaline spots, the two upper and the lowest small, the other larger,
between veins 2 and 3 ; a small hyaline cell-spot ; fringe concolorous with hind-
margin.

Hindtmnrjs : with an orange-red median line.

Underside dull yellow ; the hindmargin of forewings orange-red. Face orange-
red ; thorax and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

One t? from Madagascar.

10. Euchera (?) nana sp. nov.

Foreivings : bronzy brown, with pale lilac-grey acutely angled transverse lines ;
two at base, two at about one-third, the outer one running out to midwing, there
acutely angled, and irregularly wavy and dentate inwards ; a fifth beyond middle,
angulated beyond cell, and straight and oblique to inner margin just beyond middle ;
two more from apex, parallel to the lower part of the fifth to inner margin before anal
angle, the last followed by a purplish blotch with white scales ; some dull purplish
blotches along hindmargin ; fringe purplish, with the apex white.

Hindivings : more purplish, with six or seven wavy pale lines, the outermost
dentate, none of them reaching the costa ; a marginal pale line with dark dots on it;
fringe as in forewings.

Underside bronzy grey ; hindmarginal area of forewings gilded bronzy. Face
and palpi dark purple ; thorax and abdomen like wings .

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One (?, one ? , from Japan.

The antennae are shortly unipectinate.

11. Euchera sericea sp. nov.

Foreivings: sUky white; resembling pitmani Moore, but with a broad grey
central fascia, followed by a curved line ; the submarginal series of spots more
incurved at costa.

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Hindwings : with the central line of lunate six)ts straight, not sinuate; the sub-
marginal line of blotches with two large horseshoe-shaped marks between veins 2 and
3, and 3 and 4.

Expanse of wings : 84 mm.

One i from Kina Balu, North Borneo.

12. Oreta bicolor sp. nov.

Forewings: greyish brown, with fuscous irroration towards costa in the outer
half of wing ; the veins paler ; a red and yellow oblique streak from inner margin
beyond middle, slightly curved into apes ; marginal area with a few dark specks ;
inner margin slightly paler; fringe concolorous.

Hindwings: with costa ochreous, merging into reddish; the rest of wing
brown ; traces of submarginal lines of dark specks ; cell-marks of both wings angular.

Underside deep red, the lines blackish ; forewings with inner margin whitish.
Face, vertex, pectus, and legs brilliant red ; antennae ferruginous ; thorax in front
lilac-grey ; rest of thorax and abdomen brown ; sides of abdomen bright red.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

One ? from Gunong Ijau, Malay Peninsula.

13. Oreta contracta sp. nov.

Foreioings : greyish olive, mingled with bright brick-red, and speckled with
fuscous and black scales ; an obscure diffuse median shade ; some irregular black
scales before hindmargin, massed towards anal angle into a double blotch, preceded
by a scarcely perceptible grey line, starting from a dark costal spot at three-fourths^
bent on vein 6, and straight below it ; fringe red, mixed towards anal angle with
brown-black ; a black spot on discocellular at the angulation, and a smaller one at
the lower end (these are absent in the <?, perhaps accidentallv).

Hindimngs : deep red, with irregularly scattered black scales.

Underside duller red mixed with blackish, and with coarse black sjieekles ; a
brown nearly straight outer line, plainer than above. Face, palpi, legs, and vertex
bright red ; thorax dark brown ; patagia and abdomen reddish grey.

Ex])anse of wings : S , 28 mm. ; ? , 30 mm.

A pair from Warri, Niger C. P., February 1896 (Dr. Both).

The forewings have an angle in the hindmargin between veins 3 and 4, with an
excavation above and below it ; inner margin of hindwings lengthened, especially in
ihe c? ; hindmargin straight.

14. Phalacra multilineata sp. nov.

Foreivings : ochreous, sufl'used and dusted with greyish brown; first line black-
brown, obUque from the costa and double, then obliquely dentate inwards to inner
margin near base; discal mark oblique, blackish; outer line at two-thirds, brown,
minutely crenulate, parallel to hindmargin, forming a brown patch on inner margin,
where it approximates to a central line which is very indistinct in its upper cour.se;
submarginal line parallel to outer line, marked by dark dots on veins ; space between
the two paler, forming a whitish blotch on inner margin ; a .subterminal jnterrupted
line formed of wedge-shaped black and white marks ; a dark brown blotch at anal
angle; fringe chequered pale and dark ochreous; all the lines start from brown
costal blotches.

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Hindivings : more or less sufifused with dark brown ; basal area ochreous, with
three or four wavy darker lines ; marginal line crenulate and zigzag, slender, bluish
white, preceded by four parallel straight lines, which are absent in vidhisaria Guen.

Underside ochreous, with the markings brown. Face dark brown ; thorax and
abdomen ochreous, the latter tinged with grey.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

Several from the Khasias.

Strepsigonia gen. nov.

S. Forewings : with costa slightly curved near base, then straight, and strongly
arched before apex ; apex falcate ; hindmargin angled at vein 3, concave above and
sinuous below.

Hindwings : with apex rounded, the inner margin prolonged; hindmargin
nearly straight, but with a slight elbow at vein 3 ; antennae of S bipectinate to
apex; palpi short; mid and hind tibiae with a terminal pair of spurs.

Neuratimi: forewings, cell more than half as long as wing; discocellular
strongly inangulated ; first median at three-fifths, second at four-fifths, third from
end ; lower radial from just above end ; veins 6, 7, 8 stalked ; 9, 10, 11 stalked ; 6 and
11 shortly separating; 7 at three-fourths of areole, which is long; 10 from just before
apex of areole ; 8 and 9 anastomosing to form the areole.

Type : Strepsigonia nigrimaeulata sp. nov.

15. Strepsigonia aflBnis sp. nov.

Forewings : pinkish ochreous, with grey suffusion ; two black spots on disco-
cellular, as in T. quadripimctata Wlk. ; a ferruginous wavy line, nearly vertical,
before middle ; a strongly dentate line at middle of costa, running out from veins
3 to 5 and inwards again to middle of inner margin ; the included space pale rufous ;
submarginal line pale, lunulate, with dark grey shading on either side, and a dark
.spot between veins 6 and 7 ; fringe fuscous, with a broad pale line at base.

Hindwings: the same.

Underside shining ochreous, with a brown submarginal line on both wings,
angulated on forewings; basal half of the latter suffused with rufous. Head, thorax,
and abdomen concolorous with wings.

Expanse of wings : 27 mm.

One ? from Padang Rengas, Malaj' Peninsula.

The hindwings are decidedly angulated at vein 3 ; and the neuration differs
fj'om that of S. nigrimaeulata : vein 11 rises from middle of areole; 8, 9, 10 all
close to costal margin. The antennae are shortly pectinated.

IC. Strepsigonia nigrimaeulata sp. nov.

Forewings : reddish grey, with darker grey markings ; the lines indistinct ; first
at one-fourth, very obscure ; second and third close together in middle of wing,
irregularly curved and dentate, the space between them slightly darker, especially
on co.sta ; two black dots on discocellular; submarginal line lunulate and dentate,
preceded by a darker shade, and with a dark grey blotch above vein 6 towards apex ;
marginal area narrowly greyish ; fringe above the angle dark fuscous, with a lighter
mark at ends of veins ; below the angle reddish grey.

Hindwings: with costal area pale pinkish ochreous, without darker dusting;

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central fascia fomiing an oblong blackish blotch on inner margin, its outer edge
denticulate, passing outside a small black dot at lower end of discocellulav ; hind-
marginal area tinged with dark grey ; fringe pinkish grey.

Underside glossy, vinous ; the outer line blackish and strongly expressed, angu-
lated in forewings, curved and sinuous on hindwings. Face dark red ; thorax and
abdomen pale pinkish grey.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One (S from Gunong Ijau, Perak.

Distinguished from Tridrepana quad/ripunctaia \\'lk. and its allies b^' the
angulation of the wings.

17. Teldenia fulvilunata sp. nov.

Foreicings : white; outer line at three-fourths, brownish grey, irregulai'ly bent
and forming a rectangular projection outwards between veins 3 and 4, then strongly
incurved to inner margin at two-thirds, preceded by a row of fulvous lunules, black-
edged internalh', except opposite the cell, where there are two black dots ; the
lowest lunule on the inner margin wholly black ; submarginal line fuscous, oblique
outwards, and evenly waved to vein 3, then running in and nearly touching the
outer line, thence irregularly waved to anal angle; a marginal row of distinct black
dots ; fringe white.

Hindwings : the same, but the lunules smaller, the space opposite the cell also
containing one ; a black spot on inner margin at end of outer line.

Underside white ; costa of forewings fuscous at base.

Face red-brown, narrowly white below vertex ; thorax and abdomen snow-white.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

One (S from S. Celebes, September 1891 (W. Doherty).

18. Tridrepana diluta sp. nov.

Like T. quadripunctata Wlk., but larger and more faintly marked on lioth
surfaces.

Expanse of wings : (J, 36 mm. ; ? , 38 mm.

Khasia Hills.

Walker's type of quadripunctata, a <S expanding 22 mm., from Sarawak, is
<lecidedly smaller and darker than the large Indian form ; but the smaller form does
occur in the Khasias, as well as the larger ; and the two forms may prove to be
seasonal. In Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, I. p. 341, Hampi^on gives 26 mm. as the
size of the S, and 38 mm. for the ? : the latter evidently belongs to the form
diluta ; his description agi-ees with the smaller.

I'J. Tridrepana subobliqua sj). nov.

Forewings paler ochreous than in T. dilida Warr., with faint rufous dusting;
the lines darker, the exterior blackish. Markings aliove as in diluta. On the
underside of the forewings the exterior line is thick and black, and runs from the
submedian fold straight into the apex, whereas in diluta the line, which is much
fainter, is angulated on vein 6 and retracted to the costa ; in the hindwings the outer
line is as strongly marked as in the forewings.

One i from i?. Java, 1891 (Fruhstorfer).

The single siieeimen is intermediate in point of size between T. (lihda Warr.
and T. quadripunctata Wlk.

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Trotothyris gen. iiov.

Forewinijs : with costa strongly shouldered at base, slightly sinuate beyond ; apex
minutely produced ; hindniaigin vertical from just below apex to vein 3, where it is
bluntly elbowed and excised to anal angle.

Hinchvings : narrow, with the projection at vein 3 broader, the excision below
as in forewings.

Antennae (?) simple; tongue present; frenulum ab.sent ; palpi short, applied
to face ; hind tibiae with four spurs ; the legs smoothly scaled.

Neuration : forewings, cell not half as long as wing ; discocellular very oblique ;
veins 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 anastomosing with stalk of 8, 9, 10, forming a long
areole.

Type : Trotothyris ahnoriualis sp. nov.

lio. Trotothyris abnormalis sp. nov.

Foreivmr/s : pale pinkish fawn-colour; the costal and subcostal veins marked
with silvery scales ; a large hyaline spot beyond cell, edged with black and externally
again with ferruginous, with a small hyaline dot at its base ; outer line from costa
above the hyaline patch, forming the edge of the ferruginous border, and below the
middle straight and oblique to inner margin at two-thirds, where it is edged with a
pale lustrous line ; a wavy darker submarginal line, becoming dark brown towards
anal angle, and followed by a feri'uginous patch at the elbow ; fringe dark brown ; there
are traces of three or four curved and wavy lines before the hyaline patch"; a minute
black cell-dot.

Hindivin.fjs : with costal area pale; a dark diffuse pale-edged central line, and
traces of a submarginal line from apex to elbow, which is ferruginous ; fiinge blackish ;
a dark spot below median vein near base.

Underside pearly ochreous, with a pinkish tinge ; marginal area fawn-colour.

Face dark lirown ; vertex, thorax, and liase of abdomen concolorous with wings ;
rest of abdomen pale grey.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

One ? from Peuungah, December 1893 ff'ator /e^/.).

Family THYRIDIDAE.
-M. Addea rectisecta sp. nov.

Foi'eivings : ochreous, with numerous olalique pale brown tesselated fasciae which
become confluent in the costal area and form a brown subcostal streak ; an annular
cell-spot, externally dark-edged, followed by three blackish dashes above vein .i ;
on the submedian fold towards the base are two or three more dark dashes ; fringe
pale, with the base broadly pale brown.

Hindim.iujs : with six straight brown fasciae parallel to hindmargin, the third
the darkest, the sixth narrow.

Underside similar. Face, palpi, and collar pale brown ; thorax and abdomen
pale ochreous mixed with pale brown ; the abdomen with a dark ring in middle,
corresponding with the dark third fa.scia of the hindwings.

Expanse of wings : 16 mm.

One 6 from Amboina, February 189:^ (W. Doherty).

Distinguished by the straight-cut hindmai-gin of hindwings.

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22. Bauisia praeusta sp, uov.

Fm'&unngs : glossy greyish ochreous, slightly reticulated with darker; traversed
hv dull rufous grey darker-edged bands ; one at base ; a second just beyond, bent
below middle ; the third before middle of wing, broader on costa and inner margin,
its outer edge bent on the median; foiu-th beyond the middle, bifurcate below the
middle of wing, followed by a curved black-brown streak with ferruginous edges
running to hindmargin below the middle ; a short subapical brown streak ; fringe
glossy greyish fuscous, with a dark dividing line, the basal portion darker, the apical
mottled, dark and light.

Hinduinga : with basal, bifurcate median, and broad ferruginous-tinged sub-
marginal fasciae.

Underside with the fasciae pale coppery brown, with the edges interruptedly
darker. P^ace, palpi, and antennae bright ferruginous ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen
glossy ochreous grey.

Expanse of wings : 36 mm.

One ? from Batchian, May 1892 (W. Doherty).

23. Banisia bifimbriata sp. nov.

Forevnngs : rufous ochreous, reticulated with brown; the markings chestnut;
costa broadly chestnut, suffused with grey ; a vertical brown line near base ; a narrow
antemedian chestnut fascia, edged with brown ; a broader inwardly bent chestnut
fascia beyond middle containing the dark cell-spot ; a submarginal fascia, interrupted
in the middle ; an irregular blackish spot near middle of hindmargin ; fringe broad,
bright chestnut, with a black median line.

Hindwings : paler, strigulated with dark hrown-black, with two blackish spots
above anal angle ; fringe as in forewings, but the dinding line hardly darker.

Underside coppery ochreous, with dark strigulations. Head, thorax, and end
of abdomen dark chestnut ; rest of abdomen paler, the basal segment ringed with
black.

Expan.se of wings : 29 mm.

One S from the Khasias, May 1896.

24. Banisia seriata sp. nov.

Forewings : ochreous, suffused with greyi.sh rufous, and with a few obscure
transverse striae ; a curved fascia ju.st beyond middle, most distinct towards inner
margin, where it is filled up with grey and extended basewards ; an obscure sul>
marginal fascia, in places tinged with grej'.

Hindivings : with two grey bands, one central, the other submarginal ; the
paler spaces traversed by thinner rufous bands.

Underside with the ground-colom- paler and all the markings nmch brighter ;
an angulated white mark on the discocellulars, with brown suffusion on each side
and a black spot at the base. Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous ochreous."

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One ? from Dar-es-Salaam, German East Africa.

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Family URANIIDAE.
2.5. Acropteris costinigrata ^-p- nov.

Forev/incjs : white ; tlie costa marked with distinct black spots at base, which
become broader and doubled towards apex ; markings much as in atriataria CI. ;
a straight diffuse shade from one-third of inner margin towards apex, a double line
from just beyond middle, and a submarginal line of strigulae, all meeting below apex ;
costal half of wing above the first diffuse line suffused with grey strigulations except
on basal half of costa ; fringe grey, with a darker basal line.

Hindwhigs: with an obscure basal, broad central, and narrower submarginal band
of grey strigulations, the last, followed by scattered strigulae ; fringe grey, the basal
line darker and slightly thickened at the veins ; a single small blackish dot in the
tooth.

Underside white ; the ccsta of forewings spotted with black. Head, thorax, and
abdomen white ; the face black.

Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

One S from the Gold Coast, West Africa.

26. Acropteris insticta sp. no v.

Forewings : dull whitish, with a broad diffuse oblique fuscous shade from one-
third of inner margin, a narrower shade from two-thirds, and a still narrower
submarginal one meeting below apex ; costa with fine dark strigulae, which are
produced as far as the oblique shade ; beyond the submarginal line is a series of
strigae vertical to the veins ; fringe white, with fine blackish basal line.

Bind-wmgs : with a double basal, suffused broad central, and narrow somewhat
broken submarginal fascia, the last united to the margin by irregular strigulae ;
fringe white, with black basal line ; no spot whatever in the tooth.

Underside grey, paler towards apex of forewings. Face black ; thorax and
abdomen whitish.

?]spanse of wings : 32 mm.

One (J from Madagascar.

In the hindwings the hindmargin is convex above the angle, and slightly
concave below it.

27. Acropteris nigrisquama sp. uov.

Formvings : white, the markings very much the same as in striataria CI. ; the
scales at base of forewings beneath black, and showing through a hyaline spot as a
dark mark on the upperside ; hindmargin slightly concave.

Hindwings : without a distinct black spot at the tail.

Expanse of wings : 36 mm.

One (J from Akassa, K. Xiger.

28. Acropteris reticulata sp. nov.
Fm-ewings : dull white ; the costa with fine fuscous strigulae ; the whole wing
covered with transverse partially reticulated striae; an indistinct double grey line of
striae from inner margin beyond middle towards anal angle ; fringe white, with an
ochreous basal line.

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Hindidngs: with the striae tending to arrange themselves in cross lines; a
small black dot in the angle.

Underside pin-e white ; thorax and abdomen white.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

One (J from Tenimber, June 1892 (Doherty).

Aploschema gen. nov.

Fweimrngs: with costa curved from base to apes ; hindmargin curved.

Hindtuinffs : ^vith a short sharp tail at \ein 4 ; apex and anal angle rectangular ;
hindmargin faintly sinuous on either side of the tail.

Antennae of ^ lamellate, subdentate ; hind tibiae of S wifh three spurs, as in
Micronia.

Neuration: alike in both sexes. Forewings, cell one-third of wing ; discocellular
straight ; first median at two-thirds, second close to, third from, end of cell ; lower
radial from a little above the middle of discocellular; 6 and 7 stalked; 8, 9, 10
stalked; 11 free. Hindwings with 6 and 7 short-stalked ; 3 and 4 from end of cell.

Type : Aploschema angidatari" Fab.

Dissoprumna gen. nov.

Foreii'ings : with costa arched throughout; apex blunt ; hindmargin curved.

HindtvinrjR : with a tooth at vein 4 ; the hindmargin above it sinuous, below it
straight ; the anal angle lobed.

Antennae flattened, lamellate; legs short ; hind tibiae of J with four spurs.

Neuration : alike in the two sexes. Forewings, cell one-third of wing ; discocellu-
lar vertical ; first median not far before end of cell ; second and third stalked from
end ; lower radial from centre of discocellular ; fi and 7 long-stalked ; 8, 9, 10 stalked ;
11 and 12 stalked. Hindwings with lioth subcostals and la.st two medians stalked.

Type : Dissoprumna eryainarin (fuen.

29. Micronia fuscifimbria sp. nov.

Forevnngs : white, with sparse ochreous striae, the costa very faintly dotted with
fuscous; median and outer ochreous parallel lines ; inner line obsolete; fringe ferru-
ginous ochreous, the base darker, and with minute darker dots at end of veins.

Hviulivincis : with broad ochreous median line curved into inner margin above
anal angle ; curved and denticulated ochreous submarginal line ; some ochreous striae
before hindmargin ; fringe as in forewings, with a minute black dot at the base of
the tooth, and a large black spot before it.

Underside wholly white. Face and palpi dark brown ; thorax and abdomen
white.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

Three examples from the Tenimber Islands, .Inly 1892 (\V. Doherty).

30. Micronia pluviosa sp. nov.

6. Forewiiv/s : white, with dark grey transverse lines and strignlations, becom-
ing blackish along costa; the strignlations, which are really thick streaks, are all
somewhat oblique outwards, while the three lines, which are smoky grey, are jiarallel

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to the Liiidmargin, the second and third appearing furcate towards costa ; fringe
white, with dark gre)' basal line, thickened above and marked with grey blotches
between the veins.

Hindwiiigs : with inner margin broadly grey and with three grey streaks, one
from near base of costa towards anal angle, the second from middle of costa to half-
way between anal angle and tooth ; the third from before apex, slightly curved and
denticulate, joining the second before hindmargiu ; the black marginal line swollen
above the tooth into black spots at end of veins; a black dash in tooth, a large black
spot before it and another on vein 3.

Underside uniform grey. Face and palpi black ; vertex white ; thorax dark grey ;
abdomen white, grey-tinged.

Expanse of wings : J, 58 mm. ; ? , 02 mm.

The ? is paler, less densely strigulated ; the underside of forewings with the
margins white ; of hindwings wholly white, except the costa.

The (J agrees with M. sinuosa in haxing the hindmargiu of forewings indented
below apex and above anal angle, the submedian vein of forewings sinuous. In the ?
the hindmargiu of forewings is indented only below apex, the rest being slightly
convex.

One f? from Penungah, December 1893 ; one ? from Kina Balu, North Borneo.

31. Micronia sinuosa sp. nov.

Foreiviwjs : dull white, covered with thick greyish ochreous strigulations ; two
oblique greyish ochreous streaks parallel to hindmargiu, from inner margin beyond
middle and at four-fifths, the first thicker, especially on the inner margin, both
becoming obsolete before costa ; fringe white, with a concise brown-black line at base ;
hindmargin shortly indented just below apex, and more broadly above anal angle.

Hindwings : with a cm-ved central and curved and denticulate submarginal
ochreous shade ; some more uniform ochreous strigulae befoi-e hindmargin ; fringe
ochreous white ; the basal black line much swollen opposite the veins above the tooth,
less so below it ; a black dash in the tooth and a large black spot before it ; an
additional, but smaller, black spot on vein 3 before the margin.

Underside uniform dark grey ; fringe of forewings white, of hindwings greyer.
Face and palpi black ; thorax and abdomen white.

Expanse of wings : 54 mm.

One S from Palawan.

Differs from M. acideata in the neuration : veins 2, 3, 4 of forewings are not dis-
torted, but vein 1 is strongly sinuate.

32. Pseudomicronia unimacula sp. uo\.

Foreivings : white, the costa minutely strigulated with black ; the transverse
lines very pale ochreous, indistinct ; these are six in number, and are arranged
much as in Strophidia fasciata, each partially double and forking towards costa, the
outside one being a fine single line parallel to hindmargin ; fringe white, with a faint
basal line.

Hindwim/s : with four oblique ochreous fasciae and two lines of striae along
hindmargin, curving into anal angle ; tooth with one large black spot ; marginal line
slightly swollen at the veins.

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UDderside pure white. Face, thorax, and abdomen all white.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

Two (?(?,! ?, from Dili, Portuguese Timor, .^lay 1892 (Doherty).

33. Stesichora angulilinea ^ip. nov.

Forewinga ; white, with ochreous strigulation ; costa finely marked with blackish ;
an upright ochreous line from inner margin at two-thirds, slightly curved above and
not reaching costa ; a fainter line, formed of striae, half-way between it and the
margin ; fringe rufous, with a dark fine line at base.

Hinditnngs : with the two lines equally distinct, angled and denticulate in the
middle ; some fine straight rufous strigae before hindmargin ; fringe rufous, with
shallow black lunules at end of veins ; a black dash in the tail and a black spot
before it.

Underside white. Face and palpi black ; thorax and abdomen white.

Expanse of wings : 48 mm.

Many of both sexes from Dili, Portuguese Timor, May 1892 (Doherty).

34. Stesichora combinata sp. nov.

Foremngs : white ; basal half of costa with numerous oblique short dark striae ;
apex with a double blackish blotch ; two very pale brown oblique lines from inner
margin, which become obsolete before the ajiex ; fringe white.

HindwiTigs : with two straight lines, the outer one greyer, and a short basal line.

Underside of forewings slightly tinged with grey ; the apex smoky grey ; of
hindwings white. Face and palpi black ; thorax and abdomen white.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One cJ from Constantinhafen, German New Guinea.

35. Stesichora nivea sp. nov.

Foreivings : white; three black dots near base of costa and one at apex;
marginal line and fringe pure white.

Hindwings : with fringes wholly white, without a speck of black.

Underside all white. Tborax and abdomen white ; face and palpi black ;
antennae above white at base, then grey ; underneath yellowish.

Expanse of wings : 50 mm.

A pair from Kei Toeal, January to March 1896 (H. C. Webster).

3G. Stesichora pieridaria.
Micronia pieridaria Guen., Phcd. II. p. 30 (? locality^.
Stesichm-a qxuidrislrigata Wan-., Nov. Zool. III. p. 274 (Fergusson Island).
The species described liy me as quadristrigata is evidently identical with
Guen^'s pieridaria and must sink.

F.\.Mii,Y EPIPLEMIDAE.
37. Decetia numicusaria \Mk. ab. sinelinea nov.
Forewinga: rufous, with a few brown strigulations at anal angle only ; the sub-
marginal apical spots black, with white scales round them ; cell-dot minute ; no trace
of oblique outer line ; fringe deep red, with an orange line at base.

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Hindlinngs : with the outer half brown, with dense strigulations ; the orange
line before fringe conspicuous ; the rest as in type-form.

One (J from the Khasias, June 1896.

This form is almo.st identical with Butler's D. iasiijnis from the Solomon
Islands.

38. Epiplema caesia sp. nov.

Foreimiigs : pale blue grey, dusted with fuscous and tinged in parts with
fulvous ; traces of a dark curved median line near costa ; liindmargin freckled with
iron-grey, edged internally by blackish scales, forming a curved line from near apex
to anal angle, protuberant towards cell ; fringe mottled dark and light grey.

Hindwings: with costal area white, dusted finely with black, edged by an
undulating black line followed by deep chestnut, mixed with fulvous and metallic
scales, this tint running up in middle of wing towards base ; on centre of inner
margin is a whitish patch varied with yellow and black scales ; a black spot below
the base of lower tooth.

Underside grey, coarsely mottled with blackish ; the forewings dark, the hind-
wings whiter. Face, palpi, and collar a mixture of dark fuscous and yellowish scales ;
the collar and basal half of co.sta of forewings varied also with metallic scales.
Thorax and base of abdomen like forewings ; anal half of abdomen fuscous, with paler
rings.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One ? from the neighbourhood of iManila (.1. Whitehead).

Akin to E. viistahilata Wlk.

39. Epiplema instabilata semifulva subsp. nov.

In this local form the markings of the hindwings are all bright fulvous, with
a few fuscous strigae towards anal angle and the small black dot before second tail.
Expanse of wings : 20 mm.
Several examples from the Khasias.

40. Epiplema niveipuncta sp. nov.

Fmvvjings : dull grey, traversed liy close vertical lines of dark grey scales and
tinged with ferruginous in certain lights ; the costa paler, either ochreous or ferru-
ginous, between the striae ; first line at one-third, blackish, edged inwardly with
ferruginous ; second just beyond middle, edged outwardly with bright ferruginous,
convex outwards from costa to middle, concave thence to inner margin ; submarginal
line indistinct, sinuous, blackish ; a deep black dot before ape.x ; fringe mixed, dark
grey and feiTuginous, with a paler basal line and paler tips.

Hindioings : with the lines rather more distinct, especially towards inner
margin ; a pale somewhat ferruginous patch above anal angle ; an indistinct sub-
marginal line of black dashes surrounded by ferruginous scales; a snow-white triangular
spot before the upper tooth.

Underside dark cinereous ; the white spot of hindwings marked. Head, thorax,
and abdomen like wings, a mixtm-e of dark iron-grey and ferruginous.

Expanse of wings : 16 mm.

One cJ from the neiglibourbood of Manila (.1. Whitehead).

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41. Epiplema paradeicta ^i'. nov.

Forewings : white, indefinitely suffused with very pale yellowish ochreons, and
with fine yellowish striae ; costa finely dotted with blackish ; beyond the middle are
traces of a double yellowish fascia, containing slightly darker striae, the first having
on its inner edge a spot of dark brown scales lietween veins 2 and 3, the second with
some slight dark scales on inner margin at anal angle ; a minute black suhapical
dot between veins 6 and 7 ; fringe white, with yellow basal line.

Hindwings : with an ochreous patch at base, angulated in middle of wing ; a
pale ochreous line from costa before middle to beyond the angle of basal patch ;
a postmedian diffuse yellowish shade from costa before apex to below middle of wing,
where it is expanded and reaches from the end of the basal patch to hindmargin,
containing a deeper 3'ellow patch opposite the cell, and some very fine darker curved
strigae on its inner edge ; a black dot before upper tooth, a very minute one above
it, and a brown dot before lower tooth ; fringe white, with ochreous basal line, broader
lietween the teeth.

Underside white, the costa at base blackish ; a subcostal ochreous fuscous streak
from base to four-fifths, where a similar fascia runs straight to anal angle, its inner edge
diffuse, its outer edge concise and straight ; a minute black dot between veins G and 7 ;
hindwings white, with the costa and a patch opposite cell ochreous ; the dark dots
slightly marked ; fringe of upper tooth blackish. Face brown ; thorax and abdomen
white and ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 21 mm.

One ? from S. Celebes, September 1891 (\V. Doherty).

The inner margin of forewings is sinuous ; costa of hindwings evenly curved
and fringed with hair throughout; the teeth both long, the lower one deflexed.

42. Gathynia divaricata sp. nov.

Forevmigs .• pale ochreous, suffused and dusted, except along the submedian
ai-ea, with brownish grey and rufous ; the costal region thicklv speckled with grey ; the
lines ferruginous ; first from costa at one-fourth, irregularly excurved and bluntly
angled on the median vein, thence oblique and straight to inner margin at one-third ;
second at three-fourths, stronglj- excurved to below median, then sinuous to inner
margin at four-fifths ; a faint ochraceous streak along the cell ; two small black dots
or dashes before hindmargin below ajiex ; marginal line fine, dark ; fringe ochreous
grey, with a darker dividing line.

Hindwings: wholly greyish rufous; first line acutely angled in middle, second
curved and hardly angled ; four or fi\e black dashes on feiTuginous scales below the
tooth.

Underside pale straw-colour, the forewings much smeared with grey. Face and
palpi blackish ; vertex and collar dark grey ; thorax ochreous mixed with grey ; the
patagia and abdomen ochreous, the latter marked with grey on back of basal
segments.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

One cJ from Bonthain, S. Celebes, 5000—7000 feet, October 1895 (A. Everett).

Resembles Gathynia fumicosta \\'a.n: from the Khasias, but at once distin-
guished by the wholly brown hindwings and their single tooth at vein G.

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Family GEOMETRWAE.

SiHFAMiLY OENOCHROJIINAE.
Adeixis gen. nov.

Foreivin(/8 : with costa straight; apex blunt, nearly rectangular; hindmargin
oblique, straight above, strongly rounded below, the anal angle truncate.

Hindivinijs : with margin and both angles well rounded.

Forehead with rough porrect scales; palpi porrect, subrostriform, roughly scaled;
antennae of c? bipectinate ; the pectinations stiflf and bent forwards at their ape.x, all
strongly ciliated ; those on the inner side of the shaft only half as long as those on the
outer; hind tibiae thickened and roughly scaled, with four stout spurs; hind tarsi
short, one-third of tibiae ; forewings witli rough hair at base of costa beneath, covering
the retinaculum.

Nenrcdimi : forewings, cell more than half as long as wing, both margins bent
inwards towards extremity ; first median nervule at two-thirds, second before end,
third from end of cell ; lower radial from somewhat above centre of discocellnlar ;
upper from upper end of cell ; veins 7 and 8, and 9 and 10 stalked, 8 anastomosing
with 9 and 10 to form a single areole ; 11 free. Hindwings with costal closely
approximated to subcostal for three-fourths of cell, then rather strongly curved away ;
cell three-fifths of wing ; first subcostal and second median from before the end of
cell ; radial ft-om above the middle of discocellular.
Typje : Adeixis insignaia sp. nov.

The genus seems to agree in the main with what Mr. ^leyrick (in the
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of X. S. Wales for 1889, p. 119G) calls Aspilates
Tr. ; but as I cannot see how a genus formed for European species can be restricted (?)
so as to include Australian Oeaochrominae, I have referred the insect under notice to
a new genus.

43. Adeixis insignata sp. no\-.

Forewings : mouse-colour, dusted with darker atoms ; no distinct markings ; a
slightly darker cell-spot ; an oblique outer line from middle of inner margin towards
apex, sometimes marked by darker denticulations on the veins, and traces of a pale
curved submarginal line ; fringe concolorous, beyond a very fine dark marginal line.

Hindwings : paler, ochreous grey, becoming darker only along hindmargin.

Underside the same. Head and thorax mouse-grey ; abdomen somewhat paler -^
palpi tinged with ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 21 mm.

Two ? ?, four cjc?, from Parkside, Australia.

A very obscure-looking insect.

44. Onycodes rubra sp. uo\ .

Forewings: reddish fawn-colour, sprinkled with black scales; the lines very
obscure, reddish, at one-third, one-half, and two-thirds, oblique from the costa, then
vertical and waved ; a paler diffuse grey shade from apex towards inner margin, the
marginal area beyond reddish ; fringe reddish.

Hindivings : dull red, sprinkled witli black; with two dark lines; the inner
margin greyer.

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Underside of lx)th wings brighter red ; apex of forewings and inner margin of
hindnings grev, the latter with a eiu-ved orange-red band in the middle. Ya.ce and
vertex dark brown ; thorax concolorous with wings ; abdomen wanting.

Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

One ? from Daw.son, N. Queensland (A. 8. -Meek).

Subfamily OKTHOSTIXINAE.
Barrama gen. nov.
Allied to Raiabani Moore ; the wings more thickly scaled, not hyaline ; abdomen
not elongated ; hind tibiae of i not thickened or with a pencil of hairs, slender, with
the terminal spurs only ; antennae of c? subserrate, with fascicles of very fine cilia.
Type : Barrama impunclata sp. nov.

4u. Barrama impunctata sp. nov.

Forettyings : whitish, suffused, especially towards eosta, with pale ochreous
fuscous; an outer greyish line at two-thirds, slightly more oblitjue than the
hindmargin ; a small blackish cell-dot, and row of dark marginal dots ; fringe
greyish.

Hiivlimnijs : paler, with the line strongly curved and often very obscure.

Underside the same. Face, thorax, and abdomen [lale fuscous grey.

Expanse of wings : ? , 24 mm. ; J, 26 mm.

Ten c?c?, two ? ? , from Weenen, Natal, March 1894.

46. Bociraza reversa sp. nov.

Foreivings ; black, with a broad deep yellow lilotch from middle of costa
towards anal angle, rounded at the end and not continued basewards along the
costa.

Hindmngs : with a similar blotch, Init broader, from the inner margin towards
apex.

Underside the same, but duller. Head, thorax, and abdomen all black ; antennae
black at base, with the outer half white.

Expanse of wings : 39 mm.

Three c?c? from Obi, Moluccas, :\Iay 1892 (W. Doherty).

47. Cartaletis flexilimes sp. nov.

Fm-ewings : orange-red, with a broad black marginal border containing three
white blotches, the upper one large and irregular in shape, the lower two long ovals ;
the dividing line between the two colours is not angularly bent, as in C. erici Kirby,
but irregularly sinuous.

Hindivings : with a narrower black border from ai)ex to anal angle, narrowest at
the ends, and containing seven oval white spots.

Underside like upper. Face orange, with a white sjMt at top; frontlet and
antennae black ; collar white, with a dark edge ; thorax and patagia striped black and
white ; abdomen black with white rings above, orange-red below.

Expanse of wings : (?, 52 mm. ; ¥ , 58 mm.

A jiair from \\'arri, Niger Coast Protectorate, February 1896 (Dr. Roth).

In this species the bar between costal and subcostal of the hindwings, instead
of being near the base, is half-way down the cell, much longer, and very distinct.

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48. Eumelea albimacula sp, uov.

Forewings : brown-black ; costa towards base dotted with wliite ; an oblong
irregularly dentate-edged blotch beyond the cell from vein 7 towards anal angle ; two
small white triangular spots on inner margin before the anal angle ; fringe black ;
cell-spol deep black.

Hindwinijs : with the white blotch broader, its edges more regularly crenulate,
touching the inner margin, and containing the black cell-spot.

Underside rather paler. Face and palpi (damaged) tinged with fulvous,
probably when fresh wholly fulvous ; vertex and collar fulvous ; thorax and abdomen
black ; a small fulvous spot at base of forewings and side of thorax ; legs grey ; fore
tibiae fulvous ; tuft of hind tibiae pale.

Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

One c? from Obi, Moluccas, May 1802 (W. Doherty).

This unusually coloured species is, of course, nearest to E. algidaria Wlk. from
My.sol.

The forewings are decidedly narrow, the apical portion much produced ; hiud-
margin very oblique, slightly bent at vein 6 and incurved before anal angle.

49. Eumelea ludovicata cupreata subsp. nov.

6. Fwewings : wholly suffused with rich coppery fulvous, with thick purplish
fuscous or olive-fuscous dots and striae; costa purplish, dotted with black ; the lines
pui-plisb fuscous; first line curved, at one-third, consisting of a costal spot and a
spot on submedian fold ; second from middle of costa, excurved round cell, and also
marked by a round spot on submedian fold ; submarginal shade nearly straight,
diffuse ; an obscure fuscous annulus on discocellular ; fringe dark.

Hindii'ings : with the lines distinct only towards costa ; apex slightly paler, in
only one example j-ellowish.

Underside yellow ; the forewings suffused with fulvous, and spotted and blotched
with brown-red ; the costa and submarginal shade prominently brown ; hindwings
with all the spots and blotches tinged with rosy.

S. Exactly like the S of the form rahrifiisa from Dili, Timor, except tliat
the spot at base of middle line on inner margin of forewings, and the eorre.sponding
spot on costa of hindwings, are larger and round.

Seven c? cf , three ? ? , from Tenimber, July 1892 (W. Doherty).

Intei-esting as showing the local variation, confined almost wholly to the c?c?.
These from Tenimber have lost all trace of the yellow blotches which are the special
characteristic o{ ludovicata Guen. in the various c? -forms.

50. Eumelea sanguinata australiensis subsp. nov.

Differs from the type {sanguinata Warr.) in being about two-thirds the size and
less vividly red ; apex of hindwings sometimes narrowly yellow.

Several examples from Cedar Bay, south of Cooktown, and Geraldton (A. S. Meek).
The ? ? in this species are as red as the cJ c?.

•"il. Eumelea semirosea sp. nov.

Forewings: olive-fulvous, with rosy transverse striae; the costa yellow, with
purple-fuscous striae ; discal ocellus bright rosy ; a curved thick deep ro.sy line at

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two-thirds, beyond which the whole marginiil third is siifl'used with deep rosv,
including the fringe, the costa remaining narrowly yellow ; no trace of inner or
suhmarginal line.

Hindwings : the same, with cell-spot obscure.

I'nderside similar, but duller. Kace, palpi, and collar marked with lirilliaut red ;
thorax, like the extreme base of forewings, yellow ; abdomen yellow and suffused ^vith
rosy.

Exjmnse of wings : 54 mm.

One cJ from Halmaheira, August 1892 (W. Doherty).

The apex of forewings is blunt, the hindmargins of both wings more fully
curved and rounded than usual ; distinguished by the contrast between the fulvous
inner area and the rosy marginal third.

52. Noreia muricolor sp. nov.

Fm'nvings : mouse-colour, reddish-tinged, and very finely speckled with black;
first line marked only by dark dots on veins ; cell-spot brown ; outer line deep
brown, edged outwardly with ochreous, from two-thirds of inner margin towards costa
before apex, slightly concave outwards ; fringe concolorous, with a very slender dark
basal line.

Hindvnnc/s : rather darker ; the cell-spot more prominent ; the obliciue line
central and thicker.

Underside paler, more speckled, with a sinuous brown outer line on both wings.
Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One S from Natal.

There is not the slightest trace of an}' hairs on the underside of the hindwings.

53. Ozola pulverulenta sp. nov.

Foreimngs : pale greyish ochreous or greyish fawn-colour, with darker mottlings ;
the lines indistinct ; first at about one-third, curved ; the second at two-thirds, also
curved from costa to submedian fold, then straight to inner margin ; cell-spot slightly
darker ; fringe grey.

Hindiuings : a little paler, with denser mottlings along inner margin ; fringe
concolorous ; a linear cell-mark. Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish.

Underside paler, with rufous freckliugs.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

Numerous examples from Weenen.

Evidently a very variable insect, both in the ground-colour and in the distinct-
ness of the markings.

all. fasciata ab. nov.
The whole of the central space between the two lines filled up with dull brown,
the lines themselves being still dark<r brown and clouded.

Xantheliodes gen. nov.
Forewitvgs: elongate; costa straight, slightly curved just at base and before
apex ; apex rounded ; hindmargin obliquely curved and passing into inner margin
without forming a distinct anal angle.

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Hiiidwiiifis: elongate, narrow; apex roumleil ; hindmargin scarcely' curved;
anal angle obtuse.

?>enulum absent. Antennae of 6 bipectinated nearly to apex, the pectinations
clavate ; palpi very short ; tongue slight; face smooth; forehead hairy; hind tibiae
with apical pair of spurs ; legs short.

Neuration: forewings, cell nearly two-thirds of wing, shorter above than below ;
discocellular vertical in upper half, then strongly oblique outward ; first median at
three-fourths, second well before end of cell, third from the end ; median vein inclined
upwards between the last two ; lower radial from above the angle of discocellular ;
upper radial stalked with the last fom- subcostals from end of cell; 11 free from
cell, anastomosing with 12 ; 10 closely approximated to 11, and there suddenly bent,
but not anastomosing. Hind wings with costal approximated to subcostal near base,
then gradually divergent ; the two subcostals stalked; radial from above the angle
of the discocellular ; medians as in forewings.

Type : Xantheliodes uniformis sp. no\-.

54. Xantheliodes uniformis sp. nov.

Forewings: deep j'ellow ; costa naiTOwly black; hindmargin black, rather
broadly at apes, gradually narrowing to a point at anal angle.

Hindiuings : the same, with the marginal black border much narrower at apex.

I'nderside like upper. Face black, yellow above anil below ; \ertex blacky
laterally yellow ; antennae black ; centre of thorax and shoulders black ; patagia
yellow ; abdomen yellow, with black segmental rings ; legs blackish.

Expanse of wings : 36 mm.

One (J from Zomba, Upper Shire River (3000 feet), December ls95 (l)r. 1'.
Rendall).

SuBi-AMiLV PSEUDOTERPXINAE.

■55. Pingasa subpui-pui'ea s[). no\-.

Forewi'iujs: white, dusted and shaded with pale olive ; the lines dark olive; tu-st
at one-fomth, forming a curve above and below the median, followed by olive
dusting ; cell-mark diffuse, dark olive ; outer line at two-thii'ds, dark olive, strongly
denticulate outwards on the veins ; submarginal line wavy, bluish white, preceded
and followed by pale olive suffusion ; fringe pale olive, with a hardly darker basal
line.

Uindwi'iKjs : the same, with no basal line and the fringe whiter; inner margin
with scattered red scales.

Underside white, with the costa of forewings and inner area of both wings
broadly suffused with yellow; cell-mark on forewings and submarginal baud on both
wings deep purple ; the band touching the margin opposite cell and above anal angle,
and there tinged with yellowish.

Face, palpi, antennae, and vertex ochreous white, the face above tinged with
rufous ; thorax in front olive-green ; i-est of thorax, patagia, and abdomen whitish,
with scattered ochi'eous and olive .scales.

Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

One S from .Sandakan, N. Korneo. .lanuary 1803.

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6(j. Terpna nificoloraria -^p. uov.

Like T. varicoloraria Moore, but the wings suflused with rufous brown, and
crossed by fine brown and fuscous striae, with hardly any green ; extreme base
wlutish ochreous ; first line at one-fifth, fine, black, outwardly oblique and slightly
waved; outer line at two-thirds, black, denticulate, with two prominent teeth on
veins 3 and 4 ; a black discocellular line ; inner margin between the lines and at
anal angle deeper red-brown; a large pinkish white ajiical jmtch, inwardly edged
with dark brown, and throwing whitish streaks inwards along the veins ; marginal line
black, inten-npted ; fringe rufous, whitish below apex.

Ilindivi'iigs : similar ; the outer line followed by whitish grey patches, more or
less diffused towards margin.

Underside white, with a tinge of ochreous on forewings and costal area of hind-
wings ; a hrocul black submarginal fascia, touching margin on forewings opposite the
cell ; forewings with black cell-spot.

Face and palpi reddish ; verte.x white, tinged with red ; thorax and abdomen
rufous and grey, the latter with fine black lines on each side of the tufts.

Expanse of wings : 58 mm.

One c? from Kiua Balu, N. Borneo.

SuBFAinxY GEOMETRINAE.
57. Agathia confviscata sp. nov.

Forewings : deep green ; the costa grey, dotted with fuscous ; the base with
a vinous-red blotch ; an irregularly bent and angled vertical band at one-third^
rufous grey ; marginal third rnfous grey, its inner edge deeper and sinuous,
containing a green blotch below apex, touching hindmargin, and a small green spot
between veins 2 and 3 ; fringe rufous grey.

Hindwings : with base and inner margin narrowly vinous-red; outer third
rnfous grey, containing a green ajjical blotch, its inner edge maiked on costa by a
blackish red-edged narrow blotch.

Underside pale whitish green, with a fuscous submarginal fascia on both wings.
Face and palpi rnfous ; vertex and thorax green ; abdomen wanting.

Expanse of vrings : 28 mm.

One S from Sierra Leone.

58. Agraptochlora modesta sp. nov.

Forewings : nniform deep green ; the costa ochreous.

Ilindwings : the same ; the fringe grey, without basal line.

Underside wholly green ; the costa of forewings broadly ochreous, towards the
base tinged with red. Face and palpi deep red ; fillet whitish ; vertex and thorax
green ; abdomen discoloured, probably green.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One S from S. Africa.

Distinguished from A. subaspersa by the much smaller size and uniform green
underside. The type of sttbaspersa, however, is a ? .

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69. Agraptochlora rubriplaga sp. nov.

Foreivings : deep green ; the costa ochreons, tiuged at base with red ; fringe
pale, with a reddish middle line and minnte dark brown dots at ends of veins.

Jlindu'inf/s : the same.

Underside paler green, fading to ochreons ; costa broadly ochreons, with a large
blood-red spot at base. Face, paljn, and forelegs red ; vertex white ; thorax and
abdomen green.

Expanse of wings : 36 mm.

Four 6 S from Natal (A. J. Spiller).

60. Anisogamia albilauta sp. nov.

Forewings : pale green, snbtransparent ; the veins with white dots ; costa
broadly brown ; a white curved line at one-fourth, and a wavy sinuous white line
at two-thirds, followed by white blotches at apex, middle, and anal angle ;
fringe green.

Hindwings : the same.

Underside pale whitish green. Palpi and face ochreons ; vertex white ;
antennae brown ; tliorax and abdomen green.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

One c? in bad condition from Moroka, British New Guinea, October 1895, at
35U0 feet (Anthony).

The antennae are shortly pectinated for lialf their length only ; the apex of
hindwings is not truncate.

The species of the genus here described — except dentata — together with
metaspila and satia-ataria Wlk. and nicisparsa Butler, differ fi'om the more
typical species, pieroides Wlk., etc., in having the two sexes nearly alike in colour
and markings.

61. Anisogamia albimacula sp. nov.

Forewings ; sea-green, snbtransparent, with numerous whitish strigulations ;
the veins darker green, dotted with white; costa finely dark brown, with white dots:
no distinct lines, but traces of a curved whitish one at one-third, tvhite on inner
margin, and of a wavy submarginal line containing a small whitish blotch between
veins 3 and 4, more distinct in the S ; a row of large pale spots along margin at
the ends of the veins, white in the cJ, pinkish white in the ? ; fringe green, in the
? marked with pinkish grey beyond the spots ; the hindmargin and fringe distinctly
crenulate.

Hindwings : the same, with a large double white blotch in the c^ on each side
of the second median, which is absent in the ?.

Underside pale whitish green. Palpi with second joint green above, third joint
pinkish ; lower half of face [)ale ; njiper half, vertex, thorax, and abdomen green ;
metathorax and penultimate segment of abdomen brownish, marked with white ;
the S with some white dorsal spots, the ? with pinkish spots ; legs and abdomen
beneath white ; the fore tarsi fuscous brown.

Expanse of wings : 36 mm.

Both sexes from Mackay, Queensland ; Cedar Bay, near Cooktown, and
Ueraldton (A. S. Meek).

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62. Anisogamia curvigutta s]i. nov.

?. Foreicings : as in .1. albimaculu, thinly scaled, sea-green, with white spots on
the darker veins ; the costa narrowly brown, with white dots ; a wavy whitish line
is distinct on inner margin just before middle ; a cream-coloured blotch at apex,
edged with fuscous, narrow above and swelling out below, reaching to beyond third
median, with some fuscous scales along its centre : fringe green, with white spots
at the ends of veins on the hindmargin ; the spots in the blotch brown.

Hindwings : the same ; the blotch longer and more sinuous.

Underside whitish green, the blotches showing white ; a small brown spot at
apex of hindwings. Pal]ii, face, and vertex ochreous tinged with brown ; shoulders,
patagia, and first segment of abdomen green : thorax and rest of abdomen white ;
fore tarsi fuscous, dotted with white.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

Two ? ? from Mackay, Queensland.

S3. Anisogamia dentata sp. nov.

Forewings : deep sea-green, semitransparent, the veins dark green, dotted with
white ; the costa broadly greyish fuscous, with ochreous streaks ; first line at one-
fourth, white, distinct only above inner margin ; a pale ochreous fuscous-dotted
roundish spot on upper half of discocellular, touching costal streak ; outer line white,
at four-fifths, incurved in middle, and forming a broad sinus outwards above and
below ; marginal area grey-brown or reddish brown, deeper brown along the outer
line and at the costa, where the outer line is itself more broadly white, preceded by
a curved green space ; marginal line strongly marked, dark brown ; fringe jialer.

Hindwings : similar ; upper half of discocellular marked by a linear white spot
of raised scales ; inner margin wholly green.

Underside jjearly whitish green ; outer line broadly edged with a blackish
dentate fascia, the margin beyond dull white, with black marginal spots. Palpi
whitish ochreous, tinged with pale fuscous ; face snow-white below, deep green
above ; vertex whitish, thickly mottled with rufous grey ; thorax and patagia deep
green ; metathorax and abdomen ochreous, suffused with rufous and densely dusted
with black scales, the latter sometimes marked with lateral green scales.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

Two ? ? from Cedar Bay, south of Cooktown, North Queensland (A. S. Meek).

Nearest to A. piaroides, but easily separable, not only by the deeper green tint
tind absence of bright red markings, but also by the margins of the wings, which,
instead of being waved, are very highly dentate, the tooth at vein 4 being conspicuous.

64. Abisogamia moniliata sp. nov.

Forewings : deep green, the costa broadly ochreous, speckled with fawn-
colour ; first line hardly traceable, ending in a pale spot on inner margin beyond
one-third; second line absent; marginal space narrowly ochreons, mottled with
fuscous, expanding slightly towards apex and anal angle ; fringe ochreons, with a
yellowish basal line.

Hindwings : the same.

Underside pale whitish green ; the costa of forewings luteous. Palpi ochreous,

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terminal joint fuscons ; face deep green ; fillet and antennae white ; thorax and
abdomen green, the latter tinged with pinkish ochrcous.

Expanse of wings : 36 mm.

One ? from ('edar Bay, sonth of ( 'ooktown (A. S. Meek).

65. Anisogamia muscosa sp. nov.

Foreu'inqs : deep green, shagreeued with dnll pinkish white ; the costa pale
ochreons, with numerous red-brown dots and blotches ; a red-brown blotch at base,
and a dot at base of cell ; a costal blotch at one-fonrth, indicating first line : a much
contorted red-brown baud from costa just beyoud middle, incurved below cell along
the median vein, running to inner margin before middle ; this band is double at
costa, and throws spurs outwards along veins 5 and 3 ; outer band at four-fifths,
parallel to hindmargin, composed of red-brown blotches, with paler centres, the
largest at costa, those below vein 5 and on vein 2 conspicuous ; a snbmarginal row
of red-brown white-tijiped spots between the veins ; fringe green, with pinkish
dashes opposite the veins ; cell-spot large, triangular, deep liver-colonr.

Hindwings : with the base silvery ; cell-spot smaller, with a small red-brown
spot above it ; outer macular line and submargiual row of spots only marked, the
former with a consj)icuous blotch above anal angle.

Underside whitish green, with the cell-spot and lines only marked in the costal
half of forewing. Face ochreous at bottom and along sides, green in middle, edged
above and below with red-brown ; i)alpi red-brown above, ochreons below ; vertex,
thorax, and abdomen deep green ; antennae deep red-brown, the base whitish ; anal
segment of abdomen silvery white, edged with red-brown.

Expanse uf wings : 36 mm.

One S from Fergusson Island, September to December 1894 (A. S. Meek).

66. Anisogamia nigrimaculata sj). nov.

Foreu-ini/s : yellowish green, the costa narrowly dark brown ; first line pale,
marked by a brown-black patch on inner margin at one-third ; exterior line lunulate,
whitish, followed by three similar lines, which make the whole marginal area appear
whitish, excejit opposite the cell.

l[iiHhcing,i : with the basal area much mottled with white; the outer line and
marginal area as in forewings, but the apex marked with a large black blotch.

Underside whitish green, with the black blotch at apex of hindwings. Palpi
and face reddish ; thorax and abdomen green.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

One (? from Moroka, British New Guinea, October 1895, at 3500 feet
(Anthony).

Though taken at the same time and place as .1. (dbilauta, it is t^uite distinct.
The antennae are pectinated for two-tliirds, and the apex of" the hindwings is
distinctly truncate.

6T. Anisogamia undilinea sp, nov.

Forewings : sea-green ; costa white, speckled below with fuscous, the extreme
edge remaining pure white ; first line at one-fourth, second at three-fourths, both
finely white and distinctly waved : fringe green, with white sjiots at ends of veins.

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HindtciiKjs : with no basal Hue.

Umlersidc pale whitish j^reeii ; forcwiiip;s towards costa becoming bright green ;
the costal edge white, with a bright yellow streak below it from base to middle.
Palpi white underneath, green above ; face green, with two white dots below ; vertex
white, greenish behind ; antennae with shaft white, and pectinations yellow ; thorax
and abdomen green, the latter with white spots on dorsum ; underside of abdomen
and legs white ; forelegs tinged with fuscous yellow.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

One S from Cedar Bay, Cooktown (A. S. Meek).

Distinguished by the white-edged costa and distinctly nndulating outer line.

68. Chloromma persimilis sp. nov.

Forewings : dull olive-green, with the two lines brown, placed almost exactly
as in C. mimica Warr. from the Khasias : cell-spot brown.

Hinclwhigs : with two brown spots on the diseocellular, instead of the large
brown blotch.

Underside wholly pale green, with no markings.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One S from Warri, Eiver Niger, January 1890 (Dr. Koth).

In the forewings veins 0, 7, 8, 0, 10, and 11 are all stalked, 11 anastomosing
with the costal ; the diseocellular is e.xcurved in the upjier j)art, and rectangular
outwards in middle.

Chlorostrota gen. nov.

Forewings : with costa straight for two-thirds, then cnrvcd; aj)ex blunt; hind-
margin bent at vein 4, more oblique below.

Hindwings : with hindmargin bluntly toothed at vein 4.

Antennae of cf bipectinate to apex ; palpi inclined upwards, the second joint
thickly scaled ; third small and bluut ; tongue and frenulum present ; hind tibiae
not thickened, with four adjacent spurs.

Keuratioii: forewings, cell two-iifths of wing ; first median at two-thirds,
second just before angle of cell ; last four subcostals stalked, the first free. Hind-
wings with the subcostals and last two medians stalked ; first median just before
angle of cell.

Type : Chlorostrota praeampla sp. nov.

To this genus belongs also albiviridis Moore.

09. Chlorostrota marginata sjt. nov.

Forewings : grass-green: the costa ochreons, thickly dusted with brown ; traces
of a curved exterior line marked by white dashes on the veins; marginal line brown,
preceded by an irregular narrow ochreous brown-dotted fascia, which swells out
below vein 4 into a large pale j)atch and smaller j)atchos below the large one.

I/i/id/ri/ig.i : the same.

Underside wholly whitish green. Face dark brown ; thorax and abdomen
(probably) green.

Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

One $ from Warri, lliver Niger, January 1890 (Dr. Roth).

The only example is much worn, and a more exact descrijitiou will be desirable
when better specimens are obtainable.

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TO. Chlorostrota praeampla sp. nov.

Forewings : deep green; the costa whitish, with fuscous speckles ; first line at
one-fourth, fine, whitish, oblique inwards ; second line from a dark costal spot at
two-thirds, white, bent at vein 6, and incurved at vein 3, where it broadens and runs
into a large white anal blotch, marked with flesh-coloured fnscons and green scales;
submarginal line white, bent on vein 7, then oblique to the anal blotch, nearly
touching a difl:nse white marginal shade, which is edged by green lunules before the
white fringe ; cell-spot whitish ; vein G whitish from cell-spot, all the other veins
whitish between the outer and submarginal line.

Hindwinys : with basal half green, its edge sinuous : costal and inner margins
narrowly, outer margin broadly, cream-white ; some rufous fuscous scales at apex
and anal angle ; an interrupted green band from vein 6 to anal blotch, followed by
another and fainter band of green scales : the lunules below apex deeji fuscous red;
cell-spot linear, white.

Underside of forewings pearly white, green-tinged in basal half ; costa yellowish :
costal area irrorated with fuscous, with two spots and the cell-spot large and fuscous ;
a fuscous blotch at anal angle of forewings and apex of hindwings; the marginal
spots black. Palpi dark and light fuscous : face dark green above, white below ;
vertex whitish ; thorax green ; abdomen white, speckled with green, more thickly
towards base.

Expanse of wings : 42 mm.

One S from the Khasias, June 1896.

Collesis gen. nov.

? . Forewings : with costa arched throughout, apex minutely jirojecting ; hind-
margin vertical above, curved below.

Him! wings : with rounded hiudmargin, the anal angle j>rominently square.

Antennae in ? jJectinated; palpi porrect, short; tongue present; frenulum absent.

Neuratioii: forewings, cell not half the length of wing; discocellular with
lower arm long and oblique ; first median at three-fourths, second before end, third
from end of cell ; lower radial from upjier end of discocellular, u])per from the angle :
all five subcostals stalked, the first anastomosing with the costal. Hindwing.s witii
costal anastomosing with subcostal for half the length of cell ; the two sitbcostals
on a long stalk ; last two medians short-stalked.

Type : Collesis mi mica sp. nov.

Distinguished from Enchhris and its allies, to which it is nearest akin, by the
anomalous anastomosis of the costal vein in hindwings.

71. Collesis mimica sp. nov.

Forewings : pale whitish green ; a darker green outwardly white-edged oblique
line from jnst before apex to inner margin at two-thirds.

Hindwings : with the line just beyond the middle; fringe of both wings
concolorous.

Underside whitish. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous; vertex white.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

One ? from Mpeta, Loangwa Hiver, north of Zambesi, November 180:!
(P. T. Coryndon).

Superficially very much resembling a small Metrocampa margaritata.

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72. Episothalma marginata sp. nov.

Foreioings: deep green; tlie costa rufous, thickly dotted with fuscous and much
darker ou basal half; marginal third rufous grc}-, with dark fuscous strigae, edged
iuterually by a wavy dark brown line, which forms a sinus in the middle and a
curve on the inner margin ; fringe fuscous, with a darker basal line.

Ifindicings: similar, liut the costal area bmadly greyish fuscous; the inner
margin narrowly rufous brown.

Underside pale dull green, with the marginal area reduced, dull browu. Face,
palpi, and collar black-brown ; fillet rnfous ; thorax and base of abdomen green ;
rest of abdomen and tufts rufous brown.

Expanse of wings : 25 mm.

One 6 from Sierra Leone.

73. Episothalma semigrisea sp. nov.

Foreivinqs : deep green in basal half; marginal half and costa greyish drab,
thickly strewn with dark liver-coloured striae ; the two colours separated by a
sinuous brown line from tlie lower edge of the costal streak ; a dark l)rown marginal
line ; fringe concolorous.

Hind wings: with the costal half and the outer half gre}', with brown striae;
the inner margin narrowly grey, lea^^ng only a restricted green space near inner
margin.

Underside dull liver-coloured, with traces of a straight pale submarginal baud,
complete on hindwings, but indistinct on forewings, except on inner margin ; costa
of forewings ochreous ; inner margin whitish ; a small pale patch below apex, and a
larger one before the angle at middle. Face and vertex dark liver-colour ; thorax
pale drab ; abdomen greyish cinereous.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One S from Upoto, Congo (Kev. Oram).

Closely related to E. marginata from Sierra Leone, but larger, with the green
area much smaller.

74. Euchloris oleagina sp. nov.

Foreicinqx : whitish, tinged with yellow : the costa broadly yellowish; fringe
concolorous.

Ilindwings : the same, as is the underside.

Face deep red ; palpi and forelegs reddisli ; thorax and abdomen greased,
jirobably concolorous with wings.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

Two 6 6 from Weeuen, Natal, dated October 1893 and January 1895.

The antennae are thickened, with strong produced serrations, which are laterally
pubescent ; the frenulum is absent ; the wings, like the bodies, are saturated with
grease, and were j)robably once greenish.

75. Eucrostes rubridisca sp. nov.

Forewings : bright green ; the costa broadly whitish ; cell-spot orange-red ;
marginal line of the same colour, with traces of marginal spots.

Ilindwings : the same. The fringes of both wings are entirely gone.

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Underside paler greeu. Face and forelegs bright ros_v ; vertex, thorax, and
abdomen green.

Expanse of wings : 13 mm.

One 6 from Dar-es-Salaam, German East Africa.

76. Euxena insulsata sp. "nov.

Foreicings : dull grey-green ; the lines darker, diffuse ; the first at oue-foarth,
curved and wavy; the second from costa at four-fifths to inner margin at two-thirds,
slightly bent and thickened downwards ; cell-spot blackish green, rather large :
fringe concolorous.

llindicings : slightly ochrcous towards base ; no first line ; the outer line
denticulate and running to anal angle ; marked, as in the forewings, by pale dashes
on the veins.

Underside pale yellowish green; the costa of both wings yellowish. Face and
palpi brown, paler below ; vertex white ; thorax grej^-green ; abdomen ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 45 mm.

One <S from North Luzon, 5000 to 0000 feet (Whitehead).

77. Halterophora fulgurata sp. nov.

Forewings : bluish green ; the costa pale ochreons, with dark purplish spots ;
first line marked only by whitish spots on veins ; second line very strongly dentate,
the line itself finely paler, and marked on the veins at the denticulations by white
spots ; fringe at base deep red-brown, broadly interrupted between each vein by a
whitish dash ; outer half of fringe white,

Hindwings : with outer line much plainer, and strongly denticulate, the teeth
on veins 7, 6, and 5 being exactly above those on veins 4, 3, and 2 ; a dark green
mark on discocellnlar.

Underside whitish greeu ; the costal half of forewing brighter green ; costa
liroadly white, with strong pnrjde striae. Face, palpi, vertex, thorax, and abdomen
coucolorons green ; front of thorax deeper green.

Expanse of wings : 45 mm.

One S from Moroka, British New Guinea (3500 feet), October 1895 (Anthony).

78. Hemithea albistrigulata sp. nov.

Forewings : dull green, thickly covered with minute pale wavy strigulae ; a
darker green central fascia, edged by the first and second lines, which are wavy ; thi'
outer line indented in cell and on the submedian fold ; fringe pale green.

Hindwings : the same ; both wings with a deeper green cell-spot.

Underside uniform whitish green. Face, palpi, and forelegs briglit red ; fillet
white ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One 6 from S. Africa.

79. Hemithea approximans >p. nov.

Forewings : very pale green ; the costa whitish ; two fine hardly waved white
lines, rather near one another ; the first at quite one-third, the second before
two-thirds ; fringe green.

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Hindwings : with the outer line only ; a faintly darker cell-spot.
Underside uniform whitish green. Face ochreous ; vertex white ; thorax and
abdomen pale green.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.
Two (? (? from AVeenen, Natal.

80. Hemithea atridisca sp. uov.

Forewings : semidiaphanous pale bluish green ; the costa ochreous ; lines
whitish, denticulate ; first at one-third, second at three-fourths, incurved below
middle, and marked most strongly on the veins ; a large cell-spot of raised brown-
black scales, edged with pale, on the lower arm of discocellular.

Ilindu-ings : the same.

Underside paler, with the cell-spot distinct. Face and palpi dark red-brown:
vertex and thorax green ; abdomen reddish cinereous.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

Two S S from Natal (A. J. Spiller).

81. Hemithea malescripta sp. nov.

Forewings : very pale green, with two faint wavy darker green pale-edged lines
at one-third and two-thirds ; fringe paler.

Hindwings : with only the outer line ; both wings with an obscnre darker green
cell-spot.

Underside paler and glossy. Face olive-green ; vertex white ; thorax and
abdomen pale green, like the wings; abdomen with slight reddish tufts.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

Three SS, one ?, from Weenen, Natal, August 1894 and April 1895.

One of the i S has the lines wliitish.

82. Hemithea simplex sp. nov.

Forewings: greyish green; the costa ochreous, dotted with fuscous; the lines
darker green, obscure, slightly waved ; first from costa beyond one-third to inner
margin before middle ; second at two-thirds to inner margin before anal angle ;
fringe green, with a deep green basal line.

Hindwings : with the outer line and cell-spot deep green.

Underside whitish green, the costa spotted as above. Face dull brown ; palpi
above and the wliole of the terminal joint and forelegs dark fuscous ; vertex white ;
thorax and abdomen green, the latter with dark red blotches along dorsum.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One 6 from Sukabumi, West, Java, ls93 (Fruhstorfer).

83. Hemithea unilinea sj). nov.

Forewings : pale green ; the costa narrowly ochreous ; inner line very fine and
hardly perceptible, curved near base ; outer line at three-fourths, white, straight and
oblique to inner margin shortly before anal angle ; fringe paler green, with a whitish
line at base.

Hindwings : with the outer white line curved ; cell-spots hardly darker.

Underside glossy, whitish green. Face ochreous ; vertex white ; thorax and

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base of abdomen green ; rest of abdomen ochreous ; basal segments with slight
reddisli tufts.

Expanse of wiugs : 2:5 mm.

Three d S from Weenen, Natal.

84. Hemithea vermiculata sj). uciv.

Forewings : jjale green, densely covered with minnte white wavy striae ; no
lines visible ; fringe broad, pale yellowish.

lliiulwiiiys : the same, with an obscure darker cell-spot.

Underside wliitish green. Face and jialpi dark brown ; tliorax and alidomen
pale green.

Expanse of wings : 19 mm.

One 6 from Warri, River Niger, June 1896 (Dr. Roth).

Antennae with well-developed fascicles of cilia.

Hypocoela gen. nov.

Forewings : with costa strongly arched, tlie apex not produced ; hiudmargin
oblique, with a shallow excision between veins 6 and 4 ; anal angle well marked.

Ilindwings : with inner margin lengthened, apex rounded, hindmargia evenly
vnirved.

Palpi short, porrect ; antennae of S bipectiuate to two-thirds.

Neuration : forewings, discocellnlar acutely inaugulated ; veins 7, 8, 9, 10
stalked, 1 1 anastomosing with costal.

Type : Hypocoela subfulm sp. nov.

A development of Tannorhiniis Butler.

85. Hypocoela subfulva sp. nov.

Forewings : dnll olive-green, faintly speckled with darker ; a straight oblique
brown line from costa at three-fourths, below which it is slightly bent, to inner
margin beyond middle, followed by a paler streak; marginal area with an olive-
brown shade, broad on inner margin, narrowing to a point at vein 6 ; marginal line
dark green, black along the excision and at the submedian fold, and there preceded
by some whitish scales ; fringe rufons olive, with two white patches in the excision ;
a small black cell-dot.

Ilindwtjujs : the same, but the snbmarginal fascia of uniform width throughout
and much speckled with darker ; fringe rufous.

Underside of forewings yellow-green, becoming fulvous towards inner margin,
with two Idack spots in cell and a black snbmarginal and marginal blotch towards
inner margin ; liindwings deep orange-fulvous, with a few black specks.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One c? from Warri, River Niger, June 189G (Dr. Roth).

86. Metallochlora differens sp. nov.

Foreicings : pale apple-green ; tlie costa yellowish, with fine purplish striae ;
a minute red cell-dot ; faint traces of two darker green paler-edged wavy transverse
lines, first from costa at one-fourth, second at three-fourths, to one-third and two-
thirds of inner margin respectively ; fringe yellow.

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Hindtcinqs: with the cell-dot bright red, tiie outer line exenrved in middle :
hiudinargin visiblj' elbowed at vein 4.

Underside uniform pale green. Face and palpi rnfons : vertex, tliorax, and
abdomen vivid green ; abdomen with shining brown-red dorsal blotches.

Expanse of wings : 2n mm.

One S from Tenimber, July 1S92 (\V. Doherty).

Ilistingnished from the other species of the genns by the much more developed
antennae of the 6. These are subdentate, the teeth with Ion;/ fascicles of cilia.

ST. Microloxia ruficornis sp. uov.

Forewings : pale yellowish -. the costu deep ocluvous ; fringe coacolorons.

Ilhufwifif/s : the same.

Underside similar. Palpi, antennae, and forelegs reddish ; face yellowish, edged
with red ; thorax and abdomen yellowish.

Expanse of wings : 14 mm. •

One S from Weenen, Natal, January 1895. Tlie insect is in very good con-
dition, and the wings do not seem to be either faded or greased.

A ? from the same locality, dated December 1893, not in good condition, with,
the fringes gone and the wings somewhat greased, must be referred here. This has^
the antennae snbserrate, and expands 19 mm.

88. Microloxia (?) serraticomis sp. nov.

Superficially exactly like Nemoria attenuata Wlk., but whereas in that species
the antennae of the S are simply pubescent, in this they are subpectinate and
pubescent, the pectinations being short, claw-shaped, with a fascicle of cilia at the
end ; in this respect the insect agrees neither witli Nemoria nor Microloxia.
Walker's two species indecretata from India and latilineata from Australia agree
with the present species both in the structure of antennae and in the markings
of wings, and it is possible they may be all three identical.

Several specimens from Natal.

N. attemmta Wlk. occnrs not only at the Cape, but also in Sierra Leone ;
WoUaston's species nubigena from Madeira must be very near it.

89. Mixochlora alternata sii. nov.

Forewings: deep green, with four pale hoary green fasciae more or less parallel,
the second interrupted above by a deep green discocellular lunule ; the first two dark
green fasciae not oblique outwards, as in rittata Butler; costa narrowly yellow :
fringe green.

Hi7idwings ; with the basal area and two fasciae i)alcr.

Underside pale green, scarcely tinged with yellow. Face and palpi deep velvety
green ; vertex and thorax dark green ; abdomen ])ale green, with dark green
markings ; base of antennae white.

Expanse of wings : 45 mm.

One S from North Luzon, 500U to OUUU feet (Whitehead).

Distinguished from M. vittata Butler by the absence of yellow below and by
the parallel bands above ; nrgentij'usn Wlk. from Sarawak is much more silvery.

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Neurotoca gen. nov.

Allied to Kacldoris and Farrucldoris, agreeing with the latter genus in having
l-iectinated antennae in the ?, while thu hindwings are ronnded as in Euchloris ; the
hindwings without freuulnm; distinguished by an abnormal furcation of vein 6 of
the hindwings.

Type : Neurotoca notata sp. uov.

90. Neurotoca notata sp. uov.

Foreirinfis : pale green, faintly strigulated with whitish, with a rather thick
white line at two-thirds running parallel to hindmargin ; fringe whitish.

Hindwings : the same, with a semicircular red-brown patch on the middle of
inner margin.

Underside whitish. Head, thorax, and abdomen green, the last with red
dorsal blotches.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

One ? from Mpwapwa, East Africa.

Paraprasina gen. nov.

¥ . Foreici)iys : elongate ; costa straight, convex before apex ; hindmargin
curved, obliiiue.

Himhvimjs : with apex rounded ; anal angle square ; hindmargin slightly
curved.

Thorax and abdomen robust. Palpi porrect, long, reaching well in front of
face ; tongue absent ; frenulum (?) absent ; antennae thick, shortly pectinated on
the inner side, the pectinations being developed from the base and gradually
shortened ; serrate at base on outer side, the serrations increasing and becoming at
half the shaft pectinations as long as those on the inner side.

Neuration : forewiugs, cell half the length of wing ; discocellular augulated ;
first median at three-fourths, second and third from end of cell ; lower radial from
a little above the centre of discocellular ; 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 11 free. Hindwings
with the two subcostals stalked.

Type : Paraprasina discolor sp. nov.

91. Paraprasina discolor sp. nov.

Forcwinys : pale whitish green, without any markings ; the fringe concolorous.

Hindwings : the same.

Underside white. Face and palpi pale below, dull ferruginous above ; vertex,,
thorax, and abdomen all i)ale green.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

One ? from S. Africa.

The only example is much faded, and it is impossible to say what shade of green
it may have had when fresh.

92. Pareuchloris (?) salsa sp. nov.

Forewings : white, dotted with blue-green and with the lines of the same
colour ; first at one-fourth, second in the middle, joined by the green cell-spot ; third

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nt three-fourths, somewhut bent, to aual augle ; all the lines are dift'ase and become
obsolete before the costa ; fringe greeu and white.

[iinil wings: with a long greeu mark on discocollular; a curved denticulate
postmedian line and narrow submarginal line blue-greeu ; also the triangular space
between veins 2 and 4 ; inner margin and costa white.

Underside white. Face and palpi brown ; forelegs spotted brown and white ;
vertex, thorax, and abdomen white.

Expanse of wings : 36 mm.

One ? from Sierra Leone.

Prasinocyma gen. nov.

Allied to Thalassodes Gueu., with which it agrees in neuratiou and character
of scaling ; but while the hindmargin of the hindwings of Thalassodes is always
angulated, in Prasinoo/ma the hindmargin of both wings is rounded. The species
are mainly African.

T.qje : Prasinoc>/ma vermicularia Guen. {Thalassodes).

93. Prasinocyma rufitincta sp. nov.

Forewings: bright green, semitranspareut, covered with innumerable white
sinuous striae, the $ with fewer than the 5 ; costa narrowly white ; base of wing
and median uervure marked with dull rufous ; fringe concolorous.

Hindwings : like forewings, with no rufous at base.

Underside pale wliitish green. Forelegs and antennae red ; head, patagia,
and base of abdomen green ; thorax dull rufous ; rest of abdomen greyish white.

Expanse of wings : <?, 28 mm.; 5 , 34 mm.

A pair from Lifu.

94. Prasinocyma unipuncta sp. nov.

Forewings : slightly diajihanous, deep green, the paler striae very minute and
indistinct ; costa narrowly ochreous ; fringe greeu ; discocellular marked with
darker green : a small white spot edged externaDy with brown scales on inner
margin beyond middle.

Hindwings : similar, with no white spot.

Underside paler. Face, palpi, and forelegs red brown ; vertex white : tliorax
green ; abdomen ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 19 mm.

One S from Weenen, Natal, October 1895.

Rhomborista gen. nov.

Allied to Oenospila Swinhoe, from which it difl'ers in the hind tibiae of the S
having two pairs of spnrs. The hindmargin of the hindwings is excised between
veins 4 and 6, at each of which there is a conspicuous tooth. The margins of both
wings are marked by a diamond-shaped festoon.

Type : R. devexata Wlk.

Phorodesma megaspilaria Unen. and Coniibaena undiferata Wlk. also belong
here.

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95. Ehomborista semipnrpurea sp. nov.

Forewings : deep green ; the costa white, with a grey-brown jiatch at base ; disco-
cellnlar marked with two red-brown spots ; first line obsolete ; second at two-thirds,
irregularly wavy, followed by a dull purplish grey marginal area, of which the central
part is paler and the edges reddish brown ; a round green snbapical patch ; marginal
line dark brown ; fringe reddish ochreons, with dark dashes opposite the veins.

Ilindwinqs : green ; the discocellular marked with two red spots ; a red
denticulate postmedian line ; the inner margin red ; the red marginal line thickened
with reddish grey scales at apex and veins 6 and 4 ; fringe reddish ochreous, with
dark dashes at veins 4 and 6.

Underside glossy whitish green ; the forewings with a broad dark fuscous band.
Head, palpi, and collar reddish grey ; vertex white ; thorax green ; abdomen reddish
grey.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

One ? from Chittagong Hills.

Allied to R. devexata Wlk.

Syndromodes gen. nov.

Forewings : triangular ; costa slightly arched, shouldered at base ; hindmargin
oblique, faintly curved.

Hindwiiiys : with well-rounded hindmargin, the apex rounded, the anal angle
rectangular.

Antennae of S pectinated, of j simple ; palpi porrect, short ; tongue feeble.

Xeuration : forewings, veins 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 11 anastomosing with costal.
Hindwings with costal anastomosing with subcostal for two-thirds of cell.

Type : Sijndroinodes unicolor sp. nov.

Like Lasiochlora Warr. in neuration, but the antennae of the j are sometimes
simple, and the species of much smaller size.

96. Syndromodes punctilineata sp. nov.

Forewings : pale green, with a sinnons outer line, marked only by red-brown
white-edged dots on the veins ; this line, which is at about two-thirds of the wing, is
outcurved in middle and vertical towards inner margin ; fringe with a pale yellowish
line at base, then a broad dull red line marked with deeper red spots opposite the
veins, the apical half being white.

Hindwings : similar.

Underside pale green. Face and palpi green, the vertex paler ; thorax and
abdomen discoloured, probably green.

Expanse of wings : 18 mm.

One S from S. Africa.

Agrees with diducta Wlk. and zonata Wlk. in having the costal of hindwings
anastomosing with the subcostal for two-thirds of cell.

97. Syndromodes unicolor sp. nov.
Forewings : wholly green ; fringe whitish ; costa narrowly white.
Hindwings : the same.

Underside pale green. Face pale brown ; vertex white ; thorax and abdomon
green.

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Expanse of wings : cJ, 18 — 22 mm.; ?,24mm.

Several examples from S. Africa.

1 should have referred this species to invenusUt, Wlugru., but in a remark on
the nenration of his insect he speaks of an areole, which the present species certainly
has not.

08. Thalassodes nigripvmctata >-i). no v.

Vore.wings : deep green, thicker scaled tlian usnal in this genus, with numerous
wavy silvery strigulae ; no transverse lines, but a distinct lilack cell-spot ; costa
finely ochreous white ; fringe green, with no basal line.

[finrhrini/s : the same.

Underside uniform i)alc green ; the costa of forewiiigs ochreous. Fiice and
terminal joint of jmlpi deep brown-red ; vertex and tliorax green; abdomen cinereons-
ochreons, bnt probably faded.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

One S from the Cameroons, West Africa.

Victoria gen. nov.

? . Foreirings : elongate ; costa slightly indented in middle, strongly arched
before apex ; ajjex minutely produced : liindmargin crenulate, sinuous, elbowed at
vein 4.

Ilinihrinys : with crenulate hindmargin, toothed at veins 0 and 4.

Antennae of ? bipectinate, with a tuft of scales at base ; the short palpi
and face hairy ; tongue absent ; pectus hairy ; metathorax and basal segments of
abdomen crested ; legs wanting.

Ne.ui-atio)i : forewings, cell one-half the wing ; first median at two-thirds,
second and third from angle of cell ; last four subcostals stalked, first free. Hind-
wings with the two subcostals stalked ; medians as in forewings.

Type : Victoria albipicta sp. nov.

09. Victoria albipicta sp. nov.

Farewings : green ; the costa fuscous, speckled witli I'nl'ous ; first line at one-
fourth, white, vertical, broadening to inner margin ; second at three-fourths, whitit
and slender, slightly waved, vertical, ending in a triangular white patch before anal
angle, with fuscons striae on it, and followed, between veins o and 6, by a small
square white blotch ; a white blotch at apex ; a thick black crenulate marginal line,
partially edged with white ; fringe rufous fuscous ; cell-sjJot large, ocenjiying the
whole length of the discoccllular, and marked with reddish scales.

llindwings : whitish at base and along costal third, then pale green, with
whitish striae : a small black cell-dot ; fuscous dots on the four upper veins and on
inner margin, indicating a postmedian line; marginal line and fringe as in
forewings.

Underside whitish, green-tinged ; costa and fringes rufous ; the white markings
of upperside showing through. Face, palpi, vertex, and collar ferrugiilous ; thonix
and patagia green ; abdomen reddish (probably green when fresh).

Expanse of wings : 45 mm.

One ? from Grahamstown, S. Africa.

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Xenochlorodes gen. no v.

?. Foreioings : witli costa feebly arched and somewhat bent at two-thirds ;
apex blunt ; hindmargin obliqne, faintly curved ; anal angle distinct.

Hindwings : with hindmargin slightly curved ; apex roiindeil ; anal angle
square ; costa shouldered at base.

Palpi quite short, not reaching front of face : tongue weak ; antennae sub-
serrate, thickened with scales towards base ; scaling of underside of wings hairlike.

Ne.uration : forewings, cell half the length of wing ; discocellular angled, the
lower arm obliqne; first median at five-sixths, second and third short-stalked ; lower
radial from above the angulation of discocellular; upper radial stalked with the five
subcostals, separating near base sliortly after 11; 11 anastomosing with costal;
10 anastomosing with and becoming coincident with 11 ; 9 out of 8, very short.
Hindwings with costal anastomosing with subcostal nearly to end of cell ; the
subcostals long-stalked ; medians as in forewing.s.

Type : Xenockloro'les jjallida sji. nov.

100. Xenochlorodes pallida sp. nov.

Foreiviiiys : very pale whitish green, laxly scaled; the costa narrowly white ;
I he lines whitish and slightly waved; first before one-third, edged outwardly with
<larker green ; second from costa at fourrfifths, obliqne to inner mai-gin at two-
thirds, inwardly edged with darker green ; fringe whitish green ; cell-spot linear,
whitish, very faint.

Ilindunngs : with only the outer line, which is a little bent in middle.

Underside white. Face reddish ; vertex and antennae white ; tiior.-ix and
abdomen concolorous with wings ; legs reddish.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One ? from Beirut, Syria.

St-bfamily STERRHINAE.
101. Anisephyra aurata sp. nov.

Foreici lujs : deej) gilded yellow, with traces of a curved submarginal line
marked by brown dots between the veins ; ocellus small, edged with brown ; fringe
<leep yellow.

Hind/vings : the same ; the ocellus larger.

Underside yellow, speckled with brown ; a curved brown submarginal line,
containing a blotch bevond the cell and above inner margin, before which it is much
incurved ; a marginal lino of slender brown dashes between the veins ; ocelli distinct.
Thorax and abdomen yellow ; head wanting.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One d from Kalao, south of Celebes, December ls!)5 (A. Everett).

102. Antitrygodes dentilinea sji. nov.

Fori'U'ings : whitish, tinged in ]]laces wirh rnfous, and with a few scattered
dark brown scales ; costa narrowly rnfous ; a curved brown line near base, concave
outwards, and not reaching costa ; exterior line from costa at three-fourths, angled
obtusely on vein 6, and acutely between veins 2 and 3, thence concave to inner

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margin some distance before the anal angle ; three large roundish green blotches,
edged with red-brown in the median area, one in cell before the discocellnhir, one
below it beneath the median, the third and largest beyond the discocellnlar ; two
smaller blotches of purple-brown scales between the origins of veins 2 and 3, and
3 an<I 4 ; an obscure rufous shade, excnrved round them to inner margin near
middle : a series of greenish wedge-shaped marks beyond outer line, followed by a
waved reddish subterminal line; veins towards margin marked with rnfons: marginal
line red-brown, swollen between the veins ; fringe glossy, whitish, varied with
rufous, and with dark dashes opposite the veins.

Hindwings : the same, bnt deeper rufous.

Underside whitish, with a faint rufous tint : the exterior and marginal lines
rufous. Face and paljii dark red-brown ; verte.x, tliorax, and abdomen pinkish
ochreous, speckled with red-brown.

Expanse of wings : 33 mm.

One ? from Sierra Leone.

Distinguished from the Indian species by the exterior line not running to the
anal angle.

Brachycola gen. nov.

A development of A nisof/es Gueu., characterised by the hind tibiae of J, which
are quite short, with a tuft of hair from their base, and with three long curved spurs
from the extremity; in other respects agreeing ynih Perixera Meyr.

Type : Brachycola absconditaria Wlk.

This genus is equivalent to Hampson's Anisodes, Section I., to which he gives
the name Perixera ; bnt Perixera Meyr. is his Section II., with the hind tibiae of
S fully developed and the median pair of spurs absent.

103. Brachycola (?) minorata sp. nov.

Forewings : ochreous, densely irrorated with reddish atoms; first line marked
by three dots lying in a curve ; cell-spot red-brown : a sinuous dilfuse grey central
shade ; exterior line near and parallel to hindmargin, marked by dark vein-dots ;
minute red dots at the ends, and also between the veins ; fringe yellowish.

Hitiduinys : the same ; but with the cell-spot larger, formed of raised white
scales with a dark edge.

Underside of forewings pale dnll rosy, of hindwings white. Palpi rosy above,
ochreous beneatli ; face deep red ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with
wings.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One 6, one ?, from Teuimber, July 18',i2 (W. Uoherty).

The only c? has lost its hiudlegs ; but it is most likely a Brac/ii/cola.

104. Brachycola niveopuncta sj). nov.

Foretvings : dull reddish, speckled with darker, and with reddish grey
markings ; first line indicated by three dark dots on veins ; central shade diffuse,
wavy ; exterior line with irregularly placed dark dots on veins : marginal area
mostly suffused with reddish grey, with the submarginal line ])aler : 'iiiiidmargin
crenuhited, with dark dots at end of veins; fringe concolorous.

Ilindwingn : the same ; cell-spots of both wings small oval, white, formed of
raised scales.

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Paljn and face whitish ochreons below, bright rosy above : antennae white :
vertex, thorax, aucl abdomen reddish grey. Underside dnll red, suffused with
darker.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

Two a, three ? ?, from Cedar Bay, Cooktown (A. S. Meek).

Chrysolene gen. nov.

Akin to Clinjsocrusped'i Hmpsn. ; the i antennae pectinated ; hindlegs not
reduced, the tibiae with two pairs of spurs ; forewings acute and produced at apex ;
both wings more or less strongly elbowed in middle ; first subcostal of forewings
not stalked with the other four, but anastomosing with them to form the areole ;
hiudwiugs with last two medians from angle of cell or on a short stalk.

Type : Chrysolene deciarm Wlk. {Hyria).

10.5. Chrysolene cruoraria sp. nov.

Forewings : yellow, with bloo<l-red strigulations ; basal half of wing from one-
third of costa to anal angle, puiisle, edged with blood-red striae ; a similar-coloured
blotch at apex, surrounded l)y blood-red striae; so that the yellow ground-colour
is restricted to an oblique fascia from middle of costa to anal angle and along outer
half of costa and the hindmargin except at the elbow ; fringe yellow.

Himlwings : with the whole area except a narrow marginal space purple,
edged with blood-red striae ; the marginal space yellow, with red striae ; fringe
yellow ; a darker jiurple cell-spot.

Underside the same, but duller. Face and palpi yellow, edged with red ;
Tertex, antennae, and thorax purple ; abdomen yellow.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

One ? from Cedar Bay, (,'ooktown (A. S. Meek).

Another ? from the same locality has both wings wholly suffused with purple-
red, except the hindmargin on either side of the elbow, which is narrowly yellow;
abdomen and underside of wings all red.

loo. Chrysolene dilucida sp. nov.

Foreicings : with ground-colour yellow ; costal area broadly olive-grey, this
colour running down as far as the median vein at the end of cell and beyond the
outer line, where it runs to the elbow ; the inner half of the wing is suffused with
deep orange, intersected by the yellow veins ; the two lines yellow and broad ; the
first at one-fourth, angled in the cell, then obliipie inwards; second at two-thirds,
angled at vein 4, and again bent near inner margin ; cell-spot small, black ; fringe
yellowish.

Hindwinqs : with the centre hyaline, the base and marginal fascia olive-fiiscons,
the latter very broad towards inner margin, and containing yellowish patches wliicli
appear to indicate a sulimargiual line ; the hyaline space with a grey cloud from
•costa ; fringe yellowish.

Underside pale yellowish, in the forewings tinged in places with red. Face
yellowish ; vertex and front of thorax grey ; thorax and abdomen yellow, duste<l
with grey.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

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One ? from Sarawak.

Akin to deviana Wlk. The specimen is not in fresh condition ; the antennae
are thickened towards base, subserrate, and witli thick rongh scales along the upper
side of the shaft ; both wings blnutly angled at vein 4 ; forewiugs with a single
areole, vein 11 anastomosing wth the stalk of 7, S, 0, 10. lu the hindwings 3, 4
and G, 7 are long-stalked.

107. Craspedia aggravata sp. nov.

Forewings : ochreons, densely dusted with black atoms ; first line carved,
narrow, median shade broad, incurved below middle, both pale fulvous, the first
marked also by black dots on veins|; outer line dark grey, thread-like, dentated, the
teeth marked by black dots on veins, that on inner margin larger, followed by two
somewhat confused grey lines, which also are marked by a darker spot on inner
margin ; a marginal row of black dots between the veins ; fringe full, ochreons,
with a row of black dots along base opposite the veins ; cell-spot small, black.

Hindwings : with antemediau fulvous shade ; postmediau denticulate, and two
snbmarginal lines, all more or less marked with fulvous ; cell-spot larger.

Underside with the outer lines marked, and the basal half of forewings suffused
with grey. Face and palpi black ; collar ferruginous : vertex and shoulders pure
ochreons ; thorax and abdomen ochreons, thickly dusted with black.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One S from the Khasias.

The hindwings have the hindmargin slightly waved, and indented opposite the cell.

108. Craspedia bigeminata sp. uov.

Forewings, : bone-colonr, dnstcd with fuscous ; no first line ; a small black cell-
dot ; a double fuscous line oblique from middle of inner margin to apex ; a simOar
double line from near anal angle, joining the other below apex : a fiiint single line
close before hindmargin ; a black marginal line, swollen between the veins ; fringe
ochreons, with dark dusting.

Ilindicings : the same, the cell-dot on the outer of the two mediau lines.

Underside much dusted with ochreons fuscous, especially towards base of
forewiugs ; the inner arm of the second double line denticulated. Face and palpi
deep red-brown ; thorax and abdomen bone-colour.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

One 6 from Natal (A. J. 8piller).

109. Craspedia bonaventura sp. nov.

Forewings : white, with tine and si)arse dark atoms ; first line fine, ferruginous,
often obsolete or marked only by ferruginous dots on median and submedian veins;
cell-spot black ; middle line grey, denticulate, at two-thirds ; outer line ferruginous,
wavy, very fine, incurved beyond cell and marked there by two black lunules
internally and grey scales externally: marked also alwve inner margi^i by three
black lunules, and grey scales externally, these last forming a roundish blotch on
inner margin ; an irregular row of dark grey snbmarginal blotches, the largest on
vein 6 ; a ferruginous subapical spot.

Hindwings : with two irregular rows of grey blotches beyond the outer line ;

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cell-spot with a grey riug round it before the central gre)- dentate line ; fringe of
both wings white, with a row of shallow black lunules between the veins.

Underside whitish, sprinkled with dark scales, with the cell-spots and two
outer lines distinct. Face and palpi black ; collar ferrnginons ; vertex, thorax, and
abdomen white.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

Common from S. Africa, and also occurring in Abyssinia. The African
equivalent of the Indian nictata Guen.

110. Craspedia castissima sp. nov.

Fomcinqx : dull cream-white, with sparse black scales ; a small black dot at
base below submedian vein ; first line at one-third, indicated by three black dots,
on subcostal, median, and submedian respectively; a small black cell-spot ; median
shade grey, dentate, strongly excnrved in upper two-thirds ; outer line at four-fifths,
marked by black dots on veins, connected by a fine grey line, the three below costa
in a line oblique outwards, the lower five in a curve; snbmarginal line of the ground-
colour between two grey dentate shades ; a row of large black marginal dots ; fringe
white.

Hindwings : the same, without first line, the central shade becoming ante-
median : the cell-dot larger.

Underside greyer, with the markings obscured. Palpi above and externally
and toj) of face dark fuscous ; lower half of face, vertex, thorax, and abdomen
white ; the abdomen with black dusting ; collar ferruginous.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

Several from Cedar Bay, Cooktowu (A. S. Meek).

111. Craspedia deserta sp. nov.

Forewings : pale rufous ochreous, dnsted with dark scales; first line curved,
diffuse, from costa at one-third to inner margin at one-fourth ; median line oblique,
slightly curved, from costa at two-thirds to middle of inner margin, becoming
obsolete towards costa ; outer line from four-fifths of costa to two-thirds of inner
margin, curved and concise, blackish, with black dots on veins, followed, except
beneath costa, by a dark oblique shade ; snbmarginal line indistinct ; cell-spot
black, distinct ; a row of linear marginal dashes ; fringe concolorous, with a dark
grey line before the tips.

Hindwings : with the central shade distinct and antemedian, preceding the
dark cell-spot ; the outer line minutely waved, followed liy two darker shades ;
fringe as in forewings.

Underside similar, the lines less distinct. Face, palpi, collar, and forelegs
dark ferruginous : vertex white ; thorax and abdomen concolorous with wings.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

In some numbers from Weenen, Natal.

The wings are narrow and elongate, as in Lycauges Butler. Some examples
are pale ochreous, without any rufous tinge.

112. Craspedia dissonans sp. nov.

Forewings bone-colour, dusted with grey, and with all the lines grey ; these
are all placed almost exactly as in C. deserta ^Varr., liut are more diffuse and

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coarse ; the first line is beiit below costa, and being rather farther IVoni the base
approaches the median shade above the inner margin. Both wings are broader and
shorter in proportion than those of cleserta ; and the hiudwings are bulged in the
middle of hindmargin ; the antennae of the cJ are thicker, sitbdeutate, with denser
fascicles of cilia.

Expanse of wings : 2(i mm.

A pair from Weeuen, Natal, October 1893.

113. Craspedia laevipennis sp. nov.

Foreicimjs : cream-white, thickly and smoothly scaled, with very tine sparse
blackish atoms : costa narrowly ochreons ; the lines ochreons ; first obscure,
reaching inner margin nearly in middle; second at three-fonrths, waved and sinuous,
approaching first line on inner margin ; fringe ochreons.

llinduiny.s : with the outer line only ; both wings with minute ochreons cell-
spot.

Underside white ; costa of forewings broadly ochreons at base. Face and palpi
brown-black ; vertex and collar ochreons ; thorax and abdomen white.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One cJ from the Cameroons, "West Africa.

The wings are short and broad ; hindwings with hindmargin bluntly bent in
middle.

114. Craspedia melliflua s]). nov.

Forewings : dull yellow ; the costa narrowly pale brown ; lines pale brown ;
first very obscure, at one-third, wavy ; second from costa at three-fourths to inner
margin at two-thirds, slightly sinuous ; fringe concolorous ; cell-spot pale brown.

Ilindwiiu/.H : with the line central ; no cell-spot.

Underside yellowish ; forewings towards base tinged with rufous grey. Face
and palpi blackish ; vertex and collar pale brown ; thorax and abdomen yellow.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

One cJ from Natal (A. J. Spiller).

The hindmargin of hindwings is distinctly elbowed in middle, that of forewings
slightly bulged.

ll.j. Craspedia nigrinotata sp. uov.

Forewings : whitish, densely irrorated with black scales ; costa with five black
spots, one close to base, second at one-fourth, third beyond middle, fourth at two-
thirds, fifth towards apex ; first liue from second spot, faintly ochreous, with a dot
on median and snbmedian ; median line curved round cell, ochreons, mixed with
grey scales, denticulate ; outer line evenly curved, minutely dentate, blackish ;
submarginal cloudy, interrupted opposite the cell and above anal angle ; a marginal
row of distinct black Innules ; fringe grey ; cell-spot distinct, black.

Hindwings : similar, without first liue.

Underside dull grej-. Face white, deep black above ; palpi blackish, vertex
white ; thorax and abdomen white, sj)eckled with blackish.

Expanse of wings : J, 20 mm. ; ? , 24 mm.

One ? , two tJ (J, from Zoniba, Upper Shird district, May 1895 (Dr. P. Reudall).

The two (?(J are much paler than the ? : but, being both much worn, this may

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be owing to the loss of the black scales ouly. The species is closely allied to
Jibulata Gnen. and its Indian forms, c? antennae with Hne fiiscicles of cilia ; hind
tibiae thickened, with a jiencil of hairs and without spurs ; ? with four spurs ; vein
3 before end of cell.

116. Craspedia sanguinisecta sp. no v.

Foi'civiiujs : greyish ochreous, smoothly scaled ; with fine darker dusting ouly
towards base and throughout the marginal area : costa narrowly red ; first line at
one-fourth, fnscous, slightly oblique inwards, and bent beneath costa ; second from
costa beyond middle, acutely angled on vein 0, thence oblique and irregularly
sinuous to middle of inner margin ; third from four-fifths of costa, bluutly angled on
,vein 6, thence oblique inwards, slightly waved, to inner margin at four-fifths,
marked opposite the cell and ou submedian fold with blood-red ; marginal area
dusted with fuscous, and with an obli([uely edged darker fnscous blotch beyond angle
of third line ; marginal line concise, blackish ; fringe ochreous ; a grey cell-spot.

Hindivings : with antemedian and postmedian lines only, both fuscous ; cell-
dot minute, deep black.

Underside much more speckled with fuscous : the two outer lines exjiressed
and much more waved than above. Face and jialpi dee]i brown ; collar dull
ferruginous ; vertex white ; thorax and abdomen concolorous with wings.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One ? from Weenen, Natal, March 1894.

117. Craspedia subperlaria sp. no v.

Forewings : white, with sparse blackish atoms ; exterior line at five-sixths,
pale ochreous, denticulate ; a row of black marginal spots, and a small black cell-
spot ; fringe white.

Hindtvings : the same.

Underside white, unspotted. Face and jialpi brown ; collar ferruginous ;
thorax and abdomen white.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

One ? from Warri, Iliver Niger, June 1896 (Dr. Roth).

118. Craspedia sufficiens sp. nov.

Forewings ■• whitish, sparsely dusted with dark scales ; first line at one-third,
nearly tonching the brown cell-spot, pale ochreous ; exterior line at five-sixths,
strongly denticulate ; traces of a submarginal line ; a row of round black marginal
dots : fringe white.

Ilindwings : the same.

Underside white ; basal half of forewings tinged with rufous. Face and palpi
black-brown ; collar ochreous ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen white.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One c? from the Cameroons, West Africa.

Hindmargin of hindwings slightly wavy an<l beat in the middle ; antennae
with long ciliatious.

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Epicosymbia gen. nov.

Like Cosymhia Hiib., but with different neuration ; in the forewings 10
anastomoses with 1 1 , and then with 8, 9, forming a double areole ; in the hindwings
the two snbcostals are stalked ; hind tibiae with one pair of sj)urs.

Type : Epicosymbia perriij'a sp. nov.

110. Epicosymbia perrufa sp. nov.

Foreicimjs: dull vinous red, the lines deeper red; first from costa at one-fourth
to inner margin at one-tlard, exeurved in cell: a diffuse curved median shade beyond
the deep red cell-spot ; outer line at four-fifths, curved, dentate outwards ou the
veins, followed by a red snbmarginal shade ; marginal line purple, interrupted by
jialer dots at end of veins : fringe vinous red.

IIi)t(lici»(i.'y : similar.

Underside paler red ; the e.-vterior line simply curved, not denticulate. Face
dark red-brown ; vertex white ; palpi, collar, thorax, and abdomen reddish.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

One J from Natal (A. J. Spiller).

Hemipogon gen. nov.

Forewinys : triangular ; the costa straiglit, but strongly convex l)efore apex ;
hindmargin obliquely rounded.

Ilindwinys : broad, both angles rounded off ; the hindmargin strongly rounded.

Paljji slender, porrect ; antennae pubescent ; hind tibiae of cJ thickened, with a
tuft of hair covering the aborted tarsi, and without spurs ; hindwings of S clothed
with hair towards inner margin, and with the fringes of inner margin long.

Xeurotion : as in Ptychopoda Stj)li.

Type : Hemipogon velatina sp. nov.

To this group probably belongs Acidalia thricopkora Hmpsn. from Burma, the
type of which, in the Elwes Collection, I have not seen.

120. Hemipogon nanata sp. nov.

Forewings: ochreous, slightly dusted and suffused with darker ; the lines very
obscure, brownish; first at one-third, curved towards base; second wavy, in middle,
touching a small dark cell-spot ; outer line at three-fourths, slightly exeurved below
middle ; marginal area rather darker ; fringe concolorous, with a row of minute
dark dots along base at the ends of the veins.

Hindwings : more dusted with brownish ; the outer line very indistinct, marked
by a brown spot on costa and inner margin ; cell-dot minute.

Underside uniform oclirenus, with the cell-spots only marked. Face and paljii
dark brown ; thorax and abdomen ochreous ; the tuft of the hind tibiae is red.

Expanse of wings : 12 mm.

One S from the Tenimber Ishinds, .July 1892 (W. Doherty).

The rough hair ou underside of hindwings is confined to tlie inner-marginal
area.

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121. Hemipogon velutina sp. uov.

Forewings : greyish oclireons, the costal region sparse!}' sjiriukleil with lilack
atoms; cell-spot dark; au obscure darker waved outer line at three-fourths, aud
faint traces of a median line : fringe concolorous.

Himlivini/s : with cell-spot, and no trace of any line.

Underside rather paler, without markings ; the hindwings are more or less
clothed with hair throughout, most thickly along inner margin and towards anal
angle. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous ; face and palpi dark brown.

Expanse of wings : 17 mm.

One <? from Batchian, March 1892 (W. Doherty).

The tuft of hair on the hind tibiae is blackish inside.

Induna gen. nov.

Forcivinys : ample ; costa straight, convex before apex ; apex blunt : hind-
margin well curved.

Hindicim/s : rather elongate, with fully rounded hindmargin.

Antennae of S pectinated, of S strongly serrate ; jjalpi stout, roughly scaled,
porrect, reaching well in front of face ; hind tibiae of S fully developed, not
thickened, with a terminal pair of spurs.

Neuration : forewings, cell half as long as wing ; discocellular vertical ; sub-
costal and median veins bent inwards towards extremity ; first median at three-
fourths, second before end of cell, third from end ; radials normal ; last four
subcostals stalked from before end of cell ; first bent down to anastomose with them
at a })oint. Hindwings with subcostals from end of cell ; second median before
€nd. Scaling coarse and jjowdery.

Type : Induna rufisalsa sp. nov.

122. Induna rufisalsa sp. nov.

S. Forewings : pinkish ochreous, tliickly dusted with sandy rufous scales : the
«osta broadly greyish ochreous, with fuscous atoms ; the lines darker ; first at one-
third, curved below costa, then oblique inwards ; middle line at two-thirds, slightly
inbent below costa, and angled outward rectangularly on vein 6, then oblique to
middle of inner margin ; outer line at three-fourths, finely waved, and dentate
inwards ; submarginal line pale, between darker shades ; a small dark cell-spot ;
a fine dark marginal line, swollen between the veins and interrupted at them ;
fringe dec]), concolorous, with a dark line of scales near base.

llindicings : the same, without first lin(!.

Underside similar, the inner margin of forewings whitish. Face and 2)alpi
dark brown ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen concolorous ; ? much paler, with pale
ochreous ground-colour and much less red irroratiou.

Expanse of wings : S , 26 mm. ; ? , 28 mm.

A considerable number from Weenen, Natal, Jlarch 18'J4.

Isoplenia gen. nov.

Foreivinys : ample ; costa evenly curved thronghont : apex blunt, nearly
rectangular : hindmargin curved.

llindiiings : with fully rounded hindmargin.

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Palpi short, hardly reaching beyond face. Antennae of S finely pectinated,
the pectinations ciliated, slender, ami nearly at right angles with the shaft : of ?
also pectinated, bnt shorter, the pectinations more ol)li(iae and not extetidiug to
apex : hind tibiae of <S normal, with a terminal pair of spurs ; of ? with fonr
spurs.

Nettration : forewings, cell half the length of wing : the discocellnlar vertical :
the median and snbcostal veins l)oth bent inwards towards extremity ; first median
nervule at fonr-fifths, second before, third from end of cell ; lower radial from a
little above the centre of discocellnlar ; upper radial normal ; 7, 8, 9 stalked, from
before end of cell : 10 and 11 free, from cell ; 10 anastomosing with 11 and again
with 7, 8, 9, forming a double areole : 7 from apex of areole: S, 9, 10 long-stalked.
Hindwings with veins 7 and 3 both before angles of cell.

Type : fsoplenia tristuuata sp. nov.

123. Isoplenia trisinuata sp. nov.

Forewings : in S l)rick-red, or brownish red ; in the ? duller, greyer, densely
sprinkled with red atoms : the lines deep red ; first at one-third, bent below costa,
thence sinuous to inner margin ; second at two-thirds, angled inwards on snbcostal
and outwards on vein 6, thence sinuous and vertical to inner margin beyond two-
thirds : third angled outwards on vein 6, thence sinuous and wavy to just before
anal angle ; a more obscure zigzag subterminal line, its angles joined by reddish
streaks between the veins to the marginal Hue, which is finely red : fringe con-
colorons : cell-spot dark.

Hindwings : the same, withont first line.

Underside pale pinkish ochreous, with the two outer lines shown. Face and
palpi deep brown : verte.x and antennae red : thorax and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : c?, 26 mm.; ?, 32 mm.

Three t?cf, two ? ?, from Weenen, Natal ; two 6S and one ? dated December
1893, the other pair March 1894 ; in both cases the SS much fresher and in
better condition than the ? S .

Leptacme gen. nov.

Forewings : elongated, the costa straight till close to apex ; apex produced,
somewhat acute ; hindmargin slightly sinuous, very obliquely curved below, the
anal angle rounded off.

Hindwings : slightly protuberant at veins 6 and 4, incnrved between.

Palpi and tongue almost obsolete : antennae of ? filiform : mid tibiae with one
pair of spurs ; hindlegs and abdomen wanting.

Xeuration : forewings, cell nearly two-thirds of wing ; discocellnlar straight ;
first median from seven-eighths, second shortly before, third from end of cell : the
median nervure itself bent upwards towards the extremity of cell : radials normal :
veins 10 and 11 stalked : 7, 8, 9 stalked ; the stalks anastomosing, 11, 7, 10, 8, and
9 rising in the order given. Hindwings, with cell two-thirds of wing ;'the dis-
cocellnlar obli(iue ; the two subcostals on a very long stalk ; medians as in
forewings.

Type : Leptnemr midescripta sp. nov.

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124. Leptacme malescripta sp. no v.

Forewings. : brick-red, with extremely fine darker red dusting ; a small dark
cell-dot : no distinct markings, but traces of a cnrved darker red fascia parallel and
near to hindmargin : fringe concolorons, with a row of minute black dots at base.

llindicings : the same : the cell-spot larger ; traces of an antemedian shade.

Underside like upper. Face and palpi red-brown : vertex ])inkish ; thorax
concolorous with wings.

Expanse of wings : 17 mm.

One ? from Weenen, Natal, March 1895.

125. Lycauges acuta sp. nov.

Forewings : ochreous, sprinkled with rufous ochreons atoms, the lines rufous or
pale brownish ; cell-spot white, edged with rufous : first line from one-third of inner
margin oblique towards the cell-spot : second line a broad diffuse shade from middle
of inner margin to costa before apex, where it is joined to a finer line from inner
margin before anal angle : fringe dark rufous, with a paler basal line.

Hindwings : with difliise central submarginal rufous shade.

Underside j-ellow, with the rosy strignlae and Imes brighter. Face and palpi
brown : vertex and antennae whitish ; thorax and abdomen rufous ochreons.

Expanse of wings : 25 mm.

Two ? ? from Natal (A. J. Spiller).

Distinguished by the very acute subfalcate apex and oblique hindmargin.

126. Lycauges concurrens sp. nov.

Forewings : bone-colour, sprinkled with fuscous atoms ; the lines dark grey and
verv oblique ; first curved, from one-third of costa to near base of inner marn-in :
median shade thick and diftuse from three-fourths of costa to before middle of inner
margin, towards costa recurved and faint ; outer line concise, serrate on the veins,
from middle of inner margin straight towards apex, recurved and faint from vein 6,
followed by two diffuse grey shades, which coalesce in the apex of wing : a small
black cell-spot ; fringe bone-colour, with darker scales intermixed : a fine dark
marginal line.

Ilindivings : more suffused with rufous scales : the markings the same, without
first line.

Underside similar, the base of forewings more thickly dusted with dark scales.
Face, palpi, and collar dark ferruginous ; vertex whitish ; thorax and abdomen
concolorous.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One (? from Mpeta, Loangwa River, December 1S95 (Coryndon).

127. Lycauges extremata sp. nov.

Forewings: bone-colour, tinged with ochreous and dusted with fuscous ; first
line very faint, curved and oblique below, from lone-fourth of costa to one-fourth of
inner margin ; median sliade thick and dilfnse from middle of inner margin towards
apes, edged e.Kternally by the oblique waved outer line, both becoming obsolete before

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reaching costa ; traces of two dark snbmarginal shades ; a row of black dots between
the veins on margin : cell-spot black : fringe concolorons.

Ilindwijigs : the same, bnt the outer line is separated from the central shade by
a pale space.

Underside with only the cell-spots shown. Face, palpi, and collar dull brown ;
vertex pale ; thorax and abdomen like wings.

Exi)anse of wings : 24 — 26 mm.

Two ? ? from Akassa, Eiver Xiger.

128. Nobilia nebulosa sp. nov.

Forewings : dnll red-brown, with nnmerous j)ale wavy somewhat shining striae ;
the costa grey-brown, the streak much narrower than in y. (urbata Wlk. : an
undefined paler pinkish grey central fascia, with the onter edge curved and dentate,
but without any distinct line, containing a darker-coloured spot on the discocclinlar;
a narrow whitish waved line from near costa before apex to hindmargin below
vein 4, reappearing as a small triangle on vein 3, and forming a Innnle above anal
angle, followed above vein 4 by some indistinct grey streaks : fringe reddish brown;
beyond a dark red marginal line.

llindicings : the same, the submarginal waved line more distinct and less
interrupted ; cell-spot elongate, grey, with a dark dot below.

Underside bronzy pink. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons with wings.

Expanse of wings : 39 mm.

One (5 from Amboina, August 1892 (W. Doherty).

Quite distinct from both the common X. Uirbata Wlk. and the other Bornean
s])ecies -V. strigata Warr.

129. Perixera imbuta sp. nov.

Forewings : dull brick-red, with very fine fnscous irroration ; the line? dark
grey, indistinct ; first at one-fourth, angled in cell and on submedian fold, and marked
by dark dots on veins ; median shade at two-thirds, denticulate, and incurved below
middle ; onter line in the usual place of the submarginal, marked by dark dots on
veins ; fringe concolorons ; a double row of marginal blackish dots between and at
the ends of the veins ; cell-spot blackish.

Hindwings : the same.

Underside dull rosy, the outer line only marked by reddisli dots. Palpi, head,
thorax, and abdomen brick-red : face whitish in the lower half, deep red above.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One <? from the Khasias, July 1896.

130. Perixera transversata sji. nov.

Forewings : dull brick-red, dusted with darker atoms ; markings dark fuscous ;
first line at one-fourth, indistinct, angled outwards below costa ; outer line at five-
sixths, denticulate, marked by dark dots on the veins, incurved totvards inner
margin ; a small white cell-dot, with dark scales round it ; an oblique diffuse
nearly straight dark median shade from costa at two-thirds to beyond middle of
inner margin ; fringe concolorons ; a row of dark marginal spots between the veins.

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Hind wings : with the shade central, slightly bent, following the small white
cell-dot ; outer line approximated to median on inner margin.

Underside whitish ochreous, in the forewings tinged with rosy. Paljji pale
ochreons, tinged with red above : face whitish, with a red bar at top ; verte.\ and
shaft of antennae white ; thorax concolorons with wings ; abdomen wanting.

Expanse of wings : 33 mm.

One c? from Cedar Bay, North Queensland (A. S. Meek).

131. Problepsis auriculifera sp. nov.

Forewings : pure white, the costa fuscous to middle ; discal ocellus distinctly
ear-shaped, fulvous, with metallic leaden and black scales all round the margin, and
similar linear spots in the centre between the veins ; a round fulvous annulus below
it, with similar scales ; some silver}' scales along inner margin : postmedian line
smoky ochreous ; the submarginal line formed of blue-grey cuneiform spots, the
outermost line of blue-grey triangular spots ; marginal line dark blue-grey ; fringe
glossy white, with a darker dividing line.

Hindwings : with a dark oval ocellus, its margin marked as in forewings,
followed by an obscure annnlns on inner margin, with silvery scales to anal angle.

Underside white. Palpi and face black above, white below ; vertex black :
collar, thorax, and abdomen white.

Expanse of wings : cJ, 26 mm. : ? , 32 mm.

A pair, bred, from Singapore.

Distinguished from deliaria Guen. by the differently shaped and much darker
ocelloid spot.

132. Problepsis digammata sp. nov.

Argi/ris latonaria var. "Wlk. XXIII. p. b07, nee Guen.

To Walker's description, which is good as far as it goes, may be added that
the discal annulus of the forewings is marked with black scales above, and on the
hindwings is wholly silvery ; in these wings the central line is not interrupted by
the discal mark, but passes inside it.

One ? from Pieter Maritzburg, Natal.

133. Problepsis hemicyclata sp. nov.

Forewings: white, the costa narrowly smoky ochreons : discal ocellus fulvous,
horseshoe-shaped, not reaching below the median vein, edged within ou the outer side
only by a black curved mark, with some silvery scales iu the centre, and with a line
of brilliant silvery scales all round, these being continued without closing the
ocellus at the bottom along each side of a pale ochreous streak to the inner margin;
postmedian line yellowish ochreous ; submarginal line of blotches smoky grey ; the
subterminal line yellowish ochreous, not grey, as in (ipollinaiia Guen.; marginal
line also ochreous ; fringe white, with an ochreous dividing line.

Hindwings : with a long silver-edged annulus with an ochreous centre ; some
irregular silvery marks along inner margin to anal angle.

Underside white. Palpi white, tijtped with fuscous ; face white, except the
extreme top, which is fuscous ; vertex white, with a fuscous spot in front ; thorax
and abdomen white.

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Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

Three ? ? from Kei Toeal, January to March 1896 (H. C. Webster).

Distinguished at once by the darker tints of the ocelloid spot in forewings not
reaching below the median vein. One specimen has traces of a pale ochreous inner
line near the base.

134. Ptochophyle ephjrata sp. nov.

Forewings: pinkish ochreous, thickly irrorated with reddish striae: the lines dull
greyish fuscous ; first at one-fourth, curved ; median shade from two-thirds of costfl,
to beyond middle of inner margin, ditfase, incurved below middle ; outer line at five-
si.xths, wavy, incurved oijjjosite cell, darker marked on the veins ; indistinct red dots
along margin between and at the ends of the veins ; fringe paler, j)inkish ochreous ;
cell-spot hardly visible.

Hiruhoinijs : with two lines, and the cell-spot large, oval, black-edged, with
paler centre.

Underside whitish ochreous, in the forewiugs tinged with rosy, with all the
markings faint. Thorax and abdomen coucolorons ; head damaged.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One ? from the Tenimber Islands, July 1S92 (W. Doherty).

Allied to P. lineata AVarr. from Dili, Timor, but larger, and with all three
lines marked.

135. Ptochophyle (?) pulveinilenta sp. nov.

Foreivings : pinkish, densely and uniformly dusted with brick-red atoms ; a
dark red cell-spot, and row of similar spots along hindmargin between the veins ;
fringe concolorous.

Ilimhcingx : precisely similar.

Underside pale pinkish ochreous. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous ;
face paler.

Expanse of wiugs : 20 mm.

One ? from Perak.

The antennae, which are subserrate, are much thickened close to base. In the
hindwings the two subcostal nervules and last two medians, which typically rise
from the ends of cell, are stalked.

13G. Ptychopoda semisericea sji. nov.

Forewings : pale ochreous, finely dusted with grey : the lines grey, oblique and
diffuse ; the antemedian and median straight ; the outer and two submarginal lines
waved ; cell-spot black, before the median line ; fringe ochreous, with a row of
minute dark specks at ends of veins.

Hindwings : the same ; the lines very obscure.

Underside with the markings more distinct : basal half of forewings greyish.
Face and palpi blackish ; thorax and abdomen ochreous. The tuft of hind tilnac is
black inside.

Expanse of wings : 18 mm.

One iS from the Khasias, June 189.5.

Like P. actiosuria Wlk., but much paler ; the anal angle of the hindwings
slightly produced and rectangular.

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137. Ptychopoda nigrosticta sp. nov.

Foreicings : ochreons, (lusted with fine blackish atoms : a ilistiiict dark cell-
spot ; first line and median line only indicated by blackish scales on costa : outer
line at three-fourths, curved near costa, and marked by minute dark vein-dots; fringe
concolorous, with a pale line at base, followed by a row of comparatively large
black dots.

Ilimhrintjs : the same, but without any distinct line.

Underside yellower ; the forewings with the basal half, except on inner margin,
dark brown-grey. Face and jialpi dark brown : thorax and abdomen ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 12 mm.

One d from AVcenen, Natal, Octolier 180.5.

The cell of forewings is two-thirds as long as wing, of hindwings one-half. In
the forewings vein 1 1 rises very far back, before middle of cell, and is bent down to
anastomose with the stalk of the other four subcostals, which also rises well before
the end of cell. In hindwings the two subcostals are short-stalked.

138. RhodostropMa muricolor sp. nov.

Forewings : greyish mouse-colour : in the cJ without any markings ; a slight
black cell-spot ; fringe paler.

Hindwings : paler, towards the costa tinged with ochreous, with traces of post-
median and submarginal grey lines.

? darker, dusted with fuscous atoms ; an obscure oblique inner line, a faintly
double nearly straight postmedian, and slightly sinuous submarginal line, all darker
than the ground-colour ; cell-spot distinct; hindwings strongly tinged with ochreous
towards apex and paler, with the postmedian and submarginal lines distinct.

Underside more yellowish, with the outer lines marked. Head, thorax, and
abdomen concolorous with wings, the abdomen somewhat paler.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

A pair from Simla, August 1896.

139. Somatina figurata sj). nov.

Forewinrjs : whitish, thickly dusted with grey atoms; the lines dark grey; first
at one-third, vortical and somewhat waved ; outer at three-fourths, fine and wavy,
parallel to hindmargin, except the costal portion, which runs obliquely outwards ;
preceded by a thicker dentate median shade, excurved round cell ; cell-spot an
oblique figure of 8, filled up with olive-fuscous and finely edged with metallic scales;
submarginal line pale, waved, between two dark fuscous grey Innulate fasciae; a fine
black marginal line, swelling out into spots between the veins and with a larger
dark mark opposite the cell ; fringe white.

Himhrings : similar, but the cell-spot narrower and elongate.

Underside white, with a submarginal row of dark dots on the veins ; costa of
forewings rosy. Palpi, face, and forelegs rosy ; lower part of face whitish ; vertex
and shaft of antennae white ; collar ferruginous ; thorax and abdomen white, the
latter with a black mark on anal segment.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

One cJ from Weenen, Natal, December 1S93.

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14fi. Sterrha associata sp. nov.

Forewings : bi)iie-C(il()ni-, tinged with grey ; the lines dark grey or blackish ;
first at oue-tiiird, enrved, from a dark spot ou costa ; cell-spot dark ; outer line at
fonr-fifths, curved and tine to the iirst median, then vertical and thicker, also
starting from a dark costal spot ; two dark snbmarginal fasciae, between which runs
the paler snbmarginal line ; fringe concolorons, with minute dark specks in the
basal half opposite the veins.

Ilvii/iciiu/s : the same ; the marginal dusky area broader.

Underside rather darker. Face and palpi black ; vertex, tliorax, and abdomen
concolorons.

Expanse of wings : 12 mm.

Two (S<S from Weenen, Natal, April 189.5.

cf antennae ciliated ; hind tibiae of 6 fully developed, with a terminal pair oi'
large spurs.

141. Sterrha obliquiscripta sp. nov.

Foreioings : wliitish, thickly bnt finely dusted with fuscous atoms ; with five
orey oblique lines : the first, very indistinct, at one-third ; the second median
passing over the black cell-spot ; the third at three-fourths, with hardly perceptible
dark dots on the veins behind : the fourth thicker and nearer the third on inner
margin than on costa : the fifth subtermiual, fine and indistinct : a marginal row of
lilackish dashes ; fringe whitish, with a dark middle line.

Hiiuhcings : with four lines.

Underside darker, especially in forewings, which towards co.sta are suffused
with grey: the outer three lines only shown. Face and ]ialpi dark brown ; vertex,
thorax, and abdomen whitish.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

One S from Weenen, Natal, August 1894.

Antennae of c? with fine fascicles of cilia ; hind tibiae simple, short, with
terminal spurs only ; vein 3 in both wings before angle of cell ; vein 7 of hindwings
before upper angle.

142. Sterrha picta sp. nov.

Forewings : silky white : the basal region with a pale violet stain, which forms
a sharp tooth along the median, and runs out along costa to the middle of the wing,
where it becomes deep violet ; first line marked by a deep violet spot on inner
margin at one-third on the edge of the violet tint, with another spot of mixed bright
ochreous and black scales obliquely above it : cell-spot black, distinct, consisting of
raised scales ; outer line at four-fifths, parallel to hinilniargin, bright ochreous,
interrnpted below middle, and becoming deep violet above inner margin : a row of
deep violet marginal dots ; fringe fnll, pure white.

Iliiuhmnga : white ; a minute dark cell-spot and row of marginal dots ; costa
at base and inner margin along middle stained with violet.

Underside of forewings violet-grey, deej)er towanls costa, with the cejl-spot and
marginal spots black ; traces of two wavy snbmarginal lines ; fringe white ; hind-
wings white, with costa stained with violet ; cell-spot and marginal dots black.
Face and fore tibiae and femora deep violet ; palpi and vertex ochreous white :
thorax and abdomen jiure white, the latter with reddish dorsal spots.

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Expanse of wings : 19 mm.

One 6 from Weeneu, Natal, January 189.3.

The antennae of the cS are finely ciliated ; tlie hiud tibiae slender, with the
terminal pair of spars only ; veins 6 and 7 of hindwings stalked. At first sight the
violet stain suggests an accidental disfignrenient of the white gronnd-colonr ; but
the perfectly symmetrical outline of it on both wings prevents the acceptance of
this e.xplanation.

143. Sterrha punctilineata sp. nov.

Foreivinqs : white, with delicate dark dusting, especially along the costa ; the
lines oblique, jiarallel to hindmargin ; first indicated only by two spots, one on
submedian vein at one-third, the other on the median ; a distinct blackish cell-dot:
onter line fine, ochreous, at four-fifths, marked with neat dark dashes on the veins
externally : between it and the cell-dot is an obliqne broadish ochreons line or
shade, which api)roaches the exterior line towards costa, where it is somewhat
curved : snbmarginal line ochreous, indistinct ; a black marginal line, containing
dots between the veins ; fringe white, with two lines of fine dark scales.

Jlindwings : similar, the central shade narrower and passing inside round the
cell-spot.

Underside the same : the forewings somewhat tinged with ochreous. Face,
palpi, and collar black : vertex, thorax, and abdomen white.

Expanse of wings : 19 mm.

One (J from Weenen, Natal.

The antennae of cJ are subdentate, with coarse fascicles of cilia : hiud tibiae
short, rather thick, with terminal spurs only : the tarsi long ; vein 3 in both wings
before the angle of cell ; vein 7 of hindwings before the upper angle.

144. Symmacra camearia sp. nov.

Foreiviiiijs : pink, thickly dusted with brick-red scales ; the lines brick-reil ;
first at one-third, bent in cell ; second at two-thirds, irregularly waved and slightly,
oblique ; third at three-fourths, slightly waved, vertical for two-thirds, then bent in
to inner margin near second ; a faint paler waved snbmarginal line ; fringe con-
colorons ; cell-spot annular.

llindwinii^ : with two slightly waved and curved red lines, and a pale sub-
marginal line.

Underside dull pink. Face, vertex, and palpi deep red-browu : collar reddish ;
thorax and abdomen jjinkish.

Expanse of wings : 21 mm.

One ¥ from Labuan, North Borneo, October 1894 (A. Everett).

145. Timandra obsoleta sp. nov.

Foraviiu/s : pale ochreous, with a slight fiesh-coloured tint, and very faintly
irrorated with darker ; the obliqne line very obscurely pinkish or fuscous, or
altogether absent; submarginal line grey, nearly straight and sometimes obsolescent,
but generally finely marked with pink at costa ; fringe ochreous, sometimes pink-
tinged, with a fine pinkish marginal line : cell-dot minute.

lliiidwiuf/s : the same ; the submarginal line, when present, just bent in the
middle ; in both wings tlie area beyond the oblique lino is slightly deeper-coloured
tlian the basal half of the wins.

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Underside ochreons, in tlie forowings slightly tinged witli jiiukish aud with
distinct dark irroration : the basal fringe-line dark ; the outer line only marked, and
that indistinctly, grey. Face and jjalpi red-brown; thorax and abdomen concoloroiis
with wings ; vertex paler.

Expanse of wings : 27 mm.

Many examples i'rom the Khasias.

This obscurely marked insect appears quite distinct from any of the hitherto
described species ; it is, at all events, a good local form.

14r,. Timandra ruptilinea sp. nov.

Forewhigs : yellowish ochreons, speckled with rnfons : the costa dotted with
fuscous, more thickly towards base, and with the costal edge from base wholly
fuscous ; cell-spot large, difinse, rosy ; the oblique line obsolete, except at inner
margin, where it is reddish and followed by another short reddish line ; submarginal
line obscure, grey, very sinuous, marked at apex by a dark dash and two or three
dark vein-dots ; fringe reddish ochreous, with a reddish line at base.

HindiciM/s : with the oblique antemedian line faint except at costa, where it is
distinct and brown, followed by a small brownish red blotch ; jwstmedian line
sinuous : basal area of wing paler than outer area.

Underside deeper yellow, with strong rufous aud fuscous irroration ; the outer
line strongly marked ; cell-spots large aud reddish. Face, palpi, and collar deep
red-brown : vertex, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

One S from the Khasias, June 1896.

147. Traminda falcata sji. nov.

Foreicings : ochreous, suffused with dull rosy and irrorated with red : a reddish
oblique line from apex to inner margin beyond middle ; fringe reddish ; cell-spot
deep purple-red, with a white centre.

lliudiri/iys : with the cell-spnt small and inconspicuous, the red obli(|ne line
central.

Underside yellower ochreous, with bright rosy striatious : no trace of a sub-
marginal row of spots either above or below. Thorax and abdomen concolorous ;
head wanting.

Expanse of wings : 25 mm.

One (? from Natal (A. J. Spiller).

Independently of the markings, this species is distinguished by the long narrow
forewing, more arched costa, subfalcate apex, and sinuate hindmargin.

148. Traminda glauca sp. nov.

Forewinga : glaucous green ; a rather darker green paler-edged oblicjue line,
slightly waved, at two-thirds, followed by a scarcely perceptible line of dark green
spots ; fringe concolorous ; no visible cell-spot.

Iliruhcings : the same, with white oval cell-spot.

Underside whitish green, the whole of the forewings and costa of hindwings
suffused with dull rosy: both wings with traces of a line of grey sjmts, ]iarallel and

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near to hiudmargin. Palpi, face, and forelegs briglit red : vertex white : head,
thorax, and abdomen green.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

One (S from Sierra Leone.

lu the forewings the costa is convex towards apex, which is sabfalcate : hiud-
margin obliqne, hardly curved ; hindwings bluntly elbowed.

Allied til Saalmiiller's decessata from Madagascar, occurring also iu Abyssinia.

149. Traminda rufa sji. nov.

Forewimjs : pinkish ochreous, thickly dusted with pink, either bright or greyisli :
first line at most indicated by three reddish brown dots ; second line darker pink or
reddish, from costa at three-fourths, below which it is slightly curved, to inner margin
beyond middle, followed by a paler shade and a similarly obliiiue row of reddish dots :
cell-spot white, small ; fringe concolorous.

Hituhvimis : the same, but with the cell-spot large and edged thickly with red-
brown, touching the oblique line, which is antemedian.

Underside lil^e upper, but with coarser mottliugs and no oblique line. Head,
thorax, and abdomen pink : the vertex whitish.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

Three cj <S from Weenen, Natal.

Saalmiiller's decessata from Madagascar must be very much like this sjiecies,
but green instead of pink ; and as the species of this group occnr of both colours,
this may be a local form.

Subfamily ASTHENINAE.
150. Agnibesa venusta sp. nov.

Foreivings : with the white gronnd-col(,)ur almost wholly hidden by chestnut
and grey suifusion ; basal area with three pairs of thick strongly curved chestnut
lines, alternating with silvery grey lines, the last of the latter being silvery white ;
a broad median chestnut fascia, tinged with orange on costa and towards its inner
€dge, traversed by a single angled silvery grey line ; marginal area purplish grey,
traversed by a narrow indistinct, a broader more distinct, and a still broader more
rufous-tinged marginal dark grey band, all bent, correspondingly witli the edge of
the median fascia, opposite the cell, the interval on each side of the central more
distinct band becoming white on the costa ; below the submedian fold the median
fascia and the outer bands are obsolete, the inner margin becoming white ; fringe
rufous grey, white below.

Hindwing.s : white, wilh abroad antemedian and postmedian and double sub-
marginal olive-grey band.

Underside of forewings dull purple-brown, witli the inner margin and some costal
Ijlotches whitish : hindwings white. Head and thorax chestnut ; abdomen white.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

Two 6 6 from Sikkim, July 1889 (Pilcher %.).

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Subfamily TRICUOPTERYGINAE.
151. Remodesf?) confxisidentata sp. nov.

Foretoings : dnil grey-greeii, with darker green confusedly dentate vertical
lines ; basal patch edged by a dark green line, and containing two or three less plain
lines ; inner edge of central fascia formed by a similar dentate line, marked with
very dark green on costa, median and snbmedian veins ; the paler green band between
the basal patch and central fascia traversed by a fine similarly dentate line : enter
band of central fas(^ia consisting of three irregularly dentate dark green lines, the
middle of the fascia remaining pale green and containing a small dark green cell-
spot ; snbmarginal line dark green, very distinct, irregularly bent and dentate,
preceded and followed by a paler green band traversed by a fine green waved line ;
a marginal row of deep green lunnlcs between tlie veins, which are pale green ; a
row of black marginal spots at ends of veins ; fringe yellowish green, with a yellowish
basal line.

Hindwings : brownish grey.

Underside reddish grey. Paljii witli the very long second joint straight, pale
green, terminal joint black with ochrcous tip ; face and vertex pale green ; thorax
darker green ; abdomen cinereous green ; antennae ochreons green at base, becoming
black in the outer half.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One ? from Pieter Jilaritzbnrg, Natal.

The hindmargin of the hindwings is decidedly crenulate. This species some-
what resembles Remodes (?) angulosa Warr. from Amboina ; but the dentations of
the lines are neither so regular nor so deep, and the lines are nearly vertical
tliroughout. The type being a ?, the genus must for the present remain doubtful,
like that of angulosa.

152. Remodes (?) denigrata s}). nov.

? . Forewings : pale whitish green, the cross lines bright yellowish green ; a
green spot on c^osta at base, followed by a broadish diffuse fascia, its inner edge concise
and angled on subcostal vein ; separated from central fascia by a broad band of the
ground-colour, traversed by two green lines, the first denticulate, the second waved:
central fascia composed of first a green shade, broad on costa, narrowing to a point
on inner margin, next a narrow almost obsolete band of ground-colour, and last a
series of three or four waved lines, wliich at the costa form two green bands : these
four lines become purple from vein fi to the snbmedian, the inner shade being purple
only below the median ; following the central fascia comes a band of the ground-
colour, traversed by a single denticulate green line and two curved green fasciae, the
first the broadest, diffusely waved externally, both concisely edged externally ; a
row of dark green spots at the ends of the veins ; fringe green, the inner half darker.

Hindwings : pale grey, with ochreous fringe.

Underside rufous cinereous ; forewings in cell and along costa dull olive-green.
Face, palpi, thorax, and base of abdomen bright green : abdomen grey, tinged with
green ; antennae ochreous, becoming dark grey towards tips.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

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One ? from Perak.

Distiugnislieil by the bright yellow-green tint and the total absence of black
scaling. It is referred to Betnodrs provisionally.

Steirophora gen. nov.

Allieil to Sauris Guen. and Remodes Gnen., bnt the hindwings in the J arefnlly
developed, as in Phthonoloha Warr. : characterised by a long, horny, scaled, tongne-
shaped process from the base of the abdomen in the S, lying beneath, and reaching
to the end of, the long second segment. Hind tibiae without spnrs ; fore tibiae with
a long tnft of hair from the femoro-tibial joint. Palpi rostriform, twice as long as
head ; antennae ligulate, with pointed apex.

Neuration : as in Sau/is.

Type : Steirophora punctatissima sp. nov.

Besides the two species now described, I find that the insect named by me
Phthonoloha olivacea, Pr. Z. S. 1893, p. 363, mast also be referred to this genus.

153. Steirophora auratisquama sp. nov.

Forewings : pale silvery grey, more or less suffused with blackish scales ; the
veins markeil with gilded yellowish green, and often with scales of the same colour
suffused over the basal half and along the subcostal region ; a dark line close to
base, and two be3'ond representing the basal fascia, starting from a blackish costal
blotch; central fascia broader on costa than inner margin, its inner edge consisting
of two, and its outer of three, wavy lines, more or less marked with blackish,
and forming blackish spots on costa ; submarginal fascia curved, narrower, con-
sisting of two lines, also forming a blackish costal blotch, and with a blackish
blotch beyond it opposite the cell : subtermiual line consisting of black sagittate
marks, often much obscured : a marginal line of black lozenge-shaped spots ; fringe
pale grey, with darker grey blotches on basal half intermediate between the black
spots of hindmargin. (In one ¥ there is a total absence of the blackish irroration ;
the gilded yellow scales are pale olive-green, and all the markings clearer and more
distinct.)

Hindtvings : dull smoky-grey ; the fringe concolorous.

Face and thorax gre}', mixed with yellowish or olive-green scales ; abdomen
grey; antennae anniUated, dark and light ; palpi fuscous and ochreous. Underside
dull brownish cinereous, with an olive-j-ellow tinge.

Expanse of wings : cJ, 30 mm. ; ? , 36 mm.

Java: one J, three ? ?, from West Java ; one ? from Bandong ; two ? ?
from South Java.

1.54. Steirophoi'a punctatissima sp. nov.

Foretvings : yellowish green, very finely and thickly powdered with dark scales;
the transverse lines all formed of black more or less wedge-shajied spots on the
veins; a double series close to base, and a similar one beyond ; central fascia con-
sisting of two inner and three outer rows ; snbmarginal fascia also of two rows, with
a darker blotch beyond cell ; a marginal line of large black Innules, their convex
side outwards ; fringe concolorous ; the pale spaces between the fasciae are also
each traversed by a less prominent line of smaller spots or dots.

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Hindwings : yellowish cinereous, darker towards the hindmargiu, with a paler
carved fascia at two-thirds ; the cell-spot dark.

Underside pale dnll cinereous. Head, thorax, and ahdomen olive-ochreous ; the
vertex and thorax mixed with dark jrrecn : antennae annnlated green and fnscons.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

One c? from Bonthain, S. Celebes, 5000—7000 feet, October 1895 (A. Everett).

The wings of this species are narrower, the forewings much more pointed, with
hindmargin more oblique than in the others.

155. Trichopterigia nigrisculpta sp. uov.

Forewings ; creamy white, the costa yellowish : marked simply witli black
lines and spots ; a curved line close to base, from which a black line rnns in along
inner margin to base ; inner line at one-fourth, strongly ontcnrved in cell ; central
fascia marked by two sinuous lines, the inner of which is inangnlated on subcostal
vein before being ontcnrved in the cell, and the outer is double, both incurved
below the middle and approximated, oblique ontwards below the submedian vein ;
submarginal line sinuous, double, interrupted above and below cell, followed by
conical patches of black scales between the veins ; a submarginal row of horizontal
black dashes on the veins, touching pairs of black spots on the margin and
followed in the white fringes by black spots ; the space before and after the central
fascia is traversed by a sinuous line of black dashes on the veins, starting from an
oblique costal streak.

Hindwings : white ; the fringe with faint grey dots at end of veins.

Underside white, with the lines showing through. Face and palpi white, the
latter dark grey externally ; forelegs mottled black and white : thorax and abdomen
white ; thorax speckled with grey, and with the outside of the patagia black and
ochreons ; abdomen with a black dorsal line.

Expanse of wings : 39 mm.

One ? from Darjiling, March 1889 (POcher leg.).

Subfamily TEPHROCLYSTIINAE.
Aetheolepis papillosa Warr., Nov. Zool. III. ]>. 124.

At the time I described the $ of this species the ? was unknown. It proves
to be very much like the ? of Gijmnopera Tubroviridis, but without any red scales iu
the cell.

Forewings : ample, pale grey or whitish green ; the lines deeper green,
especially at the costa ; basal jiatch small, edged by a dark green line and with
another line close to base ; a similar dark green curved line forms the inner edge of
the central fascia ; the outer edge is angled on vein 6, and less strongly again on
vein 4, below which it is marked only by dark dots on veins ; three similarly angled
green lines are visible within the fascia : submarginal line double, dark green ; a
dark green macular line before the margin ; the pale bands on each side of the
central fascia are each traversed by a fine green line ; fringe pale green, chequered
with darker.

Hindwings : paler, with four curved lines, only the outer two being distinct.
Most of the lines on the forewings are marked on the veins with blackish scales.

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Underside of both wings dull green, with the markings grey .and obscure.
Head, thorax, and abdomen pale green : the latter dark at the base and anal
segment, and with a black lateral line. The same size as the cj.

This species occnrs also in Sikkim : a cJ and two ? ? are recorded from the
Pilcher Collection, taken, the c? in A])ril, the ? ? in May and July 1889. In this
cJ the underside of the hindwings is pink rather than dull brown.

Chloroplintha gen. nov.

S. ForewinffS : broad; costa strongly arched at base, then straight till just
before apex, which is produced but bluntly rounded ; hindmargiu well curved ;
inner margin convex and fringed beyond the middle.

IlitKhcinys : with both angles anil the hindmargin rounded.

Abdomen short and stout ; palpi reaching well beyond forehead, second joint
laxly scaled, third short with smooth scales ; tongue and frenulum present, the
latter fine ; antennae filiform, the joints minutely angular ; hind tibiae with four
spurs.

Neurution : as in Cliloroclijstis, vein II, after anastomosis, becoming coincident
with 12 ; the snbmedian sinuous. The hindwings above are covered with a thick
pile in place of scales and at the base with long hairs. On the underside both
wings have coarse and mealy scales.

Type : Chloroplintha vdiitina sp. nov.

156. Chloroplintha velutina sp. nov.

Foreicings : very pale green : a black curved streak close to base ; inner edge
of central fascia distinct, slightly curved and with an angulation on the snbmedian
fold, blackish on costa and inner margin, pinkish brown between ; the outer edge
only plain on inner margin, where it is blackish, represented by a double curved
row of black dashes on the veins, angled beyond cell, where it is preceded by some
jiiukish brown scales, and ending in a black costal spot beyond the middle: a curved
series of black dashes also represents the submarginal line ; between the black
dashes the veins are marked with series of white dashes ; on the inner margin the
centre of the fascia is represented by a whitish mark traversed by two fine black
lines ; a slightly darker green shade precedes the hindmargin, which has a dark
marginal line ; fringe greenish, chcipiered with darker.

Hinchviiigs : dull brownish grey; the fringe of the same colour, short and
curled.

Underside dull rufous grey ; the apical area of forewings green. Head, thoraX)
and abdomen pale green, the thorax with some dark scales intermixed, the abdomen
with a black ring at base.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

Two S cJ from Bonthain, S. Celebes, .5000—7000 feet, October 1895 (A. Everett).

157. Gymnoscelis coquina sp. nov.

Forezvings : sordid ochreous, the irrorations and markings fuscous mixed with
rufous, in some specimens with a tinge of olive-green ; basal area with four or five
denticulated dark lines, angled below costa, the outermost, which is placed before
the middle of wing, forming a strong projection in the cell; outer line at two-thirds.

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denticulate, aud bluntly angled in the cell, dark fuscous, preceded by a fuscous
shade and obscure transverse lines, which pale off towards the first line, followed by
a denticulate pale and another dark line ; submargiual line uniformly denticulate,
pale, preceded by a fuscous shade, which also grows paler towards the second line :
marginal area fuscous ; a sijuare pale ochreons or whitish blotch on hindmaro'in
between veins 3 aud 4, interrupting the snbmargiual line ; fringe dark fuscous, with
a blackish marginal line at base, interrupted by pale spots at the ends of the veins,
which are produced as pale dashes through the dark fringes.

Ilimlwings : with the basal two-thirds reddish fuscous, the outer line thicker
and darker than in forewiugs, followed, as in them, by a pale and a dark line, but
the dark line is again followed by a broad pale space ; marginal area reddish
fnscons, traversed by the denticulate snbmarginal line and with a pale patch as in
forewings; extreme inner margin marked with reddish and blackish scales, precedcil
by a longitudinal space along the fold which is ])alo ochreons and without dark
irroratiou.

Underside dull grey. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreons, mixed with
fuscous ; palpi darker towards the tips.

Expanse of wings : 19 mm.

Several examples of both sexes from Cedar Bay, Cooktown (A. S. Meek).

Allied to G. ectochlora Hmpsn. from India.

158. Gymnoscelis pallidirufa sj>. nov.

Forewings: whitish, the basal and marginal areas suffused with dull rufous:
the median slightly dusted with grey scales, edged with blackish, preceded and
followed by a whitish fascia traversed by a rufous grey line ; edge of basal patch
and inner edge of central fascia oblique inwards towards inner margin ; outer edge
of fascia straight to vein 4, then angled and oblique inwards ; snbmargiual line pale,
denticulated ; central fascia crossed liy wavy grey lines and tinged along costa with
rufous ; fringe grey, with dark spots at base between the veins.

Ilindwings : like forewings, the snbmargiual area with a small whitish blotch
in the middle.

Underside dull rufous grey, with the markings indistinct. Head, thorax, and
abdomen pale grey, with darker scales intermixed.

Expanse of wings : 19 mm.

One ? from Bonthain, S. Celebes, 5000— TOOU feet, October 1895 (A. Everett).

The antennae are thickened and finely serrate : it is probably akin to Tramba
tibialis Moore ; iu the absence of the S it may be left at present in Gi/mnoscelis.

Syncosmia gen. nov.

Agreeing in the nenration of forewings with Chlorocbistis, of which it is a
develojiment. Hindwiugs of S with the inner margin towards anal angle developed
into an ear-shaped lobe, which is folded over flat on the u]iperside, the margin from
the angle to vein 5 being straight ; veins 3 and 4 both from the lower angle of cell-
The palpi are long, porrect, clothed with long hairs from the base, which wholly
conceal the joints ; antennae thickened and ciliated.

Type : Syncosmia patinata sp. nov.

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159. Syncosmia patinata sp. nov.

Foreivings : mainly greenish ; the basal area pinkish ochreous, with a short
vertical blackish line near base, some blackish scales, and two curved blackish lines
towards the ontside ; central fascia with its inner edge formed by a thick black
band curved like the two lines of the basal patch, the rest green, the outer edge
waved, angled at vein 6, and with a bilobed projection below middle, with two
waved dark lines within it ; a j)ale similarly waved submargiual fascia with two dark
lines through it, and pinkish on the costa, followed on costa by an oblique blackish
and rufous blotch; marginal area pure dark green, unmarked; marginal line finely
black : fringe ochreous, with dark grey patches opposite the veins.

Ilindicings : whitish, tinged with grey along the hindmargin ; the inner
margin, lobe, and fringe ochreous.

Underside of forewings dull cinereous, with the markings indistinct ; of hind-
wings whitish. Paljn green, with the tips black: face, vertex, thorax, and abdomen
pinkisli ochreous, the two last thickly marked with black.

Expanse of wings : IG mm.

One (? from the Khasias, May 1896.

Closely related to Cliloroclijstis trichoplwra Hmjisu., which may perhaps be
included in the genus, though the structure of the hindwings appears to differ.

160, Tephroclystia sagittata sp. nov.

Foretcings : pale fawn-colour ; the lines starting as black spiots on the costa ;
first line close to base ; second in middle, passing over the strongly marked black
discal spot, then with a single strong curve inwards running to inner margin beyond
middle : third at two-thirds, slightly angled below costa, then curving parallel to
middle line and minutel}' waved into the anal angle ; submargiual line ver)' indistinct,
indicated by a dark spot on costa and a brownish cloud at anal angle ; a thin strong
black marginal line at base of the fringes, interrupted by the paler veins ; the costa
is marked with a black spot beyond the first line and before the second, these being
the beginning.s of lines which cross the wing jiarallel to but much fainter than the
lines which are visible, and similar faint lines are visible between the second and
third lines.

Hindwings : paler, with two submargiual lines of black wedge-shaped
markings ; fringe and basal line as in forewings. Head, thorax, and abdomen
concolorous.

Underside paler, with the markings indicated.

Expanse of wings : 25 mm.

Oue ? from Weeiien, Natal.

161. Ziridava xylinaria subrubida subsp. nov.

Like typical xi/linuria Wlk. above ; the underside dull rosy, with the costa,
hindmargin, and broad postmediau fascia smoky black ; hindwings with marginal
half blackish.

Oue 6 from Indrulamau, Bonthain, S. Celebes, 2300 feet, September 1895
(A. Everett).

Walker's type was from Sarawak ; in his description he does not mention the
underside. Hampson, in III. Lep. Ilet. VIII. p. 106, gives the underside as paler.

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SUBFASHLY HYDRIOMENINAE.

162. Epirrhoe latigrisea up. nov.

Forewinffs : cinereons, tiuged in parts witli rnfons : inner edge of central fascia
from costa before one-third, obtusely bent in cell, then straight to inner margin,
whitish, with a dark edge ; a similar line limits the basal patch, which contains
two dark lines : onter edge of central fascia beyond two-thirds, i)arallel in the main
to hindmargin and slightly projecting above middle, whitisli with a dark inner edge ;
the fascia itself darker than the rest of the wing, and with two dark central lines ;
central fascia edged by a pale grey space, most distinct on inner margin ; marginal
area dark fuscons, the sabmargiual line hardly visible ; the apex greyer ; fringe
fnscons, with dark basal line.

llhuhciiigs : similar, without basal markings.

Underside cinereous, with indistinct markings. Head, thorax, and abdomen
all cinereons.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One ? from Zomba, Upper Shiri River, 3000 feet, December 1895 (Dr. P.
llendall).

163. Ochyria dispar sp. uov.

(J. Forewings : purplish fuscous, varied with grey and rufous: a dark line
close to base ; basal area varied witli rufous and foscous, and i)ounded by a thick
curved blackish fascia, which is also mixed with rufous ; fascia between basal area
and central band very narrow, pale grey, edged finely with whitish, and angled on
tlie submedian fold ; median area broad, the outer edge beyond two-thirds of costa,
indented opposite the cell and below vein 2, with a bilobed short projection
between, dark purplish fuscous, containing three blackish dentate lines, two towards
the outer edge dentate inwards, and one towards the inner edge dentate outwards
and tonching the blackish cell-spot ; tliis fascia is edged with whitish externally
along its upper half, and followed liy a grey baud containing a grey and a black
waved line, and marked with rufous opposite the cell ; submarginal line waved, grey,
followed by short black lunnles and preceded by long black blotches, which are
laterally joined ; fringe purple-fnscous ; all the grey lines are slightly metallic.

Uindtcings : smoky grey, with a black cell-spot and traces of a pale bent post-
median band and waved submarginal line ; marginal line fine, blackish ; fringe
fuscous.

Underside dark grey, with cell-specks and three obscure curved dark lines.
Head and thorax dark fuscous ; abdomen wanting ; antennae subdentatc, with
fascicles of cilia.

? with all the grey markings replaced by rufous ochraceous, especially the two
pale ftisciae tliat edge the median area ; the projection of the median band stronger
and the sinuses above and below it deeper. Underside tinged with ochraceous ; the
costa towards apex and the fringes ochraceous ; the lines more distinct'; abdomen
dark jjurplish fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

One c?, two ? ?, from North Luzon, 5000— 600U feet (Whitehead).

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104. Triphosa corrasata sp. no v.

Forewings : olive-grey, with a flesh-c(il(inred tiut ; liues double, velvety black,
with paler centres, all interrnpted ; a dark blotch at base of costa ; a double basal
line acutely angled on the subcostal vein, ending at the median, whence a faint
single line can be traced towards base of iuner margin ; edge of basal patch indicated
by a much broader double line also angled on the subcostal, marked on median and
submediaii veins, interrupted in cell and submedian fold : inner edge of central fascia
marked by a brown triangle on costa, a blotch on the median, and a small spot on
the submedian : the pale space between basal patch and fascia marked by dots on
the veins, indicating a traversing line ; cell-spot black, close to the costal triangle ;
outer edge of fascia marked by an oblique costal blotch, preceded by a short zigzag
line ; submarginal line marked by a double costal blotch, a smaller one beyond cell,
and a serpentine streak above anal angle, all these with ferruginous centre;
intervening space marked by a sinuous row of dots on veins ; a row of black
marginal Innules : fringe olive-grey.

Hindwings : with two dark lines at base ; a blade cell-spot ; two faint grey
wavy median lines : a wavy black postmedian line and double waved submarginal
line, the latter interrupted between veins 3 and 4, and only distinct below, where it
is tinged with ferruginous ; margin and fringe as in forewings.

Underside dull pinkish cinereous, with indistinct markings, black cell-spots, and
rows of black dots on veins. Palpi and front of thorax blackish ; face grey, with a
black bar above ; vertex brown ; thorax and abdomen pinkish grey, with a few black
specks.

Expanse of wings : .58 mm.

Two ? ? from the Khasias, May 1800.

165. Xanthorhoe dissociata sji. uov.

? . Foreicings : greyish oehreous, almost wholly suffused with dull brick-red ;
basal area small, brick-red, edged with a brown wavy line oblique inwards, followed
by a broad paler band, ochreons and red, containing three irregularly dentate brick-
red lines ; central fascia very broad, brick-red ; its inner edge waved like the liues
of the preceding band, the outer at live-sixths, slightly indented opposite cell, and
more strongly on the submedian fold, with a slight blunt prominence between, con-
taining seven dentate darker red lines, three towards the base and four externally,
the inner pair sometimes connected on the median vein ; cell-spot black, of slightly
raised scales ; the fascia is finely edged with white, followed by a red line and then
by two dentate dark lines, on a pale whitish or yellowish ground, before the paler
dentate submarginal line ; marginal space darker, interrupted by a pale oblique
apical streak ; marginal line formed of pairs of black dots ; fringe reddish.

Hindwings : dull grey, with four sinuous darker antemedian and four post-
median similar lines, the space between the lines slightly paler.

Underside of forewing grey, thickly speckled with red above the median ;
whitish grey, hardly speckled, below it ; cell-spot distinct ; outer line dark, followed
by a pale line, both indistinct below the middle : hindwings white, densely speckled
with black and slightly with red : cell-spot distinct ; onter line marked. Face j)ale
reddish ; palpi and vertex dark red ; thorax and abdomen reddish grey.

S with the lines much less i)rominent : the central fascia only half as wide, the

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€dges obliijue aud wavy, white ; the red lines of the fascia close together, forming
two red bands, embracing a central pale olive-ochreons space ; marginal area greyish,
tinged with fnscoas towards the edge, the dentate lines indistinct: a darker costal spot
before the pale apical streak ; hindwings with the markings more distinct, and
coloured towards inner margin.

Expanse of wings : ? , 36 — 38 mm. ; S, 32 — 30 mm.

One cJ, four ? $ , from North Luzon (Whitehead).

Very mucli like a large X.fernigata CI.

liwi. Xanthorhoe dissociata ali. nigrimedia uov.

In this aV)erration the transverse lines are nearly all absent ; the basal patch is
TufoDS, edged with white ; the central fascia black-brown, with the dark lines distinct
only towards costa, edged by a white line and followed )iy a pinkish white space in
which the lines are marked by a pair of dots on each vein ; the margin suffused
with dark fuscous ; tlie costal sjiot black-brown. Hindwings and underside as in
the type. Abdomen grey, with a bright red basal band.

One S from X. Luzon.

Hardly recognisable at first as being the same species ; but the luiderside is
precisely the same as in the tj-pe-form.

167. Xanthorhoe dissociata ab. iniptifascia nov.

Forewings wholly dull reddish brown, the lines faintly darker ; central fascia
shaded with brown towards costa, aud ^^•ith a lilack horizontal blotch from edge to
edge above the median, and a smaller black blotch below submedian, not reaching
the outer edge ; apical streak hardly paler ; the costal blotch reddish brown.

One S from N. Luzon.

168. Xanthorhoe everetti sp. nov.

S. Foreu'ings : dull grey, dusted with darker grey: the markings brownish
grey ; basal patch narrow, its outer edge straight, [aud traversed by two or three
straight dark lines ; central fascia with the inner edge curved, the outer slightly bent
below costa, and with a blunt prominence on vein 4, formed of two smaller fasciae,
which meet on the median, enclosing above it an irregular oval pale space, on the
inside edge of which lies the black cell-spot, and above the inner margin two narrow
annnli ; these fasciae are sometimes marked with blackish sutTusiou above the
median ; submarginal line indistinct, pale, and wavy ; both the pale interspaces and
the darker fasciae are traversed by numerous wavy darker lines ; marginal line
formed of pairs of dark spots ; fringe grey.

Hindwings: paler dull grey, with numerous transverse curved lines, which are
chiefly visible on inner margin, forming a broadish central and narrower submarginal
fascia ; cell-spot black, before the edge of the central fascia.

Underside dull cinereous, with tlie cell-spots and edges of the fascia blackish.
Head, thorax, and abdomen all dull grey, tinged with brownish.

In the ? the ground-colour is paler, somewhat tinged with olive, while the
dark markings are more decidedly reddish ; all the lines and markings much more
concise ; the fascia margined on both sides with a narrow black-edged whitish line.

Expanse of wings : d", 30 mm. ; ? , 32 mm.

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One ?,two SS, from Bonthain, S. Celebes, 5000—7000 feet. October 1S95
<A. Everett).

Allied to A', r/esif/nata Hufn. : the S <S are somewhat worn, and way possibl}',
•when fresh, have had the markings as distinct as in the ? .

Subfamily OURAPTERYGINAE.

169. Ourapteryx convergens sp. nov.

Forewings: white; the markings pnrple-lirown, with pnrjile-gre}' centres ; costa
marked with a few brown spots near base ; an irregnlar (ibliijne blotch from costa
near base reaching the submedian fold ; two oblique streaks from costa at one-third
and two-thirds converging to anal angle, containing between them a discal streak
starting from costa ; an irregnlar macnlar snbmarginal band, broken up near costa,
and narrowed to a point before anal angle : a uniformly broad marginal band not
reaching anal angle ; the fringe dark along it and white below ; a horizontal streak
from base along the submedian vein, not quite reaching the first oblique band ; a
narrower streak along the inner margin itself joining the first band.

Hindwinqs : with the markings duller ; a streak along the submedian vein ;
another along the median and first median nervule uniting with a curved macular
band from middle of costa to form a V-shaped mark ; a sinuous snbmarginal band
from costa before apex to anal angle, followed in its upper half by an aggregation
of greyish blue strigae ; five black snbmarginal spots ; fringe rufous, with a fine
black marginal line.

Underside like upper. Face and jialjii brown ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen
white.

Expanse of wings : 54 mm.

One ? from Simla, May 1896.

Near to 0. excellens Butler from Kashmir.

170. Ourapteryx incaudata sp. nov.

Forewings : white, the costa at base reddish ; two faint, pale brown, oblique,
and parallel lines at one-third and two-thirds ; fringe whitish, with a faintly darker
marginal line.

llindicings : with the inner line of forewings continued for two-thirds of wing ;
hindmargiu bluntly elbowed at vein 4.

Underside white ; the costa of forewings yellowish. Face, palpi, antennae, and
a streak on each shoulder bright ferruginous ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen white.

Expanse of wings : 5(3 mm.

One ? from Kina Balu (A. Everett).

The tail reduced to a small tooth.

SiBFAMiLY PALYADINAE.
Lampadopteryx gen. nov.

Forewings : broad and short ; costa arched throughout : apex rectangular :
hindmargin slightly curved : anal angle square.

HindiviiK/s : very ample, with rounded hindmargin.

Palpi minute ; antennae of ? filiform, slender ; abdomen very short, only half
as long as inner margin of hiudwings.

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Iseuration : forewings, cell not half as long as wing ; first median at three-
fonrths, second just before lower angle of cell ; radials normal : 7 and 8 stalked:
11 anastomosing with 12 ; 9 and 10 absent. Hindwings with 3 and 7 both rising
before ends of cell.

Tyjw : Lampadopteryx scivtillans sp. nov.

171. Lampadopterjrx scintillans sj). nov.

Foreicings : velvety brown-black, with eight curved rows of spots of brilliant
silvery blue scales — three basal, one antemedian, two postmedian, one snbmarginal,
and one marginal ; fringe brown, with a white fleck below apex.

Hindwings : with four rows of spots — antemedian, median, postmedian, and sub-
marginal ; hindraargin becoming white ; the fringe white, brown at apex, where
there is a single spot of the marginal row of scales.

Underside brown in forewings ; the costa tinged with bluish white : a median
fascia of white spots between the veins. Hindwings pale bluish white, with three
interrupted brown fasciae — one median, one postmedian, the third snbmarginal,
forming a blotch at apex, and followed at anal angle by a short marginal line.
Face brown, with four white spots : vertex brown, with a white spot on each side ;
thorax and abdomen brown, with scattered lustrous scales.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

Two ? ? from Sandakan, N. Borneo, July 1893.

The spangles vary from blue to silvery, and the ground-colour from browu to
brilliant garnet, according to the incidence of light.

172. Tasta chalybeata sj). nov.

Like T. mieaceafa Wlk. from Borneo, but the metallic scales are steel-blue
and silvery, not gilded ; in the pale olive snbmarginal space of the forewings there
is a row of separate steel-blue spots between the veins, not a confused shade. In
the hindwings the elliptic ocelloid spot has its shorter axis towards the base of tlie
wing : in micaeea/a the reverse is the case.

A pair from Bua-Kraeug, South Celebes, 5000 feet, February 1896 (Frnhstorfer).

The examples from the Khasia Hills agree with the Celebes form, not with the
Bornean.

Subfamily DEILINIINAE.
173. Aplochlora invisibilis sp. nov.

Forewings : dull mealy green, with a dark linear cell-mark and the fringe
green.

Hindivings : the same, with small obscure dark green cell-spot.

Underside paler, somewhat glossy, with an obscure dark snbmarginal fascia on
each wing. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous.

E.xpanse of wings : 20 mm.

One ? from Akassa, 11. Niger.

Eugnesia gen. nov.

A development of Parasynegia and Sgntaracta ; distinguished liy the perfectly
simple antennae of the 6; both wings more elongated and narrow; the legs very

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long ; hind tibiae of S with fonr spurs. Forewings without fovea ; the retinaculum
a tuft of hairs.

Type : Eugncsia correspondens sp. nov.

174. Eugnesia (?) aurantiaca sp. nov.

Foretcings : dull yellow, witli dull orauge-red specklings and markings : costa
paler, dotted with black ; cell-siiot deep orauge-red ; first line hardly marked,
except by a blotch on inner margin at one-third ; second line diffuse and broad at
two-thirds, outcurved above and bent in on the submedian fold, its outer edge
denticulate ; some submarginal blotches in place of a line : a row of small blackisli
marginal dots between the veins ; fringe coucolorous.

Ilindimigs : the same.

Underside paler and duller. Head, thorax, and abdomen mottled, orange-red
and yellowish.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm. '

One ? from Geraldton, near Cairns, Queensland (A. S. Meek).

I refer this ? to Eugnesia in consequence of the length of the antennae and the
bulging of the hindmargin of the hindwings in the middle.

175. Eugnesia correspondens sji. nov.

Forewings : ochreous yellow, thickly sprinkled with orange speckles, which
often become confluent ; costa and lines grey or dark grey ; the first at one-tliird,
the second at two-thirds, the first preceded, the second followed by black dots on
veins, the one thereby becoming dentate inwards, the other dentate outwards ;
submarginal variable, sometimes simply orange or orange mixed with grey, partially
interrupted, irregularly wavy, more or less connected with dark blotches below
apex, in middle and above anal angle ; a blackish cell-spot, and row of black
marginal sjiots, these last variable in size and sometimes obsolete ; fringe yellowish,
chequered with dark.

Hindwings : the same.

Underside pale ochreous, the markings grey. Face, vertex, thorax, and abdomen
yellow, dotted with orange ; the abdomen in J with dark dorsal spots.

Expanse of wings : 35 — 39 mm.

One c?, two ? ?, from N. Luzon (Whitehead).

170. Eugnesia correspondens ab. concurrens nov.

In this example the costa of forewings and all three lines are dark purplish
grey, thick and diffuse ; the space between the second and third lines from inner
margin to vein 4 is entirely filled uj) with purplish grey or l)lackisli, and connected
with similar-coloured blotches on hindmargin below apex and in the middle ; the
abdomen also has a purplish grey blotch at base.

One <S from N. Luzon (Whitehead).

177. Eugnesia correspondens ab. suffusa nov.

Wings almost wholly sufi'used with orange, overspread with grey ; the hind-
margins only remaining pale yellow, with orange speckles.
One S from N. Luzon.

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178. Eugnesia sanguinata sp. nov.

Forewings : pale yellow, overrim with deep blood-red, leaving only isolated
patches of the gronnd-colour, viz. one at the base, one before and one after the
red cell-spot, and a larger one on the snbmcdian fold in the centre ; a narrow
interrupted obliqne first line and a slightly curved and interrupted outer line,
neither reaching the costa : submarginal line denoted by a few pale specks ; costa
yellowish, with numerous short blackish strigae ; fringe yellow, chequered broadly
with dark brown at the ends of the veins.

Hindtcings : with the blotches representing the outer and submarginal lines
more developed, and with four large irregular blotches in basal half, that at the
end of the cell the largest ; fringe yellow, preceded by a narrow paler yellow space
along hindmargin, containing deep red-brown spots at the ends of the veins.

Underside dnll rosy, with the paler spots faintly indicated. Palpi blood-red,
witli the tips of all the joints yellow ; face red, with the centre yellow : thorax and
abdomen blood-red, varied with yellow.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One (? from Eoon I., Dutch New Guinea (W. Doherty).

The hindwings have the rounded hindmargin slightly produced in the middle.

179. Heterostegane aridata sp. nov.

Forewings : pale yellow, irrorated with darker yellow ; the costa ferruginous
thronghont, darker from base to middle, with minute dark striae ; an irregularly
waved brown line in middle, starting from a dark costal spot, and touching a small
black cell-dot ; a similar but more obscurely marked line at three-fourths ; traces
of a submarginal line near costa only : fringe yellow, with no dark basal line.

Hindwings : with black cell-dot, and faint curved antemedian and postmedian
lines.

Underside yellow, with the cell-dots black, and the basal half of forewings, as
far as the submedian fold, brown. Thorax and abdomen yellow ; face, palpi, and
collar yellow, marked with ferruginous.

Expanse of wings : 19 mm.

One i from Weenen, Natal, October 1895.

180. Heterostegane indularia Gnen. ab. calidata nov.

Guenee's type of Steqania induhu-ia was from Abyssinia ; the species occurs
also in S. Africa, but appears to be very variable in the strength of the markings.
The extreme form here described might well be mistaken for a separate species.
Instead of the pale yellow gronnd-colour of the type, its ground-colour is deep
yellow ; the ferruginons markings of the type are intensified, and, besides, the other
three lines, basal, median, and exterior, are all marked, wavy and denticulate, in
ferruginous, the costa being deep ferruginous throughout. The difference is not
sexnal, both sexes occurring from Natal agreeing with the type-form and with the
aberration.

181. Hydatocapnia fumosa sp. nov.

Forewings: ashy grey, dnsted with darker, becoming purplish grey beyond the
outer line ; costa purplish grey ; cell-spot black, distinct ; first line obscure, at

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one-fourtb ; second line at two-thirds, irregularl}' waved and somewliat dentate
dark purplish, to inner margin just before anal angle : a row of blackish marginal
spots : fringe concolorons.

Jlimlwincis : the same, but with a small cell-spot.

Underside paler, with a smoky purplish grey marginal fascia. Head, thorax,
and abdomen dark grey, mixed with jjaler ; vertex and shaft of antennae
whitish grey.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

Two ? ? from "Warri, River Niger, February 1896 (Dr. Roth).

182. Orthocabera conspicua sp. nov.

Forewings : milk-white ; the costa bronzy ochreous, striated with fuscous : a
fnscous dot on the subcostal vein just before the origin of vein 6 ; an orange-red dot
at middle of discocellalar, with some scattered scales of the same colour beyond it
along vein 5 ; a curved single orange-red streak from the discocellular dot to base
of inner margin ; a ferruginous oblique line from costa before apex to middle of
inner margin, widening downwards, in its lower course consisting of three lines,
ferruginous, yellowish, and lilac-grey, bent below costa above and beneath vein 7;
followed by a ferruginous line starting from a ferruginous spot on vein 7, succeeded
by an irregularly waved fine rusty line ; fringe pale ochreous, without any
marginal line.

Hinihcinijs : with an antemedian triple-coloured line, a thick ferruginous
postmedian line, followed by a regularly waved rusty line ; fringe ochreous, with
some rnst-coloured scales at base towards apex only.

Underside white. Thorax, abdomen, and lower half of face white ; palpi, upper
half of face, and vertex bright ferruginous.

Expanse of wings : 48 mm.

One ? from Toli-Toli, North Celebes, November 1895 (Fruhstorfer).

183. Parasjmeg;ia convergens sp. nov.

Forewings : yellowish ochreous, with coarse red and grey speckles : the lines
reddish grey ; first at one-fourth, forming two curves, and marked with three black
dots on the veins ; second from three-fourths of costa to beyond middle of inner
margin, strongly dentate ; the teeth marked by black dots on veins, markedly
sinnate inwards beyond cell and in the submedian fold, preceded by an indistinct
inner line, which rises from inner margin near first line, as in P. compUcata Warr. ;
marginal area marked with irregular blotches below apex, in middle, and above anal
angle ; a row of deep red marginal spots between the veins : fringe yellowish, with
reddish grey spots opposite the veins.

Hindwings : with grey basal line, denticulate middle line, with blackish dots on
the teeth, and preceded by a greyish shade, and denticulate, partially double, snb-
marginal line ; cell-spots on both wings small, blackish.

Underside straw-colour, with the markings grey. Palpi fuscous ; face, head,
thorax, and abdomen yellowish ochreous, the face brownish above ; the markings
stronger in ? than in cj.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

A pair from the Khasias, July 1896.

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DistingnisbeJ from 1'. coniplicuta by the different markings of liindwings, and
by the yellow, not ichite, vertex. It may prove to be a well-marked form of
P. atomaria Warr.

184. Parasynegia nigriclavata sp. nov.

Foretvings : pale yellow, with orange speckles and lines ; the lines of forewings
much as in P. conrergens, but less denticulate : a black spot at base of costa, and a
black dot at base of cell : first line with a large black spot on the subcostal, smaller
ones on the other veins ; cell-spot large, black ; teeth of second line black : two
black spots obliquely below apex ; some angular contorted markings in middle
velvety black : marginal dots black : fringe yellow, with a black spot at apex and
in middle.

llindtrings : with an orange-grey basal line, a partially double orange central
line running to costa well beyond middle (iu coiiven/ents this line curves into the
middle of costa), with a black spot on inner margin and costa, and a black luuule
from vein 6 to 7; submargLual line nearly straight from anal angle to apex, with a
black spot on inner margin, a black Innule from 0 to 7, and a black streak beyond
running into the fringe.

Underside with the black markings showing through. Palpi dark brown : face
yellow, with two black spots in middle : head, thorax, and abdomen yellow, the
last with a black orange-edged ring at base.

One d, one ?, from the Khasias, June ISUG.

Peratostega gen. nov.

Forewings: ample, triangular : costa straight, till jusi before apex, which is
slightly depressed and produced ; hiudmargin entire, rotmded, faintly sinuate above.

Hindwi7i(is : with rounded hiudmargin : aual angle squared : submedian fold
strongly developed, the inner-marginal area folded beneath.

Palpi porrect, slender ; tongue weak : antennae of <S pubescent, subdentate :
hind tibiae with four spurs.

Neuration : forewings, cell half as long as wing ; discocellidar vertical : first
median at three-fourths, second just before angle of cell ; lower radial from centre
of discocellular, upper from upper angle : 7, 8, 9 stalked from before angle ; lU
and 11 coincident. HindOTngs with veins 7 and 3 both before angle of cell.

Type : Peratostega coctata sp. nov.

lS."i. Peratostega coctata sp. nov.

Forewings : dull brick-red ; costa dotted with blackish ; the lines obscurely
darker ; first line not marked ; median nearly vertical, passing over the black
cell-spot : outer line at three-fourths, diffusely fuscous ; towards the anal angle and
along the hiudmargin the wing is tinged with fuscous ; fringe concolorons, beyond
a deeper basal line.

Ifinr/wings ; the same.

Underside paler, pinkish fnlvous, glossy, without any markings. Face -and
palpi rather bright reddish ; vertex darker ; abdomen reddish : thorax paler,
pinkish grey.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One (? from Pnlo I'.ai, N.E. Borneo, June 1894 (Gator).

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Pi'istostegania gen. nov.

Allied to Steqania ; veins 10 and 11 of forewings coiucident ; antennae of S
serrate ; forewings of c? with a fovea ; the lower radial decidedly above middle of
discocellnlars.

Tyjte : Prist ostet/ania triUncata Moore.

186. Pristostegaiiia(?) bilineata sp. nov.

ForewinflS : pinkish oehreous, linely irrorated with fuscons ; the costa yellowish ;
first line at one-third, slightly oblique outwards, yellowish ; second line beyond two-
thir<ls, slightly obliqne inwards, yellowish ; the space between the lines somewhat
darker, especially towards each line ; cell-spot hardly darker ; fringe concolorous,
with a reddish liasal line.

Hindwings : with no first line ; the cell-spot prominently darker ; outer line
from three-fourths of costa to inner margin just above anal angle, Ijcfore which it is
bent, yellowish, internally with a darker shade ; fringe as in forewings ; the hind-
margin is elbowed at vein 4.

Underside duller, with outer line and cell-sjiot marked witli fuscous, especially
on the veins. Face, palpi, vertex, and antennae pale ferruginous ; thorax and
abdomen concolorous with wings, the thorax rather paler.

Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

One ? from Sandakan, North Borneo.

187. Pristostegania flavata sp. nov.

Forewiw/s : ^^ellowish, flushed witli deeper yellow ; costa at base brown ; the
basal area darker ; the lines slender, ferruginous ; first at one-fourth, bent below
costa, then oblique ; second line straight, in the middle ; third at five-sixths, slightly
curved ; fringe concolorous, beyond a very fine marginal line.

Ilindwings : with only two lines.

Underside paler, thickly dusted with reddish brown ; the lines reddish. Face
and j)ali)i reddish brown ; vertex yellowish ; collar dark brown ; thorax and abdomen
yellow.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One (J from Weenen, Natal, February 1894.

Prochasma gen.inov.

Allied to Stfi/ania, VQina 10 and 11 of forewings being coincident : distinguished
by the fully pectinated antennae of the t?, and the strong metallic metathoracic
tuft.

Type : Prochasma niimica sp. nov.

In the type-species the cell of fbrevvings is imlf tlie length of the wing.

188. Prochasma mimica sp. nov.

Foreicings : oehreous, overrun witli dark fuscous strigae, which along costa and
inner margin become confluent : a wliite curved band near base, and an irregularly
edged white band at two-tliirds, parallel to hindmargin ; a wavy interruiited wliite
submarginal line ; some pale scales at apex ; a yellowish horizontal streak from first

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line to hindmargiu along the median ; cell-spot large, Mackish ; a marginal row of
black dashes ; fringe cheqnered ochreons and fuscons.

Hindwhiffs : whitish, tinged with yellowish, with sparse fuscons strigae ; cell-
spot large, dark ; a fuscons postmedian line from inner margin above anal angle to
lower angle of cell ; marginal area fuscons, much broken up by the paler ground-
colour.

Underside the same, but duller. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous, speckled
with fuscous ; metathorax with a tuft of metallic scales.

Exj)anse of wings : 24 mm.

A pair from the Khasias, May 1896.

The cell half as long as wing. Superficially this insect is extremely like my
(lentilinea, wrongly referred to Psilalcis, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 431, but tlic neuration
differs, and the outer line does not approach the inner.

189. Chiasmia radiata sp. uov.

Fore.whigs : straw-colour, tinged with ochraceons ; covered with black transverse
strigae, whicli tend to become laterally confluent, the ground-colour only sho^ving as
a curved inner band at one-fourth and an oblique irregularly edged band at three-
fonrths ; the central fascia contains a large dark cell-spot, and is edged, especially
externall}', by a line of dark spots on the veins, those on costa and inner margin
being blotches; marginal third black, broken up by two radiating streaks of ground-
colour from the outer band — one oblique to apex, the other below vein 4 — and by
the interrupted snbmarginal line, so that there are formed two costal blotches, the
outer one quite small, a central triangular blotch, and a square blotch at anal angle ;
fringe straw-colour, chequered with black, and almost wholly black beyond the base
of the triangular blotch.

Hindwings : the same, but without the dark base, the central fascia blacker, the
outer area interrupted in the middle only.

Uuilerside similar, but darker. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous, intermixed
with blackish, especially at base and apex of abdomen.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

A pair from the Khasias, May 1896.

Subfamily BRACCINAE.

Arycanda Wlk. VII. p. 1775 (1856).

This generic name must supersede Guen^e's Panaetkia, published a year later.
Type : Arijcanda maculosa Wlk. from Sumatra.

19(1. Arycanda absorpta sp. nov.

Like A. maculosa Wlk. from Sumatra : Imt the marginal row of black streaks
all separated from each other by tlie jjaler veins, not blotelied at the aj)ex ; the
central streak bent outwards and absorbing the cell-spot.

One ? from Lawas, North Borneo (A. Everett).

An example from Nias, also a ? , is paler blue than the Bornean insect ; tlie
central streak is still more strongly bent, and on the underside the cell-spot is quite
distinct, with two Mack liands on each side, whereas in absorpta it is still adjacent
to the bent band.

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101. Arycanda discata sp. nov.

Forewinijs: pale slate-colour, the markings black ; two bLu'k spots close to base,
above and below the median : another pair just beyond ; first line curved from one-
fourth of costa to near base of inner margin, marked by tliroe spots on the costa,
median, and submedian respectively ; cell-spot round, velvety black ; three post-
median lines, the first much curved round cell, the second less curved, the third
nearly straight, all formed of spots on the veins, which above the middle become
confluent ; a marginal band of horizontal streaks between the veins ; fringe
concolorons.

Hindwings : with a spot at base and a straight line before the black cell-spot ;
two lines of spots be3'ond, those of the first line rounded, of the second Innate and
semiconfluent ; marginal streaks as in forewings.

Underside with very large black cell-spots, dbscure outer line, and marginal
streaks. Face, head, and thorax slate-colour ; abdomen yellowish, with basal
segment slate-colonr, bearing a pair of black spots.

Expanse of wings : 52 mm.

One 6 from Bunguran, Natuna Islands, October 1894 (Hose).

Like i/eorgiata Guen., but the cell-spot is clear of the lines.

192. Arycanda omissa sp. nov.

Like absorpta Warr. in having the marginal streaks separated, but with only
five black bands, the central one being absent ; the cell-spot quite distinct and
separate ; the basal bands blurred, with a deeper purplish shade round them ; on the
underside there is only one diffuse black band between the spot and the base, and in
the hindwings hardly a trace of an)' spots at all at base. Both wings beneath much
more suffused with dark purplish.

One ? from Sarawak.

193. Arycanda subfumosa sp. nov.

Smaller than maculosa Wlk. and its allies, with tlio transverse lines much
narrower and more resolved into separate spots, as in geonjiata Guen., liut the cell-
spot is quite separate between the fourth and fiftlj bauds ; in the hindwings the
three bands are entirely composed of spots, the central band being very thin and
inconspicuous. On the underside the outer half of the forewings is dull smoky
black.

One ? from Lawas, N. Borneo (A. Everett).

This form occurs also iu Sumatra.

194. Bordeta longimacula sp. nov.

Forewings : black, with three cream-coloured sjiots, smaller and more concise
than iu B. tricolor Warr., but in the same relative positions; the first oblique, from
subcostal vein before middle towards anal angle, not quite reaching the submuilian
fold, pointed at the lower end and with the outer edge slightly bent ; the other two
in a line parallel to the first half-way towards ajjcx.

llinihoings : orange, with the margins <dl black, but the hindmargin interrupted
iu the middle by the orange ground-colour, which nearly reaches the margin.

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Underside the same. Head black: collar and pectns oebreous: antennae blai;k,
with the cilia oehreous ; thorax black : atjdoiuen orange, with a black dorsal stripe
except on first segment, which is orange ; the S with the base of anal segment also
yellow.

Expanse of wings : 58 mm.

A pair from Sattelberg, near Finschhafeu, German New Guinea.

195. Biirsada septemuotata sp. nov.

Fore/n/i(/s : dull black, with three pale yellow spots — one at base, traversed by
the dark subcostal vein, a larger oval obli([ue one in the middle, and a reniforni
one towards a])ex.

Ilindivings : with four yellow spots — a large one at base, a snbquadrate one of
the same size in middle, a small oval one towards apex, and one still smaller on
inner margin above anal angle ; fringes of both wings unicoloroi;s.

Underside as upper. Palpi, vertex, and antennae black; face and collar yellow:
thorax black, with a yellow lateral spot between the wings ; abdomen wanting;
forelegs black, with base of coxae yellow.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One c? from Kina Balu, N. Borneo.

Akin to /)'. mncidifera ; the wings narrow and elongate ; all the yellow spots
smaller ; the tip of the forewings black.

190. Bursada trispilata sji. nov.

Foreivim/s : brown-black, with three yellow spots ; first longitudinal, near base,
beneath the median vein ; second transverse, narrow, with irregular edges, from
subcostal at middle towards anal angle ; third elongated, with curved edges towards
ajx'x.

I lindii'hH/s : deep yellow, with all three margins black.

Underside the same. Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; a small yellow s])ot
in front below each shoulder.

Expanse of wings : 36 mm.

One ? from Moroka, British New Guinea, 3500 feet, October 1805 (Anthony).

Hymenocharta gen. uov.

Allied to Agirjja, with which it agrees in neuration, but of stouter build : the
thorax and ])alpi and inner margin of hindwings hairy ; antennae of d thicker, with
coarser jiectinations and blunt apex : antennae of ? also pectinated ; palpi twice as
long as face : hindmargin of hindwings indented below vein 2.

Type : lli/menockarta triplagiata sp. nov.

107. Hymenocharta triplagiata sp. nov.

Foreivinija : black, with two oblique shining white hyaline patches \ first near
base, oblique, diffusely edged, not touching costa or inner margin : second towards
apex, from subcostal to near hindmargin above anal angle, the lower part swollen.

UindunmjH : with a white fascia of uniform width from second quarter of costa
to near hindmargin, running parallel to inner margin.

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LTuderside similar. Face, palpi, head, tliiira.x, and abdomt'ii all bruwu-black ;
pectus, hind half of abdomen below, and whole of the anal segment orange.
Expanse of wings : 36 mm.
Two (Jcf, two ? ?, from Dar-es-Salaam, German East Africa.

Mesomima gen. no v.

Foreirinqs : elongate, narrow; the costa straight for three-fonrths, then cnrved;
apex blnnt, ronnded and not produced in the (?, slightly prodnced and rectangiilar
in the ? ; hindmargin obliijuely curved.

Hiiuhciiu/s : narrow, the hindmargin strongly ronuded from apex, slightly
curved towards anal angle.

Antennae pectinated in both sexes ; palpi short, pointed ; tongue and frenulum
present. Forewings with an elongate fovea lietwceu the submedian fold and the
submedian vein, the latter bent downwards at base and sinuous; this fovea is visible,
though not nearly so strong, in the ? .

Neuration : forewings, cell two-tliirds of wing : the subcostal and median veins
strongly inbent towards extremity; first median at two-thirds, second close before
end, third from end of cell ; radials normal ; 7, 8, 9 stalked from the bend in the
subcostal ; 10 and 11 stalked, 11 united with the costal liy a bar. Hindwings with
costal only shortly ajiproximated to subcostal ; the tirst suljcostal nervule and
second median from well before the ends of cell ; no radial.

Type : Mesomima a.lUfrom sp. nov.

Akin to Agirpa ; distinguished by the long fovea, and the absence of a bar
between veins 9 and 10.

198. Mesomima albifrons sji. imv.

Foreipiiujs : fulvous red ; tlie apical tliird black, containing an olili(|ue variable-
shaped white blotch ; the hindmargin black to anal angle.

Ilind/nnt/s : with hindmargin narrowly Idack, stronger in the ? than in the
<S, its inside edge irregularly crenulate or rounded.

Underside the same. Vertex and antennae black ; face snow-white ; thor.ix
fnlvous red ; abdomen cinereous, with white dorsal spots on each segment.

Expanse of wings : <?, 39 mm. ; ? , 45 mm.

A pair from Kuilu, French Congo, 1892 (Mocqnerys).

This sj)ccies is almost an exact facsimile of Paraptijchodcs tenuis I'utler ;
that, however, has the costa of forewings black, and the hindmargin of hindwings
spotted, not margined with black ; the abdomen yellowish white, with Idackish
segmental rings.

199. Tigridoptera radiolata sp. w\.

Forewings : dull slaty blue, with the inner margin bull' below the submedian
fold for two-thirds from base ; a buff streak beyond cell ; a black spot below costa
at base ; two more just beyond, one obliquely below the other, followed by a curved
black line which is interrupted at the submedian fidd and marked by a black dot on
submedian vein ; a black cell-sput, followed by three curved black lines, the first
touching the cell-spot and parallel to the basal line ; the second less curved, the
outermost curved outwards at costa ; all three interi-npted at the fold and marked

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by a black spot on tlie .snbmediau vein ; marginal area marked with long black rays
between the veins ; fringe concolorons.

Himhciiiqs : with tiie three outer lines and cell-spot, and the radiating lines
bej'oud ; butt" streaks along cell and i)eyiind it, and along the submedian fold, and a
smaller one below the costal vein.

Underside slaty grey, with three central blackish symmetrically bent lines, the
two outer ones diffuse ; diffused blotches on the outer lines ; the cell-spots deep
black ; a bhwrk streak from eosta of forewings near base. Head slate-colour ;
thorax slate-colour, mixed with bulf : patagia and slioulders each with a black spot ;
abdomen buff.

Exj)anse of wings : 00 — 65 mm.

Two ? ? from Palawan.

Xanthomima gen. nov.

Forewiruji : witli costa straight, apex blunt ; hindmargin curved.

Hindwings : with rounded hindmargin.

Forewings of ? as well as c? with fovea.

Aeitmlion : as in Tujridoptera H.8. and allies, but the veins are nmcli finer,
and the whole insect of weaker build. ^Vings without markings, yellow with
black margins.

Tyjie : Xanthomima cyanoxantha, Meyr. ( Tigridoptera).

Panucthia atrhnnrgo Warr., Nov. Zool. 111. p. 298, from Fergnsson Island
should be referred here.

200. Xanthomima seminigra sp. nov.

Forewings : orange, this colour being limited to a semicircular space from base
to middle of inner margin, with its upper edge rather irregular: the rest of the wing
velvety black, with all the veins slightly paler, the black running along costa and
narrowing to the base.

Ilindtcings : with the basal area orange, within a slightly curving line from
middle of costa to a little above the anal angle.

Underside similar, the black running up along costa of hindwings, but not
reaching base. Face, palpi, legs, pectus, antennae, vertex, and shoulders black ;
thorax and abdomen orange.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

One ? from Kei Toeal, March 1896 (H. C. Webster).

Subfamily ABRAXINAE.
201. Abraxas discata sp. nov.

Foreiving$ : white, the costa and hindmargin broadly and unevenly smoky
black ; the costal border for three-fonrths of cell reaches to the median vein; a large
round black cell-spot touches the costal border and is generally connected with hind-
margin by a horizontal blackish streak of varying thickness; the hindmargiual border
generally has a small white apical sjiot ; this spot sometimes is much developed and
interrupts the inner edge of the marginal border along the veins, and in these cases
a fine whitish line appears above the anal angle.

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Hindwings : with the costa narrowly and the hiudmargiu 1)roa<lly bhick ; cell-
spot variable in size, sometimes all but obsolete.

Underside the same. Face and collar yellow; thorax and alidomen yellow,
spotted with black.

Expanse of wings : .34 — 40 mm.

A good series from Pnio Lant, south of Borneo, May 1891 (W. Doherty).

Related to A. subhi/alinafa EOli., but larger and without any yellow markings.

202. Abraxas invasata sp. nov.

Like A. maculicincja. Wlk., but with two series of black submargiual spots
instead of one ; the marginal row partially confluent with those of the outer sub-
marginal, while the inner or postmedian row is nearer the base of the wing ; apical
third of forewings wholly black, but containing a single triangular or hook-shaped
white spot ; a black costal curved spot close to base, nearly confluent with a thinner
one on inner margin ; a large black costal blotch at one-third, with irregular black
spots below it ; cell-blotch large, sometimes connected above with some small sub-
costal spots ; base of both wings with several small irregular black spots and streaks.

One (?, one ? , from Kina Balu, North Borneo.

203. Abraxas moniliata sp. nov.

Forewings : cream-white, with smoky blackish markings ; the liasal area
yellow, limited by a broad curved black line, dentate outwardly on the median and
snbmediau veins, and crossed by a similar curved line following a black basal spot :
the cell occupied by a diffuse blotch, connected above with a median costal blotch,
and throwing oif below a narrow sinuous mark, sometimes double, to the inner
margin ; an exterior fascia of confluent round spots, bent opposite the cell ; a similar
submarginal fascia, its inner edge curved, its outer crenulate, confluent below with
the exterior fascia, and followed below by three or four blotches, which are also
sometimes confluent ; a marginal row of dark lunnles blackish, like the fringe.

Hindwings : with the base, an antemedian fascia, swollen in cell and on inner
margin, a postmedian curved double fascia of confluent spots, and a marginal scries
of lunules with the fringe blackish.

Underside the same. Legs, palpi, face, and antennae black ; vertex yellow :
thorax and abdomen yellow, with numerous black spots.

Expanse of wings : 58 mm.

A pair from Bua Kraeng, South Celebes, .5000 feet, February 1896 (Frnlistorfer).

204. Abraxas pleniguttata sp. nov.

Foreioings : white, with basal patch fulvous, edged with blacki.sh brown and
interrupted below the median ; central area with a double dark grey spot on inner
margin, a large round one on the submedian fold, two more obliquely above it, a
large cell-blotch, and costal blotch above it ; in the darker examples these are all
more or less confluent ; exterior line formed of two sinuous rows of round grey
spots, divergent towards costa, confluent and purple-tinged mixed with fulvous
below ; in the dark specimens the outer row becomes a line, and the spots become
laterally confluent ; an irregular row of s])ots follows ; a row of marginal spots,
sometimes confluent, with one submarjjinal on vein 4.

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Himfu-ingx : with a spot at base : a double spot ou costa an<l inuer margin iu
the central area ; enter series as in forewings, but less developetl.

Underside the same. Thorax and abdomen yellow, with the ordinary black
spots.

Expanse of wings : .58 mm.

One cJ, two ? ?, from N. Luzon (Whitehead).

205. Genusa simplex sji. nov.

Wings wholly dull mealy white ; a slight tinge of yellow close to apex ; a black
dot on snbcostal of forewiugs near base, and traces of tliree or four small grey dots
below costa just beyond. Head, tliorax, and abdomen all coniiolorous, without dots.
Palpi above i'aintly tinged with fnscons ; pectinations of antennae pale fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 45 mm.

One c? from Bongao Island, Suln Archipelago (A. Everett).

206. Ligdia interrupta sp. nov.

Forewings : white : a basal patch of mixed fuscous and ochreous scales, its edge
curved and wavy from one-fourth of costa to one-fourth of inner margin, the fuscous
costal striae continued nearly to the outer ftiscia, the inner edge of which is concise
and indented beyond cell, the outer diffuse and broken by a partly dentate and partly
lunnlate white line, accompanied by black sj)Ots : marginal area white, with an
irregular and smoky blotch on liindmargin opposite the cell, and some scattered
striae above anal angle ; marginal spots black ; fringe white, fuscous opposite the
cell : cell-dot large, black : the costal area and a wavy line down the outer fascia
marked with shining leaden scales.

Ilimlwings : with the base narrowly dark, the white fascia therefore twice as
broad as in forewings.

Underside like upper. Face, palpi, head, and thorax ilark fuscous ; abdomen
white.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

Three 6S from Natal (A. .1. Spiller).

Nothabraxas gen. nov.

Forewitiqs : with costa straight or slightly indented in middle; apex blunt;
hindmargin obliquely rounded ; anal angle obtuse ; inner margin somewhat convex.

Jlhuhvings : with liindmargin and both angles rounded.

Antennae of c? plumose, the tips simple ; palpi porrect, short : hind tibiae with
a i)air of sjmrs ; in the forewings veins 10 and 1 1 are stalked.

Type : Xot/iaOraxa-i commacidata sp. nov.

Differing from Negeta Wlk. iu having the margins of the wings simple, not
angulated.

207. Nothabraxas commaculata sp. nov.

Forewings : pale straw-colour, almost white ; the markings grey-brown ; costa
with irregular brown spots ; a larger one at one-fourth, the origin of the first line,
which is curved and preceded by a line of small dark sjiors on veins : cell-spot oval,
connected with a costal spot above it ; a broad obli(jue irregular-edged fascia from

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costa before apex to inner margin before anal angle, connected along the snbmedian
area with the first line, and beyond the cell with a marginal fascia, which does not
quite reach either apex or anal angle ; fringe grey-brown, except at apex and angle.

Hindwings : straw-colonr, with a ronnd cell-spot, a i>ostmedian line of grey
spots, and a few on the margin, the last not symmetrical.

Underside dtdler. Face fuscons ; shoulders and thorax straw-colour, with
black tips : abdomen yellow, with black segmental rings.

Expanse of wings : 42 mm.

One 6 from Mpwapwa, East Africa.

208. Percnia longimacula sj). nov.

Distinguished from P. hclluaria Guen., with which it agrees in size, by all the
spots being elongate and narrow ; the two middle rows apjiroximated to each other,
the spots of the outer one linear ; the second spot of inner row, which in helluaria is
ronnd and at the junction of vein 2, is double, on the median and vein 2 beyond the
origin of the latter ; veins 6 and 7 of the hindwings are shortly stalked.

One ? from Knlu.

200. Potera albiquadrata sp. nov.

Foreivings : black : a few yellowish and one small white spot near base ; a
white spot in middle of cell ; a broad sinuous white fascia, its top straiglit, from
snbcostal to middle of inner margin, where it is marked by some black spots : a
slender white dash parallel to and just beyond its upper extremity ; a row of five
white elongated quadrate spots between the veins before the hiudmargin.

Him/whujs : white ; the costa and inner margin broadly smoky black ; hind-
margin with broad black fascia containing five quadrate white spots ; a dark spot in
the cell.

Underside like upper. Palpi and antennae black ; face and vertex yellow :
patagia yellow, theii- tips black : thorax yellow, with black bands ; base of abdomen
with a black ring ; rest of abdomen yellow, with saddle-shaped black dorsal blotches
on each segment, and a pair of spots on the first two.

Expanse of wings : 52 mm.

One S from Batchian, March 1892 (W. Doherty).

Allied to F. iilhijAaya Warr. from S. C'elebes, but snificiently distinct.

210. Rhodophthitus (?) simplex sp. nov.

Forewings : wholly pale pinkish ochreous, at the base tinged with bright rosy.

Hindwings: whitish; fringe concolorons.

Underside dull whitish ; the hindwings also tinged with rosy at base and along
costa. Face brown ; collar ferrnginous ; thorax pinkish grey : patagia bright rosy ;
abdomen ochreous, with the segmental rings rosy ; legs rosy.

Expanse of wings : 48 mm.

One ? from the Songive Valley, Lake Nyassa.

The insect is considerably wasted, and the above must consequently be taken as
only an approximate description ; there are no traces of markings.

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ScBFAsriLY SCOTOPTERYGINAE.
211. Scotopterix lignicolor sp. nov.

cJ. Foreicings : reddish brown, with dense fuscous striation ; the liuos black
and thick ; first at one-fonrth, waved and slightly oblique, preceded by a pale space
of jrronnd-colonr ; second line at throc-fonrtlis, waved and incurved Ijelow the
middle, followed near the costa by a i)aler shade ; subniarginal shade diU'nsely dark;
marginal line crenulate, black ; fringe concolorons, with darker mottlings.

Hind wings : similar, without the first line ; both wings with distinct black
cell-spot.

? with ground-colour bright straw-colour, suffused and dotted with red-
brown and fuscous, the pale ground-colour apparent after the second line, at the
apex, and along the costal region.

Underside rather duller. Head, thorax, and abdomen all brownish.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

A pair from Lawas, North Borneo (A. Everett).

Subfamily BISTONINAE.
212. Cusiala malescripta sp. nov.

Forewings : silvery white, with sjjarse course grey speckles : the lines Ibnued
of aggregations of grey and black scales, much interrupted ; first at one-fourth ;
median line touching the black linear cell-mark, approximated on inner margin to
the outer line, which above the middle is outcurved and waved ; submarginal line
fairly continuous, thicker than the other lines, outcurved beyond cell ; black
marginal dots between the veins ; fringe wiiite.

Ilindwings : the same, without the basal line, the submarginal more sliarply
excnrved opposite the cell.

Underside with the dark speckles less scattered ; marginal area suffused mth
dark grey, a blackish submarginal fascia, broad at the costa ; discal spot thick and
black ; liindwings almost white. Face whitish, with a broad velvety black bar
above and a fine black line at top; vertex, thorax, and abdomen white, with scattered
fuscous atoms.

Expanse of wings : 52 mm.

One ? from Kalao I., south of Celebes, December 1895 (A. Everett).

213. Eubyja crenulata sp. nov.
Forewings : dark grey, speckled and suffused with dark brown, and with rufous
in places ; first line strongly curved near base and running to the base at
inner margin ; outer line at three-fourths, black, strongly but bluntly angled
opposite cell, then concave outwards to inner margin before anal angle : cell-spot
blackish ; a dark brown shade along cell running out to hiiidmargin, with a
rufous submarginal patch above it ; fringe concolorous, witli a lihuk crenulate basal
line.

Ilintlwings : with a dark central shade and cell-spot, and a twice-angled black
postmedian line.

Underside fuscous brown, the lines indistinct. Head, thorax, and abdomen
concolorous ; the latter with the basal segment paler.

Expanse of wings : 36 mm.

One ? from Natal (A. J. Spiller).

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214. Eubyja grisea s]i. nov.

Forewings : dull grey, dnsted and striated with darker ; the lines dull blackish ;
first at one-fourth, curved and indistinct ; second at three-fourths, forming a marked
])Vomincnce opposite the cell, then strongly concave outwards to inner margin
shortly before anal angle ; fringe grey, with a dark basal line.

Flindwings : paler, with a sinuons outer line and traces of an autemedian line
on inner margin : both wings with dark cell-spot.

Underside dull grey, the cell-spots larger. Face and palpi dark fuscous ; head,
thorax, and abdomen grey.

Expanse of wings : 45 mm.

One ? from Zomba, British Central Africa, April 1895 (Dr. P. Kendall).

215. Eubyja subpunctata sp. nov.

Forewings: pale grey, vrith a faint lilac tinge, sparsely varied with black
scales ; the costa dotted with black ; the lines black, distinct ; first at one-fourth,
starting from a black costal spot, sharply angled on the subcostal, then oblique and
twice bent to inner margin close to base : onter line at two-thirds, obli(|ue outwards
and bluntly angled opposite the cell, oblitine inwards to the submedian fold, then
vertical to inner margin at two-thirds ; central line from a black spot at middle of
costa, still more oblique outwards and more sharply angled than the outer line,
running parallel and near to it at inner margin ; submarginal line obscure, shown
np by a diffuse dark denticulate shade preceding it ; marginal line black, sub-
crenulate, swollen into spots between the veins, from which dark streaks run towards
the submarginal : fringe grey.

Uimhnngs : with curved and somewhat interrupted black antemedian and
postiuedian lines, with a large round black cell-spot between them ; submarginal
line indistinct except at inner margin.

Underside" whitish, with the costal blotches, the cell-spots, and a series of
smaller spots representing the two lines, all strongly black. Palpi and collar black ;
face whitish, with a black bar across middle : vertex white : thorax and abdomen
grey, marked with black ; abdomen at base with a black streak laterally.

Expanse of wings : 3(i mm.

One c? from Weeneu, Natal.

216. Eubyja trisecta sp. nov.

Forewings : pale or dark grey, dusted with darker and tinged with rufous in
basal and marginal areas ; the lines black : first at one-third, strongly and regularly
curved ; second at two-thirds, oblique and forming a sinus be_vond the cell ; cell-spot
black ; costa dotted with ochreous ; fringe dark grey beyond a thick black
basal line.

Hindwings : with inner line absent. Sometimes the whole wing is suffused
with fuscous or dark grey, and the rufous tints are obscured : in other examples the
central area of forewings and inner two-thirds of hindwings are paler, and the rufous
areas distinct.

Underside dark rufous grey, with the outer line brown : in the paler specimens
with inner two-thirds of both wings paler. Thorax, face, palpi, and pectus very
hairy; all as well as abdomen fuscous cinereous ; the thorax often darker ; antennae
with the shaft white and the pectinations black.

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Expanse of wings : 44 mm.
Six <S c? from Natal (A. J. Ri.iller).

The costa of forewings is concave and producod iti front ; the hindmargiu
strongly curved.

217. Synopsia(?) octopunctata sp. nov.

Forewings : grey, dusted and sntl'nsed with darker ; the lines dark grey or
blackish, obliiine ; first from a dark spot at one-third of costa, acutely angled in cell,
then oblique to inner margin close to base, preceded by a diffuse dark shade ; outer line
at three-fonrths, excurved beyond cell, then obliqne, slightly sinuous to middle of inner
margin, followed by a dark shade ; cell-spot round, diffuse, of black and grey scales ;
a central line rises from a dark spot above the cell-spot, is doubly dentate beyond
cell and oblicinely sinnons inwards to inner margin jnst before outer line ; submarginal
line pale, cuneiform, edged internally with dark grey and followed by dark grey
snflfnsion ; a marginal row of black spots between the veins : the dark shade
beyond the outer line is diffused beyond the cell to the hindmargiu : fringe grey.

Ilitifhrinqx : with antemedian and postmediau dark lines, the latter followed by
a thick dark shade ; a wavy pale submarginal lino, with dark edges ; cell-spot as
in forewings.

Underside shining whitish grey : both wings with round rell-s])ot and macular
apical spots velvety black. Palpi dark ; lace fuscous, with a fine white line above
and below ; head, thorax, and abdomen grey, speckled with darker.

Expanse of wings : 45 mm.

One ? from Weenen, Natal.

Easilv distinguished by the black spots of the underside. In the forewings
veins 11 and 12 are stalked ; lU free, but anastomosing with 11; 7, s, 1) stalked.

Subfamily ASCOTINAE.
218. Ascotis selenaria Tliib. ab. fasciata nov.

Forewings : with the ground-colour and markings as in tlie type-form : but the
whole outer half of wing beyond the median line suffused with rufous fuscous,
leaving a grey blotch at apex and two whitish grey blotches below the middle and
above anal angle, the large discal spot, which is trident ate, remaining also nnsuffused ;
the basal area is likewise faintly tinged with rufous.

IlinJwim/s : the same, but with the hindmargiu beyond the double jmstmedian
line whitish from anal angle to vein 6.

Underside white, with the snbmarginal line in both wings blackish, in
the forewings connected with hindmargiu by a large subapical black blotch : cell-
spots black, that on the forewings very large and with the middle tooth prolonged
outwards.

Expanse of wings : 58 mm.

One ? from Grahamstown, S. Africa, sent along with two ordinary white SS
expanding 45 mm.

Although at first sight tins insect appears to be (|uite a distinct species,
yet on closer examination the only real difference, apart from the fuscous
suffusion, between it and typical selenaria Hut), lies in the sine and shape of the
cell-spot of forewings.

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219. Chogada betularia sp. nov.

Forewinqs : white, thickly peppered witli black scales, especially along the
costa ; first line near base, diffuse and double ; outer line at two-thirds, finely
denticulate, not excurved round cell, but incurved below middle ; snbmarginal line
cloudy, interrupted below middle ; a marginal row of black spots between the veins ;
fringe mottled, white and grey ; cell-spot large, blackish, with white scales in the
centre ; traces of a median line touching it ; all the lines starting from dark costal
blotches.

Hindivings : with straight antemedian line ; dentate postmedian strongly out-
curved round cell, and followed by a dark grey shade ; the rest as in forewings.

Underside white, with large black cell-spots and a blackish jiatch at ajiex of
forewings containing an apical white spot : traces of outer line on forewings and
submargiual on hindwings. Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish, peppered with
dark grey.

Expanse of wings : 45 mm.

Two (? S from South Africa.

Quite distinct from C. acaciaria Boisd., without any ochreous or fuscous tints
whatever.

220. Diplurodes indentata sp. nov.

Forewings : dull brownish grey, dusted with fuscous ; the lines blackish ; first
at one-fourth, curved from costa to submedian, and there slightly angled ; cell-spot
linear, blackish: central line from a dark costal spot above it, slightly curved, and
bent on the submedian ; exterior line blackish, and with black dots on the veins,
sinuous, forming a sinus outwards beyond cell and again below middle, sharply
angulated inwards on the submedian fold, the angle nearly touching the middle line ;
followed by a dark fuscous shade ; snbmarginal line of the ground-colour, irregularly
dentate, marked by darker shades on each side ; fringe concolorous, with dark dots
along the margin at base.

Hindwings : the same, but the inner line straight and prominently black on
inner margin.

Underside greyish white, with the cell-spots and central lines marked ; outer
third dark fuscous, its inner edge uniformly curved, the extreme margin becoming
pale before the fringes. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous ; tufts of abdomen
largely developed, dark grey.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One (? from Penuugah, N. E. Borneo, December 1893 (Cator).

221. Ectropis nigripunctata sp. nov.

Forewings : ochreous grey, coarsely irrorated with fuscous ; the lines blackish,
starting from dark costal spots and marked with dark dashes on the veins ; first
from one-fourth of costa to near base of inner margin ; median excurved round cell
to inner margin before middle ; outer at two-thirds, angled on vein 6, then oblique
inwards, again bent on vein 3 to middle of inner margin, touching median line on
the submedian fold ; snbmarginal line pale, waved, preceded by dark lunules ; a row
of black dots between the veins be/ore the hiudmargin, preceded by obscure dark
dashes : marginal line finely black, interrupted by pale spots adjacent to the black
ones ; fringe grey ; cell-spot blackish.

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Ilitidwings : with a black mark at base ; a lilackisli autemediau line and waved
postmedian and submargiual lines, the last with a blackish blotch on costa.

Underside whitish, shining ; the forewings slightly smoky-tinged and finely
freckled with darker, with black cell-spot and snbapical costal blotch ; hindwings
whiter, with smaller cell-spot and ronudisli black apical blotch ; head, thorax, and
abdomen grey, the latter dark at base.

Expanse of wings : (?, 34 mm. ; S , 32 mm.

A pair from Warri, River Niger, February 1896 (Dr. Roth).

222. Ectropis sabnlosa sp. nov.

Forewimja : pale whitish ochreous, dusted with yellowish ochreous and grey
scales, especially along the costal region and beyond the outer line ; the usual Hues
very distinct, except the exterior denticulated line ; the blotch beyond it at middle
dark ochreous ; fringe whitish ochreons, witli a row of rather large black marginal
spots at base.

Hindwings : with less suffusion.

Underside the same, without markings : the costal half of forewings darker.
Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous.

Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

One J from Amboina, February 1892 (W. Doherty).

Paler and smoother, not so yellow, as bhurmitra Wlk.

223. Lepiodes ocellata sp. nov.

cJ. Forewings : grey, smoothly and rather thinly scaled ; first line blackish, at
one-third, angled or curved beneath costa, then ol)li(|ucly bent inwards to base of
inner margin ; outer line at two-thirds, oblique outwards to lower radial, then
inwards to inner margin in middle, with a sinus inwards between first median and
submediau veins ; a diffuse dark denticulate submarginal line, often very obscure ;
apex generally darker ; cell-spot round, dark-edged, with raised grey scales in the
centre ; in some examples a very faint central line is traceable ; fringe ])aler, with
dark basal line.

Hindwings : with three transverse lines, the cell-sjiot touching the central one.
In the ? the lines are more curved, less abruptly bent. The first line is generally
preceded, and the second followed, by a diffuse dark shade.

Underside pale whitish, with the veins thickly marked with orange scales and
in the ? freckled with blackish scales; the cell-s])ots large, velvety black; the
forewings with an apical black blotch, the hindwings witli a submarginal curved
blackish fascia, often limited to the apex only. Palju ferruginous, mixed with
fuscous ; face, vertex, thorax, and abdomen whitish or greyish.

Expanse of wings : 24—20 mm.

Five d" S from Mpeta, Loangwa Uivx^r, an attluent of the Zambesj, November
and December 1895 (Coryudon) ; one ? from Bathurst, S. Africa.

As stated above, the lines in this ? are curved, not angled or bent, as in the
S 6 : the forewings beneath have a marginal black fascia throughout, the fascia of
the hindwings being also marginal. When more cxami)lc8 arc obtaiimblc fur
comparison, the Bathurst insect will probably be found to be a constant local form.

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224. Medasina javensis sp. nov.

Foreioings : red-brown, suffused witb dai-k(u-, aud with dark red-brown stvia-
tions ; costa striated with bhick, but without black spots at origin of lines : first
line hardly expressed, except at inner margin by a short streak ; median line
forming an oblique brown-black streak above inner margin, obsolete above ; the
discal spot hardly marked ; exterior line as in M. parisnattei Wlk., excurved at
vein 0 and there nearly ol)solete, red-brown below, edged with jjaler, and almost
touching median line above inner margin ; followed by a darker brown fascia from
inner margin to vein 5, where there is a horizontal dark streak ; submarginal line
rufous, irregularly waved, with a paler patch in middle ; a row of slender black
lunules along hiiulmargin: fringe rnfous fuscous.

Hindwings: with basal third deep blackish brown, with an antemediau blackish
line, a curved and dentate pustmedian line, edged, as in fore wings, with jialer, and
followed by a deeper shade as far as snbmedian. Veins of both wings pale reddish
ochreous, dotted with fuscous.

Underside smoky brown, with the median line and submarginal fascia blackish;
marginal area whitish, fuscous speckled, interrupted by a black shade opposite the
cell and above anal angle ; in the hindwings the exterior line also is shown, and
the paler margin is only interrupted opposite cell. Head aud thorax red-brown :
abdomen deep cinereous, with a black ring at base ; anal segments becoming rufous.

Expanse of wings : 65 mm.

One S from Java.

Mnesigea gen. nov.

Foreivings : broad; the costa nearly straight, convex just at apex, which is
blunt ; hindmargin obliquely rounsled below, straighter above.

Hi7idwings : broad, both angles rounded, the hindmargin waved, and with a
rounded incision opjiosite cell.

Palpi porrect, cpiite short ; antennae (d) very slender, the pectmations fine and
at right angles to the shaft, ciliated themselves ; forewings without fovea ; hind
tibiae slender, not thickened, with fonr spurs.

Neuration : forewings, cell half as long as wing ; discocellular straight, rather
oblique ; median vein strongly bent upwards towards its extremity; first median
nervnle at three-fourths, second at seven-eighths, third from end of cell; lower
radial above middle of discocellular, approximated to upper; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10 and
11 coincident or stalked.

Ty|3e : Mneaigea sinmta sp. nov. ; exciirsaria Guenee will better come into
this genus.

225. Mnesigea sinuata sp. nov.

Forewings : grey, powdered with blackish scales, and partially tinged with pale
brownish ; first line strongly curved, near base, fine, with black spots on veins ;
second line sinuous, from costa at three-fourths to inner margin before middle
preceded by distinct black wedge-shajied dashes on the veins ; median line also
sinuous, passing through the dark cell-spot aud a black dash at base of vein 2, and
followed by a second fine line, sinuous like itself; the exterior line is followed by a
j)ale, and that by a fuscous, line containing a dark sjiot between veins 3 aud 4 ;
marginal area darker, with an obscurely waved submarginal pale line ; fringe

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concolorous, beyond a fine slightly crennlate marginal line with dots between
the veins.

Himhcings : with antemedian and postmedian slightly curved lines, the latter
followed by a pale brownish shade ; an oval cell-spot ; submarginal line and fringe
as in forewiugs.

Underside of forewings brownish grey ; of hindwmgs whitish, with grey
suffusion. Face and palpi dark brown : vertex, thorax, and abdomen like wings.

Exjianse of wings : 32 mm.

One cJ from Parkside, South Australia.

Nesalcis gen. nov.

In Nov. ZooL. Vol. III. j). 131,1 described the c? of Aids (?)/uscibn/n>iea from
Jamaica, and gave the nenration of the forewings. It would be more correct to say
that veins 9, 10, 11 are stalked, 11 anastomosing with the costal and 9 witli 8.
I now find that the ? has antennae almost as strongly pectinated as the d , which,
together with the nenration, mus* separate the species from Aids, and I propose the
above generic name for it.

226. Poecilalcis subtincta sp. nov.

Forewinqs: pinkish grey, thickly dusted with fuscous atoms, in parts with a
rufous suffusion ; fovea in 6 exaggerated, reaching from near inner margin to near
median, which is slightly bent upwards and runs at a distance of only one-third from
the costa ; first line at one-third, curved, blackish, darker on the veins, touching
fovea on inner margin ; outer line at two-thirds, slightly curved outwards to vein 6,
then vertical to vein 5, thence concave inwards to vein 2, and again from vein 2 to
inner margin beyond middle ; submarginal line blackish, indented from vein 5 to 4,
edged with whitish opposite the cell and more strongly above anal angle ; the outer
line is followed h\ a rufous shade, and a rufous patch is on the hindmargin in the
middle ; cell-spot linear, blackish, connected with a black costal spot above it ; fringe
fuscous, beyond a subcrenulate marginal black line.

Ilimlwinys : pinkish grey, with sparser irroration ; cell-spot larger ; an inter-
rupted curved ijostmediau line, black on inner margin ; submarginal line whitish,
uniformly dentate and edged inwardly by a lilackish shade, becoming obsolete on
costal half.

Underside of forewings dull ochreous, suffused with fuscous and much irrorated ;
the marginal area towards apex brownish ; hind wings yellowish ochreous, with
sparse dusting. Face, palpi, and collar dark fuscous ; thorax piukish grey ;
abdomen cinereous, the basal segments with pairs of black spots.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

Several cJcJ from North Luzon, oOdO— 6000 feet (Whitehead).

Pseudalcis gen. nov.

Agrees with Medasina Moore in that vein 11 of forewings rises out" of 12, but
in scaling and markings almost exactly like Dryocoetis Hiib. ; the $ antennae are
plumose ; in the forewings vein 10 is sometimes shortly stalked with 7, 8, 9 ;
sometimes free from the cell.

Tj'pe : Pseudalds catoriata sj). nov.

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22T. Pseudalcis catoriata sp. nov.

Forewinqs : wliitisli gi'ey, irrorateJ with olive-fuscons striae ; tlie lines olive-
fuscous ; first at one-fourth, twice outwards curved, to inner margin near base ;
median line thick, sinuous ; outer line at two-thirds, dentate and ontcnrved opposite
cell, followed b}- a diffuse olive-fuscous shade ; submarginal line pale, indistinct,
preceded and followed by a series of dark blotches, interrupted between veins 3 and 4,
and darker opposite the cell : a marginal row of squarish black spots between the
veins ; fringe olive, with the tips white, and white throughout at the ends of the
veins ; cell-spot olive, with thick black edges, tridentate.

Hindwings : .like forewings.

Underside dull stone-grey, with the apex dull lilackish ; costa spotted with
black ; cell-spots indistinct. Palpi and face dark olive : two white dots ou lower
jiart of face ; the ujiper third, fillet, vertex, and basal joint of antennae white ;
thorax and abdomen whitish, mixed with olive scales.

Expanse of wings : 50 mm.

Several SS and one ?, the latter much worn, from Pulo Laut, S.E. of Borneo,
May 1891 (W. Doherty).

Closely allied to Fseiulalcis cinerasnens from the same locality ; smaller and
paler, and differing in neuration : in cinerascens vein li.» is shortl}' stalked with
T, 8, 9 ; in catoriata it is free from the cell.

228. Pseudalcis cinerascens sp. nov.

Forewings : fuscous grey, with darker irroration : the costa with black strigae ;
first line at one-fourth, blackish, wavy, and partially double ; a sinuous crenulate
central line touching the base of the dark-edged ocelloid cell-s[)ot ; exterior line at
two-thirds, evenly curved and strongly dentate, edged with paler and followed by a
diffusely lunate shade ; submarginal line pale, denticulate, preceded by a dark denti-
culate shade and followed by an obscure row of darlc patches, except on the third
median ; a row of blackish marginal lunules between the veins ; fringe fuscous.

Iliudtvings : with no basal line: the central line becomes antemeilian, touchinu-
the cell-spot as in forewings : postmedian dentate line strongly marked, and followed
generally by a much darker and broader shade than in the forewings.

Underside stone-grey, with broad blackish margin to the forewings, narrowed
to the anal angle : tlie hindwings with a submarginal dark fascia bent at the cell
and thence nearly obsolete : forewings with oblong black cell-spots. Face and
palpi dark fuscous, mixed with ochroous ; head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous grey.

Expanse of wings : 02 mm.

A series of S S, bat no ?, from Pulo Laut, May 1891 (W. Doherty).

229. Pseudalcis (?) pectinata sp. nov.

Foreioings : whitish, suffused aud coarsely striated with dark grey ; first line
from one-fourth of costa to near base of inner margin, blackish: second line at two-
thirds, excurved round cell, strongly concave and incurved to the sul)median vein,
where it is angled outwards: submarginal line whitish, waved, and dentate, preceded
by a dark shade ; a row of black marginal spots; fringe grey; cell-mark Innular,
edged witii black.

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Hindwimjs : with central line excnrvcd round cell, and marked witli black dots
on veins ; cell-spot and marjriiial area as in torewings.

Underside wholly smoky brown, blackish towards hindmargiu. Palpi blackish
at the tips ; thorax and abdomen dark grey; vertex and antennae jiale grey.

Expanse of wings : 45 mm.

One ¥ from AVarri, River Niger, February 1806 (Dr. Roth).

Agrees with Pseudalcis in neuration, but the antennae of the ? are pectinated.

2311. Psilocerea apicata sp. nov.

Forewings: fawn-colour, with a rufous tint : tlie veins dull rust-colour; the
whole surface finely dusted with iilackish atoms : linos pale ochreons, edged with
ferruginous ; basal line forming a strong angle outwards on the median, thence
sinuous inwards to the inner margin, its outside edge ferruginous ; exterior line
from apex of forewiug to middle of inuer margin of hindwing, internally edged with
ferruginous ; cell-spot small, black ; extreme apex before the exterior line darkened
with blackish scales ; marginal area beyond exterior line rather paler than rest of
wing, with an indistinct cloud ruuning vertically upwards from anal angle.

Hindunngs : with basal half darker than outer half, which has a smoky shade
along its centre. Head, face, thorax, and abdomen pale fawn.

Underside much paler, with coarse black atoms and an iridescent pearly tinge ;
exterior line and cell-dots alone faintly indicated ; apex of forewing darkened.

Expanse of wings : 48 mm.

One <S from Natal.

231. Psilocerea nigromaculata »]>. nov.

Forewings : ochreons, sutfused and dotted with fulvous, and in places with
coarse black mottlings ; costa grey at base : the lines oblique, fulvous ; the first at
one-third, angled beneath costa, and with coarse black dots in the upper part ;
exterior line oblique from apex to middle of inner margin, thicker below, preceded
by a finer oblique fulvous line ; some black snbapical costal blotches ; submargiual
line indistinct, but marked by two black blotches between veins 2 and 4 ; a black
cell-spot ; fringe concolorous.

liindwbigs : the same, without the first line.

Underside pale straw-colour, with coarse black speckles : costa of forewings
much marked with black ; the blotches of the submarginal line black, and a central
black fascia on hiudwings; cell-spots black: apical blotches of forewings marked
with brown. Palpi ferruginous ; head, thorax, and abdomen ochreons, spotted
with fulvous.

Exjianse of wings : 39 mm.

One S from Madagascar.

232. Racotis boarmiaria vufaria subsp. nov.

Like li. boarmiaria Guen., but with the npperside of both wings strongly
tinged with rufous. The pale underside much dusted with fuscous atoms.

One ? from Moroka, British New Guinea, 3500 feet, October 1896 (Anthony).

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233. Sciog'lyptis lithina sp. nov.

Forewimi'i : cream-colour, tinged with grey; \i dark spot on costa before middle
indicates the origin of the first ]ine ; a small dark brown cell-spot : second line from
a dark mark just before apex runs obliquely to middle of inner margin, marked only
by brown linear spots on veins : towards inner margin there are traces of a brown
line before it and parallel to it : beyond the cell a brownish blotch runs from outer
line to hiudmargin, crossed by the submargiual line, wliich there is whitish, Imt
scarcely distinguishable below ; a row of small dark marginal spots : fringe con-
colorous, spotted with brown below tlie a])ex.

Hiiidiciiigs : with two brown straight central lines, one on" either side of the
discal spot, which is black ; a wavy indistinct snbterminal and submargiual line.

Underside yellower, with the markings black ; both wings with black cloud
towards apex. Face grey-brown ; palpi white below, grey above : thorax and
abdomen ])ale grensh.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

One ? from Mackay, Queensland.

234. Scioglyptis semifascia sp. nov.

Forcwimis : pale ochreous or bone-colour, with scattered dark fuscous atoms :
the lines very indistinct : first at one-fourth, curveil, brownish : second from costa at
three-fourths, curved inwards to inner margin beyond middle; submargiual line
<lentate, more distinct ; the space between the last two lines filled in with fuscous
from the third median to inner margin : a marginal row of dark spots, preceded by
an indistinct fuscous shade ; fringe ochreous.

llhidirings : like forewings.

Underside the same, the markings only showing through. Head, thorax, and
abdomen all pale ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 36 mm.

One J from Humljoldt 13ay, Dutch New Guinea, October 1892 (W. Doherty).

Subfamily FIDONIINAE.
235. Aspilates tricolor sp. nov.

Forewings : pale pink, with two broad jet-lilack oblique streaks, one from inner
margin close to base towards ajjex ending in a ]]oint at three-fourths, the other from
middle of inner margin towards apex slightly bent and broadened above anal angle
and not quite reaching apex ; the space between them pale cream ; the second is
followed by a dull olive shade containing a black blotch at anal angle ; fringe pink,
^v^th broad jet-black marginal line.

llhiilicimis : pale yellowish cream-colour, with the fringe and some scales near
anal angle jjink.

Head, thorax, and abdomen jiiuky yellow. Underside bright red, with a few
scattered fuscous scales ; the inner margin of both wings pale yellow ; markings of
forewings showing through.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

One 6 from Weenen, Natal.

A very .striking and beautiful insect.

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Aspilatopsis gen. nov.

Allied to IJehdomojjldHda AVarr. gcii. nov., but with vein 1 1 missing instead of
vein 7 ; 7 and 8 stalked from before ui)per angle of cell ; 9 and 10 stalked shortly
before them ; 9 anastomosing with 7 and 8 to form the areole, which is much
shorter ; the two snbcostals of hindwings from angle of cell. Wings broader, as
in Aspilates ; antennae of <S jilumose, with long pectinations.

Type : Aspilatopsis punctata sp. nov.

236. Aspilatopsis ptinctata sj). nov.

Forewings : fulvons ochreons ; first line at one-third, marked by two browu
sjiots, one in cell, the other on submedian fold ; the latter much nearer the base than
the former ; cell-spot distinct, blackish ; an oblique brown line from costa just before
aj)e.\ towards inner margin at two-thirds, before whii'h it becomes obsolete ; the
ground-colour before this line is slightly darker ; fringe with basal half red-brown,
apical half whitish.

llindtciyigs : pale ochreous towards base, deeper and freckled with reddish
towards hiudmargin.

Underside deep rosy ; the inner half of liiudwings ]iali'r. Face, thorax, and
abdomen like wings ; palpi and forelegs tinged with rosy.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

Two S (? from Weenen, Natal.

23T. Fidonia strigosata sp. nov.

Forewings : whitish, ochreous-tinged, and uniformly and thickly dusted with
fuscous dots and striae ; the lines fuscous, somewhat interrujited ; first at one-fourth,
nearly vertical : outer line at three-fourths, ])arallel to hiudmargin, formed of brown
lunules between the veins, followed by a parallel row of browu spots between the
veins ; a row of fuscous brown margiual spots ; fringe whitish, with two faint grey
lines ; cell-sjiot browu.

Ifin(//ci)i(/s : without first line ; the cell-spot minute ; tlie outer line coutiunous,
not formed of lunules or followed by a line of spots ; veins of both wings ochreous.

Underside much more tinged with yellowish, espec-ially along costa of forewings ;
the markings indistinct. Head, face, tliorax, and abdomen white, .speckled with
fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One ? from North Luzon, oOOO— 600O feet (Wliitehead).

This must be allied to the species from 'W'est Java dcscriljed by me as Fidonia
albigrisea.

Hebdomophruda gen. nov.

Forewings : elongate, narrow : costa straight, somewhat bent ujiwanls and
convex before ajiex, whicli is sliglitly produced but Ijlunt ; hiudmargin strongly
curved.

Hindwings : with apex rounded and anal angle well marked.

Antennae of i pectinated throughout : forehead slightly tufted : puljii roughly
scaled, jwrrect, the terminal joint drooping: liind tibiae with two ])airs of ajijiroximate
spurs.

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JS^'ennit/o/t : forcwings, cell three- fifths of wing : discocellular strongly curved :
first median at fonr-fifths, second just before tlie end, third from the end of cell ;
radials normal : vein 7 absent : veins 10 and 11 stalked from three-fifths : veins 8
and 0 stalked from just before end of cell : 10 anastomosing witli 8 and '.i at a point,
forming a very long areole ; 11 from near the end of areole : 8 and 9 on a short stalk
from the end. Hindwings, costal approximated to subcostal for three-fourths of
cell ; the two subcostals stalked ; the discocellular inangulated ; the second median
well before angle of cell, nearer to the first than to the third.

Related to P rosopolopha Led.

Type : Ilebdomophrmla cuniUnea sp. nov.

238. Hebdomophruda apicata sp. nov.

Forewhujii : pale wood-brown, sufi'used ;in(l mottled with fuscous ; costa dotted
with brown, and darker towards base ; a thin black line from one-third of inner
margin to near apex, curved upwards beyond the middle, edged on l>oth sides with
a brownisli shade ; a black oblirjue streak from apex : a small black cell-spot ; a faint
brown slightly waved line from near base of inner margin to below cell-spot, there
angled, and becoming obsolete : traces of dark and pale longitudinal lines above it ;
margiual line finely brown : fringe concolorous.

Himhcinf/s : pale brownish, mottled with fuscous ; the inner margin darker :
traces of three curved dark lines towards hindmargin, most distinct towards the
inner margin.

Underside cloudy ochreous, sjieckled with dark fuscous. Head, thorax, and
abdomen pale brownish ochreous, speckled with darker.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One c? from Weenen, Natal, April 1894.

In this species veins 8 and 9 of forewings are on a longer stalk from apex of
areole than in ourvilinea : vein 11 from near its apex.

239. Hebdomophruda curvilinea sp. nov.

Forewi/igs : brownish ochreous, flith a few coarse brown speckles ; a diffuse
brown-black shade in cell below the subcostal ; a similar but more diffuse shade
along inner margin ; a thick brown-black obliijue line from middle of inner margin
to apex, slightly outcurved beyond middle : hindmargin suffused witli brown-black :
fringe with the inner half concisely brown-black, the outer half whitish.

Hindwings : wliitish, with a faint brownish tinge, especially towards the anal
angle.

Underside paler, tinged with yellowish, with the markings as above : hind-
margin of forewings and costa of hindwings l)right rosy. Head, thorax, and abdomen
concolorous with wings ; the thorax usually paler ; the forehead and jjulpi tinged
w4th brown or reddish.

Exjiause of wings : 34 mm.

Four 6 6 from Weenen, Natal : two dated March and two August 1804 ; the
August captures in much better condition than the others.

Subfamily t^ELIDOSEMlNAE.
240. Anonychia diversilinea sp. nov.
Forr.wings : pale wood-brown, finely dusted with fnscous ; the costa dotted with
fuscous ; first Hue oblique outwards, from costa at one-fourth to inner margin at

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(jnite oiie-tliirJjbroacll}- diffused with red-brown externally; onter line al tlnvc-lbnrths,
strongly angled outwards opposite the cell, deeply concave above and below, with a
diffuse broad red-brown inner shade ; cell-spot blackisli, with a brown costal spot
above it ; a brown subapical costal spot ; hindiuargin hardly darker, never with the
distinct grey-brown shade that a])pears iu griaea Butler ; marginal line rLMl-lirown,
distinct ; fringe coucolorous.

Ilindwiitgs : paler brown, with small cell-spot and red-brown postmedian line,
distinct on inner margin and becoming obsolete beyond the cell.

Underside reddish ochreons, with distinct red-brown striae; forewings with black
cell-spot and costal edge of outer line ; hindwiugs with a strongly bent submarginal
brown line. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous.

Kxjianse of wings : cJ, 32 mm.: ?,38mm.

Several from Sikkim (PUcher It'!/.).

Distinguished from .]. t/n.^ca Butler by the browner tint and stronger markings,
and especially by the direction of the first line.

241. Anonychia pallida sjj. nov.

Forewings : whitish ochreons, witli a jiink tinge, and dusted with dark grey ;
first line vertical, faintly curved, brown, edged outwardly with rufous : second line
l)rown, angled ontwards beyond cell towards hindmargin, and concave above and
below, as in A. grisea Butler, with a broad internal shade of olive-fnscons : a small
black cell-spot, and a fnscons spot on costa beyond it ; hindmargin with an ochreous
grey suffusion, containing dark horizontal streaks between the veins connected with
the black marginal line : fringe greyish fuscous.

Hindicings : paler, with a pale brown postmedian line, bent in the middle and
not reaching costa ; traces of a bent and waved submarginal line ; cell-spot grey ;
area within line and before hindmargin tinged witli jiale brownish grey ; marginal
line waved, dark brown ; fringe pale grey.

Underside yellowish, dotted with brown ; inner-marginal area of forewiiigs
I)early white ; a brown submarginal line, most distinct towards costa. Head, thorax,
and abdomen concolorons with wings ; face more whitish ; palpi ferruginous.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

One ? from Simla, April IsiHi.

Arctoscelia gen. nov.

Forewings: elongate; costa curved thronghont ; apex blunt: hindmargin
obliquely roimded, snbcrenulate.

ff/nduings : long, both angles and hindmargin rounded.

Antennae simjde in both sexes, lamellate : forehead hairy; palj)i porrect, short,
densely hairy; a tuft of long hair from abdomen at base of hindwings ; femora and
tibiae of hindlegs clothed with enormous tnfts of hair, as long as the tarsi, and with
four spnrs. Underside of hindwings wholly woolly. The ? is without any hairs
except on pectus.

Neuration : forewings, cell more than half as long as wing; discoccllultir vertical;
first median at three-fourths, second before end, third from end of cell ; radials
normal: veins 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10 and 11 stalked: 11 anastomosing with the costal.
Hindwings with first sulicostal and second median both before the end of cell.

Type : Arctoscelia onusta sp. nuv.

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242. Ai'ctoscelia onusta sp. unv.

cJ. Forewinqs : smoky black, with sliglit pale striatious; the lines deeper bl;icl<.
accompanied by pale dots on the veins ; first line at one-fonrth, angled outwards in
cell and on submcdian fold ; second line at three-fourths, curved parallel to hind-
margin and outwards above inner margin, dentate inwards between the veins, the
outward teeth on the veins followed by whitish spots, that on costa large ; sub-
marginal line wavy, obscure, finely pale : a large diftuse cell-blotcli on the disco-
cellular ; fringe concolorous, subcrenulate ; costa in places speckled with paler.

Hindwings : smoky brown, darker towards hindmargin : fringe dark brown,
paler at base, with a dark marginal line.

Underside of both wings smoky brown, the hiudwiug woolly. ? somewhat
paler and browner ; the underside with the ccll-si)ots and curved postmediam line
blackish. Face, palpi, and thorax blackish, very hairy ; abdomen cinereous browu.
Tufts of the legs in S rufous fuscous.

E.xpanse of wings : 44 mm.

One cJ, two ? ? , from N. Luzon, .5U0U— GOOO feet (Whitehead).

243. Arctoscelia onusta ab. mutata nov.
A pair from the same locality ditier sutticieutly to deserve a separate description.
Gronnd-colour olive-ochreous, thickly dusted with fuscous, the veins ferrnginoas :
costa ferruginous ochreons, thickly dotted with black : the lines black, distinct aud
denticulate, with faint whitish dots on veins ; the discal mark a black ring with
pale centre; snbmarginal line preceded by a coarse black shade, interrupted between
veins 3 and 4; fringe ferruginous, mottled with dark fuscous. Hindwings smoky
brown, as in the typo. Underside of wings, head, and thorax smoky brown, not so
dark as in the type. The yellow veins of the forewings are dotted with black, the
intervals being filled up with smoky fuscous, powdered with fine whitish scales.
Although so different in appearance, there can be no doubt of their being a form of
onmta.

244. Petelia sti'igata sp. nov.

Foreivings : mouse-colour, with numerous dark fuscous striae ; the lines
brown ; first near base at one-fifth, slightly curved ; second similar, before middle,
followed by a distinct dark cell-spot ; third at three-fourths, oblique ; a short
ol)l!quc black streak from apex, continued vertically, then running inwards and
denticulated along the outer line, which it nearly touches ; the space between them
brownish ; a pale grey triangular blotch below apex ; fringe concolorous.

Ilindwinqs : with antemedian and median ciuwed brown lines ; the cell-sjiot
white ; hindmargin darker.

Underside glossy cinereous, witli dark speckles. Face and palpi brown: vertex
white ; thorax and abdomen concolorous with wings.

Expanse of wings : 26 — 28 mm.

Three d S from AVeenen, Natal.

24.3. Petelia strigata ab. pallida nov.
Ground-colour paler, ocbreous grey ; the markings all more distinct : the sub-
marginal line black and denticulate throughout : the triangular jialc spot diiFuse
and inconspicuous ; underside much jialer.

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Three t?c?, one ?, from Natal, collected by A. J. Spiller.

This is probably merely a local form. The ? has the speckliags mach coarser;
one cJ is much suffused in the forewings with rnfous brown.

Subfamily SEJIIOTHIStNiAB.
246. Acadra fulvisparsa sji. uov.

Forewings : white, thickly sprinkled and snft'nsed with ])nrplish grey; the lines
dark purplish brown ; first line from just before the middle of costa to inner m.-irgin
near base, starting from a costal patch ; second line from the same patch, acutely
angled outwards towards apex, then straight and oblique to inner margin close to
first line ; third line from costa at two-thirds, also acutely angled outwards near
hindmargin, tlien straight and oblique, geminated, to inner margin at middle : two
straight submarginal lines from inner margin before anal angle, coalescing and
rnnmng into hindmargin beyond the angle of third line ; a whitish grey-speckled
]iatch at apex, with dark spots on costa and hindmargin ; costal space beyond third
line fnlvous, this colour being irregularly diffused below towards the hindmargin
and along the median nervules : a small dark cell-dot be_vond the first line ; a thick
purplish brown marginal line ; fringe white, much suffused and mottled witli
purplish brown.

Ilindwings : with a dark basal line, a thick antemedian line, double postmedian
and submarginal lines, all straight, purplish bmwn ; the broad central area white,
almost unspeckled, with a black cell-spot ; hindmargin from tooth to anal angle
narrowly white ; marginal line from apex to tooth thick, purple-brown, the fringe
dark ; from tooth to anal angle fine, with the fringe white.

Underside with the markings all suffused dark purj)lish brown, the fulvous
costal patch large and well defined ; head, thorax, and abdomen jmrplish grey,
mixed witli whitish.

Expanse of wings : 36 mm.

One S from Warri, River Niger, February 1890 (Dr. Roth).

The hindmargin of forewings is oblirpie outwards from apex to vein 7, then
oblique inwards, with a shallow double excision between veins 7 and 4.

247. Azata mutabilis s]i. nov.

Forewings : brown, with darker speckles and striae ; the lines ferruginous,
marked with dark brown or black ; first close to base, angled beneath costa ; second
wholly ferruginous and obscure, passing over the cell-spot : outer line at two-thirds,
minutely waved, and curved below costa, sometimes marked with brown-l)lack,
followed by a dull lustrous line and again by a dark shade which contains a black
spot between veins 3 and 4 ; marginal area darker ; an interrupted brown-black
marginal line ; fringe concolorous.

Ilimlicings : without the black s])ot, and with a submarginal ferruginous curved
line.

Underside bright fulvous, with black speckles to the outer line, then dark
brown, with the margin again becoming fulvous. Face, palpi, and vertex dark
brown ; thorax and abdomen grey.

Expanse of wings : <?, 22 mm. ; ? , 24 — 2() mm.

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One c?, 2 ? ?, from Penungali, N.E. Borneo, December 1893, January 1S04
(Cator).

The c? shows hardly a trace of concavity lielow the apex of forewings : one ? has
a sliglit incision ; the other and larger example has it distinct from vein 7 to 4,
the marginal line being wholly black within it. The hindwings are crennlate, with
a blimt angulation in the middle.

248. Azata sororcula sp. nov.

Foretoings : dnll wood-colour, with darker brown irroration ; the lines darker
brown, at one-fonrtli, one-half, and two-thirds respectively, all slightly bent below
costa, then minutely waved to inner margin, parallel to one another ; marginal area
suffused with darker, with a rather large blackish blotch in the middle adjacent to
the outer line ; cell-spot and marginal line dark Iirown ; fringe brown, chequered
with darker, with a pale base and dark median line.

Hindwinc/s : with the cell-spot large ; an antemedian and postmedian line ;
marginal area darker, but without the black blotch.

Underside whitish, with coarse coalescent brown and ochreous sj)eckles ; the
veins ochreous ; marginal area brown, towards the hindmargiu freckled with white
in the lower half of wing. Head, thnrax, and abdomen concolorous.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One ? from Zomba, Upper Shire District, May 1895 (Dr. P. Rendall).

The hindmargin of forewings is slightly bent at vein 4, hardly indented above
and more olili(|ue below : of hindwings snbcrenulate, with a perceptible tooth
at vein 4.

Chorodnodes gen. nov.

Forewings : ample : the costa straight for tive-sixths, then strongly arched
and depressed to vein 8 : hindmargin bluntly elbowed at vein 4, the anal angle
strongly marked.

Hindwings : with the hindmargin excised below apex and forming a large
bluntly bidentate prominence at the ends of veins 6 and 7, and a deep almost
semicircular excision between 6 and 4, thence running nearl}' straight to anal angle,
which is obscurely lobed.

■ Palj)i porrect, moderate ; antennae simple ( ? ).

JWiar/tion : forewings, cell not half as long as wing ; discocellular bent, the
lower arm oblique ; iirst median at two-thirds, second close before end of cell, third
from the end; radials normal; 7, 8, '.» stalked; 10 and 11 stalked. In the
hindwings the subcostals and last two medians rise close together from the ends
of cell.

Type : Chorodnodes rothi sp. nov.

240. Chorodnodes rothi sjt. nov.

Forewings : ochreous whitish, with a dull olive tinge, and speckled with olive
and fuscous; first line at one-sixth, starting from a brown costal spot, running out
along, and bent rectangularly on, the sirbcostal, and incurved from the median;
second line at two-thirds, incurved at costa, then straight to near inner margin before
anal angle ; followed by a smoky olive-brown suffusion, the space immediately

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succeeding the Hue beiusr piilcr and edged by a Hue of dark teetli, ditl'iise above and
becoming black-brown and more distinct towards inner margin, where the line ends
in a dark blotch : siibmarginal line pale, wavy, edged by brown triangular blotciies,
excnrved above towards hindmargin : cell-spot large, curved, brown with black
edges, covering the whole of the discocellular and merged in a brown costal spot
above ; a narrow brown marginal line just before the actual margin, which is of
the pale ground-colour : fringe rufous fuscous, jiale below the apex and at vein 3.

Jfr/ir/trimj.i : with a black cell-spot, preceded by a forked antomcdian brown
line : the pale gronnd-colour becomes smoky olive towards the hindmargin, and
contains a dark brown snbmarginal line from costa before apex, bent in the middle
and incurved and obsolescent towards inner margin : a curved whitish line from anal
angle to hindmargin o])])osite cell : snliapical ])rojection with a large brown white-
edged blotch : marginal line deep brown, leaving, as in forewings, a fine pale space
beyond it, and from costa to vein 7 edged internally by a pale line ; fringe from
apex to projection and in the excision opposite cell dark, the rest pale.

Underside whitish, with coarse olive-fuscous s])eckles ; a broad brown sub-
marginal fascia, its inner edge crenulate, and extending in forewings to hindmargin
opposite the cell, in hindwings filling up the prominence and irregularly broken
1>elow. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous white, speckled with darker.

Expanse of wings : 58 mm.

Two ? ? from Warri, River Niger, April l><m (Dr. Uotli).

This very conspicuous insect is named in ht)nour of tlie collector.

25(t. Gonodela commixta sj). nov.

Forewings : whitish, this ground-colour almost entirely hidden, except towards
apex and hindmargin, by purplish grey and brownish suffusion ; costa j-ellowish
ochreous, with fuscous striae ; the three lines dark brown, .it one-third, one-half, and
two-thirds resjjectively, all bent below costa, tiien oblique and parallel ; a dark,
somewhat irregular, marginal line : fringe dark grey, with a paler base.

Hindwings : with slightly waved antemodiau, postmodiau, and snbmarginal
lines ; both wings with black cell-spot.

Underside whiter, much freckled with fnscons ; a broad snbmarginal fuscous
fascia : forewings with a white subapical spot ; hindwings with the inner-marginal
area whiter : head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One 6 from Warri, River Niger, February 1890 (Dr. Roth).

The hindwings have the hindmargin produced in the middle, and somewhat
convex on either side: antennae filiform, hardly pubescent.

251. Gonodela distingaxenda sj). nov.

Forewings : whitish, uniformly dusted with fuscous atoms ; the marginal area
sufinsed with pale puri)lish grey, which sometimes extends along the iimer margin
and pervades the basal area ; costa grey, mixed with ochreous ; first line at one-
fourth, outcurved from costa, bent above the median, and oblique inwarcts ; median
line generally diftuse, curved just below costa, touching the cell-spot, and incurved
so as to approximate to the inner line below the middle ; outer line bluntly angled
on vein 6, thence minutely waved to inner margin at thrce-fourth> ; submurginal
line obscure, pale grey or whitish, preceded at costa by a triangular fuscous blotch,

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and below the middle by some iiTetriilar-shaped blackish patches ; a pale grey
apical lilotch ; fringe fuscous, mottled with darker, and with a darker central line ;
marginal line blackish, variable in intensity.

Hini/u'im/s : witli thick antemedian line, including the cell-spot, slightly waved
postmedian and pale snbmarginal line, following a blackish shade.

Underside whiter, thickly dusted with darker ; all the veins ochreons : tbe
lines and shades browner, distinct in the ? , paler and mixed with ocbreous in the
J J. Face, ])alpi, and collar dark brown ; vertex and abdomen pale grey ; thorax
fuscous grey.

Expanse of wings : J , -i-i mm. ; ? , 34 mm.

Two SS, one ? , from Weenen, Natal.

A well-marked species, distinguished by the uniform striation and ])uri>lish
grey suffusion.

252. Gonodela duplicilinea sp. nov.

ForetcinffS : greyish white, dusted with dark grey, and partially suffused with
fuscous ; the lines brown, at one-fourth, one-half, and two-thirds ; all angled on the
subcostal, then oblique, slightly waved inwards, the first and second thickened on
costa ; the third double, each arm marked by a black spot at the angle, and by two
on veins 3 and 4 respectively, the upper of the two outer ones being small or
obsolescent, the lower prominent ; a brown costal triangle beyond outer line and a
fuscous cloud on hindmargin opposite cell; cell-spot and marginal dots black; fringe
fuscous, with a dark central line and pale base.

Uin(hmng» : similar, but the second line nearly central, followed by a broad
brownish fascia.

Underside whitisli, with the fascia and veins ferruginous. Head, tlnn-ax, and
abdomen cinereous.

Expanse of wings : 30 — 32 mm.

Four ? ? from Weenen, Natal, October 1S93.

253. Gonodela impar sp. nov.

? . Forewings : white, with scattered fuscous scales ; the costa yellowish, with
dark striae ; first line obscure, curved, close to base; median line bent at costa, then
vertical, touching the black cell-spot, with a blotched inner shade adjacent ; exterior
line at two-thirds, brown, sharply angled outwards on subcostal vein, then vertical
and slightly waved to inner margin at two-thirds ; marginal area suffused with
purplish grey ; a blackish costal streak touching angle of outer line, followed by two
pale blotches, the lower one oblong, distinct, and white ; a triangular whitish spiace
on hindmargin below middle ; blackisli blotches beyond outer line between veins
3 and 5, and on the submedian fold : a crenulate dark grey marginal line ; fringe
white, chequered with grey at ends of veins, altogether grey opposite the cell.

Ilindwings : with thick double antemedian line preceding the black cell-dot,
and wavy subdentate postmedian line : marginal area as in forewings, with one
black blotch between veins 3 and 4.

Underside white, fuscous-speckled, with the markings deep brown ; the ccll-
jxits large. Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish ochreons.

cJ with both wings sufi'used with dark purplish grey, mixed with olive-ochreous.

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scales, the marginal area ileepest ; all the markings can he obseurely traced : iiniler-
side exactly like that of the ? ; head, thorax, and abdomen all dark grey.

Ex])anse of wings : 'iC^ mm.

One (J, one ?, "Warri, River Niger; the o dated February, the ? June, 1896
(Dr. Hoth).

The forewings of the <S are much narrower and more elongate than those of the
? , the hindmargin more oblique and not convex ; the hindwings more rounded, the
tooth at vein 4 not so ])rominent as in ? . Though taken at different dates, and so
dissimilar at first sight in ajipearance, I feel sure they are sexes of the same sjieeies.

The ? is very much like the ? of G. di sting uenda AVarr. from Natal.

2.")4. Gonodela multistrigata sj). nov.

Forf.icings : white, densely striated with fuscous, and with the basal and mar-
ginal areas more or less suffused with fuscous and ochreous scales ; the lines black ;
first at one-fourtli, curved below costa, shortly indented on the median vein, then
obliquely curved inwards ; median line also curved below costa, then obliciue,
sometimes preceded by a dark line in the lower half, sometimes thick and diti'use
throughout : exterior line outcurved from costa, forming a narrow rectangular
projection beyond cell, then irregularly waved to inner margin at two-thirds,
followed below middle by a thick fuscous shade, which leaves two or three spots of
white beyond the line ; this shade becomes black between veins 3 and 4 ; sub-
marginal line obscurely jialer, preceded on costa by a dark blotch : a dark black-
streaked cloud on hindmargin ojiposite the cell : cell-spot black, distinct : all the
lines thickened on costa, the exterior line followed on costa by an oclireous or white
spot ; fringe mottled, dark and light fuscous, with a pale base beyond a line of
black marginal luniiles.

Hindwings : with a dark, sometimes diffuse, antemedian line and a dentate
jiostmedian one : submarginal line pale, preceded by a dark fascia containing black
blotches in the middle ; fringe as in forewings.

Underside white, with coarse dark speckles ; middle and exterior lines isartially
double, the latter followed by a fuscous fascia, which is diffused to hindmargin
opiwsite the cell in both wings, and in the forewings is extended to the apex : the
cell-spots black. Head, thorax, and abdomen cinereous, mottled with fuscous.

Expanse of wings : J , 30 mm. ; ? , 32 mm.

Six examples of both sexes from Weenen, Natal.

255. Gubaria fluidata sp. nov.

Fore-wings : purplish grey ; the basal area browner, edged by a sinuate brown
line, and containing the l)asal line, which is angled below costa : second line brown,
only slightly angled below costa, the angulation filled up by the purplish grey shade,
which protrudes somewhat above the median vein : the white central fascia has
therefore its edges both irregularly curved, instead of straight ; a broad blackish
fascia beyond second line, forming a square black blotch on costa, edged ]>j the paler
but indistinct submarginal line ; marginal area purjilish grey; a dark marginal line;
fringe purplish, flecked with white below apex and above anal angle ; the white
fascia is much freckled with brown towards costa and contains tlic black cell-spot.

Hindwings : with the basal area short, not reaching beyond the middle of inner
margin, the white fascia therefore running to the margin just beyond middle and

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not uaiTOwed off; outer line partly double ; the black markings set in yellow scales:
a small white blotch on hindmargin below the angle.

Underside with the basal area yellow, edged irregularly witli Immwu : the
marginal dark brown area including more than h:ilf the wing in the hindwings, with
the white marginal blotch distinct. Palpi ferruginous : head, thorax, and abdomen
above purplish grey; anal segment of abdomen, sides, and underneath yellow.

Expanse nf wings : 36 mm.

One ? from Penungah, N.E. Borneo, December 1893.

250. Gubaria umbrata sp. nov.

Forewini/s : whitish, irrorated and, except along the sjiace between midille and
outer lines, suffused with dull brown ; first line at one-fourth, obscure, bent below
costa, then oblirpie ; middle line diffuse, passing over the dark cell-spot ; outer line
bluntly angled on vein G, then incurved to inner margin at two-thirds ; the brown
marginal area marked with blackish blotches beyond the line, above inner margin,
between veins 3 and 4, and beyond the angulation ; from this last blotch a ))ale
mark starts towards the apex ; fringe brown, with paler base, beyond a dark brown
marginal line.

Iliiuhriihjfi : with broad diffuse antemedian shade, distinct black cell-spot, and
strongly sinuous brown postmedian line : the dark brown outer third with two
blackish blotches.

Underside whiter, with the same markings : thorax and abdomen concolorous ;
I lead wanting.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One c? from Natal (A. J. Spiller).

The hindmargin of forewiugs is slightly bent at vein 4: of hindwings crenulate,
more strongly above the tooth at vein 4.

257. Luxiaria taeniata sp. nov.

Forewint/s : ochreous, dusted with reddish and fuscous scales : the lines
parallel to hindmargin: first at oue-fourth, bent on subcostal, brownish, interrupted;
median shade diffuse, from a dark grey costal spoi ; outer line marked by distinct
red-brown spots on the veins, bent at vein 6, and sinuate above inner margin,
followed by a broad grey clearly dentated fascia, which is again succeeded by a
more obscure and narrow dentate shade ; fringe ochreous, with a fine reddish
subcrenulate marginal line at base, preceded by distinct reddish dots between the
v(>ins ; cell-spot linear, grey, obscure.

Hindwings : the same, but the cell-sjiot black, round, and distinct.

Underside whitish straw-colour, with the markings deep brown ; a dentate
submarginal fascia, touching the margin beyond the cell, and precedi^d by the dotted
outer line ; cell-s])ot and lower part of median shade expressed. Face and palpi
ferruginous ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

One ? from W;irri, River Niger, June ISiKi (Dr. Roth).

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Peridela gen. nov.

The species referred to tliis geuiis bear t(i iionodi'la the same rehitioii that
Tepltrina Dnj). does to Te.phrinojjsix Warr., the antennae of the S being pectinated
instead of simj)!)- pubescent. At present they are all African insects.

Type : Peridela crassata sp. nov.

258. Peridela crassata sp. nov.

Foieir//t(/s: greyish white, tliickly ilusted with fnsc-ons atoms, the marginal
area suifused with grey aud fnscons ; the lines darker ; first from one-fourth of costa
to inner margin near base, curved below costa ; middle line from nearly two-thirds
of costa to inner margin before middle, nearly straight and mncli thickened below
middle ; onter line at three-fourths, black, slightly curved below costa, oblique and
irregularly waved to twtvthirds of inner margin, finely edged externally with paler,
and followed by a dark fuscous shade, which is black at osta and between veins
3 and 4, and is edged by pale grey scales forming the submarginal line : cell-spot black ;
veins towards liindmargin ochreous : fringe fuscous, with a pale base, anil a line of
Ijlackish lunules along margin.

Ilindwings : with thick antemedian and wavy postmediau blackish lines : a
black blotch between veins 3 and 4 in the dark marginal area. In the J the central
area between the middle and outer lines is decidedly paler than the rest of the wing ;
in the S the difference is scarcely perceptible.

Underside paler, with the markings more distinct. Head, thorax, and abdomen
fuscous grey.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One J, one ?, from Mpeta, Loangwa River, December IfJO.'i (Coryndon).

2-50. Peridela curvifascia sji. nov.

Forewings: whitish, speckled and snlfused with fuscous aud lirowu, except a
curved and sinuous i)ale fascia between the middle and outer Hues, which is speckled
only; a dark dot near base ; a curved aud wavy first line at one-third; a sinuous
oblique median line from costa beyond middle to inner margin ratlier before middle:
outer line similar, but broken, followed by a diffuse dark Ijrown shade : the apex
paler ; a black cell-si>ot.

Hindiring.i: similar, without first line: fringes mottled whitish and brown.
with a dark crennlate basal line.

Underside similar, but duller. Head, thorax, aud abdomen darjv fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One S from Mpeta, Loangwa River, December ISfi.j (Coryndon).

260. Peridela interrupta sp. uov.

Forewinqs : white, with jjalo brown suffusion, and dusted with fuscous ; the
markings dark brown and blackish, distinct ; costa suffused narrowly wif h fuscous ;
first line at (jne-fourth, bent below costa ; median line shortly beyond it, curved ;
both starting from a dark brown costal spot : outer line from an oTilique costal
streak, sharply pomted at its extremity, interrupted by the i)ale ground-colour below
subcostal ; its lower two-thirds curved, dark lirown, followed on costa by a brownish

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triangnlar spot with dark brown outer edge, and below by a thick blackish and
fuscous shade, which forms an acute tooth outwards below vein 4 : a small dark spot
before apex, and a brownish triangular cloud on hindmargin below apex : fringe
fuscous, with pale basal line.

Ilimlwings : with dark brown antemedian and postmedian lines, nearly straight
and approximating on inner margin ; the space between them white, with a clear
dark cell-spot ; postmedian line followed by a broad fuscous shade containing a
narrow black blotch iu middle : submarginal shade white : marginal area striated
with fuscous.

Underside the same, but less distinct. Face and palpi dark brown: thorax and
abdomen fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

Three S <S from Weeuen, Natal.

261. Peridela triumbrata sp. nov.

Forewings : whitish ochreous, witii thick and coarse fuscous strigulation : the
costa and veins tinged ^nth yellowish : the lines thick and diffuse, dark brown ; first
at one-fourth, angled on the subcostal vein, then oblique to inner margin near base,
much thickened below the median ; second from middle of costa, which it does not
appear to touch, to inner margin just beyond first line ; outer line from costa at
two-thirds, finer, angled outwards on vein 6, then oblique to inner margin bej-ond
middle, followed on costa by a brown blotch, and below the angle by a brown shade,
which broadens to the inner margin and is bounded by the pale indistinct sub-
marginal line ; marginal line dark brown, crenulate : fringe ochreous, with dark
mottlings ; cell-spot l)rown, touching middle line.

Ilimlwings : with single antemedian, double postmedian, and waved submarginal
brown lines ; cell-spot distinct, blackish.

Underside with the markings all paler. Face, palpi, collar, and vertex brown,
with ochreous scales ; thorax and abdomen ochreous, with brown scales intermixed.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One 6 from Penaug.

Much resembling /'. intern</j/'/ from Xatal, but without the strong black outer
tooth.

262. Petrodava(?) nigi'ipuncta sp. nov.

Fore/rings : yellow, sutt'nsed with deeper yellow or dull orauge : costa minutely
dotted with purplish ; a purplish black costal spot before apex, accompanied by
three or four black striae ; fringe deep yellow.

Hindwiiigs : wholly yellow. Both wings with deeper yellow cell-spot.

Underside wholly yellow. Head, thorax, and abdomen all yellow.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One ? marked simply Australia.

A species of very doubtful location until the 3 is known.

263. Rhinodia(?) sordidata sji. nov.

Forewiiigs : dull ochreons grey, with dark grey striations ; an indistinct central
shade, passing over the dark cell-spot ; a diffuse curved dark shade at five-sixths
running to anal angle ; a dark marginal line ; fringe grey.

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Eindnings : the same.

Underside paler, ochreons dusted with brown ; the submarginal shade brown
and ranch more distinct. Face and thorax brownish grey ; palpi and antennae
paler : abdomen wanting.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One ? from Natal (A. J. Spiller).

The antennae are thick and slightly subserrate : palpi j)orrect, as long as io
Rhinorfia Gnen., to which genus, in the absence of the (J, it may be provisionally
referred.

2(i4. Semiothisa parallacta sp. nov.

Forewings : sandy ochreous, thickly dusted with olive-fuscous, and with a
darker tint towards hindmargin : costa dotted with lilack, and with a black spot at
origin of inner and outer lines, and two more before apex : lines olive-fnscons, all
angnlated below costa, then oblique and parallel to hindmargin, at one-fourth, one-
half, and three-fonrths respectively : the onter line more strongly angled beyond
cell, and marked with blackish above and below the angle, the angle itself partially
obliterated by a pale streak towards apex ; submarginal line waved, indistinct ; a
line of brown dashes along hindmargin between the veins, which are paler : cell-spot
faint, brown : fringe ochreous grey, with a paler basal line.

Ilindwings : with antemedian line curved round the black cell-spot, wavy post-
median line, and two submarginal dark shades, the inner one with some black scales
or spots upon it.

Underside straw-colonr, thickly mottled with brown ; the veins and costa yellow,
the latter striped with black ; forewings with an interrupted brown marginal fascia:
lines brown, intcrrnpted. Head and thorax like wings ; abdomen paler ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 27 mm.

One i from Zomba, Upper Shire River, 3000 feet, December 1S95 (Dr. P.
Kendall).

Hindmargin of forewings entire, of hindwings bluntly toothed.

265. Tephrina deerraria Wlk. ab. (?) dissocia uov.

All the markings much less varied and distinct than in the type ; the outer line
less sinuous ; the marginal area beyond it uniformly fuscous ; the two inner lines
obscnre, and often obsolete.

One cJ, two ? ? , from Weenen, Natal, January to March 1S94.

A much neater-looking form than the type, and possibly distinct.

2(iii. Tephrina furcata sj). nov.

(J. Foi-ewings : sandy ochreous, dusted with darker; the three lines oblique,,
and distinct only towards inner margin, at one-fourth, one-half, and three-fourths
respectively ; the first and third brown towards inner margin, the first edged
internally, and the third externally, with i>aler : the middle line diffuse, dark
ochreous ; the outer line is bent before apex and retracted to costa, -the angle
marked by two small black spots, and throwing oft' to hindmargin below apex a pale
oblique streak ; the onter line is followed by a darker ochreous shade, edged by the
obscurely paler nearly straight submarginal line : fringe concolorons ; the marginal
line finely brown, with darker dots at ends oi' veins.

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Hindicings : with a straight brownish, externally pale-edged, line from inner
margin before anal angle to costa at two-thiVds, before whicli it is retracted : a small
black cell-spot.

Underside duller, with the outer line and shade alone marked.

? paler, towards the hindmargin dusted with blackish scales : first and second
Hues nearly obsolete ; third more curved, pale ochreons throughout, on the inner
margin edged inwardly with black scales, and with a black spot on each side between
veins 3 and 4 ; the black spots at the angle plainer.

Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons with wings.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One c?, one ?, from Weenen, Xatal, October 1895.

The hindmargin of forewings is almost imi)erceptibly indented at vein 7, thence
curved obliipiely to anal angle. In the hiudwings the hindmargin is nearly straight
from anal angle to vein 4, where it is faintly bent, and slightly crennlate between
4 and fi, fi and T, at which last vein it is again bent.

267. Tephrina geminata sp. uov.

Forewings : ochreons, finely dusted with fuscous ; the costa brownish ; first
line at one-fourth, brown, curved below costa, then oblique : outer line oblique from
before ajiex to beyond middle of inner margin, followed by a brownish fascia,
marked with darker opposite the cell ; an indistinct double submarginal streak ; a
row of dark marginal spots between the veins : fringe ochreons and fnscons.

Hhnhcinys : with the outer lines much paler ; both wings with a small black
cell-spot.

Underside the same, but much jialer. Face and paljii brown : thorax and
abdomen ochreons.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

Two cJJ, one ?, from Weenen, Natal, October 1893.

26S. Tephrina inconspicvia sji. nov.

Forew/ngs : very pale sandy ochreons, with darker ochreons irroration ; costa
dotted with pale fuscous ; first line at one-fourth, second at two-thirds, faintly
darker, both bent below costa, then straight and slightly oblique, the second followed
by a slightly darker fascia ; marginal line pale brown ; fringe concolorous ; cell-spot
ochreons.

Hint/wings : with cell-sjiot minutely black, the outer third of wing beyond the
faint postmedian line darker.

Underside still paler, with the markings faintly visible. Head, thorax, and
abdomen concolorous ; shaft of antennae white.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One cJ from Weenen, Natal.

260. Tephrinopsis cong'ener sp. nov.

Forewings : whitish ochreons, thickly irrorated with dark ochreons : the costa
narrowly brown ; traces of a curved brown line at one-fourth ; a dark linear cell-
spot ; outer line at five-sixths, slightly curved below costa, thick, brown, followed
by a fine indistinct line : area beyond suffused with deeper ochreons : a fine brown
marginal line ; fringe ochreons.

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Hindivings : similar : the onter line tbinuer, and obsolescent above middle.
Underside yellower : the veins ocbreons ; mar<.anal area tinged with rnfons.
Face, jialjii, and collar dark brown : vertex, tborax, and abdomen like wings.
Expanse of wings : 20 mm.
One d from North Lnzon, .60uO— GOOO feet ("Whitehead).

2711. Tephrinopsis marmorata -^p. nuv.

Forewings : pale ochreons or bone-colonr, varied with fnscous striae and atoms;
the lines dark fnscons or blackish ; first at one-fonrth, bent below costa, then
obliqne : second central, straight and obliqae : third blackish, at two-thirds, angled
beyond cell, then incurved to inner margin at two-thirds, followed by a brown shade
marked with black patches, which is again edged by the pale ochreoxTS snbmarginal
line, which ends in a pale triangular apical patch ; the margin beyond it darker,
with thicker striae ; marginal line concise, brown : fringe pale fnscous, except at
extreme ajiex, where it becomes ochreons.

Ilindtcings : with cell-dot and postmedian line brown, the latter followed by a
pale brown shade, sometimes marked with dark spots.

Underside duller. Face, vertex, and collar dull brown : thora.x and 'abdomen
ochreons, spotted with brown.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

Both sexes from Weenen, Natal, October 1893 to January 18'.)4.

The species varies much.

The above description was made from a dark specimen: the palest aberration,
for which I ])ropose the name pallidu, is yellowish ochreons, with all the markings
faintly fulvous, and no dark dusting whatever, and all intermediate forms occur.
The fringes vary from fnscons to ochreou.s, or ochreons chequered with darker.

27 1. Tycoonia natalensis sp. nov.

$. Forewings: olivc-ochreous, striated and sutFused with rufous and fuscous,
the whole marginal area being ferruginous brown : first line at one-fonrth, bent
below costa, rufous, starting from a fuscous costal mark ; median shade diffuse,
including the small black cell-spot : outer line at two-thirds, indented basewards
beyond cell and on submedian fold : snbmarginal line wavy, indistinct, the marginal
area within it deeper coloured tlian that beyond it ; a dark blotcli at anal angle :
fringe rufous, pinkish white towards apex.

Ilindwings : similar ; the median line less diffuse ; the submarginal marked by
black blotches below apex.

Underside bright yellow, with fuscous striutions : forewings with some red
scales in the submedian area ; marginal area bright ferruginous, tinged with yellow
on costa, and with a whitish smear below apex ; in the hindwings with a yellow
patch in middle of hindmargin. Face and paljii dull brown ; tliorax and abdomen
like ground-colour of wings.

? . Pale yellow, finely speckled with brownish ; tiic lines all fine, only the onter
one distinct, and without the indentations that are visible in the S ; ma'i'ginal area
hardly darker, suffused and speckled with dark towards apex and anal angle ; fringe
yellow.

Underside yellow, with the marginal area pale ferruginous along the outer line :
the head, thorax, and abdomen all vellow.

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Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

One (J, one ? , from Natal (A. J. Spiller).

The hindwings are slightly truncate at apex, the hindmargiu bluntly crenulate
in its upper half. In Fetrodava Mosignata, from the West Coast of Africa, the
upper half of hindmargin is strongly dentate, witli deep incisions between the
teeth.

The forewings of the t? have a long double fovea between the submedian fold
and vein, partially visible above ; the cell in both sexes more than one-third as long
as wing.

Subfamily ENNOMINAE.

27:,'. Azelinopsis brunnea sp. nov.

Forewings : ochreons, tinged with ferruginous, thickly dusted and, except
towards apex and costa, nearly entirely suffused with fuscous brown ; a diffuse
oblique blackish first line at one-third, and a still more diffuse reddish brown shade
in middle just beyond an angulated hyaline mark on tlie discocellular ; outer line
finer, nearly straight and oblique at three-fourths, bluntly angulated below and
retracted to costa, followed by a black spot between veins 3 and 4 ; fringe
concolorous.

Hiiuliciiijjs : similar ; but the central shade bejori: the tritid hyaline cell-mark,
which is closely followed by the straight and double outer line ; the black spot
further from the line than in forewings.

Underside much paler, with fulvous suffusion and fuscous sjieckling. Head
dark rufous ; thorax and abdomen deep brown.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One S from Assaba, River Niger (Dr. Crosse).

Much smaller, but in shape and markings agreeing well with Azelhwp&is
externa Warr. from Mackay, Queensland. This $ has the antennae armed with
short thick pectinations.

Cenoctenucha gen. nov.
Like OduntOjjera Stph., but with simple, not pectinated antennae, in the ^J.
Tyjie : C. similaria Moore.

273. Cenoctenucha imitata sp, nov.

Almost exactly like 0</oHtopera hilinearia Swinli., but the ground-colour
slightly yellower ; the lines dark grey ; first at one-third, curved and bent on the
median and submedian veins ; the second faintly dentate and evenly curved from
costa to inner margin ; the first preceded and the second followed by pale spots on
the veins ; a straight oblique dark grey submarginal shade beyond second line ;
this submarginal shade is distinct on the underside, liut is wanting in bilinearia ;
the S antennae being simjde and not pectinated will serve to distinguish it.
Cenoctenucha urmilarin Moore has two deep excavations in the hindmargin between
the apex and central angle ; C. lentiginosaria Swinh. has the same portion of the
hindmargin perfectly straight : the present species shows two faint curves with a
slight tooth between them, exactly as in 0. bilinearia Swinh., with which it also
agrees in size.

A few examples from the Khasias.

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Cophophlebia gen. uov.

Forewings : ynth. costa nearlj- straight, curved slightly at base and towards
apex ; apex rectangnlar ; hiudmargin obliiine to vein 3, where it is faintly elbowed
and more oblique below.

Hindwimjs : with apex snbtrnncate, slightly elbowed at veins 7 and 3, and
])rodnc('d at anal angle.

Palpi porrect, short ; tongue minute ; antennae of d strongly bipectinate ;
hind tibiae flattened and slightly thickened, with four spurs.

Neuration : forewings, cell three-fifths of wing ; discocellular vertical above
concave below ; first median at five-sixths, second aud third from end of cell ; lower
radial from above the centre of discocellular, upper from upper end of cell ; veins
8 and 9 stalked from before end of cell; 7 missing; 10 and 11 stalked and
anastomosing shortly with the costal. Hindwings with first subcostal and second
median both before ends of cell ; radial from above centre of discocellular.

Type : Coplwjjhlebia olivatn sp. uov.

274. CophopMebia olivata sp. nov.

Forewings : yellowish olive-green ; costa pearl-grey ; the Hnes deeper green ;
first at one-third, bent below costa, then oblique inwards, edged internally with
pearl-grey ; second at four-fifths of costa, angled outwards above vein 0, then
oblique inwards, slightly sinuous to submedian vein, where it curves more obliquely
to inner margin near middle ; it is edged outwardly with pearl-grey, aud preceded
by a fainter sinuous green line : traces of an oblique median line ; submargiual line
hardly visible ; some dark striae above anal angle ; fringe green, becoming brown
at anal angle.

Ilindicings : with straight diffuse median line; fine slightly wavy postmedian
line, edged with pearl-grey; some dark striae towards base of wing.

Underside much yellower, the markings dark green : marginal area tinged with
grey. Head and thorax olive-green : abdomen (apjiareutly) more ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

One S from Zomba, Upper Shire River, 3000 feet, December 18y5 (Dr. P.
Kendall).

Superficially somewhat resembling the species of the Indian genus Mimockroa
Warr.

275. Corymica immaculata sp. nov.

Forewings : yellow, with very faint, hardly darker, irroration ; costa minutely
dotted with brown, and with a brown streak from base to second line ; the three
lines distinct, ferruginous ; first at one-fourth, bent in cell ; second before middle of
costa, strongly bent, or angled outwards be3'ond the small black cell-spot, and obliqne
inwards to before middle of inuer margin, where it ends in a small white spot ; third
line from before apex, where it is narrowly forked, to two-thirds of iiui,er margin,
sinuous ; fringe yellow, witli the base brownish and tips whitisli : no dark spots on
inner margin.

Ilindicings : with antemedian and postmediau pale ferruginous lines ; a small
black cell-spot ; marginal area rather deeper coloured.

Underside yellow, with numerous ferruginous striae ; the lines ferruginous, the

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outer one thickened : npper half of marg-inal area with ferrugiaous striae massed
together, and also below the lower end of cell. Palpi aad lower half of face
j-ellowish : upper half of face and vertex shining white ; collar ferruginous ; thorax
and abdomen yellow.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

A pair from Sikkim, April and May 1880 (Pilcher %.).

Distinguished by the distinct lines, and the sinuous Kiicrnnidatrd margins of the
wings.

Eurythecodes gen. nov.

Foreicinys : broad, the costa arched throughout ; apex slightly produced : hind-
margin bluntly elbowed at vein 4, oblique below, slightly concave above ; anal angle

blunt.

Hindmnqs : with a small tooth at vein 4, the margin somewhat convex on
either side ; both angles well marked.

Palpi porrect, rough beneath, hardly reaching beyond face ; antennae of ?
shortly and evenly pectinated.

Neurat>07i : forewings, cell very broad, about half as long as wing; discocellular
with lower arm oblique ; first median at two-thirds, second well before end, third
from end of cell ; radials normal ; veins 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10 and 11 coincident, anasto-
mosing at a jioint with costal, and not separating till near costa.

Type : Einyt/iecodes nigricola sp. nov.

Akin to Spilopcra and its allies.

276. Eurythecodes nigi'icola sp. uov.

Forcicinqs : jJale ochreous, thickly dusted with rust-coloured atoms, the basal
and marginal areas darker: first line at one-third, rectangularly bent on the subcostal
vein and vertical to inner margin ; second line from two-thirds of inner margin,
curved towards apex, but retracted to costa, and joined at the angle by a short
oblique streak from apex ; this line is edged outwardly, and the first inwardly, by a
diffuse brown shade ; a minute dark cell-spot ; fringe concolorons.

Hindtcings : with the dark line central, i)receded by the small cell-spot.

One of the two examples is wholly suffused with fuscous grey, having the outer
line bent as well as curved, and the marginal area much darker, showing traces of a
paler waved submarginal shade between darker clouds towards inner margin.

Underside paler, with the line of the hindwings doubled towards costa. Head,
thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings.

Expanse of wings : 30—32 mm.

Two ? ? from Warri, River Niger, February 1896 (Dr. Roth).

277. Eurythecodes straminea sji. nov.
Forewhigs : straw-colour, dotted with rufous aud fuscous scales ; costa spotted
with dark ; first line at one-third, obscure, pliuubeons, bent outwards, with ferru-
ginous marks on the veins on its oiitside edge ; outer line from two-thirds of inner
margin, straight and oblique towards apex, angled ou vein 7 and retracted to costa,
plumbeous, preceded by a row of red dots on veins ; some fuscous and rufous dots
forming a shade from apex to angle of this line; a vertical greyish streak from inner
margin before anal angle ; fringe grey; a minute black cell-dot.

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Jlindnimjs : with an angiilated median line, jdimibeons, edged inwardly by a
tliin rnst-colonred line, and preceded by a black cell-sjiot : marginal area somewhat
clouded with darker, with traces of a dark blotch beyond the angle of the line.

Underside less speckled, the lines obscurer. Head, thorax, and abdomen straw-
colour.

Expanse of wings : 36 mm.

One ? from Warri, Hiver Niger, February 1896 (Dr. lloth).

2T8. Fasceliina aurifera sp. nov.

Foreu-ings : dull purplish brown, striated in j)arts with darker, and with paler
ochraceons tints ; an oblique dark line at one-third, bent at costa ; an oblique diffuse
dark median shade; costa between these two lines with a shallow pinkish grey patch,
irrorated with dark ; some gilded ochreons scales below it ; a wavy dark brown outer
line from inner margin at two-tliirds, retracted to costa and acutely angled outwards
below apex ; the costa beyond it pinkisli grey ; a broad gilded ochreons submarginal
shade ; margin itself and fringe brown ; the excisions on outer and inner margins
very shallow and inconspicuous.

Hindicimis : brownish ochreons, with scattered dark striae ; a very wavy dark
postmedian line, preceded by a dull burnished central fascia ; an obscurely waved
dark submarginal line ; margin and fringe deep brown.

Underside of forewings ochreons and yellow, thickly covered with fine jiurple
striae ; the costa yellow ; the central baud vinous red ; outer line and marginal area
red-brown ; submarginal shade gilded yellow : hiudwiugs deep 3'ellow, with purplish
striae along costa, and two wavy and interrupted postmedian purjjlish lines,
coalescing towards inner margin ; hindmargin irregularly purple. Pectus and basal
half of abdomen below yellow. Face and palpi red-brown ; thorax black-brown,
paler in front ; abdomen cinereous, becoming very deep fuscous towards apex.

Expanse of wings : 3s mm.

One c? from Jlouut Mulu, North Borneo (Hose).

279. Heterolocha spurcata sp. nov.

Forewings : yellowish ochreons, with numerous dark fuscous transverse strigae;
first line from a large costal blotch at one-third to inner margin at one-fourth, dark
fuscous ; second line from five-sixths of costa to inner margin at two-thirds, with a
large dark fuscous and black blotch beyond it between veins 2 and 4.

Ilindirings : with a dark curved submarginal line.

Underside the same. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

One ? from Weenen, Natal.

The only example is very mucli worn, and the description is necessarily some-
what deficient.

280. Heteromiza vinilinea sj). nov.

Forewings: fawn-colour, with fine fuscous irroration ; an oblique exterior pale
line, edged internally with red-brown and marked by minute dark dots on the veins,
simply curved below costa, not angulated as in JI. caatanearia Moore, from costa
shortly before apex to inner margin at two-thirds, produced across hindwings as a
median line ; fringe of both wings concolorous ; no cell-spots or inner line.

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Underside of both wings paler, -witli a curved brown line beyond middle ; liind-
wings with a largish brown cell-spot. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons ;
abdomen below whitish.

Expanse of wings : 39 mm.

One 5 from Lomi)a-Battan, South Celebes, 3U00 feet, March 1896 (Frnh-
storfer).

The neuration of forewings differs from that of //. castanearia Moore ; veins lU
and II both rise from cell, 10 anastomoses with 11 and again with the stalk of 8, 9.

281. Hyposidra albifurcata sp. nov.

Foreicinys : dnll smok}- black, with deep black cell-spot ; at two-thirds of costa
a white fascia rises, widening downwards to vein 3, and there bifitrcating to inner
and hindmargin : ti[) of wing white ; fringe black, except at end of the white streak.

Ilindicini/s : with tlie streak beginning broader, its edges diverging nniformlv to
either side of anal angle, so forming a conical fiiscia, with two or three black spots
Bear anal angle.

Underside duller. Head, thorax, and abdomen all black.
' Exjtanse of wings : 42 mm.

One c? from Bongao, Snlu Islands.

282. Hyposidra prunicolor sp. nov.

Forewhiqa : purplish grey, tinged in parts with brown; the markings indistinct;
traces of a darker basal patch, edged by a bent pale fascia; a shining greyish denticu-
late curved line at two-thirds ; marginal area with a diffuse dentate-edged shining
grey fascia, narrowing towards anal angle.

Hindwings : with a dark diffuse antemedian line, a pale waved and curved
postmediau line, and a pale grey cloirdy fascia from costa close to this last line
and runniog to anal angle.

Underside dull purplish brown, with the lines dark brown. Head, thorax, and
abdomen concolorons ; the face darker brown.

Expanse of wings : 70 mm.

One S from Stephansort, German New Guinea (Cotton and Webster).

Forewings with the apex not so much ])roduced, but the projection deeper
vertically: the hindmargin simply incurved, not excised, below vein 6, and bowed to
anal angle.

283. Hyposidra variabilis ab. siccifolia nov.

Forewings : brownish ochreons, with dark brown transverse striae, the base
suffused with fuscous ; a straight, inwardly oblique, dull red-brown streak across
centre of wing : an indistinct curved dark brown exterior shade ; some brown clouds
towards apex and anal angle.

Hindwings : with diffuse dark brown curved antemedian and postmediau
"bands ; marginal area broadly dark brown : both wings with black cell-spot : fringes
dark brown.

Underside like upper, with the markings less distinct ; ajjcx of forewings pale
grey. Head, face, and thorax dark brown ; abdomen paler.

Expanse of wings : 70 mm.

One ? from Cedar Bay, south of Cooktown, Queensland (A. S. Meek).

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2^4. Nothomiza costalis Moore ab. intensa uov.

All the yellow tints of both wings are replaced by pink, except in the centre of
the costal blotches : the rest of the wings is filled liy dark grey scales, the veins
remaining pink.

The example is a <?, taken in the Khasias, dated May 1896.

285. Omiza chlorophora >i). nov.

Forewings : pale pinkish dral), towards hindmargiii snffiised with darker, and
sprinkled thronghont with nnmerons striae of contiguons blackish atoms ; centre of
wing occupied by an olive-green furcate fascia ; the inner edge strt)ngly carved
outwards from one-fourtli of costa to middle of inner margin, tlie outer irregularly
sinuate from costa at four-fifths to inner margin at two-thirds, the fascia thus being
very narrow on inner margin (and still more constricted on the submedian fold) and
very wide on costa ; this costal portion containing a triangular space of the ground-
colour, which almost interrupts the outer fork by a streak from its apex ; the space
immediately round the fascia is paler and not striated: fringe ochreous grey.

Ilindivings : with costal area ochreous ; two small roundish green blotches in
middle between median vein and inner margin ; fringe yellowish.

Underside uniform bright orange-fulvous. Face fuscous ; thorax and abdomen
concolorous with wings.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One c? from Wetter, May 1892 (W. Uoherty).

286. Omiza informis sp. nov.

Forewings : reddish fawn-colour, speckled with black ; first line absent ; second
obscure, and shown mainly by the diiFerence of colour, from nearly two-thirds of
inner margin towards apex, where there is a pale spot ; the central area is rather
deeper coloured than the basal and marginal areas, especially towards the costa ;
jnst beyond the oblique line is a faint wavy line, which diverges from the second
line towards inner margin ; cell-spot black ; fringe deeper red.

Ilindieings : with costal area pale ochreous : a postmedian bent line, darker
on the inner half, followed Itetween veins 2 and 3 and 3 and 4 by small pale spots
edged outwardly with darker.

Underside paler, brighter pink mixed with yellowish, freckled with fnscons
and reddish ; the cell-spots black ; forewings with inner margin whitish, and
a yellowish fascia from inner margin beyond outer line as far as vein 4. Face and
palpi deep red ; thorax and abdomen like wings ; vertex paler.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm

One <i from Chandkhira, Sylhet.

This must be very closely related to 0. ynascicolor Warr. from the Karen HilLs,
the type of which is a ? in Mr. Elwes' collection, but 1 can scarcely think them
identical.

287. Platycerota crinita si', nov.

Foreivings : reddish testaceous, speckled with black ; lines red-brown ; first
at one-fourth, vertical, slightly wa%-ed and bent at costa : second from apex to
middle of inner margin, straight and oblique, followed by two white or whitish oval

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spots obliquel}' beneath each otiier at apex ; a small blark cell-dot ; fringe con-
colorons, the basal half darker, beyond a fine dark marginal line.

llindivings : with minute black cell-spot and central red-brown line ; the
marginal half paler, less reddish.

Underside the same, but paler and duller. Face, palpi, and vertex red-brown,
as is the base of costa of forewiugs ; thorax and abdomen concolorous with wings.

Expanse of wings : 36 — 39 mm.

Two c?(? from North Luzon, .5000-0000 feet (Whitehead).

The two species placed together by Hampson under Plat'/fei-ofa (Faun. Brif.
Ind. Motlis,^o\. III. p. l.j.j) differ from each other in the neuration, and the present
species differs from both : vein 11 of forewings anastomoses with 12 ; 7, 8, 9, 10 are
stalked together ; 10 anastomoses with 11 after its anastomosis with 12, and again
anastomoses with 8 and 9. A further poiut of difference consists in the presence of
a tuft of hair on the submedian nervure of the forewiugs of the S on the underside.

Procypha gen. nov.

Forewings : elongate, with costa straight till near before apex, then suddenly
deflexed ; apex square, bluntly subfalcate (there l)eiug a small tooth at the end of
vein 7, below which the hindmargin, which is shortly vertical above it, is faintly
incurved), bulged below middle, and again rather incurved before anal angle ; inner
margin sinuous, convex at base and anal angle, with a long concavity between ; the
anal angle loljed.

Hindwi7igs : with costa sinuate ; strongly shouldered near base, then concave,
and convex again to end of the costal vein, from which to vein 7 it is strongly
concave, the apex at vein 7 being acutely prominent ; the hindmargin below it like
that of forewiugs.

Palpi porrect, hairy, the third joint short ; antennae of ? moderately pectinated.

Neuration : forewiugs, cell about half as long as wing ; discocellular vertical
above, oblique below ; first median at five-sixths, second only just before end of
cell, third from the end : radials normal ; last three snbcostals stalked ; first two
coincident and free. Hindwings with costal apjjroximated to subcostal for Imt a
short distance, then abruptly curved away ; the two snbcostals and last two medians
from the ends of cell ; discocellular strongly inangulated. Ovipositor of ? exserted.

Type : Procyjiha vwculosata sp. nov.

Allied to Proboloptera, Meyr. from Australia.

288. Procypha maculosata sp. nov.

Forewiugs : dull brick-red, with a few scattered black scales; costa grey at base;
first line blackish, but obscure and interrupted, from costa at one-third to inner
margin at one-fourth, angled in cell, thence oblique, with dark dots on veins ;
exterior line at two-thirds, starting from a black blotch, angled on vein 6, thence
oblique to inner margin beyond middle, with two confluent black blotches on it,
one on each side of vein 3 ; submarginal line denoted by two black blotches on
either side of vein 6 and a large blotch at anal angle.

Him/wings : without lines ; with a few dark atoms, and a large black blotch
beyond cell ; fringe of both wings brighter red.

Underside the same. Face, palpi, and abdomen above reddish ; thorax and
abdomen below paler.

Expanse of wings : .52 mm.

One ? from the Cape of Good Hope.

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289. Sirinopteryx nifivinctata Wlk. ab. interfuscata nov.

In this example the cell of forewings and the interspaces between the veins
be3"ond the middle of hotli wings are neatly filled np wth fawn-colonred scales,
the veins themselves remaining broadly yellow : the fringe also is fawn-colonred
beyond the yellow basal line. This suffusion is rather more extensive in the left
forewing than in the right, whereas in the hindwings the reverse is the case.
Underside equally suffused with the upper.

One ? from tlie Khasias, May 1896.

An example of the common liumia crutne(jntu Linn., now in tlie Tring Museum,
affords another illustration of this individual development of coloration.

2'.i(i. Zamarada auratisquama sj). nov.

Forewings : semihyaline, densely striated with transverse grey-green scales ;
the costa gilded yellow, with fuscous marks : marginal area bright red-brown on
a yellow ground, its inner edge pale yellow and mucli waved, and with a paler
yellowish submarginal waved line : fringe yellowish, chequered with red-brown and
blackish ; a dark streak on discocellular.

Hindwings : the same.

Underside more strongly iridescent ; the marginal area yellowish, with a
red-brown submarginal fascia. Face and palpi ochreous ; thorax dull green ;
abdomen greenish, with pinkish grey dorsal patches.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

One S from Warri, Eiver Niger, February 1896 (Dr. Roth).

2!.)1. Zamarada flavicosta sji. nuv.

Forewings : ])ale iridescent green, with no basal dark scales ; a small black
cell-dot ; a few dark scales on the veins towards and on inner margin; costa yellow,
with a few dark scales : marginal area pinkish grey, separated from the hyaline
space by a crenulated yellow-edged black line, sinuate outwards between veins 2 and
4, and traversed along its centre by a straight row of five red-brown triangles : two
more above the anal angle ; fringe yellow, with two dark marks below ai>ex and
three above anal angle, wholly yellow ojqiosite the cell ; marginal line subcrenulate,
reddish brown.

Hindwings : the same, but with only three reddish triangles below the costa
towards apex.

Underside with the marginal area dark jiurjilish fuscous, almost black. Face,
palpi, thorax, and abdomen ochreous : the last tinged with reddish grey.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

One (?, two ? ? ,from Warri, Uiver Niger, February 1890 (Dr. Roth).

One of the ? ? has the sinus iu the forewings bilobed and shallow; the S and
the other ? show a deep and broad angulation ; but this is probably ouly an
accidental difference.

292. Zamarada nasuta sp. nov.

Forewings ; pale yellowish green, iridescent and transparent ; the costa
yellowish ; a red-brown patch at base ; hindmargin purplish grey, with darker
specks, bounded by a dark line from three-fourths of costa to three-fourths of inner

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margin, but forming a deep sinus between veins 2 and 4 nearly reaching to
liindmargin ; a snbmarginal wavy iridescent line, denticulate below costa and
inwardly edged by a rod-brown shade ; marginal line finely black, interrupted at
the veins; fringe bright rufons: a small black cell-dot.

Ilindwings : the same.

Underside like upper, but the fringes yellower. Head and thorax red-brown:
body wanting.

Exjianse of wings : 17 mm.

One ? from Lokoja, River Niger (A. Cook).

20:3. Zamarada protrusa sp. nov.

Forewings : pale translucent green ; the costa reddish ochreous, spotted with
black ; a black cell-dot ; outer line black, from subcostal at two-thirds, waved to
vein 4, then suddenly ontcurved and rounded near margin, returning along vein 2
and reaching inner margin at twothirds ; marginal area dull brick-red, dusted with
black scales, traversed by an interrupted row of brighter red lunules : basal line of
fringe dark brown ; fringe reddish.

Hindwings : the same.

Underside vitreous ; marginal area blackish, except a]>ex of forewings, which
is ochreous. Face, palpi, thorax, and abdomen reddish grey.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One ? from Akassa, Eiver Niger.

204. Zamarada undimarginata sp. nov.

Forewings : very faintly greenish hyaline, the costa bronzy brown ; marginal
third nearly uniformly dark brown, with an obscurely darker denticulate shade
traversing the middle, edged internally by a wavy black line with lustrous outer
edge, the line forming two rather more prominent sinuses between veins 2 and 4 ;
fringe brown, with a thick darker line at base.

Ilindwings : with the brown margin narrower, the dark line less regularly
waved and between veins 2 and 4 ajiproachiug the margin, forming a bilobed
broad sinus ; no cell-spots.

Underside exactly the same. Face, palpi, and antennae dark brown ; thorax
and abdomen concolorous with wings ; anal segment of abdomen brown.

Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

One S from Akassa, River Niger.

20.J. Zamarada vulpina sp. nov.

Forewings : pale iridescent green ; the costa, base, inner margin, and broad
marginal area bright rufons ; the latter with a deeper rufous internal edge, forming
a rounded sinus between veins 2 and 4 ; a yellowish wavy submarginal line ; fringe
and small cell-spot rufous.

Ilindwings : the same.

Underside with the marginal area gilded yellow ; a red-brown irregular fascia
along its inner edge. Head, thorax, and abdomen all rufous.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

One c? from Warri, River Niger, P'ebruary 1896 (Dr. Roth).

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Subfamily PROSOPOLOPHINAE.
Arcina fulgorigera Wlk. XXVI. p. 1T44.
This species and genus were overlooivcd by Mr. Meyrick iu bis paper on the
Selidosemidae, published in the Proceedings of the Linneun Society of S. S. ^y(des,
1891 (II. 6). The genus is allied to Chlenias — not Chesias, as Walker states — but
is scarcely identical. The antennae of the 6 are strongly pectinated : Walker says
"very slightly" pectinated : bnt his type is a ?, not, as he made it, a S. In the
forewings veins lo and II are free, 7, 8, 9 stalked, 6 being also shortly stalked with
them. The thorax is strongly crested, as iu Chlenias. The 6 now before me (labelled
N. S. "Wales) shows no silvery edging to the lines ; it should rather be described
as pale grey.

Euomoea gen. nov.

Forewings : elongate; the costa faintly sinuate, arched towards base, and slightly
incurved before apex ; apex rectangular ; hindmargin strongly curved and oblique
below, the anal angle obtuse.

ilindwings : with fully rounded hindmargin.

Antennae of c? bipectinated to apex ; palpi porrect, rather decumbent, reaching
a little before forehead ; tongue present.

Neuration : forewings, cell three-fifths of wing ; the median vein upcurved
towards extremity of cell ; discocellnlar vertical : first median at three-fourths,
second shortly before end, third from end of cell ; radials normal ; first and second
subcostals stalked ; third, fourth, and fifth stalked ; second anastomosing with and
becoming coincident with stalk of third and fourtli. Hindwings with costal
approximated to subcostal for half the cell ; subcostals from top end of cell.

Type : Euomoea unilineata sp. nov.

Eelated to Frosojwlopha Led.

29G. Euomoea imilineata sp. nov.

Foreicings : yellowish uchreous, witli numerous short brown striae and atoms ;
some patches of dark brown scales from base along the sul)median fold : a minute
brown dot in cell, and a black cell-spot at the end : a brown straight obliiiue line
from apex to beyond middle of inner margin, not marked below the submedian vein;
fringe rather darker than the ground-colour.

Hinrhcings : except hindmargin, paler, with a dark cell-spot.

Underside deeper yellow, witli only the cell-spots marked ; the dark oblique
lino showing tlirongh. Paljii and forelegs brown ; face, head, tliorax, and abdomen
coucolorons with wings.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One S from Zomba, Fiiper Shire River, 3000 feet, December 1805 (Dr. P.
Rendall).

Microligia gen. nov.

Forewings: very long and narrow; the costa straight, slightly inbent beyond
middle ; apex produced, blunt ; hindmargin well curved.

Hindwings : ample, the hindmargin slightly indented opposite cell and pro-
tuberant in middle.

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Abdomen in 6 long and slender, the anal tufts prominent : forehead rounded :
palpi porrect, squamous, rostriform : antennae of c? with short thick pectinations :
hind tibiae thickened, with four spurs.

yeiiration : forewings, cell quite two-thirds of wing ; the subcostal and median
veins bent inwards towards their extremity ; first median at three-fourths, second
before end, third from the end of cell: radials normal : last three subcostals stalked,
second anastomosing with the stalk of tlie next two to form the areole, first free.
Hindwings with costal approximated to, subcostal for half the lengtli of cell : first
subcostal and second median from before the end of cell.

T3'pe : Microligia dolo.su sp. nov.

207. Microligia dolosa sp. no v.

Forewings : silky whitish, with %'ery fine grey irroration ; a rather large dark
grey cell-spot, and a dark grey oblique apical streak just reaching the lower angle
of cell ; fringe whitisli.

llindtcimjs : silky whitish, without darker dusting.

Underside of forewings dull grey, of hindwings whitish. Head, thorax, and
abdomen all white.

Expanse of wings : 26 ram.

One tj from the Cape of Good Hope.

Family PVR.iLI]).lE.
Subfamily PYRALINAE.

298. Angenora subochi-acea sp. nov.

Forewings : ochreous, thickly sprinkled with rusty ochreous and more sparsely
with dark fuscous scales ; first line at one-third, blackish, curved : second at two-
thirds, parallel to hindmargin, approacliiug first line at inner margin, followed by a
pale ochreous line which is edged outwardly with a blackish shade ; cell-spot dis-
tinct, black ; costa dotted with black and jjale ochreous between the lines : fringe
grey, with thin black line at base.

Hindwings : rather paler, with two curved dark lines, and suffused with rusty
ochreous towards hindmargin ; fringe as in forewings.

Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings. Underside dull ochreous,
dusted with fuscous, especially along costa of forewings ; a tliick dark central line
to both wings.

Exjianse of wings : 20 mm.

One cf from Weenen, Xatal.

299. Hypsopygia sanguinalis sp. nov.

c?. Forewings : brilliant rosy: the two lines pale yellow, at one-third and two-
thirds, starting from triangular pale yellow costal spots ; the first vertical, the
second slightly bent, to inner margin close before anal angle : costa and hindmargin
deej)er red ; fringe yellow, with red basal line.

Hindwings : the same, with two fine curved and wavy jiale yellow lines : the
basal half of wings suffused with deep orange-red.

Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings. Underside duller rosy,
with the markings faint.

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Expanse of wings : 18 mm.

One <S from Weeneu, Natal.

Differs from costalis Fabr. in being pure red without a trace of darker scales,
the red running through to hindmargiu without a j-ellow border, in the fringes
having a red basal line, and in the much smaller size of the triangular costal spots.

300. Peucela zonalis sp. nov.

Forewings : rufous grey, finely dusted with black atoms; costa somewhat
coarsely dotted with blackish ; first line at one-fourth, indistinct on costa, thick
towards inner margin, dark brown, slightly waved ; second line at three-fourths,
pale, edgeil with (hivk brown on either side, minutely wavy, and forming a short
angle inwards below the subcostal and above the inner margin, between which it
curves slightly outwards ; a row of dark marginal dots ; fringe rather paler, with
two darker lines ; cell-spot indistinct.

llindivings : redder, with two dark curved lines, ajiproximated on inner margin,
the outer somewhat dentate and edged outwardly with paler, the inner edged
inwardly with paler ; fringe and margin the same as in forewings.

Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish grey; the segments of the latter with
darker edges, and with a black ring near base and in the <? also before apex, which
is paler. Underside dull reddish, mottled with fuscous ; both wings with dark
outer line.

Expanse of wings : 3, 22 mm.; S , 2u mm.

Both sexes from Weenen, Natal.

One ? is much paler than the 6, having very few dark scales on an ochreous
rufous ground-colour. On the other hand, a second ? has the wliole marginal area
and the lower half of the central area of the forewings strongly brown-black, leaving
the basal area and costal portion of central area dirty ochreous, while the anal
region of the hindwings is also broadly blackish. This form may be called ab.
obscurata. The black belt at base of abdomen will, however, always serve to
distinguish the species.

301. Pyralis dissimulans sji. nov.

Forewings : greyish fnscous ; the basal and marginal areas dull chocolate-brown ;
costa dotted with white from base to outer line ; the edge of the dark basal patch at
one-third, obliiiue, parallel to hindmargiu, followed by a white line and a diflfnse
whitish patch, neither reaching the costa ; a darker cloud beyond the cell ; outer line
at five-sixths, white, curved oittwards in middle, and ending at the anal angle ;
fringe grey, mth a broad dark grey basal line, the tips whitish below the apex.

Ilixf/ichu/.f : grey; the central area whitish grey, edged by jialcr lines with dark
margins ; fringe as in forewings.

Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous grey. Underside mucli ]ialer, dusted with
fuscous, and with the markings all more or less represented ; the hindwings with the
two curved lines well marked, broad and diffuse.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One <S from Weeneu, Natal.

This species reminds one of small examjiles oi farinalin Linn, and domcsticalis
Zell.; the straight edge of the basal patch will at once distinguish it. The patagia
are well developed, reaching well behind the thorax.

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302. Scotomera tripartita sp. nov.

Forewinqs : pale reddisli brown over the basal, dark brown iu the central, and
pale reddish grey iu the marginal area ; first line before one-third, dark brown^
outwardly oblique and slightly wavy, reaching inner margin in the middle, edged
towards the base with pale ; second line at three-fourths, dark brown, edged out-
wardly with pale, oblique inwards parallel to hindmargin as far as the first median,
then vertical to inner margin before anal angle ; the central area thus twice as wide
on costa as on inner margin ; costa between the lines dark, dotted with whitish ; a
dark cell-spot ; the pale marginal area reddish along costa ; a marginal row of black
spots ; fringe reddish grey, with darker line near liase.

HindivinffS : dull whitish, with traces of a dark postmedian line from costa,
which vanishes iu middle of wing ; a dark marginal line before the fringe, which is
paler towards anal angle.

Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish grey. Underside pale straw-colour, with
the darker central portions showing through ; costa of both wings thickly dusted
with reddish fuscous scales ; marginal dots and fringe as above ; a cell-spot on
hindwings.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One <S from Weenen, Natal.

The only example has no tongue visible, but in all other respects it agrees so
exactly with Scotomera that I have no doubt this is an accidental mutilation.

Sphalerosticha gen. nov.

Foreivings : with costa straight or incurved ; apex blunt ; hindmargin slightly
oblique and curved ; anal angle well marked.

Himhi'ings : triangular, the hindmargin nearly straight, the inner margin long.

Vertex and patagia densely and coarsely scaled ; ocelli absent ; tongue well
developed : labial palpi obliquely porrect, squamous, the third joint distinct ;
maxillary palpi invisible: antennae (t?) quite shortly ciliated, the shaft thickened
towards base, the basal joint inflated.

Neuration : forewings with cell half as long as wing, the discocellular nearly
vertical ; first median intva a little before lower angle, second and third from the
angle ; lower radial just above it ; upper radial well below upper angle of cell ; last
subcostal from the upper angle, /)re, and slightly curved downwards, as is likewise
the upper radial ; third and fourth subcostals stalked from the angle ; second from
close before the angle, first some distance before it. Hindwings with the discocellu-
lar very oblique below; the costal free ; the two subcostals from upper angle of cell :
first median at three-fourths, second shortly before the angle, third and radial from
the angle.

Type : Sphalerosticha ohlanuta sp. nov.

The neuration in the forewings is abnormal, the fifth subcostal being free, as in
the Pi/ruusfinae ; but instead of curving upwards close to the fourth, it is bent
downwards away from it.

303, Sphalerosticha oblunata sp. nov.

Forewini/s : greyish white, evenly jjowdered with dark scales; costa exceedingly
minutely dotted with black ; first line indistinct, blackish, before one-third, vertical

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and slightly wavy ; second line at five-sixths, blackish, evenly concave outwards,
followed by a pale whitish line which expands along costa to apex ; marginal space
filled in witii chocolate-brown and with a row of small black marginal dots ; fringe
reddish, with a fine pale basal line ; cell-spot blackish.

f//n(/iri»ffs : whitish, rather glossy, with a dark cell-spot, and faint sinuous line
from beyond middle of costa to inner margin above anal angle ; a marginal row of
black spots ; fringe whitish, tinged with reddish towards apex.

Head, thorax, and abdomen eoneolorons with forewings. Underside whitish;
forewings with some dark scales in the cell, and with the veins pale over the
chocolate marginal space : liindwings with dark cell-spot, a small spot beyond it,
another on c()sta at beginning of the sinuous line, and a short mark below the first
median within the sinnous line.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

One S from Weenen, Natal.

Sphinctocera gen. nov.

Forewings : with costa straight ; apex rectangular : hindniargin vertical above,
oblique below the middle.

Hlndicings : broad, with hindmargin well curved and both angles rounded.

Ocelli present : tongue fairly developed : labial jialpi long, rostriform, decum-
bent, thickly scaled, the third joint not distinguishable from the second : maxillary
palpi minute, filiform ; forehead with diffuse tnft of hairs ; antennae in 6 thick,
lamellate, somewhat flattened ; the basal joint long and thick, the shaft articulated
to it, and bearing a small tooth on the upj)erside at a distance equal to the length
of the basal joint.

Neuration : forewings, cell half as long as wing ; the discocellular angulated ;
first median at three-fourths, second at five-sixths ; third and lower radial close
together from lower angle of cell ; upper radial and last subcostal from upper angle :
third and fourth subcostals shortly stalked out of the fifth : first and second free.
Hindwiugs with the two subcostals shortly stalked, the first anastomosing shortly
with the costal.

Type : Sphinctocera crassisf/utana sp. nov.

304. Sphinctocera crassisquama sp. nov.

Forewings : glossy dark grey, the scales coarse and l)road, dark grey with pale
tips : first line at one-fourth, bent in middle, diffuse, dull red ; second line at three-
fourths, parallel to hindmargin, dull red, with a whitish dash on costa and a few
white scales above inner margin ; cell-spot dull whitish ; the whole central area is
slightly sprinkled with reddish scales ; marginal area and fringes wholly dark grey.

llimhring.'i : dull oclireons whitisli, with dark grey fringe and a dark discal spot;
towards the hindmargin tlie wing is dusted with greyish, and there is a faint trace of
a paler curved submarginal line.

Head, thorax, and patagia dark grey, with a sprinkling of red scales; abdomen
greased, jirobably }>ale like the hindwiugs. Underside dingy fuscous grey, the hind-
wings more ochreous : outer line of forewings pale, of liindwings reddish edged with
pale.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One <f from Weenen, Natal.

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Subfamily ENDOTRICHINAE.
3(i,T. Callinaias flavimargo sji. no v.

Fairwinys : snow-white ; a black dot at middle of base, aud anotlier at base of
costa ; a donble curved orange line at one-third, with a black costal dot on the outer
arm and a black dot below the median on each ; second line also donble, orange and
oblique outwards to beyond cell, curved inwards below, aud rusty brown-black,
slightly wavy, crossed by a horizontal orange dash from discocellular to hindmargin ;
marginal space below it darkened with fuscous scales; extreme hindmargin narrowly
orange, slightly broader at the apex, where it is edged inwardly by a thin curved
black line ; fringe with basal half yellowish, apical half white.

Ilituhcinys : with the first double line blackish, not orange, nor reaching the
costa; the second from anal angle, with the outer area diffuse, the inner formed by a
short black streak and a succession of wavy dots ; marginal space and fringe as in
forewiugs, but with no black apical line.

Head, thorax, and abdomen white, the last with a black dot on back of second
segment ; labial palpi with a black spot externally at apex of third joint ; maxillary
with one at apex of second. Underside whitish, with traces of a curved subterminal
line on both wings outside the line of the uj)perside; a dark dot on costa between the
two on the ujiperside, and a dark spot on hindwing to represent the inner line.

Expanse of wings : 19 mm.

One ? from Weenen, Natal.

30(i. Endotriclia brunnea sp. nov.

Foir/c/'/ifffi : pale grey, dusted and suffused with rusty brown ; costa nniformlv
dotted with black and j)ale oclireous, the pale interspaces geminated ; first line at
one-third, oblique, parallel to hindmargin, black, followed by a silvery white line ;
these lines are slightly crooked at the median vein and do not quite reach the costa ;
second line close to hindmargin, bent outwards in middle and faintly edged with
blackish ; central area with a blackish shade, which forms a more conspicuous spot
below the median vein ; the veins towards hindmargin pale ; a series of black
marginal spots ; fringe grey, with thick dark line towards base.

IliiidirhKjs : paler, less brown, with two thick dark lines, close together on
inner margin and wide apart at costa ; each line witli a paler centre ; marginal
spots and fringe as in forewings.

Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous ; the latter with a black ring
corresponding to tlio inner line of hindwings. Underside pinkish grey, dusted
with darker; the costa blackish, with the pule spots larger; hindwings with two
coarse black lines.

Expanse of wings : 17 mm.

One cf from Weenen.

The patagia only of average length. Possibly a form of J'J. ronsohrina Zell.

SuBF.vMiLv rV IJATSTIXA Iv

307. Lygropis impunctata sji. nov.
ForfiriiKjK : deep yellow, glossy, without markings of any kind.
Iliiidirhi'i-t : tiie same.

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Head, tbonix, abdomen, and underside all yullow.
Exjjanse of wings : 20 mm.
A few from Wecnen.

Nearest to nigricornis Hmpsn. from Abyssinia, but that species has the
antennae black.

SiBFAMav SOHOENOBIINAE.
308. Cirrhochrista argentiplaga sp. nov.

Forewings : pale yellow, with orange-red sntt'usion along costa at base and
before apex, and less strongly in the marginal area; a large irregnlar-shajjed oblong
silvery blotch in the disc, bordered by the orange-red lines ; the first from costa
beyond one-third, straight and inwardly obli(ine to below the snbmediau vein, then
bent at a right angle to inner margin before middle ; second from two-tliirds,
oblique outwards to beyond cell, then parallel to hiudmargin, forming a sinuous
curve as far as the submedian fold, thence straight to inner margin near first line ;
tlie costal portion of this blotch is snffnsed with yellow ground-colonr, and on the
•discocellular is a yellowish blotch mixed with orange-red scales; fringe yellow, vnth
a broad bright orange-red line at base, and a duller red line in the centre.

Ilindicini/s : yellow, suflused with dull smoky fuscous as far as a curved dull
brown submarginal line, beyond it unsnfiFused ; fringe pale yellow, with a red basal
spot just opposite the cell.

Face, palpi, and antennae orange-red ; thorax and abdomen yellow, washed
with orange, especially the shoulders and front of thorax. Underside glossy
straw-colour ; the disc of both wings suffused with reddish fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

One S from Weeneu, Natal.

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NOTES ON PALAEAECTIC BIRDS AND ALLIED FORMS.

By ERNST HAIITERT.

THESE notes, which I hope to be able to continue at some futnre time, are only
in a few cases intended to settle questions finally — as far as this is possible at
all. They contain suggestions for future work. They will, I hope, show that a
great deal remains yet to be done in Palaearctic, and even European, ornithology.
Some of these notes are chiefly intended for British ornithologists, because it seems
that many of our friends on this side of the Chaunel have not lately paid the same
attention to the interesting geograj)hical subspecies of our birds wliich a number of
Continental ornithologists have recently bestowed on them. Very few species of
European birds are so thoroughly studied in ccenj direction that nothing remains to
be found out, to be- corrected, to be modified, or to be completed, may it be in their
distribution, their local subspecies, their nidification, their habits, their food, their
nomenclature and classification, or their anatomy and structure. This may be keenly
admitted, notwithstanding all the admirable works written on European ornith-
ology, from Naumann and Macgillivray, from the commencement of Dresser's great
work and others, up to our days, when we find " observers " and egg-collectors
everywhere, but very few collectors of skins ! Or can any one deny the truth of my
statement, if he bears in mind that British ornithologists have not hitherto under-
stood the different forms of the nut-crackers and tree-creepers, if in a recent meeting
of the B. 0. C. there were different opinions about the tree-creepers having a song
or not, if widely diti'erent opinions are dilated on about the question whether
a bird can or cannot alter its colour without a moult ? On the other hand, I must
also admit that often (piestions about the habits and notes of birds would not be
discussed if the opponents had read what Naumann wrote on the question. jMany
"peculiarities'" of habits, migration, different colorations and pro]iortions would
be explained if the local forms of birds were more accurately studied ; but this mnst
chiefly be done in their breeding-places, not on migration, when the birds are far
away from their often unknown homes. If we know the differences between all the
local forms, then we shall often be able to say whence a bird shot on migration
came, but otherwise not. What is chiefly wanting, even in the largest collections,
is a good material of skins from ull the dift'erent countries. Without good series
from all the diffei-iint localities, the (questions of the various subspecies cannot be
settled.

The Genus NUOIFRAGA.

Although some of the old authors had already recognised differences in the bills
of the European nut-crackers, ('. L. Brehm was the first to clearly distiuauish
between the stout-billed and the slender-billed form, and to give names to them.
He named them Sucifnuja brachi/fhi/nrhos and Naci/raya macrorliynchos, in 1»^3.
Very little attention has generally been paid to these forms for a long time after,
and one of the reasons for this is, I believe, the bewildering number of names
afterwards bestowed on nut-crackers by C. L. Brehm, who, in addition to his
X. brachorliijnchos and N. inacrorhi/nrhos, subsequently nami'd a S. platyrliynchos.,

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hamata, minor, arquata, and alpestris. Of these arquata and alpestris are " nomina
nnda"' without any nse, hamntn and minor seem to refer to somewhat aberrant
specimens of the slender-billed form, jilat>jrli>jnil>0!< is evidently a thick-billed bird.
Most of these are named from single birds, evidently shot on mignitiou or when
astray, so that even their home is quite uncertain. With regard to the proper home
of X. bracki/rhi/nchos and X. macrorhynchos, C. L. Brehm was also quite uncertain,
but his descriptions are so clear that we cannot be in doubt about the meaning of
his names. In spite of Brehm's puzzhug niultiplication of forms iu later years, there
were always clear-headed ornithologists who had material enough to recognise the
differences between the two forms first separated in 1823. In 1845 Monsieur de
Selys LoDgchamps separated two forms, but he evidently did not have the two
before him, his alleged differences being individual aberrations.

In the same year (ls45) Mr. R. Fisher figured and described botli forms very
well in the Zoologist, but it mnst be admitted that nothing like a series from
breeding-places was known at the time.

The year to bring them to the front once more, and eHectually, was iss;. In
that year Professor Rudolf Blasius wrote an excellent monograph on the European
forms of Xucifraga in the Orn/s. The great immigration into Euroi)e of the
slender-billed form in 1885 evidently gave rise to this valuable work. In the same
year appeared my article on the " Birds of East Prussia " {MitfJieilungcyi (les
Ornitliologifichi'ii Yereins in Wien), in which I very distinctly distinguished between
" X. canjocata.ctt's brachjrlii/ncha," the resident form breeding in East Prussia, and
" X. c. raacrorht/ncha,'^ the Siberian form, occurring in East Prussia and other parts
of Germany as a migrant from autumn to spring. In my article on X. c. bracliy-
rhi/nrka, however, is a mistake, the home of X. rdryocotactes macrorhijncha being
said to be the Alps. The somewhat contradictory remark under "j;V. c. hrachy-
rhyncha,'^ however, points to its being a lapsus calami. IMy differentiation between
the two forms is also repeated in Ibis, 1802, pp. 309, 370. I collected a large series
in East Prussia in the breeding-places, where I also found nests and eggs, and all
the sjjecimens from No. 50 to No. 00 mentioned on pp. 480-483 in drnix, Vol. 11.,
were shot and skinned by me, though no mention of it is made.

Both Professor Blasius' work and my remarks on the nut-crackers were imfortu-
nately burdened with most unnecessary synonyms. We both considered Brehm's
names brachyrhynchos and macror/n/nchos (meaning short-billed and long-billed) not
very approjiriate. because it is the stoutness and slenderness rather than their short-
ness and length that distinguishes them, and Professor Blasius substituted and used for
them the more fitting terms jmchyrhynchiis and leptorhynchus, meaning stout-billed
and thin-billed. I suggested mildly that the names crassirostrix and fenuiiostris
were more appropriate ; but I did not (even worse I) use them in the headings of
my articles, nor at any time afterwards. It is needless to say that neither of our
names can be used.

Since 1887 it may be said that German ornithologists generally liave recog-
nised the two forms, and in English works on ornitliology I find two notes — that is,
one of Seebohm in fbis, 1888, pj). 230-241, and one in his Birds of 4116 Japanese
Empire, p. 99. Scebohm there declares that there is, in his opinion, not a western
and an eastern form, but an arctic and a temperate form, and he unites the Japanese
form with the European one (the brachyrhynchos of Brehm), while Blasius said it
was the same as the Silierian one, i.e. I?rehm's macrorhynchos. Certainly the
latter statement is wrong, but it cannot either be united with the Enropean form,

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as will be shown liereafter, uot can one form be said to be more arctic than the
other. Ill Ibbs a very elaborate article on the N'infrfigafi of Tschnsi-Rchmidhoffen
appeared iu the Verh. zool. hot. Ges. Wien.

It is somewhat surprising that, in spite of all these more or less accurate
statements, British ornithologists have not yet all accepted the two forms. But in
1894 Professor Newton {Dictionary of Birds, p. 047) repeated his former statement
that, " as in the case of the Hnia {Heterolocha acutirosfris), the considerable differ-
ences in the form and size of the bill of examj)les of this species are now supposed
(sic) to depend on the sex — that of the cock being stout and short, while in the
hen it is long and thin." This statement is absolutely wrong. I have now before
me a fine series collected by me in East Prussia for the Homeyer collection, now
in Braunschweig, and kindly lent me by Professor Wilhelm Blasins, and a number
of Siberian nut-crackers, and in neither of the two forms is there any remarkable
diiference in the size of the beak in the sexes. Perhaps Professor Newton had
before him the two species, i.e. & male of the European one and & female of the
Siberian one, or the dili'erences which be noticed were such slight individual
ditferences as are always found in birds.*

Again in the same year (1804) Dr. Sliarpe, in A Handbook to the Birds of
Great Britain, Vol. I. p. IT, says: "Two forms of nut-cracker in Europe are
recognised by many naturalists, X. carjocatactes, and a short-billed form, S.
brachyrhynchus, the sujiposed differences between which we have never been able
to appreciate." Be this as it may, the nomenclature might have been right
(X caryocatacies and X. brackyrhynchus being the same thing), but in fact they
differ at a glance by the form and size of the bill, the extent of white on the tips
of the rectrices, and general size. The reason why ornithologists have found it so
difficult to recognise the two is, I believe, that the one often invades the countries
inhabited Ijy the other. Therefore in museums we find, or should find, both forms
from Germany, parts of Russia, Austria, France, etc. When, however, clear-headed
field-ornithologists collect and observe them, it will be found that the stout-billed
form alo?ie breeds in Scandinavia, Lappland, Bornholm, the Russian Baltic jiro-
vinces, and East Prussia, as well as, in a very slightly differentiated form, the Alps,
the Carpathian and Sudetic Mountains, and perhaps the Pyrenees. This bird is
not a migrant. In East Prussia it never leaves its home, and is not even, as a rule,
found out of the very forests where it breeds. In the Alps it descends to lower
hills if too deep snow covers its haunts ; but also there it can on no account be
called a migrant. On the other hand, the slender-billed form is an inhabitant of
Siberia, where it breeds, and whence it wanders far and vfide. Single individuals
of the latter form are very often observed in Europe, and it is probable that many
wander so far every year, but in certain years, notably 1754, 1802, 1844, 1856,
1859, 1804, 18.^5, 18(tG, they appeared in extraordinary numbers.

The natural history of these two forms of Nucifraga clearly shows that many
problems regarding species and subspecies in ornithology cannot be solved by the
cabinet-ornithologist alone. It further shows the importance of exact labelling,
still (incredible, but true I) neglected by some collectors. In fact, labels like
" Germany, 1800," are entirely insufficient. We may, and sometimes must, be
content with tradeskins without exact locality, such as Japanese, Bogota, and New
Guinea skins ; but, though they may be very valuable at the time, they are only

* See also Stevenson, Birds of Xor/olk, p. 2S-I, and the eonimeut to it by A. G. liutler in British
Birds, their Xesti and Eggs, London, 1897, p. 143 and footnote !

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meagre substitutes for the properly labelled examples, which every musemn
official should try to acquire iu their ])laces iu time, la fact, it is most important
that collectors should add either on the labels or in a diary, besides the exact
localities, dates, sexes, and colours of bare parts, which are generally seen on
proper labels, whether the birds were breeding or appeared in flocks as migrants,
whether they frequented the pine- or fir-woods, the beech-woods or the parks and
gardens, etc., or that they should publish such observations as they liad the
fortunate opportunity to make.

I have hitherto only spoken of two forms, namely, the thick-billed form, the
lY. cari/ocatactes (L.), afterwards renamed N. hrachjrhjnrhoi by Brehm, and the
Blender-billed, 3'. macrorhijnchos of Brehm. This is not far wrong indeed, but in
1889 Dr. Eeichenow called attention to the fact that the majority of specimens
from Scandinavia, Lapplaud, and East Prussia were paler on the back and head
than those from the Central European Jlountains, and he therefore named the
latter .V. relictu. Dr. lleicheuow also said that the Alpine form had smaller white
spots on the back, biit I iind that this is not generally the case, but merely an
individual character. Also the paler coloration varies a good deal, but northern
specimens are always rather pale above, while those from Switzerland and from
the Carpathian Mountains are very seldom so pale. It is therefore advisable ta
keep the latter apart under Reicheuow"s name S. i-dicta, though the form is only
recognisable if a good series is compared, and not always constant, and though the
" nomen nudum " X. alpestris of C. L. Brehm might have been accepted for it, to
simplify the already encumbered synonymic list. The two other forms are mostly
very constant. 1 have not yet seen an intermediate one from Europe, as far as the
size of the beak goes ; but occasionally the white tips on the tail vary, and some
Asiatic examples vary also very much in the size of the beaks. The alleged
difference in the size of the white spots above and below, which I have not yet
mentioned, is very variable.

As I said before, the Japanese form of uut-cracker has been considered by
Seebohm to be the same as the Eurojiean thick-billed form. Stejneger, however
(Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1888, pp. 425-432), declares that the Japanese birds belong
to the slender-billed form. The author also differs from Seebohm in considering
that the slender- and stout-billed forms are eastern and western, and cannot be
called " arctic " and " temperate." Though in this latter statement Stejneger is
undoubtedly right, he is exactly as wrong as Seebohm, who unites the Japanese
form with the European form, if he unites it with the Siberian bird. It is true that
Stejneger's view is more sensible with regard to the distribution of these birds, and
that he already mentioned the possibility of somebody separating the Jajianese form
in fnture as a further subspecies. This latter course is undoubtedly the only right
one. The Japanese nut-crackers have the beaks midway between those of the two
other forms, thougli often more resembling those of tlie thick bills. In all other
characters, however, except the form of the bill, the Japanese form is closest to the
Siberian form : the white tips to the rectrices are large ; the upper tail-coverts,
which are mostly uniform in iV. earyocatactes caryocatactcs and nearly always finely
spotted with white in iV. c. macrorhynchos, are mostly finely spotted with white in

N. c. japonicus subsp. nov.,

as 1 name the Japanese form. The spots below are very large iu N. c. japonicus,
and mostly with a creamy tinge, the brown colour above very dark.

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There is no doubt that these three forms must be kept separate, for to say that
they are alike is wrong. It is, however, possible, and even probable, that several
more local forms exist in C!entral Asia, where enormons mountain-ranges remain
nu('xi)lored, or in parts of Northern Asia. In the Seebohm collection, now in the
British Mnsenm, is a skin labelled as being found in the Tian Shau, which has a
long wing (186 mm.) and a stout and powerful bill, though only 38 mm. long from
the frontal feathering to the tip. It belongs very likely to a local thick-billed
mountain-form. Then there is a skin from the Kurile Islands which I take to
belong to N'. c. japoniais. Its wing is short, only 173 mm. One from Peking has
the wing 1 78 mm., the bill only 35 mm. long, and not thicker than in Siberian
examples. I have not been able to examine specimens from the Pyrenees, where it
is said to lireed !

I append a synopsis of the old-world species and subspecies of the genus
XuciJ'raga, as far as established at present. With regard to the nomenclature used
here, I refer my readers to my article in No. 523, 1897, of the Zoologische Anzeigi^r.
With regard to the gender of the name Nucifraga, Brisson, who founded the genus,
certainly used it as a feminine word, and this ino<lus has generally been followed,
though (J. L. Brehm used it as a masculine, and this seems to be right, as it is
clearly a masculine noun, such as agricola and many others. However, what are we
to do, to follow the (often erroneous) usage of the founder of a generic name, or use
it in its grammatically proper gender ? The first would be preferable, as in cases
of new and not classic words the gender may be uncertain. There now arises
another question : are we modern purists in jtriority of nomenclature (juite logical
and consequent in adopting all names in their original spelling and yet altering the
gender of the specific name to bring it in uniformity with the generic term ? A
diii'erence exists already between some authors and others : some alter also the
gender of nouns, such as jnscator, sil/ilat)ix, into piscatrix, sMlator; others alter only
the gender if the names are true adjectives, if necessary, so as to bring them into
conformity with the genus. I believe that all this is still a remainder of bvgone
times, when zoological nomenclature was entirely ruled by philological and etymo-
logical pretensions, and not by common sense and practical requirements alone, and
when a " classisch gebildetes " word was often thought to be of greater merit than
a new observation, and a " nicht classisch gebildetes " word a greater crime than an
erroneous statement. I believe that if we only try to use all specific names (as well as
generic ones) entirely unaltered, we shall find it less trouble and more convenient,
and in no way illogical or against our classical feelings, if we simply regard them
as names and not as adjectives — which is much preferable, as less than two-thirds
of our specific terms are adjectively formed — see for example all the dedication-
names and many others.

Nucifraga Brisson, 18G0.

1. Rump and upper tail-coverts centred with the same large white patches as
the back : N. multipunctuOi Gould. (Kashmir and Western Himalayas to
Kumaon.)

2. Kump and upper tail-coverts, as well as middle of throat, lower abdomen,
and sides of body, without white spots ; lateral rectrices white for their apical half :
N. hemispila Vig. (Himalayas, from the Sutlej Valley to Bhutan.)

3. Itump and upper tail-coverts with few and smaller white spots than the

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back ; middle of throat, lower abdomen, and sides of body spotted like the breast :
S. cari/ocatdctex (L.).

a. Beak very stout ; white tips to rectrices small : njiper tail-coverts mostly

nnspotted ; colour of npper parts iretierally very i)ale : X canjocatuctes
cari/omtactes (L.)- (Scandinavia, Bornhoim, Lnpj)land, Russian Baltic
jirovinees, ami eastern jjarts of East Prnssia.)

b. Beak, tail, and upper tail-coverts as in a ; colour of upper parts generally

deeper brown: N. cari/ocatactes relicta (Uchw.). (Central Enro|)ean
Mountains— Alps from west to east, Carpathians, Sudetic :\louiitains,
Harz Mountains, ? Pyrenees.)

c. Beak slender and thin ; white tips to rectrices much larger ; upper tail-coverts

mostly with fine white spots: X canjocatactes mar.rorloinchos (C. L. Brm.).
(Siberia, migrating into Europe— and perhaps parts of China ?)
«■/. Beak not so stout as in a and b, l)ut stouter than in c ; upper tail-coverts
and tail as in c ; white spots below generally a little larger : ,V. canjo-
catactes japonicus Hartert. (Northern Japan, Kurile Islands.)

Besides tlie literature discussed at some length before, I wisli once more to call
special attention to Herr von Tschusi-Schmidhofifen's articles in Oniis, Vol. V.
pp. 130-148, Tab. II., and in Verh. zool.hot. Ges. Wien, 18S8, pp. 407-506, Tab. XI.
These (and Professor Blasius' article) have provided us with such e.xcellent notes
and such cart-ful measwements that I saw no need to repeat them here. Neither of
the two authors thought it advisable to separate the Alpine form from the North-
European one, and they are indeed hardly separable, though a good series sliows
in the mean the lighter colour of the former, and many of tlie Scandinavian birds
have also larger beaks, though not always.

The Gknus CERTHIA.

A much hunted ground, and yet not fully exhausted ! Since 0. L. Brehm
separated the German creepers into two species, one being C.faniiliaiis. the other
C. brack;/clact)/la (which he always considered as a species and not as a subspecies),
there has been, among Continental ornithologists, much controversy about tliese
forms. The great Naumann strongly opposed Brehiu"s oijiuion about the creepers,
and up to recent times the Continental ornithologists who recognised the two forms
were very much in the minority, but quite recently I myself (since 1887 in print),
Rudolf Blasius, Fliiricke, Kleinschmidt, Deichler, Prazak, and otliers have recog-
nised C. hra/:l>f/(/arti/!a, and thus in Germany the truth is rapidly gaining ground.
The truth is that tlie two are quite distinct, though the name '' bmch</dacti/la" is
misleading, the coloration being, in my opinion, the principal) character, and not the
hind-toe but the liind-claw differing in length. C./amiliaris, probably the same as
the Scandinavian bird, is almost universally found in North-East Germany. In East
Prussia I have frequently found the latter. In Hinterpommern E. von Homeyer
never found C. brach/dactyla, though he knew it from Vorpommern, where both
occur (Homeyer in (itt.). However C. bmchydactfjla ku» been foimd in Ea_st Prussia,
but it is there very rare indeed, and specimens are. I think, not quite so typical as
western ones, nor are western C. J'amiliaris quite so jironounced as eastern ones.
Near Wesel, on tlie Lower Rhine, I have shot many specimens, and they were all C.
hrachjdactyla, as well as all the specimens I ever saw from Holland, including several
skins kindly sent to the Tring Museum by Mr. Blaauw of 's Graveland. In most

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parts of Germany, however, both Ibrms occur near each other, as, for example, in
Saxony and Hessen. In these countries the ('. fa mil iuris is chiefly found in the
pine- and fir-woods, and in higher elevations, while C. brachi/dartijla is mosth' met
with in the valleys, on the oaks, willows, etc., and in the gardens. Kleinschmidt,
FlOricke, and Deichler are convinced that C.familiaris is the bird of the pine- and
fir-woods, while C. brachi/dactyla is the form of the leafy woods, parks, and gardens.
On the whole they seem to be quite right in their conclusions, but this difference
in the haunts of the two forms must not be considered to be an unchangeable law.
C. hrachjdactyla was met with near Wesel in woods of pine and fir as well as in
gardens; C.J'amiUarinvi often found among the beeches, and in East Prussia I have
also shot it in mixed woods and gardens. On the whole (\ hrachydactyla is a
more western bird, and it seems not to occur in high altitudes. Intermediate forms
are evidently rare, but they occur. C. L. Brehm, E. F. von Homeyer, Kleinschmidt,
and others have declared that the two forms can easily be distinguished by their
call-notes. 1 have not had the opportunity to hear them, as they have had, close
together, therefore I dare not speak on this point with confidence, nor is my ear
musical enough to remember the exact height or depth of such a fine note many
days afterwards, so as to exactly compare it with that heard on the later occasion,
but I have a notion that the British creeper's note difiers a little from that of any
I have ever heard on the Continent. I recommend this for observation to those
who have very fine musical ears. It would also seem, from the doubts that have
been cast on the British creepers being able to sing, that they do not so often utter
their feeble little though jiretty song as their Continental cousins do. In any case
the creepers sing everywhere in the spring, beginning in January or February,
as all field-ornithologists must know.

Unfortunately 1 have not enough material of South-Euroirean Ccrtkiae to say
whether only one or two forms occur there. However I have not seen typical
C. hraclnjdactijla from South Europe. All the (\ Jamiliaiis I have seen from South
Europe seem to have a little darker brown ground-colour above, but otherwise
are not different from typical ( '. Jamiliaiis. They' seem to agree with birds from
Switzerland and from the mountain-ranges in Southern Germany. If it were possible
to separate them, they would have to be called G.fnmiliuris costac (Bailly) (1847).
Brehm's name, C. macrodacfi/la {Handh. Viig. DeufsM. p. 208, 1831), is, like so
many of Brehm's names, somewhat uncertain, and cannot reasonably be used for it,
though Stejneger (JJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1887, p. 607) claims priority for it. C. nattereri
Bonaparte (1838) is a nomen nudum, and when used again in 18.50 it was preceded
by C. rostae of Bailly.

Crossing the Channel we find in Great Britain a form which is very closely
allied to C. hrachydactyla, but differs in being above darker, with the rump much
more tawny rufous, and in having on an average distinctly shorter bills. They are,
sometimes, not easy to distinguish from Dutch specimens, but if a series is compared
the difierences are evident.

Proceeding from the west to the east, we find in Siberia a form which is very near
to Swedish C. familiaris, but which has more white above. It is known under the
name of C. scandulaca of Pallas, and ])robably extends as far west as East Prussia.

Proceeding farther eastwards still, to Japan, we find again two forms : in the
northern island Yezzo one said to be the same as ('. fumiUaris scandidaca, and in
the southern parts one in which the light markings above are smaller and tinged
with tawnv, and in which tlie under tail-coverts and lower abdomen are tinged with

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tawu}- bnflf. These iiave been nnited with the typical C. familiaris of Europe by
Seebohm and by Stejiipger, in the latter author's explicit and valuable article in
U. S. S'af. Mus. 1887, pp. G06-610. Although I have not seen very many
examples (the Tring Museum possesses only two at present) I cannot unite the
Hondo form with the North-European form. The ground-colonr of the back is
deeper brown, the rump of a deeper tawny ; the under tail-coverts seem to be more
strongly suffused with tawny, and the beak and wing on the whole decidedly shorter.
This form (type from Northern Hondo, in Mr. Rothschild's Museum) 1 must
separate as

C. familiaris japonica subsp. nov.

Neither this, nor C. M-an(/ul'(C(i, hr(uli'iilart-ila^ hrittanica (spelt thus by the author),
are species, for all their characters are variable, and intermediate forms between
most of them seem to occur. The same may be said of the various North-American
forms. It is only in the Himalayas, and in Turkestan and Kashmir, that we meet
with a number of well-defined species. There are now six recognised species in
these mountains and one subspecies.

The following is a very condensed review of the different forms, as far as they
are now, in my opinion, sufficiently established. It contains seven species, and one
of them is divided into ten, another into two subspecies.

Certhia L.. IT 58.

( Tail distinctly barred throughout : 'Z.
' \ Tail not barred, or with obsolete bars : 3.

f Above more brown ; beak shorter : 1. C. liimalaijanaYig.
(. Above more grey ; beak longer: 1a. C. himal. tacnittra (Scv.).

Flanks and lower abdomen ferruginous; centre of breast and abdomen fnlvous;

chin and throat white : 2. C. stoliczkae Brooks.
Whole lower surface earthy brown; axillaries and under wing-coverts white;

under tale-coverts pale ferruginous : 3. C. discolor BIyth.
C'hin, throat, and breast buff; remainder of under surface earthy brown :

4. C. maniptircnsis Hume.*
Lower surface whitish or pure white : 4.

r Fourth primary with a very pale fulvous mark in the middle of the outer
4. I web : 5. C. familiaris with its subspecies.

C Fourth primary with no fulvous mark in the middle of the outer web : 5.

r Lower abdomen suffused with pale fulvous brown ; above much darker; tail
. I always without an indication of bars : 6. C. nipalens/s.

I Lower abdomen paler; above much lighter; tail mostly with obsolete bars
near the tip : 7. C. hodysoni.

Of C. familiaris the following forms are at present, I believe, tenable ; but
more will be discovered, as large countries are unrepresented in creepers even in
the British Museum and other large collections.

1. ('. familiaris familiaris L. North, ? Central, and ? Southern Europe.
Distribution not yet definitely understood.

2. ('. familiaris scandidaca (I'all.). .Siberia to East Europe. More white
above than 1.

3.

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? :]. C.familiaris costae (Bailly). Central and South Europe. Doubtful form,
but probably nearest to C.familiaris familiaris and a little darker above.

4. C. familiaris brachydacti/lu (Brebm). Central Europe, chiefly the western
parts. Differs from C. familiaris familiaris in having the rump much darker
tawny rufous, the light parts of the feathers of the upper surface less iu extent and
not so whitish, the bill generally longer, the hind-claw in the mean shorter. Breast
and abdomen never of such a clear satiny white as in C.fatmliaris familiaris, hnt this
character is often overrated, as the under parts of western birds are nearly always
soiled, the trees in these thickly populated countries being sooty. Flanks rusty.

5. C. familiaris brittanica (Uidgw.). British Islands : England, Scotland,
Ireland, Isle of Man. This is evidently the only form of creeper found in the
United Kingdom. Mr. Rothschild and his brother, Mr. Charles Rothschild, have
brought together an already nice series from England, Scotland, Ireland, Isle of
Man ; but more are still desirable, especially from North Scotland and other less
pojjulated districts, where they are clean, those from the thickly inhabited countries
being almost black below, from their constant creeping on the always dirty stems of
the trees. The British creeper diiiers from ('. familiaris //rac//t/(/acfi/la of West
Europe iu the orange-tawny colour of the rump being more extended and slightly
more orange, the whole aspect of the upper surface being more rufous, the beak
averaging decidedly shorter, the hind-claw longer.

0. C. familiaris japonica Hartert. Island of Hondo or Nippon. Beak as
short as or shorter than that of (.'. familiaris brittanica, wing averaging shorter ;
breast purer satiny white, the light markings of the upper surface more white.
Much deeper brown, and with less whitish markings than C. familiaris familiaris,
and generally smaller.

7. C. familiaris americana (Bp.). Eastern North America. Very much like
C. familiaris brittanica, but the light markings on the upper surface more white.
Very much like G. familiaris familiaris and C. familiaris costae, but the rump
deeper tawny. The tail sometimes shows obsolete cross-markings.

8. C. familiaris occiilentalis Ridgw. Pacific coast regions from California to
Alaska. Darker and more rusty than C. familiaris americana, also smaller.
(Cf. Ridgw., Manual JS\ Amer. B. p. 558.)

9. C. familiaris montana Ridgw. Rocky Mountains. Much greyer, tlic
tawny of the rump more distinctly contrasted with the colour of the back.

lU. C.familiaris alticola. (Miller). Southern and Central Mexico and Guate-
mala. (Might stand as (.'. familiaris mexicana, as the C. mexicana of (imelin is
certainly not a Certhia !). Below not so white as all the other above-named American
forms ; very dark above ; rump deep ferrnginons, almost chestnut.

11. C.familiaris albescens (Berlp.). N. W. Mexico and Arizona. Tinge of
light markings above more whitish and a little more extended ; rump lighter tawny
ferruginous, more white below {Atdi, XIII. p. 310, 1896).

To illustrate m a sufficient manner all forms of Certhiae a material of over five
hundred skins might just be sufficient. The Tring Museum possesses now about
a hundred, and for this article I have examined about a hundred and sixty or more.

The form marked with an asterisk is the principal desideratum of the Tring
Museum ; all the others are, although some very poorly, represented in Mr.
Rothschild's collection.

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The Gf.xcs AMMOMANES.

For many years it Las been customary among ornithologists to unite the little
Amt»omaiii\-< with black-tipped rectrices from the Cape Verde Islands, Alj^eria,
Egypt, and Arabia under one name, and this is also the verdict of Sharpe, Cut. B.
Brit. Mus. XIII. pp. 044, 045. Nevertheless it is hardly correct, for though
one ispearic name might embrace them all, those from different countries differ
conspicuously in colour. The birds from the Cape Verde Islands are as different
from those of Algeria and Tuuis as Shar))e's Animoimiies ulyeriemis {Cat. B. Brit.
^fll.t. XIII. p. 04.")) is from .1. (1,'xerti Licht. I have seen many specimens from
Algiers and Timis, collected by Koenig and Spatz, and .some procured from
-Schlnter. All these are most distinctly jjaler than the sjjecimens from the Cape
Verde Islands, which are very rufous and very dark. Were it not that most larks
are known to differ in colour in different localities, often in harmony with the
general appearance of the soil and surroundings, I would, especially in view of the
insular habitat of the Cape Verde form, gladly allow it specific rank ; but judging
from analogies of other Ahiudidae, this does not seem wise, and I am (|uite con-
tented to give it snbspecitic rank. The mischief done in uniting the palaearctic
forms of the Ammmnane.^ with a black-ti]i])ed tail (for a mischief it is undoubtedly,
as it serves to conceal from the view of the truth-seeking naturalist the most
interesting facts of local differentiations, by informing him that forms are
^' identical," while in fact they differ conspicuously) started long ago (Heuglin,
Dohrn, etc.), and it was sanctioned and spread by Dresser (1). Europe, IV.
p. 336), who, however, acknowledged the differences between the N. African and
Cape Verde birds, but denied their having " specific " value, as he never admitted
the imijortance of subspecific forms, and consecjuently never separated them, a
method in which he— unlike many others — always has shown reasonable consistency.
Sharpe, in 1890, who should have separated A. cinctura of the Cape Verde Islands
from the North African forms if he separated A. algeriensis from ^1. deserti, had
only one skin from Eg3-pt and one from Persia (!) to compare in the British
Museum, and therefore had not much material to form an opinion on. As it is, the
dark and red Cape Verde bird must bear the oldest name, A. cinctura (Gould), 1S41.
The next name available for any of the North African forms is A. anmieolor (Sundev.),
1850. I have not his article before me to consult, but have to trust the authorities
whose books are before me, and who assert that SundevalTs name a]iplies to a form
with a blatk-tipxied taO. The question now is, whether the Nubian birds are exactly
like the Algerian ones. I have only been able to compare two, and they are
certainly strikingly more greyish brown than the Nortii-West African birds. I have
no doubt that this is a constant character of the North-East African birds, and that
they must be separated subsjiecifically. If my surmise is right, the North-East
African bird must bear the name aren/color, and that of Algeria and Tunis the name
reffulus.

A similar difference as between the North-West African and the North-East
African form of ,1. nnctura, only more obvious, is found in A. de.'terti, and .therefore
Sharpe, who, it seems, first noticed their differences, named the former A. algmen-iis.
There are, however, slight variations of shade of colour found in the same districts,
and therefore I do not believe that these forms are more than subspecies, nor do I
think that .1. phoeiiinjroidcs is more than a subsj)eeies. If all the countries between
Tunis and Nubia on one side, and between Abyssinia, Egypt, and tlie Persian Gulf

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ou the other side, are thoroughly explored, we sh.ill uo donbt find iatermediate
forms between all these forms. A series of Persian examples would be desirable to
compare them, as they may slightly differ again.

Accepting my views as correct, we shall liave to complete and to alter the key
of the genus Ammomanes, as limited by Sharpe iu the Cat. 13. XIII., as follows : —

Ammomanes Cab., 1851.

( Tail rufous or isabelline, witli broad black band at the tip : 2.

J Tail brown or deep blackish brown, except the central pair of rectrices and the

I outer webs or edges, which are pale or whitish, as is often the base : 4.

Primaries deep brown, with chestnut-rufous inner lining : 1. ^1. phocnicurf
(Frankl.). (India from (!utch to the Ganges and to Ooimbatore.)

Primaries greyish, slightly tipped with white, margined with sand-colour ou
the outer webs, the inner lining greyish : 2. A. graiji (Wahlb.).* (S. W.
Africa.)

Primaries isabelline, with blackish tips : o.

Much more rufous : 3. A. cini'fura cinctura Gould.* (Cape Verde Islands.)
Paler and more sandy isabelline : 4. A. cinctura regulus (Bp.). (Algeria and

Tunis.)
Like ^1. c. regulu.i, but tail and wing darker, above slightly more sandy

brownish and rufous, perhaps the sjiots on the chest less distinct :

5. A. cinctura arenicolor (Sundev.). (Synonyms : A. pallida Cab., 1851 ;
elegans Brehm, 18.55.) (S. Egypt, Nubia, Arabia, and ? Persia.)

^ j Under wing-coverts and inner lining of wing isabelline : 5.

I Under wing-coverts and inner lining of wing ashy or leaden grey : 6.

Above sandy vinous, most of the outer webs of primaries rufous isabelline :

6. A. desert i algeriensis (Sharpe).
Aliove of a more ashy sand-colour; only the ujjper tail-coverts vinous; outer

webs of primaries as in .1. (/. algeriensis : 7. A. deserti deserti Licht.
(Synonyms : A. isahellina, /rate rex I us.) (Egypt, Nubia, Abyssinia,
5. { Palestine ; those from the last-named two localities perhaps subspecifically

separable. )
Above almost mouse-brown ; outer webs of primaries with very little rufous
isabelline; bill shorter and stouter: 8. A. deserti phoenicuroides (Blyth).
(Synonj'm : ^1. lusitana parvirostris Hartert.) (Punjab, Sindh to the
Persian Gulf.)

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r Larger, chestnut above : 0. A. ferruginea (Sm.). (Plains south of the Orange
I River.)

j Smaller, light rufous above
I Damaraluiid.)

1(1. A. er>/throcIilanii/s (^incW.). (Transvaal to

The forms niarkeJ witli an asterisk are special desiderata of the Tring
JIusenm.

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The Genus GALEMDA* Boie.

Tlie crested larks, it will be aclmitted by all ornithologists, are very difficult
to distingnisli, as many of the various forms rnn into each otlier in a puzzling
manner. This, however, is certainly no reason to treat them with contemjit and
neglect, but on the contrary makes them liighly interesting, as being an instructive
example to what an extent local modification is sometimes effected by natural
causes.

The splendid opportunity which Sharpc had in 1^0(), when writing the thirteenth
volume of the Catalogs of lUrdx, was not much used for defining the various
subspecies of Galcrida, as the fretpient occurrence of intermediately coloured
individuals influenced Dr. Sharpe so much that he did not allow even subspecific
rank to most of the forms. It is true that he enumerated the specimens iu the
3Iuseum in four gronps or " races," but most of them are mixtures of different forms.
The occurrence of intermediate specimens has often been the reason for Dr. Sharpe
to disregard the most marked snbsiiecies. There is therefore, iu fact, not much
<lifference between this author's species and his subspecies, and it is more out
of a kind of " feeling," effected by his unparalleled experience in ornithology, that
this eminent naturalist has sometimes made use of the method of creating or
allowinsr " subspecies." In the genus (ialerida, on the other hand, he gave full
specific rank, besides G. cristuta, to three forms, i.e. G. tlieldae, G. molabarica,
and G. isabelliiia, which are not more different from several of the forms of
G. cristatd than are, for example, tlie dark form of the Nile Delta and the i)ale,
desert-like-coloureil, long-ldlled iiKirrorkijnrha of Tunis and Algeria, or several
others — only Sharpe did not come across intermediate forms, and therefore gave
them full specific rank. There is, however, not a single character found in those
three supposed good species which is not found or indicated in one or the other
form of G. i-rixtntn, and intermediate forms may be discovered any day ; therefore
it is evidently not wrong to enumerate them also as subspecies of G. cridatn.

Another species, G. cleca, has by many authors been separated generically,
nnder the name of Spizalaiida (hva, but it has no characters that can be regarded
as more than specific, if we study other gronps of larks. Gates {B. of Jndi'i, II.)
has therefore done well in reuniting it with Galeridn ; but it is apparently a very
well marked species, standing more alone than any of the other forms.

A number of articles on members of the genus Galerida have already been written
since the appearance of Vol. XIII. of the Cutalogue of Hi/d.s. This is, in my opinion,
a good sign for the activity of ornithologists. Soon after the appearance of Sharpe's
work (in fact most of it was written, but not printed, Itefore his volnme appeared)
I enumerated tlie specimens in the Senckenbergian Museum at Frankfort, calling
one form G. ciistnta, another G. criatata macrork>/ncha, and describing a third as
a new species, calling it G. riippelli {.T. f. O. ISOi), jij). 102, 103 ; Kat. Voyrlsamml.
Mus. Franhf. p. 40, 1801). I lielieved for some time that there was a possibility
of my G. riippelli being the same as Alctuda praetcrmissa Blanf. (which would
probably better be placed in the genus Galerida [cf Salvadori, Ann. Miis. Geneva
(2) 1, 1884, J). 168 ; (2) C, 1888, p. 260] as it has a longer first primary than any

• This is the original spelling of the name. It has afterwards by many authors been altered int«
/ralerita, but this correction is not acceptable, as the name Galvrila is tlmt of a very well known genus
of Cofepj/U'ra, which was established long before 1828, when Boie created ti'aleri'ht.

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3>i'oper Alaiula*), or as tlie same author's (ndcrita arciiicol'i var. fuKca {(jeol. anrl
Zool. Abi/ssinia, p. 387), whicli Sliarpe declares to be identical with .1. prni'termisxa
(mark the genus !), but the measurements do not agree ! As, however, this is
a ([uestiou which can only finally be settled by a comparison of the different types,
I will leave it out of consideration for the present time.

Most excellent field-notes, descriptions of nests, eggs, etc., of the Algerian
forms by Koenig are found in the Journal/. Ornithologie, 189.5, and remarks of
great clearness and correctness by Whitaker in the Ibis, 1895 and 1896, where a
new name for a form, G. cristata pallida, from Tunis, is created.

The " t3pical " Aluttda criittata L., which I would call Galerida cristata, sensu
strictiore, or Oaleridu cristata cristata L.,t is found all over Europe. Specimens
from Sweden, Germany, Holland, Austria, France, Servia, Hungary, Turkey,
S. Russia (Sarepta), also one shot at Athens in January by Elwes, do not differ
in any obvious way, so that no subspecies can be made out of them. Of course they
vary individually, but I have not been able to trace any locally modified groups
among them. Two from Attica, shot in March, are a little paler grey above, but
more specimens would be necessary to decide whether this is characteristic for the
birds breeding in that country. One of them is very small, the otlier not! Both
are said to be females !

In Southern Spain and Morocco there must be, according to Sharpe, two very
<lifferent forms. If this is correct they must inhabit different parts of the countries
in which they are found. This is confirmed by Alfred Brelim and others. The
one which is like the Seuegambian one is found in the sandy plains, the little dark
G. theklae on the mountains and among the black rocks. One Sharpe says is
" absolutely identical " with specimens from Seuegambia. I have no such birds
before me just now, but that does not matter, as it is clear that we have here
another form, which is closely allied to G. cristata cristata of Europe, and of similar
dimensions, but altogether much more reddish, i)aler, and sand-coloured ; perhaps
the beak also, in the mean, a little larger, but sometimes even smaller.^ Its e.xact
distribution is not clear ; but it is certain that it breeds in Senegambia and the
Western Sudan, as Sharpe mentions nestlings from the River Gambia, and I met
with it in the northern dry parts of Hausa-land, where it was iu full song in
February and early in March. One skin which I shot at Jassaura, a town
discovered by me not very far from Sokoto, in a country which during the dry
season was very dry, sandy, and almost desert-like, I sent to E. von Homeyer, who
professed to be an authority on larks, iu the hope that I should get a useful ojiinion
on this form for my article in the ././'. 0. 1886 (see p. 582, No. 19), but he only
sent me a sweeping remark (I.e.), which was not even quite correct. This bird is
still in the Homeyer collection, now in Braunschweig, and is before me, thanks to
the kindness of Professor W. Blasius. It is distinctly the G. .<enegallemis
{P. L. S. Mali.).

The other South Spanish form is G. theklae (thus spelt, not thecklac, as Sharjie
writes). It is very small, very bl.ack, the breast with numerous broad blackish

* This brings iis to the difficult question of the genera of the Alaialidaf. How many ran be made .'
and is there a sharp hne between Alamla and Oalfrida 1 I am not prepared to answer this n(>\v, and I
believe it is not so easy as it seems. According to Sharpc'e key (pp. .'(12, .^13). they would seem to rnn
into each other.

t Form a.

X Form b.

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shaft-stripes, and Sbarpe regards it as a <rood species.* It, or a form between it
and G. cristafa cristata, is also found in tbe coast region of Algeria and Tunis. In
the interior of these countries, however, we find an interesting number of forms.
Besides the jnst-mentioned dark form on the coast, we meet all over the stouy
plateans of the desert very long-billed forms, one of them darker and larger,
G. eiistata macrovhtjncha (Tristr.). more on the dark stony tracts in tbe middle of
tbe desert, and tbe other paler and little smaller form, G. r. arenicola (Tristr.).
more on tbe margin of the true sandy desert, the Sahel.t while on the very sand
itself they are reiilaced by the wonderfully pale sandy isabelline (t. c. imhdlina
(Bp.).t Besides these Mr. Wbitaker describes (Jbii, 1895, p. 100) an Alaiula
cristata paUi<lri,\ found in tlie southern parts of Tiniis, where the soil is more arid
and more bare, but not yet true desert. It seems that Koenig found the same near
El Kantara and Biskra in Algeria, but lie calls it '/. arenicnhi Tristr., which name
applies to the pale long-billed form.

Leaving Tunis we come east of it to Tripolis, Bnrku, the Libyan Desert, etc..
all countries hitherto ornitholugically entirely unexplored. Tbe next form of
crested lark we meet in the Delta of the Nile, whence the Tring Museum possesses
a series from Alexandria, Damietta, and Cairo. It differs from Galeru/a cristata
cristata of Europe in being considerably darker above, the black centres of tbe
feathers being more extended, the brown edges darker, wings and tail darker, more
blackish. The breast is marked with bolder, broader, very dark blackish brown
longitudinal spots, giving it a striking ai)[)earauce. Throat white ; abilomen buffy or
isabelline, and with some ill-defined brown shaft-stripes ; sides of body heavily
streaked. Wing 102 — 106 mm. ; bill 10, a little more tapered than in (1. cristata
cristata. This very distinct subspecies has no name : I therefore name it

Galerida cristata deltae subsp. uov.||

Proceeding farther np the Nile crested larks must occur everywhere, but to
which forms they belong I cannot say at jireseut. The next form I am acquainted
with is a large-billed isabelline form,' which the Tring Museum possesses from
Khartoum, collected by Petherick and J. W. vou Miiller. It resembles G. c.
sencyallensis, bnt is more yellowish above ; the breast-spots are more brownish
isabelline ; the bill is a little bigger. It resembles pale specimens of the long-
billed Algerian form, but the rectrices are more reddish isabelline, the upper aspect
more reddish, tbe breast-spots not so frequent and not so dark. It is G.flara of

• Form c,
f P'orm.s d. r.

I Form i.

§ Form/. Unfortunately C. L. Brehm has already named a GaUHda eriatata pallula from Spain ; it
is therefore necessary to replace Whitaker's name by a new one. I call it

G. cristata superfluanom. nov.

While this article was in print 0. (J. Elliot's article on tbe birds collected by him in Somaliland appeared
in the Field Columbian Museum's Publications. Thereon ji.SSof I'ublication 17, lie describes a new species
of Galirula. unfortunately again tailing it G. pallida '. As this name, as shown above, cannot be used,
there being two pallida already, and as the discovery of an evidently very distinct form of crested lark
in .Sonialiland is of speci.al interest, I name it

Galerida ellioti nom. nov.,

but it may also be a subspecies of 0'. cristata.

II Form fi.

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Brehm.* Ascending the monntains of Shoa and Abyssinia we have evidently
several forms, which I cannot fully discuss at present.f

In an article in J.f. 0. 1873 — which is meant to nnravel mysteries, but causes
only more confusion — E. von Homeyer describes a form from Abyssinia as
Q. mu'-rocristata {sic, not microcristata , as would be grammatically correct). This
name is possibly synonymous with Alauda praetermissa Blanf., of which Homeyer
evidently knew nothing, but there are contradictory statements in the description-
Besides this form Homeyer mentions a G. al/i/xsinici, " IJiippel " {sic), but Rtippell
never used that name in his publications. However it must not be supposed that
Homeyer's G. (ihtjssinicii " Riippel " is Bonaparte's ab^ssinica. Homeyer declares
that, although Bonaparte gave this name to a yellow sand-coloured form, it should
be used for a small dark mountain form, because that was the real Abyssinian bird !
Similar nomenclatural eccentricities and illogical conclusions are often found in
this article, but it must be admitted that they are only a step more in the way of
certain ornithologists who will not accept strict priority in nomenclature. Accord-
ing to my own statement in Knt. Senckenherg. Vogelsamml. p. 40, note 78, the bird
on which Homeyer founded his " G. a/ii/ssini/'a Rtippel " is " G. cristnt",^^ a state-
ment which probably requires moditication.

Wandering farther eastwards we come again to a large country — Arabia —
whence I do not know the crested larks. In Turkestan and Yarkand, and perhaps
down to the Persian Gulf, is again found a large long-billed form, G. mnqnn^X which
resembles G. c. macrorhyncha so much tiiat I am not able to give distinguishing
characters. It seems also to vary in darkness and lightness of colour, almost as
much as G. c. mcicrorhjncha and G. c. arenicola. Very close to (j. c. magnu, if at
all separable, is the North Chinese G. c. le'iuttingensis.^

A very distinct form inhabits North- West India. It is very small, very grey
above, below not at all isabelline, the crop-region richly marked with blackish lirown
s])ots. II How it came to be constantly confounded with others is difficult to under-
stand. The names ckendoola and bogsii evidently both refer to this form.

Now to the nomenclature of all these forms.

G. cristata (L.) (Ed. X. ji. 106, 17os) of course applies to the North-European
form, K. Linnaeus' distribution " Habitat in Enropae iv'w" is excellent, and quite
to the point. Synonymous with it are undoubtedly Alauxla cochevis P. L. S. Miill.,
A. galerita Pall. (? partim), G. viariim Brehm, Heterops ci-istatus Frankl.

La Coquillade of Daubenton and Montlieillard (not t'oquiUarde, as quoted in the
Cat. B.) seems a curious bird, and it is by no means certain whether it is a distinct
form of 't. cristata or a mere " aberration." Therefore the names A. matutinn
Bodd., .1. undata Gm., and A. plumata P. L. S. Miill., Linn. Natursgst. Suppl. p. 137
(not quoted in Cat. B.), which are all based on the " Coquillade,'' must all be
quoted with a query, not without, among the synonyms of G. cristat".

A. senegalletisis (spelt thus !j P. L. S. Miill., based on the " Cochevis du
Sinegal " of Daubenton and Montbeillard, belongs of course to form b.

Alauda ckendoola Frankl. and Certhilaada, boysii Blyth must, I think, both
belong to the little grey N.W. Indian form, form o.

* Form /;.

t Evidently at Icvst two forms, k. I.

J Form m.

§ Form «.

II Form 0.

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Galerita randonii Loche of 1858 is a nom<'n nudum, tliongh we know fram his
later works that it is the same darker long-billed form (f/) which meanwhile, in
1859, had been described as G. maerorhijncha by Tristram.

Alauda leautungensis Swinh. pertains to the North-Chinese form («)> which is
hardly, if at all, separable from Oalerida cristata magna.

Galerita hrachtjura Tristr. (P. Z. S. 1864, p. 435) is a Palestine form, probably
somewhat closely allied to G. c. magna, but nearer to G. c. cristata. It was after-
wards suppressed by the describer himself. In his Flora and Fauna of Palestine
he did not even mention the name, and in the catalogue of his collection he placed it
as a synonym under G. cristata.

Galerita arenicola Tristr. is a long-billed form. It must, therefore, be trans-
ferred from the synonyms of G. isahellina, where it is placed in the Cat. B., to the
group of G. cristata, and it is nothing else than the paler desert-like-coloured near
ally of G. macrorhyncha, my G. cristata arenicola (Tristr.), form e.

G. cristata caucasica Tacz., Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1887, p. 621 (not P. Z. S.,
as quoted in Cat. B.), is not known to me, but, judging from the author's description,
peculiar.

G. cristata coreensis Tacz., P. Z. S. 1887, p. 603 (not Bull. Soc. Zool. France), is
long-billed, and evidently allied to G. magna and leautungensi.-i, hnt unknown to me.

Galerida ahyssinica Bp. (1850) is said by Bonaparte to be the Galerida
cristata ex Abyssinia of Ruppell. But Rvippell's Abyssinian specimens were not at
all "colore deserti." Therefore I have named them G. riippelli, although they
•would seem to be the types of G. ahyssinica Bp., but this can hardly be so, as they
entirely disagree with his diagnosis.

G. isahellina is not very much better, though a little better characterised than
G. ahyssinica, but there is no need to deviate from the generally accepted custom of
using this name for the short-billed North African true desert-form, i.

G.Jiam Brehm (A. E. Brelim, ././. 0. 1864, p. 77, dcscr. nulla— only the colour
vaguely mentioned ; C. L. Brehm, JS'aumannia, 1858, p. 209) is, without doubt, a
long-billed form, h, and not a synonym of G. isahellina. G. lutea C. L. Brehm,
Naumannia, 1858, p. 210, is evidently the same as G. isahellina Bp., and, in fact,
better and with more certainty referable to what we now call by Bonaparte's name.
I may here mention that it will be necessary to compare a scries from Egypt with a
series from Tunis and Algeria, as they may differ from each other.

G. cristata nigricans, major, vulgaris, pagorum, tenuirostris of C. L. Brehm
{Naumannia, 1858, pp. 207, 208) are evidently all individual or accidental varieties
of 0. cristata cristata.

G. cristata liarinthiaca and j^^'JMram id. iid. must be compared, but belong
probably also to G. cristata cristata.

G. cristata pallida and gallica are doubtful. Perhaps the former belongs to
G. c. senegalk7m.t, and the latter may be the Coquillade of Montbeillard (v. antea),
G.c. angustistriaia (Spain, Greece, and Nubia !), G. c. maculata (Nubia and Spain !),
G. c. aitirostris (Egypt, Nubia, Spain !), and (J. c. ru/e.scem (S. Sj)aiu) must remain
doubtful, and cannot, from their generally jioor descriptions, be finally defined
without a study of the types.

In conclusion, I will again enumerate all those forms of (Jalerida which I
believe can be recognised as subspecies, those specially wanted in Mr. Rothschild s
Museum being marked with an asterisk.

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Galerida Boie.

1. 0. cristata L.

a. 0. cristata cristata L. Europe generally.

*b. G. cristata sirnegallensis (P. L. S. Mlill.) SenegamLia, Hausa-land ;
according to Sharpe, to Sonth Spain, etc.

c. G. cristata the/dae (C. L. Brehm). South Spaiu, Morocco ; according

to Whitaker, to Tunis (coast), where, however, evidently not typical,
but more pointing to a.

d. G. cristata macrorhyncha Tristr. Algeria, Tunis.

e. G. cristata arenicola Tristr. Algeria, Tunis. (Details of distribution, see

Koenig, Whitaker.)

*/• G. cristata superjiaa Hartert. Tunis, Algeria. (Not known to me, but
evidently a good form. Name with regard to the overflowing richness
of forms in Tunis and Algeria.)

g. G. cristata ddtae Hartert. Nile Delta.

h. G. cristata flava (C. L. Brehm). Nubia.

*/. G. cristata isahellina (Bp.). Egypt, Tunis, and Algeria.
*k.l. Evidently two mountain forms in Abyssinia, of which more knowledge
is required. Synonyms at present doubtful to me.

m. G. cristata magna (Hume). Distribution probably wide, not yet quite
worked out. (Extremely close to d.) (?)

*n. G. cristata leautungensis (Swinh.). North China. (Perhaps not separ-
able from G. magna.) (?)
0. (t. cristata chendoola (Frankl.). North-West India.

p. G. cristata malabarica (Scoj).). South India.

*q. G. cristata caucasica Tacz. Caucasus. (Unknown to me.)

*r. G. cristata coreensis Tacz. Corea. (Unknown to me.)
2. G. deva (Sykes). India, Cutch to Etawah and Madras.

We have thus two species, one of them divided into thirteen to seventeen
subspecies — more to be discovered by-and-by.*

* While these words were in print there appeared Elliot's description of a new form from Somaliland.
A. cllioti Hartert. It is probably a subspecies of G. cristata (see antea, p. 144).

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NOTES ON HUMMING-BIRDS.

By ERNST HARTERT.
ERIOCNEMIS.

THROUGH the kindness of Herr Dr. A. B. Me3er, I have been able to study
the type of his Eriocnemis aurea, described in the Auk, 1890, p. 315. It is,
in my opinion, not possible at present to decide finally about this bird, but it is
probably a, female of E. cupreiventris. Some of the supjwsed specific ditferences
are those of the Jemale from the 7nale of the latter species. The white cross-bands
on the breast-feathers and the smaller size are the characters of the female.
Mr. Salvm, in the Catalogue of Birds, says that the sexes oi Eriocnemis cupreiventris
are alike, but dissected skins from Merida, Venezuela, show that the /'i> mate differs
from the male in having white cross-bars to the feathers of the throat and breast)
and in being a little smaller. Also the under tail-coverts are less bright. I have
not, as a rule, much faith in the golden bronze tinge as a specific character, but
the certainly differently coloured upper tail-coverts, combined with the other
characters given in Dr. Meyer's description, must at present make it doubtful
whether the specimen in question is a variety of an ndnlt feinale of E. cupreiventris,
or a distinct species. It may be added that Mr. Salvin (I.e.) only gave Colombia
as the home of E. cupreicentris, only having Bogota trade-skins before him.
However it is equally common in the Andes near Merida in Venezuela, whence the
Tring Museum received eight specimens. Specimens from Merida are also in
Boucard's, Berlepsch's, and Simon's collections. Mr. Boucard, Hamm. B. 1892, p. 78,
and Gen. Humm. B. p. 257, described as a new species an Eriocnemis albigularis,
it being distinguished by a white throat. He adds that it " may possibly turn out
to be a case of semi-albinism." Any unbiassed ornithologist who throws only a
glance at the bird will agree with me, that it is undoubtedly an albinistic variety
of E. cupreiventris, and I may add that it is evidently Vi. female.

PETASOPHORA.

The measurement of the wing of the male of Petasophora delphinae (2'6 in.)
is given too small in Cat. B. XVI. p. 112. It is 71 — 76 mm. in the adult male, but
in the female it is 66 — 68. The female is similar to the male in colour, but it is
smaller. The wing is shorter in the females of all species of Petasophora ! I cannot,
from all I have seen, appreciate the alleged differences of P. cabanirtis, and cannot
separate the Central American specimens even snbspecifically.

THALURANIA.

It is Mr. Boucard's habit to propose names for sjjecimens " if they should
prove difiFerent species." This " pro])osing " names for doubtful forms is, in our
opinion, a very bad practice, although it has been followed by many distinguished
ornithologists. It is the more objectionable as it is generally done in the midst of the
letterpress or in footnotes, instead of in a different paragraph or under a conspicuous
heading, thus being more easily overlooked. So Mr. Boucard has {Gen. II. B.

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p. 102, 1893) proposed the name of Tkalurania valeticiana for specimens of Tit.
folumbica. from " Valencia in Columbia," in whicii " the shining emerald-green of
the throat covers only the throat and ujiper part of the breast, while the neck, back,
and rnmp are all green, without the bronz}' tinge constant in 77?. columhica." The
female, he says, is also different in having the flanks and abdomen green. As far
as I can see, the colour of the neck, back, and rnmp of the type of Boucard's
T. valenciana does not differ more than many Bogota skins I have seen vary from
others from the same locality, and the extent of the green colonr of the throat seems
only different because the skin is differently prepared. The supposed female I
consider to be an immature male, which always has the flanks and abdomen green !
Th. valenciana can therefore only be regarded as a synonym of Th. columbica.

Mr. Boncard further described (Gen. H. B. p. 107) as a new species Th.
boliviaua from Bolivia, but his types are Th. jelskii Tacz., a species which Boncard
did not know and which he placed as a synonym of T. nigrofasciata. Mr. Salvin
(Cat. B. XVI. p. 84) also did not know Tk. jelskii, as he expressly says ; but he
had before him eight skins of it from Bolivia, which he enumerated as skins of
Th. tschwUi, thongh (p. 83) he noticed some differences between them and his real
Th. tschudii from Peru. Th. jelskii is, I think, more distinct than Th. tschudii,
which comes somewhat close to Th. nigrofasciata.

The three forms Th. furcata, furcatoides, and refulgens are somewhat puzzling.
The first two especially are very closely allied, and even Boncard, who can hardly be
called a " lumper," has united them. Although Th. furcatoides from Brazil is pretty
constant, this cannot be said of Th. furcata from Guiana and Cayenne, specimens
from both these countries varying greatly in measurements, and especially in those
of the tail, some being found that are hardly distinguishable from Tk. furcatoides.
Th. refulgens is generally at a glance to be distinguished from Th. furcata by its
much larger size, and especially the longer, broader, and more forked tail, as well
as by the generally pure steel-blue under tail-coverts. The size, however, is not
absolutely constant, an approach to large specimens of Tk. furcata being foirnd now
and then ; and there are also specimens with narrow white borders to some of the
under tail-coverts. The three forms, nevertheless, are recognisable if a series is
compared, and the consequence is that they must be treated as subspecies.

As the locality of Th. refulgens the island of Trinidad alone is generally given, but
we really do not know where the numerous trade-skins in all our collections, which
are said to be from Trinidad, are shot. Even admitted that most of them really are
from Trinidad, it is most likely that either Th. refulgens or Tk. furcata inhabits the
countries between British Guiana, and almost certain that the specimens approaching
Tk. furcata are not from the same place as the more tyjiical Th. refulgens. Boucard
therefore most cautiously adds a query to the locality Trinidad.

With regard to Th. columbica and Th. venusta, I cannot help observing that
Central American specimens are mostly recognisable by the rather wide extent of
blue on the back, and that nearly all of them have also longer beaks. There is,
therefore, reason enough to separate this species into two forms, Tk. cobmibica typica
and Th. columbica venusta.

Mr. Eugfene Simon has described one more species of Tkalurania from Yungas
in Bolivia, which he named Th. balzani. Its most striking characters are the
pure white under tail-coverts and its rather sliort wing. The type-specimens are
evidently fully adult birds. They have the tliroat of a golden green. Their nearest
ally, however, is Th. jelskii. There is no black band between the green colonr of

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the throat and tliat of the abdomen. Th. balzani is evidently a distinct species.
The Triug Mnseum has received it from the Beni IJiver in East Bolivia, where
Mr. A. Maxwell Stuart shot it.

CHLOROSTILBOX.
Besides the forms included in the genus Chlorostilbon in the Catalogue of Bir(fii
I must, without hesitation, unite with it the members of the so-called genus
Panychlora. The colour of the tail alone can certainly not serve for generic
separation, and the interramal space is not in all the species of Paw/chlora, as far
as I can see, more feathered thau in all the forms of Chlorostilbon, besides that
this slight difference is hardly of generic value. Genera are, in my opinion, made
for the convenience, and not for the inconvenience, of systematic workers, ami
therefore, granted that colour alone cannot serve for generic separation, Chloro-
stilbon and Fanychloru are better united. The species of these groujis are often very
closely allied, and some of them must be split into several subspecific forms, which
here and there pass into each other. Thus the Mexican Chi. caniveti is slightly
modified towards the south, the specimens from Guatemala having a less deejdy
forked tail, those from Costa Rica a still less deeply forked tail, besides other slight
differences (see Cat. B. XVI. p. 47), and, as a rnle, specimens of the three forms
can well be distinguished, though occasion.ally it seems impossible to classify certain
individaals. Therefore it is not possible to separate them specifically, as stated by
Salvin, I.e., but they may stand as subspecies.

Mr. Salvin, Cat. B. XVI. p. 56, saysj " With typical specimens of C. daphne,
C. napensis, C. brei'icaudatus, and C. subfurcafus before me, I am unable to dis-
tinguish between them or to separate them from C. prasinns of Cayenne." It is
certainly true that these forms are closely allied, and at first, when looking at them
on a dark winter day in the British Museum, I did not notice much of the supposed
differences, except the different length of the bills. When, however, I had studied
the material in the collections of Mr. Rothscliild, ('ount Berlepsch, Mous. Eng.
Simon, and in the Paris Museum, I found that specimens from Cayenne do not
possess the blue tinge on the throat and foreneck, which is very strong (not only
faint) in those from Upper Amazonia and from the Roraima Mountains. The tail
in Cayenne birds is about square, the central rectrices being very little shorter
than the others, the outer ones slightly shorter thau the rest, while in C. subfiireatus
Berlp. from Roraima the tail is distinctly snbfurcated, the outermost rectrices
being longest, the central ones decidedly shorter. Moreover C. subfurcatus has the
beak about two millimetres shorter, but the wing is not constantly longer, though
Count Berlepsch states it to be longer. C. subjurcatus is, I have no doubt, specifically
distinct from C. prasinus, but it is so very much like C. daphne, and in fact only
distinguished from it by a two millimetres shorter beak, slightly shorter wing, and
a little more deeply forked tail (but not by a less blue tliroat), that it is best
considered as a subspecies of C. daphne, some skins of the latter from Peni being
hardly distinguishable from C. subjurcatus. We thus have two species, one only
known from the low country of Guiana, the other an inhabitant of fjie Upper
Amazons and the eastern jiarts of the Andes, which occurs in a slightly modified
form in the Roraima Mountains.

C. breucaudatui is the name given by Gould to the bird of Cayenne, the very
one we call now C'. prasinus. It is true that Lesson's figure and description are
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and, moreover, he leaves the locality doubtful (" cspece ([ui parait habiter le
BresU I ") ; bat there seems to be no other species to which we can refer his name :
it seems too small for C. daphne, the tail not emarginate enough for C. aubfurcatus,
the beak difFerentl}' coloured from that of C. imcherani. I therefore agree with
Elliot, Salvin, and others that the name of Lesson should stand for the species under
consideration. Very few are the specimens in collections from Brazil. The specimen
from Barcellos on the Rio Negro {Agtjrtria mflipkila Natt., in Pelz. Orn. Bras.
pp. 29, 57) has a bluish throat, and therefore would belong to C. daphne. A skin
in Count Berlepsch's collection which is jirobablv from the middle parts of the
Amazons, though its locality is not known with certainty, belongs to C. prasiiuu<,
and has not at all the more forked tail of C. subfurcatus, but it is slightly more
bluish on the breast than other C. prasimis usually are. It is almost certain that
in some parts of Brazil intermediate forms between ('. daphne and C. siibfureatux
are found, and they may even be enough localised to make them into another inter-
mediate subspecies. It is also not impossible that connecting links e.xist between
C. subfurcatus and C. prasiuus, but at present we do not know them. Specimens
from Pern (C. daphne') are perhaps generally a little smaller, with shorter beaks,
than tliose from Ecuador {€. napensis), but they seem rather variable, and I have
not enongli evidence to separate these two forms conscientiously.

There has always been some tuicertainty about Chlorostilhon {Pawjchlora')
euckloris, which is the same as P. poortmani major Berlepsch. I have, therefore,
studied Count Berlepsch's types and many other specimens in the collections at
Berlepsch, Tring, Loudon, and Paris. There is no doubt that the skins from
Bucaramanga in the state of Santander, the typical C. euckloris, are very different
from typical C. poortmani, especially in their long beaks ; but in Bogota collections
we find, besides a vast number of typical C. poortmani, certain skins forming
complete intergradations between the two forms, and some typical C. euMoris as
well. G. euchloris must therefore be degraded to subspeciiic rank.

Boncard, in the Ilumming-Bird, 1892, p. 79, and Gen. Humm. B. p. 122,
described a C. speciosus. The tj^^e, with its dull oily, somewhat bluish or gre}ish
underside, is a very distinctly and curiously coloured Bogota skin, agreeing in its
dimensions with C. angustipennis. It is at present impossible to say whether it
belongs to a different species, or whether it is a dark-coloured variety of C. angusti-
pennis. Boucard, Gen. Humm. B. p. 120, described also a C. iviedi {rom Brazil. It
is exactly like C. pucherani, but a little less bluish on the throat than most skins of
€. jyueherani, and more golden aliove. The less strong blue tint on the throat
seems to be of no consequence, as it varies considerably in the species, and there are
undoubted skins of < '. pucherani which have as little blue as Boucard's ('. u-iedi.
The more golden hue is, in my opinion, not a specific character, but due to age of
plumage. When in the Dutch West Indian Islands, Aruba, Curacjao, and Bonaire,
my wife and I collected a large series of C. caribaeus (the C. atala of the Catalogue
of Birds). They were mostly glossy golden green, as we see them in every collec-
tion, but a few freshly moulted birds shot in the last time of our stay showed a
most surprisingly strong golden sheen on the abdomen and above, and the crown
was really jmre shining gold. Most of these had a few old feathers left, but one in
just perfected plumage is faultless and of great l)eauty. In view of this experience
of my own I cannot attach any specific value to a more golden gloss in single
individuals from no distinct locality, and I regard C. wiedi without the slightest
hesitation as merely a synonym of C. pucherani.

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For similar reasons I cauuot see anytliiug but uu iudividiial variation, as it is
found in almost ever)' species of wliicli any series are to liand, in Boucard's
C. panainensis, which lie " proposes " for a single male of C. assimilis " if it slionld
prove new."

ON A NEW CATHABSIUS FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

By .TOHN W. SIIIPP.
Catharsius australiae sp. no v.
Black, subnitid. Head semicircular, with the posterior angles acute ; clypeus
raarginate and disc raised ; a transverse carina extends from near the inner margin
of the eyes across the disc, rather elevated in the centre. A fine carina crossing
from each side of clypeus meets the transverse carina just in front of the inner
margin of the eyes. Head rugosely granulate, the granulations being transversely
elongated on the disc, but more rounded and closer together at the sides.

Thora.x with the anterior angles slightly acute. Sides of thorax rounded.
Lateral margins strongly emargiuate. Posterior angles obsolete, the posterior
margin being evenly rounded. A deep cicatrix on each side of thorax just behind
the middle. Disc with a very short transverse obsolete carina towards the anterior
margin, with the middle slightly impressed. Densely granulate, with the exception
of two smooth lobes on each side of the longitudinal obsolete depression close to the
posterior mariiin, which is deeply marginate.

Elytra longer than broad, furnished with seven punctured striae between the
humeral or eighth stria and the suture. The humeral stria is furnished with a
strongly raised carina, which is evanescent towards apex. Interstices sparingly
punctured with minute punctures, which are thicker at the apex and round the
margins. Lateral margins strongly sinuated and marginate.

Pvgidium broader than long, thickly punctiwed, and witli a small smooth
median impunctate line towards the base.

Underside, with the exception of the legs and abdomen, covered with a reddish
brown jmbescence. Abdomen smooth, very finely punctured on disc, tliickly and
coarsely punctured at sides. Metasternum with a deep longitudinally impressed
impunctate line in centre, sides rather thickly punctured and pubescent, disc very
sparingly punctured with minute punctures.

Anterior tibiae three-dentate, with a raised longitudinal carina running down
the entire centre, and with three small transverse cariuae branching off to the apex
of the dentations. A fine sinuated carina runs round the entire length of the
e.^terior margin.

Anterior femora swollen towards the base, simply bicarinate both on the under-
side and also on the exterior margin ; sparingly punctured and slightly pubescent.

Intermediate and jiosterior tibiae truncated, and three-dentate on exterior
margins, the basal dentation being very small. Undersides of femora very finely
and sparingly punctured with minute i)uuctures. Intermediate tibiae with two
apical spurs, posterior tibiae with one apical spur.
Long. Corp. 28 mm.: lat. 10 mm.
ITa/). Darling Range, West Australia.
Type : one ? in the Tring Museum.
This is the only Cutkni-sius from Australia with which I am acquainted.

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ME. WILLIAM DOHERTY'S BIRD-COLLECTIONS FROM

CELEBES.

By ERNST HARTERT.
INTRODUCTION.

AFTER liis most snccessfnl trips to Java, Bali, Lombok, Sambawa, and Snmba,
of which a short account is given and tlio birds ennmerated in the last
unmber of this jonrnal, Doherty left the Snnda Islands for Celebes. The ornitho-
logical resnlts from Celebes are, of course, less important than those from the
Lesser Snnda Islands, as Celebes is, for the most part, much better known than
those islands ; bnt the birds are, nevertheless, of much interest.

Doherty first went up to Bonthain Peak. He says of the birds from there :
" About half of them came from Bnkampaliang or Kampaliang, about .5000 feet
high, above Lokka, which is above Bonthain (Bantaing), high up on the ' Bawa
Karaing,' as the peak is there called. They were taken in four days. We did not
make a long stay at Bonthain, bnt immediately started up the hill with packhorses,.
the Raja superintending. As early as eight o'clock in the morning (butterflies are
rarely out till at least nine, as you know) we got some good butterflies — a d of an
Jxias new to me, though I think I have seen it mentioned somewhere, a ? of the
very rare Krgolis merionoides, and several of Nychitona (Hone and Appkis ithome,
of which we had only got one in the Makassar country. The vegetation was
ststouishiugly ditferent from that at the north of Makassar — rather iioor — and we
had seen very fine forest three miles from Bonthain. So, finding insects very scarce
in the high country, we, in our disappointment, returned too soon to Bonthain town,
and spent half of our short trip near that place, wliere we found none of the fine
things we expected."

The shortness of the Bonthain trip, and the very short stay in the higher
altitudes, were the reasons that the Bonthain birds are of comparatively little
interest ; and as Everett and the Sarasins had collected there before, they are all
species already known to occur there. Nevertheless I thought it would lie worth
while to give a complete list, as we know so little of the exact distribution of
Celebes birds in higher altitudes, as some of the species call forth certain remarks,
and especially as most of them have good details on the labels.

There is then a snuill collection from the low country nortli of Makassar, which,
though small and for the greater part consisting of common birds, contains great
rarities, as a skin of a young nialc of Phlegoenas bimcu-ulata Salvad., ih^ female of
Monachalctjon capucinus Mey. & Wigl., only known from the typo, a malo, and a
pair of Sipkia rtifigula, which was of special interest to us.

After a short stay at Makassar, that great eniporinm of the easternmost trade
in the Dntch West Indies, Doherty proceeded to Palos Bay, in the middle of the
west coast of Celebes, where he collected for a short time, nnfortunately under very
difficult and hindering circumstances.

The following passages from a letter dated Ternate, September 27th, 1896,
and written during a bad attack of remittent fever — in a temi)eratare of from 9,5° to
110° Fahr. — refer to this expedition, and may be of interest, if only to show that

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collecting in the East, althongh one of the most fascinating occnpations of a
naturalist, is not always like wandering on paths strewn with roses : —

" I send three tins of butterflies and five of birds from Palos Bay. They are
partly taken south or south-west of the bay, at l^omjohi, and i)artly north of the
entrance of the bay, at Tawaya, all being from low country up to :2500 feet, my
desperate attempts to reach high country on Mount Loli, and again on Mount
Tumba (or Tuba), just failing by a hair's breadth. We had a very bad time. My
idea was to reach the neck of the isthmus between Tawacli and Parigi, where, at a
height of 3000 feet or more, I might have made interesting collectidns. Usually,
I think, there would have been no great difficulty in attempting this ; but just as I
came to the port of Dongala war broke out. The Tawadli people burnt Kayn
Malnwa; the fugitives fled partly to Tawaya (north), partly to I'alu (Palos) (south).
The people of Dongala guarded their houses night and day with guus in their
hands, and no praus for love or money would venture to go out. I went over to
Tawali, on the south coast of the bay, and got some butterflies, including a curious
form of Cethosia myrina (at 2500 feet), and tried to reach Mount Loli, about
8000 feet high, but the Raja interfered. The western side of the mountain, all
forest, belongs to the Sultan of Palos, and it is impossible to go there without going
•to Palos for permission, which was impossible during the war. Tlie eastern side
close to Palos belongs to the Sultan of Benawa, the greatest of all these chiefs, and
my very good friend. Unfortunately, however, this side is absolutely bare up to
5000 or 0000 feet — a remarkable thing for a place so near the equator— and quite
uninhabited. The Sultan of Benawa advised me to try Tawaya, which he said
belonged to him. As a matter of fact the Tawayans had some years ago kidnapped
his son and held him as a hostage, doing just what they liked. The dear little boy
afterwards often came to see me at Tawaya, with a large armed guard. Finally
I got, at great exjieuse, a prau to take me to Tawaya. The passage was fearful.
We were nearly swamped, lost an outrigger, and thought we were lost, when
suddenly, by amazing luck, the wind changed and the sea went down, enabling us
to reach the shore. The men, who were in fear of pirates all the way over, put my
things ashore a long way from the village, and fled for their lives. I left my men,
all armed, in charge of the things, and went only with my butterfly-net to Tawaya.
On arriving at the place I was mobbed at once, the ])oople, who sjieak only Kaili,
not Malay, supposing that their town was to be attacked, and they tried to kill me,
one young man from Kayu Maluwa actually wounding me in the breast, though but
slightly, because the old men caught hold of his arms. By great good fortune an
old Buginesc, Haji Abdul Fatha, who has been three times to Mecca, but was
nevertheless a good man, came just in time, and after 1 had given him the signet-
ring of his son Nazir at Dongala, whom I knew well, but who liad been afraid to
accompany us, he explained everything, and our tronbles were over for this time.
The Tawaya people, however, remained sullen anil hostile for some ilays. The
neiglibouring vDlages were deserted, the people having taken to the woods ; and
though the Ilaja's sons often came to see me, he himself never came near his
capital during my stay. What he was afraid of I cannot say. I^ soon got on
friendly terms with the Alfnro (Toraja they say in ( 'elebes), or heathen people of
Tumba ; and as Tawaya was utterly j)arclu'd up and dry, I did my best to go to
Tumba, and twice got coolies, and twice they ran away. The third time they came
and were ready to take us to Tumba (fully 4000 feet high, I think, on a mountain
which is about TOOO), but that day there were three of us down with fever, and a

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few days later we had to go back to Dougala to catch the steamer. If I liad stayed
I conld easily have reached Tnmba and got many good things, but considering what
the Sarasins have done in Celebes, I hated to waste time that might be better spent
in other islands.*

"The country near Palos Bay was actnally drier than Makassar, while in Toli
Toll (Tontoli), only 200 miles beyond, the climate is like that of Singapore — rain
every day, and a pleasant flora, I hear, like tliat of the Minahassa. Though now
the steamers stop at Dongala — formerly a little rendezvous of Bnginese pirates —
nobody at Makassar knew anything about the place. That is the trouble of going
to new places !

The insects and birds seem to l)e a mixture of the well-known Menado and
Makassar forms. . . ."

I shall give a complete list of the birds from north and south of Palos Bay, as
it will be not without value for the knowledge of the exact distribution of the
Celebes birds.

I. BIRDS COLLECTED IN AUGUST 1896 ON BONTHAIN PEAK.

1. Merula celehensis Bvittik.— J?, 6U00 to 7U00 feet. "Iris dark brown; feet

ochreons brown; bill orange-ochraceous, duller above."

2. Pratincola cnprata (L.). — From the lower hills to (jUOO feet. " Iris of

<? chestnut."

3. Phyllergates ricdeli Mey. & Wigl.— c? ? , 3000 and 6000 feet. " Iris <? pale

umber, ? greyish brown; feet pale brown or olive-brown ; maxilla blackish ;
mandible reddish ochreons." The young male is coloured like the adult
female.

4. Cisficohi cisticola (Temm.). — 6, 5000 feet. "Iris pale brown ; feet i)ale brown;

bill blackish; mandible pale, except on tip."

5. Tricliostoma Jinsehi Wald. — Only met with in the low country. " Iris pale

red-brown ; feet pale purplish ; maxilla blackish ; mandible bluish horu-
colonr."

6. ^wf/ro;;/^//;^*- fcTmV^/ Hartert.— ?, 0000 to 7000 feet. Wing 68-2 mm. "Feet

dark fuscous ; bill nearly black."

7. Acmonorhynckiis aureolimbatus (Wall.).— Only met with in the low countr\- at

the foot of Bouthain Peak. " Iris red-brown; bill and feet black."

8. Dicaeum celebtcum Miill. & Schleg.— Low country and 1000 feet. "Iris of

S ad. dark brown ; bill and feet black." One young /e?K«fe from 4000 feet
seems to belong to this species, though I am not quite sure about it. " Its
iris is deep brown ; feet blackish ; maxilla black ; mandible at base and
gape dull orange." This specimen is not B. nehrlwrni, as the bill is too
stout for that species, though in colour it is like young specimens of it.

9. D. nehrkorni W. Bias.— 4000 to 6000 feet.

10. Cinnyris frenata dissentiens Hartert.— Both sexes and pulli from the lower
hills up to 6000 feet. " Iris deep brown ; feet and beak black."

* We are sorry to say that we cannot agree with our friend's calculation. The Sarasins were neither
siiccialists in ornithology nor in entomology, anil collecting birds and lepidoptera was by no means their
principal object durintr their travels in Celebes. A longer stay in the higher country of Tumba (or Tuba)
would no doubt have been of some use for llr. Doherty. Only a longer stay can result in really good
collections, unless totally unknown islands are visited, whence everything is of interest, and such .arc rare
now ; and even there a too much hun-ied stay is regrettable.— K. H.

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After once more reading Professor Blasins' discnssion on " Cyrtosfomus frcnatus-
(S. Mull.) var. nov. Plateni" in Zeitschr. /. ges. Ornith. II. pp. 289-291,
and comparing the figures on Plate XII. with my birds from Bonthain
Peak, it became to me very donbtfal whether it would be possible to separate
the form of the Bonthain Peak from tliat of Makassar. AVlien I named my
(lissentiens I compared it with a good series of North Celebes specimens,
which were named by Dr. A. B. Meyer, who no doubt has of all ornitho-
logists the greatest knowledge of the Celebensian avifauna, C. frenata
platetti. So it came that I took them to be typical plateni, nor had I any
special reason to doubt tlie correctness of tliis view, as Professor Blasins
had bestowed the name plateni on southern as well as on northern
examples. Professor Blasins now has been kind enough to lend me his
type of C. frenata plateni, which, as his article clearly shows, is the South
Celebes bird, with which, however, he nnited the North Celebes birds,
although stating some sliglif diSerences. I find now, iVom a study of
Blasins" type and one male from Makassar in the British Museum, that the
Makassar birds are quite unlike the Miuahassa form, being much paler
yellow below, and more olive with very little of a green tinge above.
Nevertheless they are not exactly like our birds from Bonthain Peak, but
still a little darker below, and with a. slight greenish tinge above, while my
Bonthain form has none at all. Therefore it would be most desirable to
compare a series of Makassar birds with those from Bonthain, of which I
have a good material before me now, to finally decide whether the Bonthain
birds are constantly different from those of Makassar : bnt at present I must
sujjpose, and I believe that this will be found to be quite right, that there
are three forms in Celebes : —

(1) A bird with dark yellow under parts and greenish upperside, inhabiting
Northern Celebes.

(2) A bird with paler underside, darker olive-brown and much less greenisli
upperside, found in the low country in South Celebes.

(3) A bird with still paler underside and still less greenish deep olive-brown
upperside, known to occnr on the Bonthain Peak.

The first of these three, which is undoubtedly different from No. 2, has no name^
and I wish to name it

Cinnyris frenata meyeri subsj). nov.

in honour of Dr. A. B. Meyer.

No. 2 is C. frenata plateni (W. Bias.), sensu strictiore.

No. 3, if different from No. 2, is C. frenata dissentiens Hart.

C.f. meyeri is the nearest form of the three to G. frenata frenata.

To make matters still more interesting, tliongh more complicated again, I am
enabled, with my good series of Bonthain birds for comparison, to state that
the difference between the latter and those from Saleyer, viz. the still paler
underside of the Saleyer form, is well marked and apparentjy constant,
and therefore I cannot hesitate any longer to distinguish it as

Cinnyris frenata saleyerensis subsp. nov.

Cinnyris fonuae C. frenata dissentiens dictae persimilis, sed subtns valde
pallidior.

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Hab. Insula Saleyer dicta.

Typus in Mnseo Rothschildiano asservatnr.

11. Cinnyris porphi/rolacma (Wall.). — Low country only.

12. Mxjzomelu chlorojdera Walden. — 400(1 to 60OO feet.

13. Melilestes cekbensis meridioiiaUs Mey. & Wigl. -<?, 0000 feet. " Bill black;

feet dark biown ; soles dull oclireons."

14. Zosterops anomalu Mey. & Wigl. — This interesting sjiecies, wjiich truly deserves

the name anomala, was found at 3000 and 4000 feet. The "iris is pale
brown; the feet pale bluish grey; l)eak liiack; base of mandible pale."
l^. Z. sarasinoi-um Mey. &Wigl. — Two mali's from 50(J0 feet. As remarked before,
in my article on the birds collected on Bonthaiu Peak by Mr. Everett, I
have not seen Z. snrasirwrum from North Celebes, liut Dr. A. B. Meyer has
been good enough to compare some of my Bonthain Peak skius with his
Z. sarasinorum, and declares them to be the same. The authors, when
describing this species, did not compare it with its nearest ally at all, nor
did I when I first mentioned it, as I had no specimens of Z. citrineUa. Now,
comparing Z. sarasinoram with Z. citrinelhi, I find that they are very
similar to each other, in fact so much that they might be merely subspecies.
Z. citrineUa, however, is a little larger, with longer wing and beak, and
has the sides of the breast and abdomen more strongly washed with greyish
brown, and the middle of the breast and abdomen is lighter and more
washed with ])ale yellow in Z. sa7-a)<inonim. Z. palpebrosa and allies
differ at a glance in the grey sides of breast and abdomen.

16. Z. intermedia Wall. — In the lower parts and at about 3000 feet. " Iris pale sepia;

feet pale bluish grey ; maxilla deep brown ; mandible pale corneous."
Specimens from the Lesser Sunda Islands, as said before in this journal,
are mostly distinctly larger, with slightly larger beaks, and it might be
possible to separate them subspecifically from Z. intermedia of Celebes.

17. Z. squamiceps (Hartert). — I greatly doubt now, the more I see of Chlorocharis

emiliae and my Chi. sqimmiceps, that either of them can with satisfaction
be separated from the genus Zosterops, as long as Oreozosterops and other
aberrant forms are united with it, which I do not wish to separate (see Nov.
ZooL. III. jjp. 70, 153). Also my Lopkozosterops dohertyi (Nov. ZooL.
III. p. 668) is most closely allied to these large aberrant forms of
Zosterops, but tlie elongated head-feathers, forming a consjiiouous crown in
both sexes, may warrant its generic sejiaration. The beak of Lopkozosterops,
too, is rather strong and stout ibr a Zostei-ops. Z. squamiceps (Hart.) was
found to be common in heights of about 500i » and 6000 feet above the sea.
" The iris is dark chestnut or dark brown ; feet dark bluish grey, soles
ochreous; beak black."

18. Munia moliicca (L.). — Met with in the low country only. Celebes examjiles are

not, I think, separable from M. molucca typica, while some of the Saleyer
and Kalao specimens approach the M. molucca propinqva of the Lesser
Sunda Islands. This latter subspecies is indeed very little differentiated,
but I i|uite agree with Mr. Bharjie tliat it deserves a name. Systematic
work is scientijic only if it is exact; if not it is either useless, or doing harm
instead of good.

19. Artamus vionackus Bj). — One c?, shot at 6000 feet above the sea. Quite like

specimens from North Celebes. " Iris deeji red-brown ; feet and claws

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Mackisli, jiowdered with wliite ; boiik jiale bine, tip aucl fore-i)art of
commissure blackisli."

20. Calornis minor Bp.— At 40011 feet.

21. Oriolus celebensis meriilionalis Hart. — Low country.

22. Streptocitta albicollis (Vieill.).— 3000 feet.

23. Pachycephala honthaina (Mey. & Wij;:!.).— Met with from 6000 to 7000 feet.

" Iris scarlet; bill black; feet blackisli." (Nov. Zool. III. p. 155.)

24. P. meridionaliH Biittik. — 3000 to 6000 feet high. " Iris deep chestnnt-brown ;

feet dark purplish, claws black ; beak black."

25. Graucaliis leucopygius B]). — ? shot at 500 feet on the foot of the Peak. " Iris

yellowish white; feet and beak black." Wing 153 mm.

26. Lalage timoriensis (S. Miill.). — One S from the loot of Bonthain Peak. " Iris

deep chestnut; feet blackish; beak black."

27. Muscicapula westermanni Sharpe. — A ? ad. and a S juv. from about 6000 feet.

?. "Iris grey; feet blackish; beak black."

28. Mmcicapula hi/peri/thra (Blyth). — S, 6000 feet. Wing (io mm.!

29. Sip/da omissa Hartert (Nov. Zool. III. p. 71). — Three adult males and a young

male from 4000 and 6000 feet. They bear out my former conclusions as to
the distinctness of the Celebes form, althongh the i/iales are not so easy to
distinguish. It may be considered by some as merely a subspecies of
5. hawjumas. S ad. " Feet pale purplish ; bill black." i juv. " Feet pale
reddish." Wings of adult ?«ate : 78 — 81mm.

30. Siphia bontluiina Hartert. — One specimen, marked c?, from 6000 feet. It fully

agrees with the type, described Nov. Zool. III. p. 157. " Iris deep chestnut;
feet slaty grey, soles pale reddish ; bill black." Wing 66 mm. ; tail 49 :
culm. 13-6 ; tars. 19.

31. Gerygone fiateola Cab. — One ?, 6000 feet. "Iris reddish chestnut; feet and

beak blackish." Wing 54'9 mm.

32. Hypothymi» puella (Wall.). — From the foot of Bonthain Peak. $. " Iris dark

chestnut."

33. Rkipidura teysmanni Buttik. — Two females from 3000 and 5000 feet. " Iris

very dark chestnut-brown: feet pale purplish; beak blackish, pale at base of
mandible."

34. Culicicapa keliaiithea Wall. — Met with at Ooihi feet. " Feet pale reddish brown,

blackish in front ; beak blackish above, reddish below."

35. Cryptolopha sarasinorum Mey. & Wigl.— In heights of 4000, 5000, and 6000

feet. " Iris dark chestnut ; feet slaty grey, soles ochreons ; beak deep
blackish brown, base of mandible paler." Wing 54 — 56 mm. Sexes alike
in colour and size.

36. Stoparola meridionalis Buttik. — A series from 5000 to 6o0U feet. " Iris deep

chestnut ; feet black ; beak black."

37. Halcyon cldoris (Bodd.). — A 6 from the foot of the mountain, very blue every-

where above; wing 112 mm. Two ? ? from 4000 feet, much more greenish
above; wings lln and 112 mm. " Iris deep chestnut."

38. Microstictus wallacei (Tweedd.). — On the foot of the Peak. (? ¥ . " Iris very pale

canary-yellow ; feet dull bluish with some sordid brownish scales, claws
bluish horn-colour; bill black."

39. lyngipicus temmimhi (Malh.). — Two males from 4000 feet. '• Iris dull crimson ;

feet dirty olive-green, claws pale brownish grey."

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40. Eunjstomus orientnlis L. — A fomale, more like /'.'. orienfalis orientalis than

E. orientalis austraiis, but not quite topical , from the low country of
Bonthain.

41. TrichofflossHs ornatus (L.). — S and ?, not differing from each other, from 3000

and .^01)0 feet. " Iris salmon-colour ; feet dull irreenish. claws pale grey-
brown ; beak orange."

42. Ninox ptmctulata Quoy & Gaim. — Two females from the foot of the mountain.

" Iris deep chestnut." No bars above, only whitish spots, but these inclined
to be bar-like in one. This latter specimen has also one pure white feather
on the crown.

43. Spilornis rufipectus Gould. — At 4000 feet. ? not quite ad. "Iris ochreous:

feet deep ochreous orange."

44. Spilospizias trinotatus haesitandus Hart. — One ? juv., one ? ad., Bonthain,

1000 and 4000 feet. I am not aware that the young bird of the southern
form differs from that of Sp. trinotatus trinotatus, and the iiA.\\\i female sent
by Doherty does not show the characters of kaesitam/us very well, which is
after all a poor sirbspecies.

45. Tinnuncidus moluccensis oceidentalis Mey. & Wigl. — Three specimens from

6000 feet.
40. Malia grata Schleg. Three skins from 6000 feet. " Iris two shades of brown,
separated by a black line ; feet and claws dull ochreous brown ; beak
blackish, commissure and mandible dull ochreous." One evidently younger
bird is much duller below, the under tail-coverts brownish.

11. ON SOME BIRDS COLLECTED IN LOW COUNTRY NORTH OF
MAKASSAR IN JULY 1896.

Among half a hundred birdskins collected there are only a few which require
mention here, the majority belonging to very well known common species.

1. Trichostoma finscki Wald. — This species outnumbers all others sent: it must

therefore have been very common near Makassar.

2. Siphia rujigula (Wald.). — An adult male and an evidently adult /«;««&, without

any details on the labels. The male agrees with the description. The wing
measm-es 64 mm. The female closely resembles Siphia bonthaina, but
differs in the following points : —

(1) The wing is decidedly shorter, measuring only 57 mm.

(2) The upperside is not brownish olive, but ashy, with a faint brown tinge. The
edges to the wing-quills are paler and not so rufous.

(3) The rectrices and upper tail-coverts are not so chestnut rufous, but duller.
The tail does not show any rufous colour at all from below, while in
S. bonthaina it is distinctly so even from below.

(4) The tarsus is much shorter : 10 mm. (19 to 20 in S. bonthaina).

3. Oriolus celehensis meridionalis Hart. — Three skins, beautifully showing the

characters of this very well pronounced southern form.

4. Streptocitta albicollis (VieilL). — Several skins from the Chamba-Maros country

north of Makassar. Doherty says that " this bird seems to bo a mimic of
Gazzola typica, the two looking very much alike at a distance." It must

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be admitted that the distribntion of the colours iu these two birds is
strikingly siniihir, bnt why should one mimic tlie other ?

5. Gazxola ti/pica Bp. — This interesting little crow, wliicli is still rare in collections,

and of which we know harcU)' anything but a few skins in collections, is said
by Doherty to be common enough north of Makassar and on Bonthain Peak,
although he sent us only one nude.

6. Alceao ispida inoluccana (Less.). — This is the proper nomenclature of this form,

which is generally called A. molneceiisis or .1. ispidoiiles. It is connected
with A. ispida bengaleTisi'i by intermediate forms. Doherty sent three
skins from Makassar. " Iris very deep brown ; feet bright orange, claws
blackish." Celebes specimens resemble entirely the typical Moluccan form.

7. Monachalci/oii capucinus Mey. & Wigl. — J/.c, Meyer & Wiglcsworth in Ahh. und

Ber. Mas. Dresden, 1896-97, No. 2, p. 12 (1896). The authors described their
species from one example, evidently an adult male, from Tonkean in the
Eastern Peninsula of Celebes. It is therefore of remarkable interest that
the same species shonld now turn uj) near Makassar. Not being cjnite sure
about the identity of the bird, I sent it to Mr. Wiglesworth, who kindly
compared it with the type in the Dresden Museum, and he found that the
differences between it and the tA-pe are just the same as those between the
sexes of J/, monachus. Of course males from Makassar a,xiA^ females from
Tonkean are still desirable for future investigations.* In our bird the crown
is greenish black ; a superciliary line, a few feathers on the forehead, all the
under parts (except the chin and throat, which are rufous white) and under
wing-coverts are rusty ochraceous ; the sides of the head and neck mixed
blackish green and ochraceous: upperside dull green, with a brownish rusty
tinge. Beak bright orange ; iris brownish grey; feet orange-brown. Beak
48 mm.; wing 147: tail 120: tars. 19.

8. Phlegoenas bimaculata Salvad. — An immature male of this rare bird was shot in

low country near Makassar. The purple-violet spots on the sides of the
upper nape are not developed, but just indicated ; the breast has some brown
feathers edged with rust-colour ; the ujiper wing-coverts have rusty edges.
" Iris deep chestnut ; feet reddish ; beak dull blackish."

9. Chalcophaps stephani Rchb. — From the neighbourhood of Makassar. The

distribution of this species is very j)eculiar.

10. Carpophaga paidi>ia (Temm.). — From Makassar. Exactly like specimens from

North Celebes.

11. Phoenicophaes ealorhjnchis meridionulis Mey. <fe Wigl. — Several skins from

Makassar are distinctly this subspecies.

12. Pyrrhocentor celebensis rufescens Mey. & AVigl. — Two skins, shot in the low

country north of Makassar, agree entirely with typical examples of
P. c. rufescens from Tonkean, while skins from Bonthain Peak (Nov. Zool.
III. p. 160) agree much more with P. celebensis celebensis from North
Celebes. This is difficult to understand, for the two forms seem tu be
distinct, unless the differences are due to age or season, which is not
probable, as the authors and I have seen large series of the northern form.

* See remarks under MnnachcUcyon wtynachvi intcrmrdius, described hereafter.

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III. LIST OF BIRDS COLLECTED AT TAWAYA AND DONGALA, NORTH
AND SOUTH OF PALOS BAY, IN WEST CELEBES,
IN AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER 1896.

Althongli the species enumerated here are mostly more or less common, 1
thought it best to give a complete and critical list of all of them, as this must be of
interest for the details of the distribution of the Celebes birds, and as it is valuable
to know whether the northern or the southern forms are found north and south of
Palos Bay, since we know that so many of them are different. For the localities and
the nature of the country see Introduction, p. 154.

1. Geocichla erythronota Scl. — One mnlc and two females from Tawaya. " Iris

very deep brown ; feet slaty blue ; beak pale slate-colour ; tip and com-
missure whitish ; basal two-thirds of maxilla black. The same in both
sexes." 'Y\\^ females before me are smaller than the male (wing 110 — 112
against 120 in the male), the beak shorter, but otherwise there is no material
difference between the sexes. This rare thrush was originally described
from Makassar.

2. Pratincola caprata (L.). — Old and young birds from Tawaya.

3. Trickostoma (Tiirrlinus) celebetise (Stvickl.). — Dongala and Tawaya. "Iris dull

orange ; feet dark brown ; beak black : mandible greyish horn-colour." It
is this northern form, and not T. finschi of South Celebes, which is found near
Palos Bay.

4. Acmonorki/nchiis aureolimbatus (Wall.). — Tawaya and Dongala.

5. Dicaeum celehicum. Miill. k Schleg. — Tawaya and Dongala.

6. Cinni/ris frenata mei/eri Hart. — From Dongala (and also from Gorontalo). The

Dongala birds agree fully with typical C.f. metjeri Hart, (see antea, p. 156)
from Menado.

7. Cinnyris porphyrolaema (Wall.). — Dongala.

8. Aetliopy(jaJla):ostriata {W&W). — One skin, marked ?, in the plumage of the

bird described and figured as Ae. beccarii by Salvadori.

9. Antkreptes malaccensis celebensis (Shell.). — Tawaya and Dongala.

10. Zosterops atrifrons Wall. — Tawaya. Specimen agreeing with one from

Gorontalo.

11. Zosterops intermedia Wall. — Specimens from Tawaya, agreeing with those of

South Celebes.

1 2. Cisticola exilis (Vig. & Horsf.). — Tawaya.

1 3. Munia atricapilla brunneiceps ( Wald.). — Tawaya and Dongala,

14. Muuia subcastanea sp. nov.

Munia speciei J/, pallida nominatae similis, sed abdomine subcandalibnsqne
brunneo-castaneis, concoloribus, pallio saturatiore, nigricautiore.

Hab. Celebes, circnm sinum Palos.

Three skins, two males and oiw. female, of a Munia from Dongala and Tawaya
are unlike any other species. They are of the size and general appearance of Munia
pallida Wall., but differ considerably.

Top of the head whitish, washed with pale ashy brown ; iuterscapulium, back,
wings, and wing-coverts deep ashy brown ; rump and upper tail-coverts troldeu

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maroon ; rectrices deep brown, with brownish golden edges ; sides of head iind
neck, chin, throat, and chest white, with a faint pearly greyish tinge ; breast,
abdomen, and nndor tail-coverts deep brownisli chestnut, nnder wing-coverts a little
jmler. "Iris diu'k brown ; feet blackish : beak bluish grey; commissure corneous."
L. t. ca. 100 mm., a. 51 — 54, c. 40, t. 14, r. 9.

The skin marked " ? " is like those of tlie tnales, but the rnmp, upper tail-
coverts, and edges of central rectrices lighter and more yellowish.

So little did I expect a new Munia at Palos Bay, that I had tlie skins in the
Museum for several months before I paid any attention to them.

15. Scissirostrum duhium (Lath.) — Tawaya.

16. Dicrurus leucops Wall. — Uongala. " Iris white ; feet and beak black."

1". Oriolus celebensis (y^aXA.). — A number of orioles from Tawaya and Dongala
belong to the northern form 0. celeben»is celebensis, and not to ('. c. meri-
dionalis. The black band is always more or less conspicuonsly interrupted
on the nape and narrower than in 0. c. meridionalis, in which it is broader
and quite continuous.

18. Streptocitta tortjuata (Temm.). — Dongala. "Iris very dark brown; feet and

beak black." Again the northern and not the southern species. The throat
of the one male is mixed black and white. I see an occasional white feather
on the throat in many specimens in the Tring Museum ; but I do not know
whether this is, as I think, due to immaturity.

19. Gratica Im leucopi/gius Bi^. i ?, Dongala. ?. " Iris yellowish white ; feet and

beak black."
'10. Aita?nides bicolor (Terma.). — cJ ?, Tawaya. <S . " Iris dark umber: feet black;
bill pale blue ; commissure darker." $. "Iris dark umber; feet blackish;
bill pale blue ; commissure paler."

21. Vohocivora morio (S. Mull.). — Two adult, or nearly adult, males and two fully

»,A\\\t females from Tawaya. The two females are rufous below, narrowly
barred with black from the chin to the under tail-coverts, the latter only
liaving some narrow irregular bars at the bases, being quite uniform towards
the tips ; under wing-coverts narrowly barred with black. A female
from Indrulaman (Nov. Zool. III. p. 156) (? probably immature) is very
much paler below, being only in the middle of the abdomen buff or rather
pale rusty rufous ; the under wing-coverts with a few not very conspicuous
bars ; the under tail-coverts much paler than in those from Tawaya.
Another specimen (marked female) is evidently immature, and apparently
closely resembles the one described in Ahh. und Ber. Mus. Dresden, 1896,
p. 10, from South- West Celebes. Males from South Celebes do not seem
to differ materially from northern examples, tliough I have not seen such a
black one from the south ; but that is merely a sign of age. The males from
Tawaya do not seem to differ from northern males. J. " Iris deep chestnut;
feet black, soles whitish; bill black." ? . Bare parts as in 6.

22. Lnlage leucopygialis Wald. — S ? , Tawaya.

23. Ihjpothymis puella QS^W.). — Several wafci from Tawaya. " Iris chestnut; feet

dark blue ; beak blue, tip black."

24. Ger>jgonefla>:eola Cab. — Dongala and Tawaya. " Iris crimson or red-brown :

beak black : in one, evidently younger, bird the base of the mandible is
pale." It is possible that the study of a series of good skins from Saleyer

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will result in the snbspecific separation of that form. "While the wings of
six Celebes skins before me are from 51 to Tio mm. in length (the femnles
not alwa.ys smaller, unless there are wrongly se.xecl birds among them), the
wings of the two Saleyer birds (see Nov. Zool. 111. p. 171) are -19 to oO mm.
long, and they are slightly paler, though this latter character is probably
due to their being in old plumage.
2.5. Pitta celebeiisis Forsten. — Seven skins from Tawaya. Some are adult birds,
some in the spotted plumage of the young, with some red feathers just
appearing. " Iris of old birds very dark chestnut or deep brown, of young
ones deep greyish umber; legs of a somewhat silvery grey; beak black."
I consider the interesting P. jxdliceps as merely a subspecies.

26. Gaprimulgus affjnis Horsf. — c? in moult and ? from Tawaya.

27. Cei/copsis J'allax (Schleg.). — Both sexes from Dongala and Tawaya. The

females are of a much darker and less rufous brown above. " Iris deep
brown in both sexes."

28. Alcedo ispida moluccaiui, (= ispidoidcs) (Less.). — Dongala.

29. Pelarf/opsis melanorhiineha (Temm.). — Three males and a, female from Tawaya.

" Iris very deep brown ; feet and claws black, soles dark orange ; beak
black." In some skins there is a small red spot at the base of the maxilla ;
but in a large series of this species there is not a specimen that approaches
the recently described very interesting P. dichrorhi/nidia Mey. & Wigl. from
Peling (cotypes before me), which resembles P. melanorln/ncka very mucli,
but has a larger and partly red beak. The sexes do not seem to ditfer in
any way.

30. Cittura cyanotis (Temm.). — c? ? , from Tawaya. "Iris crimson; bare skin

before eyes scarlet; feet dark vermilion, claws black: beak dark vermilion.""
C. sanghirensis, which Doherty sent from Sanghir, has tlie '' iris purplish pink ;
feet scarlet, claws blackish ; beak dark vermilion."

31. Monachalcyon monachus intermedius subsp. uov.

A inale Momu-haleijon from Tawaya differs conspicuous]}' from M. monachus
monachus of North Celebes in having the heatl of a much deeper blue and with a
distinct, though faint, greenish tinge. The tail is a little less washed with blue.
It differs from J/, capucinus Mey. & Wigl. in having the head deep blue, not
black, and tlie tail not quite without a bluish wasli. The breast and abdomen of
the Tawaya bird are a shade lighter than in most males of M. monachus monachus, the
beak apparently a little thicker. I have before me twelve skins of .1/. monachus
monachus, but I know the type of M. capucinus only from the description in Abh.
and Be/: Mus. Dresden, 1896, pp. 12, 13. Probably .1/. capm-inus is also
a subspecies of M, monachus, the M. m. intermedius bridging the gap over.
Antea, p. 160, I have given the statement of Mr. ^Vigles worth, who compared the
fema.le ilonachalci/on from Makassar witli his type of M. capucinus ; but now I
think that it is almost as possible that it belongs to J/, m. intermedius, as the
crown is not pure black, but very deep bluish l)lack with a greenish tinge. It
would thus seem that Celebes has (besides tlie very different .1/. cijanocephalas*)
three forms : M. monachus monachus with a bright blue cap in N. Celebes, M. m.
ijitermedius with a deep greenish blue cap in \V. Celebes, M. m. capucinus with a

* So ctvlletl in the Vat. B XVII., though its proper name seems to boprincijis Rchb.

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black cap in E. Olebes. The type of M. m, intermecliui has the " iris deep
Timber ; feet reddish ; cLaws(hirk : beak scarlet." Wing about 142 mm. (moulting);
tail about 12"; beak 5U.

32. Merops ornatus Lath.— J ?, Dongala.

33. Penelopides exarhatui (Temm.). — Both sexes from Tawaya. The males, when

freshly moulted, have the throat and sides of the head golden yellow; bnt
the yellow disai)pears in time, and thus the feathers become white, as they
are described in Cat. B. c?. " Iris crimson, eyelashes black, orbit bright
crimson ; feet black, soles ochreons ; bill pale horn-colour, casque dull
ferruginous." ? . " Iris dull crimson."

34. Lichtemteinipieus tvallacei (Tweedd.).— It is this form and not the northern

M. full-US of which Doherty sent two pairs from Dongala. The name
Liclifeiisteinipicus, although not a well-formed one, is the oldest, as it was
fixed on the Ficus funebris Valeuc, and it must therefore be accepted,
instead of MicrosticUts Harg.
3.1. Caeomantis virescens (Brligg.).— Tawaya.

36. Caeomantis merulinus (Scop.). — A very pale rrutle from Tawaya.

37. Pyrrhocentor celehensis nifescens Mey. it Wigl. (?).— Two skins from Dongala

resemble very much the two cotypes of P. c. rufescens Mey. & Wigl. in the
Tring Museum, though they are a little paler below, and less rufous above,
where they look more like P. c. celebensis. When mentioning our birds
from ludrnlaman in South Celebes, p. IGO in Nov. Zool. III., I stated
that they did not belong to P. c. rufescens, and they were certainly more
greyish above and less reddish rufous below ; on the other hand, they are
more rufous below than any of our Minahassa specimens. The two we
received from Makassar (Doherty) are hardly different from P. c. rufescens
at all {antra, p. 160). A third skin, a male, from Dongala differs consider-
ably from any one I ever saw before. It has the hind-neck and iuter-
scapulium of the same rather bright though light rusty (somewhat like
ochraceous bafF) colour as the breast. Whether this is an accidental variety
I am unable to say.

38. Phoenicophacs calorhynchus meridionalis (Mey. & Wigl.).— One female from

Dongala belongs to the southern form of this bird. In fact it is even still
paler on the head than any of those from Indrulaman and Makassar before
me, but this is no doubt due to the very old plumage it is in. It is also
rather pale on the back and breast. " Iris crimson; feet purplish black."

39. Eudynamis melanorhyncha S. Miill.— Two males from Tawaya and Dongala.

" Iris red: feet and beak black."

40. Tanygnathus miilleri (MUll. Sa Schleg.).— Dongala, female. " Bill dirty whitish

horn-colour."

41. Cacatua sulp/iurea (Gm.). — A vial.' from Dongala and a, female horn Tawaya.

" Iris crimson ; feet and bill black."
On p. 1T6 in Nov. Zool. III. I mentioned that i^o females from Djampea had
very small beaks. I now find that Celebes birds have always larger bills,
and as the two females from Djampea are totally alike in the size of their
beaks, I do not hesitate any longer to separate them subspecifically, calling
them

Cacatua sulphurea djampeana subsji. uov.

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In separating this form I have been aided by Mr. L. W. Wijjlesworth, the
co-author of the forthcoming work on the birds of Celebes, who kindly
gave me some measurements of specimens of C. sulpkurea in the Dresden
Mnsenm.
The measurement I gave, I.e., was taken in a straight line from the outer
margin of the cere, where maxilla and mandible meet, to the tip. It is in
the two, as I said, 24 mm., in one hardly more than 23-5. In Celebes
females (which are considerably smaller than malea !) this is 27 mm. The
width of the mandible is about 3 or 4 mm. less in C. s. d'lnmpeana than
in the smallest Celebes yewr^fe; the maxilla is considerably smaller and
narrower.

There are thus three closely allied sabspecific forms : —

C. sulphurea sulphurea from Celebes.

C. sulphurea djampeana from Djampea, e.xactly like it, only with a smaller

beak.
C. sulphurea parnda from the Lesser Sunda Islands, exactly like C. sulphurea

sulphurea and of about the same dimensions, not smaller, with the beaks as

a rule as powerful as in any from Celebes, but the ear-coverts paler and

much less yellow.

42. Trichoglnssus ornatus (L.). — Uougala and Tawaya. " Iris pink."

43. Loriculns st/ffmatus (Miill. & Sehleg.).— Both sexes from Tawaya and Dongala,

where they must have been common. " Iris pale yellow ; feet orange,
claws blackish; bill black; cere pale orange."

44. Spilospi^ius frinotatus (Bp.). — Several examples from Tawaya and Dongala.

belonging distinctly to the northern form.

45. Accipiter rhodogaster (Sehleg.). — Dongala, male.

46. Astur griseiceps Sehleg. — This rare species was shot at Dongala. 6. "Iris

orange; feet ochreous, claws black ; maxilla black ; mandible grey ; cere
dull yellow."

47. 48. Osmotrerun wallacei Salvad. and 0. remans (L.). — Both from Tawaya and

Dongala.
49. Ptilinopus melanospilus (Salvad.). — Tawaya and Dongala.

60. Ptilinopus gulari.<i (Q. & G.). — Tawaya. "Iris orange-scarlet; feet carmine,

claws pale brown; bill bright orange-ochreous."

61. Turtur tigriiius (Temm.). — Dongala.

52, 53. Chalcophaps stephani Rchb. and C. indica (L.). — Tawaya and Dongala.
54. Myrislicivora hictuosa (Temm.). — Dongala and Tawaya. " Iris deep brown :

feet slaty blue ; bill slaty blue, tip yellow."
65. Carpophaga paulina (Temm.). — A pair from Dongala.

56. Turacoena manadensis (Quoy & Gaim). — One pair from Dongala.

57. Macropi/gia albicapilla Bj>.—A/emale and a very young bird from Dongala.
68. Oenolimnas isnbellina (Sehleg.).— Of this rare rail we received & female, shot at

Tawaya, in Sei)tember 1896. It is evidently adult. The iris was crimson:
feet dark brown; bill all pale green.

59. Amauroryns phoenicura (Forst.),— Two young examples from Dongala.

60. Eallina minahasa (Wall.).— One ndnlt female, Dongala, August 1896. "Iris

bright orange, eyelids oclireous ; feet dark grey ; bill below bright green,
above black, tip pale corneous."

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61. Hypotaenidia celebensis (Q. & G.). — Two vlAvAX females, Dongala and Tawaya.

" Iris scarlet ; feet bro\TOisli black ; bill nearly pure black."

62. Dendrocijgna arcuata (Horsf.). — Tawaya.

(53. Megapodius cumingi Dillwyn. — Tawaya, old /(?;««/<•»• and pullns.

04. Turnix rufilatus "Wall.— Both sexes from Tawaya. The nuiles are decidedly
smaller than the females, the black borders to the throat-feathers are very
narrow, the chiu almost pnre white, the wing-coverts have more white, the
scapnlars rather less, not more rust-colour. ? ad. " Iris whitish ; feet
ochreons, joints greenish ; bill ochreous."

65. Turnix maculosa (Temm.) (?). — One viale and one female from Dongala. The
male is somewhat paler above, and mnch paler below, than an Australian
one before me ; the female has the wing about 7 mm. shorter than four
Australian females before me, the rufous collar seems to be narrower, the
back more blackish and with more rusty Imfl" edges to the feathers. As,
however, it is doubtful whether the female is quite adult, I am unable to
decide whether these differences are of specific or subspecific value or not ;
and we must await further materials before we finally decide whether
the little Turnix from Celebes differs from the Australian T. maculosa
(Temm.) {Cat. B. XXII. p. 546).

A few of the common shore birds have not been mentioned, as their occurrence
was of no interest.

The list shows that the ornis of Palos Bay is chiefly a mixture of northern and
southern forms, the former perhaps prevailing.

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ON DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GULDENSTADT'S REDSTART
AND ITS EASTERN ALLY.

By the HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD.

HAVING recently received, through the agency of Mr. Schluter, three Mart's and
oue/etnale of Biiticilla eri/tlu-ogastra from the Cancasns, I was much struck
by their very dark and intense coloration. On comparing them with my large
series from Tsaidam and Gansu in China, Eastern Turkestan, the Issyk Kul, and
Gilgit, received from the Petersburg Museum, Tancre's collectors, and in the Elwes
collection, the following differences are obvious :

The red of the rump, al>diimen, and np])er tail-coverts is much darker and more
chestnut than in the Asiatic birds. The tail is very much darker and washed with
blackish brown, while it is pale rusty red in the Eastern bird. Ih.^ female is darker
and more ashy grey all over, and the tail also is darker and less washed with
grey.

In looking up the synonymy of these two birds, I find that in every book
where these birds are mentioned, except in Pleske's and Lorenz's writings, the two
forms are mixed up. Lorenz and Pleske, however, noticed the differences, but
unfortunately the former bestowed a fresh name on the Asiatic bird, which had two
already. I do not agree with Pleske in considering these two forms as " varieties,"
for I cannot find any mention of nor have I myself seen any connecting links ; on
the contrary, I am convinced they are very distinct species with different habitats.
The names of the two species must stand as : —

1. Ruticilla erijthrogastra (Gtild.) for the Caucasus bird.

2. Huticilla granrlis Gould for the Asiatic bird.

The synonymy is as follows : —

1. Motacilla enjthrogastra, Gilldenstadt in Xov. Com. Pctrop. XIX. p. 409, pis. 16,

17 (177o) (Caucasus) ; Cliestnut-hellied Warhler, Latham, Synopsis, II.
pt. 2, p. 424 (1783) (Caucasus) ; Sylvia enjthrogastra, Latham, Ind. Orn. II.
p. 513 (1790) (Caucasus) ; Motacilla ceraunia, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso- As. I.
p. 478 (Caucasus) ; Ruticilla enjthrogastra of modern authors (j)artim —
when referring to birds from the (."aucasns ! Plate : Dresser, B. FAirope,
II. pi. 46).

2. Ruticilla grandix, Gould in Proc. Zool. Sac. 1849, p. 112 (Afghanistan and

Thibet); "A tricolor, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849" {sic), Bonaparte,
Consp. Ar. I. p. 296 (As. centr.) (This is evidently a lapsus calami, no
such name being published) ; R. vigorsi, Moore in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854,
p. 27, pi. LX. (N. India 1) ; R. erijthrogaster n. var. severzovi, Lorenz,
Beitr. z. Kenntn. d. orn. Fauna d. Nords. d. Kaukasus, p. 23 (1887)
(Central Asia) ; R. enjthrogastra var. ssewerzowi, Pleske, Wisseiuch.
Result. Przewalski's Reis. II. Viigel, Lief. 1, p. 58 (1889) (Central Asia) ;

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R. erytkrogastra , Blyth, Jerdon, Blanford, Gates in Fauna Brit. Tndia,Aties,
II. p. 97, and others (Himalayas) — iiec Guldenstadt ! [P/ioeniciira reetesi
Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XII, pt. II. p. 963 (1843), is iinoted by
Dresser, B. Europe, II. p. 305, as referring to this species ; bnt it is clear,
from the description, that it has notliing to do with our bird.]

DESCRIPTION OF A NEW HILL-WREN FROM FLORES.

Bt the HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD.

Pnoepyga everetti sp. uov.

DIFFERS from both P. squamata (Gould) (= P. albiventris Hodgs.) and
P. pusilla Hodgs. of India in the remarkable fact that the sexes are not
conspicuously different, while in the two Indian species the »iale is of a white
ground-colour below, the female bright fulvous. The bill is larger in my new
species than even in the large Indian species (P. squamata). The colour is very
much like that of the male of P. pusilla, and the secondaries and wing-coverts
have even larger and more conspicuous bright fulvous spots at the tips, the back
and rump are more conspicuously spotted with fulvous, but the head is darker and
more blackish, the feathers of the sides of the body have darker and more blackish
edges. The nearest ally is evidently P. rufa of Sharpe from Java, in which the
sexes are also said to be alike in colour; bnt as that species is said to be " everywhere
more rufous than P. pusilla, especially on the lores, forehead, ear-covcrts, and spots
of the wings," it cannot jjossibly be the same as my Flores birds, although I have
no specimen before me to compare. The total length of P. everetti is about
85 — 90 mm.; wing 52 — 54; tail l(i; culmen from base of forehead 15 — 16, exposed
part of culmen 10 ; tarsus 20 — 2L Mr. Everett sent a series of this interesting
bird from South Flores, shot at elevations of about 3000 to 3500 feet.

1 MAY 1;Q7

NoviTATES Zoor,OGica:.VoL.IV.1897.

Pl.I1.

J.0.Ke\iie3\ttns dfll et litK

l.LOPHOZOSTEROPS DOHERTYI Ha.rt.
&.LOBOPARADISEA SERICSA RotKscK.

Um-tern Bros imp.

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ON THE FIGURES ON PLATE IT.
By THE HUN. WALTER ROTHSCHILD.

(Plate II.)

THIS plate shows the most remarkable little bird of Paradise described by me
under the name of

Loboparadisea sericea

on "p. XV. of No. XL. of the Bnlletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. I have
there characterised the bird as follows : —

" The t}-pe of this new genns differs from all others in having two wattles,
which entirely cover the basal half of the beak, except a narrow ridge on the
cnknen. Size small ; bill very broad at base, and short. Feathers of under parts
and rump decomposed and with a strong satiny gloss. No lengthened ornamental
plumes. Tip of tail rounded.

" Head brown ; hind-neck and back rufous chestnut, with a slight olive tinge ;
rump bright yellow, with a beautiful silky sheen. Wings and upper wing-coverts
ruddy chestnut; primaries broadly tijjped with blackish brown, shafts brick-red :
tail and upper tail-coverts reddish chestnut. Underside bright yellow and with a
beautiful silky gloss. Thighs olive-brown. Under wing-coverts and underside of
•wings brownish cinnamon. Bill with two large wattles reaching half-way down
from the base, dull blue with yellow tips. Total length about 170 mm. ; wing 91 ;
tail 58 ; bill 21."

It may be added that the colour of the wattles is guessed from what they look
in the dried skin, which is said to have been bought from natives at Koeroedoe on
the northern coast of Dutch New Guinea. This place Koeroedoe is not to be
mistaken for Korrido in Geelviuk Bay. The tarsus of Loboparadisea sericea is
34 mm. long.

The other figure on the plate depicts the pretty crested Zosterops described by
Mr. Hartert on pp. 567, 568, 575, of Vol. III. of this journal luider the name of

Lophozosterops dohertyi.

It is found in Sambawa and Satonda, while a closely allied form has recently
been discovered by Mr. Alfred Everett in South Floras.

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DESCRIPTIONS OF SEVEN NEW SPECIES OF BIRDS AND

ONE NEW SUBSPECIES FROM FLORES, AND OF

ONE NEW SUBSPECIES FROM DJAMPEA,

ALL COLLECTED BY MR. ALFRED EVERETT.

By ERNST HARTERT.

1. Brachypteryx floris sp. uov.

<J. Above dull indigo-blue; Ibreliead aud crown with a brown shade, which
may be a sign-of immaturity, as it is well pronounced in one, but not very perceptible
in the other specimen. From the base of the bill to above the eyes a faint grey
line, continued in a pure silky white concealed line above the eye, as we find it in
other species of the genus. Lores and ear-coverts dark brownish ashy. Primaries
and secondaries blackish brown, edged with the colour of the back, in the younger
male with brown. Throat and middle of abdomen greyish white ; under wing-
coverts, chest and sides of abdomen, thighs and under tail-coverts ashy. Wing
70 — 73 mm. ; tail 60 — 63; exposed culmen 13 ; tarsus 34.

? ad. Above of a warm brown ; crown darker ; back, rump, and upper tail-
coverts strongly washed with rnfous. Wings deep brown ; outer webs edged with
rnfous brown. The same concealed white superciliary line as in the male. Lores
ashy brown ; ear-coverts brown, the shafts of the feathers light. Chin, throat, aud
middle of the abdomen white; chest aud sides of abdomen pale ashy grey; lower
flanks and thighs brown. Under wing-coverts and under tail-coverts light rufous.
Total length about 145 mm. ; wing 69 — 70 ; tail 58 — 60 ; tarsus 34.

At and above 350U feet in South Fh)res.

'^- OrthnocicMa everetti sj). nov.

(? ad. Head and hind-neck russet (a little more reddish than fig. 16, PI. Ill, in
Ridgway's Nomencl. Col.), an indistinct paler stripe over the eyes ; sides of the head
brownish buff. Back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail brown (nearest to " raw
umber," fig. 14, PI. IIL, Ridgway's Nomencl. Col., but darker). Quills deep blackish
brown, their inner lining greyish buff ; outer webs much like the back, but lighter
and brighter, and with a slight greenish tinge. Under ])arts whitish ; breast grey,
lighter in the middle ; flanks grey, with a brownish tinges ; thighs brownish olive-
grey. Under wing-coverts grey ; iris dark brown ; maxilla sepia-brown ; mandible
ochreous yellow. Legs very pale olive-brown. Total length about 90 — 95 mm. ;
wing 53 — 56 ; tail 18 — 19 ; tars. 22 — 23 ; culm, from base 16.

? ad. Like male, but slightly smaller. Wing 50 — 52 mm.

Hab. South Flores.

3. Microeca oscillans sp. nov.

<? ad. Forehead, crown, and nape dark brown, with an olive tinge ; back

similar, but lighter ; rump with a rnfous wash ; uj>i)er tail-coverts rufous. Wings

deej) brown, inner lining rufous bufl", outer webs pale russet (between figs. 16 and

19 on Ridgway's PI. III.). Tail chestnut-brown; shafts of rectrices lighter and more

I'erruginons. Throat grey; chest a little darker grey; sides of abdomen pale brown;
middle of abdomen greyish white. Under tail-coverts and nnder wing-coverts light
bntf. Total length about 135 mm. ; wing 7(5 in three skins marked " c?," 78 in one
marked " cJ," 81 in one marked " 6," and 7o-5 in one marked " ? " ; tail 58 — 61;
exjjosed part of ciilmen 11; tarsns 18. Theji'?nale does not differ from the males.

At elevations of from 3000 to 3500 feet in Sonth Flores.

More about this form, the exact position of which is difficult to determine, will
be said in future.

4. Cryptolopha montis floris snbsp. nov.

A number of skins of a Cryptolopha from the hills of South Flores are hardly
distinguishable from C. montis from Mount Kina Balu in North Borneo ; but the
dark brown stripes, starting from above the eyes and running backwards to the nape
in C. mont/'a from Borneo, are less conspicuous in the Flores birds, not being so broad
and only starting from behind the eyes, so that, whOe they are conspicuous if
looking straight into the face of C. montis mantis, they are not visible from right in
front in C. montis jloris.

It is very interesting to find in Flores a form so closely allied to one known from
the mountains of North Borneo, Sumatra, and Palawan, and it is a further proof of a
certain similarity between the Highland fauna of the great mountains of various
islands of the Eastern Archipelago.

5. Pachycephala nudigula sp. nov.

Fuch>icepliala, cnjus mas diti'ert ab omnibus speciebus descriptis nuda plaga
rubra in medio gntturis nigri. Capite toto uigro. Corpore supra olivaceo-viridi.
Remigibus nigris, pogoniis externis tergi colore, internis basin versus albidis,
Cauda et supracaudalibus nigris. Pectore abdomineque flavo-viridibus, abdomin&
imo in medio, ventre subcaudalibusque flavis. Long. tot. ca. 195 mm.; al. 101 — 108:
uaud. 80 — 85: rostr. 16 — 18: tars. 23-5 — 25o. Femina plaga nuda minore, capite
supra cinereo. Gutture griseo-albido. Pectore virescente-flavo, abdominc toto
snbcaudalibusque flavis. Dorso, uropygio, supracaudalibus, pogoniis externis re-
mignm, canda olivascente-viridibus. Al. 90 mm.; caud. 73; tars. 23; rostr. 14 — 15.

Hah. Flores meridioualis.

This remarkable bird will be figured in one of the future numbers of this
journal.

6. Lophozosterops (an potius Zosterops) subcristatus sp. nov.

A series of skins from 3000 to 3500 feet from the hills of South Flores closely
resemble my Lophozosterops dohertyi of the mountains of Sambawa, but they are
easily distinguished by the ear-coverts being lighter and sulphur-yellow like the
abdomen, while in L. tlohertyi they are olive. In consequence of this the jjale
yellow line behind the eye is more consjncuons in h. dohertyi, less so in L. suhrris-
tatus. The crest-feathers are shorter ; the forehead is paler brown; the gnttate
spots in the centres of the feathers of the crown are dirty whitish, and very mncli
less sharply defined and less conspicuous in the Flores bird. Although these
differences are very obvious, it may be left doubtful whether L. subcristatus is
much more than a well-marked subspecies of L. dohertyi. Unfortunately this
new form bridges, to a certain degree, over from Lophozosterops to Zosterops, thus
making the value of my poor genus very doubtful. More about this will be said on
another occasion.

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T. Zosterops crassirostris sp. nov.

<f ad. Feathers of forehead yellowish white ; those of crown blackish brown,
•with broad whitish margins, which become more brownish and less conspicuous
towards the nape, where they have vanished altogetlier. Lores, feathers in front of
the eye, a narrow superciliary line, and feathers under the eye black, the latter
fading into dark brown towards the ear-coverts. Eyelids bare, with only a very
narrow ring of tiny scaly feathers of a blackish colour round the eyes ; behind the
«yes a large naked spot. All the rest of the upper parts of a j)ale olive colour, with
a greenish wash. Quills deep brown, with a very pale buff inner lining and light
olive-brown outer edges. Tail-feathers brown, with olive outer margins. Entire
under surface whitish bnfl"; sides of breast and iianks with a brownish wash. Thighs
brown. " Iris naples-yellow ; bill lead-grey ; legs flesh-colour; nails grey." Total
length about 130 mm.: wing 71; tail 56: cnlmen from base 10; bill from end of
feathering 143; tars. 20—21. ? like 6.

Hab. South Flores.

8. Zosterops superciliaris sp. nov.

? ad. Crown greenish olive, with a dark brown wash. Utmost base of fore-
head just above the nostrils and lores pale sulphur-yellow ; superciliary line from
lores over eyes to end of head suljihur-yellow. The usual Zosteropine white ring
round the eyes conspicuous and broad: sides of head olive-grey, with a silvery gloss.
Rest of upper surface olive-green, brighter green on back and rump. Quills dark
brown; inner lining very pale yellow ; outer edges light olive-greeu. Below sulphur-
yellow; sides of breast, flanks, and thighs with an olive-green wash. Total length
about 127 mm.: wing 67 — 6U; tail 52 — .53; cnlmen from base of foreliead 16; exposed
part of cnlmen 12; tarsus 19'9.

$ ad. like ? .

Hah. South Flores.

9. Trichoglossus forsteni djampeaniis sulisj). uov.

In Vol. III. of the Novitates Zoologicae, p. 17(), when speaking of the series
collected by Mr. Everett in Djampea, I already mentioned some slight differences
between the birds from Djampea and the one from Sambawa in the Tring Museum.
Again on p. 672 I mentioned that two birds sent from Bima in Sambawa, whence
the tj-pe of T. forsteni in the Leyden Museum came, agreed with the one collected
in Sambawa and not with those from Djampea. Now we have received, with some
other birds from Sambawa, from Mr. Everett, five more skins of tyjtical T. forsteni
from Sambawa, and they dispel all our doubts as to the differences between the two
forms.

In T. forsteni forsteni from Samliawa the forehead is not so deep blue as in
T. forsteni c/jampeanus, the wing is shorter, the band behind the yellowish green
ring on the neck is never so distinctly and ])ure i)urple, and never so broad as in all
the birds from Djampea.

The wings of T. forsteni forsteni measure 131 — I3o mm., those of T. forsteni
(Ijampeanus 141 — 145 mm. Young Djampean birds are very much like adult ones
from Sambawa: young birds of the latter have the hinder jwrt of the crown more or
less green, the middle of the abdomen mixed with green, the red breast-feathers
margined with dull dark edges, no indication of a blue band on the hind-neck.

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SOME NEW ANTHRIBIDAE IN THE TRING MUSEUM.

By K. JORDAN, Ph.D.

1. Hypselotropis rosenbergi sp. nov.

Niger, sordide griseo-viridi tomeutiisus, fusco variegatns, iufra medio glaber.

Rostrnm at caput nt in //. fjatesi fere strncta, ille autem infra laeve
singulis pnnctis notatnm atqne in medio impressione levi longitndinali rngnlosa ;
hoc carina frontali alfiore iustrnctnm. Antennae breves, elytrorum basin parnni
snperantes, sat crassae, medio levissime compressae, articulis 8° apice et 9° basi
albis, 2° tertio dimidio breviore, 3° — 7° longitudine fere aequalibns, 3'° panlo longiore,
4° parnm breviore, 10° latitudine vix, 9° decimo dnplo, longiore.

Prothorax latior qnam in hntcsi, linea mediana carirjiformi ut in specie
Trihotfopis puKtulosxs dicta ; carina antebasali medio interrnpta.

Elytra siibparallela, postice vix angustiora, apice fortins ipiam in speciebus
liatesi et annulicornis rotnndato-declivia, plagis fuscis majoribns (|uam in illis
speciebns.

Prosternum singulis puuctis grossis instructum, medio longitudinaliter parum
depressum, sine fossa transversa. Segmentnm anale medio late leviterque de-
planatum, pilis nigris vestitum. Tarsorum articnli .2 et 3 toti nigri.

Long.'rostr. 3| ; proth. 4A ; elytr. \\h ; lat. 51 mm.

Hah. Call, Columbia (W. Rosenberg leg. 1895); 1 <S .

The short, and stout antennae, the raised median Hue of the pronotum, together
with the absence of a deep transverse groove from the prosternum, distinguish this
form from its allies.

2. Gymnognathus germaini sp. nov.

Rostrum longitudine duplo latins, iuclinatum, nigrum, basi duabus maculis
contiguis albo-luteis in frontem prolongatis utrinque lineam superciliarem forman-
tibus signatum. Caput brnuneo-testaceum, convexum, genis macula allio-lutea
notatis, absque carina mediana. Antennae nigrae.

Prothorax brevis, postice longitudine dimidio latior, disco transverse parum
convexus, carina dorse fere recta paululo flexnosa utrinque in angulo rotundato fere
recto antrorsum fracta parte laterali i mm. longa instructus, qninque vittis parallelis
lutosis ornatus : media recta antrorsum angustata, lateralibus ad marginem apicalem
conjunctis parum flexuosis.

Elytra ut in G. clathrato strncta, interspatiis alternis aiignstis, striis griseo-
pubescentibus, macula parva laterali basali lutea.

Pygidium latitudine longius, ajiice subtruncatum angulis rotundis, luteo-
pubescens vitta mediana brunnea aiigusta notatnm.

Prosternum basi apiceque, macula laterali mesosterni, altera metastcrni major,
fasciae transversae abdominis, lateribus dilatatae, luteo-griseae. Segmentnm auale
apice rotundatum, inerme. Pedes nigri.

Long, rostr. ^ ; proth. U; elytr. 3i ; lat. 21 mm.

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Ilab. Cochabamba, Bolivia (St. Germain leg!) : 1 ? .

Agrees wnth G. clat/iratus &ud robustus in the short and robust body, but differs
from all tlie allied species of Gymnognatkxs in the very short rostrum, the convex
front of the head, which is devoid of keels, the non-dentate end of the abdomen,
and in the pattern of the npperside. The colour of the head is in germaini nearly
as in clatkratus, bohlsi, and ornatus; these three species have, however, a longer
and obviously carinate rostrum, and a bidentate pygidinm and bidentate ventral
anal segment.

3, Gymnognathus daguanus sp. nov.

Caput rubrnm,utrinqne snpra et infra ocnlnm albo-vittatnm, fronte irregulariter
mnlticarinata. Rostrum apicem versus dilatatuni, latitudine dimidio vix longius,
punctato-rugosum, carina mediana laevi in impressione sita ; hac imj)rcssionc in
basi sat jirofunda utrinc[U(' carina determinata ; lateribus cannula instructis, pone
acetabulum antennarum dilatatis, ante dilatatiouem setis densis vestitam sinnatis.

Antennae S prothoracis basin attingentes, articulis 1° — 7° tenuibus, ajncibus
pamm incrassatis, 1° et 2° subaequalibus, 3° longo septimo i)lus dimidio longiore,
8° dilatato complanato septimo breviore ; clava lata infra hirsuta ut in ilor.^onotato
fere structa ; ? prothoracis medium superantes, articulis z" tertio dimidio vix
breviore, T et 8° brevibus, hoc latitudine panlo longiore, clava hand hirsuta.

Prothorax latitudine parnm longior, subtilissime transverse rugulosus ; carina
dorso iusensim flexuosa lateraliter medium hand attiugente, aiigulo ejus obliquo
vix rotundato ; vitta tenni mediana j)oue cariuam gnttiformi, duabus lineolis obli(]uis
brevibus .antebasalibus ad carinam cum vitta mediana connexis ; vitta laterali ad
angulum basalem prothoracis ubi latiore incipiente, oblicpie versus medium disci
ducta, subarcuata, ad carinam lateralem tenuiter dilatata, griseo-albis signatus.

Elytra dorso sat late depressa, interspatio quinto postice subcariuiformi, plaga
communi triangulari basali scntellum hand taugente e lineolis composita, in iiiter-
.spatio tertio et in sutura interrupta, in interspatio quinto subinterrupta ; liueola
posthumerali in stria septima, linea longa snbmediana in quinta, anguloqno communi
postnK'diana in sutura interrupta apice versus basin directo, griseo-albis, plaga basali
parum liitosa.

Pygidinm apice truncatum, basi ntrinqite macula minutissima (saepe absente)
alba notatum.

Prosternnm vitta laterali obliqua griseo-alba ; mesosternum macula laterali
griseo-alba ; metasternum duabus maculis (basali et apicali) sat magnis flavidis.
Abdomen utrinque serie macnlarum lateralium, altera serie versus medium sita
macularum obsoletiarnm grisc^o-albarum signatum. Segmentum anale fortiter
bispinosnm. Pedes nigri, sparsim griseo-pubescentes.

Long, rostr. 2 ; proth. 3 ; elytr. Si : lat. 3 mm.

Holj.\{. Dagua, Columbia (W. Kosenberg leg.) ; 2 (?(?, 2? ?. Type S.

This form must probably be separated generically from the other species
standing under Gymnognatkus on account of the jieculiar structure of its rostrum.
The latter is laterally behind the antennae deeply sinuate, and the portion behind
this sinus is clothed with stiff short hairs which i)rojoct into the sinus. The antennai-
vary in length in the two males before me. The lateral oblique band of the
pronotnm is anteriorly somewhat dilated and rounded.

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4. Gymnognathus vitticoUis sp. nov.

Rostrum latitndine quarta parte longins, apice nonnihil angustins qnam basi,
supra antennas parnm rotnndato-dilatatum, rugoso-pnnctatum, cannula basali in
frontem ascendente laevi, duabus vittis dorsalibns approximatis Inteis in occiput pro-
longatis cum vittis dovso-lateralibus prothoracis continuatis luteis, notatnm. (Japut
longitrorsum rngulosum, liueola utrimpie in genis sita Inteo-allia siguatum. Antennae
uigrae, basi rufae, prothoracis medium vix attingentes.

Prothorax conicus, minutissime granulatns, sub lente moderato laevis, carina
dorso recta utrinque in angnlo recto nonnihil rotundato antrorsum fracta instructus,
tribns vittis griseo-Iuteis notatus : mciliana latiore, lateralibus tenuibus postice
hand dilatatis prothoracis margini laterali parallelis.

Elytra ut in G. vicino strncta ; plaga communi a liasi trans medium extensa
utrinque stria tertia determinata, angulis jiosticis oblique ad striam sextam
productis, pone basin utrinque leviter sinuata guttam brunneam suturalem ante-
mediauam iucludente, liueola liumerali in stria quinta, gutta laterali antemediana,
augulo apicali versus basin directo ad suturam interrupta, luteo-griseis signata.

Pvgidium griseo-luteo pubescens, linea tenui mediana brnnnea, apice bispi-
nosnm, latitudiue parum longius.

Infra luteo-griseo tomentosus; segmentum auale inerme. Pedes nigri, lirunnes-
■centes, griseo-pubescentes.

Long, rostr. 1: proth. If; elytr. 3; lat. 2 mm.

Hab. Cochabamba, Bolivia (St. Germain leg.) ; 1 ? .

The short rostrum which is not triangularly dilated at the tip, tlie dentate
pygidium which is greyish yellow and has a brown middle line, the non-dentate last
ventral segment, the three pronotal lines which are not abbreviated in front, and the
absence of a short transverse spot before the declivous ape.x of the elytra, distinguish
this species from its allies.

0. Gjnmiiognathus femoralis sp. nov.

Rostrum apicem versus triangulariter dilatatum. If mm. longum, fortiter
rugoso-jninctatum, carina mediana fi>rti in fnmtem prolongata iustructum, duabus
vittis approximatis angustis jnxta oculos in occiput ascendentibus albo-griseis
notatum. Frons longitrorsum rugato-strigosa. Genae linea griseo-alba longa notatae.
Oculi oblongi, fronte latiores. Antennae prothoracis medium vix attingentes.

Protliorax conicus, latitudiue dimidio fere longior, transverse subtilissime
rugnlosus, carina dorso recta, in angnlo recto antrorsum fracta parte laterali trans
medium ducta ; vitta mediana tenui postice latiore, altera utrinque in latere sita
sulimaculari valde obliqua infra angulum basalem prothoracis incipiente et carinam
lateralem ante angulum transiente versus disci medium ducta, griseo-albis signatus.

Scutellum griseo-album. Elytra ut in G. decoralo structa et signata, sed
spatio circumscutellari subcordiformi brunneo, absque gutta antemediana suturaii
brunnea.

Pygidium apice truncatum, angulis sulispinosis, vitta tennissima mediana albo-
grisea.

Prostcrnum utrinque vitta griseo-alba obliqua, mesosteruum macula laterali,
metasternimi macula laterali basali altera miunta apicali atque tomento marginis
apicalis, abdomen vitta laterali, griseo-albis signata. tegmentum analc bidentatum.
Femora rufa.

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Long, rostr. 1|; proth. 2J; elytr. 4; lat. 2A mm.
Hab. Rio Dagna, Columbia (W. Rosenberg leg.); A iS-

Differs from similarly coloured species especially in the long lateral carina of
the prothorax and in the position of the lateral macular band of the latter.

6. Straboscopus annatus sp. uov.

Niger, fusco pnbescens, hituso viiricganis. Hnstrum ut in specie St. tessellatus
(descripto in Itev. Zool. 1839, p. 205) fere stmctum, supra punctatum, linea glabra
abbre\nata parnm impressa raediaua instnictnm, lutoso pnbescens, infra medio late
elevatnm punctatum jiarum rngatnm hand carinatnm. Oculi valde obliqui, oblougi.
Caput punctatum, lineola medianii occi|)itali lineaiiuc sujjerciliari tcnui postice dilatata
atipe geuislutosis. Antuiinaebrunneo-nigrae, sine tomeuto, articulo ;$'" omnium lougis-
simo, 4° — 8° gradatim decrescentibns, 8° apice setis vestito, clava fere ut in tessellato.

Prothorax latitndine hand longior, lateribus rotundatus, ma.»ciraa latitndine mox
ante medium nbi carina lateralis a supcro visa i)arnm angularitcr j)ri>niineiis desiuet ;
carina dorsali f mm. a basi separata rcgnlarirer lcvitcri[uc concava in angulo laterali
valde rotundato antrorsum curvata ; disco medio ante carinam atcjue ntrinque versus
latus gibbosus, fere tri-tnberculatns ; lutoso variegatns, pnbe Intosa antice in lateribns
densioro, macula lutosa antescutcllari rectangulari.

Elytra a supero visa fere jiarallela, postice rotnndata, dorso planata, multi-
tuberculata : tribns tubercnlis majoribus dorsalibns, basali, mediano, postmcdiano ;
dnobus approximatis sat altis in apice declivi ; uno parvo in angulo suturali ; inter-
spatiis 5° et 7° tubercnlis parvis armatis ; interspatio 9° snbcarinato. Fusco et
Intoso variegata, i)laga subcordifirmi communi e maculis composita adet ante tuber-
culum postmedianura sita lutosa.

Pygidium latitndine longius, apice valde rotnndatum, fusco-lutoso pnbescens.

Infra lutosus, lateribus fusco notatus, medio snbglaber; presternum et mctasterni
latera pnnetis magnis instructa ; abdomen lateribus laeve, medio punctulatum,
in S segmento anaU medio snbcarinato. Femora ante api(U'ni, tibiae ante medium
et in apice annnlo lutoso ornatae ; intermediae tibiae calcare apicali armatae ;
tarsorum articnli basi apiceque Intoso pubescentes.

Long, rostr. 1 § ; proth. 3i ; elytr. 7 ; lat. 5 mm.

Hab. Rio Dagua, Cohimbia (W. Rosenberg leg.); 4 <?<?.

7. Apatenia batjanensis sp. nov.

A. viduatae colore et statura simiiis, jjarnm major. Rostrum latitndine longius,
medio profundius quam in A. ivV/wn^a impressum, cariiiatum. Caput longitndiiuiliter
rngnlosum, medio baud carinatnm. Prothorax a 8U))ero visus pone medium sub-
angnlatns ; ante scutellum lineola ochracea oruatus: carina antebasali dorso in
medio parum retrum flexa, lateraliter valde rotnndata. Elytra pone medium tuber-
culo cariniformi paulo elcvato nigro-velutino instructa.

JJab. Batjan (W. Doherty) ; 2 cJcJ.

Though in general appearance closely resembling A. viduata from tlie larger
Snnda Islands, this species is more nearly related to A. immaculata (Nov. Zool.
1894, p. 033) from New Guinea in the ronnded carina of the prothotax, in the
presence of a postmedian tubercle on each elytron, and in the deeper median
impression of the rostrum ; but is easily distinguished from immuculata by the
much less raised basal gibbosity of the elytra and the much feebler and more elongate
postmedian tubercle.

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8. Apatenia scelesta angulicollis snbsii. nov.

Rostrnm panim lougins ijuam in scelcxta; prothorax a snpero visns lateraliter
dente mediauo armatus ; elytra dorso magis depressa, tubercnlo postmediano multo
altiore instrncta, interspatiis 6° et 8° tabercalis minutis distinctioribus ante apicem
notatis.

Hab. Mount Alexander to Monnt Nisbet, British New Guinea, February 1896
(Anthony); several SS and ? ?. Type S-

The specimens of scelesta. from Humboldt Bay, Dutch New Guinea, stand inter-
mediate between scelesta angulicollis and typical scelesta scelesta (from Mysol),
having the shorter rostrum and the less elevated elytral tubercle of the latter, and
the distinctly tubercled sixth and eighth elytral interspaces of tlie former form.
They represent, perhaps, a tliird subspecies separal.)le from scelesta scclest".

TEOIS ESPECES NOUVELLES D'EUCNEMIDES DE LA
COLLECTION DU MUSEUM DE TEING.

Par E. FLEUTIAUX.

1. Ceratus rottschildi sp. nov.

(J. lU mill. Corps allong^, couvexe, d'un ferrugincnx bruuatre, convert d'une
pubescence jauue. Tete convexe a ponctuation assez forte, serree et non rngnense ;
front legferement deprime tout a fait en avant. Epistome pen rdtr^ci ii la base, anssi
large qne I'espace compris entre lui et I'ceil. Antennes ferrngineuses longues, depas-
sant legeremeut la moitie' dn corps, longuement flabellees ;\ partir dn quatrieme article.
Pronotum att(^nud en avant en arc de cercle, tres di^prime an milieu de la base, marque
d'un leger sillon median eiface en avant ; ponctuation assez forte, serree, a peine
ruguense sur les cut(5s, efifacee sur un petit espace brillant a la base, de chaque cote
dn sillon. Elytres paralleles, attdnnds en arri^re dans le tiers posterienr, fortement
stries ; intervalles bien distiuctement ponctues. Dessous plus clair ; ponctuation
legire, tres superfieielle sur Tabdomen, plus forte et moins serree sur le propectus.
Saillie prosternale peu attennde en arriere. Epiplenres de elytres sillonnfies, tres
retrecies en arrifere. Epistcrnes mdtathoraciqnes parallMes. Handles poste'rienres
trt's largement dilatecs en dedans. Dernier segment abdominal attennd et termine
en pointo. Pattes ferrngineuses.

HaO. Moroka, N. Guinee Brit. Un seul excmplairc.

Gette esp6ce a tout a fait I'apparence dn C. doriai (cf, Flent., I\ot. Mus. Lcyd.
XVIII. p. 143) ; cependant sa forme est moins atte'nn(5e en arriere, sa i)onctuation
gdndrale beaucoup moins forte, et ii peine rugneuse seulement sur les cotes du
pronotum, ce dernier plus gibbenx.

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3. Arrhipis sumatrensis sp. nov.

4 ;i 5J mill. Cor]is allongo, pen convexe en dessns, trim brun ferrnginonx ;
pubescence jauue fine, pins apparcnte snr les cot^s. Tete trts fortement pouctu^e.
Epistome conrt, rdtT(5ci i\ la base, mais cependant beanconp plus large que resjjace
coiupris entre Ini et IVvil. Autennes ferniginenses, ne depassant pas la base dn pro-
thorax ; troisi^me article anssi long que les denx premiers r^nnis ; qnatrieme ii
dixieme courts triangulaircs ; dernier oblong. Pronotum aussi long que large,
paralli'le sur les cotes, retreci en avant senlement tout prt's du bord aiiterieur ; ponc-
tuation tri's forte et serroc. Elytres attunut^s en arriere dans Icur tiers postc'ricur ;
stries tres i)eu aj)parentes ; ponctuation rugueuse, luoins marquee vers la moitie.
Dessous fortement ponctu6; carfene marginale inferieure du pronotum pen appareute.
Pattes ferrugineuses.

Deli, N.E. Sumatra.

EspL'ce tres voisine de albcrtisi ; on diff^ro par le troisieme article des antennas
proportionuellement plus grand, le pronotum moins long, nullement sillonne an
milieu, i\ ponctuation plus serrde.

3. Galba nigra sp. nov.

Di mill. D'un uoir profond pen brillant, convert d'une pubescence grise a peine
visible. Tete cardnee an milieu, rugneusement ponctuSe. Pronotum pins large
que long, largemeut arrondi et un pen elargi en avant, fortement ct rugneusement
ponctue ; silloa median limite de cha([ae cote par nn bourrelet angule formaut un
losange dout la partie post^rieure est plus lougiie ; tubercules latdranx comme
dans fimebris. Elytres att^nniSs en arriSre ; stries bien marqnds ; intervalles con-
vexes et fortement rugueux. Dessous <\ ponctuation forte sur le propectus, legere
sur le mt^tasternnm, tres fine snr I'abdomen ; pubescence plus sorrd-e et plus
apparente. Cuisses noiriitres ; tibias d'un brun ol)scur ; tarses ferrngiucnx.

Kiriwini, lies Trobriand, 1895 (A. S. Meek). Un exemplaire.

Cette remarqnablo espece, !\ cause de sa carene frontale, est voisine de tomen-
toaa, mais elle a un grand rap])ort a,\cc /unel/ns. On la reconnaitra a sa conlenr
d'un noir profond ix peine brillant, a sa pubescence presque nullc, a ses elytres jiro-
fond^ment stries et grossieremeut rugueux.

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DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES AND
SUBSPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA.

By the HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD.

Troides tithonus De Haau.

THIS species was first described by De Haan in Temminck, Ver/i. Nat. Gesch.
Ned. oi-ei-. hi'z. p. L8. t. 1. f. 1 (cJ), in the year 184i.i, and he states on pp. 3
and 19 that it came from South-West New Guinea. Since then the only specimens
of T. tithonus we have received came from the island of Waigen, bnt lately Mr.
"William Doherty sent me a c? and two ? ? from the mainland of New Guinea,
near where Solomon Miiller got De Haau's type. I at once saw these differed
considerably from the Waigeu examples, especially in the ? ? , and I therefore
describe the Waigeu form as a new subspecies.

1. Troides tithonus waigeuensis subsp. nov.

? . Differs from T. tithonn.-i tithonus in having the white markings on the fore-
wings much more extended, while on the hiudwings it is somewhat restricted.

Tha female of tithonus tithonus has the white patch in the cell of the forewing
deeply dentated on the outer margin, lU mm. wide at the widest point and 3 mm.
at the narrowest, while in tithonus waigeuensis it is almost quadrate, not so strongly
dentated, and is 15 mm. wide at the widest and 10 mm. at the narrowest part. In
the typical form just before apex of cell are a few white scales, while in the Waigeu
form there is a long white dash. The four white patches in tithonus tithonus
between veins 9 and 5 are respectively 7, 11, 7, and 4 mm. long, while in my new
one they measure 15, 20, 25, and 20 mm. in length. The submarginal white spots,
five in number, between veins 5 and 1 are at least twice as large in the Waigeu
form as in the New Guinea one.

In both forms the discal spots vary much in size and number, but in tithonus
toaigeuensis the second spot between veins 3 and 4 varies from 19 (type-specimen)
to 9 mm., while in tithonus tithonus it is cither absent (type of ? ) or a mere dot.
The spot between veins 2 and 3 in tithonus tithonus is rounded and measures 7 (type
of ?) to 9 mm. in diameter, while in tithoims luaigeuensis it is elongate and
measures 18 (type) to 14 mm.

In the hiudwings the outer portion of the light area is much less washed with
yellow in tithonus toaigeuensis than in tithonus tithonus.

The white apex to the cell in tithonus tithonus measured along the centre line
of tl»c cell is 12 (type) and 10 mm. in length, while in tithonus ivaigcuensis it is 5,
7 (type), and 5 mm. long.

The round black i)ost-discal spot between veins 0 and 7 in tithonus waigeuensis
is joined to the black basal area, while in tithonus tithonus it is well separated and
well within the light area ; the white area partially surrounding the anal black spot
is much more restricted in the new form.

On the underside the same differences hold good, and the yellow area on the
hindwiuL's of the New Guinea form is more orange.

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c?. My male of titkonns titlionus and my two Waigen S S dill'er as follows : The
yellow-greea patch between veins 3 and 4 of forewings is smaller and more
triangnlar iii the new form, while it is sqnare in the typical titkonns lithonm.
On the hindwings the yellow patch within the cell is narrower and has a straight
inner margin in the New Guinea specimen, while in titkonns toaigeuensis it
is broader and the inner margin is angnlate. De Haau's figure of the type of
titkonns titkonns is somewhat intermediate.

cTroides titkonns titkonns, S.W. New Guinea: Kapanr, W. Dohcrty,

Ilab.l December 1896.

I Troides titkonns waigeuemis, Waigen Island.

Descriptions founded on 2 (J c? and 4 ? ? of T. titkonns waigeuensis and 1 S and
2 ? ? of r. titkonns titkonns.

2. Troides paradiseus fiavescens suLsp. nov.

? . Differs from T. paradisens puradisens chiefly in the much yellower colour of
the light area of the hindwings both above and below. The praecostal cell on
underside of hindwings is powdered with yellow, not white or yellowish white, scales.
The yellow of the abdomen is deeper in tint, and beueatli much more extended ; the
femora are streaked with yellow, not white. The third subcostsd vein arises H mm.
before apex of cell, thus distantly approaching T. supremns Rober, the female of
which is unknown.

Uab. Etna Bay, Dutch New Guinea (H. C. Webster, August 8th, 1896) ; 1 ?.

I at first suspected this specimen to be the female of T. supremus on account
of the position of the third subcostal branch be/ore the apex of the cell ; but as
among the ^'^e females of paradiseus from German New Guinea which are now in
my collection there is one in which that vein stands just a little before the apex of
the cell, and a second in which the distance amounts to lA mm., the position of
the third subcostal branch does not speak against the present form being a race
oi paradiseus.

3. Troides paradiseus meridionalis subsji. nov.

? . The markings on the disc of both wings purer white, being less dusted over
with black scales than in paradiseus paradiseus. The patch in the cell of forewing
is nearly straight at the basal side, its basal edge being very feebly dentate, while
at the apical side it bears one deep triangular notch ; it measures 12 mm. at its
widest part. There are three discal patches : the nj)2)ermost stands between veins
3 and 4 and measures 15 mm. in length and 6 in breadth, while in paradiseus
paradiseus this spot is small and ill-defined; the second jiatcli has a ler ,th of
13 mm. and a breadth of 5i mm. ; the third mark is very small and linear, its
dimensions being 6 and 1^ mm.

The light area of the hindwiug is much extended, stopping at the median
nervnre 14 mm. short of the base, the apex of the cell bearing a large white patch
which is oblifjuely cut off and has (in the centre of the cell) a length of 6 mm. The
portion of the light area outside the discal black spots is brighter yellow than in
paradi.^ieus paradiseus, and so is the npperside of the abdomen.

Femora black, without white or yellow streaks.

I lab. JIailu district, British New Guinea, July 1895 (Anthony) ; 1 ?.

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4. Papilio gambrisius buruanus .miI>ii. uov.*

? . Upjjersidc : forewing differs from that of gambrisius gambrisius in the ajjex
of the cell being more restricted white aud in the posterior discal white patches
being shorter ; hiudwing resembles that of aegeus onnenus, in having a complete
series of submarginal, clearly detined, large ochraceous markings, of whicli the
anterior ones are the palest, the posterior one the brightest ; the discal white band
intermediate in shape between that of gambrisius gambrisius and aegeus, being
narrower anteriorly and broader in the middle than in gambriisius from Amboinu,
Saparna, or Ceram ; the first spot belaud custa has, in middle between the veins, a
longitudinal diameter of 4 mm., the next spots of 5, 8, 9, 7, 10, 11 mm. respectively ;
the cellular spot is smaller than in the other form of gambrisius, measuring only
6 mm., the white colour being extended only to half-way between veins 3 and 2;
on the disc there are two large patches of bine scales between veins 2 and 3, a smaller
one behind vein 7, aud some blue scales before vein 4 and also at the edge of the
large anal rafons ochraceous hmule.

Underside : similar to the npperside, but all the markings (except the blue discal
spots, which form a complete series) paler, the discal band of the hindwiug
narrower than above, especially the cellular spot smaller.

Ilab. Tifu Bay, Burn ; 1 ? .

0. Charaxes ansorgei sp. nov.

S ■ Allied to Ch. poIlux, but differs as follows : —

Uppersidc : forewing from base to apex of cell and discal black sjjots rufous
chestnut ; at the outer edge of this area there are two small black spots between
veins \b and 2, two large black spots between veins 2 and 4, which are outwardly
concave ; the disc is traversed by a band that is darker ochraceous than ia pollux and
terminates at vein 4, being replaced between vein 4 and the costa by six spots, one
before vein 4, three between veins 5 and 8, rounded and of 1 J mm. diameter, and
two rectangular, between those three and the cell, between veins 5 and 7. Marginal
dark ochreous spots rounded. Hiudwing with a complete series of dark ochraceous
submarginal spots ; a milky white median band between costa and submedian fold,
4 mm. broad in front, 7 at the median nervure ; anteriorly somewhat tiuted at the
edges with buff, posteriorly with a bluish sheen ; wing outside the band black, inside
the band brownish black ; hairs of anal fold hair-brown.

Underside : outer region of forewing olive, with a slight tint of ochraceous at
the margin between the veins and towards the disc; this area rather sharply defined;
the submarginal triangular black spots very short, the anterior ones joined with
their tips to whitish, the posterior ones to bluish, spots ; the two discal black spots
between veins 2 and 4 somewhat curved ; the white band upon the discocellular
veins and the white costal band outside it broader than in jjollux. Hiudwing with
more sharply defined white discal baud, which is especially posteriorly broader
than in pollicx ; the outer region is olive, as on the forewing, with a tint of ochrace-
ous ; the submarginal black spots thinner than in pollux aud more linear ; there
is a white sjiacc of 4 mm. width at the abdominal margin between the loug black

* I take this opportunity of correcting a peiislip on jx 432 of Kov. ZoOL. III. (189G). I said there
that Oberthiix '3 figure resembletl more Fcliler's dcipJumtcs tlian Clerck's figure of dcij/k/ibii^ ; I meant to
write " deipylus^' which is, like deiphobns, tailed, while deij)Iwnies is tailless. Papilio deiphohus, dciptflus,
and deiphmtes are probably geographical forms of one species, — K. JoBDAN.

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and white marking's of the aklominal fold and tlie transverse black line which stands
between the abdominal margin and vein 2 at the basal side of the eye-spot.

Forewing somewhat narrower in apical half than in polliix.

Hah. Patsho, Nandi Coimtry, Uganda Protectorate, December 11th, Isne (Dr.
I. AV. Ansorge).

Named in hononr of the collector, who has lately discovered a good many of
very interesting forms of butterflies and moths. The white band of the npperside
of the hindwiug distinguishes this species at a glance from pollux.

(!. Nudaurelia rendalli sp. nov.

? . Uppersidc : forewing saifron-yellow, dnsted over witli black scales ; with
two narrow tricolorous bands ; one in the basal half, at the costa 10 mm. from the
base, 3 mm. broad, straight from costa to snbmedian fold, where it turns at a right
angle towards the hinder margin of the wing, which it reaches at a distance of 9 mm.
from the base : the colours of the three lines composing the band are greyish black
(inner line), white (middle line), vinaceous rufous (outer line) ; the second band is of
the same width as the subbasal one, and consists also of three lines, but the order of
the colours of the lines is inverted, the lines being vinaceous rufous, white, and
greyish black respectively ; the band starts at the costa 38 mm. from the base and
reaches the hindmargin of the wing at a distance of 23 mm. from the base ; it is
almost parallel to the outer margin of the wing, but is between the veins rounded
outward, and upon the veins augnlate (the points of the angles directed towards the
base). Upon the discocellnlar veinlets there is an eye-sjwt of Tt mm. width; it has
a small diaphanons centre which is surrounded by a broad ring of hazel, upon
which follow three very thin rings of maroon, bufi-pink, and vinaceous rufous.

The hindwing has the same bands as the forewing, but the subbasal one is very
indistinct, the blackish line alone being obvious; the wing is saffron-yellow outside
the exterior band ; the rest of the wing is vinaceous rufous, becoming somewhat
yellowish at the abdominal margin. The eye-spot has a diameter of 9 mm.; it is
similar to that of the forewing, but the exterior rings are somewhat different, the
colours being (from outside) : white ring, somewhat broader vermilion-red ring, a
thin black ring, a broad vinaceous ciunamon ring, and a diaphanous central spot.
The (inner) vinaceous rufous line of the outer band is merged together with the
vinaceous rufous colour of the disc.

Underside : forewing without the subbasal band ; the outer band and the eye-
spot as above, but less clearly marked ; the whole wiug from the base to the outer
band washed over with vinaceous rufous. Hindwing from base to outer band very
faintly washed witli vinaceous rufous ; the inner (vinaceous rufous) line of the outer
band distinctly marked : the eye-spot without an outer white ring ; subbasal baud
absent.

Body saffron-yellow. Antennae, tibiae in I'nnif, and tarsi black.

E.xjianse : forewing, length 64 mm., breadth 30 mm.
„ hindwing, „ 50 „ „ 33 „

Hab. Zomba, Upper Shire R., Brit. C. Africa, 3000 feet, .January 1890 (Dr. P.
Kendall).

Tliis species is distantly allied to Aiithemea anna Maass. & Weym. from
Mombasa, which insect I know only from the (most probably incorrect) figure.

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T. Mimeusemia fruhstorferi -p. nov.

<?. UppersUle : black. Forewiug with the following cadmium-yellow markings:
at the base a small spot before the costal vein and another at the posterior margin ;
a snbtriangular patch in basal fourth stands between costal nervure and submediau
fold, a little dilated along costal and median nervures : a transverse band, standing
at right angles to the costal nervure, before middle of wing, extends from costa
to near snbmedian vein, broadest beyond cell (3i mm.), a little dilated at median
and costal nervnres, the black interspace between this band and the snbbasal patch
being almost separated into two spots ; a transverse, somewhat halfmoon-shaped
band in ajjical third, rounded exteriorly, sub-trisinuate at its discal edge, pointed
at both ends, expands between veins 2 and 10, with a breadth of 2\ mm. at vein 4 ;
at anal angle a small mark (diameters, 2 and li mm.), shaded with some black
scales. Fringe at apex of wing white. A curved line upon the discocellular
veinlets, two spots beyond submediau band, standing on vein 2 and liefore vein \b
respectively, an oblique line iu basal fourth crossing sulimedian ner\Tire, and two
small markings near base, composed of metallic Idue scales.

Hindwing with the abdominal margin, the posterior portion of the exterior
margin as far as the submediau fold, and two large patches on the disc cadmium-
yellow. The marginal band has a width of Ij mm. (including fringe). The exterior
discal patch is oval, and expands between veins 2 and 8, having a length of 7 and
a width of 5 mm. ; at vein 7 it is indented, especially at the inner side ; at vein 6
it stands 5 mm. from the outer margin. The basi-discal patch is Ijand-like ; it has
at vein 8 a breadth of 3^ mm. and at its hinder end a breadth of 3 mm. ; the
anterior portion of the jiatch between costa and middle fold of cell is at right angles
to the subcostal nervure; from there the patch runs almost parallel to the abdominal
margin of the wing, and stops suddenly two mm. short of the yellow anal portion
of the exterior wing-margin ; at the median vein the patch is extended to the base.
Fringe at apex whitish buff.

Underside : similar to the upperside, bat the yellow markings paler and more
extended, the black interspace between the snbbasal patch and the submediau band
divided at the median nervure ; the basi-discal patch of the hiudwing joined to the
yellow abdominal wing-margin, thus forming a large yellow area which includes
a black rounded spot at base of cell and an elongate black basal mark at vein lb.

Head black, with a huffish white line at each side in front. Palpi black; first
joint white externally, second white internally, third with a few white scales on
the inner side. Antennae dorsally between tip and middle scaled white. Thorax
black, with three buffish white stripes; metathorax laterally with a tuft of cadmium-
yellow hairs. Each abdominal segment ringed with cadmium-yellow at apex, with
black at base ; ventrally the abdomen is cadmium-yellow, except the seventh
segment, which is black at base. Legs and underside of breast yellow : ujijicrside
of legs with black scales.

Length : forewiug 25 mm., hindwing 19 mm.

Hub. Samanga, S. Celebes, November 1805 (H. Fruhstorfer) : 1 c?.

8. Pristoceraea alba sji. nov.
S. Wings above and below silky white ; upperside of forewiug with a feeble
tint of cream-colour. Costal and outer margin of forewiug with l)lack border of a
nearly uniform width of f mm., except at anal angle, whore the black colour is

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almost confined to the fringe ; bonier of enter marijin dentate at the nervules.
Iliudwiug- with fringe between snbmedian fold and vein 5 black.

Head, underside of body, and tip of abdomen yellowish buff. Front of head
prodnccd into a high truncate cone, which is scaled black laterally. Base of
abdomen and thorax above white. Palpi black, first and second joints with some
yellow scales at base and apex. Anterior legs and all tarsi dark fiiscons ; bind tibiae
cream-colour.

?. Similar to c?,but black border to outer margin of forewiug wider, measuring
IJ mm. in breadth: hindwing witii a narrow black outer border extending from
veins 14 to 7, | mm. wide at vein 3, tapering oft" towards both ends. Abdomen
beneath black.

Length : forewing 20 mm., hindwing 15 mm.

Breadth: „ 10 „ „ 12 „

Hah. Fort Johnstone, Nyassaland, January and Febrnary \x'.H) (Dr. Percy
Kendall); 2 ^jc?, 1 ?.

The antennal joints are compressed, not cylindrical as in Acgoccra and most
other genera of Agaristidae. The first and second joints of the palpi are on the
underside pron'ded with long scales, while the third joint, which is about 21 times
as long as broad, is clothed with much shorter scales. The front of the head is
produced into a high truncate cone, which is at the ti]) about a sixth the width
of the front of the head.

9. Immetalia meeki huonis subsp. uov.

S. Differs from meeki from the D'Eutrecasteaux Islands in the band of the
forewing being brighter yellow and narrower, measuring on the upperside IJ, 2\,
f mm. respectively at costa, vein 4, and submedian vein. Band of hindwing also
slightly narrower : the black border of the wing obviously broader than in meelii
mcfhi, measuring 6i mm. at vein 0.

¥ . Similar to the male. The median band of the hindwing broader than in
(J oi huonis, but much narrower than in ? of mre//i, especially its anterior portion :
black border of hindwing as in <?.

J/a/j. Rimbang, near Finschhafeu, Huon Golfe, German New Guinea (Captain
11. (J.Webster); 1 cj, 1 ?.

NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE.

Vol. IV. AUGUST, 1897. No. 2.

ON THREE UNDESCRIBED COPROPHAGOUS LAMELLT-
CORNS IN THE TRING MUSEUM.

By .JOHN W. 8I1IPP.
1. Heliocopris coryndoni sp. uov.

(J uear II. iiirmal F.; ditfers in the coarser reticnlations on the thorax, narrower
head, three-pointed central thoracic armature, and parallel-sided elytra.

$. Black, nitid ; head with the clypens rather rounded or sliglitly siunated in
front, terminating iu a sharp angle in front of the transverse carina ; the lateral
margins are concave, with another angle or point just Ijefore the eyes. Front of
clypens covered with a fine network of carinae, with the interspaces very finely
alutaceous. A raised bipointed transverse carina is on the disc of the head, very
coarsely reticulate behind and at the sides.

Thorax very rough on disc and at sides, with the exception of a smooth cicatrix
on each side close to the lateral margins.

Thoracic armature produced in the centre into a deflexed narrow three-pointed
process, the two side teeth being very slightly reflexed and the centre one strongly
deflexed ; from each of the two outside teeth the carina runs semicirenlarly and
forms another large point on each side. Truncation roughly and anterior angles
obsoletely pointed ; lateral margins produced into a large strong point, which
projects anteriorly ; the side margins of this point are slightly crennlated ; lateral
margins rather attenuated posteriorly. Posterior angles blunt, and the hindmargin
slightly sinuate and rather produced near the scutellary space. Posterior margins
very strongly marginate. Anterior and lateral margins fringed with long reddish
brown bristles.

Elytra sliining ; interstices flat, very sparingly and finely punctured with
minute punctures; striae plain, but shallow. Lateral margins almost parallel;
margins very strongly marginate. The sutnral interstices are much raised.

Pygidium as broad as long, emarginate, and sparingly punctured. Metatliorax
thickly punctured with setose punctures, with the exception of a longitudinal smooth
line on disc, in the centre of which is a longitudinally impressed fine line. Disc of
abdomen smooth; sides more or less thickly punctured. Episternum of the metatlmrax
very thickly punctured, and covered with fine reddish brown hairs.

Undersides of femora smooth on disc, coarsely punctured with setose punctures
towards the sides. Under and upper sides of the intermediate and posterior tibiae
smooth on disc, with a row of large pores or jmnctuTes on the inner margins, from
base to apex. The punctures are unisetose.

Anterior tibiae three-dentate on exterior margins, the apical tooth being
furnished with a small tooth on the disc. Two rows oi' punctures with a raised edge,

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giving the tibiae the appearance of being crciiulated, are situated on the disc, tlie
space between them being smooth.

Antennae pitchy, club greyish.

?. Head produced in front; clypens slightly refle.xed ; a trideutate carina on
disc, with the centre tooth almost obsolete ; lateral margins slightly creunlate.

Thorax not so coarsely pnuctured as in the cj; the lateral margins crenulated ;
the posterior portion and scntollary area thickly granulate ; on the disc of the
thoracic armature and truncation the granules have run together. The thoracic
armature is in the form of a sinnated slightly emargiuate carina, somewhat similar to
japetus ? , from which, however, it differs in the anteriorly rounded form of the head
and tridentate carina.

Elytra dark castaneons ; striae punctured : interstices tiuely ])unctured with
small ^junctures; sides somewhat roughened and acicuhite. Lateral margins strongly
emarginate and margined ; between the humeral carina and tlie lateral margin are
three punctate striae ; interstices rugosely acicnlate.

Pygidium shorter than in the S , and rather more thickly punctured.

Underside similar to the S . Intermediate and posterior tibiae thickly punctured
on the np[ierside, and with the edges rather more thickly punctured on the under-
side than the S .

Anterior tibiae without a tooth on the upperside of tlie a]iical tooth.

Long. corp. S, ?, 47 mm. ; lat. 27 — 27i mm.

Uab. Mpeta, Loangwa River (affluent of the Zambesi), November and
December 1895, beginning of rainy season (C'oryudon).

Type in Tring Museum.

2. Heliocopris exclamationis sj). nov.

'Nea.T japetus King. S differs in having a short raised carina on the third
interstice, which is also more strongly curved, in the shape of the thoracic armature,
and in the shorter head and wider transverse carina.

J. Black, shining, with the elytra obscure pitchy.

Head rounded in front, with the clypeus slightly reflexed ; a central transverse
trijjointed carina extends acroSs the head, the centre point being the largest. The
lateral margins are strongly sinuate, the sinuation being strongest opposite the
transverse carina.

Anterior jiortion finely rugosely reticulate ; posterior jjortiou much coarser.
Lateral margins fringed with reddish bristles.

Thorax with the disc jiroduccd, and with eight distinct angles or jjoints, of
which four are situated on the discal carina, the front being rather j)roduced to an
obtuse angle which luis at each side an obtuse point, and then terminateil by a short
sharp point. Another carina then extends from near the centre portion of the trimca-
tion towards each side, and is furnished near the lower extremity with a sharp point.
The carina then extends in a semicircular form towards the lateral margins, but is
broken in the centre by a sharp curveil angle, whicli seems to divide the large curve
into two smaller curves. The frontal trnncatnre is very coarsely punctured in front,
the punctures being rather shallow and running into each other, the sides are very
dee])ly excavated and shining, very minutely punctured and finely alutaceous.
Sparingly punctured at the margins.

Disc coarsely punctured with large ptmctnres on the anterior portion, which

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become granulated towards the centre, and with the posterior portion near tlie
scntellary region thickly and finely grannlate, finely and sparingly jiunctured on the
lohes and finely grannlate near the sides. A large, smooth, indented cicatrix is situated
on each side near the lateral margins.

Anterior jiortion of the lateral margins smooth and emarginate ; posterior
portion rather crennlated and marginate.

Posterior margins widely marginate, with the margin smooth.

Elytra with a somewhat pitchy reflection.

Very tine punctured striae; interstices very sparingly pnnctnred with tine
punctures. A short sharp raised carina is situated on the basal third of the third
and fourth striae.

Pygidium rather sparingly rngosely granulate.

Metasternum rather depressed towards the anterior extremity and sparingly
jmnctured, the punctures being setose.

Femora smooth on disc, rather tliickly ]junctured with setose punctures at the
sides and margins.

Anterior tibiae three-dentate on the exterior margin, with the ajrical tooth
furnished witli a short tooth on the ujiperside at the apex. Hind tibiae rather tliickly
punctured on the upperside, almost glabrous underneath.

Long. coip. 48 mm.

Hab. Sierra Leone.

Type in Tring Museum.

3. Aphengiixm cupreum sp. nov.

Obscure cupreous; difllers from sordidum Har. in the thorax being broader and
the teeth on the clyjieus being shorter and almost obsolete and rather more thickly
punctured on the elytra.

Head: clypeus emarginate and rounded except in centre, where it is broken by
two obsolete teeth, rather thickly and finely punctured, the punctures being larger
and more coarsely scattered near the thorax.

Thorax twice as broad as long, wider near the anterior angles than at the base.
Anterior angles rather produced.

Lateral margins slightly incurved near the anterior angles and then straight to
the posterior angles, which are rounded. Posterior margin evenly rounded. Disc
rather produced into an obtuse hump near the anterior margin, rather coarsely
punctured with a few large hirsute pores ; sides very thickly covered with close
punctures and with a few reddish brown setae scattered round the margins. A
cicatrix is situated at each side, remote from the lateral margins. Elytra ])lainly
striated; interstices thickly jiunctured and covered with reddish setae.

Pygidium dull and pointed, strongly emarginate and almost smooth.

Metasternum and abdomen finely punctured in centre with fine setose punc-
tures, very coarsely and thickly punctured at sides.

Long. Corp. 9 mm.

IJab. Espirito Santo, S. BrazU.

Type in Tring Museum.

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ON A COMPLETE SKELETON OF MEGALAPTERYX
TENUIFES Lydekker IN THE TRING MUSEUM.

Bv CIIAKLES W. .USfDREWS, B.Sc, F.G.S.

(Plate VI.)

THE confusion that has arisen in the nomenclature of the Dinomithidae in
consequence of the founding of new species on isolated bones, or, what is worse,
on sets of bones conjecturally referred to the same species, has often been commented
upon, and some attempts have been made to remedy it. The difficulties are, however,
so great that the confusion is probably to a large extent ine.xtricable, and the whole
question is rendered more difficult by the way iu which many of the nominal species
pass into one another by almost imperceptible gradations. Nevertheless, when more
associated sets of limb-bones, or, better still, complete skeletons, have been described
and measured, it will become possible to determine to a large extent how many good
species there really are, although there will no doubt always be considerable difference
of opinion as to the limits of some of them.

In the case of the almost perfect skeleton which, through the kind permission of
the Hon. Walter Rothschild, I am able to describe iu the present paper, the difficulty
of determination is comparatively small, since it clearly belongs to the genus
Megalapteryx, of which only two species have hitherto been named. The first of these,
Megalnpteryx hectori, which is the type of the genus, was described by Von Haast in
the Transactions of the Zoological Society, Vol. XII. p. Ifil, on the evidence of the
bones of the leg. The second species, M. tenuipes, was founded by Lydekker (Cat.
Fosa. Birds Brit. Mus. p. 251) on a much abraded right tibia (Brit. IMus. 49990);
and since the tibia of the skeleton under description is identical with this bone in size
and structure, it must be referred to the same species. At the same time I regard
it as very unfortunate that so imperfect a specimen as the type tibia should have
received a name at all.

The genus Megalapteryx is the least known of the numerous genera into which
the Dinomithidae are subdivided. As already mentioned, it was founded by Haast
for the reception of his new species M. hectori, and the chief character which he put
forward as diagnostic of it was the slenderuess of the bones of the leg, this being
jiarticularly marked in the case of the femur, in which the shaft is notably longer in
proportion to the size of the extremities than in any other member of the group. He
also drew attention to several other points which led him to believe that this bird was
nearly related to the Aplerygidae, and was, iu fact, a gigantic apteryx. This opinion
is rejected by later writers, and is not supported by the present specimen, which is
in all respects Dinomithine ; and, as Parker has pointed out, the skull in this genus
is very similar in many respects to that occurring in Haast's genus Meionomis
( = MesojAeryx Ilutton, and Anoinaloplcryx, typical groui), Lydekker). It should,
however, be noted that some of the characters (e.g. the presence of a perforation at the
lower end of the groove between the third and fourth metatarsals) to which Haast
attached importance, occur in the skeleton under consideration, and appear, therefore,
to be constant in the genus.

NOVITATES ZoOLOGIC/E, VoL. i V. 1897.

Pl. VI.

MEGALAPTERYX TENUIPES Lyd.

r AUG 18S/

\*^^ ■Z.^-W-

( 189 )

The Skull. — The skull (fig. 1) is most siniilai'to those of Meioaornis and Anoma-
lopteryx, but also seems to approach Emeus iu a few points. Looking at the occipital
surface the cranium will be seen to be somewhat depressed, and the general outline is
like that of the skull figured by Parker as that of Mesojjteryx sp. /3 (Trans. Zool. Soc.
Vol. XIII. pi. 52, fig. 53). The paroccipital proces.ses are very small and only slightly
convex from above downwards; their rounded lower angles scarcely extend below the
level of the occipital condyle. In Meiononiis casuannus these processes are large,
very convex from above downwards, and their acute lower angles extend down to the
level of the mammillary tuberosities ; in Anom(dopteryx and Emeus also they are
larger than in the pre.«ent species, but do not extend much, farther ventrally. The
occipital crest forms a prominent rounded ridge, and the anterior and posterior
lambdoidal ridges are separated by a very narrow interval only, as in Emeus ; in

Fig. 1. — Skull of Megalaptert.\ texuipes Ltd.
A. from side. B. from behind. (§ natunal size.)

Meionornls and Aiwmalopteri/x a considerable space is enclosed between the two
ridges.

In consequence of the small size of the paroccipital processes the tympanic
cavity is very small, much smaller than in Aleionm^nis and Emeus; in A'liomalopteryx
parva they are also small, but their outline is sharply angulate instead of forming an
even curve as in the present specimen.

The temporal fossae are very large and slope steeply backwards. Posteriorly
the temporal and lambdoidal ridges become confluent ; the inferior tem]ioral ridge
is well developed and terminates in a sharp pretympanic process. The ])Osterior
temporal ridge is confluent with the lower portion of the lambdoidal crest ; after
leaving this it runs downward and forward on to the zygomatic process in such a
way that only a very small area of the squamo.sal prominence is outside the limits
of the posttemporal fossa. In both Miionornis casvxirinus and Emeus the tem]ioral

( 190)

is small : in A nomalopteryx parva, on the other hand, it is as large as in the
present specimen, and the temporal and lambdoidal ridges meet ; there are, however,
many differences in the arrangement of the inferior and posterior temporal ridges.

Tlie outline of the orbit is evenly curved or very slightly sinuous, and, owing to
the backward direction of the postorbital process, it seems to be larger than in the
other genera, in which also the preorbital process is much smaller. The optic
foramen is circular in outline, and it is situated as in Meimiornis. There is a large
and deep presphenoid fossa.

The mesethmoid is not perforated posteriorly by a fenestra, so that the olfaitorv
chambers are completely separated by bone. The outer border of the antorbital
plate, which is of very small vertical extent, is not fused with the lachrymal, the
lower end of wliioh is ])erforated by the lachrymal foramen as in Anoinalopteryx
didifcn'mis. The alinasal appears on the surface of the skull, filling the angle
between the nasal and lachrymal.

The beak is pointed as in Meimiornis. The anterior i)ortion of the nasal
process of the jjremaxillae, where it joins the body of the bone, is thin, thus
differing widely from the same region in Mesapteryx, Anomaloptei-yx, and, es-pecia.\\y,
Emeus.

Seen from above the roof of the skull presents a nearly evenly arched surface.
The most notable characteristic is its great breadth between the orbits, much greater
than in Meioruyrnis and Anomalopleryx.

The only peculiarity noticeable ou the ventral aspect is the length of tlie
pedunculate basi-pterygoid processes.

The mandible is more slender than that of any other of the ;\Ioas, the depth .at
the level of the slightly indicated corouoid process being only 13 mm. The symphysial
region is short and pointed. The articular surface for the quiuhate is broad ; the
posterior angular process is smaller than in Anovialopteryx and Mesopten-yx, but on
the other hand the internal angular process is much larger.

The general characters of the skull may be summarised as follows : —

Width of cranium at paroccipital processes less than half length of basis cranii.

Distance between optic foramina a little more than one-third length of basis
cranii.

Orbit evenly curved.

Length of premaxilla less than two .and a half times that of basis cranii.

Body of premaxilla pointed and slightly decurved ; its length and breadth less
than b.asis cranii.

The occipital plane slightly inclined backwards.

The occipit.al condyle pi-ojfc(ing slightly beyond the paroccipital processes.

Anterior and posterior lambdoidal ridges sejiarated by a very narrow interval in
their middle region only.

Width at .squamosals slightly more than double length of basis cranii.

jNIammillary tuberosities not very prominent.

iMargin of tj'mpanic cavity evenly curved.

Temporal fossae very large; distance between tem[ioral ridges aboutr four-fifths
width of cranium at fossae.

The posterior temporal ridge confluent with lambdoidal ridge ; posttemporal
fos.sae very large.

The inferior temporal ridge is strongly marked and there is a pretympanic
process.

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The zygomatic process well developed.

Rostrum dilated towards its anterior end, compressed and earinate beneath the
large prespheuoid fossae.

Mandible very slender ; posterior angular process small.
The dimensions of the skull are : —

Total length .. .

Length of crauio-facial axis .

„ „ basis cranii .

„ ,, roof . . . .

Width at paroccipital processes

„ „ s([uamosal prominences .

„ „ temporal fossae

„ ,, postorbital processes

„ „ preorbital processes
Distance between temporal ridges .
Height of cranium
Width of tymijanic cavity

„ „ temporal fossae

„ „ orbit . . . .

Distance between optic foramina .
Length of premaxilla

„ „ body of premaxillae
Width

122 mm.
97
30
76
55
G5
45
73
47

42
20
26
32
10
66
27
25

The above measurements are taken according to the rules laid down by Prof
Jeffrey Parker in his paper on the Cranial Osteology of the Di'iwrnithidae {Trans.
Zool. Soc. Vol. XIIL 1895, p. 373).

The Vertebral Column. — There are twenty-one true cervicals, two cervico-dorsals,
and four free dorsals. The two halves of the neural spine of the atlas are imperfectly
united, their anterior two-thirds being separated by a narrow vertical cleft. The
neural spine of the axis is not very prominent, and its posterior face bears a deep pit
for the insertion of a ligament. The neural spines of the cervicals 3, 4, and 5 are
bifid ; in the sixth the bifid spine is represented by two tuberosities, which in the
succeeding vertebrae diverge from one another and become reduced in height, till on
17 we have two low tuberosities, separated by a considerable interval and arising from
a common transverse ridge. In 18 and 19 these tuberosities become more prominent
and again ajiproach one another, while in 20 we have a high median spine which
.slopes forward and still shows traces of the bifid condition in the slight forking at its
posterior upper angle. In 21 — 25 the neural spine continues to increase in breadth
and height, but in the last two free dorsals, although the increase in height is main-
tained, the spine becomes very narrow from before baekvrards.

The centrum of the axis bears a median haemapophysis, as also does that of the
third; in the fourth this process is only slightly indicated. The fifth vertebra was
missing and has been restored in plaster. In the sixth the ventral surface is deeply
concave from side to side, and the paired catapophyses begin to appear ; these
increase in height to the sixteenth, in the seventeenth they are reduced, and in the
eighteenth replaced by a median haemapophysis. This increases in height and .antero-
posterior extent to the twenty-fourth ; on the twenty-fifth there is a median haema-
pophysis at the anterior border of the centrum, and a pair of blunt processes near the

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hinder margin. These latter recur on the remaining free dorsals and also on the first
two fused pelvic vertebrae.

The last three cervicals and the two cervico-dorsals bear hyi)erapophyses above
the post-zygapophyses.

Large pneumatic foramina perforate the base of the neural arch fi-om the second
cervico-dorsal (23) to the last free dorsal (27) inclusive ; and similar openings occur
immediately behind the base of the transverse processes in vertebrae 22 to 26.

The total length of the vertebral column (exclusive of the pelvic vertebrae)
measured along the ventral surface is about 187 cm.

The first of the pelvic vertebrae sup]X)rts a free rib, the second a fused rib; these
two vertebrae also bear jiaired haemapophyses near their hinder border. The post-
acetabular vertebrae have a low keel on the ventral surface of their centrum.

The pelvis is narrow, and the preacetabular portions of the ilia meet at a very

Fig. 2. — Sterncm of MEO.^LArTEuy.x texuipes Ltd.
From below, c.ji., coracoid pit. (-^- natural size.)

acute angle to form the iliac crest, which is convex from before backward. The ilia
begin to diverge about opposite the middle of the acetabulum ; the external surface
of their postacetabular region is narrow from above downwards, and, except close to
the posterior end, the thickened ventral margins do not descend below the level of
the centra of the posterior pelvic vertebrae. The distal portion of the ischium is
greatly expanded, but it remains separated by a considerable interval from Ihe ilium.
There is a blunt, not very prominent pectineal tubercle.
The dimensions of the pelvis are : —

Length of sacrum in a straight line .... 255 mm.

Greatest width of pehic escutcheon

Greatest length of ilia .

Width at pectineal processes

Width at antitrochanters

Least width of preacetabular region

Width between distal ends of pubis

The Slenium. — The sternum (fig 2) has a nearly straight anterior Ijorder between

120
320
101
140
G8
95

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the tulierosities for the coraco-scapular ligaments, which are fairly- well marked, l.al erad
of these tuberosities the anterior edge rises to form the front border of the antero-
lateral processes. These are large, and at their bases there are well marked coracoid
pits (c.p.). The lateral borders of the sternum diverge from one another from the base
of the antero-lateral processes to the tips of the postero-lateral ])roeesses, which are long,
di.stally expanded, and extend considerably beyond the median process. This latter
has an iiTegular extremity with an unsymmetrical notch. The whole sternum is
short and broad, and is highly convex from before backward as well as from side
to side.

There are three pairs of facets for the sternal ribs.

The anterior sternal rib is short and .stout (45 mm. in length), the middle one
more slender and longer (68 mm.), while the posterior is still longer and very slender
(95 mm.).

The dimensions of the sternum are : —

Width at antero-lateral processes .... 104 mm.

Length from tip of antero-lateral to ti]i of postero-
lateral process . . . . . . . 141 „

Length in middle line ...... 129 „

Least width of body (in front of first rib-facet) . . 100 ,,
Length of postero-lateral process . . . . 87 „

Boxes of the Hindlimi!.

The femur is of the same slender forwardly arched form as that of M. hectari,
though of course considerably larger. There are, however, some structural differences ;
thus the neck is less clearly defined, the trochanter projects farther forward, and, at
the lower end of the bone, the outer condyle is relatively larger and projects farther
backward. In other respects, e.g. in the form of the popliteal fossa and of the
articular surface for the fibula and in the arrangement of the intermuscular ridges,
the femora of the two forms are similar, and on the evidence of this bone alone it would
be possible to refer this species to the genus Mcr/alapteryx without hesitation.

The tibio-tarsiis is important because upon it depends the identification of tlie
species. The tibia upon which Lydekker founded M. tenuipes is unfortunately much
abraded, and the width of the distal extremity is thus reduced by about 13 mm.
From this it follows that the measurements given in the diagnosis of the species are
misleading, as ai.so is the figure (C'atal. Foss. Birds Brit. Mns. fig. 54 c, p. 219).
The dimensions of the shaft agree almost exactly with those of the present specimen,
and it is therefore a fair inference that those of the extremities in an unworn con-
dition were also the same. If this was the case, the ^vidth of the distal end was more
than one-eighth of the length of the bone instead of only one-ninth. In M. hectori
the proportions were about the .same, and the structure of the whole bone is clo.selv
similar.

I he metatarsus, as in M. heduri, is much compressed antero-posteriorly in the
middle of the shaft, and the arrangement of the hypotar.sal ridges and the form of
the distal trochleae are identical in the two birds. In the M. tenuipes, however, the
intercondylar tubercle is much more prominent and the anterior depression is deeper.
Ihe foramen at the lower end of the groove between metatarsals 3 and 4 merely
perforates a thin flange of the bone, as in M. hectcn-i ; there is no distal perforatio'n
between metatarsals 2 and 3.

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One of the most notable characters about this skeleton is the remarkable length
of the toes, the middle one being longer than the metatarsus. The ungual phalanges
are peculiarly long, narrow, and curved, instead of being comparatively short and
broad, as in most of the Moas.

One point of some interest may here be noticed, namely, that in the type of
Meionomis didina Owen, the toes are very long and the ungual phalanges similar in
form to those of the present specimen. This elongation of the toes seems to have
been overlooked owing to the fact that the pre.-;ence of dried tendons and integument
on the foot masks the form and proportions of the bones. The likeness of the type
of M. didina to the present specimen is not confined to the toes ; but the metatarsus,
tibia, and skull, as far as can be made out, are likewise similar, and if it were not that
the tibia is somewhat stouter and the form of the cnemial crest different in M. didina,
I should regard the two as specifically identical. As it is, I Ijelieve that both are
species of the genus Megalapteryx. I do not know on what evidence the femora and
jielvis referred by Professor Itutton have been determined, and my remarks relate
only to the type-specimens which are in the British Museum.

The dimensions of the bones of the hindlimb in this specimen are given lielow,
together with those of Mer/alapteryx hectm'i and tenuijxs (type-iibiu) and Meionomis
didina for comparison.

Specimen now
described.

Meyahiptrryx
tmuipa
(tyi-e).

MegalapUryx
hcctori.

Meionomi*
didina

(typw).

rioiuii.

Length

2G4 mm.

173 mm.

Width of upper end

73 „

52 „

„ „ lower end ......

88 ,.

54 „

Circumference of shaft at iianiiwest jioint .

100 ,.

71 „

Diameter of ditto

30 ,.

22 „

Tibia.

Length (without cnemial crest) ....

392 „

393 mm.

376 mm.

Width of proxini-al end

68 „

65 „

„ „ distill end

57 ,.

43 „

54 „

Circumference of midiUe of shaft

83 „

81 „

66 „

91 „

Width of ditto

31 „

21 „

33 „

Metatarsus.

Length

190 „

113 „

187 „

Width at proximal end

60 „

42 „

„ „ distal end

81 „

57 „

Circumference of middle of shaft

80 ,.

57 „

Width of ditto

31 „

22 „

The length of the fibula is 265 mm. ; the width of its upper end, 45 mm.

Length of middle toe, 197 mm. (1st phalanx, 63 ; 2nd, 43 ; 3rd, 39 ; 4th [daw], 76).

„ ,, inner toe, 148 mm. (1st ph.alanx, 63 ; 2nd, 41 ; 3rd [i-law], 65).

„ „ outer toe, 150 mm. (1st phalanx, 45 ; 2nd, 30 ; 3rd, 31 : 4th, 27 ; 5th [claw], 48).

., „ metatarsal of hindtoe. 30 mra.

The beautifully preserved specimen now dopcribed was discovered about 1865
by Mr. Salisbury in a cavern at Pockeroy Nelson, in the South Island of New
Zealand.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE V.

P'ig. 1. Anisographe dissimilis S, p. 254. n. I{i2.

3. Lobocraspeda coerideostriga <?, p. 242. n. 132.

4. Agatkia obsokta S , p. 208. n. 35.

5. Phasdia (?) dentilinea ? , p. 245. n. 140.

6. Plerocymia nigrocellata S , p. 236. n. 117.

7. Einplema delicattda ? , p. 202. n. 19.

8. Goniopteroloba fuscata c?, p. 231. n. 104.

9. „ conjuncta S , p. 230. n. 103.

10. Eois exquisita ¥ , p. 219. n. 70.

11. Ilyostomodes nuhilata i, p. 252. n. 159.

12. Eulype (?) disparata S, p. 234. n. 111.

13. Eiipludaera nigridoraata <?, p. 196. n. 2.

14. Agraptochlora nigricomis cj, p. 208. n. 36.

15. Eucrostes impunctata tJ, 211. n. 43.

16. Aids contortilinea S, p. 245. n. 141.

17. Darisa dissimilis ? , p. 247. n. 146.

18. Burmda (?) puncticorpus ? , p. 240. n. 128.

19. Darisa dissiviilis S, p. 247. n. 146.

20. Chlwomachia aureofidvn S , p. 209. n. 38.

21. Euchloris ochrea, p. 210. n. 42.

22. Clepnimdea phryganeoides ?, p. 262. n. 182.

23. Ghloroglyphica maculata ¥ , p. 208. n. 37.

24. Omiza torluosa ?, p. 258. n. 173.

25. Terpna (?) ocellata ¥ , p. 207. n. 34.

26. Bursada rotundimacula ¥, p. 241. ii. 129.

27. Banisia rdbifimbriata <S, p. 196. rt. 3.

28. „ (?) dohertyi <J, p. 196. n. 4.

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NEW GENEKA AND SPECIES OF DEEPANULIDAE,

THYBIDIDAE, EPIPLEMIDAE, URANIIDAE, AND

GEOMETEIDAE IN THE TEING MUSEUM.

(Plate V.)

By W. WARKEN, M.A., F.E.S.

Family DREPAKUL TDAE.

1. Ausaris splendens sp. nov.

Foretoings : cream-colour, tinged with olive ; costa darker, studded througbont
with silvery scales ; cell-spot large, ear-shaped, dark chestnut, edged with silvery
scales ; a blotch of silver}' scales at base of cell, with a line of the same along
middle of cell, through the cell-spot, and broadening beyond it ; a silvery submar-
ginal line, incurved at middle, then parallel to hindmargin ; marginal line silvery ;
fringe and costal edge before apex fnlvous ; the submargiual line is edged internally
with olive fulvous.

Hi ltd wings : with a short silvery Hue from inner margin at two-thirds: marginal
line silvery below middle ; fringe fulvous.

Underside uniform pale cream-colour. Face and palpi dee]) brown : thorax and
abdomen cream-colour ; antennae ferruginous.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One S fi'oiu Tawaya, north of Palos Bay, Celebes, August or September 1890
(Doherty).

Closely allied to .1. a rgcnfili ni'n Wlk.

Euphalacra gen. nov.

Foreioinga : elongate ; costa strongly arched at base and convex before apex,
which is minutely falcate ; hindmargin bhmtly toothed below veins 7 and ."), excised
between the teeth and less strongly below apex; the lower half strongly oblique.

Ilindwings : with hindmargin toothed as in forewings, tlie excision between the
teeth deeper ; costa strongly curved to the ui)iier tooth ; hindmargin straight from
lower tooth to anal angle.

Palpi porrect or inclined ujiwards, stout, and longer than in Phdacra; tongue
present ; frenulum absent : antennae in both sexes flattened and serrate, the serra-
tions clavate.

Neuration : forewings, cell half as long as wing; discocellular iuangulated; first
median beyond middle ; second at seven-eighths ; third from end of cell; lower
radial just above lower angle, ujiper from just below uj)per angle of cell ; 7, 8, 0,
stalked ; 10, 11, stalked ; 10 anastomosing witli 8, 1), and forming a very long areole,
11 being given off" near its apex, 7 from the middle. Ilindwings as in Phalacra.

Type : Euphalacra nigridorsata sp. nov.

Phalacra edentata Hmpsn., Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, Vol. I\'. p. 478. n. 747ff,
has similar neuration: but no mention is made of the serration of the j antennae.

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2. Euphalacra nigridorsata sp. nov. (PI. V. fig. 13, c?).

Foretvings : pale othreons, with jjale grey-brown suffusion and Hues ; a diffused
grey-brown streak from base throngh cell, darker and extending to costa in tlie cJ ;
three tine very acutely dentate lirowu lines before middle, marked with dark points
on the veins ; a blackish dot at middle of discocellular, ]irec('ded by a jiale ochreous
elongated spot ; a smaller blackish dot at lower end of cell; three strongly waved
postmediau brown lines, approximated below middle and running obliquely to
before middle of inner margin, marked with a brownish streak running through to
the ujiper tooth and jireceded by au obliiiuc somewhat irregular streak of the pale
ground-colour ; a waved brown subm.irginal line and row of black marginal spots:
fringe ochreous, darker at the teeth.

Ilindicings : with two dark brown antemedian lines, forming a continuation of
tlie oblique brown streak of forewings ; two pale brown waved median lines, approxi-
mated towards inner margin and meeting along the veins, divergent above mi<ldle ;
two wavt>d j)osthiediau lines close together, the outer one darker ; submarginal line
and marginal spots and fringe as in forewings.

Underside pale ochreous, with dark brown sinuous outer and submarginal lines;
the cell-sj)ots distinct : costal area of forewings dark smoky brown. Face and palpi
ochreous below, brown above ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen ochreous ; the last
with a double blackish central blotch corresponding to the obli(pic dark line of wings,
and two dark rings towards the anal segments.

Expanse of wings : c?, 30 mm. ; 2 , 45 mm.

A pair from the Khasias, August 1890.

Family THYRLDIDAE.

3. Banisia albifimbriata sp. nov. (PI. V. fig. 27, S).

Forewings : pale silky ochreous, crossed by very fine waved lines of an oniuge-
red tint, four or five of which are more jiromiuent than the rest, blackish with
reddish edges — viz. two waved near base, one oblique from two-thirds of costa to
inner margin beyond middle, crossing the cell-sj)ot, a broken sinuons one beyond it,
and a curved and sinuons submarginal one, oblique outwards towards middle of
hindmargin, then incurved to anal angle ; a fine dark marginal line, connected by
short streaks with the submarginal ; costa marked with black streaks : fringe
reddish at base, white beyond.

Ilindwings : with all the lines more distinct, the live darker ones all more or
less parallel to hindmargin; fringe wholly white.

Underside the same. Head and thorax dark brnwii-red : abdomen whitish,
with red segmental rings ; the anal segment white.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

One S from Mount Gcde, West Java, 4000 feet, 1890 (Fruhstorfcr).

4. Banisia (?) dohertyi sj). nov. (PI. V. fig. 28, 6).

Fori'imngs : somewhat shining, greyish fawn-colour, thickly dappled with
darker ; the fasciae darker grey, narrow, with irregular edges, starting from still
darker brownish grey costal blotches, the first at one-fourth, the second just before
middle, the third beyond middle from a large costal blotch reaching to the median and

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strongly angled iu the cell ; the fourth aud fifth at even distances beyond, thejfourth
forming a narrow oblique and straight band, the fifth curved parallel to hindmargin,
both marked with small round black dots between the veins ; apex freckled with
white ; a small blackish cell-spot; fringe glossy, pale, with a dark dividing line,
and neatly chequered with dark grey beyond the veins in the <? ; wholly fawn-coloured
in the ? .

Hindwings : with traces of dark median, postmedian, and submarginal bauds ;
the first forming a large dark spot at end of cell, with some small hyaline spots
before and behind it.

Underside darker, brownish grey, with the markings more distinct: thos(^ of
the hindwings black. Head, thorax, and abdomen fawn-colour ; underside of
abdomen and legs whitish.

Expanse of wings : <?, 32 mm. ; ? , 28 mm.

A pair from Bali, Blarch and April 1896 (W. Dolierty).

A very distinct species. Forewiugs with apex slightly produced ; hindmargin
bowed in middle, oblique below and incurved before anal angle, which is slightly lobed.
Hindwings with apex produced ; inner margin very short ; hindmargin truncate
and excised from anal angle to vein 1, and excised lietween 1 and 2, 2 and .3. Tlie
palpi long, oliliquely porrect upwards ; third joint quite as long as second. Abdomen
of d very long, of ? short and stumjiy.

5. Banisia mediostrigata sp. nov.

Fo/rw/ni/s : pale ochraceous, with darker ochraceous or pale brown strignlations
and reticulations ; six pairs may be counted on the costa, with the ground-colour
between them slightly deeper, oblique at first, then vertical ; the limiting lines of
the outer three pairs becoming much more irregular and distorted ; between each
pair and also along the centre of each there are visible finer vermicular lines and
streaks ; fringe concolorous, with a fine darker basal line. The median vein and
second median nervnle are thickened and slightly raised, edged towards the inner
margin by a darker streak, the area above remaining of the paler ground-colour.

Hindwings : similar, the disc beyond the middle slightly paler.

Underside the same. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark ochraceous or pale
brownish ; the metathorax and basal segments of abdomen somewhat paler.

Expanse of wings : 6 , M mm. ; ? , 40 mm.

A pair from the Khasias, August 1896.

6. Banisia ordinaria Warr., Ann. Mug. N. H. (7). II. p. 226 (1S96).

I find that this species is subject to very considerable variation, both iu size
and markings. The type, a ? , from Mackay, Queensland, is 34 mm., but of six
examples from Geraldton, near Cairns, also hi Queensland, four ? ? expand only
27 mm., while the other two 6S are only 24 mm. The J resembles JJ. tctragoimta
Wlk. in having small hyaline spaces beneath vein 2 on each side of the inner arm
of the outer fascia, and is besides paler in coloration than the ? .

In one form of aberration occurring in both sexes, for which I propose the name

all. nigristriata,
the outer donble line from costa lieiore apex to miildle of hindmargin iu the

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forewings is filled in with black between the veins ; in a second, the inuev
arm of the outer fascia contains an oblong black blotch in both wings, which I call

ab. hyphenata.

7. Hypolamprus bipunctatus sp. nov.

Forewings : reddish brown with a cojiiiery tinge, crossed by very fine dark
strigalae, which interlace towards the hiudmargin and anal angle : eight pairs of
dark lines from the costa hardly reaching beyond the subcostal, the space between
the lines slightly darker, the seventh and eighth pairs divergent ; the fifth produced
to the median vein and embracing a dark cell-spot : some small round blackish
spots beyond cell and along the submedian fold ; fringe coucolorous, with a distinct
black dividing line, and dark streaks beyond the veins.

Hiiidwings : with rows of blackish spots between the veins ; two submarginal
consisting of small spots : the median row of larger ones, including the discal spot
and one at anal angle.

Underside brighter, more coppery ; forewings with a darker fascia from inner
margin at one-third to median, with metallic scales on cither side, and a darker
median fascia reaching across wing and containing a large black and lustrous cell-
sjjot ; two lustrous white patches before ajiex. Head and thorax concolorous ;
abdomen paler, marked with red-brown at apex.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

One S from Mount Gedc^, West Java, 4000 feet, 1896 (Frnhstorfer).

8. Siculodes complicatalis sp. nov.

Forewinqs : white, varied with irregular brown strigulae and reticulations, these
becoming thicker and coarser towards inner margin ; traces of snlimarginal dots
below apex ; fringe white, mottled with brown.

lJi7idwings : with all the brown lines thick, more definite than in forewings ;
a spot at base, then a bent band, followed by a straight one; median area with
three or four interrujjted and partly connected bands ; a sinuous submarginal Ijand,
connected with hiudmargin above and below middle.

Underside similar. Head, palpi, and front of thorax brown ; the rest of thorax
and abdomen white, the last with broad brown segmental rings.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

One S from Gunong Ijau, Perak.

The forewings have the costa strongly shouldered near base and incurvdl at
middle, the inner margin sinuate. Hindwings with hiudmargin protuberant in
middle, slightly incurved below apex and before anal angle.

Family URANITDAE.

9. Acropteris illiturata sp. nov.

Forewings : white, with a few scattered pale fuscous strigae, thickest on costal
margin; fringe white, with no basal line.

IJinr/wings : the same ; no trace of lines or bands on either wing.

Underside white. Face, palpi, and forelegs dark fuscous ; head, thorax, and
abdomen white.

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Exjianse of wiugs : 40 mm.

One S from M2)wapwa, East Africa.

lu this (S the nenration is abnormal ; veins 2 and 3 of forewings are short-
stalked, and from their joint origin the median vein is strongly njjcarved, vein 4
coutinning the curve to hindmargin.

10. Acropteris parvidentata sp. nov.

Forewings: white, the costa strongly marked witli dimble black strigae, which
increase in size towards apex ; the subcostal vein finely dotted with black ; the
streaks all i)ale brown, not grey; two double streaks from inner margin at one-third
and beyond middle, meeting before ajjex; a diffuse streak from base througli cell,
and a narrower one in space between veins 7 and 8 ; two narrow bands of striae
towards hindmargin : marginal line brown ; fringe pale brown.

Jlindwings : with four doiible bands ; marginal line and fringe as in forewings.

Underside wliite, with the fringe pale brown. Palpi black and white ; face
brown ; thorax and abdomen white.

Expanse of wings : 52 mm.

One c? from Lombok, June (Doherty); one S, two ? ?, from Tawaya, north of
Palos Bay, Celebes, August and September 1896 (Doherty); also several in the
Felder Collection.

The hindmargin of hiudwings is rounded, with only a very faint tooth at
vein 4 ; hindmargin of forewings bent at one-third lielovv costa, slightly incurved
thence to anal angle.

1 1 . Acropteris vacuata sp. nov.

Fon'wings : white, with no markings except some scattered pale brown strigae
along costa and in the marginal area ; fringe white, with no trace of any basal line.
Hindwings : the same.

Underside white ; thorax and abdomen white.
Expanse of wings : 32 mm.
One ? from Morondava, Madagascar.
Like A. illiturata, Warr. from Mpwapwa, but very much smaller.

12. Pseudomicronia trimaculata sp. nov.

Forewings : white, the costa with black points, emitting pale brown striae: pale
))rown oblique basal, forked autemediau, curved jiostmedian, and two finer, nearly
straight, snbmarginal bands ; hindmargin irregular, with fine dark marginal line,
becoming obsolete before apex.

Hindwings : with the five streaks continued across them, all bent below middle,
towards anal angle, the outermost streak sjjlit uj) into horizontal striae : an additional
streak along inner margin ; three large black spots between anal angle and tail, the
marginal line swollen above.

Underside, head, thorax, and abdomen all white.

Expanse of wings : 45 mm.

One (J; no localitv.

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13. Stesichora bipunctata.

Stesichora apicipuncta ab. bipunctata Warr., Nov. Zoul. 111. p. 344 (?).

When I described the single ? from Biak as an aberration of apicipuncta, 1
had seen onlj' tliat one ; bnt I find that tlic differences between the two forms are
([iiite constant, and that the d is romaricalily different from the ? in both forms.

Of six exani])les from Etna Bay, New Guinea (fonr $ ? , two S S), the ? ?
agree with the type from Biak; the SS, instead of lieing uniform white, have two
broad fuscous bands, running obliquely from one-fonrtli and l)eyond half of inner
margin towards aj)ex. before wliich tliey become obsolete, not uniting, but slightly
nearer each other thau on inner margin. In the hindwings the first of these Ijauds
forms a line close to base, the second becomes antemedian, while, as a continuation
of the spot at anal angle of the forewiugs, a third, more strongly marked, band runs
from just before ajiex to above anal angle. On the underside the costa of forewiugs,
as well as tlie a])ical blotch, is blackish, and tlie whole wing slightly tinged with
grey. In two of the fonr ¥ ? the hindwings show fine traces of the tliird line. All
sis examples are dated August 1896 (Webster).

14. Stesichora apicipuncta Warr., Nov. Zool. III. p. 343 (?). Humboldt Bay.

Stesichora combinata Warr., Nov. Zool. IV. p. 24 (<?). Constantinhafen.

As soon as I had discovered that the S of S. bipunctata differed, by the
additional markings, from the ?, it occurred to me that the S of S. apicipuncta
would exhibit similar differences ; and in fact I had already described it as a distinct
species under the name of combinata, which name must therefore sink as a
synonym.

Family EPIPLKMIUA E.
lo. Dirades exangnilata sp. nov.

Forewiugs : brownish grey; first Hue nearly in the middle, curved outwards in
the cell, externally edged with darker brown, and preceded in cell by a (hirk spot ;
outer line from costa at two-thirds, oblique outwards to near hindmargin, then
curved and running obliquely inwards, nearly parallel to hindmargin, to inner
margin at four-fifths, pale itself, but edged internally with dark brown ; fringe
concolorons.

Hindwi7igs : with antemedian and postmedian pale lines, edged conversely, as
in forewiugs, with deep brown ; space between them darker than the rest of the
wings.

Underside of fore^vings dull greyish brown, of hindwings lighter. Face dark
brown ; thorax and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 16 mm.

One cJ from Mount Mulu, N. Borneo, 1000—400(1 feet (Hose).

Apex of forewiugs produced, subacute ; hindmargin oblique ; hindwings with
slight teeth at veins 4 and 7; antennae subserrate beneath, rough above.

16. Dirades Integra sji. nov.

Forewiugs : grey; the costa darker, especially at base ; the two lines very fine
pale ochreous ; first from beyond one-third of costa to beyond one-third of inner

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margin, strongly angled ontwards on the median vein ; second from costa at three-
fourths to inner margin at four-fifths, strongly rounded above towards hindmargiu,
running in below vein 4, then vertical ; space between the lines dark grey, becoming
dark fuscous along the lines themselves ; a submarginal row of small dark fuscous
grey-edged spots ; fringe concolorous.

Hindwinys : with costal area pale ; inner line obscure ; a wedge-shaped rust-
coloured blotch edged with dark scales at the end of cell, emitting a dark and
ochreous streak along vein 5 ; another patch towards base, and a third towards
inner margin ; outer line bluntly angled beyond cell and sinuous to iimer margin,
edged outwardly with paler, and preceded by fuscous and ochreous patches ; a sub-
marginal line of dark grej'-edged lunules from upper tooth to below lower tooth ;
area along submedian fold whitish, with the dark markings effaced.

Underside cinereous. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey; dorsal area of the
latter blackish grey ; face and palpi deeji brown.

Expanse of wings : 1 7 mm.

One ? from Lombok, 20U0 feet, May and June 1896 (Fruhstorfer).

Distinguished by the central fascia being entire, not interrupted across the
middle and so forming a costal and inner-marginal blotch.

IT. Dirades pygmeata sp. nov.

Forewinys : whitish, grizzled with grey ; a curved dark fuscous line at four-
fifths, and a slight dark line from apex to middle of hindmargin; a dark rather large
cell-mark, and a dark spot on inner margin directly beneath it ; the curve of the
outer line sometimes shaded internally with fuscous ; fringe grey.

Hindwinys : with curved dark antemedian and postmedian lines, the former
followed by a dark spot on the median vein ; a dark sjiot before each tooth, the
lower one with a white spot adjacent.

Underside of forewings dark grey, of hindwings whitish. Face and i)ali)i dark
brown ; thorax and abdomen grey and white ; vertex and front of thorax pale grey.

Expanse of wings : 16 mm.

Four $S from Batchian, March 1892 (Doherty).

Hindmargin of forewings entire, of hindwings with short teeth at veins 4
and 7.

A single $ from the same locality has both wings above and below and the
whole body dark smoky leaden-grey, the lines and cell-spot blacker. This I
propose to call

ab. plumbea.

18. Epiplema amygdalipennis sp. nov.

Forewings : white ; the costa on basal half marked with fuscous striae and
three dark spots at one-sixth, one-third, and one-half ; a short horizontal dark mark
beyond cell ; fringe white.

Hindwings : with a black dot near base on median at the origin of first median
nervule and another on hindmargiu below the lower tooth ; a few dark striae beyond
middle.

Underside white, the forewings suffused with pale fuscous, the cell-spot show-
ing white. Palpi externally dark fuscous ; face, head, thorax, and abdomen white.

Expanse of wings : 10 mm.

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One (? from Aj>ia, Uj)olu (Woodford).

Tiie forewiiigs are idiuoiid-shaped ; both co-sta and inner margin convex ; apex
and liindmargin ronuded ; kindwings with short teeth at ends of veins 4 and 7.

The example, tliongh in good enough condition, bears indications of dark
transverse markings, which liavc become obliterated.

l'». Epiplema delicatula sp. nov. (PI. V. fig. 7, ?).

Forewings : white, tinged with rnfons, and with fine transverse brown striae ;
the lines dark brown ; first at one-third, sharply angled on su1)costal vein, then
vertical to inner margin; second beyond two-thirds, straight to the anal angle: cell-
s])ot linear, oblicpie, dark brown: marginal lino fine, dark brown; a black sjwt on
margin above vein 6 ; fringe white, with a dark brown central line ; all tlie veins
brownish.

nindwiii(fs : white, without the rnfons tint : the striae more distinct ; ante-
median and postmedian brown lines, both angled above vein 2.

Underside similar, but paler, and without the first line. Palpi and face brown
above, white below ; vertex white ; thorax and abdomen white, pei)i5ered with brown,
especially the latter.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One ? from the Khasias, October 1896.

Near to I'J. reticulata Moore, but the lines are qnite different.

20. Epiplema discata sp. nov.

Forewings : greyish slate-colour, with a brownisli tinge in iihices : the dark
scales arranged in close vertical lines throughout the wing ; the costa and hind-
margin jialer than ground-colour: the lines dark brown; a median line curved below
costa, then vertical, swelling out into blotches on median vein and inner margin ;
outer line at three-fourths, slightly curved outwards from costa to inner margin : a
brown crescentic mark before hindmargin ojiposite the cell, with two small black
dots above it ; fringe slaty grey, varied with pale grey.

Hiiidwings : with a large round brown spot before middle of wing, with another
between it and inner margin, followed by an indistinct brown median line, bent in
midwing; onter line from two-thirds of costa to inner margin close to anal angle, bent
in middle and waved below ; a marginal row of irregular brown-edged Innnles from
apex to below lower tooth, with pale scales between them ; fringe with a pale line
at base.

Underside uniform grey. Thorax, vertex, and abdomcMi slaty grey ; face and
palpi dark brown.

Expanse of wings : 1:} mm.

One (? from S. Celebes, August and September 1891 (W. Doherty).

21. Epiplema lugens sp. nov.

Forewings: ]iur]ilish grey; a central fascia and suljmarginal sliade darker;
inner edge of central fascia obscurely indicated by a dark line angled outwards in
middle ; outer edge dark, slightly sinuous, from two-thirds of costa to two-thirds
of inner margin, followed by a paler fascia, grey with dark speckles ; snbmarginal
fascia of uniform width, except at costa, where it is widened to apex, ending at anal

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angle, edged externally with paler, and followed by a series of small dark triangles ;
marginal area paler ; fringe dark purplish grey, with pale apices.

Ilinchcings : with the inner edge of central fascia twice angulated ; the outer
edge sinuous, protuberant in middle, edged by a distinctly pale line ; marginal line
black, internally pale-edged.

Underside cinereous, with darker reticulations. Palpi, face, thorax, and
abdomen purplish grey; vertex snow-white; antennae white.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One ? from Apia, Upolu (Woodford) ; one cj from Geraldton, Queensland
(Meek).

In this 6 the hindwings are much darker, brown-black, with a paler streak
from base along middle of wing; the abdomen is similarly darker, with a broad
black basal band continuing the dark inner line of the hindwings ; the thorax and
face being smooth, fawn-colour. lu the forewings, instead of the submarginal
triangles, is a row of black dashes connected by a rust-coloured shade.

22. Epiplema nictitans sp. nov.

Forewings : with the ground-colour whitish, tinged with oi'hreous, and covered
with fine transverse dark grey striations; basal area rather darker, edged by a dark
shade, followed by a paler fasciaform S2)ace, with waved and curved outer edge ;
from middle of costa an oblique dark line runs to vein 4, is there acutely angled, and
then curved to inner margin at two-thirds; before the angulation is a black dash
preceded by a white spot ; space between this line and the inner fascia suffused with
fuscous ; the line is followed by a diffused paler ochreous space, which on inner
margin becomes white; a dark blotch on costa before apex ; a submarginal sinuous
row of black spots between the veins; fringe wide, the basal half darker than the
apical, from which it is divided by a dark line: dark dashes at apex, anal angle, and
beyond veins 3 and 6.

Hindwings : with the line as on forewings; a white blotch on costa near base,
containing some black scales in the middle; a row of dark paler-edged lunules along
hindmargin.

Underside of forewings dark grey, paler along inner margin; of hindwings
whitish, much varied with grey and black speckles. Face dark brown ; palpi with
tips dark ; thorax and abdomen dark and light grey.

Expanse of wings : 16 mm.

One 6 from Padang Rengas, Malay Peninsula.

Hindmargins of wings slightly crenulate ; hindwings with blunt square teeth at
veins 4 and 7.

23. Epiplema rhombifera sp. nov.

Forewings : pale leaden-grey, with fine darker striations, and tinged in parts
with rufous ; the lines ferruginous, first from costa just before middle, the second
from costa at two-thirds, both oblique outwards parallel to each other, the second
bent rectangularly on vein 4 to join first line, forming an oblong which is darker
than the wing on either side; the point where the two lines meet touches a semi-
circnlar spot on inner margin, which is pale grey within, and edged with velvety
black; a shade formed of dark striae from costa before apex to anal angle; a row
of black dots before hindmargin ; fringe dark grey.

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Hindwings : with a broad median dark chocolate band, edged with pale ochreous,
and marked with some black spots in middle ; marginal area chocolate-brown above
the middle, leaden-grey below; a line of leadeu-grey, black, and ochreons scales
before hindmargin from upper tooth to near anal angle.

Underside cinereous, mottled with dark. Face and palpi chocolate-brown;
thorax and abdomen leaden-grey.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

One ? from Oinainisa, Dutch Timor, NovembtM- and December ISUl (Doherty).

The species mimics Dirades conifera Moore, but the neuration is that of an
Epiplema. The hindmargin of hindwings is angled at veins 7 and 4: the forewings
are entire.

24. Epiplema ruptifascia sp. nov.

Forewhn/s : chalk-white, faintly discoloured with ochreous in places ; costa
with a few purplish fuscous dots ; a central curved purplish grey fascia with brown
edges, interrupted between veins 2 and 4, the outer edge only marked there by a
dot on vein 3, followed in the middle by a fine brown line ; hindmargin with a
narrow grey cloud at apex and middle, with a row of four black dots between; fringe
fuscous, white above anal angle.

Hindwings : with only the margins of the fascia expressed, the inner thick and
blackish; a series of grey lunules along hindmargin, that below lower tooth enlarged,
and preceded by a grey cloud ; fringe grey.

Underside of forewings grey, of hindwings white. Head, thorax, and abdomen
white ; paljii blackish; antennae ferruginous.

Expanse of wings: 14 mm.

One S from Bali, March and April ISOO (VV. Doherty).

Antennae thickened and flattened, strongly serrate. The species resembles
E. nana Warr. from Dili, Timor.

25. Gathynia albibasis alj. seminigra ab. uov.

In Vol. III. of Nov. ZooL., p. 278, I described G. albibasis from Fergusson
Island, and stated that the ? differed from the cj in having the larger half of the
hindwings black. I find that this peculiarity is not confined to the ? , and the
examples in which it occurs must be treated as an aberration from the more
common type-form.

26. Gathynia lignata sp. uov.

Forewings : reddish brown, with dark specklings : the base and costa grey and
fuscous; a blackish fascia just beyond middle, the outer edge slightly sinuous, nearly
parallel to hindmargin ; interrupted bidow the median by the red-brown ground-
colour, the lower part forming a truncated semicircular blotch on inner margin ; a
narrow dark marginal shade from apex; fringe iron-grey.

Hiiidwifigs : with antemedian and postmedian dark brown curved lines, both
slightly toothed in middle : fringe dark.

Face and palpi ilark brown ; thorax dark fuscous ; abdomen paler grey.

Expanse of wings : 16 mm.

One S from Bali, March and April 1S96 (W. Doherty).

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Hindwings with a slight tooth at vein 7 oul}-. In the forewings the snbmediau
and internal veins are both somevchat thickened and distorted at base, and the
nnderside is clothed with rongh scales along the inner margin near base.

Mesoglypta gen. nov.

Forewings : with costa cnrved at base and before apex, straight between : ajiex
blnnt ; hindmargin outwardly oblique to vein 5, there obtusely dentate and obliqne
inwards ; anal angle well marked ; inner margin somewhat convex.

HindwinffS : with apex blnntly rectangular ; hindmargin curved : inner margin
shortened ; anal angle truncate to vein 16 ; costa shouldered near base.

Antennae of c? quite slender, filiform : palpi porrect, roughly scaled, terminal
joint acute ; tongtie and frenulum present ; hind tibiae with four spurs, the inner
twice as long as the outer.

Neurntion : forewings, cell barely one-third of wing ; discocellnlar vertical ;
submedian strongly sinuous; first median at four-fifths of cell, curved downwards ;
second and third I'rom lower angle ; lower radial from just below upper angle,
approximated at first to stalk of 6 and 7, then curved downwards ; 8 and 9 stalked
from close before upper angle, 10 from just before them, 11 from oue-half ; a strong
puckered fold along lower part of cell jiroduced to hindmargin above vein 4. Hind-
wings with costal curved away from subcostal from base ; the two subcostal nervules
on a long stalk ; radial from below the upper angle : second and third medians,
as in forewings, from lower angle of cell ; first median from quite near base.
Type : Mesoyly pta fleximanjo sp. nov.

27. Mesoglypta fleximargo sp. nov.

Forewin(/s: j-ellowish, covered with tine, slightly waved, rust-coloured striae;
the costa marked with darker striae ; traces of an oblique brown line from inner
margin close to base to middle of wing parallel to costa ; an outwardly oblique
fuscous line from four-fifths of costa, with fuscons striae and blotches towards apex;
a fuscous patch on hindmargin below vein 5, along which the fringe is also fuscous ;
yellow above and below.

Ilinihvhtgs : yellow, with the rust-coloured striae, without any markings.

Underside paler, with sparse, more strongly marked, brown striae. Head,
thorax, and abdomen all yellowish ; palpi somewhat darker.

Expanse of wings : 27 mm.

One 6 from Lombok, 2000 feet, May and June 1896 (Fruhstorfer).

28. Paradirades maculata sp. nov.

Foreuings : pale grey, suffused with pale fawn-colour ; a black spot in middle
of base ; first lino pale grey, indistinct, at two-fifths, slightly curved outwards and
marked by three black spots, on costa, discocellnlar, and inner margin ; second line
at fonr-fifths, more strongly curved, marked by black spots on costa and inner
margin only; the space included i)ale fawn ; a dark spot on costa before ajjcx, and
one before hindmargin at middle; marginal line slender, black ; fringe pale, with
dark spots beyond veins, that at vein 4 large.

Hindwings : with fawn-coloured central fascia, the inner eilg(? only marked by
two black spots on and near inner margin : the outer simply a dark waved line ; a
black spot before middle of hindmargin.

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Underside pale grey, with reddish reflections ; fringes whitish. Face and palpi
brown ; head, thorax, and abdomen grey.
Expanse of wings : 16 mm.
One 6 from Bali, March and April 1896 (W. Doherty).

Family GEOMETRIDAE.
Subfamily OENOCHROMINAE.
29. Oenochroma simplex sp. unv.

Foreivings : ochreons fawn-colour, sprinkled with blackish scales ; fringe
ferrnginous.

Ilindicings : ochreons white, with a few dark scales near anal angle.

Underside of forewings dull whitish towards base, greyer towards hindmargiu,
slightly dnsted with rosy scales ; a deep rosy ovoid blotch from vein 2 to 4 beyond
cell. Hind wings dnsted with rosy. Head, thora-K, and abdomen fawn-grey; base
of abdomen and pectns woolly, white.

Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

One cJ from Roebonrne, West Australia.

The hindwings agree in shape rather with decolorata Warr. tlian with vinaria
Gnen.

Subfamily OBTHOSTIXINAE.

30. Derxena discata sp. nov.

Forewings: nearly transparent, iridescent white, with a faint bhiisli tinge: a
large ronnd black spot on the discocellnhir.

Ilindwinfis : the same.

Underside like npper ; head, thorax, and al)domon concolorons ; the anal
segments of abdomen darker.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

One cJ from Etna Bay, Xew Oninea, August 1896 (Webster).

31. Noreia albifimbria sp. nov.

? . Forewings : dark mouse-colour, the lines ferruginous ; the first slender,
indistinct, at onc-fourtli of costa, evenly curved to one-third of inner margin ; cell-
spot linear ; second line from costa at three-fourths, oblique outwards and indistinct
to vein 6, where it is bluntly angled and runs to inner margin at two-thirds, slightly
waved between the veins and edged outwardly with pale yellowish, liceoming more
distinct as it approaches tlie inner margin ; xi fine black-brown marginal line; fringe
pale yellowish white.

lliMlu-ings : like forewings, without lirst line or cell-spot ; the line post-
median.

Underside dark fnscons, with tlie cell-sjiot and onter line in each wing blackish,
the latter curved below costa; fringe as above. Face and palpi brown-black; vertex,
thorax, and abdomen concolorons witli wings.

Another example, also a ?, is jiale dove-grey above and mouse-grey below.

Expanse of wings : 42—48 mm.

Two ? ¥ from Tawaya, north of Palos Bay, Celebes, Augnst and September 1896
(W. Doherty).

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32. Ozola decolorata sp. uov.

Forewings: dirty whitish, speckled and striated with fascoas ; the striae
thickest along costa ; first line at one-third, curved and interrupted below, forming
a blotch at costa ; cell-spot small ; a broad fnscons snbmarginal fascia, its inner
edge slightly curved, its outer bluntly angled beyond cell, and nearly touching two
small fuscous sjwts on liindmargiu, then narrowed and diffused outwards at anal
angle, its centre there remaining whitish: fringe fuscous, whitish at apex and below
middle.

Hlndwings : with cell-spot and apex fuscous ; traces of two snbmarginal lines,
distinct only on costa.

Underside similar. Palpi fuscous ; head, thorax, and abdomen whitish.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

One (J from Bali, March and April 1896 (W. Doherty).

Nearest 0. marginata Warr., but much smaller and less strongly marked.

Subfamily PSEUDOTERPNINAE.

33. Hypochroma ochrea.

Actenockroma ochrea Warr., Nov. Zool. III. p. 360.

This species was described from three ? ? from Queensland; a S which I have
now seen, likewise from Qneensland, has pectinated antennae, the abdomen ci'ested,
and four spurs to the hindtibiae. The species must therefore be transferred to
Hypochroma.

34. Terpna (?) ocellata sp. nov. (PL V. fig. 25, ? ).

Forewings : whitish, with a pinkish tinge, covered with numerous green and
purple transverse striae, the green striae becoming confluent in places and forming
diffuse bands ; one antemedian ; a second postmedian, traversed by an acutely
angalated green line ; the third snbmarginal, slightly interrupted opposite the cell
and on the submedian fold ; the fourth marginal, interrupted at apex and below
middle ; a large oblique oval pale discal mark, thickly edged witli purple ; fringe
pale, with darker cliequerings.

Hiuil wings : similar ; the postmedian and snbmarginal green bands more
symmetrical ; the discal ocellus edged with deep green.

Underside white, with yellow snlfusion at base ; the large cell-spots, an angled
postmedian band, and a broadCT snbmarginal band, diffused to margin beyond cell
and above anal angle, deep purple : forewings with two additional purple spots
beyond the yellow base, one small in the cell, the other larger below it. Face deep
purple, with orange centre ; palpi purple, with the tip yellow ; vertex, thorax, and
abdomen pinkish grey, dusted with green and purple scales: top of face with a similar
coloured line ; a fine purplish line between the antennae.

Expanse of wings : .52 mm.

One ? from the Khasias, Heptcmbcr IbOfi.

Allied to Terpna opalina Warr. from Sikkim.

The antennae are minutely serrate ; underside of body and legs tinged with
yellow.

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SuBFAJMLY GEOMETRINAE.
35. Agathia obsoleta sp. uov. (PI. V. fig. 4, 3).

Forewings : pale pea-green, with olive-fascons speckles; costa drab, dotted
with black scales, and thinning out towards aj)ex : an olive-fnscons basal jiatch
from median to inner margin ; first line pale olive-drab, sinnons from median vein
to inner margin, obsolete above median, except for a small black subcostal spot ;
cell-spot olive-fascons, round ; a diffuse dark olive-fnscons submarginal fascia, not
reaching costa and attenuated towards anal angle, with both edges waved, the inner
with a sinus in middle, tlie outer jiroduced at middle to hindmargiu ; fringe bright
green at base, the outer half olive-fuscous ; a black marginal dot at end of vein 4.

llindwinga : like forewings, but the submargiual band paler, split up into
narrow crooked bands above and forming a large oblong blotch at anal angle ; the
inner baud, which is really the outer line, marked by black dashes on the veins, and
containing a narrow rectangular green space between veins 3 and 4 ; fringe in lower
half of wing wholly olive-fuscous ; anal angle marked by a black spot.

Underside of forewings pale fulvous green, with ferruginous mottlings ; the
iuner margin whitish ; costa, as above, drab with black sjjots ; cell-spot black,
edged with ferrngiuous ; submarginal Iwnd black, touching costa and exjjanded to
hindmargin at apex, middle, and anal angle ; space between whitish green ; fringe
whitish, mottled with dark. Hindwings pale green, with the costa and markings
ochreous : the two bands and margin blackisli. Palpi and lower half of face whitish
ochreous ; tips of palpi, upper part of face, and vertex brown-drab ; collar, thorax,
and abdomen bright green, the latter speckled with pale olive-fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 4.5 mm.

One c? from Mount Ged(5, West Java, 4000 feet, 1806 (Fruhstorfer).

There is an example, without locality, in the British Museum Collection.

3G. Agraptochlora nigricornis sp. nnv. (PI. V. fig. 14, cJ).

Foreichuis : deep 'grass-green, without markings ; fringe green ; costa deep
ochreous to middle, tinged with red-brown at base, beyond middle witii fine black
scales.

Ilindwinys : wliolly green.

Underside whitish ; costa of forewings reddish at base. Face, palpi, and fore-
legs deep red ; fillet reddish ; antennae with the shaft reddish from base, becoming
whitish in outer half ; pectinations Ijlackish ; vertex ochreous and red ; thorax and
base of abdomen dec]) green ; centre of thorax paler green ; rest of abdomen ochreons,
dusted witli reddish grey, and with reddish grey dorsal blotches.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

Two J (? from Mombasa Island, October ISOO (Dr. Ansorge).

37. Chloroglyphica maculata sp. nov. (PI. V. fig. 23, ? ).

Forewings : dull green, dnsted withisparse jiurjdish grey atoms ; costa brownish
ochreous, spotted with darker ; this tint extends as far as the median vein between
base and first line, and as far as vein 7 beyond the second Hue, narrowing again to
the apex ; basal area more thickly dusted with dark scales ; first line wliite, straight,
outwardly oblicjue, from costa at one-fourth to inner margin at one-third, its outer

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edge dark towards costa and marked on costa by an oblique purplish streak : cell-
spot pnrple ; second line nearl}- straight, from throe-fourths of costa to middle of
■'nner margin, its inner edge darker ; marginal area with denser aggregations of dark
scales along its centre, forming a nebulous cloud towards anal angle ; fringe pale
green, marked with fuscous below apex and in centre.

Hindwimjs : with a Ijroad straight white line from middle of costa to middle of
inner margin, its inner edge darker ; cell-spot indistinct ; the cloud at anal angle
less marked.

Underside whitish green for two-thirds, then deejier ; the brown mottlings as
above, but the lines only showing through faintly; the deeper green margin in
hindwings much narrower. Face and palpi fawn-brown ; vertex greenish, with some
fawn-coloured scales ; shoulders green, with whitish streaks ; thorax green, with
purplish scales in middle ; base of abdomen green ; rest of abdomen ochreous, tinged
with green and fuscous.

Expanse of wings : .58 mm.

One ? from the Khasia Hills, October 1896.

38. Chloromachia aureofulva sp. nov. (PI. V. fig. 20, $).

Forewings : shining white, overspread with green ; basal area irrorated with
green, bounded by a white line from one-fourth of costa to near middle of inner
margin ; outer line shining white, vertical from costa at two-thirds to vein 6, then
strongly and acutely dentate outwards, expanding towards inner margin into a white
diftuse blotch before apal angle ; space between the two lines green, except on inner
margin, which is white, and dusted with white in the cell ; apical half of wing
snifused with golden fulvous ; a white submarginal line, swelling out into a white
blotch between veins 3 and .5, which extends to the fringe ; some dark green
marginal spots ; fringe greenish, with pale basal line.

Hindwinqs : white ; the outer half crossed by three or four undefined wavy
green shades ; hindmargin and fringe as in forewings.

Underside white ; costal half of forewings olive-green, suffused with purplish
fuscous at base and beyond middle ; hindwings with a large lilackish apical blotch.
Palpi pale fuscous, white beneath : face green, witli two white spots lielow : vertex
white ; thorax green in front, mixed behind with white scales ; abdomen white,
dusted with green.

Expanse of wings : 36 mm.

One cJ from the Khasias, October 1896.

Unfortunately the antennae of this very distinct species are broken short off,
but enough just remains to show that they were ciliated, not subserrate, as in
semialba Wlk.

39. Chloromachia divapala rufimargo subsp. nov.

Jjike dimpnia Wlk. from Ceylon, but the marginal area of hindwings and the
oblong blotch before anal angle of forewings not " white with ferruginous scales,"
but brick-red, witli scattered fuscous scales ; the forewings also have a white blotch
at middle of hindmargin, caused by the enlargement of the white spots in the
submarginal and marginal lines, which is absent in the Indian species.

One ? from Penungah, N. Borneo, December 1893.

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411. CoUesis mimica Warr., Nov. Zool. IV. p. 3".

The genns and species were described from a ?. The J ofifers no features of
difference : the pectinations of the antennae are, as usual, longer : the hindtibiae
have four spurs. In markings the outer line reaches the inner margin at three-
fourths, and there is a curved oblique inner line at one-third, less distinct than the
outer. In the hindwings the outer line is slightly concave outwards and runs to
inner margin above anal angle.

The (? expan<ls 30 mm.

One example from Zomba, Upper Shird River, 3000 feet (Dr. P. Kendall).

41. Comostolodes consobrina sp. nov.

Forewings : green ; costa pale ochreous, streaked with reddish fuscous ; the
lines marked, as in smaragdus Hmpsn., by three white red-edged spots, on costa,
median, and inner margin ; a row of white dots along margin at end of veins, with
a fuscous marginal line between them from apex as far as vein 6 only ; fringe
fuscous, with a faint rufous tinge, paler externally, and with darker fuscous patches
opposite the veins.

Hindwings: similar, the white spot at end of vein 4 larger and ringed with red.

Underside pale green. Face green, edged with white ; palpi pale green, the
third joint fuscous ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen at base green ; rest of abdomen
pale, with white red-edged spots on second and fourth segments.

Expanse of wings : cJ, 10 ; ¥, IS mm.

Two tJc?, one ?, from Cedar Bay, Cooktown, Queensland (Meek).

Very near smaragdus Hmpsn. from India, with which it agrees in neuration ;
but the hindmargin of the wings is differently marked and coloured.

Cosmogonia gen. nov.

Forewings : with costa strongly arched ; apex acute, but not produced : hiiul-
margin straight, oblique, slightly reflexed before anal angle, which is sliarply
rectiingnlar.

Hindwings : with costa straight, apex rectangular ; hindmargin produced into
a stout tail at vein 4, the margin on each side straight ; anal angle distinct, bluntly
rounded.

Palpi porrect, the third joint line, projecting beyond face; tongue and frennlnm
present; antennae of cJ subdeutate, witli short fascicles of cilia; hindtibiae somewhat
thickened, with four spurs.

JVeunitiou : forewings, cell two-fifths of wing ; discocellular straight for one-
third, then obliquely concave ; first median at three-fourths, second and third from
lower end of cell ; lower radial from tlie bend in the discocellular, upper from upper
angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10, stalked from ujjper angle, 11 free just before it. Hindwings
with the two subcostals and last two medians long-stalked.

Type : Cosmogonia dcrorata Warr. ( Tkalcrura ?). In Nov. Zool. III. j). 3G9,
I described the ? with a (juery as a Thalerura. The examination of a <? from the
same locality, Cedar Bay, Queensland, enables me to correct this.

42. Euchloris ochrea sj). nov. (PI. V. fig. 21).

Foreivings : bone-colour, with fine ochreous striations, and s])arsely dusted with
blackish scales ; the lines ferruginous ; first from one-third of costa to one-third

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of inner margin, strongly ontcnrved in cell to toncli the large black cell-spot ;
second at two-thirds, ontcnrved and slightly waved from veins 6 to 3 ; fringe
concolorons, vrith fine basal line.

Hindwings : the same, without basal line ; the inner margin with black scales.

Underside paler ; the forewings with much coarse dusting. Head, thorax,
and abdomen all concolorons.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

Both sexes from Dar-es-Salaam, German East Africa.

Akin to E. uvidida Swinhoe.

43. Eucrostes impunctata sp. nov. (PL V. fig. 1;")).

Forewings : apple-green ; the costa white from near base to before apex ; two
faint wliitish lines, antemedian and postmedian, approximating on inner margin ;
marginal line crimson, retracted along costa at apex ; fringe snow-white, with red
Innnles from vein to vein ; outer half of fringe beyond lunnles pinkish ; no cell-spot.

Hindwings: the same.

Underside greenish white ; costa white ; fringe as above, bnt duller. Face and
palpi red ; vertex snow-white ; thorax green ; abdomen ochreons, becoming wliite
towards apex, dusted with reddish at base, and with snow-white red-edged
dorsal spots.

Expanse of wings : 1.5 mm.

Several from Mombasa Island, October 1890 (Dr. Ansorge).

Distinguished by the entire absence of the dark cell-spot.

44. Eucrostes nanula sp. nov.

Foreu'ings and hindwings green, with no traces of markings.
Underside paler green. Face reddish ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen green.
Expanse of wings : 12 mm.
One 6 from Cedar Bay, Cooktown, Queensland.

The only specimen is unfortunately worn, and the fringes cannot be well made
out, but their base and the extreme hindmargin appear to have been fnscous-tinged.

45. Hemistola (?) flavitincta sji. nov.

Forewings: bright green, the veins marked with yellow; costa ochraccous,
with jmrplish speckles ; a faintly darker cell-spot ; the exterior line only present,
and that indicated only by a curved row of whitish vein-spots parallel to hindmargin;
marginal line finely purple, interrupted by pale yellow dots at end of veins ; fringe
pale yellow, with slight purplish flecks beyond the yellow dots at the ends of veins.

Hindwings : exactly similar.

Underside glossy whitish green ; costa of forewings broadly yellowish ; cell-
spot of forewings distinct ; fringe and marginal lino as above. Palpi dark fuscous ;
iace red ; vertex white, finely edged behind witli jjurple ; thorax green ; abdomen
ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 45 mm.

One ? from the Khasias, .July 1890.

The antennae are fully pectinated, as in the ? of //. liliana Swinh., but the
scaling is much denser than in any other of the species of the genus, and the colour
bright green, not bluish green.

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46. lodis dentifascia sj). nov.

Foretchiffs : dull greeu, the costa ochraceous ; the two lines deutate, very
indistinct, the first at one-third of costa, the second at three-fourths ; the first oblique
ontwards and reaching inner margin near middle and ai)i)roachiug second line ;
the included space faintly darker greeu near the lines : the first edged inwardly
and the second outwardly with faint whitish, most distinct above inner margin :
fringe green.

Ilindicings : the same, but first line not visible.

Underside of both wings uniform green. Head, thorax, and abdomen green ;
fillet and shaft of antennae at base white ; rest of shaft green.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

One <S from Japan.

Distinguished from both obliterata Wlk. from China and unifascia Hmpsn.
from India ])y the green face and dentate outer line.

47. lodis micra sp. nov.

Forew'nigs : pale sea-green ; the costa narrowly pale ; first line from one-fifth
of costa to one-third of inner margin, dentate and curved, whitish followed by a
deeper greeu shade ; second line at three-fourths, waved and dentate, finely white,
edged inwardly by deeper green ; cell-spot large, deep green ; fringe concolorous.

Ilindwings : the same.

Underside whitish green ; costa of forewings yellowish. Face, pal[ii, and fore-
legs brown ; thorax, vertex, and abdomen pale green.

Expanse of wings : 17 mm.

One (? from Bali, March and April 1896 (W. Doherty).

48. Microloxia I'uficornis Warr., Nov. Zool. IV. p. 42.

The example from which the description was made turns out to be, after
all, faded. I have now met with a specimen in which the green has been well
preserved, and amend the previous descrijrtion accordingl}'.

Wings dull green ; forewings with a curved whitish line at one-third, and
straight outer line at four-fifths, the latter becoming slightly curved on hiudwings ;
costa of forewings yellow, red at base ; shoulders, vertex, and forehead yellow, the
last edged with red; palpi, forelegs, and antennae red. Underside as deep green
as upper. This S expands 1 7 mm.

40. Oenospila flavilinea sp. nov.

Forewings: deep green; costa white, edged beneath by a yellow line, which
starts from the base, and before apex by a red line ; cell-spot minute, red-brown ;
marginal line red, slender, consisting of shallow lunules, intorrnpted by rather large
whitish dots at the ends of the veins ; fringe vinous red.

Ilindwings : the same; outer line in both wings marked by a small red spot on
inner margin.

Underside whitisii. Face, paljii, vertex, thorax, and abdomen green ; fillet and
antennae white.

Expanse of wings: 26 mm.

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One (? from Cedar Bay, soath of (Jooktowa,Qiieeuslaiid; one ¥ from Geraldtou.

Allied to 0. stcllata Warr. from Fergnssou Island. The hind wings are
obscurely angled at vein 4; hindtibiae with the median i)air of spurs only — the outer
very short, the inner very long and slender — and with a process as in P roboloscelcs.

Pamphlebia gen. nov.

Forewings : with costa straight, apex acute ; hindmargin nearly straight,
oblique ; anal angle well expressed.

Ilindwings: with apical and anal angle well marked; hindmargin with a
distinct angle in middle, the margin straight on either side : antennae of <S
pectinated; palpi short, porrect; hindtibiae of S with one pair of spurs.

Neuration: forewings, cell less than half the length of wing; discocellular
inaugnlated ; first median at three-fourths, second and third stalked; veins G, 7, 8,
9, lU, 11, stalked, 11 anastomosing with 12. Hindwings with 3, 4, and 6, 7,
stalked.

Type : Pamphlebia ruhroUmbariu Gnen.

50. Probolosceles pallidicincta sp. nov.

Forewings: pale green; the costa whitish yellow, the extreme edge white;
cell-spot minute, red-brown; the two lines very slender; first at one-fourth, indistinct,
bent above inner margin ; second at five-sixths, waved above median, and retracted
to costa; a small roundish brown blotch at anal angle, the green round it tinged
with yellow ; marginal line very slender, interrupted, and marked only by brown
dots between the veins and whitish dots beyond them; fringe pale ochreous, with
slight fuscous mottlings beyond the veins.

Hindwings : with the blotch at apex larger than that at anal angle of
forewings.

Underside whitish, greener towards costa of forewings ; the cell-spots of raised
scales ; a dark green postmediau line on l)oth wings. Paljji white, with brown
scales externally on second joint, the third joint ferruginous ; face, vertex, and
thorax green ; abdomen ochreous, sprinkled with reddish scales; underside white ;
legs white, with dark brown patches.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One ? from Mount Gedd, West Java, 4000 feet, 1896 (Fruhstorfer) ; one
$ fromTalant, February and March 1892 (Doherty).

Closely related to P. detenta and disscssa Wlk., but with diflFerent coloured
fringes and without any red markings.

51. Syndromodes rubridentata sp. nov.

Forewings : pale green, whiter towards the costa : an exterior white line at
two-thirds, parallel to hindmargin; fringe white; marginal line bright red, running
out into teeth opposite the veins, and curving round at apex below the white costal
streak; tips of the fringe between the teeth pink.

Hindwings : the same ; a faint white cell-spot on each wing.

Underside pale green. Face and forelegs rosy ; vertex and antennae white ;
thorax green ; abdomen ochreous, sprinkled with red scales, and with four white
spots on basal segments.

Expanse of wings : 17 mm.

One ? from Dar-es-Salaam, German East Africa.

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52. Thalassodes albifimbria sp. nov.

Forewings : blue-green, with s])arse pale faintly Instrons strignlations, most
nnmerons towards the marginal area; costa ochreous white; a nearly straight faintly
lustrons line at three-fourths, parallel to hindmargin, not touching costa and wider
at inner margin ; fringe white.

llindivings: with the line finer, licut parallel to hindmargin.

Underside duller, without markings. Head, thorax, and abdomen all bluish
green; the fillet finely white; antennae ochreons white like costal edge.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

One ? from Blantyre, British Central Africa.

53. Thalassodes flavicosta sp. nov.

Forewings : green, witli numerous faint whitish strignlae, but without any
trace of whitish lines ; fringe green; costa finely white throughout, from near base
to near apex, with a broad pale yellowish streak beneath it.

Hludivinys : like forewings; both wings with deeper green cell-spot.

Underside whitish green. Face and palpi pale ochreons; tips of palpi and
pectinations of antennae pale ferruginous ; vertex and shaft of antennae white:
thorax and abdomen green, the latter becoming ochreons beyond middle.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One S from Port Darwin, N. Qaeensland (coll. Buckland).

Distinguished by the broad pale costa, absence of lines, and smaller size.

Subfamily STERRHINAE.
Apostates gen. nov.

Forewings: triangular, the costa nearly straight; apex rounded; hindmargin
oblique, slightly curved, almost as long as inner margin.

Ilindwings : bluntly produced at end of vein 6, curved above it, and nearly
straight below to anal angle.

Antennae (?) very fine, filiform; palpi porrect, short, the second joint thickly
scaled, the terminal joint very short. Tongue and frenulum present.

Neuration : forewings, cell half as long as wing; discocellular vertical: first
median at three-fourths, second at seven-eighths, third from end of cell ; lower
radial from centre of discocellular, upper from upper angle of cell; vein 7 free,
from just before end of cell, slightly curved from origin ; 8, 0, 10, stalked, 11 ana-
stomosing with them to form a single areole. Hindwiugs with costal shortly
touching subcostal; the two subcostals short-stalked ; radial from slightly above
centre of discocellular ; medians as in forewings.

Tyi)e : Apostates albiclathrata sp. nov.

The <S will perhaps indicate better the proper place of this genus ; for the
present it may be placed near Rhodostrophia.

54. Apostates albiclathrata sp. nov.

Forewings : dull browu ; the costa, veins, and three transverse lines pale
ochreons ; tlie costa broadly ochreous to middle; first line from about one-fourth of
costa to one-third of inner margin, slightly oblique above the median and below the

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snbmedian; median line very broad above, wliere it contains a deep brown elongated
cell-spot, and constricted at the snbmedian fold ; outer line snbmarginal, sinuous,
from before apex to anal angle, bent outwards between vein 5 and snbmedian fold ;
liindmargin narrowly ochreous ; fringe ocbreons, with brown basal line.

Hiiidwinqs : ochreous, dusted with brownish below the median: cell-spot dark
brown as in forewings; a faint curved median line; sulimarginal line as in fore-
wings; the marginal space beyond it brown; hindmargin and fringe as in forewings.

Underside ochreons, dusted with grey ; cell-spots and a large subapical patch
on both wings brown. Palpi and face brownish; thorax and abdomen ochreous,
dusted with grey.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One ? from Merv. An insect standing quite by itself.

5.5. Brachycola decolorata sp. nov.

Forewiiu/s : ochreons, finely dusted and striated with grey ; the lines diffuse,
grey; the first at one-fourth, curved; the second median, excnrved round cell; the
third dentate and obliijue ; the first and third marked with black dashes on veins;
snbmarginal line pale, with a grey shade on each side, the inner one interrupted;
marginal spots minute ; fringe concolorous ; cell-spot round, blackish.

HimI wings : the same, but the cell-spot larger, formed of slightly raised reddish
white scales, with a dark ring.

Underside ochreous, with outer line, cell-spot, and marginal dots marked. Face
and palpi pale ochreons below, rosy above ; vertex, antennae, thorax, and abdomen
all ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One cJ from Lifn, Loyalty Islands.

Differs from B. obriitaria Guen. in the entire absence of rosy speckling or
suffusion above or below.

56. Brachycola flavareata sp. nov.

Forewings : deep yellow, almost entirely suffused with brick-red, and along the
costal region thickly striated with the same colour, the unsuflnsed patches of ground-
colour being a small quadrate one near base of cell, a largo quadrate one beyond cell,
two smaller patclies on the course of the snbmarginal line, the one below apex, the
other at the middle, and two on the snbmedian fold ; the outer line is marked by a
series of black vein-dots at four-fifths ; a row of dark marginal dots between the
veins ; fringe brick-red ; cell-spot small, wliite.

Hindicings : with the yellow patches much more restricted and ol)scurc ; the
cell-spot white.

Underside yellowish white ; the forewings with a dull reddish suffusion in
centre of wing, the outer line and marginal dots reddish ; costa striated witli red ;
inner margin paler ; hindwings altogether jialer. Legs and palpi externally red ;
face ochreons, reddish above ; vertex, antennae, thorax, and abdomen red.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One c? from I'enang, 1S90 (Curtis).

In appearance like the S of Perixera (?) Jlavirub7-a Warr. from Queensland.
The hindmargin of hindwings slightly angled at middle.

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57. Brachycola (?) iuornata sp. uov.

Fareicings : pale brownish oclireons, finely dusted with darker ; the lines very
obscure, apjiearing merely as greyish shades ; first nearly vertical, at one-fourth ;
median slightly curved and outwardly dentate ; the third waved, and marked by
dark vein-dashes ; submarginal paler, hardly visible ; marginal dots small ; fringe
concolorous ; cell-spot linear, dark grey.

Jlinduings : the same ; the cell-spot plainer.

Underside uniform pinkish ochreous. Face deep red ; palpi ochreous below,
red above ; vertex white ; thorax and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 33 mm.

One ? from Banda Islands.

Resembles absconditaria Wlk., but the median and outer lines are retracted to
costa, and do not run parallel to hindmargin throughout.

58. Brachycola (?) samoana sp. uov.

Forewings : greyish ochreous, dusted with fuscous and rosy atoms ; first line
indicated by fine black dots on veins ; cell-spot minute, black ; a diffuse oblique
central shade ; outer line at five-sixths, preceded by a grey shade, the teeth marked
by fine dashes on veins, and followed by a curved line of the pale ground-colour
undnsted ; marginal area grey, with the submarginal line paler and obscurely
indicated ; a double row of black marginal dots ; fringe concolorous.

Ilindwings : the same ; the cell-spot larger.

Underside pinkish ochreous, the outer line of dots marked. Face and paljji
ochreous below, rosy above ; vertex and antennae whitish ; thorax and abdomen
concolorous with wings.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One ? from Apia, Uj)oln (Woodford).

59. Chrysocraspeda aurimargo sji. nov.

Forewings : deep vinous red, covered with very fine dark strigae ; traces of a
curved diifused dark first line at one-third and a similar nearly straight outer line at
three-fourths ; hindmargin narrowly yellow from apex to middle, and from anal
angle to middle, the yellow swelling out at the anal angle into a blotch ; fringe
yellow, tinged with red at apex and in the middle of hindmargin.

Hindwi7igs : with the yellow margin narrow throughout ; cell-spot white. In
both wings the yellow along hindmargin is irregularly edged internally with
blood-red.

Underside rosy, with the yellow as above ; in tlie forewings the discal spot is
pale yellow beneath and not marked above. Paljii red above, yellow below ; face
yellow ; vertex, thorax, and abdemen concolorous with wings ; shaft of antennae red,
the pectinations yellow.

Expanse of wings : 19 mm.

One c? , one ? , from Cedar Bay, south of Cooktown, Queensland (A. S. Meek).

60. Conchocometa javensis sp. nov.

Like Conchocometa sabulosa Warr. from Palabuan, bnt much smaller ; the
wings dusted with rosy atoms ; the first line marked, as well as the outer line,

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by red dots on veins ; cell-spnt of liindwings elongated, white, with a dark red
edge.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

One (^ from Bandong, Java.

61. Cosymbia unocula sji. nov.

Foreirings : pink, speckled witli rosy ; Hues shown by red dots on veins ; first
near base, very indistinct ; onter near hindmargin and parallel to it ; marginal line
deep red; fringe pink.

Hindivings : the same, bnt with a large white dark- or red-edged ocellus.

Underside dull rosy. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons ; face and palpi
darker red.

E.xpanse of wings : 26 mm.

One c?, three ? ?, from Dar-es-Salaam, German East Africa.

Possibly a form oi pupillaria; in all four instances the discal sjiot of ibrewings
is absent, that of the hind wings large ; one ? has a red median shade across both
mngs.

62. Craspedia acentra sp. nov.

Forewiiigs : sandy ochreous, dusted vnVa. coarse black atoms ; the lines ill-
defined, snbdentate, smoky grey; first at one-fourth, wavy; second at three-fifths,
incurved below cell ; third at three-fourths, more distinct, marked with blackish on
the veins, sinuate slightly inwards beyond cell and on submedian fold ; submarginal
line pale, wavy, with greyish fasciae on each side ; a marginal row of triangular
black spots between the veins ; fringe ochreous, with patches of dark scales beyond
the veins ; cell-spot blackish ; costa ochraceous.

Hindwmgs : the same, without first line.

Underside dull greyish ochreous, with only cell-spots and outer line marked.
Face, palpi, and collar brown-black ; vertex ochreous ; thorax and abdomen ochreous,
mixed with black scales.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One c? from South Africa.

Antennae with pairs of cilia from each joint ; hindtibiae fully developed, but
without a trace of spurs ; midtibiae with long terminal spurs.

63. Craspedia atridiscata sp. nov.

Foreicings : pale yellowish ochreous, finely dusted with darker ; the costa finely
pale brown ; the lines difi'use, pale brownish ; inner line obsolete ; median shade
obscure, curved round cell ; outer line irregularly waved, and forming a slightly
deeper sinus beyond cell ; marginal dots minute ; fringe concolorons.

Hijidwings : with waved antemedian and postmedian diffuse lines and with
faint traces of a submarginal ; both wings with large round black cell-spot.

Underside paler, with the cell-sjiots and outer line distinct ; forewings with the
basal two-thirds brownish. Face and palpi black ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen
ochreous ; the collar brownish.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

One i from the Khasias.

The cell-spot is exactly half-way between base and apex, not, as usual, nearer
the base ; the forewings are elongate, narrow, witli produced apex, and hindmargin
oblique, scarcely curved.

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fi4. Craspedia discata sp. nov.

Forewingg : boue-colour, without any dark dusting, except sometimes a few
sparsely scattered scales near base; the lines fine and delicate; first at one-third,
curved; median shade tliicker, excnrved round cell, both very pale ochreous ; outer
line grey or ochreons grey, blackish at the costa, finely subdeuticulatc ; submarginal
line very faint, between two pale ochreons shades ; marginal dots black; fringe bone-
colonr ; cell-spot black, distinct.

llindwitKjs : similar, without first line, and the cell-spot large and black.
Underside with cell-spots and outer line alone marked. Paljii bone-colour
below, black above ; face black ; vertex whitish ; collar ferruginous ; thorax and
abdomen like wings, the latter without black dorsal spots.
Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

Several from Kiriwini, Trobriand Islands, March to May 1*^05 (A. S. Meek) ;
also from the Solomon Islands.

Distinguished by the large black cell-spots and pale grouml-idlour : in many
cases only the outer line is visible.

(!•"). Craspedia furfurata sii. nov.

Forewings : yellowish ochreons, thickly dusted with very fine ochraceous scales ;
the lines ochraceous, rather thick ; first line obscure, at one-fourth ; central line
oblique, slightly outcurved round the reddish brown cell-spot ; exterior line sub-
dentate, double ; submarginal wavy, pale, and rather broad ; margin itself with an
ochraceous shade ; fringe silky, concolorous, with a row of minute dark dots at base
between the veins ; costa ochraceous.

Ilindwhigs : simOar, but without first line, and the cell-spot minute.

Underside glossy, pale ochreons, with the central and onter lines faint. Face
and palpi brown ; collar ferrnginons ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen ochreons.

Expanse of wings : 'Hi mm.

One ? from Simla.

66. Craspedia ossicolor sp. nov.

Foreicings : pale boue-coloui-, with a few scattered black scales ; the lines
ochraceous ; first at one-third, faint, marked by three black dots in a vertical line ;
cell-spot black ; median shade ochraceous, dentate, obliquely curved; outer line fine,
subdentate, marked by black dots ; an interrupted ochraceous band on each sicle of
the pale submarginal line, the outer one with a few darker scales on hindmargin
beyond cell and above anal angle ; marginal dots black, of irregular size ; fringe
ochraceous.

llindwing.-i : the same.

Underside whitish ; the forewings fuscous-tinged. Face, ])ali)i, and vertex
black ; thorax and abdomen white.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One S from Sierra Leone.

67. Craspedia pallidilinea sp. nov.
Forewings : pale straw-colour, with the lines pale ochraceous, oblique, and

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slightly waved — basal, iuner, mediau, exterior, sulimargiiial, and marginal ; a row of
distinct black marginal dots ; fringe ochreons.

llindwiiKj.'i : with four Hues — autemediau, postmedian, submargiual, and
marginal.

Underside paler ; the costal region of fore wings ochraceous. Face, palpi, and
forelegs dark fuscous ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen ochreons.

Expanse of wings : 22 — 24 mm.

Two ? ? from Bandong, Java.

68. Craspedia sagittilinea sp. nov.

Foretvings : ochreons with au olive tinge, thickly dusted and in places suffused
with rufous fuscous ; first line from one-third of costa to one-fourth of inner margin,
bent below costa, sometimes fine and obscure, sometimes thick and strongly marked ;
cell-spot black, followed by an obscure dentate median shade ; outer line at two-thirds,
parallel to hindmargin, acutely dentate, velvety black, the teeth externally finely
edged with pale ochreons ; submarginal line waved, lunulate, followed and jjrecoded
by rufous fuscous shades, the inner interrupted beyond cell ; a row of distinct black
marginal spots ; fringe greyish ochreous.

Hindwings : the same, but the dark cell-spot is surmounted by a round s])ot of
snow-white raised scales.

Underside pale ochreons ; both wings with black cell-sijot, outer line, and
marginal dots ; forewiugs with costa dark at base, and the submarginal shades
dark. Palpi dark brown ; face dark brown, paler below ; vertex, thorax, and
abdomen ochreons ; abdomen with dark segmental marks, and a black ring at base.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

Two cJcJ, one ?, from Blombasa Island, October ly'JO (Dr. Ansorge).

Remarkable for the dense and rough scaling.

69. Craspedia uninotata sp. nov.

Forewings : pale yellowish white, with very fine dark irroration : a single waved
pale fulvous line beyond the middle ; cell-spot fulvous ; fringe concolorous.

Ilhidwinys : similar.

Underside without irroration ; the costa of forewings yellowish. Thorax and
abdomen concolorous ; face and palpi dark brown.

Expanse of wings : c?, 26; ? , 28 mm.

One 6, one ?, from Sierra Leone, 1892 (Dr. Clements).

The hindmargin of both wings curved; antennae of 6 well ciliated.

70. Eois exquisita sp. nov. (PI. V. fig. 10, ?).

Forewings : pale greyish olive : the costa, the basal third, and a broad sub-
marginal fascia bright rosy ; fringe olive.

Hindwings : \vith a rosy submarginal fascia.

Underside the same. Head, thorax, and abdomen rosy; centre of thorax olive ;
vertex white.

Expanse of wings : 16 mm.

One ? from Upper 8hire River, British Central Africa, 3000 feet (Dr. P.
Rendall), January 1896.

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71. Eois(?) perspersata sp. no v.

Forewiiigs : ochreons, densely powilered with somewhat shining rnfous scales ;
the costa yellowish ochreons ; cell-spot rnfous ; very faint traces of a darker ante-
median and waved jwstmedian line ; the extreme hiudmargin slightly darker between
the veins : fringe concolorons, with a fine pale basal line.

lliruhrings : similar, the I'oll-spot plainer.

Underside unitbrm pali^ ochreons. Face l)rown ; ]ialpi, vortex, thorax, and
abdomen ochreons fawn-colour, tiie abdomen deeper.

Expanse of wings : 2o mm.

One ? from Oiuainisa, Timor, November and December 1891 (W. Uoherty).'

The hindtibiae of this ? have only the terminal pair of spnrs ; it is referred
therefore to Jiois provisionally ; judging from the shape of the wings and the
markings, it is probably akin to insuavis Butler and purpurea Hmpsn.

72. Lipomelia striata s]). nov.

Fore.ici nya : dull olive-green, with dense transverse darker striations ; first line
af one-tliird, bent bi'low costa, then vertical ; exterior and siibmarginal lines oblique,
parallel to hindmargin ; the lines formed by darker green sjiots on the veins,
externally edged with paler; fringe green, the marginal line slightly darker ;
cell-spot obscurely darker.

Hindwinqs : the same, with a small white cell-sj)ot.

Underside paler green, tinged with rosy in forcwings, less so in hindwings ;
the submargiual line only shown. Face, palpi, and legs dull reddish ; head, thorax,
and abdomen green.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One ? from Warri, liiver Niger, June 1896 (Dr. Roth); also from Sierra Leone.

Distinguished by the olive-green ground-colour, the si/if/le white cell-sjiot of
hindwings, and the green costa.

73. Nobilia obliterata sp. nov.

Forewings: rnfons fawn-colour, covereil witli jiale transverse slightly lustrous
striae; costal streak ^^nthout striae, but dnsted with fine black scales; the costal
edge blackish; no inner line; cell-spot very minute, black: ontcr line marked only
by minute black vein-dots, and by the deeper ground-colour of the marginal space
beyond, forming a sinus outwards above and below cell, and one inwards beyond
cell; fringe slightly i>aler.

Hindwings : the same ; the cell-spot larger and more distinct.

Underside uniform pale flesh-colour. Face and palpi pale flesh-colour beneath,
deeper above; thorax and abdomen like wings, but front of tliorax paler.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

One 6 from Knching, Borneo.

Pachythalia gen. nov.

Foreidngs : short and broad ; costa hardly curved ; apex rounded ; hindmargin
rounded, scarcely obliiiue ; costal edge slightly folded over beyond one-third, and
clothed with a line of outwardly directed hairlike scales.

Hindwings ; large ; anal angle square ; hindmargin well ronnded.

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Thorax and body tliick ; antennae of <S pectinated, the shaft above clothed with
thick hairlike scales, long at base, and becoming shorter and pnbescent beyond ; paljii
porrect, sqnamons, the third joint bent, as in Perixera : fore femora very hairy :
hind tibiae with three spurs, as in Pisoraca.

Neuration : as in Perixera.

Type : PachjtimUa rotundnta sp. nov.

74. Pachythalia rotundata sp. nov.

Forewings : greyish ochrcons, densely dusted with dnll rosy atoms ; cell-spot
rosy ; the usual lines marked by rows of dots on veins ; traces of a submarginal
line ; a row of marginal dots, all rosy ; the veins towards margin reddish.

lUndimigs : the same ; the cell-spot larger, linear.

Underside dull pinkish ochreous. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One c? from Penang, 1896 (Curtis).

Distinguished at once by the broad wings : the descrii)tion of A/iisoi/es illrpi-
daria Guen., made from a ?, agrees very well, but Gnenee calls the forewings
oblong.

75. Perixera (?) radiata sp. nov.

Forewings : greyish fawn-colour, with darker dusting ; the lines cloudy, dark
grey ; first curved, at one-fourth ; second from costa at two-thirds, outcurved round
cell and incurved below middle ; outer line at live-six.ths, parallel to hindmargin,
and marked by blackish vein-dots ; dull rufous streaks from base through cell and
along submedian fold, and a series of iiner rufous streaks between the veins from
second line to hindmargin, ending in black marginal spots ; fringe rnfous grey ; cell-
spot annular, with dark brown edge.

Hindwings : the same ; the edge of the cell-spot darker.

Underside diffused rosy, the forewings deeper than the hindwings ; marginal
line black. Forelegs and paliii rosy; face deep brown : vertex, thorax, and abdomen
like wings.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One ¥ from Indrulaman, Bonthain, 2300 feet, October 1895 (A. Everett).

The forewings are more elongate than usual : hindmargin of both wings slightly
creuulate.

76. Perixera nifannularia sp. nov.

Forewings : ochreous, dusted with pale rosy and fnscons scales ; first and outer
lines rejjresented by blackish dots on veins, the dot on vein 5 breaking the series,
being much nearer the cell ; an oblicpie grey denticulated median shade ; a faint
submarginal pale line ; a row of reddish marginal dots between the veins ; fringe
pale ; cell-spot obsolete.

Hindwings : the same, without first line ; cell-spot pale, oval, with a rosy ring.

Underside whitish, with Ww. lines and a slight suli'nsion [linkish. Face white,
with a rosy bar at top ; jialpi rosy outwardly ; vertex ochreous ; thorax and abdomen
ochreous, the latter much dusted with reddish.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One S, one ?, from Apia, Upolu (Woodford). The i is decidedly i)aler than
the ?.

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77. Phrissosceles argyromma ;il>. heterospila ali. nov.

The type of P. nrgyromma described b_v mo in Nov. Zool. III. p. 114, was a <J
from the Kha-sias. A pair from Penang now before me must be referred here. Of
these the ? agrees precisely with the Khasia insect ; the $, instead of having the
silvery white black-edged cell-spot of hindwings, has a ronnd black one witli small
pale centre. For this aberration 1 propose the above name. The Penang insects
expand only 38 mm., as against 4i) mm. in the Kliasia ('xani])]e.

Phyletis silonaria Gnen., I'lud. 11. p. IG'.i.

Under Phjletis Gnen(^e described three species — pelloniaria, silonaria, and
mennaria. Of these the iirst and last are from India, the second from Africa. The
Indian species, along with those of Pellonia Dup., have been referred together to
Rhoilostroplna Hiib., the forewings of which have a double areola, and the hind
tibiae one of the middle spurs missing. Now of Phyletis Guen^e says " areole
simple.''^ It is possible that the minuteness of the second areole in pellomaria and
meonaria escaped him ; but in silonaria the areole is simple. The ciliations of the
3 antennae are mnch shorter, and the hind tibiae entirely spurless. It seems
therefore only reasonable to retain his genns Phyletis for this species.

78. Pisoraca punctata sj). nov.

Forewings : jiale ochreons, slightly dusted with fuscous ; the lines fuscous, all
marked more strongly on the veins ; a blackish subcostal dot near base ; first line
curved, at one-third, approaching base on inner margin ; outer line at five-sixths,
curved outwards to vein G, and running obli(jnely inwards from vein 4 to inner
margin, between 4 and (i forming a deep angle basewards, tlie dot at the angle on
vein .5 larger than the rest ; an obscure shade beyond the middle ; cell-dot small,
black ; a row of distinct black marginal dots ; fringe concolorons.

Hindwings : similar, but the discal mark is a long oval, with dark edges, lying
on the central shade ; inner and onter lines thickened towards and forming dark
spots on the inner margin.

Underside pale ochreous. Palpi and upper part of face dull rosy; face, fillet,
and antennae white ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One S from Cedar Bay, near Cooktown, Queensland.

79. Problepsis craspediata sp. nov.

Forewings : bone-colour, sparsel)' dustfd with black atoms ; costa becoming
grey towards apex ; the lines greyish ochreous, indistinct ; first line and median
line only jilain on inner margin, the latter curved ronnd cell ; outer line at tive-
sixths, distinct, dentate on the veins ; subniarginal line interrupted ; a fine black
marginal line, with small round black dots on it between the veins ; fringe white ;
no cell-spot, but an aggregation of black scales on the median line beyond cell.

Iliridicings: similar, with no basal line: a linear black cell-mark; two grey
snbinarginal lines.

Underside wholly white ; the costa of forewings grey. Palpi externally dark
fuscous ; head, thorax, and abdomen white ; antennal pectinations ferruginous.

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Exyjanse of wings : 39 mm.

One <S from Simbang, German New Guinea, June 1893.

Allied to F. margaritata Wavr. from Australia.

SO. Pseudastheua sordida sp. nov.

Forewings : pale oclireons, with a slicrlit olive tint, finely dusted with grey,
crossed by a succession of waved dark grey lines ; the central area more suffused
witli grey than the outer ; a lunnlate line at four-fifths is more conspicuous, being
preceded by a paler baud ; a fine dark line with dots on the veins before the
liiudmargin ; the space beyond it pure ochreous, without grey dusting ; fringe
concolorous ; cell-spot grey.

Iliiuhcinqs : the same ; the lines darker on abdominal margin.

Underside whitish ochreous, the grey lines only showing through. Head,
thorax, and abdomen olive-ochreous ; antennae white ; fillet very narrowly white.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

One S from Oinaiuisa, Timor, November and December 1891 (Doherty).

81. Ptychopoda angustipennis sp. nov.

Foreivinqs : straw-colour, glossy, tinged with olive-ochreous ; basal area suffused
with grey ; first line curved, obscure, at one-fourth ; median shade marked only by
a brownish costal spot; outer line dark purple-grey, at three-fourths, parallel to
hindmargin, bent inwards opposite the cell and so forming a sinus outwards above
and below, followed by a violet-grey fascia, beyond which the marginal area is again
ochreous with the fringe ; some minute dark specks at ends of veins.

Hind wings: with the whole apical one-third purplish grey, with a deeper
purplish blotch at anal angle.

Underside similar. Face and palj>i dark brown; vertex fuscous ochreous: tliorax
and abdomen ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 15 mm.
. One ? from Cedar Bay, south of Cooktown, Queensland.

In the hindwings the anal angle is peculiarly prominent, as the hindmargin is
strongly excised from it as far as vein 3, as in alopccoJes Meyr., to which the present
species is evidently allied.

82. Ptychopoda carneola sji. nov.

Forewings : ochreous flesh-colonr ; the lines and cell-spot deeper; antemedian
at one-third, postmedian at two-thirds, both nearly straight ; submarginal slightly
waved and curved : fringe c()ncolorous.

Hindwings : more dusted with darker flesh-colour; the lines hardly visible.

Underside paler, with no markings. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous ;
face and palpi reddish.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

Three Si, one ?, from Penang, 1890 (Curtis); one S {type), one ?, from
Labuan, N. Borneo, h\m\ 1895 (A. Everett).

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83. Ptychopoda crinipes sp. nov.

Forewings : reddish testaceous, thickly dusted with grey atoms ; the lines all
obscure ; cell-spot dark ; a median shade bent out round cell ; outer line marked by
black points on veins ; two waved submarginal lines ; marginal line dark between
the veins : fringe concolorous, with dark spots at base beyond veins.

Hindwings : similar.

Underside paler, without markings. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous ;
face dark red-brown.

Expanse of wings : 16 mm.

Nine c? 6 from Cedar Bay, N. Queensland.

The fore and middle tibiae of the S are densely clothed with reddish hairs, the
hindlegs, as usual, being aborted ; antennae densely ciliated.

84. Ptychopoda exilinota sji. nov.

Forewings : glossy, deep straw-colour ; first line fr.im a purplish grey costal
spot at one-third, to inner margin at one-fourth ; outer line from a similar spot at
three-fourths, slightly sinuous and waved, to inner margin at three-fourths, followed
by a neatly marked purplish grey waved fascia which does not attain the costa and
is succeeded by a narrow grey shade ; fringe concolorous, vni\\ a row of neat dark
spots at base ; cell-sjwt distinct, pnrjjlish grey.

Hindwings : the same ; the inner line visible only on inner margin.

Underside similar ; the forewings nearly entirely suffused with purplish grey,
the veins remaining yellowisli. Head and palpi dark brown ; thorax and abdomen
like wings ; the vertex somewhat paler.

Expanse of wings : 13 mm.

One S from Weenen, Natal, January 1895.

8.5. Ehodostrophia subrufa sp. nov.

Forewings: pale brick-colour, darker, somewhat greyish, towards base and
hindmargiu ; traces of slightly darker oblique antemedian and postmedian lines, and
of a sinuous submarginal line ; fringe ])ale, with very fine dark basal line ; cell-spot
brown, large and coiis])icnons.

Hindwings : similar, the cell-spot smaller ; the marginal darker fascia more
distinct.

Underside pale ochreons, thickly dusted with brick-colour, the lines more
distinct. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous.

Expanse of wings : 2(1 mm.

One cj from Simla.

A small and inconspicuous species ; akin to R. nmricolor Warr.

8G. Sterrha (?) baptata sp. nov.

Foreicinqs: glossy greyish white ; the lines darker grey, indistinct, parallel to
hindmargin ; first at one-third, second beyond middle, third at three-fourths, waved,
followed closely by the submarginal, which is also waved; a darker grey shade along
hindmargin ; fringe white ; an obscure grey cell-spot.

Ilindicings : similar, the three outer lines curved and waved.

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Underside shining white ; the forewiiigs tinged witli yellowish towards costa.
Face, palpi, vertex, antennae, forelegs, and extreme edge of costa orange-fnlvons ;
thorax and abdomen white.

Expanse of wings : 23 mm.

One ? from Apia, Upoln (Woodford).

Superficially like a small Bii/it(t. It is referred to Stcrrlia provisionally, the
hindtibiae of the ? having a single i)air of spnrs.

Strophoptila gen. nov

<?. Foreicings : elongate ; costa straight, rounded towards apex, which is
likewise blnntly rounded: hindmargin curved, bent at vein 3 and more obliipie below
it ; the anal angle rounded ofi".

Hindwinqs : triangular ; the costal margin short : hindmargin little curved, and
bent at vein 3; inner margin very long, folded over beneath, and containing a furrow
with rough hairs.

Antennae almost filiform: paljn slender, porrect: hindtibiae and tarsi thickened
and clothed with coarse scales, withont spnrs.

Neiiration : forewings, cell about half the length of wing : first median from
just beyond middle, second well before angle of cell : 1 1 anastomosing with stalk
of 7, 8, 9, lu to form a single areole. Hindwings with 6 and 7 stalked : medians as
in forewiugs: Forewings beneath with a bed of coarse scales at base.

Type : Strojihopfihi informi!< sj). nov.

87. Strophoptila informis sp. nov.

Foreivinqii : ochreons grey, with an olive tinge; the costa and lines pale ochreous;
the first, near base, enrved ; second, in middle, nearly straight ; third submargiual,
forming a slight sinus outwards from vein 2 to 4 ; fringe ochreons, with a darker
basal line, which is here and there preceded by faint ochreous spots.

Hindwings : the same, the inner line very faint.

Underside paler and duller ; the hindwings whitish. Head, thorax, ami
abdomen ochreous grey ; face dark brown ; eyes large, reddish.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One S from the Khasias.

This species is evidently related to Acidalia lihoerdcopte.ra Hnipsn. from
Ceylon, but in that the oidcr margin is folded over beneath, and the present species
has no vestige of red scales.

88. Traminda nigripuncta sp. nov.

Foreivings : dull green, the fringe concolorous ; cell-spot black, distinct ; an
obscure oblique line from costa before apex to inner margin at two-thirds, indicated
only by the difference in the shades of green.

Ilindwinga : with the cell-spot white, the line central and slightly curved; very
faint traces of a waved darker submarginal line.

Underside yellowish green, unmarked : the fringe and marginal line reddish.
Face, palpi, forelegs, and collar red : vertex white ; thorax and abdomen green.

Expanse of wings : 27 mm.

Two ? ? from Liberia.

The apex of forewiugs is slightly produced, the hindmargin sinuate: hindwings
with distinct tooth in middle of hindmargin.

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89. Triorisma (?) violacea s]i. nov.

Forewings : dull jmrplish grey, the lines witli a reddish tinge, rather thick ;
first at one-fonrtb, lient on the median : onter line at two-thirds, bent in cell, then
oblique, parallel to Lindmargin ; subniarginal line at three-fonrths, sinnons : a fine
dark marginal line, and dark linear cell-spot.

llihduings : with thick curved antemedian lino : the postmedian bout on
vein 2 ; cell-spot distinct, linear : marginal line slightly waved : fringes of both
wings concolorous.

Underside pale grey, rufous-tinged ; the lines darker and finer. Thorax con-
colorous ; head and abdomen wanting.

E.xpanse of wings : 34 mm.

One ? from Sikkim, May 1889 (Col.-Snrgeon Pilcher).

Xenoprora gen. nov.

Like Ferixera Meyr., but with entirely different jialpi ; these, instead of being
slender, porrect, and decumbent, are thick, short, and upcurved in front of fixce,
smoothly scaled below, rongh-haired above, the third joint as large as the second,
the hairs expanding above. Antennae of cj bipectinate, the inner row of pectinations
about half as long as the outer.

Type: Xenoprora pariUeli sp. nov.

'•"(. Xenoprora parallela sp. nov.

Forewings : dull greyish ochreons, dusted with darker ; the linos likewise
slightly darker, but obscure, all parallel to hindmargin — inner, median, onter, and
two submarginal ; the latter, like the median, are more shades than lines ; the innor
ami outer are both marked by dark dots on veins ; cell-spot hardly denoted ; hind-
margin subcronulate, with dark dots between the veins and minute ones at the
vein-ends ; fringe concolorous.

Hindwings : similar, but the cell-spot an elongated annulus with dark edge.

Underside without markings. Paljii ochreons, externally marked with brown :
face brownish oclireous ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

One t? from Lifu, Loyalty Islands.

The base of costa of forewings is slightly rongh-haired. In appearance the
insect much resembles Stibarostoma griseata Warr. from North Queensland, which
itself differs from Perixera by the abnormally shaped palpi.

SuDFAMiLY A8THENINAE.
91. Hydrelia subrosea sp. nov.

Forewings : very pale dull yellow, crossed throughout by a succession of wavy
dentate rnfons grey lines, slightly darker on costa ; a distinct cell-spot and row of
marginal dots jmrjile : fringe yellow.

Jlinilwings : the same.

Underside pale yellowish ; the forewings suffused with bright rosy, especially
towards costa ; basal line of fringes in both wings bright rosy. Face and pali)i pale
yellowish, face brown above ; fillet white ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen pale yellow.

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Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

One i from Baii, Marcli au.l Api-il IsOO fW. Uoherty).

Allied to IT. fiavilitiea Warr. from Sikkim.

92. Psilocambogia undulosaria sp. uov.

Foixiriiiqs : dnll yellow, with nnmerons wavy dull orange lines crossing them
from base to apex ; indistinct orange or ferruginous submarginal dots between veins ;
fringe concolorous.

Iliixhriiu^s : the same ; no cell-spots on either wing.

Underside paler, somewhat reddish-tinged, without markings. Face and vertex-
dark brown ; fillet snow-white ; thorax and abdomen yellow.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

One cJ from Amboina, August 1892 (Doherty).

The forewings in this species have a very distinct fovea.

Subfamily TEPHROCLYSTIINAE.

93. Chloroclystis grisea sp. nov.

Forewings : ochreous, suffused with grey and tinged with rufous ; central fascia
darker, and marked with dark dashes on veins, its inner edge angled in cell, its outer
on veins 0 and 4, preceded and followed by a pale band of ground-colour traversed
by a grey line ; basal patch and central fascia with traces of waved grey lines
through them : marginal area grey, traversed by the pale uniformly waved sub-
marginal line ; fringe chec[uered light and dark grey, beyond a fine bliickisli
basal line.

Hindwinqs : similar; the central fascia and basal area sprinkled with black
scales towards inner margin.

Underside pale grey, with the outer line iu both wings marked as a diffuse black
shade. Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 16 mm.

Two SS from Mombasa Island, October 1896 (Dr. Ansorge).

The hindwiugs are emarginate on either side of the middle.

94. Chloroclystis minima sp. nov.

Forewings: whitish grey, with a curved dark grey antemedian line and a
thicker darker postmedian, interrni)ted in the middle ; marginal area darker grey,
with the paler submarginal line indistinctly visible.

Ilindwings: with a sinuous postmedian line; the margin strongly excised
opposite cell.

Underside dull ciiiereons, with the markings darker. Head, thorax, and
abdomen grey.

Expanse of wings : 12 mm.

One ¥ from Geraldton, near Cairns, N. Queensland (A. S. Meek).

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95. Chrysoclystis perornata Warr., Nov. Zooi.. III. p. 390.

TliP tliree examples from wliich the origiual descrii)tion was made were all ? ?
from Humboldt Bay, New Guinea. I thought it j>r()bable that the S might differ,
but an example lately examined from Padang Rengas, Malay Peninsnla, presents no
differences whatever, except in the coloration of the face and palpi, which are brownish
instead of yellow. The antennae are slender, lamellate, scarcely pubescent ; the
hindtibiae with four spurs.

96. Gymnoscelis albicaudata sp. uov.

Forewi7tgs : greyish green, dusted with dark atoms ; first line at one-fourth,
blackish, angnlated, bent below costa, and then parallel to hindmargin : onter line
at three-fourths, angled on veins 4 apd 0, below 4 parallel to hindmargin : the inner
half of central fascia darker from costa to below middle, the inner-marginal area
pale green ; submarginal line pale, minutely dentate, preceded by a dark cloud ;
the whole wing crossed by obscure waved lines ; marginal line distinct, blackish,
subcrennlatc ; fringe grey, with paler base.

Ilindicinys : greyish ochrcous, tinged with pale green towards hindmargin,
with several curved wavy darker lines and shades ; a waved jiostraedian black line,
recurved at costa : a darker submarginal fascia, with dentate edges ; a pale spot
beyond it in middle ; fringe and marginal line as in forewings ; cell-sj)ots in both
wings indistinct.

Underside whitish, towards the costa tinged with rufous cinereous, with the two
onter lines dark grey, and the cell-spot of hindwings plain. Head, thorax, and
abdomen greyish green, dusted with darker ; anal tuft very long, white.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One <S from the Khasias.

The costa of forewings is rough-haired to the middle, faintly convex near base,
and insinuate in middle ; the hindtibiae of c? have the two terminal spurs as in
Calluffa costalis, one much longer than the other; but the nenration is that of
Gymnoscelis, 11 anastomosing with but not becoming coincident with 12; the subcostal
is not bent down, and the areole is narrow. The hindmargin of forewings is bent at
vein 4, oblique below, and slightly inbent before the distinct anal angle ; hindwings
with hindmargin strongly rounded, somewhat bulged in centre.

97. Gymnoscelis coquina ab. semiviridis ab. nov. (? sp. dist.).

Forewings : precisely like tj-pical cogtdna, with all the veins marked with black
scales.

IJindwitiffS: pale ochreons or greyish, suffused only with green, which forms a
basal patch, central fascia, and marginal shade, with the veins as in forewings,
marked with black scales : cell-s))ot black, distinct.

Underside of both wings white, with the fasciae blackish and concise. Head,
thorax, and basal segment of abdomen dark I'uscous ; rest of abdomen jiinkish
ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 18 — 20 mm.

Two 9 ? from Geraldton, near Cairns, Queensland.

The specimens oi coquina were all from Cedar Bay, south of Cooktown. I am
by no means sure that these with the green hindwings are not a distinct species.

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its. Gymnoscelis cristata sj). uov.

Forewiny.s : dark fuscous, luixt'd with viuous ; the veins all marked with white
and black scales ; a tuft of spatulate black scales on the median vein at origin of
first median nervnle ; the lower radial with raised scales throughout the central
fascia, the first half wliite, the second lilack ; edge of basal area indistinct; centra!
fascia limited by fine white lines, the first followed by two darker lines, the second
crenulate and angled below vein 4 ; outer half of central fascia vinous, except
between veins 3 and 4, which space is pale green, and extends through the vinous
and fuscous marginal area to the margin itself ; marginal line black, interrupted by
l^ale spots at ends of veins, which emit jmle streaks through the fuscous fringe.

Hindwings : fuscous and vinous, except the anal half of the marginal area,
which is pale green : two thick fuscous postmedian lines with vinous between them,
and three fine blackish lines bevoud; the veins black; marginal line and fringe as in
forewings, but the fringe green beyond the green area.

Underside of forewings dark smoky grey, with four diffuse black lines ; the
inner margin, outer edge of exterior line, and a horizontal streak from it to hind-
margin below vein 4, whitish. Hindwings white, with three diffuse blackish bands.
Palpi and face fuscous ; vertex and thorax mottled with rufous grey and whitish
scales ; abdomen with basal half reddish grey, with Idack segmental rings ; the anal
half greenish.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

One ? from Sundye, Jaintia Hills.

99. Gymnoscelis grisea sp. nov.

Forewings: greyish fuscous, with numerous darker Waved lines, all bluntly
angled below the costa, then oblique and parallel to hindmargin ; just beyond one-
third two of these are darker and the space between them filled up with darker, so
forming a narrow fascia ; a similar one, but not so prominent, beyond the middle.

Hindwings : narrow, greyish fuscous, with the two dark fasciae of the fore-
wings appearing as dark lines ; fringes of both wings fuscous grey.

Underside dull cinereous, without markings. Head, thorax, and abdomen all
concolorous ; abdomen of the cJ very long, with whitish ochreoas anal tuft ; vertex
of head also paler.

Expanse of wings : 18 mm.

One cf, one ?, from Fergusson Island, September 1894 (A. S. Meek).

10<». Gymnoscelis perang^sta sp. nov.

Forewings : pale grey, with a slight ochreous and greenish tinge in places ; the
lines dark grey, waved or subdentate, and angled below costa ; first near base ;
second, forming a baud, a little before middle ; third at three-fourths; snbmarginal
line clondy, interrupted O2)posite cell and below middle ; a fine dark marginal line :
fringe grey.

Hindwings : with obscure central line, and distinct curved postmedian and
snbmarginal lines. In both wings the dark lines are finely edged with paler.

Underside dull cinereous. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey.

Expanse of wings : 18 mm.

One S from Kuching, Borneo.

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Meg'atheca gen. imv.

A development of Cklorocl>/Mis, from which it differs in having the hindwings
of the S very naiTOW, the whole of the inner-marginal area being folded over
beneath from base to anal angle; the hindtibiae of S have one very long median
sjmr before the terminal pair.

Type : Megalheca purpurea sp. uov.

101. Megatheca purpurea sp. nov.

Forctcings ; pale yellowisli green, dnsted with jiurple scales and with dnll
purple fasciae, the edges waved and lined with jialer; an antemedian passing round
the dark cell-spot: a postmedian diffuse and broad, and a narrower submarginal.

Hinchcings: with postmedian and submarginal fasciae onlj'.

Underside gilded yellowish, with the disc broadly and a narrow submarginal
fascia deep purple ; hindwings with only the marginal area purple. Head, thorax,
and abdomen dnll green.

Expanse of wings : 16 mm.

One S from Penang, 1806 (Curtis).

102. Tephroclystia ruficorpus sp. nov.

Foreuings : pale grey, suffused with ]iale vinous red ; the costa darker, with
large brown blotches representing the origin of the lines ; disc crossed by numerous
waved and oblique obscurely darker lines, marked often with dots on the veins, and
all angled below the subcostal vein; median vein red-brown from base to end of cell;
submarginal line finely denticulate, pale grey, preceded by a ruftjus brown fascia,
containing three darker blotches, at costa, beyond cell, and above anal angle,
separated from central fascia by a pale space through the centre of which a dark
line is distinct; marginal area dark grey, with the veins rufous; marginal line finely
black, interrupted by the paler veins ; fringe dark grey, with deeper midtOe shade ;
cell-spot obsolete.

Hiixhchigs : pale grey, with darker curved lines and shades ; inner margin
faintly tinged with vinous.

Underside pale grey, with the markings darker, esjiecially the broadish grey
submarginal fascia ; cell-spots marked, but small. Face and palpi brown ; vertex,
thorax, and basal segment of abdomen grey, with faint reddish tint; abdomen bright
vinous red.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One ? from the Khasias, October 1896.

Very near to T. rubripicta Hmpsn. ; distinguished by the absence ol' large
cell-spots on upper surface, and by the wholly grey hindwings and bright red
abdomen.

Subfamily TRICHOPTERYGINAE.
103. Goniopteroloba conjuncta s]]. nov. (I'l. V. fig. 9, c?).

Forewings : ochreons yellow, with an olive tinge in places, and especially along
costa, and with some scattered black scales ; a black dot at base of costa and sub-
mediau vein ; the lines black ; first from one-third of costa to one-third of inner

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margin, interrnpted in the cell; second from two-thirds of costa to before two-thirds
of inner margin, angled on vein 3, swollen below and connected with first line along
snbmedian fold ; submarginal line very faint, denoted by a line of dark scales, followed
by a pale band ; marginal line black, Innnlar, interrupted in middle, and preceded
opposite the cell by a black blotch from the submarginal line : fringe yellow,
cheqnered with black ; costa dotted with black.

lliiidwirujs : with a black curved central line ; marginal area as in forewings.

Underside deeper yellow, with fine black strigae; the markings obscure. Head,
thorax, and abdomen yellow.

Expanse of wings : 18 — 20 mm.

Both sexes from Mount Dulangan, Mindoro, 4500 — 5.500 feet, November 1895
to January 1896 (J. Whitehead).

In the hindwings the lower angle of cell is produced to an acute point, not
rounded as in the type-species, and vein 5, the radial, rises along with the third
median from the point.

104. Goniopteroloba fuscata sp. uov. (PI. V. fig. 8, 6).

Forewings : yellowish olive, fuscous-tinged, with a few black scales, which are
most conspicuous along costa, which is paler ; the lines indistinct, starting from
oblique dark brown costal spots at one-third and two-thirds ; the outer line marked
by a dark spot on vein 5 and the snbmedian; submarginal line very obscure, marked
by a small blackish spot beyond cell ; fringe concolorous.

Iliiuhriiigs : more fuscous, but j)aler along costa, with traces of a darker central
line from centre of inner margin.

Underside deej) yellow, mottled with fuscous, with the two costal spots and
submarginal spot marked darker. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with
wings.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One S from Mount Dulangan, Mindoro, 4500 — 5500 feet, November 1895 to
January 1896 (J. Whitehead).

105. Eemodes curticornis sp. nov.

A S from Tawaya, north of Palos Bay, Celebes, in good condition, answers
entirely to Guenee's description of li. aborticata from Borneo. Of two ? ¥ , likewise
in perfect condition, from Kucliing, Borneo, one is almost the exact counterpart of
the S from Tawaya ; in fact, tlie markings, being clearer, correspond more precisely
than do those of the S with Guenee's details. In both of these specimens the three
green bands which form the outer arm of the central fascia become purple only
between the lower radial and the submedian vein, while the single band which forms
the inner arm is purj)le only between the median and submedian; the marginal baud
and row of s]iots likewise become purplish almost to the apex, while in the ? the
second of the four basal bands is slightly purple between the median and submetlian.
In both sexes the cell-spot is green ; the hindtibiae of the 6 are tufted with pale
scales, and the abdomen has two pairs of lateral tufts on the penultimate segment.

In the second ¥ from Kuching nearly all the transverse lines are tinged witli
purple throughout, while the lustrous scales between the lines become paler and
more silvery ; but 1 should have referred it likewise to Guenee's aborticata, as in
size and position of markings it agrees entirely with that species, had I not noticed

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a decided difference iu the antennae : in abortimta ¥ these are slender and two-
thirds of the length of the forewings ; in curticornis they are much stouter,
rougher, and only half as long as the wings. The comitarison of three other
similarly marked ? ? , one from Penang and two from Timor, brings out the difference
clearly. Those all agree iu the shortness and stoutness of the anteunae, and in
having the transverse lines more or less dark-tiugcd and the cell-spot dark ; the
apex of both fore- and hindwings is rounder, and the row of marginal spots on fore-
wings much more concise. The darker tints have a tendency to develop themselves
horizontally bej'oud the cell and along the snbniedian fold.

loG. Remodes contorta sp. nov.

Forewings: mealy green, without any fine darker green transverse lines, these
where expressed, being all blackish ; base marked mth blackish; basal area limited
by a bent narrow band with darker edges : central fascia with its inner edge formed
by a contorted darker greeu band with blackish edges ; the outer edge by a similar
band edged by a double dentate black line, excurved below costa and becoming
obsolescent in a whitish hyaline and transparent blotch, the inner arm of the
inner line alone reaching the inner margin ; cell-spot distinct, blackish, touching
both bands ; the green space between basal i)atch and central fascia marked above
inner margin with horizontal black dashes ; area between central fascia and snb-
marginal line pale green on costa, traversed below vein 6 by a double blackish line ;
submarginal line parallel to hindmargin, blackish; subdentate marginal dark spots at
end of veins ; fringe greeu.

IlindwiMjs : whitish.

Underside whitish grey; costal half of forewings tinged with dull rufous. Face
and palpi pale green ; thorax and abdomen green, mixed with blackish scales ;
antennae broken.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

One (S from Penang.

Resembles B. pallidiplaga in the white blotch at anal angle, but the palpi are
green, not black, and the markings are different. The inner margin of forewings
is decidedly bulged from near base to end of submedian vein, where it is slightly
indented ; the incision above anal angle is strongly marked, and the area below the
submedian fold occupied by the pale blotch is slightly puckered and contorted
beneath ; the hindwings have no dark scales whatever.

107. Remodes pallidiplaga sp. nov.

Foreiriiiqs : pale dull greeu ; the lines darker green, irregularly waved on basal
half, beyond the middle angulated ; three close to base, the first marked with some
blackish scales, the next two confluent ; inner edge of central fascia marked by a
single dark green line, angulated sharply on subcostal, where it touches the dark
green cell-spot, and bent below : sjjace between basal patch and this line pale green,
with a deeper wavy green line down its centre ; outer jiart of central fascia consisting
of three dark green angulated lines, curved outwards above and incurved below,
approximating towards inner margin ; central fascia followed by a similar pale green
band to that which precedes it, but ending at anal angle in a i)alc whitish blotch ;
two dark green lines, becoming confluent below middle and containing a sulmuadrat-c
dark greenish black blotch beyond cell ; submarginal line sinuous, blackish green,

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edged internally witli ]iale green ; the marginal area liovmid it from a]iex to incision
slightly pnrplish-tiuged ; five large triangular black marginal siiots at ends of
veins 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ; fringe at base dark grey, paler externally; the darker basal half
with white spots beyond each of the five black marginal spots.

Hindwings : pale ochreons, dnsted with grey scales ; the tip of the middle lobe
darker grey; the basal lobe very small.

Underside of forewings greenish grey, becoming fnscous towards hindmargin ;
fringe fnscons, with the five white dots well marked ; hindwings as above. Palpi
and antennae black, the tips of both pale ; head and thorax green ; abdomen
ochreons.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One i from Monnt Ged(?, West Java, 4000 feet, 180fi (Fruhstorfer).

Allied to R. abortimta Gnen. ; distingnished at once by the pale patch at
anal angle.

108. Trimetopia aetheraria Gnen., Phal. I. p. 352.

The examination of a ? of this rare species, from Dar-es-Salaam, East Africa,
affords me the opportunity of making some slight corrections in Gnenee's descriptions
of the genns and species, and referring it, according to the neuration, to its proper
snbfamily.

The specimen before me, which is in very fair condition, does not show any
white veins ; perhaps Gnenee's examples were worn or rnbbed. The tongne is
Ijresent, bnt very slightly developed. The antennae of this ? are strongly pecti-
nated, and I am inclined to believe that this pectination misled Guende into
describing his type as a J. It will bo noticed that in his description he refers only
to the i ; bnt he afterwards records from Abyssinia a male and ?k female, querying
this latter, jiossibly as not having any antennae left, for in his remarks on the genns
he says, " The abdomen of the cJ is so thick that, were it not for the presence of
antennae, it might lead to a mistake."

The nenration is almost identical with that of Pseudenchlora Hmpsn. : the dis-
cocellular in forewings oblique ; in hindwings twice bent, inwards at the npper,
outwards at the lower third, from which latter the radial arises. The genns must
therefore be referred to the Trichopten/ginae, next to Leptostegna Chr. and
Pseudeuchlova Hmpsn., from both of which it differs in the pectinated antennae.
The frennlnm (in the ? ) is represented by a few hairs only.

Subfamily HYDRIOMENINAE.
100. Cainptogramma constellata sp. nov.

Forewings : black-brown, very much like stellata Gnen. from America and
the West Indies ; the margins of the central fascia darker, and marked by pale dots
on the veins ; snlimarginal line irregularly dentate, pale ochreons, with a small bnt
distinct pale sjxjt beyond it between veins 3 and 4 ; marginal line black, with faint
pale dots before it ; fringe dark, with pale apices.

Hindwings : similar.

Underside cinereons ; the lines and cell-spots dark brown. Head, (horax, and
abdomen concolorous with wings.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

One ? from Manritins.

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I in. Epirrhoe crepuscularia sj). imv.

Forewings : with the ground-colour dull rufous olivy ; basal ;ir(.'a witli inner
half Mackish fuscous, the outer olive-brown, with a paler sliade Ijetweeii; lirst liue,
limiting the basal area, at one-fifth, curved ; ceutral fascia broad, blackish fuscous ;
its inner edge curved aud slightly indented iu cell and on submedian fold, its outer
protuberant below costa, forming a sinus iu cell, with two small blunt teeth below
middle s d waved above inner margin ; traversed by three darker lines, and cou-
taiiiing a dark cell-s])ot ; the fascia is margined on both sides by a fine pale slightly
lustrous line within a fine dark one; the narrow curved band jireceding it and the
somewhat broader one following it are of the ground-colour ; marginal area formed
first of a Ijrown fascia, which deepens into a dark fuscous cloud along hindmargin ;
submarginal line obscure, wavy; dark marginal area obliquely edged from apex,
the apex itself remaining paler ; fringe dark fuscous.

lliiidirii/ijg : dark smoky fuscous, with traces of a narrow antemedian anil
broad median and submarginal darker bands.

Underside dull cinereous, with darker markings. Head, thorax, and abdomen
dark fuscous olive.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One ? from Mount Dulaugan, Miudoro, 45U0 to 55UU feet, November IS'Jo to
January ISDO (J. Whitehead).

111. EulypeC?) disparata sp. nov. (PI. V. fig. 12, c?).

(?. Forewings : glossy, leaden-grey; costal edge tinged with oclireous, more
broadly bo\'ond the middle ; three transverse broadish lines wliite ; first curved,
close to base; second at one-third, curved slightly below costa, and bent at median,
nearly vertical ; third at two-thirds, vertical below costa and above inner margin,
forming a strong outward sinus between veins 4 and 2 ; fringe greyish ochreous ;
cell-spot minute, dark, with paler scales round it.

Iliix/u-iiigs : white, witli fine angled median and dotted jiostmedian lines ; the
margin beyond submarginal line leaden-grey ; fringe ochreous grey, with dark grey
dashes beyond the veins.

Underside similar, but the forewings with only the outer pale line. Head,
thorax, and abdomen leaden-grey: antennae pale ochreous.

? very difl'erent ; dull whitish, with very ])ale olive-grey inner, outer, and
submarginal lines ; margin of both wings grey ; underside white ; head, thorax, and
abdomen all whitish.

Expanse of wings : <?, 28 mm. ; ? , 25 mm.

One cJ, one ¥ , from Nandi, Uganda Protectorate, December IS'JO (Dr. Ansorge).

The S antennae are lamellate, subserrato ; areole of forewings simple.

112. Euphia propinqua sp. nov.

Foretvings : deep fulvous yellow, with rufous brown fasciae ; basal area with
the onter edge evenly curved ; central fascia with its inner edge bluntly bent on the
median vein, its outer bluntly angled on the subcostal and strongly on the third
median nervule, with a sinus above and below, so that the fascia itself is constricted
below the middle ; marginal area broadly rufous brown, containing a triangular pale
ajueal blotch, edged with pale yellow ; fringe rufous brown ; the edges of the central
fascia and basal j)atch with a jialer yellow line.

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lliiidwiiKjs : nnifonn fulvons yellow ; the fringe concolorous.

Underside fulvous yellow, with the edge of basal jiatch, outer edge of central
fascia, and area beneath the apical spot brownish. Head, thorax, and abdomen
concolorous.

Expanse of wings : 21 mm.

One S from Pu-tsn-fu, West China, 8000— 1U,000 feet, July 1890.

Allied to E.J'ulcata Forst. and nnyata Feld.

113 Gandaritis reduplicata sp. nov.

Like G.Jlavata Moore in the forewings.

IliiKlwings : with basal two-thirds white, marginal tliird yellow ; the veins
blackish ; a diffuse curved blackish central band, and distinct lunulate blackish
postmedian and submarginal baud : the cell-spot black.

Expanse of wings : 7<.) mm.

One ? from Omei-Shan, West China.

114. Glaucopteryx subalbata sp. nov.

Forewings : fnscons black, sprinkled with bluish white scales ; the nsnal trans-
verse wavy lines darker, but obscure ; the waved fascia between basal patch and
central fascia marked by bluish white scales, most conspicuous at costa and on inner
margin; the space between the two limiting bauds of the central fascia white from
costa to middle, then whitish smeared with fuscous and diffusely broadened to inner
margin, leaving the dark basal half of wing projecting along the median vein as an
acnte point ; outer line, bounding central fascia, and submarginal line, both waved
aud marked with bluish white scales, and whitisli towards costa : a row of dark
marginal dashes between the veins ; fringe with basal half wholly dark, apical half
whitish, with dark patches opposite veins ; cell-spot dark, obscure.

Hiiuliviugs : wJiitc, smoky grey at base and along inner margin, with a broad
smoky fuscous marginal band ; fringe altogether white round ajjex.

Underside of forewings white, with the cell cinereous, and a broad blackish
marginal fascia, containing a large white apical and smaller white subapical spot.
Hindwings white, with broad blackish marginal fascia, containing a white spot at
apex. Head, thorax, and abdomen blackish, speckled with pale grey.

Expanse of wings : 39 mm.

One (? from Sikkim, 11,000 feet.

This is evidently akin to albapcx Hmpsn., also from Sikkim, in which species,
however, the hindwings are black throughout, except for the apical spot. »Snper-
ficially it reminds one much of Xanthorhoii turbata Hiib., like it a mountain species.

115. Photoscotosia funebris Warr., Nov. Zool. II. ]>. 117.

The ? of this species, like the ? of i'. miniosata, is diiferent from I lie S. The
outer three-tiftiis is a mixture of rufous and grey on a i)aler ground ; the basal
two-fifths suffused with blackish brown as far as second line ; underside of forewings
with the pale discal space much wider and reaching to costa, containing there at its
middle a large blackish blotch, at the commencement of tlie outer line.

it is evidently the Chinese form of the Indian miniosata.

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llii. Plerocymia albiclausa s|i. uov.

Foretvinijs : with ground-colour whitish oclireons, more or less suffused, except
ill tlie margiual area, with pale red-browu ; basal jiatch eilired by a i)ale line angled
below costa, theu obliij^ne and waved ; a similar liue through tiic patch nearer base,
with a dark dot below the median ; inner edge of central fascia limited b_v a similar
line at one-third ; outer edge dark brown, oblique and straiglit, parallel to hind-
margin, at five-sixths ; the lascia itself dnll rod-brown, containing three or four
darker oblique lines and a small black cell-spot ; the fascia is followed by an oblique
white band, with a grey line along its middle ; marginal area beyond rufous fnscous,
the inner half forming a dark band edged by the obscure pale submarginal line ;
an oblique pale streak from the apex ; marginal line formed of pairs of black dots ;
fringe fnscous.

Ilindicings : whitish, with a grey curved postmedian shade.

Underside ochreous, dusted and suffused with fnscous ; the marginal area
paler ; cell-spots and outer line dark and distinct. Head, thorax, and abdomen
rufous ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One c? from Natal (A. J. Spiller).

11". Plerocymia nigrocellata sp. nov. (PI. V. fig. (j, c?).

Forewings: uniform glossy grey ; marginal area darker, beyond a jiale sub-
marginal line curved parallel to hindmargin ; costal area slightly darker, brownish ;
cell-spot oblique^ velvety black ; fringe glossy grey.

Hindwings : hardly paler, without markings of any kind.

Underside slightly reddish-tinged : forewings as above ; hindwings slightly
speckled with blackish, with a minute black cell-dot and submarginal line denoted
by black dashes on veins. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous.

Expanse of wings : c?, 32 mm. ; ? , 26 mm.

One ? , four tS S, from Naudi, Uganda Protectorate, December 1896 (Dr. Ansorge).

Polystroma gen. nov.

Forewings: witli costa straight, curved at base and before apex : hindmargin
obliquely curved ; the snbmedian vein beneatli with a tuft of black hairs from base.

Hindwings: with hinthnargiu rounded and sul)crenulate, slightly truncate
before the anal angle ; fold in cell clothed in last half with a bed of grey scales.

Antennae of S subserrate, ciliated, as in Ochyria ; forehead with a cone of
scales ; palpi triangular, squamous, third joint obscured ; tongne and frenulum
present ; hindtibiae with four spurs.

Neitralion : forewings, cell half the length of wing; discocellnlar nearly vertical;
first median at seven-eighths, second only just before lower angle of cell ; radials
normal ; 7, 8, 0 stalked ; 10 anastomosing with 11, and again with 7, S, i), forming
a double areole ; 11 from near apex of areole, 7 from apex; 10 short-stalked. Hind-
wings with the snbcostals stalked ; discocellnlar oldique ; radial from its centre.

Type : Polystroma subsjiissata sp. nov.

Cidaria fuscigrisea Hmpsn. from India, and Lygris mardinata Stand, from
Mesojtotamia, are probably congeneric. The genus is akin to Melitulias Meyr. from
Australia.

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lis. Polystroma subspissata sp. uov.

ForeiciiKjs : cinereous, with a slight reddish tingo; basal jjateh aud ceutral
fascia blackish, with some rulbns scales iutermixed ; the former bounded by two
curved black liues ; the latter with inner edge curved and slightly toothed on
submedian fold, the outer toothed below costa and angled on vein 4, below whicli it
is incurved ; several waved blackish lines are visible within the fascia ; cell-spot
dark, with rufous scales round it ; space between basal patch and centra] fascia with
three fine curved lines, and some rufous scales before the fascia ; beyond the fascia
is a rnfoiis baud with two waved dark liues ; marginal area grey and rufous, witli
the waved submarginal line i)aler ; a black interrupted marginal line ; fringe pale.

Hinilwiiujs : pale grey ; the inner margin blackish ; a blackish postmedian
curved line, followed by a pale fascia and some dark waved lines, all more distinct
towards inner margin.

Underside dull cinereous, with central fascia and cell-spots of both wings
darker. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey and black ; liasal segment of abdomen
paler ; metathorax blackish ; tuft of forewings black ; thickened scales in cell of
hindwings grey.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

One S from Weenen, Natal, March 1894 ; one ? marked Natal, without date.

An obscure-looking species, recalling Hiiidentaria of Haworth.

The ? has the pale band on each side of the central fascia narrower, witli a
single rufons line through it : the dark baud preceding the submarginal line is more
distinct, and marked with black lieneath costa and opjiosite cell ; the hindwings are
smoky fnscous, with the lines darker.

Subfamily DEILINIINAE.
Allaxitheca gen. nov.

Forrwiuijs : triangular, broad; costa curved throughout: apex prominent, acute ;
hindmargin scarcely curved; anal angle rectangular.

IIinf/wi)i(/s : triangular; apex rounded; anal angle rectangular; hindmargin
slightly curved.

Palpi porrect, upcurved, third joint sliort, jminted; antennae of d serrate, of ?
simple.

Neuration : forewings, cell not half as long as wing; discocellular straight ;
first median at two-thirds; second a little before angle of cell; radials normal;
7, 8, 9 stalked from some distance before angle of cell; lu aud II coincident, anasto-
mosing with costal. Hindwings with first subcostal aud second median both shortly
before angle of cell. Forcwing of c^ without fovea; hindwing with fovea at base of
vein 8.

T^'pe : Allaxitheca pHrpura.veiia Moore.

Allied to OrtJwhrachia Warr. ; ccrlainly belonging to the Steyuniu group, not
to Ti'plirina.

119. Bapta longipennis sp. uov.

Forcivings : elongate, white, very finely ilnsted with dark atoms; the lines
diftnso, grey; first from costa before one-third to lU'iir middle of iiiucr margin: the

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ontor at three-fonrtlis, slightl)' waved, aud parallel to hindmargiu ; marginal aud
apical areas smeared with pale fulvous; marginal lino and fringe pale fulvous.

llindunH()s : with second line only marked.

Underside dull white. Vertex, thorax, and abdomen white ; face and jialpi
dark browu; antennae fnlvous.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

One i from the Khasias, Jnly 1896.

120. Micronidia simpliciata ab. mediofusca ab. nov.

Differs from typical simpliciata Moore in having the first three lines obliterated,
the space between the basal and outer line being suffused witli pale brownish grey;
submarginal line only visible above inner margin. On the hiudwings, wliich have
no inner line in the type-form, the grey band is restricted to the space between
the median and postmedian, the submarginal line remaining distinct throughout.

A single S from the Khasias, August 1896, taken with others of the ordinary
form.

Microxeua gen. nov.

Foi-Picings : with costa curved at base and before apex, straight between: apex
rectangular; hiudmargin elbowed at vein 3, vertical above, oblique below, aud slightly
incurved before anal angle, which is well marked.

Ilindicings : ample ; with the margin bent at veins 8 and 7, and bluntly sub-
dentate at vein 4, faintly excised between 4 and G; anal angle rectangular.

Antennae of S minutely serrate, with short ciliations; palpi jmrrect, short;
tongue and frenulum present; no fovea ; hindtibiae with four spurs.

Neuration: forewings, cell not quite half the length of wing; discocellular
oblique, very faint; first median at three-fourths, second from close to lower angle;
radials normal; all five subcostals stalked; lu and 11 coincident, anastomosing witli
costal, 10 again anastomosing with 8 and 9. Hiudwings with costa shortly approxi-
mated to subcostal; first subcostal uervnle and second median from before angles of
cell; no radial.

Type : Microxena invalidii sp. nov.

The genus will come near Peratophi/ga and Si7iodcs, from both of which it
differs by the absence of a fovea and by the elbowed hiudmargin in the forewings.

121. Microxena invalida sp. nov.

Forewings : dull purplish grey, with no distinct markings; the costa yellowish,
with groups of striae of the dark ground-colour; hiudmargin narrowly yellowish, the
darker ground-colour running out to the elbow as in the genus (7/n/sorrus/icdii ;
fringe yellowish.

Uii«liciiHjs : with tiie hiudmargin very narrowly and obscurely yellowish : IVinge
yellow.

Underside paler, with faint traces of a curved darker postniedi;ui band on fore-
wings. Face and jialpi yellowish; tliorax and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 1 7 mm.

One S from Bali, March to April lS9f> (W. Uoherty).

Superficially wonderfully resembling a Chrysocraspeda.

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122. Nothomiza binotata sji. nov.

d. Forewingti : silky grey, s]iarsely mottled with rather eoarse blackish
speckles, tinged with fawn-colour towards base, and becoming quite reddish fawn
along costa; two cream-coloured costal blotches of an irregular triangular shape, the
first in the middle, the second at three-fourths.

Hindwi'ngs : j>aler, silky grey, mottled only towards inner margin and anal angle,
and there also slightly suffused with fawu.

Head, face, thorax, and abdomen all fawn-colonr, the hind segments of the
abdomen greyer. Underside quite pale; the hindwings much mottled, and showing
traces of a dark curved snbmargiual line.

E.xpanse of wings : 26 mm.

Many from the Khasias.

Closely related to Nothomiza costinotafd Warr. {^An'tyoye).

123. Nothomiza nana sp. nov.

Forewinqs : dull grey -brown, with numerous indistinct dark strigulae ; the
costal streak throughout pale sulphur-yellow, its lower edge irregularly striated with
the brown ground-colour; very indistinct dark autemedian and postmedian lines and
dark cell-spot; fringe lemon-yellow, with a dark brown basal line.

IlimJinnqs : paler, with a strong rufous tinge; cell-spot and outer curved line
visible ; fringe and marginal line as in forewings ; the inner margin narrowly
yellow.

Underside of both wings uniform deep yellow, the hindwings deeper than the
forewings ; forewings towards liindmargin with a few fine dark freckles. Face,
palpi, and collar ferruginous; vertex and antennae sulphur-yellow; thorax, patagia,
and back of abdomen grey ; rest of abdomen and legs yellow.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

One $ from tlie Khasias, October 180G.

124. Parasynegia nigrifrons sp. nov.

Forewings : sandy ochreous, speckled with fine black atoms ; a black dot at
base in middle ; first line represented by four black dots in a curve, one above
subcostal vein, one on median and submedian veins, and the fourth on inner margin
nearer base ; a black cell-spot on a very faint median shade ; outer line obliquely
curved parallel to hindmargin, marked by black daslies on veins to vein 2, then by
two curves to inner margin: the line is closely followed by a blackish shade, forming
two black blotches above inner margin ; snbmarginal line formed by black some-
what wedge-shaped marks between the veins, followed, after a fine waved pale line,
by an interrupted blackish shade, the dark markings being more prominent beyond
cell and above inner margin ; a row of distinct black marginal s])ots ; fringe
concolorous.

Iliiuhi-ings : similar, the black markings less pronounced; the dots forming the
second line connected by a ferruginous thread.

Underside duller ; the black markings coarser, more blotched. Face and jialpi
black ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen ochreous ; abdomen with pairs of dorsal black
dots ; antennae ochreous, with very long jwcliuations.

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Exi)anse of wings : 38 mm.

One <i from Indralaman, Bontliaiu, 2300 feet, October 1895 (A. Everett).

Distinguislied at once by the black face and ])alpi.

125. Scardamia maculata sp. nov.

Forewinqs : deep fulvons orange, with nnmerons iiiie black transverse striae ;
linos as in (nirieineta Wlk. (= .%qfalai-ifi Ye\A.) from S. Africa: central area bctwocii
inner and outer line occupied by a large blackish bhitch, thinning out towards costa.

Hind wings : with an aggregation of black striae in place of a blotch.

Underside pale yellowish ochreous, with the margins of both wings diffusely
reddish brown.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One ? from Dar-es-Salaam, German East Africa.

Subfamily ABRAXINAE.
12fi. Pogonopygia nlgralbata attenuata snl)sp. nov.

Diff'ers from the type-form of nuji-nlhata AVarr., from Japan, W. China, and
the Khasias, chiefly in having the central markings of forewings attenuated. In
the place of three rounded costal blotches are three oblique streaks, consisting of
contiguous flattened oval marks on the veins ; the first, of four such marks, on costa,
costal and subcostal veins, and on the fold in the cell ; the second, of two above
and two below the large cell-spot, which is blackish with white central line ; the
third, of a double costal blotch and a smaller one on vein 5; on the first median
nervule and on the snbmedian fold below it are two elongate blotches, not cotitiguous;
and iu the place of the blotch on inner margin, two obliipie streaks to the snljmeilian
vein ; the veins and snbmarginal line intersecting the dark marginal area are white
only below the middle, being dark grey above.

One ? from Rukit Putus, Selangore, 3000 feet, May 1896 (Curtis).

SunFAMiLv P.HACCINAE.
127. Bui'sada adaucta sp. nov.

Like B. macuUfera Feld., but with all the orange markings enlarged and with
more irregular edges, so that instead of describing it as black with orange spots it
would be more correct to call it orang(> witii black markings and two narrow black
transverse bands: tlie orange ajMcal mark is considerably larger. In the hind wings
an additional orange streak is developed beyond the blotch at anal angle, ami the
basal and anal segments of the abdomen are broadly orange.

Two (?(? from Siao Islands, north of Celebes, Sejrfemlier Is'.ifi (\V. Doherty).

Expanse of wings : 34 ram.

126. Bui'sada (?) puncticorpus sj). nov. (I'l. V. iig. 18, ?).

Foretoings : deep orange-red ; the base narrowly black, with a snow-white sjiot ;
a broad black band from middle of costa to anal angle, its inner edge very irregularly
cremUate ; apex black from three-fourths of costa to middle of hindmargin, which
there is narrowly black.

Hindirinijx : with hindmargin Mack, narrow in middle, its inner edge sinuous
fnnu three-fourths of costa, ami forming a large i|uadrate blotch at anal angle.

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Underside the same. Palpi and antennae blaclc; face black, with the lower tliird
white; thorax black, with a wliite .sjxit Ijetween the shotdders in front ; abdomen
black, with a row of white spots down the back.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

One ¥ from Fort Abercoru, British Central Africa, 1895.

129. Bursada rotundimacula sp. nov. (PI. V. fig. 2fi, ?).

Forewim/s : black, with two white streaks from base, one, reaching to two-thirds
of cell, above the subcostal vein, the other short, above the snbmedian ; a ]iale
yellowish spot at base ; a very irregular white fascia from near end of cell, not
touching the subcostal vein, running obliquely outwards and broadening to the
snbmedian fold, then much constricted on the submedian vein, and again expanding
and occu]iying the middle third of inner margin ; a large irregularly edged oval
blotch towards apex from near costa to below vein 4 : a series of submarginal oval
white spots between the veins, those opposite the cell obsolescent ; fringe black (?).

Ilindwings : white, with the base narrowly black : a large round discal spot ; a
broad marginal black border, running in along vein 4, containing large white semi-
elliptical submarginal blotches between the veins ; the inner edge of the marginal
border slate-colour, which tint is extended along costa to basal blotch, which is also
edged with slate-colour.

Underside the same, but blacker. Face, pectus, forefemora, and collar pale
yellowish ; palpi and antennae black ; thorax black, mixed with ])a.\e yellowish ;
abdomen ringed alternately with lilack and pale yellow.

Expanse of wings : 58 mm.

One ? from N. Luzon (Whitehead).

In appearance resembling rather a Craspedosis, but the antennae, even in the
? , are pectinated, as in Bursada.

130. Craspedosis albigvitta sp. nov.

Fore wings: slaty black, with an oMir|ue white blotch from below middle of
costa to near inner margin before anal angle ; this blotch is broader below than
above, the inner edge sinuous, with a slight indentation basewards below first
median nervnle, and with a short point below costa directed towards the apex ; fringe
black.

llbuhcini/s : whoU}' black.

Underside like upper. Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; anal orifice beneath
orange.

Expanse of wings : 4S mm.

One ? from Etna Bay, New Guinea, August 189() (Webster).

Intermediate between C. seiniplat/a Warr. from Fergusson Island and ('. oralis
from Humboldt Bay, New Guinea: distinguished from the former by the /)road white
blotch, and from the latter by tlio wholly black hiiulwiugs and abdomen.

1;'>1. Hylemera fiavibasis sp. nov.

Forr/rinr/g : white ; costa narrowly black at base, limiting a small basal orange
blotch, then widening to apex ; hindmargin diffusely black, containing dull smoky-
tinged i3ale spaces, beyond cell and between the medians, the whitish gronnd-colonr
running in nearly tci margin along the submedian fohl : the black edging extend.s

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from anal angle along inner margin nearl}' to miiMle ; the minlian vein is marked
wit h lilack in tli<' onter half of cell.

//htf/iri)ii/s : white, with a sinuons-oducd blackish border fnini jnst beyond
miiMli' of costa to anal angle, int('iTU|)ted nj^wsite the cell, except for a few
marginal black scales, by the white ground-colour ; fringe black, except opposite
the cell.

Underside similar : face yellowisli : antennae and tliorax black : abdomen with
whitish basal segment.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

One c? from the Cameroons.

Lobocraspeda gen. nov.

Forewings: elongate ; costa straight, curved slightly at base, and convex before
apex ; apex rounded ; hiudmargin oliliqnely rounded, v(>ry faintly indented at end
of vein 2.

Hindwinys : narrow, elongate ; hiudmargin very strongly rounded, forming a
semicircle from apex to end of vein 2, where there is a deep angular indentation,
the anal region forming an angulated lobe ; in the ? this indentation is very faint.

Antennae (J) pubescent : jialjii porrect, hairy; tongue and frenulum strongly
developed; pectus and femora hairy; forewings of c? with fovea; hindwings of c?
with inner-marginal area sulcate on either side of vein 1.

Neuration: fore wings, cell about half as long as wing; discocellular slightly
oblique ; first median at one-half, second close before angle of cell : radials normal;
7, 8, 9, stalked; lu and 11 coincident. Hindwings ^vith costal a])proximate(l to
subcostal for three-fourths of cell'; cell more than half the length of wing, the dis-
cocellular inaugulated ; first and second median nervules near together from before
lower angle of cell, both curved and shortened.

Type : Lobocraspcdd coeruleostriga sp. nov.

132. Lobocraspeda coeruleostriga sp. nov. (I'l. V. fig. 3, <?).

Foreicings : black, with a bine spot near base on tlie submedian fohl, and a
vertical slightly sinnous bine fascia at two-thirds, not touching either costa or inner
margin ; fringe black, glossy.

J/i/ii/zri/ii/x: with the base, costa, and three-fifths of onter margin, including the
lobe at anal angle, black, leaving an irregularly semicircular area on inner margin
yellow.

Underside dull slaty brown ; the yellow area of hindwings duller. Head,
palpi, and thorax black ; abdomen yellow. In the ? the yellow becomes dull
blurred orange.

Ex]iause of wings : tJ, 54 mm ; ? , ."iS mm.

Four (^d, one ?, from New Guinea, Mount Alexander to Mount Nisbet,
.Tanuary iNDti (Antliony).

133. Pitthea fractimacula s]i. nov.
Forc/r/Df/s: black, with two obli.ine red blotches with broken edges, one from
below one-third of costa to above inner margin beyond inidiUe, the other from
below two-thirds of costa to near middle of hiudmargin, the latter bent and narrowed
at the lower end.

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Hindwinqs : with an irrefjular red discal blotch frnra near base to ii(':ir niiildle
of hindmarjfin, touching costa beyond midillc ; fringes of Ijoth wings black.
Underside dnUcr. Head, thorax, and abdomen black.
E.\]ianse of wings : 4() mm.
One S on the road between Stanley Pool and Lnkolele, 1S'.)4 (Harrison).

134. Turckheimeria argentiplaga sp. nov.

Forewinqs : velvety black, with an oval obliiine whiti' blotch towards ajiex
extending from vein 7 to vein 3, crossed by veins 4 and (1 as black lines, vein T)
remaining white : fringe black.

Hiiulwiiiqa : ]inrple-black, the pnride tinge in certain liglits very brilliant, much
more so than in the forewiugs.

Underside of forewings more brownish, towards base and inner margin smoky
white ; hindwings occnpied by a large oval bluish white patch, the inner and hind-
margins and apex broadly Idack, the costa narrowly black ; extreme base orange,
edged by a black line. Paljji, npper half of face, vertex, antennae, thorax, and
abdomen black ; lower half of face white ; collar scarlet ; pectus orange.

Expanse of wings : 48 mm.

Two Si taken on the road from Stanley Pool to Lukolele, 1804 (Harrison).

135. Turckheimeria rubriplaga sji. nov.

Forewings : velvety black, with an irregularly shaped white blotcli beyond cell,
extending from subcostal vein to near liindmargin, constricted in the middle opposite
the cell, and prolonged hindward.

Hindwings : black ; fringes of botb wings black.

Underside of forewings as above, but paler and tinged with reddish along the
veins towards base ; hindwings deep red, with a narrow crennlated black border
from costa before apex, thinning off along liindmargin to a point at anal angle.
Pectus, underside of abdomen, and collar red ; lower half of face white ; all else
black.

Expanse of wings : 4.j mm.

One S from Sierra Leoue.

13(i. Xanthomima cyanoxautha pallida snbsp. nov.

Meyrick's type of cijanoxantha, a ?,was from Port Moresby, New Guinea.
A pair from Stephansort, German New Guinea, dill'er from the type in that the
slate-coloured central area of the dark marginal fascia has become much paler. In
the ? the difference is less conspicuous, as only the area opposite the cell of fore-
wings is whitish, with dark striae. On the other hand, in the S there is a whitish
fascia from anal angle upwards, widening out beyond the cell into a whitish blotch,
with an acute jirojection inwards along vein fi, while in the hindwings the centre of
the black fascia is occupied by a scries of yellow lunular blotches, which towards
the apex are coalesccnt. The fringe of both wings is wholly black, without any
trace of white dots at the ends of the veins, as described by Mr. Mevrick.

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SuBFAJiay BISTONINAE.
137. Buzura analiplaga sp. nov.

Foreivinys : dull white, covered with coarse fjrey and fnscons speckles : the
lines all indistinct : four dark spots on costa, at one-fourth, one-half, three-fourtlis,
and before apex ; from the first a curved brown shade arises, representing the basal
lino ; before hiiidmargin, on vein 5, are two small brown blotches, sejjarated by the
pale submarginal line, which rises from the apical spot ; above the anal angle is a
large patch of brown scales, containing a double strongly" anguhited brown line,
ending in anal angle ; dark marginal spots between the veins ; fringe whitish ; cell-
spot obscure, greyish.

IlindtriMjs : with no first line : all the marginal marldngs as in forewings, but
the blotch above anal angle narrower.

Underside dull white, with the dark markings shovring through. Lower half
of face and palpi fuscons ; upper part of face, vertex, thorax, and abdomen whitish ;
basal segment of abdomen with a broad fuscons ring.

Expanse of wings : 4.5 mm.

One cJ from Warri, Niger Coast Protectorate, April 1896 (Dr. Koth).

138. Buzura annulata sp. nov.

Forewings: pale ochreons, dusted in ])laces with fnscons scales; the lines
fuscons, accompanied by a yellower shade ; first at one-fourth, nearly straight to the
submediau, then sharply oblique basewards, preceded by a yellow spot between the
median and snbmedian veins ; central shade yellow only, except at costa, where there
is a fuscons spot, and on inner margin, where it shows a fnscons lunnle ; cell-spot not
marked; outer line at three-fourths, obliquely curved outwards, bidcntate beyond
cell, then dentate inwards on veins and forming curves outwards between them to
inner margin at fonr-fifths; snbmarginal line pale, waved, preceded by Innulate
fnscons spots, and opjmsite the cell by a similar bidentatc mark to that of the onter
line, where the marginal dusting is also stronger; an obscure row of dark marginal
spots, those immediat ely below apex only distinct ; fringe ochreons, chequered with
brown.

Ilindici/if/s : less dusted with dark scales ; the central shade fuscous, bent in
along the median vein: outer line bent outwards, scarcely bidentate, beyond cell, thick
and nearly straight to inner margin; the rest as in forewings.

Underside j)ale ochreons, undusted ; cell-spots fuscous, those in forewings large :
the onter lines indicated. Face brown above, yellowish below; pectus and forelegs
brown; vertex, thorax, and abdomen ochreons; abdomen with a brown band at base
and brown segmental rings.

Expanse of wings : 58 mm.

One c? from Bali, March and April IsiK) (W. Dohcrty).

Distinguished from B. jtu.stulatn Warr. by the absence of tiic sinus in the outer
line below the cell.

139. Buzura atomaria sp. nov.

Forewiiu/H : yellowish ochreons, with an oblique central and marginal yellower
fascia; the whole surface dusted with black atoms, most dons(dy in the basal half
of wing, the sjiace between the two fasciae alone remaining comparatively free
from dark scales and bonnded externally by the sinuous edge of the outer fascia ;

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snbmarginal line visOile only beyond t-ell, where it is iireceJed by two blackish
luntiles aud followed by blackish scales.

Ilindwim/a : similar, but the dense dusting coutineil to a diffuse central fascia;
fringe of both wings pale ochreons.

Underside rather paler, less densely dusted. Palpi blackish; face yellow, or
dark fuscous with lower third yellow; vertex ami shdulders yellow; thorax and
abdomen ochreous, with darker scales ; legs dark grey.

Expanse of wings : &) — 68 mm.

Two S (? from Tawaya, north of Palos Bay, Celebes, August and Sejitember 1890
(W. Doherty).

These may be the cJ c? of Buzura jmra Warr. from S. Celebes, of which only
? ? are kuown.

140. PhaseliaC?) dentilinea sp. nov. (PI. V. fig. 5, ?).

Forewinys : dull whitish, overlaid with jjale olive-grey and sparse black scales;
the lines black ; first from costa at one-sixth, running out along subcostal vein to
beyond middle of cell, there strongly angled, and oblique and wavy to inner margin
at one-sixth; second from costa before middle, rnnning oblirj^uely outwards to beyond
cell-spot, there bluntly angled, obliipie inwards to origin of first median nervule,
acutely angled basewards, curved outward and oblique to inner margin before middle;
outer line at two-thirds, at first shortly incurved, then running outwards, but less
obliquely, bluntly angled on vein 5, and oblique to inner margin in middle, just
beyond median line, bluntly angled outwards above the submedian vein ; snbmarginal
line strongly zigzag, somewhat interrupted; an olive-grey marginal fascia ; traversed
between the veins by horizontal black streaks, each running to the apex of a black
marginal lunule ; fringe whitish, chequered with dark at the ends of the veins ;
cell-spot small, black.

Ilindwings : with a central biarcuate line from inner margin to cell ; a curved
postmedian line ; cell-spot large, black ; hiudmargin as in forewiugs, but the
subraarginal line still more indistinct ; the marginal line strongly crennlate, the
horizontal black streaks obscure.

Underside dingy grey ; both cell-spots largo and black ; black spots on costa at
origin of lines in both wings ; the outer line marked across the wing. Face and
palpi white below, black above; vertex white ; collar black ; basal third of antennae
white, the rest black. Thorax white, the tips of the shoulders black ; abdomen
whitish, tinged with grey, each segment behind with a black white-edged ring, the
black developed into a double row of small spots along the dorsal area.

Expanse of wings : 35 mm.

One ? from S. Africa.

The margin of hindwings is strongly indented beyond the submedian fold, so
that the anal angle ai>pears lobed. In the forewiugs veins l<i and 11 are coincident;
in the hindwings the costal is ajiproximated to the subcostal for fully three-fourths
of cell.

Subfamily ASCOTINAE.

111. Alois coutortiliuea sp. nov. (PI. V. fig. 10, i).

Foi-ewings : pale j)inkish grey, dusted with black ; the lines velvety black ; first
line from costa at one-third, outwardly curved to the median vein, thence oblique to

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inner margin close to base; second line from coshi at two-thirds, olili(inc ontward to
vein 5, where it is strongly angled, thou curved inward to middle of inner margin
and forming a blunt tooth outward on vein 2 ; this line forms a small outward tooth
on eacli vein ; sulimarginal line pale, strongly dentate, edged internally with black
at costa, in middle, and above anal angle, also edged outwardly with black in middle
and altove anal angle ; discal mark oval, black-edged; a tine black median line starts
from a black costal spot touching the discal mark, forms two teeth outwards lieyoud
the mark, then runs basewards and touches the first line on median vein, forms a
horizontal looj) and three teeth below it, reaching inner margin close to outer line;
a row of large black marginal s])ots between the veins; from the base of the discal
mark a black line runs outward to the inner edge of the snbmarginal line at the
middle ; fringe pale grey.

//iiit/irini/fi : with black basal line, and straight black line shortly beyond, not
reaching costa ; a blaclv-edged large discal annulns ; curved and dentate black
central line ; submargiual line pale, edged inwardly with black, the black from inner
margin to the angle on the radial being thick and straight.

Underside pale yellowish ochreous, with the cell-spots and lines black. Head,
thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings.

Expanse of wings : 46 mm.

One d from Upoto, R. Congo (Oram).

142. Alcis faustinata sp. nov.

Forciciiuis ■■ greyish white, dusted witli dark grey and ochreous ; the lines dark
grey, starting from dark costal spots; first at one-fourth of costa, curved, to inner
margin near base ; second in the middle, bent outwards beyond cell round the
blackish cell-spot, then oblique to middle of inner margin ; third at two-tliirds,
sinuous, and marked chiefly by dark dashes on veins, and followed by a fuscous
shade ; submarginal ])ale, indistinct, with irregular dark clouds on either side ;
marginal spots dark grey; fringe pale grey, mottled with dark liasal patches.

Hindwings : the same, without first line ; the cell-spot heyond the median
line.

Underside greyish ochreons, dusted and suirnsed with fuscous ; cell-sj)ots and
middle and outer lines blackish. Face and palpi black and wlritish : thorax and
abdomen concolorous with wings.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

One i from West China.

143. Calichodes foveata sp. nov.

Forewinqs : white, sj)eckled with olive-grey; the lines dark olive-grey: first
obscure, at one-fourth ; second in middle, difi'use and darker, strongly curved round
the cell-spot ; third at three-fourths, twice sinuatcd ; submarginal waved, formed of
olive-grey lunnles ; connected with outer line below middle, and with hiudmargin
above the middle by a dark shade ; a row of dark marginal dashes ; fringe whitish,
(•hei|ner('d with grey.

Ili)i<hruujs : with tlic lines darker and thicker.

Underside dull grey. Heax;l, thorax, and abdonun whitish; face with two black
dots, forming a bar, in the middle.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

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One c?, one ? , from Penaug, 189(5 (Curtis).

The fovea of forewiugs in the cj is cousjucuous ; in forewings veins 7, 8, 0, h)
are stalkeil, 11 being coincident with 10. The insect is superficially very much like
Craspedia Jibulata Gnen.

144. Chogada lacteata sp. nov.

Forewings: white, dusted with fuscous; the three lines bhiekish, curved, wavy
iinil dentieulate, tiie outer approaching the median on inner margin ; the first jireceded
and the tliird followed by an ochreous fascia ; cell-spot of raised white scales within
a sinus of the median line ; snbmarginal line also denticulate, but tliicker than the
other lines, followed also by an ochreous shade ; a row of naarginal black spots ;
fringe whitish.

Ilindwiiu/s : similar, without first line.

Underside white, with large cell-spots, thick pustmedian and broad marginal
shade blackish.

Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish, dusted with fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 36 mm.

One ? from Kinnigunaug, New Britain (Ribbe).

145. Chogada mannorata sp. nov.

Forcwinqs : whitish, tinged in parts with rufous and dusted with fuscous; first
line broad, double, strongly waved and dentate, vertical, at one-third ; median line
single, distinct, vertical, and faintly waved, edged with ferruginous scales; outer line at
two-thirds, strongly dentate and double, incurved from vein 4 and closely approximated
to median line on inner margin ; marginal area beyond it blackish as far as vein 4,
then whitish ochreous, containing a serj)cntine streak and some dark clouds towards
anal angle ; the submarginal line pale and waved, only distinct in the dark apical
shade ; a row of black marginal spots ; fringe grey or ochreous.

Ilindivinqs : the same, without first line ; the ajiical patch ])aler ; both wings
with cell-spot formed of glossy ochreous scales, semi-erect, and concealing some black
scales beneath their apex.

Underside mealy grey, with the dark markings indistinctly showing through.
Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish; shoulders with a brown line across them in
front.

Expanse of wings : 48 mm.

One S from Mauritius.

In this species the palpi are longer than usual ; the hiudtibiae greatly swollen ;
the middle segments of the abdomen with conspicuous lateral tufts.

146. Darisa (?) dissimilis sp. nov. (PI. V. fig. 17, ?; 19, S).

c?. Forczviiuja : brown nr rcd-bnjwn, sjieckled with lilackish; the lines blackish,
often much obscured by darker shading ; first line at one-fourth, double, bent below
costa, sometimes marked by black costal spots, and with dark dots on veins,
embracing a black Idotch on inner margin ; middle lino single, otherwise similar to
first line, curved round the black cell-spot : outer line at two-thirils, double, marked
by double black jjoints on veins, and with a blackish blotch beyond the origin of

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veins 3 and 4 ; suliniarf;iiial pale, wavv, Inniilato, preceded on costa by a blackish
blotcb, preceded and followed by similar blotches opjjosite the cell ; a row of black
marginal spots between the veins ; fringe concolorons ; the black blotches on the
various lines sometimes expanded so as to form a dift'use obliijue black sliade from
base of first line to hiudmargiu above middle; at the origin of veins 3 and 4 is a
wedge-shaped pale spot, white, ochreons, or pale brown.

llindwimis : with double waved antemedian and j)ostmcdiau blackish lines, with
a distinct round black cell-si)ot in the paler fascia between them ; snbmarginal line
]iale, with a dark sliade betbre and beyond it, and preceded opposite the cell by a
dark blotch.

Underside ochreous, mottled with fuscous ; the cell-spots distinct ; a broad
fuscous or brownish marginal fascia, more complete on the forewings. Head, thora.x,
and abdomen brown ; underside of abdomen and legs luucli paler.

?. Pale ochreous wood-colour, dusted witli grey; tiw lines marked only by
dark dots on veins; the markings varying much in. intensity; the dark oblique shade
from base of first line always more or less indicated ; the pale spot on the median
often hardly marked.

Expanse of wings : t?, 32 — 39 mm.; ? , 32— 40 mm.

Three ? ? , five S S, from Mauritius.

A variable species, but always distinguishable by the oblique dark shade and
pale central spot.

147. Ectropis macariata sji. nov.

Forewimiii : silky grey, with a slight lilac tinge; the costa dark grey; the veins
in places with black scales ; first line at one-third, vortical, twice curved, dotted on
the veins; median line fine, sinuous, just curved round the dark linear cell-streak;
outer line at two-thirds, very sinuous, its upper half darker and thicker, marked
with darker dots on veins, shortly sinuous outwards from vein 3 to 4, widely
inwards from vein 3 to 1 ; npper half of marginal area more or less brown-grey ;
subniarginal line pale grey, irregularly waved, preceded by a darker shade, marked
with dots on veins ; a marginal row of blackish triangular spots ; fringe pale grey.

llindtvings : similar, without first line; median line obsolete before costa; basal
area to outer line paler than marginal area.

Underside dull grey, with dark smoky marginal fascia. Face, palpi, and thorax
brownish grey ; abdomen paler grey.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

Two 6 i from Cedar Bay, south of C'ooktown, Queensland (A. S. Meek).

The fovea is greatly developed.

148. Ectropis sabulosa Warr., Nov. Zool. IV. p. 04.

The type, a S, was from Amlwina. A ? lately received from Doherty, taken
in August or September 181»() at Tawaya, north of I'alos Bay, Celebes, expands
52 mm. The lines in it are marked by small dark sjjots on costa, and by very pale
olive-ochreons shades, only the exterior and suljmarginal lines being marked with
darker, the snbmarginal forming a grey blotch before apex. On the underside the
wings are thickly dusted with greyish fuscous speckles, and the snbmarginal line is
marked by a dark grey shade, formuig a blotch on costa.

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149. Ectropis (?) tenuis sp. nov.

Forcwings : pale greyish, dnsted witli darker atoms : a short dark line close to
base; first Hue at one-fonrth, carved, marked by dark dashes ou veins, most distinct
at costa ; second line oblique, from costa at three-fourths to two-thirds of inner
margin, with long and somewhat irregular dashes on veins ; a dark cell-spot ; sub-
marginal line formed of angulated dashes, darkest beyond cell ; a row of dark
marginal spots ; fringe concolorous.

Ilinrhcim/s : thickly dusted with darker, hut without markings.

Underside dull grey, the markings showing through. Head, thorax, and
abdomen concolorous.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One ? from Oolassi, N.W. India, August 1893.

In the British Museum is another example, also a ? , from Dalhonsie.

The wings are elongate and semitransparent.

150. Ophthalmodes ruficornis sp. nov.

Fore/cim/x : dull greyish green ; costa striated with darker green and fuscous ;
the lines dark fuscous, tinged with rufous, and marked generally by dark linear
dashes on the veins; the exterior line double, incurved below middle, and approaching
median line on inner margin; submarginal pale, dentate, preceded by an interrupted
series of black wedge-shaped marks, and followed by an obscure row of rounder
marks ; marginal spots large, distinct ; fringe green : cell-spot green, edged witli
fuscous.

Hind wings : similar; the central space dusted with rufous and fuscous scales.

Underside blurred olive-grey ; the cell-spots smoky brown ; an angulated outer
line, and apex of fore wings paler; costa ochreous, with black strigae. Head, thorax,
and abdomen grey-green ; basal segments of the latter with pairs of dark dorsal
spots. Antennae with pectinations red.

Expanse of wings : 58 mm.

One 6 from Tawaya, north of Palos Bay, Celebes, August and September 189G
(Doherty).

151. Pseudalcis cinerascens Warr., Nov. Zool. IV. p. 97.

In the series of this insect from I'ulo Laut, south of Borneo, there was no ? .
Along with two S c? taken by Doherty at Tawaya, north of Palos Bay, Celebes, comes
a single ? which, though decidedly ditierent in appearance, evidently belongs here.
The ground-colour is whitish — not fuscous grey — irrorated with 2)ale olive-grey, and
with all the lines and edges of the discal sjiots olive-grey. The underside as in the
S , but paler.

Expanse of wings : 45 mm. only, the smaller of the two 66 being 52 mm., the
larger 02 mm., the same as the Pulo Laut examples.

152. Pseudalcis (?) pectinata Warr., Nov. Zool. IV. p. 07.

The (? of this species agrees with the ? , except on the underside, which,
instead of lieing smoky brown, is whitish throughout, with a dai'k grey subniarginiil
shade, most distinct below costa of forewiug. The ? originally described was from
Warri, U. Niger ; the cT is from Nandi, Uganda Protectorate, dated December 1690
(Dr. Ansorge).

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Subfamily SCOTOPTERYGINAE.
153. Catascia(?) pulverulenta sp. uov.

Foreivings : whitish, entirely covered with fuscous atoms ; the Hues darker ;
first at one-fourth, waved ; median shade just beyond the sliijlitly darker cell-spot :
outer line oblique, parallel to hindmargin, closely followed by a fuscous band ; sub-
marginal marked by white sagittate marks, preceded and followed by dark fuscons ;
fringe fuscous, preceded by dark marginal lunnles.

Uindwings: with basal two-thirds somewhat paler; without first line; the
snbmarginal fascia beyond outer line broader and stronger.

Underside with liasal two-thirds of both wings whitish, dusted with fuscous ;
outer third obscurely fuscous. Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 45 mm.

One ? from Taganak Island, N.E. Borneo, June 1893.

Subfamily SELIDOSEMINAE.
Parametrodes gen. nov.

Foretci/H/s : with costa straight, curved only at base and before ajiex : apex
liiunt ; hindmargin rounded.

Uindwings: amjjle, dispro])ortionately large comjiared witii forewings ; lioth
angles and hindmargin well rounded, the latter slightly elbowed in middle.

Antennae of <? pectinated throughout, with the basal joint swollen : lorchcad
with a cone of scales ; palpi porrect, somewhat rostriform ; tongue and frenulum
i)resent ; hindtibiae with four spurs.

JSeuration: forewings, cell half as long as wing; first median at four-fifths
second before end, third from end of cell : radials normal : 7, 8, 9, stalked from end'
of cell ; 10 and II coincident, anastomosing with the costal, 10 subsequently ana-
stomosing with 8, 9. Uindwings with costal approximated to subcostal for half the
length of cell ; first subcostal shortly before end of cell ; medians as in forewings ;
no radials.

Type : Parametrodes dispar sp. nov.

Allied to Petelia H.S.

154. Parametrodes dispar sj). nov.

Foreivings: dull coppery red-brown, witli numerous dark fuscous transverse
striae; the costal area grey, with dense fuscous striae; first line at one-third,
marked by pale yellow spots between the veins : second line at two-thirds, marked
by a large pale yellow roundish subcostal blotch, sending a spur outwards along the
lower radial, and by a small yellow blotch on snbmedian fold ; a sinuous oblique
yellowish mark from ajiex ; cell-spot black, distinct : fringe concolorons.

Uindwings : with black cell-spot, and an indistinct curved postmedian line of
small yellowish spots, visible only from inner margin to middle.

Underside paler and duller. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons with
wings ; antennae with shaft and basal joint jjale golden.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

One <J from Cedar Bay, south of Cooktowu, Queensland (A. S. Meek;.

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Subfamily SEMIOTHISINAE.
155. Azata flexilinea sp. nov.

Foreiriiigs : grey-brown, (lasted and suffnsed with darker ; the lines dark
brown; first from oue-fonrth of costa to one-fourth i>f inner margin, rectangularly
bent in cell; outer line at tliree-fonrths, strongly angled on vein 0, then obli(|nely
curved to inner margin at three-fourths ; cell-spot blackish, followed by a median
line shaped like the first line, but much fainter; a dark brown marginal line, swollen
between the veins; fringe concolorous, with a whitish line along base.

llimhcings : without first line.

Underside whitish, tinged with yellowish, strigulated and spotted with brown ;
cell-spots and two outer lines slightly marked : a snbmarginal row of dark and light
blotches. Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown.

Exi)anse of wings : 26 mm.

One ? from West China.

150. Azata luteiceps sp. uov.

Forewings : luteous, much speckled with lilack, towards bindmavgin tinged
with flesh-colour ; costa speckled with black ; a short brown-black subcostal shade
from base ; the lines ferruginous, starting from blackish costal spots; first close to
base, angled below costa, then oblique ; second median, slightly obliijue : third at
three-fourths, faintly curved and bent slightly inwards at suJimedian fold, followed
by a shade which is fulvous near costa, and contains a black spot between veins
3 and 4 and another on inner margin : marginal line blackish, interrupted ; fringe
with a luteous basal line, dark grey in upper half, luteous chequered with dark
below the middle.

Hindwiiigs : with only the two outer lines, and the black spot between veins
3 and 4 distinct.

Underside yellowish straw-colour, speckled slightly with brown-black : the
lines the same colour ; cell-si)ots distinct ; outer line followed by a lirown-black
shade, which narrows oft' towards costa of forewings and inner margin of hind wings;
fringe yellowish, chequered with brown. Abdomen beneath, legs, palpi, face, vertex,
and collar yellowish straw-colour, the face and vertex rather deeper ; abdomen above
like wings ; thorax brown-black.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One i from Tawaya, north of Palos Bay, Celebes, August aud Sejjtember 1896
(Doherty).

The hindmargin of forewings is not excised, of the hindwings subcrenulate
and scarcely dentate in the middle. It may be distiuguishi'd from A. mutahilis from
Penuugah, as indeed from all the other species, by the pale head and face.

157. Gonodela abbreviata sp. nov.

Forewings : whitish, speckled with ochreous and fuscous, the veins ochreons ;
the costa ochreons, with short dark striae ; the lines ochreous ; first near base,
angled on the subcostal vein, nmning in along the median, aud obliepiely curved to
inner margin near base ; second median, angled below costa, then oblique and bent
in on vein 2 ; outer line at two-thirds, angled on vein 6 ami bent outwards below
vein 2, marked with blackish between the veins, followed on costa by a sinuous

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lirowii-black lilotch, sLar])ly dofiiied by vein 6 ; marginal area greyish ochreons,
sejiarated from outer line by a pale line, iuterrnpted by the ochreons veins ; a small
dark costal spot before apex ; marginal line dark, waved ; fringe grey, with a white
base ; cell-spot dark, distinct.

Ilindwings : with a black dash at base ; an ochreons antemedian lino, forming
a sinns between median and subcostal veins, containing a large round blackish cell-
spot ; outer line straight, slender, and double ; the rest as in forewings.

Underside white, thickly peppered with brown ; the lines brown ; a broad sub-
marginal brown fascia, extending to hindmargin abt)ve the middle, followed by a
white blotch below the middle of both wings and at ajiex of forewings, these white
blotches forming faintly paler spaces in the dark marginal area of the upperside.
Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreons, mixed with grey.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

One ? from Bali, March and Ajjril 1896 ("\V. Uoherty).

Like G. niptifasciata Warr. from the Khasias, but smaller ; the outer dark
fascia reduced to a single blotch on costa of forewings.

loS. Gronodela perconfusa Warr., Nov. Zool. 111. p. 409.

The type originally described was a $ from Dili, Timor; the ? , of which 1 have
now seen an example from Pringabaja, Lombok, cajrtured April 189(), by Frulistorfer,
ditfers mainly in the fuscous speckling being more mixed with ochreons scales: the
inner dark line is nearer the base; an ochreons cnrved median line touches the black
cell-spot, and the postmedian fascia is edged internally by an interrupted black
line ; the face and palpi are ochreons fnscous, rather than ferruginons. The slight
differences here noted may be really sexual, or, as is ei^ually i)robable, may represent
slightly variant local forms.

Hyostomodes gen. nov.

Forewim/s : with costa straight lor two-thirds, then decidedly convex ; apex
somewhat produced, bluntly rounded ; hindmargin oblique, very faintly indented
opposite the cell: fovea absent.

Hindirings: with hindmargin rounded, slightly toothed at middle and suli-
crennlate aliove.

Antennae of S pubescent, of ? simple; palpi porrect, laxly scaled; tongue and
frenulum ])resent ; forehead with a bilobeJ chitinous projection, enclosing a longer
prominence, distinct in S, but obscure in ?.

Type : Hyostomodes nubilata sp. nov.

A development of Tephrina Dup., with which it agrees in nenration.

159. Hyostomodes nubilata sp. nov. (PI. V. tig. 11, S).

i. Forewings: whitish, thickly dusted and striated witli dark grey; costa
darker; lines starting from dark costal spots; first and median obscure, at one-fourth
and one-half; outer line at three-fourths, starting olili(iuely from a dark costal triangle,
angled acutely on vein 6, then irregularly cnrved to inner margin at two-thirds ;
edged on costa with i)alo, and followed by another dark blotch ; marginal area
snCfused with smoky grey, darker beyond cell and at anal angle, and in places along
the outer line ; an obscure jiale olilii|ne blotch from apex; marginal line dill'usely
dark grey; fringe grey, with a pale basal line.

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Hindwings : with diffuse straight antemediau and curved postmcdian aud
snlimargiual shades, towards the margin tinged with rntbus ; cell-spot black.

Underside with the markings less distinct. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey;
the frontal prominence brown, without scales.

? smaller and paler, more rufous-tinged, witli the lines of forewings plainer.

Expanse of wings : <?, 26 mm. ; ? , 24 mm.

One c?, one ?, from Innani, British East Africa, December 1896 (Dr. Ansorge).

160. Nadagarodes turpis sp. nov.

?. Forewings : ochreous drab, thickl\' dusted with brown atoms; the lines
obscure and accomjjanied by pale bmwn sliades; costa marked with shallow blackish
spots, at one-fourth, one-half, threc-fonrths, and again before apex, indicating origin
of the lines ; these are all oblique outwards from costa, angled opposite cell, and then
oblique inwards; first line hardly traceable; second denoted by a bmwn shade only;
third marked liy black points on veins and followed liy a broad i)ale brown shade;
submarginal line formed by brownish lunules, and not angled below costa ; a row of
small dark marginal dots; fringe dull yellowish.

Hindwings : with first line basal; the rest as in forewings.

Underside clear fulvous, striated concisely with black: a blackish bent cell-mark
in forewings and small dot in hindwings ; exterior and submarginal lines marked by
rows of distinct black spots on veins, the former followed by a black shade; marginal
line continuous. Face and palpi ferrnginous; vertex, thorax, and abdomen drab.

Expanse of wings : ? , 40 mm. ; <?, 30 mm.

One 6, three ? ? , from Bali, March and April 1896 (W. Doherty).

The only J is paler and less distinctly marked than the ? ? ; the shade
beyond the outer line developed into a conspicuous dark brown-black blotch on and
above vein 2 in both wings.

101. Petrodava olivata sp. nov.

<?. Forewings: olive-green, with minute transverse dark striae; the lines dull
brown; first at one-fonrth, angled on the subcostal, and oblique to inner margin at
one-fourth ; second in middle, nearly vertical, starting from a dark costal blotch,
and passing over the cell-spot ; outer line slightly wavy, from costa at three-
fourths to inner margin before anal angle ; marginal area much suffused with
olive-brown ; fringe brown.

Hindwings : the same, without first line ; the marginal brown suffusion
restricted to an apical patcli and a dentate-edged band along outer line; the toj)
tooth, in the ajncal patch, is black.

Underside yellow, with red-brown strigac aud markings ; marginal area filled
up with chestnut-brown, leaving pale patches in middle of hiiulmargiu of both wings
and at apex of forewings. Pectus and palpi beneath yellow ; palpi above and
face i)ale lilac-grey; vertex, thorax, and abdomen olive; femora yellowish; tibiae
aud tarsi reddish grey.

? wholly yellow, above and below, with the lines and shades ferruginous red ;
marginal area yellow.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

One cJ, one ?, from Dar-es-Salaam, German East Africa.

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Subfamily ENNOMINAE.
Anisographe gen. no v.

Forewings : with costa uearl}- straight ; apex prodacecl, acate, falcate ; hind-
margin hlnntly angled at vein 4, incised below apex, ven' ol)lii|ne below middle.

Uiitihriiig.i : kite-shaped, the hiiidmargin subcrennlate and toothed at vein 4.

Antennae of 6 with short thick ciliated pectinations for five-sixths. Palpi
stont, ii])cnrved, the terminal joint short; tongue and frennliim present; hindtibiae
liardly thickened, with four spnrs.

J!^curation : forewings, cell half as long as wing ; first median at five-sixtlis,
.second close before end of ceil ; radials normal; 7, S, '.), stalked from jnst before end
of cell ; ]i» and 11 coincident, anastomosing with the costal, 10 again anastomosing
at a point with 8 and 9; the areole very long and narrow, llindwings witii costal
approximated to subcostal for half cell.

Type : Anisographe dissirnilis sp. nov.

1*52. Anisographe dissirnilis sp. nov. (PI. V. fig. 1, ^; 2, j).

? . Forewings : yellowish ochreons, with scattered transverse fuscous atoms
and striae ; the lines greyish fuscous; the first at one-third, vertical, shortly angled
on the subcostal ; no other lines distinct ; at middle of costa a curved grey line, and
shortly beyond it an outwardly oblique grey lino ; outer half of wing occupied by a
broad greyish fuscous fascia, with ditfnsely sinuons edges, leaving the hindmargin of
the pale ground-colour, and containing a sinuons snbmarginal line marked only by
black vein-dots, the marginal space before apex and below middle angle paler than
the space between; two black submarginal dots lietween veins 2 and 4; fringe
concolorous ; a black cell-sjiot and irregular fuscous blotch below it to the inner
margin.

llindwings : with sinuous antemedian and postmedian fuscous grey lines ; a
black cell-spot just beyond the former ; marginal third fuscous giey, except a patch
below the middle.

Underside the same, but the ground-colour j)ale straw-colonr. Head, thorax,
and abdomen concolorous with wings ; the palpi darker.

6 dull reddish brown, dusted with blackish scales; the transverse lines as in
the ?, but obscnre ; a broad obliijue olive-brown line from apex to inner margin at
one-third, edged externally with a jiale lilac line ; no trace of the broad greyish
fuscons fascia of the ? . Hiudwings with a straight black basal line, being the con-
tinuation of the oblique line of forewings; the other lines as in ? ; a submarginal
denticulated line ; fringe of botli wings red-brown. Underside ]iale pinkish
ochreons, coarsely speckled with black, and the lines irregularly marked willi
blackish; apex of forewings pale; head, thorax, and abdomen pale pinkish ociireons;
antennae in both sexes concolorous with ground-colour and speckled with black.

Expanse of wings : 45 mm.

One S, one ?, from Mackay, Queensland ; one 6 from Cedar Hay, south of
Cook town.

In this last example the gronnd-colonr is nearly that of the ? , but snll'nsed
with i)ale tawny ; the obliijue line is double, and preceded below the median by pale
blotclies; the submarginal s])ots are continued to the apex, and the base of abdnnicn
is marked with a brown-black line.

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l(i3. Anthyperythra (?) illiturata sp. nov.

Forewings : i^ale yellowisli, slightly ting<'(l with grey and with a few dark
transverse mottlings ; tlie costa dotted with lirown ; lines scarcely marked ; the
onter line double, at f'onr-tif'ths, bnt only marked by short brown streaks on costa
and at inner margin ; fringe yellowish ; cell-spot hardly visible.

Ilimhfings : with faint cell-spot, and traces of a curved central line from inner
margin.

Underside yellow, freckled with pale ferruginous. Head, thorax, and abdomen
all pale yellowish.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

One c? from Sonth-East Africa (Dykes).

In the forewings veins 7, 8, 0, 10 are stalked as in A. patalata Feld.; in the
type-species kermearia Swinh. vein in, as well as 11, is free.

164. Auzeodes nigroseriata Warr., Pr. Z. S. 1893, p. 4ii5.

The type from which this species was described is a cj iu Mr. Elwes' collection,
and came from East Pegn. I am now able to describe the other sex. In the ?
the dark scales of the forewings tend to form four vertical lines or shades, an
inner, faint, and a median, onter, and submarginal, more distinct ; on all these lines,
where they cross the veins, a few whitish scales occur, generally inconspicuous, but
on the median line, below costa and above inner margin, distinct ; the four black
spots on tlie outer line that are so prominent in the c? are here wanting, or at least
very minute and overspread by the whitish ones; the submarginal line is marked,
however, by three black spots edged with whitish scales below the costa ; these in
the (S are confluent and form a black blotch. The hindwings are much darker, but
the three outer lines are present, with the white scales at all the veins.

This ? , which expands 4.5 mm., is from Rakit Putus, Selangore, taken in May
1890, at 3000 feet (Curtis).

The cell in both wings is short, hardly more than one-third of the wing.

165. Auzeodes rufa sp. nov.

Foreivings : deep flesh-colour ; the lines slightly darker, curved and faintly
waved, at one-third and two-thirds ; cell-spot also darker ; fringe concolorous.

lli»divin(/s : similar.

Underside paler ; head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

Four ? ? from Penang, 1896 (Curtis).

Agrees with Auzeodes in neuration, but in shape of wing and character of
markings and scaling most like Moore's liapbi drletaria.

166. Eurytaphria minorata sp. nov.

Forewings : grey-green ; costa striated with purplish ; tlie lines jjurplisii ; first
at one-third, curved, and distinct towards inner margin; outer line at five-sixths,
snbdentatc, the teeth marked darker on the veins, preceded in its lower half by a
purplish shade ; cell-spot purplish ; fringe pale yellowish green, without a trace of
basal line.

Hindwings : similar, with some purplish duls near base.

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ITiulerside greyer and duller, with the onter line dark. Face and i>al]M
ferrnginons ; thorax grey-green ; abdomen ochreous grey.

Expanse of wings : ? , 24 mm. ; (?, 20 mm.

One c? ,one ?, from Bali, March and .-Xpril 1896 (W. Dohorty).

Very mnch like Pxilotaphria viridulata "W'arr. from the Khasias, bnt smaller
and withont the additional outer shade.

The S antennae are fnlly pectinated, those of the ? minutely subsorrate.

107. Fascellina deflayata ^p. nov.

Foreicings : dull fulvous above the median vein, dull olive-brown below it, the
two shades clearly divided by the median ; a brown subcostal streak from Itase,
the extreme costal edge being pale with dark dots ; towards the apex the fulvous
fades into dull olive, and that ajrain into lilac-grey along ujiper half of hindmargin;
first line at one-third, curved, and marked by a fine oblicinc white costal streak, a
brown-black spot in cell with pale scales on it, and another larger below the median
nearer the base ; outer line from inner margin at two-thirds, oblique to snbmedian
fold, then crenulate and waved, becoming obsolete at vein 6, deep brown, edged
with a pearly silvery line : the margin beyond it having a mixture of yellow, fulvous,
and grey scales, succeeded by a dark patch along the excision containing three
lustrous lunules, preceded and followed by black scales, with two smaller and paler
ones above them ; fringe pearl-grey along upper half, chocolate-brown below ;
before the greyish olive apical jiatch an obscnre fulvous streak can be seen, decreas-
ing in width, till the point nearly touches the base of the outer line : its inner edge
is marked by a pale yellowish vertical streak from costa.

Hindicings : with basal half deep fulvous, outer half reddish brown ; the two
shades separated by a straight pearly median line, dark-edged on both sides ; the
inner half of the outer area is tinged with Instrous and edged by a strongly zigzag
lustrous line ; fringe deep red-brown ; fringe of inner margin white.

Underside pale ochreous, with fulvous striae ; costa of forewings cream-colour,
without striae, as far as the yellow line ; beyond this there is a deep chocolate-brown
blotch, edged by a fine white line which starts from costa before apex, curves round
close to hindmargiu, running inward along vein (i, and reaches inner margin along
with the inner edge of the patch ; the sinus at vein 6 is edged with yellow, contains
two or three black spots, and is followed by a triangular white blotch on the hind-
margin ; hindwings with marginal area bright fulvous, with two deeper curved lines,
of which the inner is abbreviat<'d. Head, thorax, and abilonien fnlvons, the vertex
and shoulders greyer.

Expanse of wings : 4.5 mm.

Two c?(? from IJnkit Putus, Selangore, 3000 feet, May 1806 (Curtis).

The hindmargin of forewings only slightly excised above anal angle.

ICS. Heteromiza uuilinea \Varr., Nov. Zool. 1\'. p. 118.

The ? from which the original description was made came from South Celebes.
The (?, of which I have now seen two examples, from Lepanto, North Luzon,
differs from the type ? in having, in the forewings, an obliijue and somewhat waved
dark inner line at one-third, the cell-spot small bnt distinct, and an obscnre snb-
marginal line, eni])liasised below si\h)x and above anal angle liy an aggregation of
black scales on each side ; fovea small, but distinct.

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The antennae of the S are lamellate, and ijnite simple, witlunit a trace of
pnljescence ; in Gnenee's Australian genus l<llo<h'.s, which is otherwise very nearly
related, they arc ciliated ; and the fovea is wanting.

Expanse of wings : 39 mm., the same as the ? .

ino. Hyposidra caesia sp. nov.

Forewimjs : slaty black, with an obscure darker curved inner line and oblique
postmedian one ; a large deep black spot on discocellular ; a small white spot on
costa at two-thirds, a square white blotch between veins 3 and 4, and a similar one
on inner margin at two-thirds ; fringe concolorous, with a fine pale basal line.

Ilinclwings : with a wlute bar from vein 0 to inner margin, the same width as
the white spots of forewings.

Underside with the costal spot of forewings absent, and that on the inner margin
dull. Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 48 mm.

One cJ from Penang, 1890 (Curtis).

ITi). Hyposidra linearis sp. nov.

Forewings : ochreons ^yellow, dusted witli brownisli ; the costa brown at base :
the lines brown ; first at one-third, angled below costa, then obliqne to inner margin
at one-fourth : second at two-tliirds, oblique and slightly bent on the median to
inner margin before middle, joined along inner margin to first line by a brown
shade ; submarginal line indistinct, except towards a])ex, where it is marked by
brown blotches between the veins ; apical region tinged with brown ; fringe brownish
ochreons, deep brown towards apex.

Hindwings : yellower, with an indistinct central brown line, and traces of ante-
median and submarginal lines.

Underside brighter, with the markings jilainer, deep brown. Head, thorax,
and abdomen ochreons ; front of thorax tinged with fawn-colour.

Expanse of wings : 28—32 mm.

Two (?c? from Natal (A. J. Sjiiller).

ITl. Hyposidra nivitacta ^^p. nnv.

Forewing.s : whitish, so thickly clouded and dusted with olive-fuscous scales as
to appear of that shade dusted with white ; a clear white elongated blotch towards
the end (jf cell beneath the subcostal vein ; a large milk-white costal blotch at three-
fourths, not (piite reaching apex ; from its inner corner an interrupted whitish line,
formed by blotches between the veins, runs to hindmargin above anal angle ; fringe
fuscous, tip])ed with white between the veins ; cell-spot and veins darker.

llnulwings : without white blotches ; a dark median sliade, and dentate paler
postmedian curved line : the sjjaco between the two lines somewhat deei)er cidoured.

Underside similar. Head, thorax, and abdomen all fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 42 mm.

One c? from Indrulaman, Bonthain, 2300 feet, Octolier 1895 (A. Everett).

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1T2. Hyposidra unimacula s]). nov.

Forewings : l)r(iwu-black, with a darker spot on discocclluliir ; a]H'x witli a
single triangular white blotch.
IlindtciMis : wholly black.

Under.side like upper. Head, thorax, and abdomen all concolorons.
Exi)anse of wings : 40 mm.
One (? from Palawan, September 1894.

173. Omiza tortnosa sp. nov. (PI. V. fig. 24, ?).

Forewings : pale dull olive-green, with darker green spots and blotches : two
irregular contorted fasciae near base, formed of dark-edg('d green bloteiies ; an
S-shaped mark from costa before middle to median vein, swelling out below the
median into a large subquadrato blotch, connected on the submedian fold witli the
enter of the basal fasciae and also with an oblique fascia running from before anal
angle towards apex ; outer half of wing filled nj) with irregular green spots : cell-
spot oval, jiale with dark green edge, lying parallel to iiindmargin, followed iiy a
dark horizontal blotch.

Uinclwings : paler, towards the costa yellowish, witli numerous dark green
spots and blotches, which tend to form a submarginal and marginal fascia. Fringes
of both wings pale green.

Underside of forewings yellow, with red Ijlotches on costa, in cell, and below the
median ; the inner margin whitish ; apical area from cell above the median vein
suffused with olive-green. Hindwings yellow, with blood-red s])ots and snbmarginal
and marginal fasciae. Palpi reddish ; face yellow ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen
green, the last darker along back and yellow on sides and beneath. Antennae with
the shaft pale and pectinations black.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

One ? from the Congo.

Paracrocota geu. nov.

Forevmigs : with costa gradually curved from base to apex; apex blunt,
rectangular ; hindmargin slightly convex.

Jlimhvimjn : with rounded hindmargin, faintly projecting in middle.

Antennai! of d strongly pectinated to the tiji ; palpi slender, subascending ;
tongue and frenulum present; forewings without fovea.

Neuration : forewings, cell half as long as wing ; discocellular vertical in u])per
half, very oblique below ; first median at two-thirds, second shortly before end of
cell ; radials normal ; 7 and 8 stalked from before en<l of cell ; 9, 10, 11, coincident,
anastomosing witii the costal, 9 subse(|nently anastomosing with 8. Hindwings,
costal shortly approximated to subcostal ; first subcostal nervnic and second median
from a little before the end of cell.

Type : Paracrocota pcrt:iata sp. nov.

174. Paracrocota epionata sji. nov.

Forewings: yellow, freckled with orange-tawny; the lines dark brown; first
from one-fourtli of costa, bent at right angles on the subcostal vein, thence straight

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to inner margin at one-third, with a slight outward tooth on tlie median vein ; onter
line from just before apex, retracted to costa, very faintly curved to inner margin at
two-thirds, the orange freckles denser beyond it at middle, and a small brown spot
between veins 3 and 4 ; fringe yellow; cell-spot black.

Hindwings : with the line curved ; no first line ; the marginal area redder.

Underside paler, the outer line only marked. Head, thorax, and abdomen
concolorons with wings.

Expanse of wings : 3;j mm.

One ? from Assaba, Lower Niger (Dr. Crosse).

Differs from the ty])e-species in having the hiudmargin of the forewings
protuberant at vein 4 and vertical above, the hindmargin of hindwings more pro-
minent at middle. In forewings vein 0 is stalked with 7, 8: 10 and 11 alone being
coincident and anastomosing with 12.

17.5. Paracrocota perviata sp. nov.

Foirwings : pale orange, with rather coarse darker speckles and suffusion ; a
slightly sinuous reddish orange line from apex of forewings to beyond middle of
inner margin of hindwings, marked externally by white dots on the veins, forked
just before apex and enclosing a pale spot on costa ; cell-spot minute, black.

nindwings : without cell-spot ; fringes dark orange.

Underside paler, with the line obscure. Head, thorax, and abdomen all con-
colorons.

Expanse of wings : 39 mm.

One (^ fi-iim 8irabe, N. Betsileo.

176. Psilocerea apiciata sp. nov.

Forewings : ochreons, suffused with pale fawn-colour, and dusted with black
scales; the lines ferruginous; first line very fine, at one-third, obliipie from snb-
costal vein to median at origin of first median nervule, then vertical and concave to
the snbmedian, and straight to inner margin ; outer line nearly straight from apex
to inner margin just bejond middle, dark ferruginous, finely edged outwardly with
paler ; traces of a dark spot or cloud between veins 3 and 4 ; fringe brownish ; cell-
spot black, with some raised pale scales.

I liixltrimjis : paler, with the line central, and a small dark ccll-sjiot.

Underside pale greyish ochreons, thickly sprinkled with coarse black scales ; the
oblique line obscurely denoted; the fringes chequered with dark at end of veins.
Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons; the abdomen reddish-tinged.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

One ? from Knysua, S. Africa.

177. Psilotaphria viridulata sji. nov.

Forewings: dull olive, S|]arsely s])eckled with brown ; costa thickl}' marked
with brown striae; the lines brown; first obscure, at one-third of costa, slightly
curved to inner margin at one-fourth; second line at tliree-fourths, sinuous, excurved
above middle, incurved below, followed in lower lialf by a second brown line or
shade, wliich swells out into two brown spots between veins 2 and 4 ; fringe
concolorons, witli a few brown scales along base ; cell-sjiot distinct, dark lirown.

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riindioings: witli a faint siuuons tjrey-brown nearly central line; coll-s])ot

brown.

Underside greyer, with a dark outer line, slightly waved at three-fourths of both
wings, not coincident wit li tlie course of the outer lines above.

Face and palpi dark browu ; thorax and abdomen like wings ; vertex deeper
olive.

Exjianse of wings : 2(5 mm.

One ? from the Khasias, August 1896.

ITS. Sicyodes ocellata sp. nov.

Fore/rhiffs : pale olivaceous fawn-colour ; the lines sleuder, slightly paler; lirst
from before middle of costa to inner margin beyond one-third, very slightly curved ;
second from costa a little before &])ex to two-thirds of inner margin; both marked
with small browu dashes on veins, the first externally, the second internally; c.elt-
sjmt pale, with a reddish margin; fringe slightly darker.

Hiwhvings : whitisli ochreons, tinged with fulvous towards inner and hind-
margins.

Underside paler. Head and thorax concolorous with forewings, abdomen witli

hiudwings.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One J from Natal (A. .1. Spiller).

Trisyndeta gen. nov.

Forewings : with costa arclied from base to apex ; apex slightly produced ;
hiudmargin toothed at vein 4, concave above, sinuous below; the anal angle rounded
off; fovea absent.

in ml wings : kite-shaped; the apex rounded, the anal angle less so; hindmargin
with a tooth at vein 4.

Palpi porrect, laxly scaled; third joint small; tongue and frenulum present ;
antennae of ^ strongly pectinated; hindtibiae with four spurs.

Neid-ation : forewings, cell fully half as long as wing; discocellular angulated,
the lower arm oblique; first median at two-thirds, second shortly before end of cell;
lower radial from somewhat above middle of discocellular, ui)per from upper angle,
the subcostal vein shortly depressed at extremity; veins 7 and 8 stalked from just
before end; 1), 10, 11, stalked and anastomosing with costal; '.) subsequently ana-
stomosing with 8 just beyond the origin of 7. llindwings with costal shortly
approximated to subcostal:" the two subcostal uervules from end of cell; medians as
in forewings.

T} j)e : Trisyndeta subspersa sp. nov.

17'.!. Trisyndeta subspersa sj). nov.

Forewings : pale straw-colour; the markings pale brown; the lines interrupted,
marked by blotches on the veins; first at one-third, curved below costa; second at
four-fifths, starting from a triangular subapical blotch, slightly incurved below
middle, to inner margin beyond tw<i-thirds ; some indistinct submarginal blotches ;
marginal dots brown, at the ends of the veins ; fringe concolorous ; cell-spot dark
brown.

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Hindwings : similar, without, first line.

Underside with fainter markings. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One 6 from Naudi, Uganda Protectorate, December 1896 (Dr. Ansorge).

180. Zamarada ansorgei sp. nov.

Forewi7igs : pale yellowish oohreous, beyond the outer line and along the costa
dnsted with darker ochreons and grey; the basal two-thirds paler and h3aline; cell-
spot brown, distinct; in one example traversed by an ochraceons obscure median
shade; outer line brown, twice sinuate, above and lielow the cell; a faint trace of a
snbmarginal shade in the darker marginal area; a row of dark marginal dashes;
fringe concolorons.

Hindwings : similar.

Underside rather darker, less ochreons, especially the outer area.

Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreons.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

Ten <S S from Kiboko River, British East Africa, November 1896 (Dr. Ansorge).

This species is certainly related to Guenee's scctitaria {Stegniiia) from Abyssinia,
but does not in all points agree with his description ; that, however, was made from
a single ? .

181. Zamarada latimargo sp. nov.

Forewinqs : opalescent hyahne, striated with pale olive; costa varied with dark
fnscons and dull orange striae ; marginal area dark olive-fnscons, its inner edge
formed by a deep brown line from the subcostal vein, which forms a shallow sinns
above the cell, and a deeper one below median, the line itself edged outwardly with
silvery scales; a snbmarginal row of darker Innnles between the veins, edged with
silvery scales ; fringe dark fuscous ; the dark marginal fascia occupies one-third of
the wing at costa and inner margin, and the lower sinus only extends one-third
towards the margin ; cell-spot large, dark fuscous, connected with the costal streak;
the striae on inner margin ajipear to firm the beginning of a basal patch and central
fascia, the latter widening upwards round the cell-spot.

Hindwings : similar, the cell-spot smaller ; the veins in both wings are marked
with fuscous.

Underside the same ; the hindwing without cell-spot. Face and palpi brown ;
vertex and collar ochreons ; thorax pale silvery grey; abdomen cinereous.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

One S from Upoto, Congo River (Oram).

Subfamily PROSOPOLOPHINAE.
Clepsimelea gen. nov.

Foreirinqs : very narrow and elongate : the costa straight, convex only at apex;
apex produced, bluntly rounded; hindmargin very oblicpie.

Hindwings : with the inner nuugiii very short ; hindmargin curved ; apex
slightly produced.

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Antenuac in l)otli sexes as iu the Erijcinidae, sleuJer at base, gradually
thickened into a clnb, and ending in a point; palpi smoothly scaled, long, angnlated,
the third joint as long as second, aud blunt ; tongne and frennlnm present ; ej'cs
large ; hindtibiae long and fairly stont, with fonr short spurs; the tarsi short.

SeuratioH : forcwiugs, cell half of wing ; discocellular ungulated, vertical
above, oblique below ; first median nervnle at four-fifths; the median vein itself at
the end of cell, shortly bent upwards nearly at right angles; the second median
uervule from the bend, the third from the end, but appearing to rise from a bend
in the discocellular ; lower radial from the angulation iu the discocellular, ujiper
from upper angle; veins 7, 8, 9, stalked; 10 aud 11 stalked, anastomosing for a
long distance with 12. Hiudwings with, costal free; first subcostal nervule from
before the npj)er end of cell; last two medians close together from lower end; no
nidial; two internal veins; ovipositor of the ? exserted.

T\i)e : Cli'psimelea phnjganeoidcs sp. nov.

The extraordinary insect which forms the type of this genus stands ipiite by
itself; but, following the neuration and the shape of the palj)i, I refer it for the
present to the Prosopolophinae; superficially it bears a remarkable resemblance to
some of the Fhri/gaiieidac.

182. Clepsimelea phryganeoides sp. nov. (PI. V. fig. 22, 9).

Forewings : smoky brownish grey, with a central darker fascia three times as
wide on costa as on inner margin, its centre on the costa again being paler, preceded
aud followed by a dark line; submarginal line paler, waved, preceded and followed
by a darker sliade ; fringe dark grey.

IlitKlwinga : uniform smoky grey, with slightly paler fringe; underside of both
wings duller, without markings. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons.

Expanse of wings : 28 — 30 mm.

Four 6S, four ¥ ?, from Moroka, British New Guinea, 3500 feet, October
1895 (Anthony).

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ON THE BIRDS COLLECTED BY MR. EVERETT ON
THE ISLAND OF SAVU.

By ERNST HAKTERT.

THE little island of Savn is situated about midway between Rotti and Snmba,
but nearer to Rotti, a small island S.W. of Timor. The channel between Sumba
and Savn is about 4o miles wide. Savu, or Rai-Hawu, is about 20 miles in length,
low near the coast, but moderately elevated in the interior, and visible at sea for
about 20 to 23 miles. It has a sandy and barren aspect. Fresh water is scarce ;
but cattle, sheep, pigs, fowls, lemons, and cocoa-nuts can be obtained. In the
Indian Archipelago Directory is a note saying that the little island of Banjoan,
Banjoar, or Rai-Diuwa, 0 miles S.-^-S. from Savu and 5 miles in length, is wooded;
but Everett writes that it has the same vegetation as Savn, viz. Lontar palms with
a little scrub, and therefore he did not consider it worth the expense of visiting it.

I am not aware of any birds having been collected on Savu before. Herr
J. G. F. Riedel, who has done so much for ethnology and ornithology (see A. B.
Meyer's various publications about his collections), explored the island, and wrote
an interesting account of the manners and customs of the natives in the Revue
Colon'mle Tnterriationale. for 188.5 ; but he seems not to have collected birds tliere.

Mr. Everett arrived in Savu on August 7th, 1S'J(3, and left again on
September 11th. He writes from Sumba : "Savu has fallen sadly short of our
hopes. Figure to yourself a bit of Socotra chopped off and jjlanted down here, and
you will have some idea of what the island is daring the dry season, with a strong
parching wind blowing over it all day and every day. The avifauna is scanty, and as
for lepidoptera the few that are seen are nearly all blown into mere rags and fragments.
Such as they are, however, I send them. There is a black-and-yellow Troides in the
island, but none of us saw it, and the natives said that it was found only during the
rainy season. Five weeks' search produced about a dozen sjiecies of beetles. For
collecting insects Savu should be visited in the wet season, when there is more water
and vegetation. The birds are j)oor, but some will interest you, I hope. I have
sent specimens of every kind of bird I could obtain. Besides those sent, we saw also
an Ardetta, a large white Ilerodias, and Tachi/petes (? mimr) ; and there exists also
a second species of duck, which I failed to get. We collectetl both on the east and
west end of the island, and at an intermediate station."

Besides birds and insects, Mr. Everett sent also some mammals, partly in skins,
partly in spirits. They are, according to Mr. Oldfield Thomas, the following
species : —

1. Pteropus vampyrus L.

2. Pteropus gouldi Pet. (?). — Agreeing with some specimens in the British

Museum marked by Dobson as Pt. gouldi, but being considerably smaller
than the types.
!i. Scotophil/i.s hiildi Leach.

4. Xantkarpyia amplexicaiidata Geolf.

5. Tapkozoiis melanopogon Hardw.
0. M'Ms cphippium Jeut.

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The following list of 51 birds clearly shows that the avifauna of Savn is
practically the same as that of Timor. The occnrreuce of typical Dicdcum muckloti,
Philemon timoriensis, Mijiagra rufigula rufigula, and Collocalia neglecta prove this
particularly.

2soue of the species is peculiar to the island, for even the newly described
Gerygone everetti occurs also on Timor, where H. 0. Forbes lollected a specimen
of it.

Several of the species, such as Ninox ocellata, Stiix Jlammea delicatula,
Ptilinopus ewingi, Turnix mactdosus, Nijcticorax caledonicus, and Ardca norac-
hollamtinc, are striking instances of Australian forms having remained entirely
unchanged on the different islands of the Malayan Archipelago, while other more
Malayan, Snndanese, or Moluccan forms are found in many more or less varied local
forms on the various islands. These facts allow us to conclude that the Australian
forms are not older, bnt more recent immigrants to the areas under consideration.
On the whole the Australian element is small, and there is, from our ornithological
knowledge, no absolute necessity to accept that there ever was a land-connection
across the Timor Sea from Australia to Timor, in which case we should have to
expect a much larger amount of Australian eleiuents (cf. Nov. Zool. III. 1896,
pp. 514 and 599).

High credit is due to our friend Mr. Everett for so diligently exploring such
small unknown islands as Savu, thus filling out the gaps between the more or less
known larger islands, and adding considerably to our knowledge of the fauna of the
Eastern Archipelago.

1. Pratiacola caprata (L).
Several adult males and females.

2. Cisticola cisticola (Temm.).
A series shovring no special peculiarities.

3. Dicaeum mackloti Mull, it Schleg.

A good series of both sexes. When recording this species from Lombok on
p. 557 of Vol. III. of Nov. Zool. I said, " No difference between specimens from
Lombok and Flores." There is, first of all, a penslip, for I meant to say Timor
instead of Flores, the bird not being known to occur in Flores at all. Then it must
be stated that, in spite of my statement, there are some slight differences, which I
did not notice at the time, bi;t now, having before me a good series of well jirepared
Lombok skins, and a still larger of Savn specimens, which agree with those from
Timor, I have to state that Dr. Sharpe, in Cat. B. X. p. 26, most justly remarked that
the Lombok male in the British Museum had a longer and more slender bill than his
examjiles from Timor, and that all our Lombok birds differ in this same ])oint from
our Savu series. The majority of the skins from Savu and Timor are also very dis-
tinctly more buff on the abdomen, and the flanks are not so greyish. Under these
circumstances I am obliged to separate the Lombok bird as

sii. nov.

Dicaeum neglectum >

This form is eviileutly closely allied to J), macldoti from Timor and Savu, and
it may be only a subspecies of it. The same may perhaps with some right be

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suggested of D. splendidum Buttik. from Djampea (Nov. Zool. III. ]>. KiT), which
differs from />. mac/doti in the lighter red tliroat, which is surmniided by a much
narrower and not blue-blaclv but blacliish grey line, and of D. icilhelminac Buttik.
of Sumba, differing from I), mackloti in the absence of the red rump and upper
tail-coverts, the broader black line in the middle of the breast, the undoubtedly
whiter (not so buff) abdomen and less extended whitish chin-spot, while the beak of
both 1>. wilhelminae and f). aplendidum is more like that of B. mackloti than of D-
iieylectum.

The/emale of V. wMelminae has the red rump of its allies, which is absent in
the male ! Therefore the bird enumerated as (?) i>. mackloti on p. 581 of Vol. III.
of this journal is also a female of I>. u'ilhclminae, as a large series from Sumba now
clearly shows. The female of D. wilhelminae differs from that of D. mackloti,
which has the flanks like the abdomen, with only a shade of greyish olive, in
having olive-grey flanks with a slight greenish tinge, but it closely resembles that
of D. neglectum, which however seems to have no greenish tinge on the flanks.
For the present it will perhaps be best to treat these forms as species, although
they are all closely allied.

4. Stigmatops ocularis (Gould).

Evidently common in 8avu. S juv. " Iris slate-grey ; bill black ; legs
plumbeous grey."

5. Philemon timoriensis (S. Mull.).

A small series from Savu. The males are conspicuously larger than the
females. This species diflers from P. ne^jlecttis Biittik. chiefly in having a con-
spicuous silvery white line along the sides of the crown, and in the crown itself
being paler. Some of the Savu skins show broad whitish edges to the feathers of
the interscapulium and sides of breast.

li. Zosterops citrinella ISp.

The common Zosterops of Savu is Z. citrinella — at least 1 cannot find any
cluiracters by which to separate them from that species, though some are rather
pale on the abdomen. " Iris sienna-brown ; bill black, basal half of mandible
lead-grey; legs blackish plumbeous."

7. Anthus rufulus medius (Wall.).

This i)ipit is common in Savu. The specimens are almost pure white lielow,
the spots on the chest well marked, very blackish, the sujierciliary stripe almost
white. In these respects they agree with skins from Lonibok, Sambawa, and
Sumba, but on the whole they arc a little nujre brownish above than the Sumba,
Sambawa, and Lombok birds, which are very dark and very greyish. In any case
they differ from Anthns rufulus rufulus and .1. r. mnlni/ensis — if the latt(u- can be
separated, which is doubtful — in the colour of t he underside and superciliary line, and
are also above generally less tawny, so that they must be kept as A. r. Tnedius.
(Cf Nov. ZooL. III. pp. 558, 508, 580, 582.)

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8. Mirafra horsfieldi parva (Swinh).

The small blackish lark mentioned before in Nov. Zocii,. ill. iip. 568, 594, as
being found in Lombok and Sambawa is also common in Sava, whence Mr. Everett
sent a good series. I now donbt the possibility of sejjarating these birds even
snbsiiecifically from the Australian ^f. korsfieldi, unless they are smaller. Whether
this is the case or not I cannot decide before having a larger series of Australian
specimens for comparison. Even J/", horsfieldi is very closely allied to M. jamnicn,
being only, j)erhai)s, less brownisli and more blackisli above. A series of Java
specimens is also a special desideratum.

!». Taeniopygia iusularis (Wall.).

A number of males and females, but none in full ])hmiage. 6 immature.
"Irides cherry-red; bill coral-red; legs ochreous yellow."

10. Munia punctulata (?) nisoria (Temm.).

1 am fully convinced that a series of immature specimens of a Munia of the
punctulata group from Sava belongs to a distinct subspecies, as they are very pale
and the edges of the feathers of the breast and sides of body of a purer black ; but
as there is no full plumaged adult bird before me I cannot be sure about it, and
must record the Savu bird as doubtfully belonging to M. p. nisoria.

11. Munia pallida Wall.
Fully agree with those from other islands.

12. Rhipidura celebensis sumbensis Hart.

One adult male and two immature birds from Savu. S ad. " Bill dark brown ;
maxilla almost black ; legs dark brown." Wing 74 mm. (W. Nov. Zool. III.
p. 5S5.)

13. Myiagra riifigula Wall.

A series of 8avu, agreeing with the types from Timor (and t he small island of
Semao, close to Timor) in the British Museum.

On p. 171 in Vol. III. of this journal I recorded Mijiagra riiji(jula from
Djampea and Kalao. When doing so I had noticed that the bills of the Djampea
and Kalao skins were somewhat narrow, when compared with those in the British
Musi'uni: Irat as there are only three males of that species in the national collection,
I did not consider myself justified to attach any imjiortance to tliat sliglit difference,
and did not even mention it. I now find that the iSavu series agrees witli the
Timor birds in the width of their bills, and it becomes therefore necessary to call
the Djampea and Kalao l)irds by a special subspecific term —

Myiagra rufigiila colouus snlisp. nov.

Distinguished from M. r. rufiyula by its bill being only about 7 mm. Iiroad, or
even less, at base, while that of .1/. mfii/ula rafujula is about 8 mm. broad at base.
I do not see any other dill'ereuce between the two forms, e.\cept that the tail seems

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to me to be longer in M. r. rujiyula, being generally over 70 mm. long, wbile it is
below or not over 70 mm. long in J/", rnfgula colonus. Although the difference in
the width of the bill is only about 1 mm., it is very conspicnons, as confirmed by a
number of i)ersons withont any ornithological knowledge, who, when I .showed them
the two birds, have noticed the difference in size of their beaks at a glance.

14. Gerygone everetti sji. nov.

A large series of a Geri/yoiu' from Savn belongs to an nndescribed species.
The fnlly adnit bird resembles G. inornata Wall, from Timor, but it is easily
distinguished by its considerably longer bUl and more brownish upper surface.
The lores are darker than the crown, but in front of them is a tiny whitish spot.
Over the eye is a distinct though faint indication of a pale superciliary line. Crown
pale brown ; back and rump washed with rusty brown. Quills with whitish brown
outer edges, secondaries with yellowish brown outer edges. Under surface white ;
sides of breast washed with brown, flanks with yellowish buff. Wing 5U— 53 mm.;
tail 40—42; culmen from base 14,» exposed culmen 11; tarsus 20. The /ewafe is
like the male, though perhaps a little smaller. ■

The j'oung of U. everetti is lemon-yellow below and slightly more brown on
the back. The adult bird has the "iris white; bill black; legs very dark grey,
almost black." The young birds have the " irides olive, or light olive yellowish;
bill dark brown, basal half of lower mandible pale yellowish; legs dark blackish
plumbeous."

Even this bird, though not before described, must nut be considered to be
peculiar to the island of Savu, as a specimen collected in Timor by Mr. H. 0.
Forbes belongs to it, and not to G. inornata, which name it has on the label.

15. Lalage timoriensis (S. Mull.).
Specimens from Savu agree with those from Timor and other localities.

16. Hinindo javanica Sparrm.
An old and two young birds, not showing any peculiarities.

17. Corvus macrorhynchus Wagl.f

Qne^femnle. Wing 327 mm. Sec Buttikofer's valuable remarks on the crows
inhabiting the Malay Archipelago in Notes Leijden Museum, VoLXVlII. pp. l,s.5-9.
These remarks are very correct, but they do not exclude the possibility that
C. macrorhynchus might yet be separable into some local subspecies. The distribu-
tion of C enca, i.e. " Java, Celebes, and Snia Islands," is most remarkable. This
species will probably be also found in all the islands between Java and ('elebcs, or
otherwise I should suspect that some differences, after all, exist between C. enca,
enca from Java and those from Celebes.

* In G. inornata 10 mm.

f Mr. Everett aent this species also from Lomliok,

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Ks. CoUocalia fuciphaga (Tluiuli.).

Two skins and a miiubpr of nests from Savn. The nests are " edible nests,"
bnilt of saliva. 8ome are very clear, of " good (juality " for the market ; others
have a bluish or purplish colour ; and many are interwoven with feathers and bits
of grass, forming what is called " second quality." These birds breed in Savn in
caves, togetlier with the following species of CoUocalia; but they place their nests
in different parts of the caves. In August they contained no eggs or young.

V.K CoUocalia neglecta G. E. Gray (or subsp. ?).

A number of skins of C. najLccta from Savn are above darker and of a deeper
colour than the types from Timor in the British Museum, which I described
(^'7^ B. XVI. pp. 510, 511) as having the npj)er wing-coverts, back, and ruinj)
" dark jilumbeous grey." That may be said of those collected by "Wallace, wiiich,
however, are now forty years old, and which are probably faded to a certain degree ;
but it cannot be said of our fresh Savu skins. In these the U{)per parts are blackish
brown, with a slight greenish gloss ; but the narrow whitish edges to most of the
feathers give it a sort of hoary, pale ajipearance. The freshly moulted rectrices are
of a brownish black, with a steel-blue gloss. The rather elongated longest under
tail-coverts are glossy greenish black, with white edges. These latter can also well
be traced in one of the type-specimens, while in some of the others these feathers
are absent. As it is, my Savu skins must stand as C. neijlecla, although a fresh
series from Timor might possibly show some constant though slight differences, and
thus necessitate a subspeciiic separation.

The nests of this CoUocalia are buUt of grass and fibre, with a few feathers and
fragments of dry leaves, just held together by a small amount of saliva. Tliey are
found in the same caves as those of C.facipkax/a, but are j)laced in different parts
of the caves. They contained (August 27th, 1896) no eggs.

20. Caprimulgus affinis Horsf.

A large series from Savu. The males are represented in different ages,
althongh they were all shot in the month of August. Young males resemble the
oid females. The youngest mxde is above much greyer than old ones, somewhat
like C. griseatus from Luzon. The white spots on the primaries are strongly shaded
with buff, those on the third and fourth rusty buff throughout. The rectrices have
vo ichite, but are barred throughout, as in the adult /maYe. The breast is somewhat
pale and greyish, the spots on the throat buft' instead of white. There are different
stages between this and the old male with the outer rectrices chiefly white, as
described in Cat. B. XVI. p. 550.

21. Merops ornatus Luth.
Evidently very common. ?. " Irides lake-red ; bUl black ; feet dusky black."

22. Halcyon sanctus (Vig. & Horsf).

A large series. The colour of tiie upi)erside varies much, but it seems that the
female has the back browner, the wings more greenish, while the male has the back

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brighter, the wings deeper blue. S. "Iris dark chocolate: hill black: basal lialf
of raanilible, except edges, white ; feet blackish brown."

23. Halcyon chloris (Bodd.).

A mri/i' and two /'emriles. The male is more bine and l>righter on the crown,
back, and wings ; thu /emidris more greenish and brownish, wings and tail not so
bright. Wing of <i IIU mm.; of the ¥ ? 108 and 110 mm.

24. Centropus javanicus Dnmont.

A very yonng male, just from the nest, which is, I think, referable to
C javanicus.

25. Ninox ocellata (Hombr. & Jacq.).

See Sharpe, Caf. B. 11. p. 170. A large series from Savu. I cannot find
differences to separate them from the true Australian X. occllatu, inhabiting Northern
and Western Australia. The adult male has the " iris golden yellow : bill and cere
dark plumbeous, clouded with black ; the feet grey, claws black." Young birds
have the " irides pale yellowish green or slaty grey ; the bill dark lead-colour to
almost black ; feet whitish to pale greenish grey, claws black."

The males are smaller than ths/c males. The wing oij'emales measures 214 —
225 mm.; the wing of males 208 — 210 mm. The tail from above looks very
uniform, the central tail-feathers being only sometimes spotted with light patches,
and the outer webs of the outermost rectrices only rarely having some pale spots,
but as a rule not. Young birds are lighter ; the dark rufous brownish spots below
are paler, narrower, often indistinct ; the down is white.

The occurrence of the typical form of this Australian owl in Savn is another
corroboration of the theory that the Australian birds are later immigrants, being
never or seldom differentiated, while the presumably (in contradiction to Wallace's
theory) earlier Indo-Malayan (and Molnccan) elements appear often much changed.

20. Strix flammea delicatula (Gould).

If it is possible to separate successfully the various races of barn-owls all over
the world — and I believe it will be possible to a certain extent — the above will be
the name we shall have to give to tlie owl which is very numerous in Savn, for the
specimens from that little island, of which Mr. Everett has sent a very fine series _
are ijuite like Australian sjjecimeus, being above very pale and greyish, below whiti>,
with more or less, or even almost without, small blackish spots. The similarity
between the great number of skins from Savu is very great and striking, although
there is of course a certain amount of variation.

The bird from Kalao, mentioned on p. 17T of Vol. 111. of this journal, differs
from all these in being much more golden-brownish above, especially on the tail.
It seems to be more like the Indian form, which is perhaps not separable from the
lOnropean one.

On the other hand, the Sund)a birds (one collected by Doliorty, as mentioned on
p. 588, and five sent since by Everett) dill'er in being slightly larger, the bill liigher

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and longer, and the tail extremely pale bnff, almost white, with the dark bars very
narrow and almost obsolete. It is necessary to distinguish them as a subspecies,
and I call them

Strix flammea sumbaensis sabsp. nov.

I hope on a future occasion to return to the Idstory of tlie various forms of the
gemis Strix, which is apparently very difficult.

27. Astur torquatus (Temm.).*

A series of old and yonng, some of the latter still showing some down. The
aid individuals are very pale above and below. It is not impossible that they are
separable as a local form, but as all old birds are in somewhat abraded plumage, it
is unwise to bestow a name on them. Moreover the yonng birds agree with those
from Djampea and Kalao. The iris of a cj ad. is " deep golden yellow ; cere
ochreons yellow, tinged at the base with green ; bill black, median portion lead-
grey, base dark green; legs wax-yellow, claws black." In the yonng birds with
some down left (first plumage) the borders of the feathers above are of a very dark
rusty rufous colour, while in the full plumaged young bird they fade to a pale
rusty brown. On the young S in first plumage the iris is marked as "olive; cere
dark olive-greeu; bill black; legs pale greenish yellow." In a ? in tlie same age :
"Iris olive: cere dark olive-green; bill black; legs pale greenish yellow." In
a full plumaged much older yonng ? : " Bill and cere blackish; legs greenisli yellow,
claws jet-black."

28. Tinnunculus moluccensis occidentalis Mey. k ^Vigl.

Several old and yonng. The young bird in first plumage is a little darker
above, where it looks very much like a European 7'. tinnunculus, being longi-
tudinally spotted with black on the crown, and with large cross-patches on the
back, rump, scapulars, and secondaries. Below rather paler than old birds, and
with large black longitudinal spots. The tail is grey with rusty buff tips and with
broad snbterminal black bars, and shows obsolete black cross-bars.

29. Haliastur Indus intermedius (Gurney).
Two adult males.

30. Ptilinopus ewingi Gould.

A careful comparison of the very large series of this species sent by Everett from
SavQ with the material in the British Museum has convinced me that the so-called

• Under the name of AsUir torquatus (Temm.) I mentioned a hawk from Sumba, collected by Dohcrtj.
I was then not aware that A. B. Meyer, in an article on binla from (Jerman New Guinea and on other
Papuan bird.'i.on p. 7 of No. 3, Ahh. iinil Jirr. Mus. Itrt-mlrn, 1892-93, had described an L'rospizias sumbaengii
sp. nov., and 1 did not have enough material for comparison to .separate the bird before me. I have now
come to the conclusion that the Sumba bird sent by lloherty is not A. tttrquatvs. nw(\ that it must hear
Meyer's name, although that author described his species fi-oni a young bird in widely different plumage.

The old (J A. sumbai'nsis (A. li. Meyer), as I should call this form, differs from iimle^ of A. ttvqjtatiis
principally in the under parts, which are white, barred across with rufous brown bars, slightly shmled with
grey, the throat aUo being cross-barrfd, but more uuth a greyish rottrur, not rufous. Lower abdomen, belly,
and under tail-coverts much lighter, but also distinctly barred.

The collar on the hindneck is of a darker rufous.

The thighs are white, with pale rufous cross-bars,

Wing 2IC mm. ; tarsus BB|; tail 170,

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F.flaricoUis from Timor and Flores does not differ in anything from P. ewingi of
Australia. Count Salvadori, on p. 08 of Cat. B. XXL, says of P-flai-ieoUis: " Similar
to F. ewiniji, from which it is doubtfully distinct; the only difference appears to be
the slightly yellower tinge of the anterior part of the neck and crop-regiou."
I have not been able to see this supposed difference at all, and our Savu series
clearly shows that theyellower tinge is no specific character, even among the irviles some
being very strongly tinged with yellow on the foreneck, others hardly or not at all.

The male agrees well with the descriptions of P. ewingi, except that most of
them (perhaps the older birds) have a distinct rose-purplish spot, ot the same
colour as the crown, at the base of the lower mandible, like P. roseicupiUns and
others. The nape and hindneck are sometimes strongly tinged with greenish,
sometimes almost pure ashy grey. The adult /i»w«/e differs from the male only in
being darker and somewhat more greenish on the crop-region and npper breast,
and in the rosy lilac patch on the ni)per part of the abdomen being less brilliantly
developed.

Young birds have the feathers of the upper parts edged with yellow, thi;
head green like the back, the abdomen green with an orange-yeUow area on the
lower abdomen, the under tail-coverts yellow, not orange. The old mali', according
to Mr. Everett, has the " iris orange-yellow; orbital skin and bill dark leaf-green;
feet greyish olive-green." The young birds have the " iris olive; bill dull blackish;
feet dark olivaceons grey."

The generic name of this genus has lately been almost universally spelt
" PtilojJi/s," but the first original spelling is '■' Pfili/iopu.s."

31. Geopelia maugeus (Temm. & Knip.).
Several males.

32. Turtur tigrinus (Temm. & Knip.).
Several specimens.

33. Synoicus raalteni pallidior subsp. nov.

A large series of this rare quail from 8avu is so distinctly paler than the
specimens from Timor in the British Museum that they must be separated sub-
specifically. They are much paler rufous below, and more greyish above. The
adult male has the " irides dark lake-red ; bill lead-grey, culmen black ; legs
olivaceons." The adnlt/emale : " Irides very dark lake-red ; bill lead-grey, culmen
clouded with black : legs light olive-yellow, claws grey." Wing S ad. 88 — 95 mm.

34. Turnix maculosus (Temm.) (an snbsp. ?).

A number of this little Turni.r from Savu are closely allied to Turnix maculosu.i
of Australia, but most of them seem to be somewhat more greyish above, and
with a lighter and more distinct middle line on the head. As there is no fully adult
female in fresh plnmage among them (unless the old femnle of the Savu bird
never assumes the broad rufous collar?), it cannot be separated, but must stand as
T. maciihmis. A fairly oh\ female has the " bill dark brown, base of maxilla and
entire mandible greenish yellow ; legs yellowish green ; iris pale yellow." The old
male : " Bill du.sky horn-brown, yellowish green at base,"

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35. Nycticorax caledonicus (Gm.).

Several adnlt specimens, one mrtle with the sides of the head and neck as dark
cinnamon-chostniit as in N. mani/idi/lririx (Jnitit, this colour almost reaching across
tlic foreneck, but leaving the cliest pnre white in tlie middle. Tlie Savn birds are
in every respect like those from Australia. The other adult ?wiles have the sides
of head and neck much jiuler. A young /('w/e in its first jilnmage has the "iris
golden yellow; bill lihu'k, l)ase and edge of maxilla and mandible green ; legs pale
whitish green, claws dark lirown."

3(!. Ardea novaehollaudiae Latli.

(S ad. " Irides i)alc wliitish yellow ; eyelids dull green ; bill black, basal half
of mandible ])ale lead-grey : legs ochreous yellow, clouded with dark brown in IVoiit
of tarsus and on u]iper surface of toes, claws horn-brown."

37. Hjrpotaenidia philippensis (L).

Several middle-aged and rather young birds, but no fully ailult ones. Middle-
aged : "Iris burnt sienna-colour; bill brown, mandible paler; legs greenish grey,
claws pale greyish brown." Young birds with the ujjper purts somewliat darker ;
sides and flanks, and whole breast and abdomen, except middle of lower abdomen,
barred whitish and black. " Irides chocolate in 9. female, dark olive-yellow in a more
advanced nuili- ; bill dark brown ; legs greyish white, or dark olivaceous grey in the
more advanced male."

38. Hypotaenidia striata (L.).

An &(h\\t female. "Irides orange-brown; bill slaty brown, base of maxilla
and basal half of mandible dull pink ; legs dark slate-grey, witli brownish tinge."

39. Poliolimnas cinereus (Vieill.).

Two females. " Iris browu ; bill greyish brown, nearly black on the culmen ;
legs greenish plumbeous."

There is also a quite black pullus in down, which I believe to belong to this
species.

40. Stiltia Isabella (Vieill.).
Several specimens from Savu.

41. Arenaria interpres (L.).
One female, September 7th.

42. Charadrius dominicus fulvus (Gm.).
Common in August and September.

43. Ochthodromus geoffroyi (Wagl.),
<?, ?, shot on August 27tii.

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44. Aegialitis peroni (Bp.).

Common in Ansrnst.

45. Limonites ruficoUis (Pall.j.
Yonug iiKile anil old /m^'/e shot on August 27th.

40. Tringoides hypoleucus (L.)-

One skin, August.

4T. Numenius phaeopus variegatus (Scop.).
Owe female, August.

48. Sterna bergii Licht.
¥ . " Iris dark brown ; hill greenish yellow ; feet hlack."

49, Anas superciliosa (Gm.).
Not rare on the island.

One specimen.

■'30. Phalacrocorax melanoleucus (Vieill.).

51. Phalacrocorax sulcirostris (Brandt).

One specimen. I am folhjwiug Salvadori and others in calling this bird
P. sulcirostris. It certainl}- differs cons]iicnously from P.fuscicollis of India, which
it resembles very much at first sight in the colour of the wing-coverts and njijier
parts generally, and especially in its shorter liill; but some skins from Australia
have shorter and finer beaks again, while otherwise resembling onr specimens from
the Malay Archipelago. There is probably one species in India, P.fuscicollis, and
one in the Archipelago reaching to Australia, which is found in two forms — a finer
billed one in Australia, a stouter billeil one in the Malayan Islands.

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DIE PASSALIDEN DICHOTOMISCH BEARBEITET.

Von a. KUWERT.

2"" THEIL.— DIE ARTEN.
(1 Theil siehe Nov. ZooL. III. p. 209.)

1. Geuppe: AULACOCYCLINAE.
Ceracupes Kanp, ^fo?^. p. 16.

1 (l^O- ^^^ Kopfhorn ist an der 8pitze ausgekorbt, anf dor Riiolv.seito flacli,
grannlirt, etwas gebogeu. Das Halsscbild mit stark vorgezogeueu Vordereckeii,
tiefen Randfnrchen nnd Bucliten nnd winkliger, schriige nach vorne ziehender, tiofer
Narbe. Die gewolbten Flgd. pnuktirt gefnrcbt. Hinterlappen des Prosternums
dornartig lang. Metasternnm abgerniulet, ohne Pnukte. Seitenfurchen desselbcu
schmal. Die Zacken des Vorderzahns der Maxillea scharf. Die Riickseito des
Oberzalins der Maxillen .schriige der Liiuge uacli cannelirt oder gernnzelt.

Lange ohne das Geweili 22 mm., mit dem Geweih 23-3 mm. ; Breite 8-7 mm. ;
Flgdliinge 13 mm.

Hub. Tibet ; Nepal. 1. C . fronticornis Westw., Ent. Mag.

p. 124 (1841); Kaup, Mon. t. 3. f. 2.
Syn. : bihastatus Percb., May. Zool. 1844. t. 134. f. 3; Bnrm., Ilundb.
V. p. 517.

la. Das Kopfhorn ist an der Spitze nicbt ansgekerbt, sondem gernndet; sein
oberer Rand ist punktirt, liinger nnd schmiiler als he\ fronticornis. Die Ziihne auf
den Maxillen sind anf der Hinterseite ranb gestreift, vorne eouvex nnd glatt. Die
Narben des Halsscbildes bilden eia pnnktirtes S. Das glanzende Schildchcn an den
Seiten dicht pnnktirt. Mittelschienen mit 2, Hinterschienen mit 1 Durnchen.

AUes nach Stoliczka ; mir fremd.

L. 22 mm. ; Br. 68 mm. ; Flgdl. 12-3 mm.

Ilab. Bengalen. 2. C. austeni !Stol., Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1873.

Caulifer Kanp, I.e. p. 22.

Clypensrand grannliert. Die vertiefte Stirn glatt. Hinter den Angen nnd
am Rande des Hinterko]ifes pnnktiert. Nnr hinter der Spitze der Angeuwiindc
nach vorn in der Mitte vorspringond, mit behaarten Pnnkten {also irol/l /linti'r tlcm
Kopfhorn T). Halsscbild vorn abgernndet, mit sclimaler, unregclmiissiger Bucht
nnd schmaler, schief nach vorne gerichteter, pnnktirter Narbe. Schildchen nnd
Taille glatt. Flgd. (in den Streifen) namentlich an den Sciteii dentlich pnnktirt.
Vorderscliienen miissig breit. Mittel- nnd Hinterschienen gedornt. Beliaarnng
diirftig.

Anscheinend bisher erst 1 Stiick gefnnden, das im Darnistiidter Mnsenm sein
dilrfte. Mir ist die Art fremd geblieben. AUes nach Kanp.

L. 27 mm. ; Br. ? ; Flgdl. 1 7 mm.

Hub. !Sj-dney. 1. C. macleayi Kaup, I.e. t. 3. f. 7.

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Taeniocerus Kanp, I.e. \>. 20.

1 {\n). Vordertibiea nach aussen gerundet luul sijatenformig verbreitert.
Clypensleiste ziemlich breit nnd grannliert; Stiru mit Qnerrnnzeln. Die stnmiifen
Leisten des niedern Kopfhorns bilden ein breites, glattes Thai. Prothorax mit
wulstigem Rand, tiefer Bucht und selir grosser pniiktirter Narbe, die fast bis zur
Bnclit des vordern Randes reicht. Schildcben glatt. Flgd. mit dentlichen Fnrchen
nnd feinen Punkten.

Nach Kaup ; mir fremd.

L. 21 mm. ; Flgdl. 13 mm.

Hab. Borneo. 1. T. platypus Kanp, Col. Hefte III. p. .5 (18G8) : Mon. p. 21.

la. Vordertibien, wenn anch breiter als gewOhnlich, doch nie spateufOrmig
verbreitert.

2 (2a). Die Halsschildnarbe klein, eifiirmig, etwas schriig. Glyponsvorderrand
grannliert. Taillenlatzseiten mit Qnereindrnck, welcher sich anf die Seitenstiicke
der Taille fortsetzt.

3 (3a). 20 mm. lang. Die Grannlirnng des geraden Clypensvorderrandes
grfiber ; hinter ihm das Stirnfeld, zumal an den Seiten, dentlich pnnktirt. Die
Angenwand abgernudet, stnmiifwinklig. Halsschildbncliten ohne grosse Pnnkte.
Halschd. dicht mikroskopisch fein pnnktirt nud reticnlirt. Flgd. mit flachen
Fnrchen und an den Seiten ziemlich deutlieh darin pnnktirt. Intervalle faltig.
Unterlippe in der Mitte glanzend, an den Seiten ohne Narben, dicht pnnktirt
nnd behaart, mit vorne zngespitzten Lapi)en. Hinterer Prosteruallappen spitzig.
Mittelschienen mit 1 starken Dornchen. Von den Vorderseiteu des Kopfhorns eine
Kante oder feine Leiste gegen die anfgebogeneu Enden des C!lypens%'orderrandes
vor dem Abhang der Angenwand hinweg. Diese anf ihrem Kamme dicht nud fein
pnnktirt.

L. 26 mm. ; Br. 8 mm.; Flgdl. 15 mm.

Hab. St. Denis, RSnnion. 2. T. cleyrolld Kanp, Col. Hefte III.

p. 7' (1868); id., J/w;. p. 20.

3a. 23 mm. lang. Die CTrannlirnng des mehr einwarts gebogenen Clypens-
vorderrandes etwas feiner. Hinter ihm das Stirnfeld nupnnktirt. Die anf ihrem
Kamme nicht pnnktirte Angenwand ganz abgernndet. Dietiefen Halsscliildbnchten
anf dem Grnnde mit einigen grOssern Pnnkten. Anch die Riickenfurcheu der
Flgd. mit ziemlich kenntlichen Punkten. Intervalle wenig oder nicht faltig.
Unterlipi)e wie beim vorigeu; desgleichen das Prosternnm. Mittelschienen mit
1 Dornchen. Von den Vorderseiten des Kopfhorns eine Kante gegen die
anfgebogeneu Endeu des Clypensvorderrandes vor dem Abfall der Angenwand
hinweg.

L. 23 mm. ; Br. 7-.') mm. ; Flgdl. 13 mm.

Hub. Gayndah, Queensland. 3. 7'. master.ii MacLeay, Tr. Ent. Soc.

A'.5. ir.II. p. 174.

2a. Die Halsschildnarbe grosser, haken- oder S-fiirmig, oder geweih-formig.

4 (4a). Die Ilalsschihlnarbe haken- oder S-fiirmig.

.') (5a). Taillenlatz anf der Mitte mit Liingsfurche, an den Seiten mit zerstrenten,
groben Pnnkten, ebenso die MesosternalseitcnstUcke mit zer.strenteu Punkten.

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llalssohild mit tiefen, imiiktirton Bnchteii imd Sciteufnrchcii, tiofeii S-ftirmijicii,
jmnktirten Narben. Das K<i])fliorn mit zienilich langem, jtnnktirteui, schmiilcm
Thai zwischen den Leisten. .Siimtliche Flgdfurchen gleiclimiissig dentlicli pnnktirt.
Uiit(M-lippe auf der Jlitte reclitwinklig vorgezogon nud eingodriickt, mit behaurtoii
uud pnnktirten spitzen Scitculajiiieu. Mittelscliieuou mit 1 Duni. Uutersoitc der
bri'iteu Vorderschienen vorne querrunzlig, daselbst nhiio Kiil odcr Langsfurche.
Schildchen an den Seiten pnnktiert.

6 (6«). Die anfgebogencn Enden des Ch'pens vor der Augeuwaiid reclitwinklig
oder ziemlich reclitwinklig.

li. 27 mm. ; Br. 9 mm. ; Flgdl. 17 mm.

I["0. Malacca; Labnan. 4. T. bicantkatus Perch., Mag. Zool.

p. 41. t. 70. f. 3 (1841); Burm., Ilandb. V. p. .'")1(; : Kanj), Col.

Hefte III. p. 6 (1808) ; id., Mon. p. 21. t. 3. f. (i.

G<7. Die anfgebogenen Enden des Clypeus vor der Angenwand abgerundet oder
nach hinten stnmpfeckig. Der Clypensrand grauulirt.

7 (7rt). Die Seiteiirinneu des Metasteruums vorne grob niul zerstrent pnnktirt.
L. 27 mm. ; Br. 9 mm. ; Flgdl. 17 mm.

Hah. Borneo. 5. T. bicanthatus ab. perturbans Kuw., ab. nov.

la. Die Seitenrinnen des Metasterniims vorne fein nnd dichter pnnktirt.

L. 23—24 mm. ; Br. 8 mm. ; Flgdl. 1.5 mm.

Hdb. Borneo. 0. T. imitator Kuw., Jkrl. Ent. Zcit. 1892.

5a. Taillenlatz anf der Mitte ohne Liingsfnrche, mit einem sich iiber die Nahtc
bin fortsetzeuden Qnereindrnck an den Seiten, glanzend, nnpniiktirt. Halsschild
mit tiefen, j)nuktirten Buchten imd Seiteufnn-hen und tiefen S-furmigen, pnnktirten
Narben. Der Uberans fein gerandete Clypeusvorderrand an den Seiten vor der
Angenwand zn gernndeten Lappen anfgebogeu. Die Angenwiinde abgernudet.
Die Farclien der Flgd. ziemlich tief, oben ohne Punkte, an den Seiten fein pnnktirt.
Metasternalschild anf der Mitto mit feiuem Liingskielchen. Die Kopfhornleisten
ein kurzes Hnfeisen bildeud.

L. lo-5 mm.; Br. 5 mm. ; Flgdl. 9-;") mm.

Uab. Malacca ; Borneo. 7. T. parvus Knw., I.e.

4a. Die Halsschildnarben sind hirschgeweihahnlick, indem sich ans der Biegnng
derselben nach oben noch Zackeu entwickeln. Taillenlatz an den Seiten mit einem
sich iiber die Naht fortsetzenden Qaereindrncke.

8 (8rt). Kafer klein. Metasternalschild mit Anflug feiner Kielnng anf der
Liingsmitte. Dem vorigen uberans ahnlich, indess sind die Fnrcheu der Flgd.
iiberall stark pnnktirt und die Kopfflileheu iiberall fein graniiliert. Die Mitte der
Unterlippe glanzend, mit rechtwinkliger Spitze. Mittelschiene mit Dorn.

L. 18 mm. ; Br. 0 mm. ; Flgdl. 11 mm. / ,

i/ai. Malacca. 8. i . pygmaeus Krm., i.e.

8a. Kafer grosser. Metasternalschild ganz glanzend, auf seiner Mitte mit oder
ohne einige feine Pnnkte. Die Kopflaachen glanzend. Halsschild mit tiefen,
])nnktirten Bnchten, pnnktirten Kandfurchcn und renutbiorhornartig geformten,
pnnktirten Narben. Mittelscliieueu mit einem starkeren, lliiitersihienen mit einem

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schwacbeu Zaliucheii. Clypeusleiste nicht oder kauiu gniunliert. Schildcheii glatt-
Die Leisten des Kopfhorns nach vorae allmahlich aufgerichtet nnd isolirt.

L. 22-5 mm.; Br. 7-2 mm.; Flgdl. 13 mm.

Hub. Sikkim ; Assam; Malacca; Siam. 9. T. bicusjiis Kanp, Col. Ilefte III.

(1.S6S) ; id., Moil. p. 21.

Aulacocyclus Kanp, Col. Hefte III. p. 4 (Is(i^).

1 (1«). Der Taillenlatz des 41 mm. langen Thieres iu den hintern Ecken neben
der Nalit pnnktiert, auch ausserhalb der Nabt die Taille daselbst pnnktirt.
Hiuterscbienen obne Ansatz zur Zahnbilduiig. Das boch anfgericbtete Kopfborn
in der Mitte etwas nacb binten tibergelegt, dann nach vorne sicb neigend, auf dem
Riicken des obern Tbeiles ausgefnrcht nnd mit getheilter Spitze. Clypensrand
stark granulirt. Die beiden ersten Fliblerlappeu etwa 2^ mal so lang als einzeln
dick. Kopffliicben glilnzend, nupunktirt. Halsschild mit nnpnnktirten Bucbten,
kleinen Narben nnd einzeln punktirten Seitenrandfnrcben. Obere FIgdfnrcben
dnrcbans nnpnnktirt, Seitenfnrchen mit Pnnktirangsandeutang. Metasternum
vorne in der Htiftennmgelinng dicbt pnnktirt. Lang gebaut.

L. 41 mm. ; Br. 13 mm. ; Flgdl. 26 mm.

Hab. Anstralien. 1. A. teres Perch., .l/»y. Zool. p. 39 (1841) ;

Bnrm., llamlb. V. ji. 515 ; Kanp, I.e. III. j). 9 (18G8) ; id., Mori. \). 15.

la. Taillenlatz niemals in den hintern Ecken deutlich pnnktirt. Kiifer immer
kleiuer.

2 (2«). Taillenlatz vorne neben der Nabt scbmal nnd dicbt pnnktirt, uud
daselbst dicbt nnd meistens knrz bebaart.

3 (3a). Mittel- nnd Hinterscbiencn mit eiuem starken Dome. Das boch
anfgericbtete Kopfliorn gleichmiissig nach vorne gebogen, auf seiuem Riicken
meistens der ganzen Lange nach ansgefnrcht. Der gerade Clypensrand sebr fein
grannlirt. Unterlippe anf der Mitte ansgefnrcht. Die Kopffliicben gliinzend,
nnpnnktirt. Halsschild glatt, mit kleinen, nierenformigen, pnuktirten, tiefen
Narben, mit nridicbt gereibt punktirten Bucbten nnd Seitenrandfnrchen. Obere
FIgdfnrcben mit sebr scbwacber, Seitenfnrchen mit etwas deutlicherer Pnnktirnng.
Die beiden ersten Flaggenlappen etwa 2i mal so lang, als einzeln dick. Ob nur
Variation von edentulus ?

L. 28 mm. ; Br. 11 mm. ; Flgdl. 17 mm.

Hab. Anstralien. 2. A. tereoides Knw., Deutsche Eiit. Zeit. 1892.

3a. Nur die Mittelscbienen mit 1 Dome. Das Kopfliorn als Siinle steil anfrecht,
nnten hinten etwas iiberbangend, an seiner Spitze ansgerandet, anf der Rtickseite
scbriige abfallend. Die S- oder bogenartig geformten Narben des Halsscbildes
pnnktirt ; seine Randfurchen nnd Bnchten nndeutlicb pnnktirt. Oberlippc ziemlicb
tief ansgesehnitten. Flgd. oben mit nnpnnktirten, an den Seiten mit punktirten
Furcben. Vorletztes Banchsegment binten weit gernndet nach binten anf seiner
Mitte vorgescboben nnd daselbst mit dem Hinterrande des Abdomiiialsegraents
parallel. Die sebr schmale Seitenpunktirnng des anssern Taillenlatzrandes ist
meistens obne dentlicbe Behaarnng. Flaggcnglieder etwa 3 bis 'i\ mal so lang
als dick. Metasternalplatte hinten auf der Mitte mit kielartiger Erbobung uud

f 1'7S )

jwlerseitig daneben etwas eingedruckt, daselbst mitroscopisch pnnktirt. Das
Koiifhoru in seiner Stiirkei ctwas divergircnd.

L. 26 mm.; Br. 8*3 mm. ; Flgdl. 16 mm.

Ilab. Anstralien. 3. A. aliicornis Knw., I.e.

2a. Taillenlatz entweder gar nicht oder in den (irubchcu uebeii der Seite
pnnktirt.

4 (-la). Taillenlatz in den Griibchen nnhe der Naht pnnktirt. Das Kopfhorn
biuten kanm uberhiingend, steil aut'gcriclitot, obcn riiokwarts abgescbriigt und
gefnrcht. Die Halsschilduarben klein, gckriimmt, punktirt. Mittelsclueuen mit
starkerem, hintere mit schwiicherem Dome. Randfurchen nnd Buchten des
Halsschildes pnnktirt. Flgdfurchen siclitlicli punktirt. Rcbildchcn nur vnrno an
den Seiten mit feinen Liingspnukten.

L. 25 mm. ; Br. 8 mm. ; Flgdl. 16 mm.

Ilab. Anstralien. 4. A./oveipiinctatus Knw., I.e.

4a. Taillenlatz unpnnktirt oder nnr mit einzeluen nnsicbern Pnnkten zn den
Seiten der Mitte.

5 (5a). Die 2 ersten Lappen der Flagge sind, abgerechnet die Dicke des
Fiiilergliedes, nur etwa 3 mal so lang als breit, oder selir wenig liinger, niemals
4 bis () mal so lang.

6 ((iff). Der Clypensrand in der Nahe der Angenwande im schwachen Bogen
znriickgebogen, stark grannlirt. Mittelschienen mit einem dentlichen, Hinterschienen
mit einem sehr feinen Dornchen. Das Kopfhorn erst gerade in die Hohe steigcnd,
dann jdotzlicb nach vorne geneigt nnd anf diesem nacb vorne geneigten Theile (nnd
zwar bei einem Stiicke anf der Mitte mehr grnbenartig) ansgefnrcht. Das glaQzcnde,
nnpunktirte Halsschild mit bogeuartigen, pnnktirten, schragen, linearen Narben
nnd nnsicher pnnktirten Buchten nnd Seitenrandfurchcn. Samtliche Flgdfurchen
dentlich an den Seiten stiirker pnnktirt. Metasternum vor den Hinterhiiften
(immer ?) mit einem Griibchen. Zweiter Banchring anf der Mitte mit einem
starken Warzchen.

L. 22 mm. ; Br. 7-1 mm. ; Flgdl. 13 mm.

Ilab. Cap York, Anstralien. 5. A. rotandatoclypeatus Knw., l.c,

6a. Der Clypensrand vor den Angeuleisten nicht znriickgebogen, hochstens
etwas anfwiirts gebogen.

7 {'a). Derselbo trtigt anf seiner Mitte eine nacli innen gcrichtetc schwache
Verstiirknug nnd erscheint mehr dnrch diese als durch wirkliche Bicgnng sehr
schwach 2bogig ; er ist nicht grannlirt. Mittelschienen mit einem schwachen
DOrnchen, hintere mit schwachem Ansatz zu einem solcheu. Taille mit schwachem
Qnereindmck an den 8eiteu. Koj)f horn senkrecht, an der Spit/.e nach hiuten schriige
abgeschnitten, auf der Abschnittflache mit tici'em LiingsgrUbchen. Halsschild mit
schragen, bogigen, nnpnnktirten Narben nnd nnjinnktirtcn Buchten nnd Seiten-
randfurchcn. Alio Flgdfurchen dentlich nnd zicmlich gleiclimilssig stark pnnktirt.
Die Zunge des ersten Banchringes zwischendeu Hinterhiiften lotfeiartig ansgehbhlt;
der 2te dahinter mit Andentnug eiiier Lilngswarze.

L. 22 mm. ; Br. 7-2 mm. ; Flgdl. 13 mm.

Ilab. Fly-River, Nenguinea. C. A. arciuitoclypeatus Knw., l.c.

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la. Der Cly]ii.'usraiiil m der Mitte ohne Verstarkung iiach riickwarts.

8 (8a). Kafer mir 22'.) mm. laug. Hintereude der Metasternalplatte sehr
feiu (fast mikroscopiscli) punktirt und mifc schwacliem Mittelkiele. 2ter Hiuterleibs-
ring anf der Mitte mit sehr schwacher, warziger Auschwellnng. Mittel- und
Hinterschienen mit 1 Dilrnchen. Die Zunge des ersten Leibringes zwischen den
Hinterhiifteu liiffelartig ansgehohlt. Das Kopfhorn erst steil aiisteigetid und daiin
fast reclitwiuklig gebrochen, oben schwach ausgefurcht. Halsschild mit schriigen,
bogigen, unpunktirten Narben, unpunktirteii Buchten und Randfnrchen. Flgdfurchen
oben fast punktlos oder schwach i)Uaktirt, au den Seiten dentlich punktirt.
Taillenlatz an den Seiten mit wenigcu Pituktchen. Abdominalnarbe linienartig,
an jedem Ende zugespitzt. Kopfthiiler glatt. An der Augeuwand in der Richtung
des Kopf homes eine grosse Beule. Die 2 ersten Lappen der Flagge nur 2i mal
so laug, als einzeln dick. (1 Stiick).

L. 22-5 mm. ; Br. 7-3 mm. ; FIgdI. 13 mm.

llab. Australien (?). 7. A.fracticornis Kuw., I.e.

Sff. Kafer immer grosser.

9 (9^()- 24 mm. laug.

10 (10a). Das kleinere Kopfhorn ahnlich wie bei A. aliicornis vorne steil
ansteigend, von der Spitze nach hinten abgedacht, an der Spitze nach hiuten
ausgekehit, mehr hiigelartig. Die klirzere Zunge des ersten Segments zwischen
den Hinterhiifteu breiter, tief ausgehiihlt, uicht zugespitzt. Die obern Furchen der
Fliigeldecken ohue Pnnktirung. Nur die Mittelschienen mit 1 Dorncben. Das
glatte Halsschild mit kleinen, bogigen, nndeutlich pnnktirten, tiefen Narben, tiefen
Buchten und kaum pnnktirten Raudfurchen. Unterlippe mit Fnrchenandeutung
auf der Mitte. Oberlippe stark ausgeschuitten. Taillenlatz hinten matt und
liingsrunzlig, nach den Seiten zu mikroscopisch pnuktiert. Die 2 ersten Flaggenlappeu
stark 3i mal so lang als dick. Kopfthiiler glatt ; die feine Clypeusleiste ohne
erkennbare Granulation.

L. 24 mm. ; Br. 8 mm.; Flgdl. 14-5 mm.

Uab. Nias. 8. A. i-osenbcrgi Kaup, Col. Hefte III.

p. 7 (1868) ; id., Mon. p. 16.

Syn. : percheroni Kaup, Col. Hefte III. p. 8 (1868).

10a. Das etwas hohere Kopfhorn vorne weniger, hinten etwas starker iiber-
hangend, auf seiner abgeschragten, hintern Flache von der Spitze hcrab mit
Langsfnrche. Die langere Zunge des 1. Segments zwischen den Hinterhiifteu nach
vorne spitzig. Obere Fnrchen der Flgdn. ohne Punktirung. Mittelschienen mit
einem Dornchen. Halsschild mit kleinen, bogigen, punktirten Narben, nndeutlich
pnnktirten Buchten und Seiten raudfurchen. Taillenlatz glatt, gliinzend. Oberlippe
stark ausgeschuitten. Kopfthiiler glatt. Clypeusleiste ohne erkennbare Granulation.
Dieselbe ist am Ende vor dem Augenkiele zu einem rechtwinkligen Zahne
aufgebogen, von welchem eine feine Furche nnter das Kopfhorn zieht nnd welcher
bei rosenbcrgi weniger scharf und niedriger ist. Mittelschienen mit einem Dornchen,
hintere mit einem Ansatz zu einem solchen. Metasternalplatte liinten mit
Liingskielandeutung auf der Mitte, daneben soitwiirts etwas niedcrgedriickt.

L. 25-2 mm. ; Br. 8 mm. ; Flgdl. 1.5-8 mm.

Ilab. Australien. 9. A. aliicornis ab. sulcatipons Kuw., I.e.

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9a. 29 mm. lang.

11 (11«)- l^iis liohe Kojifhorn vorno mit Ixigigcm Ansschnitte, nach vorne
ziomlicli weit, nach hiuten wpniger weit iilicrliangpnd, vorne zienilicli hoch
iingerichtct, olu'n auf dor schriigen, nach liinten aligedachten Fliiche mit Liiugrs-
fnrche. Obere Fnrchen der Flgdn. mit schwiicherer Pnuktirung als die Seiten-
fnrchcn. Mitfel- nnd Hintorschionen mit 1 Dr.riichen. Ilalsschild mit pnnktirten,
bogenftirniigen Narben, ])nnktirtcn Buehten nnd Seitenraudl'iirchon. Taillcniatz
gliinzond, hinten anf der Mitte matt, an den Seiten bisweilen mit einzelnen
I'nukten. Clypensleiste fein, gliiniiend, nicht gnmnlirt. Innere, ancli anssere,
Augenwand gegen den Glypeusrand zn schwachem Ziihnchen crhobcn, so dass an
jeder Seite 2 Ziihne sind.

L. 28—29 mm.: Br. !> mm.; FlgdJ. 17-.5 mm.

IJab. Gaj'ndah, Queensland. In. .1. /caupi MacLeay, Tr. Ent. Soc.

^\s.^v. II. p. 173.

lire. Kopflinrn hoch, bogig, nach vorne iibergelegt, nach obeu sich ziomlich
gleichmiissig verschnialcrml, mit ausgefurchtem lUickei\ nnd ansgefurchtcr Sjiitze.
Der vorne schwach concave Clypeiisrand ziemlich breit, graunlirt. Koi)fthalcr und
Flachen glatt. Zwischen Kopf horn nnd Augenwand ein tiefer, grubenartiger Punkt
anf dem Grnnde des Thales. Halsschild mit gebogcnen, schriig nach vorne
gerichteten punktirten Narben, jinnktirten Bnchtcn und Randfnrchen, sehr fein
mikroscopisch reticulirt. Obere Fliigeldeckenfnrchen sehr fein, Seitenfurchen fein
])unktirt. Erster Bauchring hinter dem zwischen die Hinterhiiften hineinreichenden,
breiteren, rauhen, ansgehohlten Vorsprnng fein und dicht punktirt. Metasternum
mit Liingsrinne auf der Mitte. Mittelschienen mit 1 Dijrnchen, hinten mit 1
Ziihnchen.

L. 28—29 mm.; Br. lU mm.; Flgdl. 17 mm.

Ilab. Australien. 11. .1. edentulun MacLeay, in King's Su.rt. Austr.

II. p. 439 ; Biirm., llandb. V. p. 515 ; Perch., Mag. Zool. ji. 39
(1841).

Syn. : c)jlindraceus Percherun, Mon. p. 103. t. 7. f. 8 (1835).

furcicornis Boisd., Voi/. AstroL, Col. p. 242 (1835) (Port
Jackson); Fauvel, Bull. Soc. Norm. VII. p. 135 (1802).

ha. Die 2 ersteu Lappen der Flagge sind mehr als 4 mal so lang, als einzein
dick.

12 (12a). Die obern Fnrchen der Flgdn. ohne Punktirung, nur nach hinten zu
mit schwacher Andentung einer solchen. Uas Kopfhorn erst gerade ansteigcnd,
dann kurz gebrochen, nach vorne mehr iiberliiingcud, hinten wenig iibergenoigt,
vorne auf dem nach hinten abgescliriigten Uiickeu der Oberseite wenig ausgckehlt
nnd in der sclnvachcn Anskehlung selir fein zerstrent punktirt. Halsschild mit
scliriigen, uupunktirten Narben, Buehten und Kandfurclieu. Der 1. Bauchring
hinter der spitzen, zwischen die Hinterhiiften reichenden Zunge selir dicht punktirt,
der 2. daselbst angcschwollen. Unterlippe auf der Mitte glatt, winklig vorgezogen
imd nusgehiihlt. Mittel- nnd Hinterschicnen mit 1 Diirnchen. Metasternalj)!utte
sehr .sciiwacli gewolbt.

L. 26 mm.; Br. 9'7 mm.; Flgdl. 1(1 mm.

Had. Am Inseln. . 12. A. glabriusctilus Kuw., I.e.

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12(t. Audi die obeni Furclieu der Flgdn. immcr mit dentlichen Pnnkteu.

13 (13a). Der zwischen die Hinterliiifteu hiueiiiragende Vorsprung des 1.
Banchriages ist scliarf, spitzig, nicht ausgehohlt. Kiifer nnr 20 mm. laug.
Kopfhorn, wis bei rosenbergi, ist ein hoher, an seiner Spitze ausgekehlter Hocker.
Neben den Stirnwiinden dem Kopfhorn gegenliber stehend, wie bei deu meisten Arten,
cine abgerandete Anftreibong des Kopfes. Alle Kopffliichcn glatt, die Clypeusleiste
granulirt. Mittelschienen mit einem kleiuen Dornchen, hiutere mit einem kleiiien
Ansatz zn einem solclieu. Uuterlippe mit stumpier, schwach concaver Spitze auf
der Mitte.

L. 20 mm.; Br. 7 mm.; Flgdl. 13 mm.

Ilab. Pliilippinen. 13. ^1. dilatiiH Kuw., I.e.

13a. Der zwiscben die Hinterliiil'ten hineiureicliende Vorsprung des 1. Baucb-
segments ist nicht scharf zugespitzt, sondern an seiner Spitze etwas abgernndet ;
hinter ihm tragt der 2. Bauchring oft anf seiuem Vorderraude oder in der Mitte eiue
glatte, warzeuartige ErhiJbnng. Die schriige, bogige Halsschildnarbe, die Buchten
und Randfurchen derselben mit Punkteu auf dem Grunde. Die Oberlippe aus-
gescbnitten. Mittel- und Hinterschienen mit einem Dornchen.

14 (14a). Kopfhorn steil austeigend, hakenformig nach vorne Ubergebogen.

15 (1.5a). Dasselbe ist nnr an seiner Spitze ausgefnrclit. Der deutlich grann-
lirte CI)'pensrand wenig convex vorgebogen. Die Zunge des 1 . Segments zwischeu
den Hinterhiiften stark concav, dahinter dasselbe stark granulirt und das 2. Segment
anf der Mitte mit schwacher, warziger Anftreibnng. Die winklig vorgezogenc Mitte
der Unterlippe auf der Sjiitze concav. Das Kopfhorns etwas variirend und oft dem
von aruensis iihnelnd, hangt dann auch hinteu etwas liber.

L. 25—2(3 mm.; Br. 93 mm.; Flgdl. 15-7 mm.

Hab. Molnkkeu. 14. A. parnji Kaup, Col. Hefte III. p. 8 (1868);

id., Mon. p. 16.

15a. Dasselbe ist an seiner ganzen Ober- und Riickseite ausgefnrcht. Die
stark concave Zunge des 1. Segments zwischen den Hinterhiiften mit stark wulstigen
glatten Riiudern, dahinter das 1. Segment gliinzend, mit stiirkerer Granulation, und
das 2. mit warziger Langskielung nach vorne. Die in der Mitte gerundet wiuklig
vorgezogene, convexe Unterlippe daselbst concav. Der feine, sehr fein granulirte
Clypeusrand ganz gerade. Die Seitenfurcheu der Flgdn. mit starken Punkten.

In der Form des Kopfhorns wahrscheiulich ebenso variirend, als der vorige
nnd folgeude. Mir stand nur 1 Stiicli znr Verftigung, das ich fiir identisch mit dem
Kaupschen perlaiua halte.

L. 24 mm.; Br. 8 mm.; Flgdl. 15 mm.

Rab. Neuguinea. 15. A. perlatus Kaup, Col. Hefte III. p. 7 (1868);

id., Mon. p. 15.

14a. Das Kopfhorn oben bald melir, bald weniger gedriickt und ansgefnrcht,
hinten etwas, vorne starker iiberhiingend, oben wenig schriige nach hintend
abfallend oder etwas gebogen.

If) (IGa). 23 — 24 mm. laug. Die Unterlippe anf der schwach concaven Mitfe
stumpfwiuklig vorgezogen uud auf der Spitze schwach gefurcht. Der erste Leibesring
hinter der Zunge matt durch sehr diclite Granulation, dahinter der 2. Leibesring mit
bald mehr, bald weniger warzenartiger Auschwellung an der Vorderseite. Durch

It)

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die Variationen des Kopfhorns sich sowohl an parriji, als an perlatus anlehnend
and vielleicht iinr Variation.

L. 23 mm.; Br. 8 mm.; Flgdl. 1.") mm.

JIah. Am Inseln. 16. A. a?-uensis'K\\yi.,l.c.

16a. 20 — 21 mm. Die Unterlippe in der Mitte nach vorne zu oiner sj)itzeu
Ecke vorgezogen. Die der Naht zuuiicLst gclegeueu Furclien der FIgdn. wenig
kenntlich pnnktirt. Der erste Leibesriug hinter der Zmige matt durch dichte
Grannlation, der 2. dahinter olme Anscliwellnng. Der feine Clypensraud glatt,
schwacb bogig naeb hiuteu. Siimtliclie Kopfthiiler glatt. Die breiten Halsschild-
Imchten, die Ifandfnrchen nnd halbbogenfijrmigen Xarbcn mit augedeuteter f'einer
Puuktirung. Mittelscliieueu mit 1 starken, hiutere mit . schwachem Dome.
A. dilatus selir ahulich.

L. 20 mm.; Br. 6 mm.; Flgdl. 13 mm.

llab. Neuguinea. 17. A. variolosus Knw., I.e.

Anmerknng: Bei der grosson Schwierigkeit, diese Thierc richtig zu bestimmen, folgt, zumal die
Proportion zwischen Lange and Dicke der ersten Flaggenglicder leicht zu Tiiuschungen Vcranlassong
giebt. zur Priifwng richtiger Determination in gedriingter Kiirze nach einem andem Modus die diagnostiscbc
TabeUe von 4 ab : —

4 (4a). Taillenlatz unpunktirt oder nor mit einzelnen unsichern I'unkten zu den Seiten der Slittc.

5 (5a). Die Riickenstreifen der Flgdn. obnc I'unktimng.

6 (6a). Das Kopfhorn ist ein hoher, nur an der Spitze ausgekehltcr Buckel.

L. 24 mm. 4. A. roseiihcrgi Kaup.

6a. Das Kopfhorn ist hinten wenig Ubergeneigt, nach vom st&'ker iiberhangend, oben gcfnrcht.

7 (7a). Mittelschienen allein mit Dornchcn. Halsschildseitenrandfurchen undcutlich punktirt.
L. 25-2 mm. 5. A. milcatipntut Kuw.

7a. Auch die Hinterschienen mit einem Ansatz zuui Zahne. Halsschildseitenfurchen obne Punktirang.
L. 26*2 mm. 6. A. tjlabyimcuhut Kuw.

6a> Riickenstreifen der Flgd. mit undeutlicher oder deutUchcr Punktirung.

8 (8a). Riickenstreifen mit undeutlicher oder schr schwacber I'unktirung.

9 (Oa). Zwischen Kopfhorn und Augenwand im Tbalc cin grosser Punkt. Ualsschildrandftircheu
punktirt. Kopfhorn eine krummc Saulc.

L. 29 mm. 7. A. iilcntuliis M.icLeay.

9a. Zwischen Kopfhorn und Augenwand kcin solcher Punkt. Halsschiidrandfurcben unpunktirt.
Kopfhorn nach vorne umgebrochen.

L. 22 mm. 8. A. fractieornis K.MV/.

Sa. Riickenstreifen der Flgdn. deutlich punktirt.

10 (lOa). Clypeusrand schwach convex geformt.

L. 22 mm. 9. A. rotuadatoclyjientm Kuw.

lOo. Clypeusrand nieht convex.

11 (lla). Clypeusrand in der Mitte riiekwarts verstSrkt.

L. 22 mm. 10. A. arcuatoclypvatuji Kuw.

llo. Clypeusrand woder vorwiirts ausgebogen, noch in der Mitte verstarkt.

12 (12a). Das Kopfhorn ein hoher, nur an seiner 8pitze ausgekehlter Buckel.

L. 20 mm. U. A. dilatut Kmw

Via. Das Kopfhorn immer nach vonie iibergelegt,

13 (13a). 29 mm. 12. J. Aatt/)i MacLeay.

13a. Kleiner.

14 (lla). Kopfhorn nur an der Spitze ausgefurcht, ein kurzes Horn,

25 mm. 13. A. parniji Kau]i.

14a. Kopfhorn auf dem RUcken ausgefurcht

15 (lijtt). Kopfhorn ein krummes Horn.

24 mm. 14. ^l.^wWa^iM Kaup.

15a. Kopfhorn ein gebrochcncs Horn.

23 mm. 16. A, ariwmth Kuw.

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Tristorthus Knw., I.e.

Dem Genns Aulacocydaa sehr uahe stehend. Die Kopfflachen unjinnktirt nnd
ohne Haare, das Schildcheu nnd die Taille ohne die tiefeu Punkte von Comacupes.
Die Taille an den Seiten mit Qnereindrnck, wie bei Aulacoo/clus. Das Kopfhorn
entweder oben mit Litngsfurche, daun iispitzig ; oder Ispitzig, daun schmalgedriickt
wie bei Comacupes. Unterlippe anf der Mitte ohne Langskiel.

1 (la). Kopfhorn ohne Langsfnrche, wie bei Comacupes basalis gebant, liinten
ziemlich steil ansteigend und wenig vorwarts geueigt, vorne uuter der Uberhaugeudeu
Spitze gerade abfalleud, hinten mit glauzeuder, abgernndeter Ecke. Angenwand
auf der Mitte scharfwinklig, vorue mit kleiner Siiitze endigend. Unterlippe anf der
Mitte glanzend, am Vorderrande mit Eindrnck. Taillenlatz an den Seiten fein
jjunktirt, sonst ganz glanzend. Mittel- nnd Hinterschieneu mit Dornchen. Mir
fremd; nach Stoliczka.

L. 22-5 mm. ; Br. 6-8 mm. : Flgdl. 13-2 mm.

Hah. Philippinen (?). 1. T.feldci-i ^to\., Jotirn. An. Soc. Briifi.\i.\^'Z (li^''?!).

la. Kopfhorn mit Langsfnrche.

2 (2a). Die Langsfnrche tief, bis znr S])itze des Homes gehend, welches
dadnrch vorne, ohne dass die Sohle der Fnrche znr Sjjitze vorgezogen ist, dreizahnig
erscheint. Der Clypensrand fein, an den Seiten meistens zn einem spitzen Zahnchen
vor der Angenwand anfgebogen. Diese vor der Mitte zn einer stnmpfwinkligen
Spitze sich erhebend. Halsschild mit tiefen Bnchten nnd Narbeu, sehr fein nnd
nndicht pnnktirt. Fliigeldeckenfurchen oben ziemlich fein, an den Seiten viel
grober pnnktirt. Unterlippe mit gewblbter, glatter, nnbehaarter Mitte, vorne
daselbst ziemlich breit nnd eckig vorgezogen. Metasternaliilatte nnd Hintereckeu
glatt. Taillenlatz ganzlich nupnnktirt, glanzend, uur hinten zn beideu Seiten der
Mitte mit wenigen Punktchen nnd Harchen. Mittel- und Hinterschieneu mit
1 Dornchen.

L. 22'5 mm. ; Br. 7'7 mm. : Flgdl. 12-7 mm.

Hab. Penang ; Blalaeca. 2. T. cacicoi-nis Kaup, CoL Hefte III. p. .5

(l»t)8) ; id., 2Lm. j). 19.
Syn.: laevicornis Kanp, Col. Hefte IIL p. 6 (1868); id., Man. p. 19.

2a. Die flache Langsfnrche tragt anf der Mitte des Horns zn jeder Seite einen
stnmpfeu Zahn, wahrend das Horn selbst vorne zn langerer Spitze ubergeht, welche
vor- nnd ab warts geneigt ist. Clypens ohne dentliche Randnng. Angenwand vor
der Mitte abgerundet stnmpfwinklig ; vor ihr der C'l3'pensrand mit stnmpfem oder
ohne Zahn.

3 (3a). Kafer 30 mm. lang. Halsschildnarben ganz nnpnnktirt. Unterlippe
zn den Seiten der Aushcihluug ihrer Slitte vorne in je einen ziemlich scharfen Zahn
vorgezogen. Seitenfnrchen der Flgdn. uicht grober pnnktirt als die Ruckeufnrclion.
Taillenlatz ganz ohne Punktirnng, glanzend. Cl}'peusrand vor der Angenwand zu
einem rechtwinkligen Zahne anfgebogen.

L. 30 mm. ; Br. 11 — 12 mm.

Hab. Neucaledonien. 3. T.Joriis Knw., l,c.

3a. Killer immer kleiner. Halsschildnarben pnnktirt. Unterlippe nnr dor
Lange nach in der Mitte ausgehohlt, ohuc in einen Zahn jeseitig vorgezogen zu seia.

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Anch die Seitenrander des Halsschildes, wenn audi ntidentlich, pnnktirt. Clypens-
raud vor dcr Angenwaud abgernndet anfgebogeii.

4 (ia). Kiifer c. 23 — 25 mm. lang. Dio HalsschiklQarben sclimal, mil wcuigen
grosseren Pankten. Schildeheu ganz vorne aufder Mitte, Taillcnlatz hiuten an deu
Seiteiiniihten fein pnnktirt. Flgdfurchen ziemlich grob pnnktirt. Clypeusrand
vorue ziemlich gerade.

L. 2-lo mm. ; Br. 8 mm. ; Flgdl. 14 mm.

Hab. Neacaledonien. 4. T. tricuspis Kaup, Col. Ilefle 111. p. 7 (18C8) ;

id., Mon. p. 18.

4a. Kafer nnr 17 mm. lang. Die HalsschUdnarbcn breiter, fein, dicht und
deutlich jjuuktirt. Schildchen vorue mit Mittclliiiie nud daselbst pnnktirt.
Taiileulatz mit starker Einschniirnug an deu 8eiten und uupuuktirt. Clypeusrand
vorne stark ansgebuchtet. Flgdfurchen grob [luuktirt.

L. 17 mm. ; Bfr. iVi mm. ; Flgdl. lOo mm.

Hab. Nencaledonien . 5. T. scvcrini Kuw., I.e.

Comacupes Kaup, Mon. p. 17.

Die Uuterlippe ist ant' ihrer Langsmitte immer gekielt.

1 {\a). Das Kopfhorn ist dreiziihnig nnd triigt auf seinem Riickon eine Fnrrhe
Von deu 3 Ziihnen entstehen die beiden oberen durch das Aufhorcu dcr Seitenwande
der Fnrche, wahreud die Sohle der Rinne als Spitze oder dritter Zahn vorne das
Kopfhorn beendigt.

2 (2a). Kiifer nnr 17 mm. lang. Das Halsschild mit tiefen, grossen Bnchten,
mit geweihformigeu, tiefen Narbcn, und ansserdem noch mit rnnden, grlibchenartigen
Vertiefnngen nnregelmassig versehen. Das Kopfhorn knrz ; seine vorspringende
Spitze lang. Flgdn. in alien Fnrchen mit grossen Punkten. Tailleulatz nnr an den
Seitea pnnktirt und behaart. Unterlippe tibcrall dicht behaart. Mittel- uud
Hmterschienen mit 1 Dome. Nnr 1 Stlick.

L. 17 mm. ; Br. 5"8 mm. ; Flgdl. in mm.

Hab. Borneo. 1. C.fomicoUh Kuw., I.e.

2a. Kafer immer grosser. Die zackige Halsschildnarbe ist flacher, fast
nni)unktirt; Bnchten nnd Randfnrchen breit, mit flachen Pnnkten. Das Kopfhorn
hiuten steil abfalleud, mit tiefer Scheitelfnrche und kiirzerer Spitze. Clypensraud
stark wulstig, gliiuzeud, ohue grosse Pnnkte. Angeukiel zneinem langeu, stumj)feu
Dome erweitert. Flgdu. mit sehr feinen Puukten in den Fnrchen ; lutervalle mit
schwachen Fiiltchen. Tailleulatz uberall tief und grob pnnktirt und lang behaart.
Unterlijjpenmitte mit nach hiuten stark ansteigendem, hohem Kiele. Die Banch-
ringe an den Seiten stark puuktirt. Die Aagenwande hoch, vorue nud hiuten fast
rechtwiuklig abi'alleuil.

L. 275 mm.; Br. y-5 mm.; Flgdl. l(i mm.

Hab. Padaug, Sumatra; Jahoro. 2. C. westermanni Kuw., I.e.

la. Das schmalgedriickte Kopfhoru immer ohue starke Fnrche auf seiuem
Scheitel; es endigt, ohue mehrere deutliche Ztihne zn bildeu, entweder in einer
Ifiugecen nach vorne gerichteten Spitze, oder ist daselbst ziemlich senkrecht
abgeschuitteu.

3 (3a). Dasselbe endigt in einer langern nach vorne gerichteten Spitze.

4 (4a). Der Tailleulatz des grosseru, breitern Kiifers ist anf seiner Mitte

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oeinahe nnpnaktirt, oder zerstrent pnnktirt. Das Kopfhorn mit nach vorne
gebogener Spitze liat anf seiner Mitte eiueu schwachen Ansatz zweier Knotchen,
welclie quer gegeniiber stehen. Die stark punktirte nnd behaarte Stirn hat vor dam
Kopfhorn sine erhabene, glatte, nnpnnktirtn Stella. Die Angenwand stnmpfwinklig
auf ihrer Mitte. Unterlippe mit liohem, vorne und hinten abgernndoten Kiele.
Metasternum von den Seiten bis anf die Platte heranf pnnktirt. FIgdn. zwischen
den gewolbten Intervallen mit fein pnnktirten Fnrchen. Mittelschienen mit starkem,
liintere mit schwacliem Dome.

L. 34 mm. ; Br. 12 mm.; Flgdl. 21 mm.

Hah. Philijipiueu. 3. C. busalis Smith, Cat. Pass. ]i. Is. t. 1. f. 5.

Syu.: comatiis Kanp, Col. Hefte III. j). 9 (1868).

An. Der Taillenlatz des betraclitlich schmiileren Kiifers ist mit Ausnahme der
schmalen, gliinzenden Liiugsmitte dicht nnd .stark pnnktirt. Das schmal znsam-
mengedriickte Kopfhorn hintan wenig tibergenaigt, oben wagerecht, vorne mit
etwas abgasetzter, langer, etwas niederwilrts gerichteter Spitze. Angeuwande
oben wagerecht, vorne nnd hinten stnm])fwinklig abfallend. Halsschild mit tiefen
Bnchten nnd tiefen, etwas gebogenen Narben. Flgdn. mit fein jmnktirten Fnrchen.
Metasternum mit Ansnahme der gliinzenden Platte tlberall dicht nnd stark pnnktirt.
Unterlippen dicht bahaart, hoch, beinahe zngernndat gekialt. Mittelschienen mit
starkem Dome, hintere mit stumjifem Zahnchen.
L. 27-0 mm. ; Br. 8-4 mm. ; Flgdl. 16 mm.

J lab. Java; Malacca; Singapore? 4. C. ryl/nrhaceus Terty, Obs. Col.

hid. 1831. p. 36. t. 1. f 3; Perch., Ma,j. Zool. p. 40. t. 79. f 4 (1841);
Burm., I.e. p. 516.

Syn.: piinctifrons Hope, Cat. Lucanid. p. 29 (184.5).

3". Das Kopfhorn ist vorna ziemlich sankrecht abgeschnitten,meistensflach von
den Seiten znsammengcdriickt, hinten steil anfsteigend nnd wenig iibergeneigt,
vorne frei. Halsschild mit tiefen, pnnktirten Bnchten nnd nupnidvtirten Narben.
Fliigeldeckenfnrchen fein pnnktirt. Metasternnm mit nnpnnktirter Platte, in den
Hinterecken wenig oder nicht, an den Saltan dicht pnnktirt.

5 (5a). Der Taillenlatz, vorne mit schmalem Kiele, ist uberall dicht pnnktirt.
Das schmale Koiifhorn bildet vorne oben einen spitzen, nnten einen stnmjifen, stark
abgernndeten, Winkel, nnd hat oben in der Mitte Andentnng einer Fnrche ; vor
demselben die Stirn mit erhabener, glatter, begrenzter Stella. Die Angenwande
oben wagerecht, hinten beinahe rechtwiuklig, vorne in sehr stumpfem Winkel
abfallend. Breiter als der vorige, mit welchem er von Kaup znsammengeworfen
zn sein scheint. Metasternalplatte mit Mittelfnrchcnandentnng. Mittel- nnd
Hintarschienen mit 1 Di'irnchen.

L. 30 mm.; Br. 11 5 mm.; Flgdl. 17o mm.

lldb. Malacca. 5. C. am/ust/eorm's Knw., I.e.

•)a. Der Taillenlatz in der Mitte nndicht pnnktirt, kanm mit Kielandentnng.
Das schmale Kopfhorn ist vorne oben hoch abgernndet, nnten mit abgeruudet
spitzem Winkel. Vorderkopf ziemlich nndicht pnnktirt. Halsschildseitenfnrchau
mit Pnnkten. Sternalplattc olinc Jlittelfnn'he. Slittel- nnd Hintarschienen mit 1
Dornchen. Kiel der Unterlijjpe vorne nnd hinten abgernndet.

L. 27 mm.; Br. 10 mm.; Flgdl. 17 mm.

Ilab. Borneo; Jahore. 6. C. musoni StoL, .lourn As. Sac. Bern/, p. lol

(1873).

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■ 2. Gruppe : PASSALINAE.

Passalus F., Ent. Sijst. II. p. 240 (1793).

Keine Sjmr von Stirnleistea vorhatulen. Die Olierlippe voriietief ausi;:eschnitton.
Das meisteus lauge Kopfhorn erst iu die Hohe stcigeud, dann nach vonie gericlitet.
Uiiterer Seitenrand des Halsschildes und Mittelschienen stark behaart.

1 {\ii). Obcrlippe nicmals so weit ansgeschnitten, dass die Lappen so lang als
breit siiid. Amerikauische Thiere.

2 (2a). Halssohild stiirker gewolbt, deutlich breiter als die Fliigeldecken. Die
Taillennarben fehleud, au ihrer Stelle am Vorderraude der Nalit ein linearer, matter,
Streif. Hinterecken des Metasternnms ohne Pnnkte. Oberlippe etwas tiefer
eino'escbuitten. Mit mikroscopisch feiner Pnnktirnug anf dem ganzen, stark
o-lanzendeu, Metasternnm. Die Seitenrinuen desselben sehr schmal, iioch etwas
scbmaler als bei den folgenden, von denen derselbe wesentlich dnrch seine GWissc
zn nuterseheiden ist, sowic dnrch das stiirkere Halsschild. Der Ohpcnsrand in der
Mitte weuiger verstiirkt.

L. 38 mm.

//«i. BrasQicn. 1. P. hos Knw.J.r.

2a. Halsschild, wenn auch stark gewolbt, docli uicht breiter als die Flgdu.
Die Taillennarben ans seichten, grossen, an einander gereihten, matten Punkteu
bestebeud, ziemlich schmal nnd lang. Hinterecken des Metasternnms meistens
mit etlicben Pnnkteu, bisweileu jnmktfrei ; seine Seitenrinnen meistens nm ein
weniges schmiiler, als beim vorigeu. Kal'er sonst demselbeu sehr gleichend. Der
Cl37)ensrand nach vorne iu der Mitte mehr verstiirkt.

3 (3a). Das Kopfhoru sehr lang, vorne weit iiberhangend, vor seiner Spitze
verbreitert.

L. 35 bis 37 mm.

JJri/i. Dnrch ganz Nordamerika sehr verbrcitet, selten in Siidaraerika.

•,'. /'. coniutus F., Sijst. Ent. II. \^. 2.')G ;
Beanv., Ins. Afr. et Amer. I. p. 1. t. 1. f. 1 ; Burm., I.e. pp. 451. 510;
Kanp, Mo/i. p. 106.

Syn.: interruptii.s Linne, Mu.h. f.iit/. Ulr. p. 35; Oliv., Ent. I. 1.
p. 25. t. 3. f. 5.

(Ustinctiig Perch., Mon. p. !H». t. 7. 1'. (i ; Chap, et (Jaiid.,
Mem. Liege VIII. p. 467. t. 4. f. .5.

3a. Das Kopfhorn kiirzer, vorne weniger weit iibergelegt, vor seiner Spitze
nicht verbreitert.
I,. •,5()_32 mm.

II<ih. \Vie der vorigc verbreitet. 3. P. cornutus ah. distinctiisWchcT,

Obs. Ent. I. p. 79.

Syn.: disjunctus Illiger, in Oliv. I. edit, lllig. p. 78.

\a. Die Oberlippe so tief ansgeschnitten, dass die La])]Hni bisweilen fast so
lang als breit sind. Der linko Kiefer nnten an der Anssenscite wenig stiirker
gckantet, als bei den amerikanist^hen Arteu. Vom Vorderzahn die 2 nntorn
Ziickcheii dnrch eine scharfere nnd ti(!fere Fnrchc geschiedeii. Im iibrigen cornutus
F. ganz gleichend.

■Wiewohl mir nach Aufstellnng dieser Art einige Sendungen vom Congo

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zngingen, ist es mir nicht gelnugen, darin difse von Herrn Handler Kricheklorf
bezogeue Art wiederzufinden ; die Bichtigkeit der Herstammnng voni Congo ist mir
fast versichert worden.

L. 29—30 mm.

Ilab. ? Congo. 4. P. stanleyi Knw., I.e.

Rimor Kanp, Mon. p. 119.

1 (la). Schildcben mit feiuer Langslinie anf der Mitte. Kopfliorn hinten lioch
Ijalbkngelig, vorne von oben geschen den Cl.vpensrand nicht ganz erreichend uud
stark abwiirts geueigt. Die NebenhOcker tiefiiegende, lierabziebende, schwaclie
Helieflinien, die in einem nach hinten gerichteten Bogen sich mit dem ver-
scbmiilerten, ebenfalls gebogenen Ende des Angenwnlstes verbiuden. Die Taille
mit hochgelegeuer, rnndlicher Narbe. Die pnuktrdrmigen Halsschilduarben mit
(jnerem Grnude.

L. 30—32 mm.

Hub. Mexico. 1. R- saryi Kanp, I.e. p. 119.

1«. Schildchen ganz glatt. Kopfhorn liinten halbkngelig, mit der Spitze deu
Clypensvorderraud uicht erreichend, vorne stark aljwiirtsgeiieigt. Die NebeuhiJcker
als Querkiele sich nach den Seitenthalern lierabsenkend nnd dann hinten im Bogen
mit dem Ende des Angenwnlstes verbindend. Das Griibchen der Stirn unter der
Kopfhornspitze klein nnd dentlich: zwisclien ihm und dem Clypensrand ein vorne
durch eine sehr breite, flache nnd etwas grannlirte Fnrche begrenzter ziemlich
schmaler Wulst. Der Clypensrand am Ende zn einem rechteckigeu Zahne scliarf
in die Hohe gebogen. tJber den schmalen, schragen Halsschilduarben ein
Conglomerat von Pnukten. Taillenuarben bogig nnd schmal, gliinzend, wie der
ganze Tailleulatz. Mittelschiene mit 1 — 2 Doruen, Hinterschieuen mit 1 Doru.
Metasternalhinterecken nnpnnktirt, Seitenstucke schmal.

L. 27 mm.

Hah. Costa Rica. 2. B. Iionesfus Knw., l.r.

Rimoricus Knw., I.e.

Vor dem weit iiberhiingenden Kopfhorne ein flachor, grtibchenartigcr Eindrnck.
Stirnleisten immer nndentlich oder fehleud. Das Kopfhorn hinten immer .sehr
breit. Der Clypens, welcher bel Passalus fast immer etwas nach vorne anf seiner
Mitte ans- oder vorgebogen oder erweitert ist, tritt daselbst bei Rimor immer etwas
znrlick. Die Taille ist jranktirt nnd behaart.

Der Taillenlatz an den Seiten immer pnnktirt nnd Ijehaart. Das Kopfhorn an
seiner Wnrzel nicht halbkngelig.

1 (Iff). Das Kopfhorn, liings seinem ganzen Rucken mit breiter Liingsfurche,
erreicht von oben gesehen den Clypensrand nicht ganz. Die Nebenhoeker hohe, an
den Seiten etwas nach vorne gerichtete Kiele. Halsschilduarben qnere, anf dem
Grnude pnnktirte Fnrchen. Die nndeutlichen Stirnleisten gehen vorne in die
Briicke zwischen Clypenshocker nnd Augeiiwaud iiber. Hinterecken des Meta-
sterunms mit feineu Piinktchen. Scluldclion hinten jederseits neben der glatten
Mitte dnrch feine Pnnktirnng etwas rnnzlig. Der Clypens vor dem Wulst ziemlich
breit schneidenartig anf die Lippe gelegt, ilhulich wie bei den roi)ilius-Arten. Seiten
des Metasteruums ohne begrenzte Riunen.

L. 35 — 30 mm.

Bab. Central America. 1. R. ridiculus Kuw., l.c.

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la. Das Kopfborn lans:, diinner, ohne Fnrche, von oben gesehen iiber den
Clypensraiul liinausFeicheiid. Die NebenhOcker bestehen aus reliefartigeu, voiu
KopfTiorn sich in das Seitentbal lierabseukendeu Linien, welche im Bogeu gegen die
Augeuwand zielion. Die Stirne sehr knrz. Scbildchen mit Liingsmittelfnrclie,
glatt. Die knrzen, qnereu Halsscbilduarbeu ueben sicb oben mit weuigcu Piinkteu.
Ansscre Augeuwand vorne mit einem Ziibucbeu, oben mit 2 stnmjifon Tuborkelu.
8eiten('urcbe des Metasternums breit, begreuzt. Ilinterecken mit wenigen grosseu
Piiukten. Oberlippe stark ansgeschnitten. Die Epiplenren des Metasternums
dicht jinnktirt uud behaart. Uuterer Halsscliildsoitenraud, Mitteltibieu imd
iiusserstc Schulteveckeu der Fliigcldockcn diclit behaart.

L. 36 mm.

Hal). Mexico. 2. li. suyitlariiis Smitli, Cat. Brit. Mus.; Kauj), Mod.

p. 120.
Syn.: rimator Tvw[., Rev. Zool. p. 26G (1857).

Oileus Kaup, Col. Hefte V. p. 3 (I.nOO): Mon. p. .58.

Nur 1 Species bisher bekaunt : —

Oberlijjjie vorgestreckt, tief ansgeschnitten. Clypensrand ans 2 sehr scbwachen,
gebogeueu, nadi aussen convexen Leisten gobihU't, die an dcr Mitte znsammenstossen,
daselbst einen sebwacheu Eiudruck bildcn und an den tiussern Enden als Zahnclien
sich crheben, das auf einem Wnlst auf der Briicke znr Angenwand sitzt. Das
starke, der Liinge nacli gefnrchte Kopfhorn krtimmt sich von der Wurzel an nnd
neigt sicli mit dcr freien Spitze nach nnten. Stiruleisten durch undentliche
Wiilste angedcntet. Fliigeldecken mit breiteu IJipinni, schwachen feiuen Furchen
und fcinon Piinktchen in diesen. Boi der vorliegendeu Species wird das 3. interval!
der Fliigeldecken hinten von dem 2. nnd 4., das 6. von dem 5. nnd 7. nmschlossen,
so dass sicli vereinigen hinten die Furchen 1 nnd 4, 2 nnd 3, 5 imd 8, 6 nnd 7.
Scbildchen in der Mitte ghxtt, am Ende gefnreht, an den Sciten pnnktirt. Niichst
der Nalit des Taillenlatzes eine schwache, liiugliohe Narbe. Sternalschild nach
hinten mit einigen Punkten, mndlich, die Hintereckou grob nnd stark jiunktirt.
Mittel- nnd Hintorschienen mit kriiftigem, kurzem Dome. Halsschilduarbe klein
nnd glatt.

L. 42 mm.: Br. 15 mm.; Illsschd. 11 mm.

Ilalj. Huanchinango in Mexico (im Miirz). 1. O. hcrosTxwi., Rer. Zool.

p. 202 (1857).

Passalotaeuius Kuw,, I.e.

Der Clyjicus auf seiner Mitte ohne Zahn; hicrdurcli von (hlontotaenius getreunt.

1 {la). Die Enden der kurzen, im stnmpi'en Wiukel auseinandergeheuden
Stirnieisten sind dicht unter dem Koj)fhorn durch eine wenig unterbrocheno Quor-
leiste verbnnden. Dcr Clypensrand entsendet auf den Seitenrand der Oberlippe
einen stuni])fen Zahn und riclitet sich oberhalb seitwiirts von diesem zu einem starken
Ziihnclien auf. Die Kupi'tlialer vor den Is'ebenhockern punklirt. Das Kupfhoru
hinten tropfenartig auf die von den Nebenhockern gebildete Platte gelegt, vorne
als gemndeter freier Zapfen erscheinend. Taillennarbe liuienartig schmal. Die
punktirte Halsschilduarbe mit einem Punktschwarm iiber sich. Aussere Augeuwand

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mit 3 Tuberkelu, von denen der vordere einen Zahti bildet. Schildclien ueben der
glattea Mitte mit breltem, puuktirtem Laiis:sstreifen.

L. 39 mm.

Hah. Mexico. 1. P. ciispidatiis Triiq., Lc. p. 310; Kanp, Col. Hefte IV.

p. 22 ; id., Mon. p. 10(5.

\n. Die Rtirnleisten diclit nnter dem Kopfhorn nicht durch eiue feiun Leiste
verbiinden.

2 (2a). Die Clypensleiste in der Mitte bauchig uud an den Enden zabnig
erweitert. Die Stirnleisten beinalie rechtwinklig anseinanderlanfeud. Das Kopfhorn
mit knrzer freier Spitze, hinten tropfeuartig zwischen den beiden spitzen Neben-
hdckeru liegend. Die kleine pnnktirte Halsscbildnarbe mit einem Pnuktscliwarm
liber sich. Anssere Angeuwand mit 2 zalinartigen Tnberkeln. Die Stirn vorne fein
pnnktirt. Schildclien pnnktirt. Die Taille vorne matt, mit kurzem glanzenden
Litngskiele, ohne Narben. Hinterecken dcs Metasternnms fein pnnktirt. Mittel-
scliienen mit 1 Dome.

L. 27 mm. ; Br. 0 mm. ; Flgdl. 16 mm.

llab. Mexico. 2. P.J'alsus Kuw., I.e.

2a. Die T'lyiiensleiste ist geschwnngen, aber nicht erweitert. Die Enden der
Stirnlei.sten sind vorne dnrch einen Querwnlst verbnnden, hiuter welchem, da die
Stirnleisten sehr breit auseinanderlanfeu, sich oin sehr knrzes, breites Thai nnter der
langen rnnden Kopfhornspitze bildet. Die Nebenhocker sehr kleiu. Das Thai
zwischen diesen nnd der Augenwand rauh. Dieiiusserc Angeuwand mit 3 Tnberkeln,
von denen der vorderste zalmartig ist. Die pnnktirten Halsseliildnarlien tragen
liber sich einen gedriingten Fleck starker Funkte. Schildchen mit Mittelfnrche,
hinten dicht liingspnnktig. Hinterecken des Metasternnms mit Pnnkten. Der
Clypensrand, wie beim vorigeu, jc eiuen stnmpfeu Zahn liber den Lippeurand
schiebend, seitwiirts von diesem oborhalb sicli zn einem Ziihnchen anfriclitend.

L. 3.5 mm.

JIab. Mexico. 3. P. zodiacus Trnq., I.e.

Odontotaenius Knw., I.e.

Dnrch die Stirnleisten nnd den anf der Mitte zahnartig vorgezogenen Clypens-
rand von Pd.'i.mlm verscliicden. Die Stirnleisten horen weit vom CUypens mit eiuem
Knotchen anf Diescr mit eiuem aivfwarts gerichteten Zahnchen an den Seiten.
Nebenhocker fehlend.

1 (la). Die Dorsalrippen der Flgdu. uach hinten zn immcr dentlich gewiilbt.
Die Stirnleisten laufen im rechten Winkel anseinander.

2 (2a). Das Kopfhorn, hinten etwas knoUig, mit lang iiberhiiugcnder Spitze,
ohne Nebenhocker. Der vorletzte Banchring an den Vorderrandseiten ohne tiefe
Falte oder Fnrche. Die Flaggenlajipeu knrz behaart. Die Bncht fein nnd
nndeutlich pnnktirt. Die feiue Pnuktirnng der Oberfljichc des lliilsschildes ist
starker, als beim folgenden. Die Fliigeldecken immer proportionell lauger. Ilals-
schild hiuter der Narbe mit griisserem Pnnktschwarni.

L. 30 mm.

lliilj. Mexico. 1. 0. .itriato]>Hiictiitu.'i Perch., .\f<>n. p. 101. t. 7. f. 7; Trn(|.,

I.e. p. 311; Kanp., Mon. p. lUO; Burm., I.e. p. 510.

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2(7. Das Kopfhorn an seiner Basis etwas schmiiler, mit weniger langer Spitze.
Der vorletzte Banchriug au deu Seiten uicht selir fern vom Vorderrande mit tiefer
Falte Oder Fnrche. Die Bncht dentlicli grob puuktirt. Die Flaggenlaiii)eu urn eiu
Weniges langer beliaart. Die feiiie Pnuktirnng der Oberflnche des JIalsscliildes
niclit so stark. Die Flgdu. iiropDrtiunull kurzer als beim vorigen. Halsscliild iil)er
der Narbe mit wenigen Pnukten.

L. 26 mm.

Ilab. Mexico. 2. 0. brevioripennis Kuw., l.c.

1(1. Die Intervalle der Flgdn. samtlich ganz flacli. Die im liohcu Kniltclien
eudigenden scliwachen Stirnleisteii im etwas weniger als rechten Wiukel ans ein-
auder lanfeud. Das an seiner Basis breite Kopfhorn mit breiter, knrzer, wenig freier
Spitze, hinteu etwas gefnrclit. Bncht pnnktirt. Uber der Halsscliildnarbe uud
liinter ihr ein grosser Pnnktscliwarm.

L. 20 mm.

Hab. San Salvador (Haber %.). 3. O. haberi Knw., I.e.

Petrejoides Knw., I.e.

Dem Genus Petrejtis durch das hiiufig starker anf die Stirn gedruckte, lange,
freie Kojifhorn und die knrze Stirn, dem Genns J'op/liti.'i dnrch seine Gestalt nnd
die llache, feine Cl}^)ensfnrche liiuter der mehr oder weniger sehr feincn Cl)'pensleiste,
welche sich an den Enden zn eincm Ziihnchen anfbiinmt, iihnlich.

In der Form Petrejus nnd Popilius iihnlich.

1 (Irt). Etwa 19 mm. lang, in der Form dem Petrejus gracilis Kanp sehr
ahnlich.

2 {2a). Halsschild mit abgerandeten Eckeu, mit nnpunktirten Bnchten uiid
Randfurchen nnd pnnktirten Narben, iiber denen ein Pnnktschwarm steht. Die
Stirn sehr knrz, 3J bis 4 mal so breit als lang; das lange, bis znm Vorderrand des
(Ilypens reichende, hinteu gefnrchtc Kopfhorn anf diesell)e herabgedriickt, mit 2
spitzen NebonhOckerchen. Alle Kopffluchcn gliinzend, fein ranh ; die Kopfthitler
zwischeu Angenwand nnd NebeuhOckern mit einigen Pnnkten. Die iinssere
Angenwand mit 3 kleinen Ziihnchen, einem anf der Mitte der Angenwand, einem
seitwiirts vom ClvpensknGtchen, dem dritten zwischen beiden gelegen. Dii'
Biickenfurchen der Flgdn. mit feiner, die Seitenfnrclien mit etwas grOberer Pnuk-
tirnng. Taillcnnarbe fohlend. Metasternnm scliwach abgewolbt, glatt, mit wenigen
feinen Pnukten zn den Seiten der dnrch dieselben augcdent-eten Platte. Die nnter
dem Kopfhorn sehr stnmpfwinklig anseinandergehenden Stirnleisten enden anf
halbem Wege zn dem Clypenskuotehen mit ilirem eigcneu dentlieheu Kui'itclien.
Die Clyjiensleiste ist nach der Stirn zn iiberans fein linienartig abgesetzt.

L. 19 mm.: Br. C mm.; Flgdl. 12-3 mm.

Ilab. Costa Rica. 1. P. tenuis Knw., l.c.

2a. Halsschild mit beinahe rechtwinkligen, abgernndeten Vordereckcn, mil
pimktirten Bncliten, Randfnrcheu nnd Xarbin ; iiber letztern ein Pnnktschwarm.
Die Stirn etwa noch einmal so breit als lang ; das hinten breite, vorne spitze
Kopfhorn ohne oder mit knrzer Fnrche anf dem Riicken. Die im breiten Bogen
nnter dem Kopfhorn ans einander gehendeu Stirnleisten eudigeu dicht vor den hoheii
Endkniitdieu des Clypens. Uutcrlijipc dicht grub pnnktirt. Metasternnm nni)nnk-
tirt. Tailleulatz ohne Narben, mit kleiuer, dicht pnuktirter Stelle vor deu Mittel-

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hiiften. Prosternnm zwischen den Vorderhiiften beliaart. Metasternalseitenrinnen
sclimal, pnnktirt. Dnrch die Form des liintou breit abgeplatteten Kopfhorns an
das Genns Ilimor erinuernd.

L. 19 mm.: Br. 6-6 mm.; Flgdl. 13 mm.

Ilab. Orizaba, Mexico. Im Wiener Museum. 2. P. orizabtu: Kuw., I.e.

Iff. 28 mm. lang. Stirn etwa 3 mal so breit als lang. Das den Clypens-
vorderrand nicht ganz erreicheude Kopfhoru ist an seiner Spitze etwas aufgebogen,
etwas derber und hierin der Gatttmg liimor ahnelnd. AUe Kopfthiiler sind
glanzend, glatt, nur zwischen Aiigenwand nnd den nur diircli eine feine tbalwarts
zieliende Leiste angedeuteten Nebenhfickern das Tlial in der Tiefe mit 2 bis 3
Punkten und Iluuzeln. Die C'lypeusfnrclie ziemlich stark. Taillenlatz vorne zu
den Seiten einer schmalen, erbabenen Mitte dicbt pnnktirt, oline erkennbare Narbeu.
Halsscliild mit stark abgernndet recbtwinkligen Vorderecken, zerstreut oder einzeln
punktirten Randfurchen nnd Buchteu, mit qneren, langeu, anf ibrer Mitte ])unk-
tirten Narbeu und wenigen Punkten daueben. Hinterecken des Metasternums
pnnktirt, die Platte vor dem Ende mit qucrem Eindrucke. Die Stirnleisten ziemlich
verlaufend, in sehr stnmpfem Winkel unter dem Kopfhorn auseinandergehend, haben
kein Endknotchen nnd sind nur anf 2 Drittheile der Lange zum Clvpenskmitchen
kenntlich. Die iiussere Augenwand, wie beim vorigeu, dreizabnig.

L. 28 mm.; Br. 9-0 mm.; Flgdl. 17 mm.

Jhil). Custa Uica. 3. P. decipiens Kuw., I.e.

3. GnrprE : PUOCULEJINAE.
Og'yges Kau]i, Mon. p. fV,).

Kafer stark gewOlbt. Kupl'horn unfrei mit kieligeu Nebenhiickeru. Die
starken Stirnleisten reichen nur bis znr Knotchengegend. Der Clypeus als
undentliche Leiste erhebt sich an den Enden mehr oder weniger zahnartig. Das
gauze Metasternum glanzend, unpnnktirt. Taillenlatz mit langen, nicht breiten
Narben langs den Niihten. Mittelschienen mit 1 starken Dome nnd dariiber einem
kleiiK'u Dornchen, Hinterscbienen mit 1 Dome. Furchen der Flgdn. nnpunktirt,
diese znsammengewachsen.

1 (Iffl). Kopfhorn des griissern Kiifers ohne Liingsfurehe. Nobenbucker sehr
klein, sich riickwiirts znr Augenwand wendend. Kojif fein runzlig. Seitenziihue
des Clypens etwas aufwiirts gerichtet. Stirnleistenknotchen fehleud. Halsschiid
dnrch sehr feine, mikroscopische Reticulation matt. Halsschildnarben und
Randfurchen unpnnktirt. Flgdn. mit Ausschluss der tiefen Nahtfurcheu last
I'nrchenlos, nnr gcrcilit pnnktirt.

L. 3;j mm.; Br. 13 mm.; Halsschl. 4-.3 mm.; Flgdl. 18 mm.

Ilab. Guatemala; Nicaragua. 1. 0. laevissimtis Kaup, Col. Hefte IV.

p. 1.5(1868); id., Mon. p. 69.

]«. Kopfhorn bis anf seine Mitte herauf nnd hinter sich mit tiefer, breitor
Fnrche. Die feinkieligcn Nebenhocker quer. Alle Kopffliichen ziemlich matt.
Die Seitenzahnc des Clypeus sehr klein. Clypeus nnd Vorderkopf ipierfaltig.
Halsschiid und Fliigeldecken weniger matt als beim vorigen. Halsschildnarben,
Buchtcn und Randfurchen unpnnktirt. Vorderrand der Flgdn. in der Mitte

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znsammeu geniuilet vorgezogeii, ebenso die Schulterecken, dadnrch zweilmchtig
erscheineud. Flgdu. mit tiefeu Fnrcben nnd stark gewiilbteu Interviillen.

L. 33 mm. ; Br. 11 mm. ; Halsschl. 9-2 mm.; Flgdl. 17 mm.

Hab. San Salvador ; Guatemala. 2. 0. laevior Kanp, I.e.

Griissere Stlicke mit kielig begrenzter Brticke in den anssern Clypensvorderecken
ans San Salvatlor uauute ich :

Hab. San Salvador. 3. 0. laraor ab. vinculotaeniu Kiiw., I.e.

Proculejoides Knw., I.e.

1 (Iff). Das weiiig erhabene Kojiflidiu .seitlich zusammengedriickt, coniscb,
hinten breit gefurcbt, vorne abschiissig. Die Stirnleisten knrz, divergirond, mit den
starken Km'itchcn weit vom ('l}]icnsrand bleibeud. Kiifer knrz oval, mit grossem
Halsscbild. Dieses mit iibcrall glattcn Randfnreben. Flgtln. fast oval, tief gestrcift.
Die Fnrcben anf dem Grnnde fein pnnktirt. Taillenlatz glatt nnd nnjmuktirt.
Mittelscbienen mit 2, binten mit 1 Dome.

L. .'^0 mm. ; Halsscbild 9 mm. : Flgdl. 18 mm.

Ilnl). (Jnatemala ; Vera Paz, 4000 Fnss. 1. 0. championi Bates, Biol.

L'entr. Atncr. p. 5.

Proculejus Kanp, Mov. p. GO.

1 (Iff). Das voilotzte Intervall der Flgdn. pnnktirt nnd bebaart, da.s Ictzte
sebr scbmale, d.i. die Randrippe, fast gekielt. Die Clvpensleiste vorne zngescbiirft
(" Clypeo acnte margiuato," Bates). Die Stirn ganz glatt. Kiifor knrz oval.

2 (2ff). Das ziemlicb lange Kopfliorn vorne frci nnd soitlicb znsammcn-
gedriickt, etwas erbaben, mit abgornndctcn Nebcnbiiekern. Die divergircnden
Stirnleisten, kanm scbarfkielig, rcicben bis zum Endbiicker des Clypens, woselbst
sie eincn Hiicker bilden. Halsscbild mit ziemlicb scbmalen, pnnktirten Seiteufarcben
nnd bcbaarten nnd pnnktirten Narbcn. Flgdn. proportionell sebr knrz, aber vorne
anf der Mitte wenigcr vorragend als bei den verwandtcn Arten, mit fein pnnktirten
Fnrcben. 1"" bis C" Intervall 0 mm. breit, ebeu, das T' scbmiiler, glatt, das S'"
10 mm. breit, pnnktirt nnd bdiaart, das 9'° sebr scbmal, fast geldelt. (Alios uacb
Bates).

L. 28 mm. : Tborax 8 mm. ; Flgdl. l.*) mm.

//ffi. Orizaba, Mexico. 1. P. pubicostis Bates, I.e. p. 5.

2ff. Das Kopfhorn ganz nnfrei, breit, mit abgernndeter Spitze, mit flacben,
erbabenen, rnndlicben Nebenbiickern. Die stniu])fen, starken Stirnleisten bali)kreis-
tormig, bis znm Vorderrande des Clyj)eus ziebcnd. Alle Kupftbiiler glatt, fast
ganz nnpnnktirt. Halsscbild obne Bncbten, mit sebr scbmalen, pnnktirten lland-
furcben, mit kleinen, fein pnnktirten und bebaarten Narben. Scbildcben nnr vorne
anf der Mitte ])nnktirt. Taille ganz glatt, oline Narbcn. Abdoniinalnarbe linear.
Die abwccbseliiden Inlervalb^ der Flgdn. etwas scbmiiler als die iibrigen, das iibcr
der Kandrijipe gelegenc Intervall von vorne bis zur Flgdmitte pnnktirt nnd sparsam
bebaart. An dem einzigen vorbandenen Stilcke sind zwar siimtlicbe Bebaarnngen
abgescbencrt, docb ist bei niilicrer Untersncbnng ibr frliberes Vorhandensein zn
constatiren. Die Sutnralfnrcbe verbiudet sicb binten mit der Uaudfurclie, die 2"

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iiiif. (Icr 3"", die 4'° mit der 7'°", die o'" iiiit der O"-"", die S'° mit der 9'"". Meta-
steriiidhintereclvoii unpnnktirt.

L. 32 mm. ; HalsscLild 10 mm.; Flgdl. KJ.") mm.

Hall. Mexico. 2. P. acapulcae Kuw., sji. iiov.

la. Die Behaarung der Seitenrippeu der FIgdu. ist immer nmfangreicher.
Cly])ens vorne nicht zugescharft.

3 (3«). Die beiden iiussersten, breiten Intervalle der Flgdn. siud dicht punktirt
und behaart, von dem vorhergehenden nnr der vorderste Tbeil. Die 2'" nnd 3'°,
5'" nnd 6'", 7" nnd 8'=, 4'° nnd W Fnrcbe verbinden sich binten. Das Kopfhorn
als kielige Leiste erscheinend ; die Nebenhocker fliigelartig. Die Stiruleisten von
einem knrzen Stiele vor dem Kopfhorn rechtwinklig ans eiuander lanfend, mit hoheu
Endknijtclien. Die Clypensfnrcbe an den Endeii etwas nacli vorne geschwnngen.
Die Kopffliichen glatt,nnpnuktirt. Das grosse HaJsschild mit pnnktirten Randfnrchen.
Uuter der kleinen pnnktirten Halsschiklnarbe dicbte Pnnktirung des Halsschildes
bis zur Randfnrche mit Behaarnng. Fnrchen der Flgdn. liberall punktirt. Der
ClyiJens zeigt ubrigens ansser der tiefern, vor der Htirnleiste gelegenen Furclie
ganz vorne noch ein fiacheres, mattes, an deu Seiten der Oberlipi)e uach nnten
ziehendes, furchenartiges Band. Metastemum ohne Pnnktirnng der Hinterecken,
gkitt, hinten mit Qnereindruck.

L. 3U mm. ; Br. 11 mm. ; Halsscbildlange '.J mm. ; Halsschildbreite lOo mm. ;
Flgdl. 10 mm.

Ilab. Miradore, Mexico. 3. P. brcvis Trnq., I.e. p. 263 (1857).

3«. Immer mehr als die 2 iinssersten Intervalle der ganzen Liinge nach
punktirt und behaart.

4 (4a). Die 4 aussersten Intervalle sind uberall dicht punktirt nnd behaart.
Der (Il3'peus fiillt vor der Leiste schief ab, seitlich nachst der schwach ansge-
schnitteneu Oberlippe sich abwarts senkend. Die Brucke zur Angenwand f'altig.
Das Kop)fhorn steigt sehr schief aufwarts, ist an der Wurzel des Riickens gefurcht,
nach der nnfreien Spitze zusammengedriickt nnd an der iSpitze schief abfallend. Au
der Wurzel dieser Spitze die bogigen, sehr divergirenden Stiruleisten, die vor
ihrem Ende zn einem starken Knotchen sich erheben, das mit der scharfen
Clypeusleiste verbunden ist und durch eine seitwarts laufende Leiste mit dem iinssern
Knotchen des Clypeus sich verbiudet. Unter der pnnktirten Halstschildnarlie reicht
die Pnnktirung bis zum Furchenrande. Tailleunarbe, schmal und laug, cndet oben
in einer rnnden Vertiefung. Sternalplatte mit 3 unregelmassigen Eindriicken vor
dem hintern Raude. (Alles nach Kanp).

L. 30 mm. ; Halsschild 9 mm. ; Flgdl. 18 mm.

Hab. Mexico. 4. P. truquii Kaup, Gol. Hefte IV. p. 6 ; id., Mon. p. 62.

4a. Entveeder ist das ausserste Intervall, d.i. die Raudripi)e, der Flgdn.
unpnnktirt nnd unbehaart, oder es ist anch noch das 5^ Intervall von der Seite
grcisserentheils dicht punktirt nnd behaart.

5 (5a). Die iinssere Randrippe der Flgdn. ist nicht punktirt und behaart. Der
("lypens zeigt 2 durch eine Furche getrennte Leisteu, wovon die vordere an ilirem
Ende sich au den Seiten der Oberlippe herabbiegt, die 2" breitere als aufgerichtetes
Knotchen vor dem Knotchen der Stirnleiste anf der Bnicke zur innorn Angenwand
endigt. Das Kopfhorn erhebt sich ziemlich hoch ans 2 kugeligeu Seiteuhockeru

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unci fiillt vorne steil ab; an seine Wiirael setzeu sich in weitem Bogen die Stirn-
leisten an, die in cinem Knotclieu endigen. Zwischeu den KnOtchen eine Qnerleiste,
welche dnrch eine breite, nnebene Furche von der obern Clypensleiste getrennt ist.
Die Sternali)latte hinten mit Qnereindrnck, ohne Punktining der Hinterecken. Die
Fnrcbeu der Flgdu. etwas wonigcr tief als bei hretis ; die Flgdn. selbst anf dem
Eucken etwas flacher als bci diesem. Taillennarben, langs der Nabt gelegen,
schmal nnd lang.

L. 30 mm. ; Halsschild 8 mm. lang, 11 mm. breit : Flgdl. 17 mm. lang, IM — 11
mm. breit.

Ilab. Mexico. 5. P. sartorii Kanp, I.e.

5«. Die 4 anssersten Intervalle sind gauz, das 5" vorne zum Tlieil, die iibrigen
alle hinten punktirt nnd bebaart. Flgdn. oval, mit tiefen Furchen und starker
Punktirnng in deuselben. Die Knotchen der Stirnleisten von den Endknotcbeu des
Clypeus deutlich getrennt, als bei truquii. Das Schildcben ansser cinem glattcn
Mittelstreifen nnd dem Rande grob punktirt. MetasternalschUd hinten mit 2 tiefen
Eindnicken. Mittel-nnd Hinterschienen mit 2 Dorneu. (Nach Kanp: mirfremd).

L. 26 — 28 mm. ; Halsschild S mm. ; Flgdl. 14 — 16 mm.

Hab. Huachinango, Mexico. 6. P. kirtus Tniq., I.e. p. 264 ; Kanp, Mon. p. 62.

4. Gritpe : POPILIINAE.
Soranus Kanp, I.e.

1 (la). Die Stirnleisten gehen von der Spitze des knrzen, nnfreien Kopfhorns im
spitzen Winkel abwiirts uud endigen in einem vom Clypeus entferuten Knotchen.

2 (2oj). Von den Knotchen der Stirnleisten geht schief nach ansseu eine Leiste
zn den Knotchen oder Zahncu des Clypeus. Zwischeu den Kniitcheu der Stirnleisten
ist die Stiru vertieft, wodurch eine stnmpfe Qnerleiste entsteht. Halsschild mit
kleiner pnnktirter Narbe, ohne Pnnktc dariiber. Die ziemlich tiefe Bucht punktirt.
Narbe der Taille nach oben erweitert. Mittc des Taillenlatzes vorne gefurcht, die
Furche nach hinten erweitert und gestrichelt : Taillenuarbe nach oben erweitert.
Metasternalschild mit stumpl'en Knoten nnd wouigeu Punkten au seinen hintern
Ecken. Nebenhocker gewolbt. (Alles nach Kaup).

L. 22 mm.

Ilab. Mexico. 1. S. expositua Kanp, Col. Hefte V. p. 4 (1869) ;

id., Mon. p. 77.

2a. Von den EJiotchen der Stirnleisten geht keine Leiste zn den Clypeushockern.
Die im spitzen Winkel vom Kopfhoru herabkommenden Stirnleisten schwiugen sich
im weitem Verlaufe mehr als rechtwinklig aus einander imd .scliliessen im Stirnt'old
einen HiJcker eiu. Stirnfeld und Clypeus nn})nnktirt, dieser auf der Mitte vorn mit
kleinem Ausschnitt. Das Kopfhorn gleichmassig nach vorne und hinten abf'aliend.
Die nach den Seiten abfalleuden Nebeuhcicker ziemlich scharfkautig, nach hinten zu
mit dem kanm abgesetzten Kopfhorn gleichmassig abgedacht. Das Thai zwischeu
ilinen und der Augenwand fein und dicht punktirt. Diese ohne deutliche Zahne
oder HiJcker. Halsschild mit einem Punktschwarm um die i)unktirte Narbe hcrum.
Seine schmale Kandfurchc und die tiefe Bucht fein jiunktirt, seine Vordereckeu
schwach abgerundet. Flgdfurchen fein punktirt. Tailleunarbe klein, glanzend.
Das Metastcrnum ohne abgesetzte Platte nnd mit wenigen feinen Punkten an den

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Hinterecken. Die Metasternalseitenfurchen linienartig selimiil. (Jiiterlippe luit
sehr kleinen Narbeii und niii' an den Seiten ]ninktirten Lappen.

Nnr 1 Stuck im Berliner Museum.

L. 22 mm.

Hab. Para, Brasilien. 2. S. sieberi Kuw., I.e.

\a. Die Stiruleisten ziehen niemals im spitzeu Winkel vom Kopfhorn ab,
sonderu immer im grossen Bogen.

3 (3«). Immer nur etwa 19 bis 24 mm. lang.

4 (4ff.). Das Kopflioru ist an der Wurzel sehr breit gewcilbt nud wie anf'gesetzt
auf den querbtigelartigeu Nebenhockern.

5 (5a). Die Nebenhocker fallen gegen die Seiten bin ab. Die freie Spitze
vorragend. Die kurzen, im Bogen divergirenden Stirnleisten endigen mit einem
Knijtcben. Halsschild mit spitzen Vorderecken und breiter punktirter Randfurche.
Die Seiten liber der jinnktirten Narbe reich jmnktirt. Am Metasternalschild die
Hinterecken reich punktirt. Die Clypeusleistc eiuen scliwachen Bogen bildend.
Schildchen gewolbt, mit wenigen Punkteu. Taille ohne Narbeu. Mittel- und
Hinterschienen mit Dorn. (Alles nach Kanp).

L. 22 mm.

Hab. Chontales, Nicaragna. 3. 5. wagtieri Katip, Col. Hefte IV. p. 30 ;

id., Mon. p. 1U8.

5a. Die Nebenhocker fallen nach den Seiten nur wenig ab, tragen jedoch auf
ihrem Ende eine zahnartige Erhohung. Hinter dem Clypens fast immer eine
vertiefte Querfnrche, welche hinten von einem melir oder weniger erhabenen
Wulst begrenzt wird.

6 (6a). Die Stirnleisten, in sehr fiachem Bogen auseinandergeheud, umschliessen
ein breiteres, ktirzeres Stirnfeld, das vorne meistens von einem fast geraden
Wnlst begrenzt imd hinten von einem kurzen Langskielchen oder Warzchen
getrennt wird, und endigen mit den Kncitchen seitwiirts nnd iunerhalb vor den stark
zahnartigen Clypeustuberkeln. Das unfreie Kopfhorn vorne ziemlich steil abfallend
mit schwach angerichteter Spitze. HalsschOd nm die punktirte Narbe hernm mit
grobem Pnnktschwarm und iiber sich auf dem Discus mit feiueren Punkten, mit
breiter, einzelu grob punktirter Randfurche, grob pnnktirter Bucht und hinter dieser
mit einigen groben Punkten. Schildchen neben der glatten Mitte dicht punktirt.
Metasternalplatte nicht abgesetzt, an den Hinterecken beiderseits mit einigen
Punkten. Taillennarbe nicht vorhanden. Mittelschienen mit 1 bis 2 Doruchen.
Kopfthalor zwischen Nebenhockern und Augenwand fein rnnzlig.

Das Stirnfeld sehr kurz. Das ungekielte Kopfhornchen hinten am Grunde mit
Anfang einer Langsfurche. Clypeuswnlst hinten in der Mitte etwas einwarts
gebogen. Die obern Seitenfurchen auf der hintern Hiilfte mit Andeutung von
Stabchenbildnng.

Hab. Me.\ico; Guatemala; San Salvador. 4. S. iiitergeiietcn Bates, I.e.

6a. Die Stirnleisten gehen halbkreisformig oder stumpfwiuklig geradlinig
auseinander, umschliessen ein langeres Stirnfeld.

7 (J(i). Das Stirnfeld von einem mehr ciuwarts gebogenen Wnlst begrenzt und
von einem kurzen Langskielchen getheilt. Audi dii; ('lyi)cnsplatto ist in der Mitte
mehr einwarts gebogen, wie beim vorigen, und trsigt auf der Eiubieguugsstclle

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hiuten einen Punkt. Schildcheu, wie beim vorigen, zu den Seiteu des glsitten
Mittclstreifs pnuktirt. llalsschild wie beim vorigeii pnnktirt nnd gebaut, desgleicheu
das Metasternnm. Mittelschienen mit 2 Dornchen. Auch die Kopftliiiler zwischen
NebeuliiJckern nnd An,a;enwaud rnnzliar. Die Stiriileisteu geradliiiig im stuiupfen
Wiiikel anseiuauderzielieud.

L. 21 mm.

Ilab. Mexico. o. S. haagi Kaup, Col. llel'te IV. i). -Jl (1868) ;

id., .1/oK. p. IDT.

la. Die Stirnleisteu gcuan halbkreisformig, in ilirem Winkel eine kurze vertiefte
Liingslinie. Der glatte wnlstige Cl3']3ens in der Mitte verstilrkt nnd nach aussen
gebogeu, auf der lliickseite mit eingedriicktem Pnnkte. Schildclicn pnnktirt, mit
glatter Liingsmitte. Kopflioru hiuten olinc Fnrchenani'ang. Hiilsschild mit tiefei'
A'orderrandi^i'urclie, olmo ausgeprilgte Baclit, feinen, unpunktirteu Uandfurclien und
panktirten Narben. Kopfliorn nicht iiberliangeud, vorue steLI abfallend. Meta-
sternnm hinten mit Liingseindmck anf der Mitte nnd w(!nig panktirten Hinterecken.

L. 25 mm.

IJah. Mexico. 0. S. tikotepekensis Knw., I.e.

4a. Das Kopfhoru hinten nicht als breite Benle oder Warze anf die Nebeu-
hocker gelegt, sondern schmiiler nnd mit ihnen verlanfend, hinten mit Grnbe oder
Fnrehe, vorue als hohe, ctwas nach vorne gelehnte Spitze erschciueud. Die
Nebenhcicker scharfkielig, nach aussen soharfzahuig. Die Stirnleisteu, im Bogen
ans einander laufend, mit kleinem, sich auf der Brucke ansetzendem Knotcheu.
In der Stirnwinkelmitte ein Kielchen, zn dessen Sciten der Stiniwinkel etwas
vertieft ist.

8 (Sa). Schildc'heu mit schwacher Blittellinie nach oben. Ilalsscliild mit
Puuktschwarm liber den Narben. Narbe der Taille laug nnd sclimal. Der Bogeu
der Stirnleisten sehr breit und flacli. Die Qnerfnrche hinter dem Clypeus tief.

L. 19—20 mm.

Ilab. Mexico. 7. S. recticoniis Burm., llandb. V. j). 6(i8 ; Kaup, Col.

Hefte IV. 13. 21; id., Mon. p. iKS; Truij., I.e. ]i. 316.

8a. Das Schildchen nach vorne uel)en der breitcn, glatten Mitte zerstrent pnnk-
tirt. Die Stiruleisten genau hallikreisformig, in ihrem Winkel ein erhabeues Kiel-
chen. Halssehild mit schwachen Buchteu nnd dicht panktirten Narben. Die
Qnerfnrche hinter dem flachen, breiten, ebenen Clypeus dicht vor den Kuotchen
liegend, linienartig fein. Obcrlippe lang nnd dicht roth beborstet. Seiten des
Metasteruums uiipuuktirt nnd uubehaart, desgleichen die Hiuterecken desselben.

L. 23 mm.

liab. Guatemala. 8. S. subrecticornis Knw., I.e.

3a. Kafer 30—33 mm. lang.

9 (9a). Das Kopfhoru horizontal, an der Spitze etwas anfgelx)gen. DieNeben-
h'icker stark niedergedriickt, vorne ziemlich abschiissig. Die starken Stirnleisteu
wie bei recticoniis auseinaudergelieud, vor dcu C'lypeuskuotcheu endigend. Seiten
des Halsschildes unpnnktirt, Raudfurche pnnktirt. Zwischenraume der FIgdn.
ziemlich eben. Metasternalhiuterecken grob jmnktirt. Mittelschienen mit 1
Dome. Flgdn. proportiouell liinger als bei recficontis, dem das Thicr sehr ahnclt.

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Metasternum am VonlertbL^ile ji'seitig punktirt iiud buhaart; seine Hinterecken mit
grossem Pnnktschwaime. Die Fahnenlappen kurz. (Alles uacli Bates).

L. 35 mm.

Hab. Yucatan. 9. S. yucataims Bates, I.e.

9«. Das Kopfliorn an seiner znsammeDgedrlickten Spitze meistens etwas
gerundet herabgebogeu. Das Metasternum binten auf der nicbt abgesetzten
Platte mit einzelnen Punkten. Die Stirnleisten, welche bci nicbt berabgebogener
Kopfbornspitze (nach Kaup) bisweilen nndeutlich oder febleud sind, in etwas liber
rechtem Winkel aus einander biufend uud in einem deutlicben Knotcbeu vor den
Clypenstuberkelu endigeud. Hinterecken des Metasteruums mit Punkten. Uber
der punktirten Halsscbildnarbe zerstrente grobe Punktirung. iSchildchen zu den
Seiten der glatten Mitte mit ziemlich derber Punktirung. Das Stirnfeld ganz eben,
ohne Liingskiel auf der Mitte. Die Stirnleisten horen dicht vor dem Fusse des
Kopfborns auf, daselbst eiiien Zwiscbenraum zwiscben ibren Anfangen offen
lassend.

L. 31) mm.

Ihth. Mexico. 10. .S. tropiciiaY^xck.yMoii. p. 97. t. 7. f. 4;

Truq., /.(•. p. 312; Kaup, Moii. ji. 109; Hojie, Cat. Lxicanid. p. 29
(1S45).

Die 8tucke mit niclit berabgebogenem, sondern vorne etwas freiem Kopfhorn
sind ab. subconiutus Hope, Cat. Lw:. j). 29 (1845).

Popilius Kaup, I.e.

1 (It). Die queren, breiten Nebenhijcker sind oben der ganzen Breite nacb
gefurcbt. Stirn immer ohne Liingskiel.

'I Qi'i). Das Kopfliorn vorne verliingert und mit freier borizoutaler iSpitze,
biuteu verbreitert. Die Nebenhocker vorne abscbiissig. Die Stirnleisten kurz,
stnmpf, am Ende vorne ohne Knotchen. Metasternum weitliiufig punktirt und
bebaart, obne deutlicbe Seitenfurche.

Nacb Bates; mir lag kein Stuck vor.

L. 35 mm.

Hab. Pnrnla, Guatemala. 1. /'. championi Bates, I.e.

2«. Das Kopfhorn ohne horizontale freie Spitze. Das Metasternum an den
Seiten mit eingcdriickter Binne.

3 (3a). Unter der Kopfbornspitze cine kurze Liingsfurcbe, von deren Seiten
vorne die Stirnleisten entspringen, welche znerst fast rechtwinklig gegen dieso
Furche gestellt und erst kurz vor den Knotchen zu diesen herabgebogeu sind. Der
Clypeus in der Mitte etwas eingebogen, ebcnso die dahintcr liegende Furche. Die
Oberlipjie etwas ausgeschnitten. Das glatte Halsscbild iilier der queren Narbe mit
1—2 grossen Punkten. Taille ohne deutlicbe Narbe, ganz vorne dicht punktirt und
(bci dem einzigen Stiicke des Berliner Museums) mit knrzer Liingsfurcbe dabinter.
Der Hinterlappen des Prosternums sehr spitz. Metasternum obne abgesetzte Platte
und olmo Punktirung der Hinterecken. Blittelschienen mit 1 Dome, bebaart.
Bncht des Halsschibles tief, unpunktirt.

L. 32 mm.

Ilab. Costa Uica. 2. P.frantzi Kuw., I.e.

20

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3'/. Dervom KdjiHioru lierab kommende Kiel gelit nifiu;ds iin'iuc Fiirilif iilicr,
sonderu es eutwickelii sioh voii ihm aiis die Stirnlcisten.

4 (-in). Die Stiriileistcu lanfen im spitzcu Winkel voii dor vom Kopfliorii
heral) komiueudeu Leiste ans einandor, urn daiin geschwungcn einen kreisabschnitt-
fiirmigeu, grossen Bogen zu bilden. Das Scliildchon ist zerstrent fein punktirt, init
oder oline Andeutniig eiuer Mittellinie. liber oder neben der Ilalsschildnarbc
iuiiuer einigc Pnukte. Das Mctasternnm oliiic begreiizte Platte, dhiie Piiiikte in
den Hinterecken, mit schmalen Seitcnfurchen. Das Abdominalsegment liintcn
iieben einer nur angedenteten Kielung jederseits ijunktirt. Ilinter- tmd Mittel-
schienen mit 1 Zahne.

6 (Sa). Das vorne steiler abfallendc Kojifhorn mit inelir reclitwiukliger Spitze.
Der Bogen der Stirnleisten breiter.

Der Angeukiel Uber dem Auge mit scliUrl'erem Zahne.

L. 31 mm.

//"/;. Mexico; Guatemala: Columbia. 3. P. ficrli/j/iriis Tnic|ui, h'er.

Zool. p. 311 (is:)?): Kuup, Col. 11. lie IV. p. 22; id., Mon. ji. lnK.

5«. Der Bogeu der Stirnleisten etvvas schmiiler. Der Augcnkiel iiber dem
Auge mit stnmpferem Zahne. Das Kopfhorn nach vorne weniger steil abi'allend.
L. 28 mm.
Hab. Guatemala. 4. P. ecclipticus ah./elsc/iei Kuw., /.<-.

4a. Der Stiruleistenbogen legt sicb, ohne einen spitzen Winkel zu bilden, an
die vom Kopf hernnter kommende Leiste. Schildchen auf der Liiugsmitte ohne
/.er.streute feine Funktirung. Das Kopfhorn mehr in die queren Nebeiihoeker
hiueiugedriickt, nach vorne nnd hinten gleichmiissig saul't abi'allend. Sonst den
vorigen Arten gleicheud. Mit unpuuktirter Bncht.

L. 27 mm.

Hal). Amazonengebiet. 5. P. mrins Kuw., /.';.

Iff. Die quereu Nebenhocker liabeu ant ihrer Kielung keine Furclic.

6 (6a). Uuter der Kopfhomspitze eiue kurze Laugslinie, welchc die beiden
Stirnleisten verbindet. Die verbreiterte Halsschildbncht piuiktirt. Kopfhornsjiitze
zusammengedruckt. Halsschildseiten mehr oder weniger punktirt. Die sehr
lireiten Nebenhocker vorue abschiissig. Metasternum mit breiteu, ])unktirten,
raulieu Seitcnfurchen ; Hinterecken mit einigen oder keineii grossen Punkten
vcrsehen. Mittelschienen mit 1 Dorn. (Alics nach Bates).

L. 25 mm.

Hah. Guatemala, in inoo Fuss Hohe. 6. P. ?n>/.'sticus Bates, I.e.

6a. Es ist keine solche Linie vor dem Fusse des Kopfhorns vorhandeu.

7 (7o). Von der Spitze des Kopfliorns gchen gegou die Mitte des Bogeus
dor Stirnleisten 2 etwa um die Kopfhoridjreite von eiuander entfernte, meistens
undeutliche, parallele Loistchen. llinten am Fusse des Kopfhorns eiue Liiugsrinne
auf der Mitte. Halsscliildiuir1)e mid die Umgcbung, besondi^rs nach hinten zu,
j)unktirt. Die Bucht tief

8 (8a). Die Stirnleisten bilden einen Bogeu, der weniger als ein llaibkreis ist.
Das Kopfliorn vorne ein wenig uberhangend. Vorderzahn des Kiefers mit starken
Ziickchen. Seitenpunktirung dos Metasteruums schwacli, mit lichten Harcheu

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durclisetzt. M('tii.sterii:il]ilatt.e gewblbt, iiiclit begrenzt, iifters liiiitea ilurcb eiiiige
Puukte der Hintcreckcn angedeutet. Taillc mit einem grosseu flachen I'uiikt, nut"
der Mitte.

L. 25 mm.

H<rb. C^obimliia. 7. P. marginatus Perch., Mon. p. 87. t. 7. f. 1 ;

Burm., Ilniu/b. V. p. 507 ; Kaup, Col. Hefte IV. p. 26.

8ff. Die scharfeii Stirnleisten bilden vor dem voii einem sehr kiirzeu Kopfhorne
herab kommeiideii Dojijielleistclien eineu ziemlich riebtigeii Halljkreis.

9 (9a). Die Stirnleisten endigen mit einem Knotchen weit vom Clypeusdorne.
Kopfhorn nicht iiberhtingend. Halsschildvordereckeu abgerundet stumpfeckig.
Taille mit Langsfnrche. Metasternum an den Seiten vorne weitliiutig pimktirt,
nicbt behaart. Hinterecken desselbeu fast oder gauz nnpunktirt. Blittel- und
Hinterschieneu olme Diirnchen. Im Stirnwinkel eiu schwacher Kiel. Der Clypeus
tiacb nud breit. Scbildchen mit Liingsfurche.

L. 23 mm.

Hab. Venezuela. ' 8. P. morifzi Kuw., I.e.

9(1. Die iStirnleisten bilden einen llalbkreis nud wenden sich von deu Knotchen
ruckwarts uach den Clypenstuberkeln. Das Kopfhorn nicht tiberhangend. Meta-
sternum an deu Seiten vorne weitlanfig punktirt, nicht behaart, jedoch durch
Pnnktirung der Hinterecken die Platte angedeutet. Taille (immer ?) mit 2
liinter einander liegenden Griibchen auf der Mitte. Vorderzahn der Kiefer wenig
deutlich gezackt. Im tStirnleistenwiukel eine schwache Liuie. Sonst der vorigen
Art ahnelnd, aber das Schildchen ohne Liingsfurche.

L. 22 mm.

Hab. Columbia. 9. P. noms Kuw., I.e.

la. Von der Spitze des Kopfhorns zur Mitte des Stirnleistenbogens cntweder
nur eine einfache Liingsleiste, oder es ist keine Leiste, sondern nur eine matt rauhe
Stelle vorhanden.

10 (10a). Auf der Mitte des Bogens und dicht vor demselben, sich im spitzen
Winkel vereinigend, 2 kleine nahe aneinander stehende Leistchen, bisweilen nur
dnrcli einen Langseindruck in einem Wulste angedeutet, seiten ganz fehlend. r)as
Kopfhorn hinteu immer mit tiefer Laugsrinue.

11 (11a). Vor den Stirnleisten die Stirne stark gedriickt, so dass dieselbe
zwischen Leisten und Clypeus etwas aufwiirts gewtilbt erscheint. Bogen der
Stirnleisten etwas breiter. Die plcitzliche Langsrinne des Kopfhorns kurz, tief und
breit ; das infolgedessen sehr knrze Kopfhorn niedriger als beim Folgenden.
Kopfflachen glilnzeuder. Die vorne stark gewolbto Taille mit punktartigem
Eindrucke hinter der Wolbung. Die Seiten des Metasteruums punktirt und leicht
behaart, neben der kaum angedeuteten Platte mit oder ohne kleine Punkte.
Halsschild glatt, mit tiefer Narbe und einem Pimkt dariiber, mit tiefer, schmaler,
unpuuktirter Bncht.

L. 26 mm.

Hab. Columbia. 10. P. gibbosus Burm., Handb. V. p. .")07; Kaup,

Col. Hefte IV, p. 21 ; id., Mon. p. 76.

\\a. Die Stirn zwischen Clypeus und .Stirnleisten eben, glatt.

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12 (12'/). Der Stimleisteubogen breiter, als beim vorigen. Das C'lypensband
breit. Uas Kopi'lioru iiiit lauger Furclie, voriie als kiirze Spitze erscheiueud.
Halsscliild nnj)uiiktirt, mit, glatter Narbe uud glatteii Uiuidfnrchen. Die Leisten
anf dcr Mitte des Htinibogens fein nnd scharf. Dem r/ibbosus sehr iihiilicb, dooh
bedeutend grosser. Der Discus des Halsschildes mit einigen ininktforuiigeu
Eindriicken.

L. 29 mm. ; Br. 10 mm. ; Flgdl. IT mm.

J/ab. Ecuador. 11. P. villei Kuw., I.e.

12ff. Der Stirnleistenbogcn schmiiler. Die Laugsriuue des etwas langern uud
hohem Kopfhorns nicht so plotzlich uud schwacher, das Kopfhorn dadurcb lauger.
Die Taille aucb auf der Mitte der Wiilbung vorue uoch mit eiuem separirteu
schwachen Langseindrnck. Die Lcisteu auf der Mitte des Stirubogeus uudentlich.
Sonst dem vorigen gleichend.

L. 27 mm.

Ilab. Central Amerika. 12. P. hebes Knw., I.e.

lUr/. Auf der Mitte des Bogens niemals solclie sich vor dem Bogen im spitzeu
Winkel vereinigende 2 Leistchen, soudcni fast immer eiue mchr odcr wcniger
verkiirzte Langsleiste.

13 (13a). Diese Langsleiste reicht bis zu dem die Clyi)eusfurclie auf der
Riickseite begrenzenden Wnlst nnd bildet mit diesem zusammeu ein grosses
lateinisches T. Dazwischen die Stirn vertieft. Das Thai zwisclien Augeuwand,
Kopfliorn nnd Stirnleisten fein punktirt. Die iibrigeu Kopffliichen glatt. llalsschild
mit Gru])pen von Pnukten iiber der Narbe und an der vordcrn abgeruudeteu Ecke.
Die kleinen, nach hinten erweiterten Buchten sowie die Randfnrcheu punktirt.
Heitenwand des Metasternums fein cliagriuirt, ohne Haare. Die scharf eiitwickoltcn
Nebeuhficker au den Seiten mit eiuer Spitze eudigeud. Kopfhorn an seiner Wurzel
auf dem Kiicken gefurcht.

L. 22 mm.

Ilab. Columbia. 13. P. tan Kaup, Col. Hefte V. p. 2(i (1869);

id., Mo?i. p. 75.

13rt. Wenn eine solche Langsleiste vorhanden, reicht sie nie bis zu der
Clypcnsraudfurchc.

14 (14a). Schildchcn immer punktirt.

15 (15«). iSehildchcM auf der Mitte hinten grob ])unktirt, olmc glatle Mitteiliiiie.
Mittelschienen mit 1 bis 2 Dorncheu. Halsschild mit schnuUer, fein punktirter
Bucht, fein punktirter Narbe und zerstrenten I'nnkten iiber derselben. Metasternnm
durclians glatt, nuran den hiutern Eckeu mit Spnren von Pnukten. Vom Kojif horn
keine Leiste zum iSlirnleistenbogen, welcher weit von demselhcn abbleibt und vor
seiner Mitte den breit zahuartig erscheincudeu Aufaiig einer Liingsh-istc zeigt.
Das Kopfhornchen warzenartig kleiu zwischen den seitwiirts etwas nach vorne
ziehenden Nebenhiickcrn stehend.

L. 22 mm.

Nab. Me.xieo. J 4. /'. /lUngelMferi Kaup, Col. Hofte V. p.^ (1869).

15a. Schildchen punktirt, mit breiter, glatter Mittrlliuie.

16 (16a). Mittel- uud Hinterschienen mit 1 Dornchen. Von der Spitze des
Kopfhorns ein sich am Fusse spaltender Kiel herabgeheud, an welchen die ganz

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qneren, hocli erhabenen Stirnleisten sich anschliessen, welclie auf ihrem Ende ein
starkes KnOtcheii trageii. Die Clypeusleiste an ihrem Ende zu hohem Zahue
anfgcriclitet. Bnchten, Randfurchen, Narben dos Halsschildes jmnktirt, audi liber
lien letzten einige Pnnkte. Statt der TailleDnarl)en jederseits 1 Liingsreihe flachcr
Pnnkte. Hiuterecken des Metasterunms uicht grob puuktirt. Im Stirnleisteubogeu
kein Liingskiel. Kopftbaler ganz glatfc.

L. 26 mm.

Hub. Cocos Insel. IT). P. Icnzi Knw., l.c.

\Viii. ]\Iittel- nud llinterschienen obne Dtirnchen. Von der Spitze des mehr
oder weniger fain gekielten Hurncbens eine einfacbe Leiste gegen die stumpfwiuklig
ans einander gehendeu, wenig gebogenen Stirnleisten ziebend, welcbe im scbwacben
Knotcben bei 'i der Entt'ernung von den Clypensziibnen endigen. Die breiten
Bncbten des Halsscbildes grob, die schmalen Seitenrandfurchen fein, die Narben
grob nnd dicht pnnktirt; iiber den letzten ein grosserer Pnnktschwarm. Taillenlatz
ohne Narben. Die flacb gestreiften Flgdn. mit nicht stark gewiilbten Intorvallcn,
nicht stark jinnktirt. Clypens gerade, anf der Mitte mit oder ohne Griibohen oiler
Eindrnck. Im Stirnleistenliogeu weder Liingskiel, nocb Liingsfnrche. Kopftbaler
glatt. Abdominalsegment obne Narben, gleichmiissig boch gemndet. Hintereckea
des Metasternnms pnnktirt.

L. 22 mm.

Hah. San Salvador. 16. P. scutellopinictdtus Knw., l.c.

14a. Schildcben glatt, nnpnnktirt. Mittelscbienen ohne Dornen. Samtliche
Streifen der Flgdn. gleichmassig ziemlich stark pnnktirt. Halsschild mit pnnktirter
Narbennd einigen Pnnkten darliber, mit tiefer, nu])nnktirter Buclit nnd nnpuuktirter
Randfurche. Kopfhorn an der nnfreien Spitze seitlich znsammengedrUckt, glatt iu
die Nebenhocker verlanfend. In dem fiacben Bogen der Stirnleisten nnd auf dessea
Mitte eine sehr knrze LUngsleiste. Alle KopfHiicheu nnpnnktirt. Taille auf der
Langsmitte mit 2 Griibcben, ohne Narben. Metasternalhinterecken glatt ; das
Metasternum obne Seitenfnrelien.

L. 20 mm.

Hah. Neugranada. 1 7. /'. thiciiu-'t Knw., l.c.

Chondrocephalus Kuw., l.c.

Das Stirnfeld ist hinter dem vorne glatten Clypeus, von welcliem es uiclit oder
kaum durch eine Furcbe oder Linie getrennt ist, ganz kijrnig ranh. Ist das Stirnfeld
lang, so wird es im Stirnleistenwinkel wieder glatt nnd gliinzend. Der Clypeus ist
wie bei Popilias gebaut, mit welchem Bates diese Thiere vereinigt hat. Bei den
bisher bekannt gewordenen Arten entspringen die Stirnleisten immer von einera vom
Kopfliorn sich herabsenkenden Kielc.

1 {\(i). Das Stirnfeld zwisclien deii Stirnleisten im Winkcl derselben glanzend
und nnpnnktirt vor dem granulirteu Querlnindc.

2 (2a). 28 mm. lang. Die Halsschildbncht tief, aber wenig verbreitert, nicht
oder kaum pnnktirt ; seine Seiten nnpnnktirt, nur die Narbe mit einzelnen Pnnkten.
Schildcben auf der Mitte stark pnnktirt. Die Stirnleisten lanfen im spitzen "Winkel
ans einander ; die Knotcben bleil)en weit ab vom Clyjiens : bis zu ibuen ist das
Stirnfeld glanzend. Von den Knotcben gehen gcscbwungene, schwache Leisteu
zu den Seitentnberkelu des Clypeus. Hiuterecken des Metasternnms pnnktirt.

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Mittpl- nnd TTiiitersehienen mit 1 Dome. Cl^Tiens auf seinpr Mitte mit einem
kleinen Ansscliiiitte.

L. 28 mm.

Hab. Guatemala, Totonicapan, In, 000 fuss. 1. f//. i/ranuH/ron.'i Bates, /.'■.

2a. Kai'er immer viel kleiner.

3 (3a). ■<!2 mm. lang. Die Halsschildlmclit verbreitert mid groli [niiiUliit.
Halsscbildseiten grob pnnktirt. Fl2:du. ticf jninktirt gestreift. Soust dem vovigeii
gleichend. Nacli Bates ; mir imbekauut.

L. 22 mm.

Hnb. Guatemala ; am Vnlkan von Futigo, 4000 Fnss.

2. C/k Mill's Bates, l.r.

3rt. 18 mm. lang. Die Halsschildbachten tief, stark verbreitert, grob pimktirt.
Seine Narben klein, dicht und grob punktirt, dancl)en das Halsscliild mit grossem,
ausgebreitetem Pnnktschwarm. Die Stiru im Wiukel schwacli aiisgeliiihlt, die
Stirnleisten geradlinig zn den Cl}T)euszahn8n ziehend und bei den als Kornchen
auf dieselbeu gelegten Kniitchen nnd vorder glanzeuden Ausliiihlnng des Stirnfeldes
dnrch eine auf der Mitte verschmalerte Leiste verbunden. Die Nebenbocker iiacli
aussen etwas erboht. An der Angeuwand hinter der Rriicke ein grosser, vcrtiefter
I'unkt ; sonst die Kojiftbiiler ziemlich glatt. Schildchen glatt. Taillenlat/. mit
mattem Langsfleck statt der Narbe. Abdomiualsegment ohne Abdomiualnarbe,
Lrleichmassig hocb gerandet. Mittel- und Hinterschienen mit 1 bis 2 kleinen
Diirucben. Flgdn. tief punktirt gestreift mit gewiilbten Intervallen. Der CJlypens
vor dem grannlirteu Stirnfelde sehr schmal, fast ganz von der (ii':iiinIatioii bcdrckt.

L. 18 mm. ; Br. 0 mm.

Hab. San Salvador. 3. (Vi. granulum Kuw., I.e.

Iff. Das Stirnfeld zwischen den stumpfwinklig aus einander laufenden Leisteu
selir kurz nnd ganz granulirt. Das Kojifhorn auf die Nobenliiicker gelegt, mit reclit-
winklig aufrecliter Spitze. NebenhJickcr an den Enden mil vorstebender Spitzc.
Halhsehildbuehten tief, verbreitert, grob punktirt ; Kandfurcben fein ]miii<tirt,
Narbe mit wenigen Punkten. .ScbildcLeu zu deu Seiten der Mitte mit ciuigeii
nugeordneten feineu Punkteu. Taille mit scbraalen, langen Seiteuuarben und
tiefer Mittelrinne auf dem vordeni Th(;ile. Melaslernalpliitte durcli wenige fcine
I'unkte vor den Hintereckeu angedeutet.

L. 22 mm.

I fab. Guatennila. 4. Ch. pHrulcpsi.% Bates, Biol. Criitr. .\mrr. p. 1:!.

5. (iitn-i'K: SEKTOKIIXAE.
Sertorius Kauii, Man. y. 114.

Tiiillenl;i,tz matt, oluie Narlieii.

1 (!")• Von dem Fusse des Ko]irbonis eine starke, bisweiU'n wenig deutliebe,
Leiste zum Clyi)euswulste, mit demselben ein grosses lateiniseli(^s T bildend.
Nebenhiicker ziemlieb scbriige naeb vorue gericlitet und durcli eine feine Leiste mit
der liintern Ang(!nwand verbunden. Halsseliildniirbe kurz, buelitig, unpunktirt.
Metasternum obnc begreuztes Scbild, un])unktirt, dicht vor den Hinterbiiften mit
kleinem, qnerem Eindrack. Fnrchen der Fliigeldecken fein punktirt. Kopfiiorti
unfrei, vorne steil abfallend; von seinem scitlichen Vorderrande die Stirnleisten in
breitem Bogen ziehend, stark erliaben, mit dem Knutcheii weit vom Ende des

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f'lypenswnlstes fernlileibend. K(i(ifthaler zieiulich tief, wuiiig uneben. Taille
luattscliwarz. Seitenfnrcheu des Halsschildes schmal.

L. 32 mm. ; Br. 10 mm.

Hah. Guatemala. 1. S. agassizi Kanp, I.e. p. 114.

\a. Kein Langskiel, sondern eher eine feine Furclie anf der Stirn. Neben-
hiicker ganz fehlend, eher diireh einen kleinen Eiodruck angedeutet. Die
gpscliwniigeue Halsschildiiarbe nnpiinktirt. Kopfthiiler glatt, wenig uuebeii.
Kopfhorn, Stirnleisten, Taillenlatz wie beim vorigen. Fliigeldeckeu proportiouell
etwas kiirzer, sonst dem vorigen gleichend, den Ubergang bildend zum Genus
Veturiiis.

L. 3U mm. ; Br. \l■:^ mm.

HaO. San Salvador. 2. 8. assman/ii Kuw., /.c.

6. Geuppe: UNDULIFERINAE.
Undulifer Kauj), Col. Hefte V. ; id., Mo//, p. 103.

1 (la). Das Kopfhorn auf dem hintern Theile tief gefurcht, vorne mit freier
Spitze. Schildchen dieht pnnktirt mit glatter Langsmitte. Das Halsschild mit
tiefcr, glatter Buchtfurche am Vorderrande, liber luid hinter der pnnktirten Narbe
mit groben Pnnkten und mit abgerundeten Vordereckeu. Oberlijijie vorne ziemlieh
gerade. Alle Flgdufurchen fein punktirt. AUe Kopfflachen runzlig; iu den
Runzein die Nebenhocker und Stirnleisten wenig kenntlich.

2 (2a). Aiigenwand mit starkerem Zahn anf derMitte. Das ganze Metasternum
pnnktirt und behaart. Die conve.xeu Bogen des Clypeus starker.

Nach einem Kaupsehen E.xemplare.

L. 3.5 mm.

JfuL Me.\ico. 1. t/. ///m«,s Trnc]ui, /?('/-. Zw/. p. 2G6 (1857).

2ti. Augenwandmitte nur gehoben, zahnlos. Das Metasternum hinten mit
breit glatter Mittelfliiche. Der Prosternalkiel zwischen den Yorderhiiften gefurcht.
Die Stirnleisten und Nebenhiicker trotz der starken Kopfrnnzeln doch ziemlieh
kenntlich. Die Bogen des Clypeus schwacher. Die Kojifhornfurche tief.

L. 32 mm.

Had. Me.xico. 2. V. acapulcae \\\\^.,l.c.

la. Kojifiiorn nngefurclit, mit erhabener nndangerichteter'Spitze. Die vorderen
Kojifllai'lion glatt, die liintorn jmiiktivt und gerunzelt. Die Randfliichcn (h's
Ilalssehildes aueh hinter den Augen an der l')iiehtstelle pnnktirt. Ohne Stirnleisten;
.Nebenliocker undeutlich. Metasternalplatte vorne dicht, hinten mehr zerstreut
]innktirt und lang behaart. Angenwand in der Mitte ziemlieh stark zalinartig
erhalien. (1 Stiick).

Ij. 28 nun.

Hub. San Salvador. 3. U. salmdori.s Kuw., I.e.

7. Giium;: Sl'URlINAE.

Spurius Kaup, ^foll. ]). 7").

OhiU' Kopfhorn. Die Nebenliocker dnrch eine nach riickwiirts dnrchgebogene
leine Leisti! verbnnden. Stirnleisten schwach, nur oder kanm imgedeutet. Die
Clypeusleiste sehr fein, triigt am Ende ein kleines Dorucheu.

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Metasternnm glatt, ohne abgegrenztes Metasternalschild Sehildclieii iViu
zei'streut pniiktirt. Taille mit Navbe. Dem Genus PopHius iiliiilich, docli dnrch
den Mangel ties Kopfliorns gescliieden. Halsseliild mit grosser Narbe and Piinkten
dariiber. Mittelsehiene ohne Doru. Kiirper flach. FUhlerkenle 3-Iappig.

L. 18 mm. ; Br. 06 mm.

Hab. Mexico; Guatemala. 1. S. bicorniii Truciui, I.e. ; Kaup, I.e.

Cylindrocaulus Fairm., Le yatxralittte p. 104 (1880).

Kiirper dick, convex. Mit ganzer Halsschildrandfurchc. Fiihlerkeule 3-lapj)ig.
Vordertibien miissig breit, nach aussen stark gezahnt. Mandibeln mit zweizackigem
Vorderzabu. Clypeus vorne nicbt gezahnt, breit ausgebnclitet, mit vorgezogeneu
Eckeu. Angen beiuahe zweitheilig. Scheitel anf jeder Innenseito der Angenwand
jeseitig mit eiuem anfgerichteten Home bewaffnet, ohne Kopfhom anf der Mitte.
Der Clypeus (nach brieflicher Mittlieilung der Herru Fairmairej rait Lciste. Das
Prosternum zwischen den Vorderhiiften als erhabener Kiel sichtbar nnd hierdurch
von den Anlacocyclinen getrennt. Korper fast cylindrisch, glilnzend, glatt. Kopf
selir glatt, .schwach concav, vorne gerandet, jeseitig mit einem zierliclien, sciiWigc
angerichteten Horuchen. Halsseliild stark convex, mit gerundeten Hinterecken uud
vorgezogenen Vorderecken, mit Mittelfnrche, die vorne verklirzt nnd anseinander-
lanfend ist. Flgdn. tief gefnrcht nnd in den Fnrchen tief pnnktirt. llintorschieneu
kanra mit Dorn versehen. Metasternalhinterecken ohne Punktirung.

Alles nach Fairmaire, in dessen Sammlung sich das einzige Stiick beiindet,
welches bisher bekannt wurde.

L. 1 7 mm.

Unit. Cliina. 1 . C*. buccrus Fairm., I.e.

8. GiiUiTK: PSEUDACANTHINAE.

Pseudacanthus Kanji, f'ol. Hefte V. ; id., }fo)i. ]>. "3.

Dnrch die Querfnrchc zwischen den innern Ziihncn wird der Clypens von dein
Stirnfelile gescliieden. Das vorne weit freie Kopfhorn ist mit deu Nebenhiickern
znsammen hinten beinahe bogenfiirmig abgcrundet. Dieso mit den im Bogeu weit
auseinandcr mid nach den anssorn Clypeiisvorspriingen ziehenden Stirnleistcn beinahe
zusanimonfallend. Die innern Clypeusdorne in ahnlicher Weise wie bei Erioiiomiui
sich nach vorne allmilhlich verstiirkend aus der Stirn nach dem Clypeusrande
eutwickelt. Die Fnrche am Vorderrande des (Jlypens setzt sich oft audi zwischen
dem iiQssern nnd Binnenzahne fort.

1 (1«). Hintcrschienen nndentlich gcziihnt. Kopfiioni an der Basis breit
dreieckig, seine Nebenhiicker sehr kleiu, seine .Spitze frei. Stirnleisteu nndentlich,
wenig erhaben, breit gekriimmt.

Mir fremd gebliebeu.
L. 20 mm.; Br. 10 mm.; Flgdn. 10 mm.

Ilab. M(!xico. 1. /'. laticornis Trini., /'cc Zool. p. 310 (1857); Kaup,

Moil. ]>. 74.

Iff. Hintcrschienen niclit gi'zahut oder gezuluielt. Mittelschienen dicht
behaart.

2 (2'/). I'ie iiMieru Ziiline des Clypens uberrageu den ('lyjiensrand nicht, sondern

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siud ail dcmselbtm senkrecht abgebeilt, die aussern C'lypuus vorspriinge sehr stumpf-
eckig. Die Stiruleisten undeutlicli. Die Seiten dcr Unterlippe wenig bebaart. Die
Nebenhocker boeh, kielig, im Bogen gestellt. Die Tailleiiuarbeii laug, linienartig
schrnal. Die nnteni Halsschildseiten mit starker Haarwnist. Narbcu der Unter-
lippe unbegrenzt, mit der Umgebiing pnnktirt. Halsscliild glatt mit kleiner Narbe.
Das Schildcben zn den Seiten der glatten, gefnrcbtcn Mittellinie mit liingliclieu
Pnnkten. Das Kopfborn etwas schmaler, mit weit iiberhangender Spitze; darniiter
die gliinzende Stirnfliiche mit scbwacher Laugsanshiihlung.

L. 31 mm.; Br. 10-5 mm.

Hub. Mexico. 2. P. mexicanus Truq., I.e. p. 315: Kanp, Moii. p. 73.

2a. Die innern Zahne iiberragen den Clypeusrand sichtbar, sind niclit an ilim
steil abgebeilt.

3 (3a). Kilter 31 mm. lang. Im Wesentlichen gleiche Kopfbildung wie der
Vorige. Das Schildchen anf der nicbt gefnrcliten Mitte breiter glatt, zu deu Seiten
pnnktirt. Das Kopfhurn breit dreieckig, vorue weit iiberhilugend, nnter ilim die
glatte Stirne oluie Liingsansbiihlnng. Die iinssern Clypensvorspriinge sobarfeekig
Die Stirnleisten vorne nnterhalb der boben Nebenhocker dentlicher nnd znnial
anf der liuken Seite deutlicb geziihnt zu den Vorspriingen ziebend. Die obern
Flgdfurchen, wie beim vorigen, fast oder ganz nnimnktirt, die Seitenfnrcben ziem-
lieb fein jinnktirt. Die Seiten der Unterlippe mit der Narbe dichtri' iind langer
beliaart als bei mnxicdnus.

(1 Stuck im Stattgarter Museum).

L. 31 mm.; Br. 10-5 mm.

Ilab. Mexico. 3. P. tntquii Knw., I.e.

3«. Kafer nur 23 — 2o mm. lang.

4 (4a). Mittel- und Hinterscbienen nngezabnt. Die Kcpftbiiler mit grossen
Unebeubeiten. Die Stirnleisten nacb vorne in der ranben Umgebuug verscbwindend.
Der liaum zwisclien den Stirnleisten fein und sparsam pnnktirt. Das fast dreieckige
Kopfborn mit weit freier Sjjitze, die mit ihm verlnindeneii Nebenbiicker scbarfkirlig.
Die Angenwand dreiziilinig, der vorderste Zabn deu aussern Ciypeuszabu liildciid.
Mittelschienen und imterer Halsscbildseitenrand dicbt bebaart. Die iiusscrn
Furchen der Flgdn. starker als die oliern. Nacb Tnn^^ui.

L. 23 mm. ; Br. S-5 mm.

JIkIi. Me.xico. 4. P. aztccus Truq., I.e. p. 314; Kaup, }fon. p. 74.

4«. Mittelscbienen oben nacb der Mitte zu allmiiblicb erhilbt und dicbt beliaart,
mit 2 Ziibnen. Die Stirnleisten breit gekriimmt, niclit scbarf, in die den Clypcns
Uberragenden Dome auslaufend. P. laticoniis selir aliulicli, kleiner, mit propor-
tionell ktirzern Flgdn. Wenig conve.x, gliinzend. Kojifborn an der Wurzel breit,
mit weit freier Siiitze: mit sicbtbaren, kurzen, wenig erliabeiieu Nebeiiluiekern.
Flaggenlappen miissig lang. Halsseliildseitenraiidfiirche tiberall dicbt fein pnnktirt;
seine Seiten und Narben glatt. Die stark punktirt gestreiften Flgdn. gliinzend, mit
fast glatten Zwiscbenriiumen. Metasternum mit Ausscliluss der gross punktirteu
Acbselhobleu der Mittelscbienen sebr gliinzend.

Alles nacli Bates.

L. 2r)inni. : Halsscliild O.") mm.; Flgdl. 13 mm.

lldlj. Jalappa, Me.xico. 5. P.jalupjiensis Bates, I.e.

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Eriopterus Knw., I.e.

Von Pseudacanthts nnd Triovmmju.s lianptsaclilich dadurcli leidit xn nnter-
scheideu, dass die iiiisscrstcn Seitenintervalli- der Flgdu. dicht pnnktiit mid behaart
sind. Jeseitig am Clypeus stehen dicht aneinauder 2 kleine Ziihne, von denen
die Binnenziihne dnrcli eine feine Fnrclic verbnndeu sind wie bci Triaenurgus.

Die Oberlippe stark geruudet ansgesehnitten. Das Kopfhorn rund, lanj;
iibergelegt wie bei I'etre/us. Von seiucm Fussc geht jeseitig eine starke Leiste znr
vordern Augenwand, wiihrend eigentliche Stiruleisteu fehlou. Die Nebeuhiickcr
sind ziemlich klein, abgerundet. Das Brustschild mit kleinen behaarten Narben
nnd pnnktirten Eaudfnrchen. Metasterunm mit selir scbmalen Seiteurinnen,
nn])uuktirt, anch mit nupuuktirteu Hinterecken, mit tiefer Qnergrube (immer ?) vor
den Hinterhiiften. Im Wiener Mnseum.

L. 32 mm.; Halsschild 0 mm.; Flgdl. IT mm.; ]!r. 11 mm.

Hub. Orizaba, Mexico. 1. E. tjanglbnueri Knw., I.e.

TriaenurgTis Bates, Biol. Centr. Amer. p. 8.

An dem vierzahnigen Clypens die Mittelzabne sehr weit aiis einander stehend.
Kopniorn ahnlich wie bei Rimor, breit, nicdergebogen, weit frei,mit Jicihcn, kieligen,
an den iiussern Ecken abgerundeten und nacli vorne gebogonen Nebeubuckern versebeu.
Die Flgdn. ganz imbehaart tind mit einander verwaehsen. Halsschild propo'rtionell
sehr gross. Keino Stirnleisten vorhanden. Halsscliijdnarben klein nnd ganz glatt.
Taillenlatz an den Seitcn pnnktirt nnd behaart. Metasterunm an den Seiteu dichter
jmnktirt nnd behaart, mit gross nnd ziemlich weitliinfig jiunktirten Hinterecken.
Flaggen dreilapjiig. Der Vordertlieil des Vorderkojifs einen breiten Querwnlst
bildeud.

1 (1«). I'as C-' nnd T" Interval! an den Flgdn. sind die schmalsten. Die
Flgdn. sind fast matt, stark pnnktirt gefurcht. Jfittelschienen mit einera starken
nnd 2 schwachen Dornehen, Hinterschieneu mit 1 Dornchen. Halsschild mit
pnnktirter Randfnrche, welche am Vorderrande sehr selimal ist.

Mir frenul; nach Bates.

L. 37 mm.: Thorax 11 mm.; Flgdl. lit mm.

I lab. Totonicapan, Guatemala, 1U,000 Fuss. 1. 7'. .mbopactm Bates, I.e.

\a. Das 6'" Interval! der Flgdn. ist vorne bctriielitlieh selimiiler a!s das iV" nnd
T'", das 8'" ftingt erst hinter der Selmlter an, inciem das 7'" nnd 'J'° sicli in der
Hclnilterschwiele vereinigen. Hinter dem Kopfhorne cine feine Langsfnrehe. I)ie
Flgdn. stark gliinzend, wie der ganze Kiifer. Das stark gewiilbte Si-liildelien
biuten zu beiden Seitcn einer angedenteten Liingsmittelfurche fein ])unktirt.
Mitte!-nnd Hinterschieneu mit 1 Ziilinelien. Nacli hinten zn verscluniilern sicli das
7'" und ^'" Interval! der Flgdn. sehr betriichtlieh; die Furclieu fein punktirt.

L. 38-50 mm.; Thorax 11 mm.; Br. 13 nini.: Flgdl. 20-.').

JIdb. Guatemala.

2. T.junctistriatu.s Knw., t.e.
(Fortsetzuru/ fnlgl).

EXPLANATION OF PLATE XU.

Fig. 1. SphiTix arthuri, p. 307. n. 1.

2. Xyleutes doiiovani, p. 307. n. 3.

3. „ pulchra <S , p. 308. n. 4.
4 S

5. Ceranckia anscnY/ei, p. 309. n. 5.

(). Chalcosia (?) alboraedla, p.-309. n. G.

7. Mimeusemia lomhokensis, p. 310. n. 8

„ 8. Phalaenoides restHetus, p. 311. n. 10.

,, 9. Aegocera ansmyei, p. 311. n. 11.

10. Copidi-yas margmalis, p. 312. n. 13.

„ 11. Milionia doheiiyi, p. 313. u. 14.

NcfviTAiEs ZooLOGic^.VoL.r\/.1897.

Pl.VII.

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SOME NEW SPECIES OF HETEBOCEBA.

By the HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD.

(PI. VII.)

SPHINGIDAE.

L Sphinx arthuri sj). nov. (PI. VII. fig. 1).

cJ. Forewinga: pale grey, strongly sprinkled with orange and lilaek scales,
giving a decided olive tinge. An indistinct stigma on the discoccllulars, from
which a faint dark streak rnns into the cell. Across the disc of the wing runs an
indistinct zigzag transverse line, from which horizontally proceed two dark lines
abont 5 mm. long between veins 2 and 4.

Hindwimji : black, crossed by two bauds of pearl-grey 3 mm. wide; onter
margin snffnsed Nvith grey scales ; fringe creamy white.

Urulersidp, : as above, bnt more imiform grey.

Head and thorax like npperside of forewing ; abdomen dark grey, with five
lilack and five light grey lateral spots placed alternately; underside of :i,l)doiiic'n
whitish grey, with a median row of small black dashes.

Expanse : forewing, length 52 mm. ; width I'-t mm.
„ hindwing, „ 32 „

Hull. La Paz, Bolivia (canght at electric light) ; 1 c?.

Named after Mr. Arthur Maxwell Stuart.

2. Daphnis dohertyi sp. nov.

i . Closely allied to D. hijpothous and magnifica, but easily distinguished from
botii by the very differently shaped discal dark green area. The basal edge of this
patch is straight; the outer edge' is deeply sinuate between veins 4 and 5, this
sinus filled up with white ; in front of the sinns the patch measures only 7 mm. in
width, and between veins 2 and 3 only 2 mm. The pale line situated between the
dark green patch and the apex of the wing is very strongly curved between veins 4
and 5, the line reaching vein 4 at a distance of 7 mm. from the outer margin ; the
space between this line and the discal patch is partly scaled white, especially close
to the dark green patch. The cellule between veins 3 and 4 is, in /i>/pot/ious and
DKKinifica, olive-green or dark green, except a trapezoidal submarginal sjiot of fawn-
colonr; \\\ <loherti)i^\m latter spot is much enlarged and almost ecru-drab. Hind-
wing more reddish than in the allied species.

Unclcrsidi' : as in In/potlious, the three discal brown lines of the forewing more
]iromini'nt ; hindwing with two white dots at costal margin.

Ilab. Kapanr, Dutch S.W. New Guinea, December I8'.)(j (W. Dohcrty) ; 1 S.

COSSIDAE.

3. Xyleutes donovani sp. nov. (PI. VII. fig. 2).

c?. I'pperside: forewing witiiout the yellowish tint which is jiresent in
.V. litanitKS Don., the nearest ally of donoumi ; costal margin with about twenty

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black spots, whicli become smaller and scarcer towards the apex of the wing ; before
middle of cell there is an ill-defined black patch which penetrates into the cell ;
another, smaller, ]>atch midway between the first and tlie ajiex of the cell ; outside
the second patch a black dot : a siibmarginal row of elongate black patches between
veins 2 and 8, the posterior one the longest : hinder margin with transverse black
lines, about six to eight in basal half, twelve to fourteen in outer half, the latter
lines either connected with one another b)- means of two irregular longitudinal lines,
or more or less merged together : behind the middle of vein Ic, where there stands
a black stripe in Utiirattis, is a space bare of black lines ; outside this white j)atch
is an elongate black mark of 3 mm. lengtli and 1 mm. breadth ; npper half of cell
with very few minute black linear spots ; all the cellules with black transverse
irregular lines, fewer in number than in lititratus, mostly joined to each other along
the middle line of tlie cellules ; end of veins witli square blackish brown spots.

Hindwing nearly as in litiiratits ; abdominal margin, especially at anal angle,
more extended white ; black network of lines less dense, with square blackish brown
spots at the ends of the veins.

Underside : similar to upperside, but disc of forewing brown, and the blackish
brown areas present on the n])perside of the hindwing between cell ami liiiuliM- margin
and Ijetweeu cell and api^x of wing less strongly marked.

Antennae scaled white above, twenty-seven joints with lateral liranches, forty
joints simple ; branches blackish, fine liairs of underside grey (in liturntus about
fortv-five joints have lateral processes, and forty joints are simple ; tine hairs of
underside of branches with a yellowish tint). Head greyish white (in fresh specimens
of Uturatus ochraceons), black close to the eyes and at anterior margin. Prothorax
and patagia grey, densely mixed with brown ; mesothorax whitish laterally, with
two black bands bordering a pale brown median area ; no white median line.
Abdomen much more grey than in Uturatus. Breast, underside of abdomen, and
legs white ; anterior coxae, upperside of anterior tibiae, part of middle tibiae, and
all the tarsi brown, the latter obviously ringed white.

?. Resembles the S, but the white discal spaces of the forewing are much
overpowdered with black scales, and the black costal patches are more extended.
Hindwing brown all over, except costal region as far as covered by forewing ; anal
margin and interspaces between the very prominent brown square spots at the ends
of the veins whitish grey. Sides of mesothorax darker than in <S ; abdomen scaled
grey and brown.

Varies in size like Uturatus. The posterior angle of the forewing is somewhat
less rounded than in Uturatus, and the hindwing is slightly narrower.

Ildb. Brisbane district, Queensland ; a good series of both sexes.

This species is often confounded with Uturatus in collections.

4. Xyleutes pulchra Bothsch. (Pi. VII. fig. 3, J; 4, ?).

This species 1 described from {\w female in Nov. Zool. 111. p. 232 (1890). I
have now received a small mule which has been obtained, together with several ? ? ,
out of the same kind of tree. This male differs, as the figures show, from the ?
especially in the absence of the discal patch of black spots from the forewing and
in the darker hindwing and abdomen. The male antennae consist of about sixty
joints, of which the last thirty are devoid of lateral processes.

Ilab. Brisbane district, Queensland ; the male bred November 1890.

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SATURNIIDAE.
S. Ceranchia ansorgei sp. nov. (I'l. VII. tig. o).

J. Uppersicle : forewiug hair-lmiwn, with a slight tint of ocrn-drab in costal
region; jnst before middle of wing there is an almost straight transverse white
band, expanded between costal and inner margin, faintly curved behind, and slightly
edged witli yellow basally; width of band 2i mm.; a second band rnns, in a slight
curve, from the costal margin, where it begins .5 mm. short of the apex, to the end
of vein 2, grailnally tapering off behind; the anterior portion of the band is bordered
ontwarcUy by a brick-red line; upon the discocellulars there is a small eye-spot,
2 mm. in diameter, consisting of a yellow, a black, and a white ring snrrouading a
black centre.

Hindwing white from base to apex of cell, gradually Ijeconiing dark greyish
drab: a submarginal white band similar to that of the forewing, edged outwardly
with pale yellow; a small black spot at end of cell.

Underside: forewing dark greyish drab, white towards base; median band not dis-
tinctly marked; outer band as aliove; outer two rings of eye-spot absent. Hindwing
as above, but costal region dark greyisli drab to near base, the white colour thus
being restricted to a large patch extending from base to apex of cell, bordered
anteriorly by the subcostal nervnre; stigma bordered with white; submarginal band
as above.

Head, underside of abdomen and legs drab-colour; legs faintly yellowish;
pronotum, sides of sterna and abdomen white; meso- and metanotum and upperside
of abdomen greyish drab.

Length: forewing 40 mm., hindwing 29 mm.

Ilf(b. Kiboko Kiver, Uganda Protectorate, November 5th, 1896 (Dr. I. W.
Ansorge); IS.

Differs from C. mollis Butl., its nearest ally, especially iu the presence of the
submarginal white band on both wings.

CHALCOSIIDAE.
6. Chalcosia (?) albomedia sp. nov. (PI. VII. fig. 6).

? . Upperside : forewing black, with a slight metallic green gloss at the base;
a longitudinal band running from the base to beyond the ajiex of the cell, where it
is widest, white; the band is constricted at its basal third. Hindwing white; outer
margin bordereil with black; at the inner edge of this border there are bluish green
scales, especially between veins 3 and 6 and at the anal angle: abdominal margin of
wing with black and metallic bluish green scales; base with black hairs.

Underside: forewing metallic blue-green e.xcept outer fourth: white median
band reduced in length, basal third wanting, rest of baud separated into two patches
by means of a transverse bar in the middle of the cell. Hindwing bluish green
at the base, abdominal margin, and edge of the white area; black outer border
narrower behind than it is above.

Head and end of abdomen ochraceous; ])rothorax, front part of mesothorax, and
a dot near hind edge of mesothorax white; rest of body bluish green.
Forewing: length 31 mm., breadth lo mm.
Hiudwins: „ 24 „ „ 16 „

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Ilab. Kapaur, Dutch .S.W. New Guirieu, January 1897 (W. Dolierty); 1? at
low altitude.

This species does not fit in any of the genera of Cluilrosiidue hitherto erected.
The scales of the wing are very long compared with those of other Chalcosiids, tliose
of the prothorax and patagia are hairlike. In nenration the insect agrees best with
Pompelon, veins 2 to 0 being free, 7 being stalked |^with S and 9, and 1 1 anasto-
mosing shortly with 12; the veins 2 to 7 of the hindwing originate from llie cell.
The branches of the joints of the antennae become gradually, bat considerably,
shorter towards the apex.

AGAKISTIDAE.
7. Episteme siimbana sp. nov.

S. (!losely resembling E. uduUdrix from Nortli India. Forewing narrower,
median band broadest at the snbmedian uervure; series of white spots in outer half
of wing situated closer to the cell than in adulatrix, the three anterior spots of this
row elongate, twice as long as in adulatrix. Hindwing above with a row of six
white spots, of which the third and fourth are situate 1 mm. from the apex of
the cell; two small orpiment-orange spots near anal angle.

Underside : as above, the white spots in outer half of wings larger.

Head, palpi, and ])rothorax as in adulatrix; patagia as in nigripennis from
Ceylon; abdominal segments 5, 6, and 7 with orpiment-orange scales beneath and on
the sides.

Hub. Sumba, December 1896 (A. Everett); \<S.

The occurrence of this insect on the island of Sumba is very remarkable, as
hitherto no representative of E. adulatrix has been found in the ]\Ialayan Subregion,
the various forms of adulatrix being restricted to Continental India and Ceylon.

8. Mimeusemia lombokensis sj). nov. (PL VII. fig. 7).

(S. Upperside : forewing black, with some dispersed yellowish scales; a
triangular mark at base of cell, a transverse bar be3'ond middle of cell, and a
straight, anteriorly narrowed, band beyond apex of cell, extending from areole to
vein 2, measuring 21 mm. in width at vein 3, cream-yellow: two basal sjwts before
costal nervure, a spot in middle of cell, a line upon the discucellulars, and two trans-
verse lines behind cell, metallic blue ; fringe at apex of wing white. Hindwing
bright cadmium-yellow, costal and outer region black: this black border fills the
costal and subcostal interspaces, and measures 5 mm. at vein 6, 3A mm. at vein 2;
base of wing dusted over with black scales ; fringe at apex of wing white.

Underside : forewing nearly as above ; the creamy markings a little more
extended and paler. Hindwing with the yellow area not dusted over with black at
the base; costal black l)order narrow at base, then dilated so as to touch the anterior
angle of the cell, and again sinuate.

First joint of palpi cream-colour; second black, sides cream-colour; third black,
with very few creamy scales. Head black, cream-colour at the sides and behind the
eyes. Thorax covered witli a mixture of olive-yellow and black, hairlike, scales.
Abdomen bright cadininni-yellow, middle of basal segments metallic black.
Underside cadmium-yellow, abdomen brighter; tarsi black above, with the tips of
the joints white.

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?. Like tlic 111,'ilc, but the basal creamy mark of the t'urevviug is absent.

I [(lb. 8apit, Lombok, 2000 feet, May and Jnnc 1896 (H. Fruhstorfer);
4 c^cJ, 3 ? ¥.

The specimens vary slightly inter se in the size of the markings of the fore-
wing. This species agrees structurally closely with M. pn^hwa (from India) and
allies.

9. Mimeusemia puciolia (Druce).

A(jaris(<i piicioUa Druce, Ann. Maij. S. 11. (6). XV. p. -12 (1895) (Philippine
Is. ex err. !).

Mimeusetnia fruhstorferi Rothschild, Nov. Zoul. IV. p. 1S3. n. 7 (1897)
(S. Celebes).

The habitat " Philippine Islands " as given in the descrijition of jjuciolia is
stated by mistake ; the type-specimen bears the label " Miuah., Plat.," which means
Minahassa, North Celebes (Platen). It is a Staudingerian specimen. The differences
between })i(ciolia and fruhstorferi are very slight; puciolia has, in fact, all the
characters mentioned iu my descriiitiou oi fruhstorferi and not mentioned in the
description of puciolia, except that it is smaller. The two specimens represent
perhajis a northern and a southern subspecies of the same species; but this can only
be decided on receipt of more material. For the present it is best to mi\. fruhstorferi
as a synonym.

10. Phalaenoides restrictus sp. nov. (PI. VII. tig. 8).

c?. The representative form of I'h. mcijisto Buisd., from which it differs as
follows : —

Upper side : forewing with a very strong blue metallic gloss, except in outer
third; a transverse band before middle of cell as in meijisto, but only half the width,
a spot beyond middle of cell, and a discal ovate jiatch, pointed at botli ends, reaching
from vein 6 to the submedian nervure, a streak upon the inner margin at the base,
and nervules in outer region of wing, white. Hindwing as in meijisto, but more
metallic blue.

Underside : forewing with the spot in the apex of the cell and the discal patch
as above, the latter larger. Tibiae darker than in megisto, more metallic;
foretibiae without yellow hairs. Second joint of palpi with very few black scales
above.

Hab. Kiuigunaug, New Pommeru (Carl iiibbe); IcJ.

11. Aegocera ansorgei sp. nov. (PI. VII. fig. 9).

$. Closely allied to ^.1. inencte ("ram., but has a narrower and dili'oreutly
marked forewing. The longitudinal band beyond the cell is narrower than iu
menete; it is separated into four portions — a basal sjjot, two elongate markings of ,5
and 4^ mm. length respectively, and a transverse small spot ; the outer mark of
menete is wanting. Besides the almost rectangular spot in the apex-of the cell there
is a rounded mark before the middle of the cell ; two faint transverse lines in
middle of cell, and a third at apex of cell creamy buff like the other markings.
Transverse band beyond apex of cell narrow, forming a very blunt angle at vein o;
outside this band, which reaches as far as vein 3, there is a short costal band and a
complete submarginal band of creamy bull' scales. Costal and inner margins dusted

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over with creamy bnff scales. Nervules close to the fringe with metallic scales ; the
luutallic spots in the cell and ou the disc are very pale, and much less prominent
than in menete. Ilindwing as in rubida Feld., but the border and the central sj)ot
deeper in colour. Abdomen as in menete. The antennae are as thick towards the
apex as in A. obliqua Mab.

Hub. Muani, Uganda Protectorate, November 11th, 1896 (Dr. 1. W. Ansorge);
\S.

Named in honour of the collector.

12. Crinala floresiana sj). uov.

S ? . V/jperside : both wings black, with a strong metallic blue gloss in side
liglit. Forewing with a spot before costal nervure near base, an oblique streak
beyond cell, a short bar in middle of cell, and a line at the apex of cell plumbaginous
blue. Ciliae of both wings white, extreme edge of outer margins also white, the
white scaling a little more extended at apex of forewiBg.

Underside of forewing with an indistinct transverse short line outside the apex
of the cell, composed of ochreons scales.

Body black, with metallic blue gloss. Head with some scales behind eyes, two
spots in front of the antennae, and frontal margin white. First and second joints
of palpi scaled white beneath. Anterior coxae, part of collar, and end of abdomen
bright orange in S, orpiment-orange in ?.

Agrees in colour almost exactly with Scrobigera albomarginata ; but the neura-
tion is as in Crinala, except that vein 10 of the forewing is very shortly stalked
with 8 and 9 in ?, while in i it arises from the areole. Hindwing of i without the
longitudinal fold present in Scrobigera ; abdominal region only hairy.

Length of forewing : c?, 25 mm. ; ? , 30 mm.

Ilab. South Flores, October and November 1696 (A. Everett); 1 c?, 1 ?.

13. Copidryas marginalis sp. nov. (PI. VII. fig. 10).

c?. Upper side : forewing dark brown ; costal region creamy buff, overpowdered
with brown scales ; this creamy buff area is dilated midway between base and vein 2,
forming an acute angle behind cell : from here to the up])er angle of the cell it is
gradually narrowed, and then dilated again ; its outer edge is nearly parallel to the
outer margin of the wii.g. Hindwing chrome-yellow, with a black border all round
(excejit base) ; this border is o mm. wide at vein 7, U mm. at vein 2, and 3i mm.
at anal angle.

Underside: forewing blackish brown ; a large Irianguhu- basal i)atch, 3i mm.
broad at apex and 0 mm. long, and a broad band outside the cell, extending from costa
to outer margin, reaching the latter between veins 14 and 3, about 4 mm. wide, chrome-
yellow. Hindwing as above.

Head and underside of palpi, middle line of tliorax, underside ol' thorax, and
legs grey; upperside of palpi and sides of thorax above l)rown. Abdomen nearly
black, somewhat greyish towards the tip. Front of liead with a prominent, obliquely
truncate cone.

Forewing : length, 20 mm. ; breadth, 9 mm.

Hab. Espirito Santo, Brazil; 1 j.

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OEOMETRIDAE.
14. Milionia dohertyi sp. nov. (PI. VII. fig-. 11).

S. Closely allied to i/. eleffu/is, Nov. Zool. II. p. 498. t. vii. f. 1. 2 (1895), but
wings and body much less metallic blue. Median band of forewiug nearly as in
elegans, somewhat rounded at both ends ; the subapical band is twice as broad as in
elegans, consisting of three spots, of which the middle one is .5 mm. long ; a small
white mark near hinder angle, as in eleganx.

Hindwing black, with a very large pale ochre-yellow area extending from hinder
margin, where it measures 11 mm. in width, to vein 7 ; its outer edge rnfons red ; a
faint black spot at the end of the cell.

Underside : as above, but hindwing with a more distinct black dot upon the
discocellulars, and black outer border of hindwing dilated behind vein 2. Abdomen
paler yellow (? faded) than in f!ri/"/is : middle segments yellow also beneath, edged
with black.

Had. Kapaur, Dutch !S.W. New Guinea, January and February 1897 (W.
Doherty) ; 2 tJtJ, at low elevation.

TWO NEW SPECIES OF BUTTERFLIES IN THE TEING

MUSEUM.

By n. GROSE SMITH, B.A., F.E.S., F.Z.S., etc.
1. Tenaris mailua sj). nov.

(?. Uppersitle: both wings dark fuliginous grey. Anterior wings crossed ob-
liquely beyond the cell by a large subajiical diffused white patch, the white area not
extending over the subcostal nervules anteriorly, or quite reaching the outer margin
jwsteriorly. Posterior wings with a large diffused yellowish white patch from near
the base, extending over the cell and the lower part of the disc, but not quite
reaching the outer and abdominal margins, which are dark fuliginous grey; between
the two lowest median nervrdes is a small ocellus witli a pale violet jjupil and a
bright fulvous outer ring.

Underside : darker and brighter than on the npperside. On the posterior
wings are two very bright ocelli with broad fulvous outer rings; the lower ocellus
is larger than on the upperside, and the pupil, which is white, is surrounded by a
ring of violet scales.

Antennae black; palpi and abdomen fulvous.

? resembles the S , but on the upperside the white areas on both wings are
rather more extended, and the ocellus on the posterior wings of the i is absent.

Expanse of wings : J, 3 inches; ?, 3i inches.

Ilab. Mailu, British New Guinea (Anthony, July 189.")).

Nearest to T. anablcps Voll. and T. uramis Stgr., but the position and
extent (on the po.sterior wings) of the white patches readily separate it from these
species.

Described from two 6 and two V sj)ecimens.

2. Thysonotis phroso sp. nov.
?. Upperside: anterior wings witli the base, costal margin, and apical thiid
I'reyish black, the black urea extending rather broadly down the outer margin to

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a little above the siibiuediau uervure, wheace it extends bioaiUv along the iuuer
margin to one-half the distance from the base ; the remainder of the wings is
white, with a basal patch of blue scales which extends broadly along the costal and
inner margins abont half the distance. Posterior wings grey-black, with a while
patch above the costal nervnre ; the basal third is densely irrorated with tiright
bine scales extending over and below the cell.

Underside : anterior wings with the costa and apical third broadly black, thence
along the onter margin narrowly black; the dark costal and apical area is centred
with a cnrved rather broad band of shining blue scales, interrupted about the
middle. Posterior wings with the onter two-thirds and a broad subbasal band black;
in the onter black area is a very broad band of shining blue, centred by seven
elongate oval black spots between the veins ; a white band crosses the wings
before the middle, and extends more narrowly along the costal margin nearly to
the apex; the basal third is densely irrorated with blue scales, and there is a blue
streak at the base. Cilia of both wings black.

Exjianse of wings : If inch.

ffiih. Etna Bay, Dutch New Guinea (Webster, August 1896).

Described from fonr ? specimens; the cj remains to be discovered.

The ? on the upper wings resembles T. wallacei Feld., but the white area
is more extended, and the broad irroration of blue scales on the npperside of both
wings, the absence of the subbasal white band on th(' njiperside of the posterior
wings, the much wider blue area on the underside of those wings, and the black
cilia of both wings, which are white in T. wa/larci, as well as minor differences,
separate it from that s]iccies.

NOTES ON HETEBOCEEA, WITH DESCEIPTIONS OF NEW
GENEEA AND SPECIES.

By the HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD and DR. KARL JORDAN.

(Plate !¥.•)
AGANAIDAE ( = HYPSIDAE) {conti nued from Vol. III. p. 208).
T first sight it would appear that the species of Asota mnst be arranged into

A

two groups, the one group containing those species the males of which have
the antennal joints j)rovided with a groove on each side, the other embracing the
species with not-grooved antennae. >Sncli an arrangement would, however, briiig
species like clara a,wX javana, ox cerficolar and ///^////;wte, together into one grouji,
which in other respects are not nearly related; while, again, otherwise close-allied
species like antenncdis and dohert)/i, venalba and heliconia, woidd be widely
separated. If wi^ except a number of aberrant forms (versicolor, caricae, contortn,
etc.) wliich stand more isolated than the rest of the species o^ Asota, we may divide
the remaining species into three groups, which, however, are not sharply definable,
represented respectively by egens, heliconia, and clam, each group containing sj)ecies
with grooved and with not-grooved male antennae. In the following diagram the

• ri. IV. li^'. 1 is a copy of Olierlhiir's figure of Papilio rcr, El. (VKiit. XII. t. 1. f. 1 (1S88). while fig. 2
represents my .species Pajjilio mimetious, Entom. XXX, p. 165 (1897). A comparison u£ llie two figures will
show the (Uftercnces 1)etwcen the species as pointed out by me l.i: — W. li.

Fig.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.
10.
11.
12.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE IV.

Papilio rex, p. 314, note.

„ viimeticus, p. 314, note.
Asota suffusa, p. 364. n. 34.

clara, p. 363. n. 33.

paliura, p. 339. n. 24.

tortuosa, p. 365. n. 36.

egens Tnacroatida, p. 324. n. 5. k.

orhona discoidalis, p. 327. n. 8. h.

avacta, p. 325. ii. G.

dohertyi, p. 340. n. 27.

paphos paphos, p. 337. n. 20. n.

heliconioides, p. 338. u. 21.

. 5. k:

NoviTATES aoologic;e.Vo1.IV. 1897.

Pl.IV.

W.Purkisa deletlitK.

Mmteri\Bi-os imp.

.4f^T%,

\'l

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species standing in the same horizontal rolmnn are considered to l)cIonj; to the same
gronp, being apparently more nearly related to one another than to the species
standing in the other horizontal columns : —

Antennae of (J without lateral grooves.

1. A. caricae.

2. A. jilar/hinta.

3. .1. atngosa.

18. A. fuhia.

\9. A. versicolor.

20. A. pnphos.

21. A. hfiliconioidpx.

22. A. sericai.

23. A. cauaraicft.

24. A. paliura.

25. A. venalba.

26. A. antennulii.

Antennae of ^ laterally grooved.

4

A

producta.

5.

A

p.ge.ns.

6.

A

avucta.

7.

A.

darmnia.

8.

A.

orlona.

9.

A.

tigrina.

10.

A.

australis.

11.

A.

diana.

12.

A.

alienata.

13.

A.

javnna.

14.

A.

celebensis.

15.

A.

iodamia.

16.

A.

plof/iuta.

17.

A.

woodfardl

27. ,1. dnherhii.

28. ..1. albwena.

29. A. heliconia.

30. A. suhsimilis.

31. A. plaiui,

32. A, albi/ormis.

33. .1. diim.

34. A. suffusd.

35. A. isthmia.

3C. .1. tortuosa.

37. A. conlorta.

38. A. kinabahiensh.

1. Asota caricae.

Agamiis caricar, BoLsduval, Votj. Astrolabe, Ent. p. 248. n.l (1832) (Bengal; J.iva : .Amhoina:Papn;in

Is.) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Net. I. p. 385 (1892).
Hypsa {DmiKilix) ctirinir, Butler, Tnni.i. Ent. Sor. Lmnl. \\ 31'.1. n. IS (1875) (N. India ; Moulmein ;

Borneo ; Java ; Ceram ; Celebes).
Ifi/pm iilriplirnu, Hampsnn, Moths of hulin I. p. 502. n. 1148 (18',I2) (J'ro ji.).
Damalis itlcifron (!), Swinhoe, Cat. Lip. Ilel. (J.'f. p. 1)4. u. 117 (1892) (India ; Cambodia ; Celebes ;

Ceram).

The peculiar development of the alulomen of the " ami the antennae have been
described in Vol. III. pp. 204-200.

This common insect, described in ITT-'i by Faliricius as caricae from India
orientalis, and two years after by Cramer as alciphron from Tranqnebar, ranges from
Ceylon and North India all over the Tndo-.Anstralian Islands as far east as the Xew

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Ilcbriiles. The si)ecics has developed, as far as we cau see, only into two snbsj)ecies,
a western one (caricae) and an eastern one (euroa), which are distinguished by very
sliirht differences, as noted below. The individuals from the Sunda Islands, though
intermediate in respect to some of the characters which distinguish caricii'. euroa
from earicne caricae, appear to be on the way to develop into a si)ecial race, about
25 per cent, of the specimens from Borneo, Java, and the lesser Sunda Islands being
entirely devoid of snbmarginal black spots to the hindwing, while among the two
liundred individuals in the Tring Museum from India, the Papuan Islands, and
North Qneeusland tliere is not one in which all the subniarginal black spots are
obliterated.

The individual variation in the size and number of the black markings is con-
siderable in every locality ; the snbmarginal spots are sometimes enlarged so as to
form a marginal band resembling that of Axota paphos ; the sjwt between veins
2 and 3 is tlie last snbmarginal spot to disajjpear; the three large discal spots are
Will marked in all our specimens. K. J.

". A. caricae euroa subsp. nov.

Phalaoia Noctua caricai', Donovan (iiec Fabricius, 1775), fits. N. Hnll. t. 39. f. 2 (1805).

Damdis atciplmn, Butler, Aim. Mag. X. II. (,o). XI. p. 425. n. 91 (1883) (Wild I., Admiralty Is.).

Hyimi (ilcipliroii, Ribbe, Iris I. p. 87 (1885) (.\ru) ; Pagenst., Jahrb. Xas.s. Ver. Nat. p. 115. n. 254

(1888) (Amboina) ; Hamps., .Votlw of Imlia I. p. 503. n. 1148 (1891) (Pi-oj).).
llypm rnWraf, Meyrick, Pr. Linn. Sue. N.S.W. p. 7G9. n. Ill (188G)(Cape York; Cook town) ; Luca.s,

ibid. p. 1080 (1889) (Cape York to Mackay).

Sir George Hampson (J-c.) remarks that "the iiirni from New Guinea and tlie
neighbouring gronps of islands is darker and brighter." The ground-colour of the
forewing is darker in the eastern than in the western form, henco the whitish
nervular lines are a little more prominent ; the basal orange area is slightly more
extended and brighter; on the underside the orange area of the forewing extends
beyond the black patch at the apex of the cell in most specimens, llindwings
brighter. Head and thorax of the bright colour of the base of the forewing, while
in caricae caricae from Continental India and Ceylon these parts arc nearly of the
dark ground-colour of the forewing.

Ihib. Solomon Islands: Alu (tf/pc), Guadalcanar; New Ireland; Duke of York
Island; New Brifein; New Guinea; North Queensland; Aru; Key; Northern and
Southern Moluccas; Tenimber; Celebes; New Hebrides.

In the specimens from the New Hebrides in the Tring Museum, only five in
number, the forewing is considerably paler than in the indiviiluals from the other
localities, being of an ochraceous fawn-colonr. We have here ])erhai)s another sub-
species, the characters of which would be very interesting in so far as the form
agrees in the colour of the thorax and base of the forewing with euroa, while in the
peculiar ochraceous fawn-colour of the rest of the forewing it differs more widely from
eui'oa than caricae does. As I shall probably receive more material from tlie New
Hebrides in the course of this or the next year, I prefer for the present to include the
caricae specimens from that gronj) of islands in caricae euroa. AV. IJ.

Ij. a. caricae caricae.

Snclua raWcac Fabricius, Sijxl. Ent. p. 59lj. n. 23 (177.i) (in Fiou Ind. or.); id.,.sV/.t(. Enl. III. 2. p. 27.

n. G.3 (1793).
Plialaena Athicus alciphron Cramer, Pap. Exoi. II. p. 58. t. 133. f, E (1777) (Tranqnebar).
Phalama Noctua caricae, Goeze, Enl. Beytr. III. 3. p. 229. n. 2G7 (1781).

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Hippocrita vulijaris caricae, Hiibner, Sainml. Ex. Schinett. I. t. 19(J. f. 1-4 (1806).

Damalis caricae, id., Verz. hek. Schm. p. 172. u. 1780 (1816).

Hypsa {Damalis) caricae, Walker, Cat. Lep. Ihl. B. M. II. p. 454. n. 1.3 (1854) (N. India ; Java ; mc

Ceylon, Penang, according to Butler, Tr. Eul. Sue. p. 319, 1875).
Hijpsa alciphroii, Moore, Oil. Lep. Bet. .Uus. E. I. C. II. p. 292. n. 669. t. 13. f. 6 (/.). (>a (j-.) (1859)

(Java ; N. India; Canara); id., Jo«™. .l.s. S. B,ng. p. 235. n. 29 (1884) (Cachar); Snell., Tijdschr.

r. Eul. p. 130. n. 13 (1888) ; Pagenst., Iris III. p. 11. n. 22 (1890) (Palawan) ; Swinh., Tr. Eul.

Soc. Loud. p. 15. n. 691 (1895) (Shillong) ; Snell., Iris VIII. p. 140. u. 114 (1895) (Deli,

Sumatra).
Damalis alciplinai, Moore, P. Z. S. p. 598 (1877) (Pt. Blair, And. Is.) ; id.. I.e. p. 847 (1878) (Burma ;

Tenasserim); id., Lep. Cet/l. II. p. 52. t. 102. f. 1. hi. lb {L, p., ^, ? ) (1882) (Ceylon) ; Swinh.,

P.Z.S. p. 292. n. 40 (1885) (Bombay, August to November, very plentiful ; iuiportaiil hiolorjical

note).
Hypsa caricae, Piepers & Snellen, Tijilschr. v. Enl. XX. p. (i. n. 22 (1877) (Batavia, common ; /. and p.

dcscr.) ; R6ber, ibid. XXXIV. p. 327 (1891) (Flores).
Damalis alcifron (!), Swinhoe, Tr. Ent. Soc. Land. p. 180. n. 95 (1890) (Burma).

Many individuals from the Malayan Islands are still paler as regards forewings
than the specimens from Ceylon and S. and N. India, while in the colonr of the
head and thorax the Malayan individuals stand intermediate between caricae and
euroa. There is no line of distinction between the two forms, and the specimens
from Celebes and Tenimber, which we have enumerated under euroa, could just as
well be regarded as caricae caricae.

Hah. In the Triug Museum from (Jeylon ; S. India; Bhutan; Assam; Burma;
Tenasserim ; Malacca ; Penang ; Andaman Islands ; Formosa ; Sumatra ; Borneo ;
Palawan; Philippine Islands ; Java; Lombok; iSambawa; Snmba; Flores; Adonara ;
Timor. K. J.

2. Asota plaginota.

Bypsa caricae. Walker (««c Fabricius, 1775), Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. II. p. 454. n. 13 (1854) (ex p.).
Hypsa plaginota Butler, Tr. Ent. Soc. Loud. p. 320. n. 19 (1875) (India) : Snell., Tijdschr. r. Ent

XXXI. p. 131. n. 15 (1888).
Agamis plaginota, Kirby, Gil. Lep. Het. I. p. 386. n. 3 (1892) (India).
Damalis plagiuohi, Swinhoe, Cat. Lep. Het. Oxf. I. p. 94. n. 415 (1892) (India).
Hypsa alciphron, Hampson, Moths of India I. p. 502. n. 1148 (1892) {ex p.).
Asota ijlaginutii, Rothschild & Jordan, Nor. Zool. III. p. 206. t. IV. f. 46. 47 (abdomen) (1896).

We have already jjointed out, I.e., some structural characters in which this
species differs widely from A. caricae (= alciphroii), with which it has been con-
founded.

The base of the forewing has the four black dots normally present in the species
of Asota ; the first and especially the third dot are liable to obliterate ; between the
subcostal and the median nervnres there is one black dot, and behind the median
nervure two more. The white patch at the apex of the cell is generally rather
elongate, but varies much in size in both sexes ; it is not always larger in the ? than
in the c?, as Dr. Butler states (I.e.); in front of this j)atch, just behind the arcole,
there appears in most specimens another, but small, white spot, as in A. paliura.
All the veins are white, the submedian one especially broadly so, but in many indi-
viduals veins 3 and 4 are white only close to the discal white patch. The variability
of the hindwing in respect to the black markings is considerable ; in all our speci-
mens there is one rounded black spot at the end of the cell and two postmedial
spots ; the greater number of individuals have, moreover, snbmarginal black spots,
which often form a more or less complete series ; the spot between veins 7 and 8
and that between veins 2 and 3 are the largest; the spot before and that behind

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vein 2 stand farther away from the margin than the other spots, so that the inner
edge of the macular band, when the band is comi)lete, is convex in that iihice. A
third postmcdial sjiot close to the anal angle is also often present.

On the underside, the basal two-thirds of the forewing are white, this colour
sliading into yellow towards the base ; there are three rounded black sjwts present,
one in the centre of the cell, the second upon the discocellular veinlets, the third
beliind vein 2 ; the first spot is either inside the wliite region, or the white area
does not extend beyond the spot. The hiudwing is sometimes whitish (instead of
yellow) towards the outer margin.

There are two geograjjhical races known to us, both of which vary ajipareutly
to the same extent. K. J.

a. A. plaginota kuluensis sulisji. nov.

Ilypsa playinotu Butler, I.e. (1875) {ex parte ; " N.W. India," nee " India ").

Differs from pliKjiuotn jilriyinota in the head, thorax, and base of forewing above
being cream-colour instead of chrome -yellow.

Jl<ib. Kulu district ; 7 c^, 4 ? (type ?). W. It.

b. A. plaginota plaginota.

Hypsa pUtgimita Tiaiyer, I.e. {\ilb) (ex parte; India); Moore, Jown. As. Sue. Beiig. p. 23.5. n. 30
(1884) (Cachar) ; Swinh., Tr. Ent. Soc. Land. p. 15. n. 692 (1895) (Khasia Hills).

Damalis phiijinotii, Uoore, P. Z. S. p. 847 (1878) (Tenasserim) ; Bull., ///. Lep. Ilel. IS. M. Y.
p. 4-2. t. 87. f. 7 (1881); Swinh., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lund. p. 181. n. 98 (1890) (Tenasserim).

In thi.s form there appears rather often a small black spot at the inner margin
of the forewing above at the edge of the yellow basal area. The snbmarginal black
spots of the hindwiug are in one of onr females from the Khasia Hills so enlarged
that they form a marginal black border to the wing which is wide anteriorly and is
traversed by yellow veins.

Hab. Assam, 4 c?, 5 9 Sikkim (ex coll. Felderj, 2 6; Bhutan, ' d, 5 <}
Tenasserim.

We have not seen specimens from Tenasserim, which jirobably differ slightly
from North Indian individuals. K. J.

3. Asota strigosa.

Agamiis xtrigosa Boisduval, Foy. Astrolabe, Lip. p. 2.'in. n. 2 (18.^2) (N. Guinea) ; Ribbe, Iris I.

p. 87 (1885) (Aru ; = " radkita Boisd."): P.-igenst., Jahrh. A'oas. Ver. Not. p. 123. n. 36 (1886)

(Aru) ; Kirby. Cut. Lep. Iht. I. p. 38(i. n. 13 (1892) (Papua).
nypm slriijom. Walker, Lht Lep. Ilel. B. .1/. II. p. 4.59. n. 2.'? (1854) (X. Guinea) ; Bull, Tr. Ent.

Soc. Loud. p. 322. n. 29 (1875) (N. Guinta); Sncll., Tijdschr. «. Enl. XXXI. p. 128. n. 11 (1886)

(" Probably the same species as egens ").

Apjiarently rare in collections. Tiie forewing is above of a buffish clay-colour,
with an obvious jnirplish gloss in side view; all the veins, and tlic sulimediau fold,
strongly st reaked with cream-buff ; a small cream-buff patch at the lower angle of
the cell is prolonged along middle of cell towards base. The hindwing is uni-
colonnis, liuffish yellow, in the two specimens from Waigeu (ex coll. Dr.
Staudiugerj, while in our two J'emale.s from Humboldt Hay there is a small fuscous
spot near the anal angle. On the underside both wings are pale yellow ; the apical
and ouier-margiual region of the forewiug fuscous; the fnscons colour extends along

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costal margin halfway down to the base; this costal streak is dilated before the end
of the cell; the hindwing has a fuscous costal patch in the middle, and lias the outer
half of the costal margin also more or less fuscous.

The prothoracic lobes are not spotted ; the black dot on the mesothoracic lobe
is small; mesothorax with a black median spot. Dorsal black dots of abdomen not
or slightly larger than the ventral black dots.

Antennae of the male without lateral grooves and tui'ts of hair, similar to the
antennae oi canaraica.

Hnh. Waigeu (<?, ?, in coll. Staudinger) ; Am (ace. to Pagenstecher) ; New
Guinea: Humboldt Bay (W. Doherty, September and October 1692), 2?. K. J.

4. Asota producta.

The forewing is more elongate than in plfKjhwta, the hinder margin shorter, the
cavity closer to the tip of vein \h. The joints of the antennae of tiie male have dee]i
lateral grooves, and tufts of long haira upon the ridges bordering the grooves. The
basal yellow area of the forewing is more extended than in plagiriota, especially at
the costal margin, the outer costal black dot standing 6 to 7 mm. from the base.

We distinguish three suhsjiecies ^^i pmihicta , eacli of whicli varies individually
in the number and size of the submargiual black spots of the hindwing. K. J.

a. A. producta producta.

Hypm caricac, Walker (nee Fabricius, 177')), Lixt Lep. IJii B. V. II. p. 45 1. n. 1.3 (18:)4) (up.).
Hijl>m i>ro(h(cUi Butler, Ti-. Ent. Soc. Loud. p. 320. n. 20(1875) (Ceylon) ; Hamps., Mnt/is of lmli<i.

I. p. .503. n. 1150(1892) (cxp.).
Domalia prodm-ht, Moore. Lep. Ceyl. II. p. 52. t. 101. f. 1 {SY !«(?)■ 1^ ('•> I'-) (l'''^-) (Ceylon) ;

Swinh., Cat. Lep. llel. Oxf. I. p. 94. n. 11 I (1892) (Ceylou).
Damalis strigivenata, Swinhoe. P. Z. .S'. p. 292. n. 41 (188.'i) (Poona, Belgaum, Bombay).

The base of the forewing and the thorax are much too bright yellow in Moore's
figures. The black submarginal spot before vein fi of the hindwing is the.largest of
the submedian row of spots, but the spot before vein 2 is the last to disappear.

Hab. (Jeylon, 3 cJ, 4 ? ; S. India as far north as Bombay, 2 i. K. J.

b. A. producta strig^ivenata.

Hypna caricae, Walker, I.e. (18.54) {ji. piirtr).

Bypsa strigivenata Butler, I.e. p. 321. n. 21 (1875) (Penang ; also Sikkim and Silhet) ; Moore, Jourii.

As. Sue. Beng. p. 98. n. 9 (188r.) (Tavoy) ; Snell., Tijchehi: ,: Kiit. XXXI. p. 1.30. n. 14. t. 2.

f. 1 ( (J) (1888) (Sumatra).
Damalis stnjivewiUi, Swinhoe, Tr. Eiil. Sue. Loud. p. 180. n. 99 (189U) (Tavoy) ; id., Cal. Lep. Llet.

Oxf. I. p. 94. n. 416 (1892) (Sumatra).
Hypsa producta, Hampson, I.e. p. 503. n. 1150 (1892) Q). parte).

Differs from producta producta in the thorax and tlie l)ase of the forewing
being much brighter yellow.

A female from Palawan in the Triug Museum has the forewing sliglitly paler
than specimens from other localities, and the spot at the end of the cell is small ;
the discal black spots on the hindwing are somewhat reduced in size, and the
submarginal macular band is represented by three small spots, one before vein 6,
the other two before and beliind vein 2.

The male has the forewing mostly mucli darker brown than it is in thtij'emale.

Hab. Sikkim, 1 S (ex coll. FeJder) ; Khasia Hills, 2 cJ, 2 ?; Shan States, 1 J;
Bungnran, 1 d ; Palawan, 1 ?. K. J.

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c. A. producta stigmatica subsp. uov.

Hypsa slrigiveiMla, Snellen (uec Butler, 1875), I.e. p. 131. sub n. 14 (1888) (Java).

Differs from producta strigicevata in the colour of the thorax and base of the
forewing being slightly paler, iu the veins of the forewiug not being white, e.vcept
the submedian uervnrc and the costal margin, and in the spot at tlic apex of the
cell being extremely small. In the type, 9, J'emah', the hindwing has above four
black spots — a very small discal one at the apex of the cell, a snbmarginal one, also
small, behind vein 3, and two larger postmedian spots behind vein 2 and before
vein 4 respectively, the latter sjiot traversed by vein 5. In the mide (in Dr.
Staudinger's collection) the snbmarginal series of black spots is complete, and there
is also a linear mark at the anal angle.

llab. Java, 1 ?; also in Dr. Staudinger's collection from Magelan, Java. \\'. K.

i"). Asota egens.
The range of this species extends from Sikkiiu to Timor, Celebes, the Philippine
Islands, Formosa, and the Riu Kin Islands ; in South India and Ceylon, as well
as in China, A. egens does not occur. The differences between the various
subspecies are not very pronounced except in the case of the forms from Engano,
Nias, and Timor. The subspecies from India, Borneo, and Celebes resemble each
other very closely, and so do again the forms from Java, Palawan, and the Loo
Choo (= Riu Kin) Islands. K. .1.

". A. egens confinis snbsp. nov.

(J. Veins of forewing striped wliitish yellow as in i'(j<'iis egens, but the veins
forming the areole less so than iu Indian egens ; besides a costal spot which is at
least as large as in Indian egens, the hindwing is devoid of spots, or there is a small
spot on disc between veins 5 and 0, or, besides, a small linear mark upon the
discocellulars, and sometimes also a slight mark behind vein 2 ; the four discal
spots, if present, very much smaller than in egens indiea. The two black spots on
the forewiug below are mostly produced in a basal direction, often merged together ;
the outer one of the two stands sometimes at the basal side of the discocellulars
instead of upon these veins.

? . The two black sjiots of the forewing below as in egens indiea ; hindwing
with one spot only at the costal margin : the diameters of the spot are at least
1 and 2 mm.

Hah. Loo Choo = Riu Kin Islands, 6 c?, .3 ? ; Mindanao.

A male specimen from Mindanao in Dr. Staudinger's collection agrees much
better with conjinis than witli rednela. W. R.

h. A. egens reducta snbsp. nov.
Ilypm egem, Pagenstecher {mc Walker, 1854), IrU III. p. 11. n. 23 (1890) (Palawan).

Nearest to confinis, but with the black spots of the underside still more reduced
in number and size.

(?. Veins strijjcd whitish yellow, more distinctly wliitc than either in egens
confnis nr egen^i egens, those fonning areole more obviously striped than in
conjinis. Underside : forewiug with the two spots smaller than they are in conjinis;
hindwing with a costal spot of 2 mm. in length and 1 mm. in breadth; sometimes
with another, small, spot on tlie disc outside the cell.

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¥ . Veins iu the costal region of the forewiug more distinctly striped than in
ronjinis, the five basal black dots smaller than in that subspecies ; underside of
forewing with two small black dots, hindwing with one very small costal spot.

Hab. Palawan, 2 S (including V/pe), 3 ? ; Mindoro, 1 ? . W. 1{.

c. A. egens egens subsp. nov.

Hrjpsa egens Walker, List Lep. ILt. B. J/. 11. p. 453. n. 12 (1854) (Java : iter N. India aad
Silhet) ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. llet. Mus. E. 1. C. II. p. 292. n. (570. t. 13. f. 7 (/.). la
(p.) (1859) (Java); Butl., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 323. n. 30 (1875) (Java ; hm N. India and
Silhet) ; Snell., Tijdsrhr. o. Ent. XXXI. p. 132. n. 20 (1888) {Prop.) : Hamps., Molha uf I,ul.
I. p. 501. n. 1144 (1892) {Prop.).

Vamdis eijPHS, Swinhoe, Cat. Lep. Het. Mus. Oxf. I. p. 93. n. 413 (1892) {Pro p.).

Ajaimis egens, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. I. p. 387. n. 17 (1892) {Prop.)

Com])are what is said under egens indica.

(?. Stands intermediate between confim.i and iialka in the number and size of
the black spots of the hindwing below, there being present, besides the costal spot,
two or three other si)ots, situated at end of cell, outside cell on disc, and in middle
of cell respectively.

?. Basal black dots three or four in number, extremely small, as in the Timor
race of ee/ens. Underside: black spots of forewing as small as in reducta; hindwing
with one small costal spot or without spots. Colour of forewing above faintly
brighter than in red acta, the veins a little more pronounced white.

Hab. Java (H. Fruhstorfer: Palabuan and Mount Gede at 400U feet), 2 6,
2 ?; Bali (W. Doherty, March and April 1896), 1 ?.

The great similarity between the specimens from Palawan, Java, and the Loo
Choo Islands is very remarkable, since the form inhabiting Borneo is easily
distinguishable.

The Bali specimen has the black spots on the underside of the hindwing more
strongly develojied, and thus forms a transition to egen8 indica. W. R.

d. A. egens indica subsp. nov.

Ilypsa egeii.-i Walker, Lisl Lep. Het. B. .)/. II. p. 453. n. 12 (1854) (N. India, Silhet ; nee Java) ;

Horsf. & Moore, Cot. Lep. Ins. .l/«s. E. I. C. II. p. 292. n. C70 (1859) (Penang, Bhutan ;

nee Java) ; Butl., Tr. Ent. Soc. Land. p. 323. n. 30 (1875) (N. India, Silhet, Moulmein ;

nee Java) ; id., P. Z. S. p. 672. n. 46 (1880) (Formosa) ; Snell., Tijdschr. r. Ent. XXXI.

p. 132. n. 20 (1888) {Pro p.) ; Hamps., .Vol/i.s of Lid. I. p. 501. n. 1144 (1892) {Pro p.) ;

Swinh., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 15. n. 690 (1895) (Khasia Hills).
Dainalis egens, Butler, /(/. Lep. Het. B. M. V. p. 43. t. 87. f. 8 (1881) (Silhet, Moulmein ; nee

Java) ; Swinh., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 181. ii. 96 (1890) (Burma) ; id., Cat. Lep. Het. Mus_

Or/. I. p. 93. n. 413 (1892) {Prop.).
Aganais egens, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. I. p. 387. n. 17 (1892) (India ; mc Java).

Walker's description of effe?is applies both to tlie form inhabiting India and to
that found in Java ; as Walker, however, says of his egens that the hindwing has
from one to six black sjiots beneath, we refer the subspecific name effens to the
Javan form, which has one or two spots on the hindwing, not to the Indian form,
which has the greater number of spots. Strict priority !

cf. The veins of the forewing are obviously whitish ; the spaces between them
are often, especially towards the outer margin, somewhat fuscous. On the underside
the hindwing lias sometimes light fuscous submarginal streaks ; of the six black
spots the two between the end of the cell and the anal angle arc often obliterated.

? . Brighter than the male. The hindwing below is apparently always devoid

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of a black spot ucar the aual augle ; that beyoud veiu 2 is also ol'teu abseut. There
are no fuscous streaks either ou fore- or hindwing.

llab. Sikkim ; Bhutflii, 5 (?, 1 ?; Assam, Khasia aud Naga Hills, (! S (iuclnd-
ing type), 2 ?; Burma; Tenasserim ; Malacca, 1 tj, 1 ? ; Singapore, 1 ? ; Penang,
3 J, 2 ? ; Formosa.

Formosan specimens we have not seen. K. J.

e. A. egens nebulosa.

Ilypsa nebulosii Butler, Tr. Enl. Svc. Loml. p. 322. n. 29 (1875) (Sarawak); Snell., Tijdschr.

V. E,il. XXXI. p. 133. n. 22 (1888) (Pro parte ; Sarawak, ncc Nias).
Aganais mhilosa, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. I. p. 386. n. 16 (1892) (Prup. ; Sarawak, n£c Nias).
Hypsa egens, Hampson, Moths of Ind. I. p. 501. n. 1144 (1892) {Prop.).
Hypm egens, Snellen, his Vm. p. 140. n. 115 (1895) (Deli, Sumatra).

S. The veins of the forewing above are less obviously whitish than in egens
irulica, the fuscous streaks between the veins more pronounced and ou the underside
often more extended. The black spots of the hindwing below are large ; the anal
one is apparently always present aud much larger than in Indian egens ; there are
always fuscous submarginal streaks marked, whicli are sometimes very heavy and
appear on the upperside as well. Behind the apex of the ceU of the forewing,
above, there appears often a pale patch which reminds one of the outer pale patch
of A. ausfnd/.t and orbona.

? . Forewing less bright yellow than in eijie/is indica, the veins less white ; in
one ? from N. Borneo there are fuscous streaks lietween the veins both on upper-
and underside, also in the marginal region of the underside of the hindwing. The
spot beyoud vein 2 of the hindwing below is present in all om females, but the anal
one is absent from one individual.

Hub. Bungaran, Natuna Islands (July to October 1894, Hose leg), 3 S,\ ? ;
N. Borneo, 4 <?, 3 ?; Polo Laut, S.E. Borneo (W. Doherty, May 1891), 1 c?;
Sumatra. ^- "•

/. A. egens biformis snbsp. nov.

Agaiiah egens, Snellen (iKc Walker, 1854), Tijdschr. v. Enl. XXII. p. 80. n. 41. t. 7. f. 4 (1879)

(Maros, Takalar, Macas.sar).
Hypsa egens, Snellen, I.e. XXXI. p. 132. n. 20 (1888) (Celebes ; mc Java) ; Hamps., Moths of India

I. p. 501. n. 1144 (1892) {Prop.).
Dmnalis egens, Swinhoe, Cat. Lep. Het. Mus. Or/. I. p. 93. n. 413 (1892) {Prop. ; Macassar).

/'. A. egens biformis ah. biformis ab. nov.

There occur ou Celebes at the same time and in the same district two
aberrational forms, one resembling closely the preceding subspecies from Borneo,
the other coming near the subspecies from the lesser Sunda Islands.

(J. Agrees with the S of egens nebulosa, but the posterior sjwts of the hind-
wing below arc very small, the anal oue often absent (type) ; hindwing not fuscous
in marginal region.

?. Differs from that sex of nebulosa in the spots of the underside bemg
smaller and the two posterior ones of the hindwing being absent ; no fuscons streaks
on the hindwing. •

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y ". A. egens biformis ali. discolor a1i. nov.

S. Forewing above with a blackish fuscous outer border of from o to 7 mm.
width ; from this border a streak runs along vein 5 down to the subbasal black dot
in the cell ; a second streak is situated upon the submedian fold, and is divided by
this fold, which is 3-ellow ; a third streak is situate beyond the submedian vein. By
these streaks the yellow surface of the wing is separated into four areas, of which
the anterior one is either ci)unected with the yellow basal area (type) along the
costal margin, or not. In a specimen from Dr. Staudinger's collection there stands
a subbasal black dot at the hindmargin of the wiug. Hindwing with lilackish
fuscous border of irregular width, broadest anteriorly, and dilated again at vein 2;
the disc with the black spots of the underside indistinctly (type) or distinctly
marked.

Underside with the blackisli marginal region of the forewing prolonged along
the costal margin to near the middle of cell (type), or to the base of the wiug, and
extended along vein o to the black spot in the apex of the cell, which spot is joined
to the spot in the middle of the cell. Behind vein 2 there is a small discal spot,
which in Dr. Staudinger's example is connected with the marginal area. The black
markings on the hindwing below are large ; the black marginal band runs along
the costal margin ; in Dr. Staudinger's specimen there is also a black streak
between veins ia and i/j.

?. Upperside of forewing without whitish norvular lines: a fuscous streak
between veins 5 and 6 extends from near the outer margin beyond the middle of the
cell, a few slightly fuscous, very short, streaks in ajiical region, a long fuscous streak
divided by the submedian fold, and a short streak beyond tlie submedian vein.
Hindwing uniform in colour, without fuscous border.

Underside with the spot in the centre of the cell of the forewing prolonged
towards base in both specimens before me ; the costal spot of the hindwing also
extended basally,but much more so iu my specimen than in that of Dr. Staudinger's
collection ; the spot in middle of cell and that between cell and outer margin very
small; anal spot absent, the sjiot behind vein 2 small and linear, or also absent.

lla/j. ab. biformis: S. Celebes (W. Doherty, August and September 1891), 3 S,
2 ? ; Macassar (H. Fruhstorfer, March 1896), 1 3. ab. discolor: S. Celebes (W.
Dolierty, August and September 1891), IcJ; Patnnuang, S. Celebes (H. Fruhstorfer,
January 1896), 1?; Blinahassa (ItJ, 1?, in Dr. Staudinger's collection); Tawaya,
Palos Bay (W. Doherty, August and September 1896), 1 ? . \\ . R.

g. A. egens intermissa subsp. nov.

i. Ujtperside : forewing fuscous near outer margin; this colour extending
along costal margin, vein 5, and the submedian fold; the fold itself whitish yellow,
the veins on the disc slightly streaked with whitish yellow. Hindwing uniform in
colour. Umlerside : ajiical region of forewing fuscous ; the two postcostal spots
smaller than in the preceding subspecies, the one in the middle of the cell often a
mere dot. Hindwing with a small costal spot ; besides, there is often a dot at the
end of the cell, or on the disc ; very seldom are there more than two spots marked.

?. Forewing without fuscous scaling; black dots of basal region small, five iu
number, sometimes tlic second costal one absent : veins very faintly ]ialer than the
rest of the forewing. Underside : forewing with two black spots, of which that iu

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the centre of the cell is sometimes very small : bindwia;,' with one costal black
spot; seldom with a small spot at the apex of the cell.

I/ab. Lombok (H. Frnhstorfer, April to June 1896 : A. Everett, Jnue and July
1896; W. Doherty, June 1S96) up to 2u00 feet, a long series of both sexes ; Sambawa
(W. Doherty, February 1896), 4 6 (including fi/pc), 1 ? ; S. Flores (A. Everett,
October to December 1896), a series of both sexes ; Adonara (^V. Doherty,
November 1891), 2 cJ; Pi;ra (W. Doherty, October 1891), 2 <?. W. R.

/. A. egens sumbana subsj). uov.

Agatiais egens, Pagenstechcr (ncc Walker), Jahrb. Nass. Vei: Nat. p. 58 (1885) (Sumba).

S- Differs from intcrynissa in the veins of the disc of the forewiug not being
streaked whitish yellow, in the fuscous double streak behind the cell being
broader, and the apical region of the cell being more extended fuscous. Underside
as in intermissa, with one black costal spot in the hindwing. Centre of cell of
forewing above with a trace of a black dot.

? . Forewiug as in ¥ of bifonnis ab. discolor, with traces of fuscous streaks ;
five small basal black dots. Two black spots of forewing below much smaller than
in marginata ; hindwing with one small black costal spot.

liab. Sumba, low country (W. Doherty, February 1895), 3 d", 2?.

CJomes al;<o very near the following form. W. li.

i. A. egens inversa snbsp. nov.

S. Upperside : forewing with fuscous outer border and fuscous streaks, as in the
preceding subspecies ; the streaks vary much in length ; the yellow areas mostly
very pale buff-colour (tj-pe), often overpowdered with fuscous scales ; a black dot
in centre of cell as a rule, besides the normal five basal dots ; of the latter the
outer one of the two costal dots is sometimes absent : veins not paler. Outer
margin more convex than in the other forms of cgem. Upon discocellular veinlets
there is sometimes a small fuscous spot. Hindwing brighter yellow than forewing,
except in one specimen, not paler.

On the underside the two black spots of the forewing are as in intermissa and
sumbana ; hindwing with one, two, or three very small black spots ; in a uniformly
yellow specimen in my collection the right hindwing is withont spots, while the
left one has a faint costal spot.

? . Uniform in colour. Four extremely small basal black dots, the exterior one
of the two costal dots absent. Underside with two small spots to the forewing, as
in intermissa and sumbana; hindwing with one or two extremely small spots, in one
of the three females before me represented by a very few black scales.

Uab. Timor : Oinaiuisa (W. Doherty, November and December 1891), fi S (in-
cluding type), 2 ? , Dili (W. Doherty, May 1892), 4 cJ, 1 ? ; Wetter (W. Doherty, May
1892), 1 <J; Letti (in coll. Staudinger). W. li.

/i. A. egens macrosticta subsp. nov. (PI. IV. fig. 7).
6. Forewing above similarly streaked with fuscous as the female of A. egens
bifonnis ab. discolor; no fascous border to the wing ; five black dots at base, the
two situated in and behind cell respectively enlarged. Veins not paler than rest
of wing. Underside: forewiug with faint traces of two fuscous streaks in apical region;
hindwing with five spots of variable size, without anal sjwt, the discal one and the

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two in cell generally small. In one specimen there is a black clot in the centre of
the cell of the forewiug above.

¥ . No lines upon the veins, no fiiscons streaks ; basal black dots, especially the
outer ones, larger than in other snbspecies. Below, forewiug with the two black
spots of the same size as in ? biformis ab. biformi-s; hindwing with five spots, which
are minute, except the costal one.

llab. Engano I. (W. Doherty, September 1891), r, S , \ ?.

Easily distinguished from all other snbspecies of e(/enf; by tlie subbasal dots of
the forewing being large and the veins not being paler yellow than the rest of the
wing. AV. E.

/. A. egens onusta. \y^

Ditiimlh niiusia Weymer, Siett. Ent. Zeit. p. 276. t. 2. f. 6. 7 (1885) (Nias).
Bijiisii nebuhm, Saellen, Tijchch: i: Ent. XXXI. p. 1:53. n. 22 (1888) (Pm p.).
Aganais netmlom, Kirby, Cut. Lep. Hel. 1. p. 386. n. IG (1892) (Pm p.).
Hypsa egens, Hampson, Motha of India I. p. 501. n. 1144 (18y2) {Pro p.).
Damolis egens, Swinhoe, Cul. Lep. Het. Hm. Oxf. I. p. 93. n. 413 (1892) {Pm p.).

In the tnale the whole forewing, except the base and the veins, becomes more or
less dark fuscous ; in our single S siiecimen there is a black subbasal dot at the hind-
margin of the forewing; the hindwing has a fuscous border. The underside of the
forewing is black, and the greater part of the hindwing is also black.

In ihe/emn/e the blackish fuscous colour is less extended than in the 6 and much
paler, but the wings are much more fuscous than in the fenwle sex of any other race
of egens.

llab. Nias I., 1 (?,2 ¥. K. J.

m. A. egens andamaua.

Hypm niulamanti Moore, P. Z. S. p. 598. t. 59. f. .') (1877) (Andaman Is.) ; Hamps., Mollis of India

I. p. 502. n. 1145 (1892) (Aadamans).
ffypsa egens, Snellen, Tijdschr. r. KnI. XXXI. p. 132. n. 20 (1888) {Prop.).

The black dot in the middle of the cell of the forewiug above which so very
often appears in the Timorese form of egens is always marked in andamana ; there
is also a fuscous spot at the end of the cell. In the reduction of the size and number
of the spots of the hindwing below andamana comes nearest to the forms from the
lesser Sunda Islands.

llab. Andaman Islands, 5 <?, 4 ?. K. .1.

G. Asota avacta (PI. IV. fig. 9).

//;/;«« araeta Swinhoe, Cai. Lep. tlci. Mus. O.rf I. p. 92. n. 409 (1892) (Batjan).
Aganuis semijiar-t Snellen, Tijehehr. v. Ent. XXXVIII. p. LSI (I89G) (Halmaliera).

Differs from A. eqens in the first and second joints of the palpi being wholly
black on the upperside, instead of having a black apical spot: the base of the fore-
wing liears five large black spots, which are situated as in rgen.^i.

d . We have only one specimen which has nearly the apical half of the fore-
wing below black : on tlie hindwing there is, besides the costal patcli, a small black
spot before vein ."i.

?. This sex varies in tlie size of the black patches of the underside of both

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wing^s; in one of the Batjiin sjipcimens there is n sniiill imtcii of black scah's n]Miii
tlie median vein of the forewiiig.

Hab. Morotai, 2 ?: Halmaliera (W. Doherty, August 1892), 1 6: Ternate, 1 ?:
Batjan (\V. Doherty, March 1892), 2 ?. " K. J

7. Asota darsania.

Bypsa darsania Druce, Ann. Mag. N. H. (G). XIV. p. 24 (1894) (Celebes).

The type is said to have come from Celebes. The only specimens with reliable
locality we have seen were from Batjan. and Dr. Staudinger informs ns that he has
this species from Batjan and Halraahera.

Antennae of <? as in egeiis.

A. (larsania is easily distinguishable from its allies by the forewing being
nniformly wood-brown (see Ridgway, Nomencl. of Colours, PI. III. 19), with
cadmium-yellow base, which is sharj)ly limited. The upperside of the second joint
of the paljii is black.

Hab. Batjan; Halmahera: Celebes (according to Druce). K. .1.

8. Asota orboua.

The darkest specimens of this species resemble A. (instrnlis very mucli : .1.
orhona is, however, always distingnisliable from that species, besides the broader
forewing and slightly different har]ie of cJ, by the much more extended basal orange
ochraceous area and the broad orange ochraceous abdominal margin of the forewing.
A. orbona occurs on the Northern and Southern Moluccas, the Kei and Arn Islands,
New Guinea and Queensland. We divide the species into five subspecies, which
are difficult to distinguish owing to the great variability of each subspecies and the
occurrence of intergraduate specimens; the differences in colour between Xhn females
of the various subspecies are more obvious than those between the males. The
blackish parts of the underside of the wings have in certain lights a purplish
gloss.

There are three black costal dots present in the basal ochraceous area of the
forewing, the outer one of which stands much farther from the base than the outer-
most spot in australis, avacta, and egens; the outer spot is sometimes connected
with the dot behind the subcostal vein, especially in the race from the Northern
Moluccas. K. J.

a. A. orbona orbona.

Hypmi orhoim VoUenhoven, Tijihrhr. i. Enl. VI. p. 137. t. 9. f. 4 (<J)(1863) (Halmahera, Morotai) ;

Snell., ihid. XXXI. p. U:). n. 21 (1888) {Pro pm-k) ; Swinh., Cat. Up. Utt. Oxf. I. p. ".H. n. 407

(18112) (/v.- yj.).
Hypm significam vars. 8. y. Walker, L!-i Lep. Ifrl. li. .U. XXXI. p. 215 (18G4) (Morty, Batjan).
Agauuh significam, Kirby, Cut. Lep. Ilel. 1. p. .SSfi. n. 10 (1«9_') (Moluccas ; nee Papua).
Agamiix orbona Kirby, I.e. p. 38G. n. 1.^ (18il2) : Snell., /..-. XXXVIII. p. 181 (1890) f^m-lmna distinct

from egens).

S. The three outer bhicl; <lnts of the base of the forewing are generally rather
large, tlie two first often connected witii one another ; tiie two j)atelies on the disc
white, with a faint tint of ochraceous; the brown internervnlar streaks sometimes
very prominent, sometimes almost absent except near the white patches. The
hiudwing is mostly uniformly orange ochraceous, but Dr. Staudinger lent ns a

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specimen for inspection from Batjan in which the onter border is broadly black.
On the underside the ochraceons area of the forewing varies mnch in extent ; it
is nsnally larger tban in orbona significan-s, and occupies in one specimen from
Halmahera nearly the whole wing ; the fnscous apical area is traversed by yellow
nervalar lines ; the costal black spot on the hiudwing is more or less produced
towards the l)ase.

? . The brown streaks of the forewing are much reduced. The two pale patches
are tinged with yellow, and mostly larger than in the mole; in a ? from Morotai the
outer patch is scarcely traceable. There are no brown streaks in apical area of the
wing. The hindwing has no black border in our specimens. On the imderside
the costal spots on fore- and liindwing are nearly eijual in size and mostly produced
towards the base of the wing.

Ilab. Morotai, 1 ? ; Halmahera (W. Doherty, August 1892), 2 J, 1 ? ; Ternate
(W. Doherty), 1 6; Batjan (W. Doherty, March lb92), 2 cJ, 1 ?. K. J.

h. A. orbona discoidalis subsp. nov. (PI. IV. fig. 8).

(?) Agnmiis orlona Pagenstecher {nee VoUenboven, 18G3), Juhrh. Nass. Ver. Nat. p. 115. n. 255 (1888)
(Amboina).

? . Upperside : forewing with two black costal dots only, the outer one of
orhnmi orbona being absent ; basal area deeper orange than in orbona orbona ; the
dark tawny streaks merged together, entirely filling uj) the space between the two
white jiatches and surrounding them ; the median veins not yellow as in the other
subspecies of orbona, subcostal veins very narrowly yellow ; the dark fuscous area
extends at the costal margin as far as about 5 mm. short of the apex of the wing,
its outer edge is concave before and again behind the outer discal white patch: the
outer region of the wing without a trace of brown lines as iu orbona orbona. Hind-
wing unicolorous, like tlie ajnlcrside; the latter, however, with a small costal black
spot both to the fore- and hindwing.

Hab. Ceram, 1 ? : Amboina.

Specimens from Amboina are not known to me. W. 1{.

c. A. orbona significans.

nypsa sirinifimn.'iViaikeT, List Lep. Net. B. M. XXXI. p. 215 (1804) (Aru, New Guinea, JIvsoI ;

nee Morty and Batjan); Butl., Ti: Ent. Sac. Land. p. 322. n. 27 (1875) (Aru ; •• type in B. M."

ex err.).
Aganais orban,,, Ribbe, Iris I. p. 87 (1885) (Aru) ; Pagenst., Jalirb. Ver. Nass. p. 123. n. 33 (1886)

(Aru).
Ui/psa arbaiia, Snellen, Tijdschr. r. Ent. XXXI. p. 133. n. 24 (1888) (Prop.).
Ageiiuiis signijieaiis, Kirby, Cat. Lip. Iht. I. p. 38G. n. 10 (1892) (Papua; iiee Moluccas).
Hijpm arbanh (.'), Swinhoe, Cat. Lep. Met. Mtis. 0.rf. I. p. 91. n. 41)7 (1892) (Prop.).

(J. Differs from orbona orbona m the two patches of tlie forewing above being
more or less tinged with ocliraceous, and in the black costal spot of the underside of
the hindwing not being produced towards the base. The brown streaks of the
forewing vary very much in extent, but they are apjiarently never so much reduced
as ill certain specimens — so-called ti/jiiral specimens — of orbona. The yellow linos
in the ajiical region of the wing are sometimes very tliin, in one Waigeu individual
nearly absent. The two pale patches are seldom as white as in orbona orbona. The
hindwing lias often a black border of variable breadth : the inner edge of the border

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is sometimes dentate npon the veins, more often indented, and also often separated
into spots or dots ; from none of our twenty-one males is the border entirely absent.

?. The brown streaks of the forcwinjif are much more reduced than in the mnle,
but they are not absent from the outer-marginal region of the wing as in the ? of
orbona orbona ; in one hxw femnle the brown streaks are as well developed as in the
palest male of signijicans. The hiudwiug is either without indication of a black
outer border, or has a band of small marginal spots. On the underside the outer
region of the forewing is not quite so extended fuscous as in the male, the veins
traversing this area yellow ; mostly the fuscous colour is nearly or altogether
rej)laced by yellow ; there is always a black spot each at the costae of the fore- and
hindwing : these spots vary in size, but are generally much smaller than in the
mule.

Ilab. Arn Islands (H. C^. Webster, April to July 189T), 3 <?, :i ?; Untch New
Guinea: Kapanr (W. Doherty, December 1896), (> S , 8 ?, Humboldt Bay {id..
September and October 1892), 2 cJ, 2 ? ; Fergusson Island, D'Entrecasteanx Islands
(A. S. Meek, September to December 1894), 8 <?, 3 ? : Kiriwiua, Trobriand Islands
\id., March to May 1895), 4 c?, 1 S. K. J.

d. A. orbona queenslandica subsp. nov.

(?) Hypsa avstralis, Meyrick (nee Boisduval, 1832), Pi: Linn. Soc. N. S. W. p. 770. n. 112 (1886)
(N. S. Wales ?) : Luc, ibid. p. 1086 (1889) (Mackay).

S- Resembles orbona sig)ujicav.i very much, but the two patches of the upi)er-
side of the forewing are more distinctly white, being seldom somewhat tinged with
ochraceons ; the brown streaks, which are much more extended than the ochraceous
ones in all our specimens, are less dark fuscous, having an obvious yellow tint ; the
two yellow stripes upon and behind vein 2 are narrower than in (rrbona significans.
Tlie hindwing has mostly a narrow black border, cut by yellow veins {type), or is
uniform in colour ; the black border varies very much in extent, but does not seem
to become ever so broad as it sometimes is in signijwans. On the underside the
fuscous apical area of the forewing is traversed by yellow veins, and is less blackish
than in orbona siqnijicans; in a specimen from Mackay the fuscous colour is nearly
absent. The black costal spots are as in the New Guinea form.

?. A specimen iu Dr. Standiuger's collection agrees with i\\e. females from
Fergusson Island, but has the brown colour in the middle of the forewing much less
broken up by the veins.

Ilab. N. Queensland : Cedar Bay, 30 mOes south of Cooktown (A. 8. Meek),
IT) i; Mackay, 1 J; Cairns, I ? iu coll. Staudinger. W. ]\.

e. A. orbona ochrealis.

(?) Ar/anais er/riia (!), Rilibe {nee earns Walker, 1854), //v» I. p. 87 (ISS.'i) (" Arn " locn " Kei " ?).
At/iowis eijeiis, Pagenstechcr, Jululi. Xiiss. Ver. Xnl. p. 12.3. n. .32 (1886) (Kei ; " Aru" err. loc).
ffi/psa ochrealis Swinhoe, Co/. Lrji. Jlel. .Uiis. O.rf. I. p. 92. n. 408 (1892) (Goram Ceram).

Though we. have not compared s])ecimeus from Goram Island, where the tifjie of
ochrealis came from, we believe we are right in identifying the Kei Islands specimens
with ochrealis.

$. The variability is very great. There occur specimens which have the fore-
wing streaked brown, like the average specimen oK significans, and the two ochraceons
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neither the streaks nor the patches are present ; between these extremes there exist
all intergradations, as onr series of specimens shows. The hindwing has in the
darkest specimens an indication of a fuscous border. On the underside the apical
fxiscons area of the forewing is as in Kujiiifiraiix, or is rednced or absent. Tlie costal
black spot of the hindwing is small.

? . Only in one specimen are the two patches of the forewing snrronndcd by
short, brown, more or less confluent lines ; in a second specimen the patches are just
traceable, being of a paler tint than the rest of the wing, while in the other femules
the patches have altogether disappeared. The underside of the wings is entirelj'
without spots, or there is a minute postcostal spot on the forewing, or there is,
besides, such a spot on the hindwing. The basal joint of the palpi has in four
specimens a black lateral dot, while in five specimens the dot is absent.

Hub. Goram Island ; Kei Islands (H. C. Webster, January to March 189(5),
13 c?, 9 ?. ' K. J.

9. Asota tigrina.

Damullii t'lijriim Butler, Ann. Mii,j. iV. IT. (fi). X. p. KJO (1K82) (N. Britain).
Aganah tigrhm, Kirby, Cut. Lej). Het. I. p. 38(!. n. 12 (1892) (N. Britain).

Closely allied to A. orbona, but easily distingnished by the absence of the
antemediau patch from the forewing, the absence of some of the Iiasal black dots,
and by the entirely black palpi.

ilab. New Britain, 1 c?, 1 ?. K. J.

l<t. Asota australis.

Agaimis auslr(ili.i Boisduval, Vmj. Astrofobc, Lip. p. 25'-'. n. 5. t. 5. f. 3 (1832) (X. Guinea c.rerr.'t).

It appears to us to be very doubtful which race of the present species Boisduval
had before him. The description is so short that it applies to all the races except
the Australian one. As habitat Boisduval gives New Guinea in the text and on the
plate, but the figure differs from New Guinea specimens in the forewing being
without luteous nervular lines and in the black border of the hindwing being
denticulate, with the tooth ni)Ou vein 2 enlarged. These characters of the figure are
found only in the race from Amboina and Burn (and probably C'eram). However,
though the denticulation of the black border is as distinct in the figure as it is in
Amboina individuals, the denticles stand in the latter upon the veins, while in the
figure, most certainly in consequence of a mistake on the i)art of the artist, they
stand betwcc7i the veins. Under these circumstances we think it best to adopt the
way proposed in Nov. Zool. 1896, p. 455 — namely, to accept the name ai/stralis for
the entire species and to give a name of its own to each subspecies.

The external white patch on the forewing above is more or less reniform in the
male; in thejcmclc it is larger and mostly irregularly iientagonal. On the underside
the yellow area of the forewing is more extended in iha/cmali' than in the male. At
the costa of the forewing there are four black dots marked ; in many examples tlie
first and third dots are absent. K. .1.

((■ A. australis sinuosa subsp. nov.

(?) Agaiiaia nuxtralia Boisduval, l.r.

llypm mistralU, Walker. List Lep. Uet. B. M. II. p. 4.50. n. 25 (1854) ; Butt, Tr. Enl. Soc. Land.

p. 322. n. 21; (1870) ; Snell., Tijdschr. r. Enl. XXXI. p. 128. n. 10 (1888) (.\mboina : ««• N.

Guinea) ; Swiuh., Cut. Lep. Iht. Oxf. I. p. 111. n. 406 (1892) (Prop.).

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Aganaisauslra!ii!,P;igenstccheT,Jalirb. Nass. P'cr. iV(i<. p. G9 (1884) (Amboina); id., I.e. p.ll.'i.n. 25G
(1888) (Aiuboina) ; Kirby, Gil. Lep. Utt. I. p. 38G. n. 8 (1892) {Prop).

$. Black spots on patagia small. Forewing above without whitish iiervular
lines. Black border to hindwing sinnate between the veins, triangularly jiroduced
upon vein 2.

Vndersiide : forewing with the yellow diseal area between veins 2 and (i much
reduced, being represented only by three small spots ; hindmug with the black
border extending along the costal margin to halfway to the base ; costal and sub-
costal veins black. The external wliite patch on the forewing varies a good deal in
size and shape, being in one specimen 2 mm. broad and 31 mm. long, wliile in
another the numbers are 4 and 4 J respectively: the ty2)e-specimen holds an inter-
mediate position. The yellow diseal area of the forewing below is also variable in
size, but is always cut up into spots by black veins. There are often black postmedian
spots marked on the underside of the hindwing.

?. The black border to the hindwing is generally narrower than in the male;
it reaches close to the anal angle. On the undersif/e the black border is mostly
indented at the veins; the diseal ]iart of tlie yellow area of the underside of the
forewing is wider than in cJ.

riab. Amboiua (W. Dolierty, Febrnary 1802), 0 c?, 6 ? ; Burn, 1 ?.

In a male ex coll. Felder, also from Amboiua, the exterior ])atcli of the forewing
above includes a black dot. W. H.

d. A. australis septentrionalis subsp. nov.

Agrees with sinuosa in the veins of the forewing above not being whitish, but
differs in the black spots on the patagia being three times the size of those oi sinuosa,
in the basal creamy white patch of the forewing being larger, and in the diseal part
of the yellow area of the forewing beneath being much more extended, and not cut
by black veins in cJ. The black border to the hindwing is indented at tlie veins
above and below, especially in ? , sometimes entire in c? ; in ? the border does not
reach beyond the submedian fold, is narrower than in sinuosa, and not or scarcely
dilated at vein 2 ; below, the costal black sjiot is either separated from the border
in ?, or connected with it by a thin marginal line. K female from (iilolo in coll.
Felder, otherwise agreeing with septentrionalis, has tlie border of the hindwing
sinnose, as it is in sinuosa.

Hub. Halmahera (W. Doherty, August 1892), I c?, 1 ?; Ternate, 2 c?, 1 ? ;
Batjan (W. Doherty, March 1892), 1 S {type), 2 ?. W. T?.

c. A. australis lineata subsp. nov.

Aganais australis, Pagenatecher (nee BoisduviJ, 1832), Jalirb. Xas.i. Vet: Nat. p. 123. n. 34 (1886)
(Kei).

(Jlosely resembling aeijiialis, but all the: v'ins of the forewing are creamy white,
lu the/emale there occurs an interesting variation, the two creamy white patches of
the forewing being sometimes connected with one another by means of a streak
situated upon the median vein.

It is worthy of note that lineata differs from aequalis in the same character in
which yhara differs from dorijca, altliongh lineata and ghara, and aequalis and
dori/ca, are not " mimicking '' each other respectively. The presence of the whitish

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lines npon tlie veins in the two Kei Islands forms mnst therefore be acconnted for
b}- cansos otlier than "mimetic " rescmbhince.

Hub. Kei Toeal (H. ('. AVebster, January to Marcii l.S'.iO), 2 c?, G ? {ti/pe ? ).

W. R.

(I. A. australis aequalis.

(?) Agaiiais auatralia Boisduval, l.r.

Ilypm arqimlis Walker, List L>/k Ilrt. B. .1/. XXXI. p. 214 ( I8i;4) (Aru) ; Butl., T,: Eiit. Sor.

Limd. p. 322. n. 25 (187;".) (Aru ; lyp. in B. M.) ; Swiuh., Cat. Lep. Itet. Mas. Oxf. I. p. !)1. n. 4()i;

(18'.I2) (Aru ; /;/;..• in Oxf. Mus.).
/7///wn o«.«(ra/;.s Butler, /.f. p. .S22. n. 2C (1875) (N. Guinea) ; .Snell., Tijihchr.r. Eiit. XXXI. p. 128.

n. 10 (1888) (N. Guinea ; nee Amboina) ; Swinh.. I.e. p. 91. n. 40a (1892) (N. Guinea, Aru,

Mysol ; iiec Amboina).
Ar/amis austmUs, Ribbe, Iris I. p. 87 (1885) (Aru) ; Kirby, Cul. Lq>. Hit. I. p. 380. n. 8 (1892)

{Prop.).
A(jmxais aequalis, Kirby, !.c. n. 9 (1892) (Aru).

The veins of the forewing are whitish, e.^cept between onter patch and apc.K of
wing of cj and in marginal region of ? ; the nervnlar lines less distinct than in
lineota. The black border to the hindwiug is evenly convex between submedian
fold and vein 3, as in lincitfn.

The specimens from Aru do not seem to ns to be separable, snbspecifically, from
New Guinea examples.

Hub. Arn (H. C. Webster, April to Jnly 1896), 1 c?, 1 ? ; Waigen, 'Z S ;
Dntch New Guinea: Hnmboldt Bay (W. Doherty, September and October 1892),
1 (J, 3 ? ; Fergnsson Island (A. S. Meek, November and December 1894), 4 (?, 3 ? ;
Kiriwina, Trobriand Islands (A. S. Meek, Marcli to May 1895), 1 S-

Butler, I.e., says that the type of itequali.s is in the British Museum, while
according to Swinhoe, I.e., the type is in the Oxford Museum. K. J.

e. A. australis assimilis subsp. nov.

(?) Ui/jisa auslralis, Meyi-ick (ucc Boisduval, 1832), Pr. Liuii. Soc. X. S. W. p. 770. n. 112 (1886)
(N. S. Wales ?) ; Lucas, ihid. p. 1086 (1889) (Mackay).

I quote Messrs. Meyrick and Lucas here with a ?, as 1 believe that the insects
these authors refer to do not belong to the present form of A. australis, but to a
representative of .4. orbona which is very similar to as.'iimilis and a2)parently not
rare in Queensland. I have received assimilis only from Port Uarwiu.

? . Head, thorax, and base of forewing brighter ochreous than in the other
forms of australis. Forewing with a yellowish tint; the veins marked white nearly
as in lineata. Hindwiug with the fringe black between apex and submedian fold.
Unilcrside: forewing pale ochreous, a spot upon the discocellular veinlets black, this
spot of nearly even breadth, continued in type beyond median vein : apical region
of wing fuscous, its inner edge concave; it measures in width 10 mm. at costal
margin, 4 mm. at vein 5, and 2_^ mm. at vein 2. Hiudwing witii a black dot in
middle of costal margin.

J lab. Tort Darwin, N.W. Australia, 2 ?. \V. It.

1 1 . Asota diaua.

Hypsa (Vuina Butler, Ami. Mag. K. 11. (5). XIX. p. 220 (1S87) (Alu .and Malaita).
Ai/anais (//»na, Kirby, Od. Lrp. Hit. I. p. 386. n. 6 (1892) (Solomon Is.).

Tliis fine species occurs apparently ail over the Solomon Islands and does not

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seem to vary according to locality. Tlie iudividual variability is also but slight :
the orange basal spot behind the median vein of the fon-wing iibove is often well
marked and often scarcoly indicated.

Il'ib. Solomon Islands: (Jmulalcanar, 1 cJ, 5 ? ; islets near Isabel, 1 J; N.
Georgia = Rnbiana, 2 c?, G ? ; Alu, 4 c?, 2 ¥. K. J.

12. Asota alieuata.

Agarista alieiuila Walker, List Lep. Uet. B. M. XXXI. p. 40 (1864) (Aneiteum, N. Hebrides).
Uypm agarislu Snellen, TijilHchr. v. But. XXXI. p. 129. n. 12. t. 1. f. 4 ( ? ) (1888) (Aneiteum, N.

Hebrides).
Agaiuth (?) alienata, Kirhy, Cat. Lep. Ilrt. I. p. 387. n. 20 (1802) (N. Hebride.s).
Agmuii:< (?) agarista, id., i.e. n. 21 (1892) (N. Hebrides).
Damalijs alienata, Swinhoe, Cat. Lep. IIH. Osf. I. p. 95. n. 418 (1892) (Aneiteum; '-Sydney"

loc. err.).

In the ft'mri/i', which is figured by Snellen, there is on the ujipersidc a trace of
the kidnej'-shaped white patch of the forewiug. The black thorax distinguishes
this si)ecies from all other Asota.

We have only two 7nales, one from Aneiteum, the other from New Britain:
the latter specimen has the orange area of the underside of tlic hindwing nion;
extended, and the spot at the apex of the cell, which is joined to the area, ochreons
instead of white. If these differences hold good, ulienutu has developed into two
subspecies.

Ildb. Aneitenm, New Hebrides, 1 i : New Britain, 1 c?. K. J.

13. Asota javana.

The antennae and claspers of the J resemble those of .1. orbona. The species
varies apj)arently a good deal according to locality, and will doid)tless be split up in
future in a number of subspecies. For the present, owing to the absence of sufficient
material, we cannot recognise more than two forms, keeping the Celebensian repre-
sentative as a distinct species.

". A. javana flaviventris snbsp. nov.

ITypsa [Agaruiis) janma, Pagenstecher, /r/.v III. \i. Jo. n. 21 (1890) (Palawan),

The black dots at the base of the forewing are small ; that at the abdominal
margin is absent or very small: there is no dot in the cell, except in one of onr
Palawan s])ecimens, in which the cellular black dot is marked by a few scales. The
apical edges of the five black basal segments of the abdomen, above, are narrowly
edged with yellow; underside of abdomen all yellow, except a row of dots on each side.

In the specimens from Mindoro, Luzon, and Mindanao the brown area of fore-
Tsnd hindwing is a little more extended than in Palawan specimens: on the under-
side of the forewing the yellowish sjiot in the centre of the cell is small, and
si surrounded by brown colonr in tlie Palawan individuals, while that spot is joined
to the yellow costal area in the individuals from the other localities.

llab. N. Luzon (J. Whitehead, 1894), 2 ? ; Mindoro, 1 S {typ,'), 1 ? ; Mindanao
(in coll. Dr. Staudinger): Palawan, 2 S. W. R.

b. A. javana javana.

Pluilaenu Bomhyxjamna Cramer, Pap. Exul. III. p. 140 t. 271. f. c (1780) (Java).
Aivlajahauis, Hiibner, Vers;, beli. Scliiitett. p. 104 (1810-22).

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Ilypsiijammi, Walker, Lht Lrp. Het. B. .1/. II. p. 454 (1854) ; Bull., Tr. ICnt. Snc. Loiul. p. A'iX.

n. 34 (1875) (Moulmem) ; Sric-11., Tijihchr. r. Ent. XXXI. p. 128. n. 8 (1888) (Java) ; Hamps.,

.1/ofc ,/ India I. p. 602. u. 1147 (I8'J2) ; SneU., Irh VIII. p. 140. n. 113 (18U.5} (Deli,

Sumatra).
Damiilh jai-ana, Swinhoe, Tr. Ent. Soc. Lund. p. 181. ii. 97 (1890) (from Moulmein in Biit.

Mus.).
Agcqie jcnvna, Kirby, Cat. Lrp. Het. I. p. .S87. n. 3 (1892) ; Swinh., Cat. Lep. Het. Mux. Oxf. I.

p. 93. n. 412 (1892) (Pro/).).

S- Java and Bali: forewing above with two costal black dots, instead of one: a
dot in the cell at the basal edge of the brown area: outer one of the two dots behind
the median vein transverse as in A. cclebcii.sis. The yellow border to the hindwing
is somewhat narrower than in the preceding subspecies. There is scarcely a trace
of yellow scales at the hinder edges of the first five segments of the abdomen above,
while below segments 2 to 4 (except tip of 4) and a ring on 5 are black. Forewing
beneath with the brown area extending outside the apex of the cell to vein 7.

(?. Burma: ditiers from our Javan nude in the yellow outer border of the hind-
wing being narrower, in the brown area of the forewing below being broader outside
the apex of the cell, and in the ventral jilate of the fourth abdominal segment being
all black.

? . A specimen ex coll. Felder, said to be from Malacca, has segments 2, 3, and
4 of abdomen edged with yellow beneath, and the brown area of the forewing below
is very feebly marked ontside the cell.

Uab. Palabuan, Java merid. (H. Frnhstorfer, 18'.l»!), 1 S ; Bali (W. Doherty,
March and April 181)6), 1 S\ Malacca, 1 ? ; Bhamo, Burma (1 i in coll. Dr. Staud-
inger); Sumatra; Borneo (in coll. Uruce).

The only specimen of A. jamim in the British Museum, recorded by Walker as
coming from E. India and by Butler as being found near Moulmein in Burma, has
the base of the abdomen beneath yellow, not black. Is the hah. Moulmein nf this
specimen correct ? K. J.

14. Asota celebensis.

AgaiMii celebensis HopfEer, Stetl. Ent. Zcit. p. 43. n. 140 (1874) (Celebes) ; Piep. & Suell., Tijdschi:

V. Ent. XXII. p. 79. n. 38 (1879) (Balangaipa).
ffypsa celebensis, Snellen, I.e. XXXI. p. 128. u. 9. t. 1. f. 3. 3« ( ? ) (1888) (S. and N. Celebes).
.l!ira;)e celebensis, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. I. p. 387. n. 4 (1892) (Celebes).
■Agape jamna, Swinhoe, Cat. Lep. Het. Mus. Oxf. I. p. 93. n. 412 (1892) {Pro p. ; Menado).

Differs, as pointed out by Snellen, I.e., from A. javana in the following characters:
second joint of the X'alpi with a black lateral stripe instead of a black apical dot ;
segments 1 — 7 of abdomen above black, with the hinder edges broadly yellow; the
two creamy patches of the forewing above much larger, the brown area more ex-
tended, bnt not prolonged along vein 5 ; on the underside the spot in the centre of
the cell is merged together with a large triangular basi-costal patch, and the spot
at the apex of the cell is large and joins the costal yellow border ; ontside this
spot the brown colour of the disc of the wing extends to near the costa, forming a
broad curved band ; on the hindwing the curved line upon the discocellulars of
A.juvnna is here enlarged to a patch which is joined to another large streak-like
patch that extends from the base to the apex of the cell, being limited in front by
vein 8 and behind usually by the middle fold of the cell.

The brown area of both wings varies in extent ; its outline is also variable in
shape. In our only malf, from tS. Celebes, the yellow border to the forewing is

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almost restricted to the fringe from the hinder angle to vein 5, and then widens out,
being 5 mm. wide at vein 8; tlie outer border to the hiudwing is also narrower than
in the J'r males, and there are two black costal dots to the forewiiig instead of one ;
on the nnderside the greater part of the costal margin of the forewing is black.

In the ningh female from Toli-Toli, N. Celebes, in the Tring Museum, there
are some indistinct yellow discal spots within the black area of the hindwiug below.

//(lb. Celebes: S. Celebes (W. Doherty, August and September 1891), 1 6,
3 ?; Toli-Toli, N. Celebes (H. Fruhstorfer, November and December 1895), 1 ?.

As the differences in colour between this form of Asota and Asota javana are
quantitatively much greater than those found between many other species of this
genus, it is, at least for the present, better to consider celebensin distinct from
javana.

It is worthy of note that in the black dorsal segments of the abdomen being
edged with yellow the Pliilippine form of .(. jarann is closer related to ^1. celebemis
than the .lavan form is ; while, on the other hand, tiie Javan form agrees more with
the Celebes insect in tlie size of the black dots at the base of the forewing than the
Philippine subspecies does. K- J-

15. Asota iodamia.

.l</a«flis horhouica ?, Herrich-Schaffer, Auss. Schmett. f. 119 (1854) (&c. lyjiagr.).

AganaJs hxlnmia, id., I.e. text p. 79 (1858) (Australia).

ITypm sphaerifcra Butler, Tr. Eitt Soc. Land. p. 329 (1875) {Norn. nov.).

II>jj)sa iiesophora MeyTick, Pr. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. p. 770. n. 113 (188G) (Newcastle and Sydney;

common) ; Lucas, ibid. p. 1086 (1889) (Brisbane ; N. S. Wales).
H,/psa iodamia, Snellen, Tijdsclir. v. Ent. XXXI. p. 132. n. 18 (1888).
Aganais sphaerifera, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. I. p. 386. n. 7 (1892).

By an unfortunate but very obvious misprint thc/emale of Agariais borbonica,
described by Boisduval as insularis in 1834, but queried by him as ? oi borbonica,
stands as f. 120 instead of 1 19 on Herrich-Schatfer's plate, while the names given on
the cover of that number of Auss. Schmett. are : 119 borbonica ? and 120 iodamia ;
therefore the wcw «;.itw'c.s figured is represented by f. 119, but \\\c new name (iodamia)
is given to f. 120, which represents the species described already in 1834. In the
t«xt oi Auss. Sclimett. issued in 1858 the names are corrected, f. 119 being here
named iodamia and f. 120 borbonica ?. As there cannot be the sliglitest doubt
that the name of iodamia was meant by Herrich-Schiiffer for the then new insect
represented by f. 119, we follow Snellen in applying the name of iodamia to this
Australian species.

]/ab. N. S. Wales, 1 <?; S. Queensland, Brisbane district, 4 S. K. J.

10. Asota plagiata.

Jlypsa plagiala Walker, List Lep. Het. B. M. II. p. 457. n. 19 (1854) (Now Holland) ; Meyr., Pr.

Linn. .SV-. .V..S.IK. (2). I. p. 768. n. 110 (1886) (Bowen and Rotklianipton, Queensland;

Clarence River, N.S.W. ; rather common) ; Lucas, I.e. (2). IV. p. 1086 (1889) (Bowen to

Brisbane).
n<jimi discreta Walker, U. XXXI. p. 216 (1864) (N. Australia) ; Butl., Tr. EiU. Soc. L<ml p. 321.

n. 22 (1875) (N.Australia).
Pcl<dia plaginhi, Butler, I.e. p. 326. n. 1 (1875) (Moreton Bay) : Kirby, Cat. Lep. Tlel. I. p. 385

(1892) (Australia) ; Smnh., Cat. Lep. Bet. Oj-/. I. p. 95. n."421 (1K02) (Moreton Bay).

The ]iattern of the base of the forewing is comparable to that of yl. heliconia,
the black sjiots corresponding to those of heliconia, and the yellow markings

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separating them are homologdus td the yellow respectively white markings ol'
hcUconm, bnt are in plagiata mncli enlarged, especially the yellow border oF the
outer black spots, which forms an nudnlatc transverse band. The hinder portion of
the band is usnally joined to the spot standing near the abdominal margin npou the
onter portion of the cavity of the wing. The patch beyond the apex of the cell
varies somewhat in size and shape, and is in one of om- females connected with the
waved transverse band by a streak in the cell ; a similar longitudinal streak is in
the same specimen marked behind vein 2. There is sometimes a black dot in the
patch in S and ? . Tlie two black macular bands of the hind wing vary considerably;
the spots of the outer band are sometimes merged together, with the veins between
them either faintly marked yellow or partly also black, while in other specimens
the spots are small and well se])arated from one another : tlie largest mark is that
behind veiu 2. The inner band consists of three spots, which either stand soiiarate
or are joined to each other by means of some small additional spots ; the two
posterior spots are often produced basally in c? and ?. The antennae as in A.
Jteliconia : the claspers and harpe of the i similar to those of hdiconia, but the
harpe nmeh flatter, less curved dorsally, and in a view from above more equally
rounded.

Hah. North Australia, as far south as Clarence R., N. S. Wales : 14 cJ, 6 ? .

K. J.

17. Asota woodfordi.

Ht/psa lonndfordl Druce, P. Z. S. p. 221. t. 13. f. 2 (1888) (Viti Levu).

We know this handsome species only from the figure, and cauuot tell whether
it is allied in structure to plaffiata or not.

Ilab. Suva, Viti Levn, Fiji Islands, 1 ? in Mr. H. Druce's collection. K. .J.

18. Asota Mvia.

Niicluafulria Donovan, Ins. N. Boll. t. 39. f. 4 (1805) (N. Holland).
aielmhifulf'ia, Boisduval, Voy. Astrolabe, Up. p. 214. n. 2 (1832) (N. Holland).
Spihsoma (f)fulvia, Walker, List Lap. Eet. B. M. III. p. 079. n. 35 (1855) (N. Holland).
Aganaisfiilvia, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Bet. I. p. 386. n. 14 (1892) (Pro ^j.).

Butler as well as Snellen do not mention this species iu their revision of the
Aganaidae ; Kirby enumerates it correctly among the Aganaidac, but puts as a
synonym to it Boisduval's Chelonia costata, which is a true Arctiid.

A.fidma i.s known to us only from New Britain and New Ireland, autl it is not
imjirobabln that Donovan's locality (New Holland) is erroneous. Our specimens
agree very well with Donovan's figure, except that the outer black costal spot of
Donovan's figure is absent from all our specimens but one.

There are no black spots on the thorax ; the dorsal spots of the abdomen are
also obliterated, there being only a trace of them at the very base of the middle
segments; the ventral abdominal spots arc very slightly marked. Tlie palpi are
black, with the under and outer sides of the first two joints bull-colour.

The veins of the forewing are fuscous, except close to the base ; the submedian
fold is also more or less extended fuscous, while there is mostly no fuscous line iu
the median cell ; at the base of the cell there is sometimes a small black dot.
Hindwing uniform in colour above, but the extremities of the veins are sometimes
obviously fuscous.

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Uu the uudersklc tlie apical rcgicm of the Ibrcwing more or less i'uscons ; there
are also fuscons scales at the costal margin of the himlwing from middle to apex,
and sometimes the outer-marginal region of the liindwing is also dusted over with
fuscous scales.

The antennae are without lateral grooves in the vwle. The clasjier and harpe
of the mule are of a pecnliar structure in this species : the clasper is slender, tiipering
to a point, instead of being sole-shaped as in the other species of Asota ; it is raised
into a keel in its middle line ; the harpe is three times as long as in A. heliconia,
constricted near the base, then dilated and then gradually narrowed to a point, thus
having somewhat the aj)pearance of a knife with handle.

Hub. N. Britain, 2 S,l ? ; N. Ireland, 4 J, 1 ? ; Australia (?). K. J.

10. Asota versicolor.

The white transverse postmedian band of the forewing distinguishes this
species from all otlier species of Asotn. The antennae arc as in ixiphoa und allies.
There are at least two geographical forms distinguishable, jierhaps three, of which
the New Guinea one is the first described.

II. A. versicolor versicolor.

(?) Noctua versicolor Fabricius, Ent. Si/st. III. 2. p. 49. n. 1.S4 (1793) (■' in Aiuericau Insiilis ").

Xoctua versicolor var. Donovan, Ins. -V. I/oll. t. 39. f. ^ (1805).

Aganais cersicolor, Boisduval, Voi/. Astrolabe, Lip. p. 250. n. 5 (1832) (N. Guinea).

Agannis eusemioidcs Felder, Ri'ise Nocara, Lc/j. II. t. lOG. £. 1 (1874) (N. Guinea).

Ilypsa versicolor, Walker, List Lrp. Hit. B. .U. 11. p. 45;t (1854) (N. Guinea) ; Butl., Tr. Ent. Soc.
Lond. p. 323. n. 32 ( 1875) (N. Guinea) ; Snell., Tijdschr. r. Ent. XXXI. p. 127. n. 7 (1888) (N.
Guinea ; Salawatti ; 'New Holland '' loc. err.) ; Swinh., Git. Lep. JJet. Ox/. I. p. 91. n. 403
(1892) (N. Guinea) ; Pagenst., in Senion, Forschuwjsreisen V. p. 214. n. 33 (1895) (N. Guinea).

Milhi/psa ensemioides (!), Butler, I.e. p. 324 (1875).

Ilypsa eusemioides, Butler, Ann. Mag. .V. H. (5). X. p. 159 (1882).

Uypsa eusemoides (!), Kirby, Cat. Lep. Bet. I. p. 389. n. 28 (1892) (Papua ; •' Australia " loc. err.).

The description given b\- Fal)ricius does not fit this insect, and as the lml)itat
" in Americae Insulis " also does not agree with that of the present species, Donovan
must be quoted as " the author " of Anota versicolor.

The band of the forewing is in the tnale somewhat narrower than in the female.
The black dorsal spots of the abdomen are often enlarged to hulf-rings. In the speci-
mens from Huou Golfe, (ierman New (iuinea, the underside of the hiudwing bears a
small patch of white scales in the anal region beyond vein 2; this patch is more often
marked in the female than in the male, and occurs also sometimes in individuals
from Constantinhafen.

Three of our six males from Fergnsson Island have the band of the forewing
very narrow, and ccjnstricted at vein 2, and are not distinguishable from certain
specimens of the following subspecies; a fourth imde is very interesting, as it has a
narrow band on the left wing and a broad one on the right wing.

llab. N. and S.W. Dutch New Guinea, 5 (J, 5? ; Sahiwatti: German N. (Juinea,
23 (?, 12 ? ; Fergnsson I., D'Eutrecasteau.\ Is. (A. 8. Meek, iSeiJtember to December
1894), V> i,\ ? . Not yet recorded from British N. Guinea (mainland) ; ajjparently
not occurring in Australia. K. J.

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h. A. versicolor subrupta subsji. imv.

S . Diflcrs from typical versicolor rerslcolor in tlie bainl of the forewiiig being
iniuli narrower and at vein 2 interrupted {type) or constricted.

? . Band sliglitly narrower than in averagey<?/««fes of New Gninean versicolor.

The band varies in the mah' considerably and approaches in certain New
Britain examples the band of versicolor versicolor, being sometimes not constricted
at vein 2.

JIah. Duke of York I. {tnjic), :5 cJ, t ? ; New Britain, 12 i , ii ?. W. I!.

2(1. Asota paphos.

Though the ////kj of this species is in the Bauksian collection, most entomologists
jiavi! followed the Walkerian erroneous identification and treated tills speeies as
hcliconia L., in spite of the fact that, as Snellen correctly points ont, the description
of heliconia does not at all fit the present insect. Kirby was the first to recog-
nise and to correct Walker's error. Snellen, in Tijdsckr. v. Ent. XXXI. p. 137
(l.s8!S), does not mention paphos F.; he has apparently overlooked the footnote 2 in
Anrivillius's paper (see below), as he describes a form of paphos as a new species.
Hampson, Moths of India I. p. 501 (1892), does not take any notice of Anrivillius's
critical remarks, but, following Walker, accepts tke name of Iteliconia L. for the
present species.

A. paphos is especially distinguislied by the forewing being devoid of a white
median streak or patch, but having a rather broad white inner margin, and by the
marginal band of the hindwing including a white spot at vein 2. The antennae are,
as in A. phujinota, canaraica, etc., without lateral grooves.

There are two geograjihical forms known; in both forms the black markings on
the hindwing are smaller in the female than in the male, and the amount of white
on the underside of the forewing is larger in the/e/mcle than in the male. K. J.

". A. paphos paphos (PI. IV. fig. 11).

Noctua jiii/iliiis Fiibridus, Muni. Ins. II. p. 1.37. u. 24 (17H7) (Siam ; Mus. Banks) ; id., Ent. Si/st.
III. 2. p. 18. n. :s:i (1793).

Ilijpsd heliconui var. ii. Walker, Cat. Lr/i. lid. B. M. II. p. 4i2. n. H (1854).

Ilypsa helicuniit, Moore, Juiivn. .Is. Soc. Bcixj. p. 235. n. 31 (1884) (Cachar) ; Swinh., Tr. Ent. Soc.
Limd. p. 180. n. 91 (1890) (Burma) ; Hamp.s., .l/i-z/is <>/ Iiul. I. p. .lOl. n. 1142 (1892) (Sikkim,
Assam, Burma, Singapore, Borneo ; '' Ceram,*" ** New Guinea,'' loc. rrr.).

llypHii jHiphna, Kirby, in Auriv., lie. Crit. hep. M. L. U. p. 159. note 2 (1882).

Ui/jjsa lem-onola var., Snellen, Ins VIII. p. 139. n. 11 (1895) (Deli, N.E. Sumatra).

The veins of the forewing are white, but the white scaling of veins 2 to (5
disapjiears sometimes before the veins reach the margin of the wing. The hind-
wing i}^ the female has, besides a black border that is more or less Interrupted at the
veins, two postmedlan black markings and two spots in the cell, and an anal spot;
the latter is often continned along the abdominal margin. In the male the spots
are larger ; the first postmedlan one and the two cellular ones are joined to one another
by bliirk scaling, and the second median and the anal spot are connected with the
base of the wing by means of black streaks: the veins on the disc are jiartly black.

On the underside the basal three-fourths of the forewing are white, with the
e.xception of a rounded spot in the cell, a transverse mark on the discocellular veb-
lets, and a spot behind the base of vein 2; in the male the white colour is much

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reduced: there is often only a square spot in the cell and a tlexnose macular band
on the dise.

llab. Sikkim, 1 ? ; Assam, 3 c?, 1 ? ; Bnima, 2 6; Malacca, 2 cJ, 2 ? : Borneo,
4 3; Sumatra.

The Borneo specimens are apparently not distinguishable from Indian ones.

K.J.

^j. A. paphos leuconota.

Aijanais heli.-onia, Snellen (iiec Linnaeus, 1758), Tijthchr. e. Ent. XXII. p. 78. sub u. 3i5 (1879).
//ypsa leuconola Snellen, I.e. XXXI. p. 135. n. 23. t. 2. f. 2. 2a (1888) (Java : Sumatra).
.ly«Ha/'s Icucmiola, id.. I.e. XXXVIII. p. 182 (1896).

Differs from paphos paphos in the forewing being paler in colour and having
the veins less white, in the black markings of the hindwing being very small and
partly absent, in the head and thorax having nearly the colour of the forewing, and
in the pale abdomen being above banded with black.

We have some specimens, said to be also from Java, which have the base of
the forewing and the body as bright orange as paphos paphox, and the black spots
of the hindwing well developed, but smaller than they are in paphos paphos.

It is worthy of note that paphos leuconota diflers from paphos paphos in a
similar way as the Javau heliconia intacta does from the Indian heliconia clavata.

Hab. Java, 2 d", 2 ? ; and, according to Snellen, Sumatra. K. J.

21. Asota heliconioides (PI. IV. fig. 12).

Neockero hclietmioidcn Moore, P. Z. S. p. 6 (1878) (Luzon); Kirby, Cut. Lej). Hit. I. p. 390. u. 9

(1892) (Luzon).
Neoehera htlkonoides (!), Pagenstecher, Iris UI. p. 9. n. 19 (1890) (Palawan).
Ihjlim hdieonioides, Swiuhoe, Cat. Lep. Bet. Oxf. I. p. 88. n. 393 (1892) (Philippines).

Swinhoe, I.e., was the first to recognise that this species has nothing to do with
the genus Neoehera. In structure A. helieonioides is closely allied to A. paphos,
and agrees in the pattern of the hindwing especially with paphos paphos, but the
black colour is much more extended. However, the shape and colour of the
forewing remove heliconioides so far from paphos that there cannot be any doubt
about the specific distinctness of the two insects.

Our series of specimens is much too small to enable us to say whether the
species has developed into subspecies. Our seven specimens show some individual
variation in the amount of grey on the hindwing, while an eighth specimen, from
Mindanao, lent to us by Dr. Standinger, has the hindwing nearly exactly marked as
paphos paphos, and represents most ]u-obably a separate subspecies.

Hab. Philij)iiine Islands : Luzon ; Mindoro, \ i, \ ? ; Mindanao ; Palawan,
4 cJ, 1 ? ; also on Jolo and Balabac according to Dr. Staudinger in litt. K. J.

22. Asota sericea.

$. Ilijpm sericea Moore, P. Z. S. p. 3 (1878) (Canara); Hamps., J/oMs -)/ ImL I. p. 503. n. 1149
(1892) (Bc)mb.ay; Poona; Canara; Nilgiris); Kirby, Cut. Iajk II,t. I. p. 388 (1892) (Canara).

? . DamaliH eomwui Moore, I.e. p. 4 (1878) (Canara); Waterh., Aiil. II. t. 132. f. 7 (1883); Uamps.,
Moths of Intl. I. p. 502. n. 1146 (1892) (Canara; Nilgiris).

Damalis sericea Swinhoe, I.e. p. 292. n. 42 (1885) (Poona, Nov.: Bombay, t)ct. Nov.).

Agaiiaia concana, Kirby, I.e. I. p. 386. n. 2 (1892) (Canara).

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Mr. Moore's lli/jiaa .scn'ceif, of wliicli only //mii-f: aw kuowu to science, and Iiis
Ihiimiiis concumi, of which /'emalea only liavc been found, agree so well with one
another, especially iu the peculiar style of marking of the hiudwiug, that we do not
see a valid reason against their being sexes of one species. Antennae of S as in
the preceding species. We have only seen one <?, kindly lent to us by Mr. Ernest
Swinhoe, besides the few sjieciniens in the British Museum. It is a near ally of

^1. JtHJ)ll(IS.

Hub. 8outh India, as far north as Bombay. K. J.

23. Asota canaraica.

Ihllisa rawinii,-,! Moore, P. Z. .S. p. 3 (187S) (Caiiara); Kirljy, Cat. Li^K 11,1. I. p. 388. u. 10 (18'J2)
(Canara); Hamps., Mollis of Itul. I. p. 500. u. 1139 (1892) (Canara, Nilgiris).

The antennae of the male are as in the two following species, from which
canaraica differs chiefly in the forewing having a more or less oblong white patch
at the lower angle of the cell instead of the large triangular white median streak.
The three postmedial black spots of the hindwings are mostly', not always, con-
nected with one another by means of some small additional spots. The " middle
black basal costal spot" is, according to Hampson, absent; three of our four
specimens have the spot, however, marked.

Hub. South India : Canara, Nilgiris, 1 cT, 3 ?. K. J.

24. Asota paliura (PL IV. fig. 5).

Hypm paliura Swinlioe,,l««. Mug. N. II. (6). XII. p. 214 (1893) (China).

The antennae of the male are like those of vcnalba, to which paliunt. is very
closely allied. The white median streak is shaped as in venalba, and the veins are
white as in that species. In many specimens of both sexes the forewing bears
above mostly a small, rather indistinct, white spot just beyond the upper angle of
the cell behind the areole. The basal area of the forewing is yellow, with the black
dots smaller than in tciifilba ; thorax and abdomen are also more yellow. The
black spots of the cell of the forewing, which are always marked on the underside,
are often visible on the upperside. The black border of the hindwing varies very
much in breadth, being in some specimens almost twice as broad as in others ; the
fringe is white ; there are three postmedial black spots, as large as or larger than
the spot at the end of the cell ; the position of the anterior one of the three is
variable in so far as the spot stands sometimes close to the apex of the cell, some-
times midway between the cell and the outer margin ; in a few of our sijecimeus
this sjHit is enlarged transversely, reaching from vein 3 to near vein 7; in other
individuals the spot is enlarged longitudinally; in both cases the increase in size is
much more considerable on the upperside of the wing than below. The first
abdominal segment has no dorsal black spot ; the two following segments are also
often without black dots.

Ilnb. Central and Western China, as far as Mupin ; seems to be very common
from May to July; 60 cJ, 20 ¥. K. J.

25. Asota venalba.

Ililimi ivnnllm Moore, P. Z. S. p. 598 (1877) (Andaman Is.); Snell., Tijdschr. v. Ent. XXXI.

p. 141. n. 29 (1888) ("Nicobar Is." err. loc); Kirl>y, Cat. Lep. Het. I. p. 389. n. 27 (1892)

(Andamans).
Ilyiisa mniiijcha, Hampson, .)!uths of hut. I. p. 499. u. 1137 (1892) (f.'/'.).

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Sir George Hampsou (I.e.) itganls tliis insect iilso as a variety (if. I. hfUcoida
(= monijvha Ham])s.): if this be so, it woulil be a very remarkable ease uf variation,
as in the mule of xcnalha there is only an extremely faint trace of the lateral
impressions and brnsh-like tnfts of fine hairs of the anteuual joints which are
invariably strongly marked in all the insects treated in this paper as /icliconia-i'onui>.
Tlie harpe resembles that oi' /lelicoma. damta, bnt is decidedly broader; the clasper
is also a little broader than in clavata.

In colour veuolba seems to be pretty constant. The median streak of the
forewing is triangular, its onter edge sinuate. The veins in the costal region and
the snbmedian nervnre are white ; the breadth of the snbmedian white litu; varies
considerably. The border to the outer margin of the hindwing reaches close to the
anid angle, and is cut by white veins ; vein 2 is especially broadly white ; besides
two black spots iu the cell, there are in two of our three specimens faint indications
of two postmedial black spots standing, one beyond vein 2, the other upon vein 5.

[Jab. Andaman Islands, 1 cj, 2 ?. K. .1.

26. Asota antennalis sjt. nov.

S. Up per side: forewing comparatively broader than in both albivcna and
(lokerti/i, marked as in .1. albivena, the veins somewhat less heavily white;
fringe to hinder margin up to vein 2 consisting of lirowu and white scales ; no
white border to hinder margin. Hindwing marked as in ..-l. alb/ve/ia, fringe brown
and while; spot at aj)e.\ of cell conspicuous.

L'nderside.: forewing with a very few white scales behind lower angle of cell.
Hindwing yellow at extreme base (like forewing); marginal band and cellular
spots as in ulbitemi.

Head, thorax, and abdomen above as iu doherti/i ; no Idack spots on jirotiiorax,
and no dot behind centre of mesothorax; abdominal (d(n-sal) spots slightly trans-
verse, not band-like; the dorsal segments bear, besides, a row of large black s])ots at
the stigmata. Palpi black ; basal half of first joint and under and inner side of second
joint ochraceous. Underside of thorax aud abdomen ochraceons; the latter with largo
black spots on each side; the ventral spots on segments 4 to 7 merged together, or
nearly so, to transverse bands.

Antennae ofmali; without lateral impressions and tufts of tine hairs, while in
both nlbhcnu and doliertj/i the lateral impressions and tufts of line hairs are
strongly develojied. Hai'pc nearly as in A. heliconia, asymmetrical at the tip.

Forewing: length 33 mm.; breadth 15 mm.

Hab. ludrnlaman, Bonthain, 2000 feet (A. Everett, October 1890), 1 c?.

A. antennalis, do//erti//, and ulbitena resemble each other suiiorlicially so closely
that one can easily mistake one for the other, though on closer examination they are
easily euongli distinguishable. The most interesting form of the three is certainly
A. antennalis, on account of the different structure of the male antennae (the ? of
atitennalii is unknown). AV. R.

27. Asota dohertyi sji. nov. (PI. IV. fig. 10).

Comes in colour close to A. nlbirenx Walk., with which it occurs together. It
is a larger insect, and can be distinguished as follows : —

Upperside: forewing with the costal margin quite straight from the base to
beyond the middle; veins white, the two lines between the median and subiuedian

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iiervuves liroadcr tlian in nUjh-cnn : fnnr costal l)lack dots as in ulhiceiiu, ratlicr
heavily bordered with white; three separate spots behind the median vein, the first
small and round, the second transverse, especially in $, the third also transverse
and angle-shaped; an oblique line at hinder margin; a very narrow border to hinder
margin as well as fringe at hinder margin and hinder angle up to vein 2 (J) or 3
(?) white. Hindwing with a black onter border as in cenalba, but the border is
narrower; in c? an indistinct spot at the end of the cell, traces of postmedian spots
between veins 5 and 6 and behind vein 2, and an indistinct spot near anal angle,
blackish; in ? with the spots seldom indicated ; fringe white, anteriorly mostly
mottled with black.

Underside : forewiug in t? with a white patch of 3 mm. length behind the cell
between veins 2 and 3, and with two more patches of small size between veins 3 and 5;
there are also a few white scales outside the apex of the cell, especially in or before
the areole: the posterior region of the wing as far as it is covered by the hindwing
also white; in ? the white colour much more extended, and there is a large white
patch in the apical half of the cell; at the basal side of this i)atch there stands a
black spot or patcli ; the white colour forms a rather broad white macular band out-
side the cell. Hindwing in 6 with the discal black markings distinct, the anal
mark merged together with the marginal band; there is a spot in the centre of the
cell, to which is sometimes joined a short line at the base ; the cellule formed by
veins 7 and 8 is white only to the apex of the median cell ; in ? there is a short
line at the base, a spot in the centre, and a larger, mostly divided, mark at the apex
of the cell, and sometimes also one or two postmedian spots and an anal one.

Head, thorax, and abdomen above bright orange. Prothoracic lobes without
lilack dots; black spots on mesothoracic lobes round, in ? with white scales in front;
mesothorax with a black dot in middle line, and often with white scales in centre;
abdominal segments 2 to 7 with transverse black spots, which are larger in <? than in
? , reaching down in two specimens to the stigmata. Front of head and underside
of abdomen white, the latter with a row of black round spots on each side; palpi
black, inner side and part of underside of tirst and second joints white.

Forewing: length 33 mm.; breadth 13?. mm.

The harpe is slenderer and longer than that of A. Iieliconia, and not asym-
metrical at the apex; it is about half tlie breadth of the harpe of A. nlbivemi.

Hah. (Celebes: S. Celebes (W. Doherty, August and September IS91), 4 S,
6 ?; Samanga, S. Celebes (H. Frnhstorfer, November 1890), 1 c?, 2 ?; Dongala,
Palos Bay (W. Doherty, August and September 1896), 1 c?.

The forewing is similar in shape to that of A. productu-, the hinder angle is
strongly rounded, so that the onter margin of the wing appears to be much longer
than ill allied species. W. 1>.

28. Asota albivena.

Hypsa (Minena Walker, Cat. Lip. U.t. 11. .)/. XXXI. p. --'13 (18C4) (Tondano) ; Swinli., Cut. Lrp.

Uet. O.rf. I. p. 88. n. 394 (18;12) (Tondano ; ti/pr in Mils. O.vford identical with Snellen's figure

of rilesso'uJes).
Neoclm-a alhhaia, Butler, Ti-. Ent. Sor. Lnwh p. .^28. n. W (1875) ; Kirliy, Cat. Lip. Tlet. I, p. .'590.

n. 5 (1892) (Tondano).
Aganais vitessoitles Snellen, Tijihchr. r. Knl. XXII. p. 78. n. 3G. t. 7. f. 1 (1879) (Maros ; " (J "

ex err.).
Hypm vitessoides, id., I.e. XXXI. p. 140 (1888).
Hypsa monycha, Hampson, Moths i>f bid. I. p. 499. n. 1137 (1892) {suh si/n.}.

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The description of albivena by Walker refers iinraistukably to the same insect
which SueHen described again and figured in 1879 {I.e.). Snellen's figure, which is
stated to be taken from a VKtlc, represents most certainly Vi female, judging from the
form of the forewing and the .apparent absence of a costal retinaculum.

A. nlhivena is very closely allied to .1. heliconin, and has by several authors been
considered i<lentical with certain forms of /(<'//ec>/HV(, such as heliconio ghorn fmm the
Kei Islands (Pagenstecher, Rbber) and heliconia intacta from Java (Hampson), and
the differences in colour are certainly not such that they alone would justify a specific
sej>aration of nlbircmi from hrlkoniii. However, as alhiterm differs in the form of the
mule clasper and harpe from all races of Iieliconia, and as further those /if/iconia-forma
which occur together, like intacta f. intacta and f. lara, and heliconia f. Iidiconia and
f. lanceolata, are identical in those organs, we do not see that there is much justifi-
cation to treat nlbivena as a Celebensian form of heliconia beside lanceolata, which
is also a Cclcbensian insect. The various subspecies of heliconia differ slightly from
one anotlier in the male copnlatory organs ; albivena stands decidedly ontside the
range of variation as exhibited by the insects treated in this jiaper as forms of
heliconia ; the harpe is much broader and flatter at the apex, much less cnrved
upwards, and the ventral edge of the clasjier is less arched. Our three viales from
B. Celebes agree with one another in colonr very closely; while, however, in two
of them there are, on the underside of the forewing, two small white spots behind
the apex of the cell between veins 2 and 4, the third specimen has, besides, a white
streak along the basal partition of the median uervure and a white patch in tlie uj>ex
of the cell. The sitecimen from Palos Bay has no white markings on the underside
of the forewiug (a northern subspecies ?).

Ilab. Celebes : S. Celebes (W. Doherty, August and September 1891), 3 i;
Tawaya, Palos Bay (W. Doherty, August and September 189G), 1 J. K. J.

29. Asota heliconia.

If one looks at the synonymy (as given below) of the various forms of Asota
which we unite here to one species, it will become obvious that these Aganaids
must have been a puzzle to Lepidopterists. And we confess that, before we had
dissected a good number of specimens and studied the antennae, genital armature, and
other parts of the body, we were very uncertain about several of the forms with a very
distinct ai)i)earance. However, as we have found that the differences between these
Asota forms are only such of colour and wing-form, and as further there exist speci-
mens which stand intermediate, either by combining the distinguishing characters of
two forms, or by ha\ ing the characters in question more developed than the one
form and less than the otlier, we had necessarily to come to the conclusion that the
dilYerences, though often considerable, between the various Asota forms here united
are not of specific value. It was especially the occurrence of two forms in the same
locality and at the same time of the year which led us first to the belief that there
were two instead of one species on the Sunda Islands and the Molnccas.

This kind of dimorjihism in both sexes is certainly very remarkable, and no less
misleading. Tlic dilferences between the two kinds of forms relate to the colour of
the body, size of the black abdominal and thoracic markings, shape of the white area
of the forewing, and sometimes (especially in Timor) to the shape of the forewing :
the white area of the forewing above is generally eitlicr prolonged along vein 2, or
in the other form along vein 3 ; in the latter case the area is basally narrow, often

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obsolete, mid dilated at the end of the cell into a more or less rounded patch, thus
apijearing club-shajied ; while in the former case tiie area becomes gradually broader
towards the end of the cell, and has therefore more the form of a long triangle.

Liun6 described the Amboina form in 1758 as hcUconia; this name has therefore
to stand for the species. Cramer's silraiKlra (1782) is the same form, while jiis
moirijchii (1779) is a diflerent form of the present species.

The habitat Coromandel which CIramer gives to mom/cha is certainly erroneous.
The figure agrees best in colour with the paler form of the Javan subspecies, while
in the form of the white patch on the forewings it comes also near the Indian sub-
species ; but the figure is not correct enough to enalde us to sa)' with certainty
which subspecies of heUconia it represents. The name monyclxi, therefore, is not
acceptable for any subspecies, and we have accordingly treated it as a query synonym
of that jiale aberration of the Javan A. hdiconia intacta which Colonel 8winhoe has
described as a distinct species under the name of fa/Yf, and also as a query synonym
of the Indian heUcoind clafata.

^^'alker referred the name of hdiconia to a species which Fabricius has described
as pitplios, though Linne's descriptions of keliconia in Syst. Nat. and in Mas. Lwl.
Ulr. do not agree with pa/ihox. The Walkerian erroneous identification has been
rectified by Anrivillius with his usual exactness in 1882 {Reccnsio Lep. Mies. Lad.
Ulr.); but in spite of this rectification, we find in Hampson, ^foths of India I.
p. 501, the Walkerian mistake repeated with the addition of an erroneous habitat.

K. .T.

". A. heliconia clavata.

{;) nuilariia Allani^ iiioi,;/rl,,i Cramer, P'lji. Ex. II. p. h2. t. 131. f. f (IT??) (Coromandel Inc. en: ;

Jig. main).
Pludaeiia NncUin hellcimia, E.spcr {iiec Linne, 1708), Eur. Schm. IV. 2. p. 441). n. 1i;p2. t. 139. f. 5

(178G).
Hypsa Hilciimlra, Walker {m-c Cramer), Cat. Lrp. lid. B. it. II. p. 450. n. 7 (1854) (r.r p.) ; Sloore,

Cat. Lep. JnK. Mux. E. I. C. II. p. 293. n. G73 (1859) (Penang ; nee Java).
llyjisa moHt/cha, Moore {uec Cramer), I.e. p. 294. n. G74 (1839) (Cherra Pimgi) : Swiiib., Tr. Ent. Sac.

Loud. p. 15. n. 080 (1890) (Khasia Hills); Hamps., .Uullix of Lid. I. p. 499. n. 1137(189-.') (,v-/..).
Hypm clarata Butler, Tr. Ent. Sue. Loud. p. 317. n. 10 (1875) (Hongkong ; Silhet) ; Moore, ./mini.

As. Soc. Jieiiri. p. 235. n. 32 (1884) (Cachar); Hamps., /.,-. p. 500. n. 1138 (1892) (Hongkong ;

Cachar ; Silhet) ; Swinh., I.e. p. 15. n. 087 (1895) (Ivhasia Hills).
Ilyp.sa veualha, Swinhoe, Tr. Ent. Sue. Loud. p. 180. u. 94 (1890) (Upper Tenasserim).

Sir George Hampson, Lc, says that there are in North India two closely allied
species of Asota, one which he calls monycha, Cram., and another which he records
as clavata Bntl.: the latter is said to differ from the former in the palpi having a
black lateral stripe, in the veins below the costa of the forewing being streaked with
white, and in the hindwing having two black postmedial sjiots, besides tiie spots at
the end and in the middle of the cell. Sir George is certainly right tluit tiiore
occur specimens in North India which have no " postmedial "" spots on the hindwing,
and also individuals which arc almost devoid of white nervuhir lines to the forewing,
but the specimens with those spots present arc sometimes devoid of the lines and
the individuals which have the lines marked are just as often without .the s])ots.
The difference in the palpi as given in Moths of India is incorrect ; the Indian
specimens have, like the individnals of heliconia from all the other localities, a black
dorso-lateral stripe' to the first and second joints of the palpi, and the third joint is
wholly black except some linHish scales at the iiuier side. Fu some individnals the

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black scaling of the second joint is redncpcl to an apical s]K)t, and very often tlie first
joint is almost wlioll}- black. The variation in the colour of the jiulpi is qnite inde-
pendent of the variation of the wiug-oolonr. The postmcdial spots of the hindwing
are sometimes extremely faint, sometimes there is only one spot i)resent, and the
same amount of variation is exhibited by the white nervnlar lines. Therefore it
will be evident that llaraijson's mon)/cha and chivata are the same species.

The white middle fascia of the forewing is rather constant in the Indian form;
it is a long triangle that reaches beyond the apex of the cell and is mostly sinuate
between veins 2 and 3. The submedian vein is sometimes rather more heavily
white than the other veins. The dorsal black spots of the abdomen are apparently
always rather small, and do not form transverse rings as is often the case in various
Eastern subspecies. The black marginal band of the hindwing is usually indented
posteriorly at the nervules ; sometimes the median and submedian veins are wholly
white. On the underside the black postmcdial sjiots of the hindwing are occasion-
ally joined to the Mack margin, and the white area of the forewing is sometimes,
especially in Hongkong individuals, scarcely larger than on the npperside.

Hab. Khasia Hills, 9 J, 3 ? ; Xaga Hills, IS, 1 ? ; Chittagong Hills, 1 ? :
Tenasserim; Malacca; Hongkong, 3 S. K. J.

b. A. heliconia dicta.

Uypsii dicta Butler, Tr. Eiit. Snc. Loml. p. ?,\u. n. 4 (ICiTo) (Borneo; iwc Philippines); Swinh.,
Cat. Lip. Het. 0.rf. I. p. 86. n. 385 (1892) {ex p.); Kirby, Cat. Lep. Bet. I. p. .SSa n. 14
(1892) (Borneo ; rifc Philippines).

Aganais dicta, Snellen, Tijdschr. >: Ent. XXXI. p. 143. n. 33 (1888) (Borneo : mc Philippines).

Hypsa mrmycha, Hampson, .^fulJis of Ind. I. p. 499. n. 1137 (1892) {fx p.).

Many specimens come very near Indian examples. There occur two forms
which, however, are not distinctly separated.

i'. A. heliconia dicta f dicta Butler, I.e.

This form has the forewing of a deeper blackish colour than it is in heliconia
clcmtta ; the white streak of the forewing is as narrow as in our Hongkong
specimens of clatata, and is generally convex externally between veins 2 and 3, not
sinuate : there are no, or only faint, white nervnlar lines in the basal half of the
forewing. The marginal band of the hindwing varies in breadth as in chitata ; on
the npperside it is not indented at the veins, but very often sinuate between the
veins, the black colour in that case being extended a little way along the nervules ;
the jiostmedial black spots are very seldom marked, and the sjjot at the ajjcx of the
cell is often, but by no means always, absent from the npperside. On the underside
the basal portion of the discal streak of the forewing is uio.stly obsolete in the i.

In a <? specimen from the Kiua Bain, N. Borneo, the prothorax is devoid of
the two black sjiots which are present in all our other Bornean individuals, and the
npperside of the mesothorax is more clay-colonr than in ordinary specimens : more-
over, the white streak on the forewing is, on the underside, as much enlarged as it
is in most females. A/emale from the same mountain, in Ur. 8taudinger's collection,
resembles so closely the Javan A. heliconia intacta f. intacta that we at first thought
of an error of locality ; it has the same peculiar fawn-colour as intacta f. intacta ; the
discal streak of the forewing consists, as it ol'ten does in the male of the aforesaid
Javan form, of a line behind the cell and an oval sjmt between veins 2 and 3 ; both
markings are absent, or almost so, from all the Javimjonalcs before us. K. rl.

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Ir. A. heliconia dicta f. extensa forma nov.

This form is apparently much rarer tliau f. dirtu. As tijiie we take a specimen
in Dr. Statidinger's collection (from the Kina Balu, 1200 — 1500 m., Waterstradt
1892) which lias the following characters : It is similar to sucli Indian individnals
oi clacatn which liave the streak of the forowing wide and the marginal band to the
hindwing narrow. The white streak occupies on the npperside the posterior half of
the cell, reaches at vein 4 about 2 mm. beyond the apex of the cell, and extends
along vein 2 for 0 mm., having at the apex, which is bisinnate, a width of nearly
6 mm. The border of the hindwing is from vein 6 to the anal angle very narrow,
measuring at that vein 2^ mm. and at vein 4 scarcely more than 1 mm. ; at veins 4
and 5 it is indented. The subcostal and submedian nervures are whitish in the basal
half of the forewing.

In a male from Sarawak iu the Tring Museum the streak of the forewing is
slightly narrower, less obviously bisinnate, than in the before-described ? , and the
border of the hindwing is of nearly the same width as iu dicta f. dicta. In neither
the ? nor the S here mentioned is the abdominal region of the hindwing below
suffused with blackish scales.

ILib. Borneo : N.E. and N.W. Borneo, 8 (?, 1 ?. W. R.

c. A. heliconia nicobarica.

Hyjisa nicnharica Swinhoe, Cat. Lep. Het. Oxf. I. p. 87. n. 387 (1892) (Great Nicobars).

Differs from A. heliconia dicta f. dicta in the two outer black dots of the basal
yellow area of the forewing being merged together, thus forming a black border to
the yellow area.

A specimen in Dr. Staudinger's collection has the veins in the basal half of the
wing faintly striped white, and there is a white angle-shaped spot behind the median
nervure outside the transverse black snbbasal line. The pro- and mesothorax have
black spots.

Ilab. Nicobar Islands, 1 cJ. K. J.

d. A. heliconia enganensis subsp. nov.

S. Resembles A. heliconia dicta f. dicta from N. Borneo ; but the basal half of
the costa is deeper black, the three basal black dots at the costa scarcely visible :
the outer one of the two black dots behind the median nervule not angle-shaped, and
not encircled with white. The forewing has no wliite nervular lines ; the white
longitudinal streak is club-shaped as in dicta, and between veins 2 and 3 sinuate as
in clavata. Border of hindwnng above as broad as in dicta, extended a short distance
along the abdominal margin, with a faint blackish longitudinal line in tlie middle
extending straight from the base across the black cellular spot to the marginal band ;
the band a little dilated at the nervules. On the underside the basal portion of the
longitudinal mark of the forewing is obsolete ; hindwing with a broad black border
all round. Body bright orange above; abdominal black sjiots as in clavata ; anterior
pair of legs blackish. Our series of cf cf varies as follows: In one specimen the
white streak of the forowing is convex between veins 2 and 3 as in dicta, the longi-
tudinal median line of the hindwing above is much more heavily marked, and the
underside of the hindwing is for the greater part black, there remaining only a long

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triangle between the sninneilian fold jukI v(>in 5, and au ovate patch lieyond the apex
of the cell, white. In another individual, which otherwise resembles the before-
mentioned one, the two black dots behind the median nervnre of the forewing are
connected with one another.

?. Hindwing without a distinct longitudinal black median line. The white
area of the underside of the forewing is not much larger than it is above, but
gradually shades into the grey colour of the abdomiaal region of the wing. Hind-
wing below with a streak at the base and spot at the apex of the cell, and a border
all round blackish ; the border at the alidominal margin is rather pale; the white
discal area penetrates into the cellule formed by veins (! and T.

In some individuals (? ?) the costa of the forewing is less Idack at the base
than in the males, and the hindwing has no trace of black median line.

Uab. Engano Island, September 1891 (W. Doherty), ii 6 , A ?. W. H.

e. A. heliconia natuiiensis subsp. nov.

i. Head, thorax, abdomen, and base of forewing as in cluvnUi, \mi the black
dots on the thorax much smaller. White median streak of forewing above reduced
to a minute linear mark at the lower angle of the cell ; hindwing with the black
border as in dicta, dilated at the anal angle, disc with a blat:k spot at the end of the
cell. Below, the forewing has a white triangular patch in and behind the outer half
of the cell: the hindwing is black with a white patch outside the ujipcr angle of the
cell, a long triangle, which reaches the base beyond the black median line, and a
line between veins la and \b, white. In one individual the white patch on the
forewing below is very small.

?. Similar to the c?, but the forewing above witli the wliite sjiot somewhat
larger, measuring 1| mm. in length, the veins streaked with white ex('e])t in the
outer region ; black border of hindwing indented at the veins ; below, the white
colour much more extended than in the <?, especially on the hindwing.

[lah. Bunguran, Natuna Islands (A. Everett, September and October 1894),
4 <?, 1 ?.

Nearest to perimele Weymer, but easily distiuguisiied by the more extended
white underside of the wings. W. R.

./. A. heliconia perimele.

Uypm (ZuwOT, Snellen (««• Fabrieius, 1775). Tijdsihi: r. Enl., Versh, XXVII. p. 82. n. 9 (1884)

(Nias) ; id., Iris VII. p. 1.^9. n. 112 (1895) (Deli, Sumatra).
Ihjpsa 2>erimele Weymer, Sutt. Enl. Zril. p. 275. t. 2. f. 3 (1885) (Nias) : Swinh., Cat. Up. Ilel.

Ox/. I. p. 88. n. .-589 (1892).
Agatiah sih'tttifhfi, Snellen, MiihJni-Suninirn p. 3.3. u. 1 (1892) (.Soepajang, Boea).

The white median streak of tlie forewing is in the S entirely obliterated; in
the ? it is indicated on the underside by some whitish scales between veins 'Z and 3.
The underside of the hindwing is often all black except a white streak behind the
cell : in the ? the white colour is more extended tliau in tiie i. In not one of our
eleven specimens from Nias and Sumatra are the black dorsal dots of the abdomen
dilated to black rings ; the lilack s])ot at tlie cnil of tlie ceil of the liiiidwing is well
marked above.

ll'ih. Nias, 1 J, 2 ? ; Sumatra, T cj, 1 ?. K. .1.

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//. A. heliconia intacta.

ffi/psa int^i.rla'W-i\keT, Cal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. II. p. 4.")1. n. HI (1854) (Java) ; P.utl., Tr. Ent. Sue.

Loud. p. 315. n. 2 (1875) (Java).
Bypsa sUriniflm, Moore, Cat. Lep. Iiix. .^^lls. E. I. C. II. p. 203. n. Ij73 (1859) (Java ; na:

Penang) ; Butl., Tr. But. Svc. Loml p. 315. n. 1 (1875) (Java).
Hypsu mtimjcho, Piepers & Snellen, Tijdschr. v. Rnt. XX. p. 5. n. 20 (1877) (Batavia ; very

common ; larva a ml pupa desrrihe/l).
Aganah inUicta, Snellen, Tijihchr. r. Ent. XXXI. p. 1.S8. n. 25. t. 2. f. .3. 4. Aa (1888) (Java).
Hypm (lama, id., I.e. XXXIII. p. .308. n. 80 (1890) (Billiton).

Mr. Snellen, I.e., figures the two forms of t lie present subspecies, wlii<'li are now
known as intacta AValk. and lara Swinh.

.'/'. A. heliconia intacta f. intacta.

This is the darker form. Head and thorax are almost of the same colonr as
the forewing ; the base of the latter is not distinctly yellow ; the abdomen is
nsnally of a yellowish cream-colonr, sometimes more whitish, and is in the greater
percentage of specimens banded with black. The white median streak of the
forewing either totally absent from the npperside, or more or less indistinctly
marked ; on the underside the streak is often also absent from the male ; in the
female sex, which has the median streak seldom visibly develoijed on the npper-
side, the underside of the forewing is mostly much more extended white than in
the male : in one female there is a white line behind the costa at the base of the
forewing below. The black dot at the end of the cell of the hindwing is sometimes
well marked on both sides in cf and ? .

f. A. heliconia intacta I', lara.

Uypm lara Swinboe, Ann. Uaij. IV. II. (G). XII. p. 215 (1803) (Java).

The abdomen is in this form more whitish than in the former; it is cither
ringed with black as in f. intacta, or has a median row of black dots. The forewing
bears in both sexes a long white triangle above, the lower external angle of which
stands either between veins 2 and 3 or on vein 2. The border to the hindwing is
posteriorly narrower than in f. intacta; there is as a rule no trace of black cellular
dots on the upperside, and sometimes these spots are also absent from the underside.
The forewing is below in both sexes more white than in f. intacta, in fact in the cf
of f. lara more white than in the ? of f. intacta.

llab. Both forms, f. intacta and f. lara, occur in the same locality at the same
time of the year all over Java up to 4U00 feet, also on Bali ; 15 cJ, 15 ? . K. J.

/'. A. heliconia murina subsji. no v.
Two forms, of which the second one is apparently very rare.

/''. A. heliconia murina f. murina.

This form has the same peculiar dull colour which we observe in the Javau
A. heliconia intacta f. intacta, \mH\\(i head and abdomeu arc brighter yellow, the
black spots on the j)atagia are generally larger, and the black bonier of the hindwing
is mostlv more or less extended along the iilnloniiual niargi". Tin' medi:ni white

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mark of the forewing consists in the type of a line behind the median nervure, a spot
between veins 2 and 3, and an indistinct spot in the apex of the cell.

cJ. There are 25 ituiles in the Tring Mnsenm. The forewing is in one example
without white mark on the upperside, iu another individual there are some white
scales between veins 2 and 3, in most others the mark resembles tluit of the ti/pe-
specimeu (see above), and iu a few specimens there are white scales in the cell along
the median nervnre. In every case the white mark is ill-defined. The veins of the
forewing are usually without white scaling, except at the very base, but in some
examples there are distinct white nervular lines iu the basal half of the wing. The
basal area is as a rule a little more yellow than in intacta. The black spot at the
end of the cell of the hindwing is, on the upperside, often well marked (as in type-
specimen), sometimes absent; the black border is beyond vein \b dilated, and very
ofteu extended along the abdominal margin to the base ; the discal Mack s]iot is
sometimes couuected with the border of tlie wing by means of a longitudinal streak.
On the underside the longitudinal white mark of the forewing is seldom smaller
than above, the basal portion especially being sometimes obliterated ; in the
specimens in which the mark is very small above or absent it is larger below, as
it is in nearly all the other examples. The hindwing is below more suffused witli
blackish scales than it is on the upperside.

The mesothorax has usually a more yellow tint than the base of the forewing;
but in a few individuals it is as dull brown as the wing, while in one specimen head,
thorax, abdomen, and base of forewing are bright orange as in clavata. The abdomen
is mostly brighter yellow than the thorax : in one example it is of the same pale buff
colour as iu intacta f. intacta; the dorsal black dots of segments 4, .5, 6, and 7 have
mostly developed (as in the <y/)«-specimen) to transverse bands, and the segments
2 and 3 are dorsally suffused with blackish brown scales, excejit iu a small number
of individuals; the before-mentioned s])ecimen with bright orange body has the
abdomen spotted like clavata.

? . Resembles generally the male, but the wings below are mostly more extended
white; forewing above in Lorabok specimens often without white streak ; the black
rings of the abdomen are laterally sometimes dilated into spots, a character which
is constantly present in several more Eastern subspecies oihcliconia. Body and base
of forewing iu one ? bright orange.

It-. A. heliconia murina f diluta forma nov.

¥. Corresponding to .4. /(c/iVo/iift intacta f. /«r«, from wliich it differs iu the
abdomen being of the same colour as in intacta f. intacta. White j)atch of forewing
prolonged along vein 2; black border to hindwing rather deeply and broadly in<l('ut(>d
at vein 2; abdomen with a dorsal row of rather small black spots.

llah. A. Iifl. mtirinu f. murina: Sambawa {type tS) (W. Doherty), lo J, lu ¥ ;
Lombok (II. Fruhstorfer, April to June li<\)~ ; W. Doherty, .June 1897; A. Everett
May to July 1897), a long series of both sexes ; Flores (A. Everett, October to
December 1897), 4 cJ, 3 ? ; Pura (W. Doherty, October 1891), 2 c?; Alor (W.
Doherty, October 1891 ; A.Everett, March and A])ril 1S97), 8 J, (! ? ; Adonaru
(W. Doherty, November 1891), 4 J, 1 ?. A. hel. murina f. diliitu: Lombok (H.
Fruhstorfer, 8apit, 2000 feet, April 1890), 1 ?

The si>ecimens from Alor are partly scarcely distinguishable from the Timorese
subspecies. W. 1\.

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i. A. heliconia timorana subsp. nov.
Oil the island of Timor the representative q'l A. heliconia is agiiiu ilimor|ihie.

«'. A. heliconia timorana f. timorana.

Differs from murina f. murina, which it resembles very closely, ia the head
and tliorax being nearly of the brown colour of the forewing ; the yellow colour
at the base of the forewing oi murina from Sambawa is here replaced by tawny
olive. The white median streak of the forewing is much reduced; in the ti/pe-
sjieciiucn there is only a spot between veins 2 and 3 and another in the apex of
the cell, the basal portion of the streak being absent: in another specimen there
is a spot between veins 2 and 3, and a line behind the median nervure. In the ?
the streak is altogether absent. The abdomen is duller yellow than in Sambawa
specimens of tn/iri/m.

r. A. heliconia timorana f brevipennis forma nov.

In both sexes the forewing is above somewhat darker than in intacfa ; the
3'ellow colour has almost entirely disappeared from the base ; the basal half is more
or less visibly streaked with a number of white lines on and between the veins ;
the median white area is reduced to a conspicnans white dot at the lower angle of
the cell. The bla(dc border of the hindwing is more sharply defined than in itinrina,
but of the same width as in that subspecies; it is not jirolonged along the abdominal
margin, but is in one individual dilated near the anal angle. On the imdersidc the
white colour of the forewing is as much extended as in Intacta f. lam, occupying
part of the apex of the cell, the base of the cellule between veins 2 and 3, and the
greater half of the space between the median vein and the abdominal margin: the
white area is larger iu the ? than in the d. The disc of the hindwing is pure
white; the black spots in the cell are small, the external border is indented at the
veins, and there are black scales along vein \b iu most individuals. The head and
thorax are nearly as dark as the forewing, while the abdomen is above orange witli
black rings. In one male the thorax and base of the forewing are more yellow
than in the other specimens. In another male the white spot at the ajiex of the
cell of the forewing above is absent. The black spot at the end of the cell of the
hindwing is either absent from the ujjperside {t;/pe.), or slightly marked.

One of our specimens differs from the normal ? of hrevijioinis iu having on the
forewing above, besides a white dot at the lower angle of the apex of the cell, a long
narrow white triangle extending from near the base along the median nervure
and vein 2 to near the outer margin, touching with its anterior angle the before-
mentioned spot.

Ilab. Timor : Dili, Portuguese Timor (W. Doherty, May 1S92), Oiuaiuisa,
Dutch Timor (W. Doherty, November and December 1891), 11 d", 5 ? ; both forms
occur together. W. I{.

k. A. heliconia kalaonica subsp. nov.

We have four females of this subspecies ; no males. The (yyve-specimen
resembles the ? of murina f. murina in the size of the median white streak on the
forewing ; it differs both from murina f. murina and intacta f. intacta in the following
characters: the base of the forewing is not yellow; the black basal dots are of nearly

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the same colour as the rest of the wing, and hence very iuconspicnous : tlicre are
a white angle and a wliit<! dot at the Imse behind the median nervnre, which are
very prominent ; the black border of the liindwing is as broad as in murina, and
prolonged along the abdominal margin. On the underside the white area of the
forewing resembles that of intacta f. intada in width ; the fold which corresponds
to vein \c is black ; on the hindwiug the black spots in the cell are miinite, the
basal one is absent ; the black border is dilated at some of the veins. Thorax
nearly as in intacta f. intucta, abdomen more yellow. The three other specimens
are faded ; the white streak is absent from the forewing above, but the specimens
agree otherwise well with fhe ti/pc individn.al ; in one of them the abdominal region
of the hindwing is not blackish on eitlier side, and the thorax is more yellow than
in tiie ti/j,,'; iu another the black dots of the cell of the liiiulwing are entirely
obliterated.

Hab. Kalao Island, south of Celebes (A. Everett, December 1895), 4 ?.

W. 1!.

L A. heliconia riukiuana sabsp. nov.

Agrees with A. heliconia philippina f. philippina, but has the thorax much
brighter orange, and iu most specimens the white markings at the base of the fore-
wing larger ; the submedian vein is in only one of our individuals white iu the
basal lialf, in all the otlier sj)ecimens the veins arc not streaked white. The median
white streak is shaped as in f. philippina : it is always produced along vein 3.
The hindwing is as in f. philippina, but the black spot at the end of the cell
is more often marked on the upperside. The black dorsal spots have very often
developed to half-riugs, as iu bjiie.

\\'e know only of one form of this subspecies.

Hab. Riu Kin Islands (= Loo Choo Islands), 10 J, H) ? . W. R.

m. A. heliconia zebrina.

Hypm zehrina Butler, P. Z. S. p. 815. (1877) (Formosa) ; Kirljy, tV^ Lij,. lief. I. p. 388. u. 8

(1892) (Fonnosa).
Hypsa nvmi/dui, Hampson, .\liith/i nf Imlia I. p. 19'.). u. 1137 (1892) (Pro p.).

]\Ionomor])liic. The thorax is almost as brown as the forewing. The narrow
portion of the median white streak of the forewing is dusted over with brown scales,
and hence less white than in the preceding subspecies. Tlie hindwing is nearly
as in A. heliconia riuhiuana, A. heliconia philippina f. philippina, and ilicta f dicta,
but the base is slightly tinted with black. The abdomen is ringed black above,
and more ochraceous than the thorax ; the legs are streaked black.

llah. Formosa : Keelung, July 1896 (Jouas %.), 1 J, 2 ?. K. J.

n. A. heliconia philippina subsji. nov.

Htjpm dicta Uutler, Tr. Enl. Hm-. Luml. p. 1876. n. .> (1876) {cz p. ; Philipp., nee Borneo) : Swinh.,

OU. Up. Ihi. Oxf. I. p. 8G. n. 385 (1892) {ex p.).
Agaimh dirla, Snellen, Tijihcln: v. Enl. XXXI. p. 143. n. 33 (1888) (Philippines, iiec Borneo).
Bypm damn, Pagen»techer (tiec Fabricius, 1775), Irix III. p. 11. n. 25 (1890) (Palawan).
Ht/pm htUiclii, Pagenetecher, I.e. p. U. n. 24 (1890) (Palawan).

The Philippine subspecies is obviously dimorphic ; the first (darker) forni
resembles that from the Loo Choo Islands very mucli, while the other (lighter)
form comes close to 'Hcta f. extensa from 13onieo.

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?/'. A. heliconia philippina I', philippiua.

The bcasnl area of the forewing has only a trace of yellow at the very base, the
yellow colour being replaced by white ; in this respect f. pliilijipina agrees with the
forms from Formosa, the Loo (Uioo Islands, Celebes, tlie Moluccas, and the islands
farther east, and disagrees with dicta from Borneo, clacata from India, and other
western subspecies. The white streak on the forewing is shaped as in dicta f. dicta,
but obviously produced along vein 3. The veins are not white, except the basal half
of the snbmedian nervnre. The hindwing is as in dicta f. dict<i: liut the postmedial
black spots are apparently always absent. The thorax is slightly chirker than in
f. dicta, but much brighter than in zehrina; the abdomen as in f. dict((. In our
three specimens from Bongao, Sulu Islands, the white streak on the forewing is less
produced along vein 2 than iu the specimens from Palawan, Luzon, and Mindoro.

W-. A. heliconia philippina f. nervosa forma nov.

Very near (. exfensa from Borneo, with the base yellow as iu that form; the
wide streak of the forewing is, however, produced along vein 2, and all the veins
are more extended white, the white nervular lines reaching in the ? close to the
outer margin; the black border to the hindwing is as broad as in f. ■philippiiia
and verj- rarely indented, more often (in $, tijpe) dentate. The prothoracic lobes
are mostly devoid of black spots. On the itiidersidc the outer edge of the white area
on the forewing is in the female almost straight ; the costal margin is more or less
scaled white at the base ; the hindwing has in the male (ti/pe) traces of the two
black postmedial spots of clavata. This form perhaps does not occur in the
Philippines proper.

Hah. Form philippina: Palawan {tape), Luzon, Mindoro (in coll. Standinger),
Bongao (Sulu Is.), 12 (j, 4 ¥ ; Jolo (in coll. iStaudinger). Form nervosa : Palawan,
3 (^, 2 ? ; Balabac (in coll. Staudinger). W. R.

0. A. heliconia sangirensis subsj). nov.

Very close to A. heliconia heliconia f. lanceolata, but differs in the veins in the
costal region of the forewing being white, the snbmedian veiu being more heavily
streaked with white than it is in any of our lanceolata specimens, and the thorax
being brighter ochraceous, with the patagia i)rovided with a rounded black dot. The
abdomen is in the ? {t'Jpe) black, with very narrow yellow rings ; iu the 6 the
yellow colour of the posterior half of the abdomen is more extended than the black
colour.

Ilab. Sangir Is. (W. Doherty), 1 ? . A male in Dr. Staudinger's collection.

W. K.

p. A. heliconia heliconia.

The two forms which we unite here to one subspecies are still more ditl'erent-
looking insects than the Javanese A. heliconia intacta f. intacta and f. lara, and
there is no difficulty in distinguishing every individual of the one form from every
specimen of the other ; moreover, one of the two forms, namely f. heliconia, is
apparently confined to Amboina and Ceram (and jierliaps some other island of the
Southern Moluccas), while the second form, f. kuweoluta, is found on the Southern

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Moluccas, Mangiola, and Celebes; hence f. heliconia is mndi more restricted iu
distrilmtion than lanceolata, a phenomeuou which, tliough very remarkable, is not
so rare amongst Lejndoptera; f. hclironia is a localised form of a dimorjiliic sub-
species, and therefore termed "f loc." (see Nov. Zool. 1895, p. 189, and 1896,
p. 457).

The abdomen has a more or less complete row of black dots at the spiracles,
besides the dots of the ventral ])lates of the segments.

//. A. heliconia heliconia f. loc. heliconia.

Phalania Xoctim heliconia Linnaeus, 6'i/s<. Nal. ed. X. p. 511. u. 82 (17.08); id., Mu.^. Lud. Ulr.

p. 366. n. 184(1764).
Phalacrui Dombyx eilvamlra Stoll, iu Cram., Paji, Ex. IV. p. 155. t. 369. f. ii (1782) ('' Coromandel "

loc. err.).
Hypsa silmndra, Hiibner, Vais. belc. Sclimetl. p. 172. n. 1778 (1822) ; Snell., Tijdschr. v. Ent.

XXXI. p. 141. n. 31 (1888); Kirby, Cat. Ltp. Het. I. p. 388. n. 1 (1892) (" Coromandel "

loc. err.).
Jhjpsa hdicmiia, Hiibner, l.c. p. 172. n. 1778 (1822) (C/7. Esp. excl.) : Auriv., A". Sv. Vet. Akad.

nandb. 19. 5. p. 158. n. 203. t. 1. f. 6 (1882) (Si/ii. ex jyarle) ; Batl, Ann. Mog. .V. ff. (5). XIII.

p. 200. n. GO (1884) (Amboina) ; Swinh., Cat. Up. Het. Oxf. I. p. 88. n. 392 (1892) {S>jn.

ex p. ; Ceram, Milete) ; Kirby, l.c. p. 388. n. 9 (1892) {Syn. ex p. : " N. India " lor. en:).
Hypsa dorijai, Butler, Tr. Ent. Soe. Lund. p. 31C. n. 4 (1875) (Ceram).
Agannis silmndra, Pagcustecher, Jahrb. Na.ss. I'cr. Xat. p. 69 (1884) (Amboina ; syii. ex^).).
Aginuiis heliconia, id., l.c. p. 114. n. 253 (1888) (Amboina).

Hypsa (Aganais) heliconia, Snellen, Tijdschr. i: Ent. XXXI. p. 144. n. 35 (1888) (Syn. ex />.).
Hypsa monycha, Pagenstecher, in Semon, Forsclmngsreisen V. p. 114. n. 31 (1895) (Amboina;

si/». excl.).

Linnfi's description of heliconia, in Miis. Lud. Ulr. at least, the figure which
Anrivillins gives (I.e.) of a Liuneaa specimen preserved in the collection of the
Queen Ludovica Ulrica, and StolFs figure of sikandia, agree very well >vith the
present form ; the absence of a distinct yellow area at the base of the forewiug
above, the very broad border to the hiudwing, of which the dlscal edge is straight,
and the black abdominal margin of the hindwing are an association of characters
with which we meet only in the present Moluccau insect, and in the forms from
the Solomon Islands and the Bismarck Arclii{)elago, whence Liune and Cramer
certainly did not have any specimens. The variability of this form is not inconsider-
able. The black .dots on the thorax are sometimes very large, those on the patagia
occupying nearly the whole patagia; the abdomen has usually a dorsal row of spots;
in one of our imlividuals the sjiots are enlarged, forming broad black rings. The
yellow basal urea of the forewing is eitiier absent, or reduceil to a short streak upon
the submedian nervure ; the black basal dots behind the median vein are sometimes
merged together to a small black patch, which is mostly conspicuously bordered
with a white. The median white streak of the forewing is nearly always club-
shaped, seldom more or less linear. The amount of black on the hindwing varies
considerably; sometimes the black outer border is not broader than in dicta and
distinctly concave in the middle, while in other individuals the border occupies
nearly the outer half of the wing, is straight at its discal side, somewhat dilated at
the nervules, and sends out to the base a black streak in the midille and another
beyond the cell. The imderside is iu the c? sometimes as extended black as in
perimele from Nias.

I'

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A. helicouia helicouia t'. lauceolata.

lhjlK.li hincfiihiln Walker, Cut. Lq,. llf-l. li. M. VII. p. 1675 (1856) (Celebes or Miadanao) ; Butl.,
Ti: Ent. H<„: Lund. p. :il6. n. U (1875) (Celebes) ; id., Aim. Mag. N. H. (."i). XIII. p. 2llO. u. CI
(1884) (Amboiua) ; Kirby, Cal. Ltp. Url. I. p. 33;i. n. 15 (1802) (Celebes ; " Aru " Uk. err.) ;
Swinh., Cat. Lcj). Ilet. 0.r/. I. p. 87. n. 38i5 (1892) (Celebes or Mindanao, iif/ic ; Celebes ;
Ceram; Sula).

//i/jKu (lortjca, Walker, I.e. XXXI. p. 212 (1HG4).

Aganais moiiycliu, Snellen, Tijdschr. c. Enl. XXII. p. 7'J. u. 39 (1879) (Celebes).

.^li/««n« ?o«cco/«i((, Pagenstecher, /»/(?-6. Nass. Vcr. Nat.\>. 115. n. 257 (1888) (Amboina); Suell.,
I.e. XXXI. p. 141. n. 32. t. 2. f. 5 (1888) (Celebes).

Differs coustautly from f. loc. helicoidu in the base of the forewing Ijeiug
mai-ked beliiiul the median uorvure with a wliite spot and a white angle ontside the
spot. The wings above are generally deej)er black than in i.loc. /ic/ico/iia: the large
white median streak is triaugnlar, its outer edge somewhat indented at vein 3; its
lower outer angle stands upon vein 2 or a little before it; at the base the external white
(angle-shajied) spot is often merged together with the streak. In one Amboina t?
the streak is club-shajied, being narrower and shorter than in ordinary specimens of
f. la/weokita, and externally rounded; it is not prolonged along vein 3 as in f. loc.
heliconia. The black border to the hind wing varies as iu f. loc. heUconia; in the
? the abdominal margin is usually much less extended black than in the S . The
black markings of the thorax and abdomen have much increased in size: the thorax
is often all black excejJt the narrower yellow border of the prothoracic and meso-
thoracic lobes and the mctathorax. In most individuals the black abdominal rings
join the lateral spots of the dorsal plates of the segments, but in a good many
individuals tlie rings do not reach so far down, and in one example, iu which the
thoracic black si)ots are also rather smaller, there is a series of dorsal black dots
instead of rings.

Ilab. of f. loc. helicouid, : Amboina (W. Doherty, February Wd'Z), U c?, 0 ¥ ;
Ceram, 2 cJ, 2 ? ; Burn. Off. lanceolata : Amboina (W. Doherty, February 1892),
e (?, 3 ? ; Ceram, 1 ? : Mangiola, 1 ? ; S. Celebes: Maros district (W. Doherty,
August and September 1S91); Bonthain, 20U0 feet (A. Everett, October 18115);
Macassar (A. Everett, September 1895); Samanga (H. Fruhstorfer, November 1895);
N. Celebes: Toli-Toli (H. Fruhstorfer, November and December 1895); Dongala,
Palos Bay (W. Doherty, Angust and September 1896), 18 cJ, 12 ?.

There is a c? from Burn iu Dr. Stiiudinger's collection which has the thorax
and abdomen as extended black as the average specimen of f. lanceolata, while the
median streak of the forewing is shaped as in f. heUconia. The specimen differs
from both forms in the base of the forewing being black with some yellow scales
close to the thorax and a white angle-shaped spot behind the median vein, and
represents perhaps a separate subspecies. K. J.

'/. A. helicouia malisa.

Ayauais lancculata var., Snellen, Tijdschr. v. Ent. XXXI. p. 143. sub n. 32 (1888) (Morotai,

Halmahera).
Uypsa malim Swinhoe, Cat. Lip. lid. Oxf. I. p. 87. u. 388 (1892) (N. Halmahera, Ternate).

The light spots at the base of the forewing are often almost entirely absent.
The submedian vein is broadly streaked white iu all our specimens, while Snellen
says that such a line is present only in two of his four specimens {l.c.) ; the other
veins are not white. The median white streak stands intermediate in shape between

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that of /leliconia f. loc. heticonia and heliconia f. lanceolatn; it is nsimlly produced
along vein 3 as in f. loc. heliconia, f. jjhilippina, etc., but sometimes tlie point which
is farthest from the base lies between veins 2 and 3 (as in f. dictd), while in no speci-
men does this point lie upon vein 2 (as it does in f. lanceolata). In the 7nale the
abdoniinul margin of the liindwiug is sometimes as broadly black as in <lor>ica; the
outer liluck border is dentate at vein 2, but not rounded convex near this vein as in
most other subspecies.

The mesothorax is mostly black in tlie middle. The black spots on the patagia
occupy in one individual nearly half the lobes. The dorsal plates of the abdominal
segments are ringed black; the black rings are often liroader than the yellow ones.
In one of our Batjan specimens (?) there is a white scaling behind the subcostal
vein of the forewing above, which is condensed to a patch behind the areole.

Ilab. Morotai (Bernstein, ex coll. Felder), 2 ? ; Halmahera (W. Doherty, A^ugnst
1892), Ic?; Ternate (W. Doherty, May 1892), 2 cJ, 3 ? ; Batjan (W. Doherty, March
1892), 2 c?, 3 ?. K.J.

r. A. heliconia bandana snbsj). nov.

Thorax and abdomen much jialer yellow than in tlie allied subspecies. The
veins of the forewing streaked white as in gliiira: the white lines are, however,
somewhat shorter externally; the white median streak is shaped as in don/cit; the
white j>atch on the underside of the forewing is also as in doryca. The hiudwing
again is as in ghara and doryca, but the black spot at the end of the cell below is
more heavily marked than it usually is in the other two subspecies. Thorax and
abdomen are sjmtted black as in i/hara and doryca; tlie dorsal s]x)ts of the abdomen
are transverse, but do not reach down to the spiracles.

Ilab. Banda Islands (W. Doherty, August 1892), 3 ?. W. R.

s. A. heliconia ghara.

Aganais vitessoidcn, Pagenstecher {ncc Snellen, 1879;, Jahrb. Xass. Ver. Nat. p. 12.S. n. 36 (188G)

(Kei).
nypm vilessoldes, Rober, Tijchchr. v. Eiit. XXXIV. p. 327 (1891) (Kei).
Hyjmt glum, Swinhoe, Cat. Ltp. Het. Ox/. I. p. 89. n. 395. t. 3. f. 1 (1892) (Kei).
Agtinuis viksmkltii var., Snellen, Tijdschr. r. Ent. XXXVIU. p. 183(1890) (Kei).

The white nervular lines of the forewing are always well marked, bnt some-
times they are obliterated near the enter margin; in many specimens the disco-
cellular veinlcts have, as in Swinhoe's figure, more white than the other veins; the
white increases at the lower angle of the cell gradually in onr series, and forms often
a rather large rounded patch 4 mm. in width; in one of on^ female. $ this patch
extends along the median nervure to near the base as in doryca from New Guinea
and Arn. The forewing is on the underside often uniform in colour in the cJ, but
has sometimes a white mark at the lower angle of tlie cell; in iha female the white
patch is always present (diameter at least 4 mm.). The sjiot at the apex of the
cell of the hindwing is seldom marked, and then only slightly so, on the undersi<le.

Ilah. Kei Islands: Little Kei ClI. (". Webster, Jannarv to March 1890), 0 J,
9 ? . K. J.

/. A. heliconia doryca,

Aganriis doryca BoLsduval, Voyage Axirolohe, Le/>. p. '2fA. D. 4 (1832) (N. Guinea).
ffypm doryca. Walker, Oit. Lcp. Net. H. M. II. p. 459. n. 24 (1854) (N.Guinea).
(?) Hypm daiiM, Montrouzier, Eaaai Faune de Woodlark p. 132 (1857) (Woodlark).

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Hypsa llama, Butler, Tr. Enl. Soc. Loud. p. 315. n. .3 (187.5) (Aru ; iiec Rockingham Bay) ; id ,

Ann. Mag. N. H. (5). XI. p. 42;5 (1883) (Aru) ; Swinh., Cat. Lc^i. Jht. 0.r/. I. p. 86. n. 382

(1892) (cry;.).
Ili/pua lanceolata, Kirsch, .\fiUh. Miis. Drrsihn I. p. 132. n. l.")4(1877) (Ansus) ; Pagenst., in Suinoii,

Fm-si-hunysmscu V. p. 114. n. 32 (189.5) (N. Guinea).
Hyit^ki (!) siUandrii, Druce, P. Z. 8. p. (542 (1878) (N. Guinea).
Aijaiiais hfucoiieura, Ribbe, Ii-in I. p. 87 (1885) (Aru); Pagenst., Jahrh. X-isx. 15 c. .V(/(. p. 12:'). n. .37

(188G) (Aru).

The forewing in deeper bliiek t)mii in the preceding sulispecies; tlie veins are
mneh Jess white, though in some individuals the white lines reach close to the outer
margin of the wing. In all our specimens from Xew Guinea and Aru there is a
rounded white patch at the lower angle of the cell, mostly prolonged along vein 3;
the median vein is obviously marked white in nearly all the specimens, except in one
from Aru (J) and another from German New Guinea (cJ) in which the median
nervure is very thinly white. The white streak upon the median nervure is mostly
of even width, while in one example from Aru (c?) it gradually widens out towards
the white discal patch; such a specimen as the latter Kirsch must have had before
him, as he enumerates the form from Ansus (N. Guinea) as lunceolatu. Both sexes
have a rounded white patch on the underside of the forewing. The hindwing has a
black border all round. The thorax is darker above than in ghara, and decidedly
darker above and below than in ilamu (from Queensland). In many Aru specimens
the thorax is somewhat brighter orange than in New Guinea individuals. The dorsal
black spots of the abdomen are transverse ; in not one of our specimens do they reach
down to the black sjiots upon the spiracles ; the latter are much more heavily marked
iu ih.e female than in the male.

Hub. All over New Guinea, 5 $, 10 ? ; Aru Is. (H. C. Webster, April to July
1896), 8 c?, 4 ?; Fergusson 1., D'Entrecasteaux Is. (A. S. Meek, September to
November 1894), 1 c?, 3 ?. K. J.

a. A. heliconia dama.

NiKtwi, tlunia Fabricius, Si/.it. Ent. p. 596. n. 26 (1776) (N. Holland, Mus. Banks); id., Enl. Sysl.

III. 2. p. 29. n. 69 (1793); Donov., /«.s. N. Hull. t. 39. f. 1 (1805) {fitj. '>f th: Ilantsian sjiecinen).
Aganais dama, Boisduval, V'>>/(tgt' Aslrolahr, Lep. p. 250. n. 3 (1832) (Joe. err.); Snell., Tijdschr.

V. Enl. XXXI. p. 139. n. 26 (1888) (cc p.).
llypm dama. Walker, Cat. Lep. Hel. B. .M. II. p. 449. n. 6 (1854) (h,c. err.) ; But]., Tr. Ent. Sue.

Lund. p. 315. n. 3 (1875) (Rockingham Bay; «<■<■ Aru); Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. p. 768.

n. 109 (1886) (Cape York and Cooktown); Lucas, ihid. p. 1086 (1889) (Cape York to Mackay);

Swinh., Cat. Lep. lid. Ox/. I. p. 86. u. 382 (1892) (rx /).); Kirby, Cat. Lep. Ilet. I. p. 388.

n. 6 (1892) {fxp.).
Jiypsa sihrindra, Walker, I.e. II. p. 450. n. 7 (1854) (ex p.) ; id., I.e. VII. p. 1674 (1856) (" N. S.

Wales " loc. err. ?).
Jii/psa miDii/cha, Hamp.son, Mvllm of Ind. I. p. 499. n. 1137 (1892) {Prop.).

Walker (Jx.) and .Swinhoe {I.e.) record this form from New South Wales ;
Meyrick {I.e.), as well as Lucas (I.e.), knew it only from North Queensland, and the
tifly odd sj)ecimens iu the Tring Museum are all from North Queensland, mostly
Irom Mackay, Cooktown, and Cairns.

The dilference between this and the preceding subspecies is very slight, the
only obvious distinguishing character of dama being the decidedly brighter yellow
thorax. The white patch at the ajjcx of the coll of the forewing is in all our
siiecimens jirolonged along vein 3, and connected with the base by a streak upon the
median nervure ; this streak varies in breadth, being mostly linear, but often
gradually widens distally. The white lini's upon the veins are sometimes very

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prominent in the female sex, reaching in two of our ? ? to near the oiitor margin
as in the Kei Islands form. The dorsal black spots of the abdomen are always
transverse, and form in one femali; from Cairns half-riugs reaching down to the
black spots ou the spiracles.

Hab. Queensland, 40 tj, 17 ?. K. J.

.<■. A. heliconia kiriwinae snbsp. uov.

(J. Thorax and abdomen orange as in ludkoida damn. Forewing above with the
veins faintly white in basal half ; median nervure more distinctly white ; a very
small pati-li at the lower angle of the cell as in ,1. heliconia ghara from the Kei
Islands ; base of wing black, spots scarcely visible. Hindwing above black, with a
rather small white discal area beyond cell ; this area does not extend to the liase: it
is much shaded with black scales. Underside of both wings black ; hindwing with
a small triaugnlar white patch at the lower angle of the cell.

Varies considerably in the amount of white of the fore- and hindwing, but the
hindwing is in the lightest specimen less extended white than in any individual of
leuconeura and semifusca; in the white area there is beyond vein 2 a black spot,
mostly confluent with the black border of the wing ; the forewing has in one example
a white patch like semifusca.

? . Differs from A. heliconia semifusca in the white patch of the forewing being
very small, sometimes nearly absent, and in the liindwing having, above and lielow,
a black postmedian spot beyond vein 2 ; this spot is in one individual joined to the
black border of the wing.

Hah. Kiriwina, Trobriand Islands (A. S. Meek, March 1895), 6 (?, 3 ?.

This subspecies combines the characters of ^i. heliconia ghara from Kei and
x\. hdiconia semifusca from the Solomon Islands, resembling the former in the
colour of the forewing, the latter in the colour of the hindwing. \V. R.

,'/. A. heliconia leuconeura.

Eyina lauconeum Butler, P. Z. S. p. 101 (1870) (N. Ireland); Kirby, Cat. Lip. Hit. I. p. IJHK. n. 13

(1892).
Aijanah leuconeura, Snellen, Tijdsclu: v. Eiil. XXXI. p. 143. n. 34 (1888) (N. Ireland).
Hypm monycha, Hampson, Moths nf hid. I. p. 499. n. 1137 (1892) {ex p.).

Head and thorax are bright ochraceous ; the prothoracic lobes are devoid of
black spots in nearly all our sixty specimens, and the mesothoracic spots are minute.
The black spots at the base of the forewing often fuse together; the white markings
between them are not nearly so obvious as in either dorijca or dama. There is a
roundcul white patch at the apex of the cell ; this patcli is not produced along vein 3,
or very sliglitly so, and is not connected with the base by a white band. The black
border to the hindwing is generally broader tlian in the two preceding subspecies,
resembling that of vl. heliconia heliconia ; the outer border is often dentate at the
veins, and usually convex at vein 2.

Ilab. Bismarck Archipelago : New Ireland, Duke of York, New Britain ; 50 <?,
12 ?. K. J.

z. A. heliconia semifusca.

Hypm scmifmca Butler, Ann. Mag. S. II. (i). Xl.\.. p. 2Jo (1.S87).

In all our specimens from the Solomon Islands (nearly one hundred in number)
the discal white patch of t he forewing above is more or less obviously prolonged

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along vein 3 : the prothoracic lubes bear usually a black spot ; otherwise this
subspecies agrees with leuconeura. In a good many individuals of both sexes the
median vein bears a well-marked white streak. The base of the hiudwing is often
black as far as the middle of the cell, in which case the white area is reduced to a
transverse patch. The black sjiot at the end of the cell of the hindwing is, in our
series, always present on the underside, and often also on the upperside.

Hab. Solomon Is.: Guadalcanar, New Georgia, Alu, Islets near Isabel, Ugi ;
82 (?, IG ?. K. J.

30. Asota subsimilis.

Hypm mhsimiUx Walker, List Lep. IJ,-t. IS. M. XXXI. p. 21-2 (1804) (Singapore); Biitl.. '/'/■. Kid.
Soc. Loud. p. 317. n. 9 (1875) (Singapore); Moore, P. Z. S. p, 847 (1878) (Ahsown): Smnh.,
Tr. Eiit. Soc. Lond. p. 180. n. 9.3 (1890) (Tenasserim) ; Kirby, Cot. Li'i<. lUi. I. p. 389. n. 17
(1892) (Singapore); Hamp.?., Moths of Imlki I. p. 501. n. 1143 (1892) (Tenasserira, Malacca,
Singapore); Swinh., Vat. Lep. [let. .Uus. 0;rf. I. p. 91. n. 404 (1892) (Singapore).

The lateral grooves of the antennal joints in the cj are shallower than in
A. lielicouifi; the harpe is somi'what broader than in that species.

The black spots on the prothoracic lobes have sometimes nearly disappeared.

The Idack border of the hindwing is on the upperside obsolete beyond vein 2 in
two of our specimens.

Huh. Tenasserim ; Malacca, 0 cJ; Singapore. K. J.

31. Asota plaua.

The antennae agree witli those of A. ca.naraicu and allies, the joints being in
the male without lateral grooves. The harpe has been said, in Vol. III. p. 207, to
be similar to that of A. ctjnn.i and A. hcUconia ; the specimens examined when I
wrote that note belong to A. ulbiformis, not to plana ; A. al/jiformis agrees almost
exactly in colour with plana, and was not recognised by us as a distinct species until
we saw more material. In A. plana the harpe is almost forked at the tip, the ventral
process of the fork is short, the dorsal one long; plana a,nd/ukia are the only instances
in the genus Asota we know of in which the harpe deviates from the general form as
illustrated in Nov. Zool. III. t. iv. f. 12 to 22. There are some peculiarities in tlic
variation of A. plana which are worthy of note. The western forms of plana,
inhabiting Continental India, Ceylon, Formosa, the Loo Choo Islands, the Philippine
Islands, Borneo, Sumatra, and Nias, have the hindwing marked with black spots ;
in the form from Engano the spots are sometimes present, sometimes absent (excejit
that one at the end of the cell), while in tiie sHbsj)ecies ranging from Java to the
Tenimber Islands only the spot at the end of the cell is present, and this spot is here
very small ; in the Celebeusian form the sj)ot at the end of the cell is large and the
discal spots are absent, while in the Papuan Subregiou there occur two subsj)ecies
in wliich the discal spots rcajipear in the mate sex. In all the various subspecies
the black spots of the hiudwing are either more numerous in the matt: than in the
female, or somewhat larger ; the black dots at the base of the forewiug and the
thoracical black spots are also generally larger in the male than in \\\<: female, while
in tiie latter sex the white patch near the upper angle of the cell of the forewiug
above is mostly larger than in the -male. K. ,1.

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". A. plana persecta.

fjiipsn phim, Walker, Lhl Lrp. Ilrt. It. M. II. p. 1511. n. 8 (1854) (Ceylon ; >icc Java, Silhet).
Ilfipm persectu Butler. Tr. Eiil. Soc. Land. p. 317. n. 12 (ISTfi) (Ceylon ; iitf Silhet) ; Moore, Lep.

Cnjlcm II. p. 51. t. 100. f. ]. 1(1 (J.,ii.) (1883) (Ceylon) ; Snell., Tijtlschr. v. Kiit. XXXI. p. 146.

n. 38 (1888) ^Pro p.) : Swinh., Cal. Lep. Ilel. Mm. Oxf. I. p. 90. n. -102 (1892) (Pro;).);

Kirby, Cat. Lep. Uel. I. p. 389. n. 22 (1892).
Ihjpm cnmjtlaiia, Hampson, JInths of India I. p. 500. n. 1140 (1892) (Pro 2>.)-

The four costal black dots at the base of tlie forewiug are mostly separated from
one another ; the two outer ones are, however, sometimes connected with each other
by a black line situated along the costal nervnre; between spots 2 and 3 there is a
slight indication of a fifth costul dot. Tlie wliito area of tlie forewing is ratlier deeply
indented at veins 3 and 4, and the submedian fold is in most specimens more or less
obviously marked with brown scales. The white patch at the anterior angle of the
cell stands isolated from the white area: its length varies in our series from
3 to 4 mm.

The black spot in the middle of the cell of the hindwing is sometimes minute,
sometimes as large as the spot at the apex of the cell.

IJab. neylon, 3 c?, 3 ? ; S. India, Nilgiris, 1 ?. K. J.

/>. A. plana lacteata.

IJypm plinia Walker, Li^t Lep. Ihi. B. .)/. U. p. 450. n. 8 (1854) (Silhet ; mc Java, Ceylon) ;

Horsf. & Moore, Cal. Lep. Ins. Mus. E. I. C. II. p. 294. n. G75 (1859) (Darjiling ; „rr Java).
Ilypm perisecUi Butler, Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 317. n. 12 (1875) (Silhet ; wc Ceylon) ; Snell.,

Tijdschr. r. Ent XXXI. p. 14G. n. 38 (1888) (Prop.) ; Swinh., Tr. Ent. So,: Lond. p. 180.

n.92 (1890) (Burma): id.. Git. Lep. HeLMus. 0.rf. I. p. 90. n. 402 (1892) (Prop.); Kirby, Cal.

L,p. Hct. I. p. 389. n. 23 (1892) ; Swinh., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 15. n. G88 (1895) (Khasia

Hills).
Hypm laclivla Butler, Lep. Hct. B. M. V. p. 43. t. 87. f. 9 (1881) (Darjiling, Silhet).
Ili/pm complana, Hampson, Moths of India I. p. 500. n. 1140 (1892) (Pro jt.)

The upperside of the thorax and the base of the forewing are generally brighter
yellow than in the preceding subspecies; the basal black spots of the fore wings are
larger in most individuals, the two outer ones of the four costal dots are usually
merged together; the white area is less indented at veins 3 and 4; the submedian fold
has no brown scales within the white area; the white jiatch at the anterior angle of
the cell is larger, measuring in length from 4 to (i mm., and is nearly always con-
nected with the white area by means of white scales between veins 5 and 0. The
black s])ots of the iiindwing vary much in size in the various specimens: the hi'owii
bordcrof the hindwing is sometimes very narrow.

Our single specimen (cj) from Upper Tonkin lias the white area of the fore-
wing above only slightly sinuate at the submedian fold; on the underside tlie outer
edge of this area is regularly convex, with indentations at the veins.

The specimens from the Loo C'lioo Islands agree jjartly very well with Indian
examples, but in most of them the white patch at the apex of the cell is joined to
the white area of the forewing ; in one d and two ? ? the white colour of the fore-
wing above has so much increased in the costal region as to encircle the black sjjot
at the a])ex of the cell.

In cull. Staudinger there is h vi'iIa from Darjiling (ex coll. Atkinson) which
has the basal half of the forevying below snlfused with brown scales; on the hind-
wing below there is a limad brown streak extending from the central spnt ul' (he cell

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to the nppor disoal spot; the si'conil discal spot beyond vein 2 is prolonged lia.sall}',
forming a triangnlar patch ; the anal spot is also enlarged ; moreover, there are
brown scales scattered all over the npper- and underside of both wings.

Hah. Sikkim, 1 ? (ex coll. Felder); Bhutan, fi tJ, 2 ? ; Assam, 4 c?, 1 ? ;
Van-bu, Upper Tonkin, 1 <? ; Forjuosa, Keelnng f.Toniis, July 1896), 1 ? ; Loo
Choo Islands, 7 c?, 5 ?. K. J.

r.

. A. plana intermedia snbsp. nov.

Agannk alhifera, Snellen {wn Felder, l.'^(;7), TikUrh,: ,: Eal. XXXVIII. p. 181. n. 18."! (189G)
(Nias). ^

c?. Differs from jtersi'ctu in the outer black spots at the base of the forewing
being merged together to form a transverse band, the two basal dots behind the
median nervure merged into one; the submedian fold shaded with brown scales; the
white area notched between veins 2 and 3. The black spots on the thorax larger
than in per sect a.

? . The transvei'se black band bordering the basal yellow area of the forewing
interrupted at the median and submedian nervures. Hindwing with the black
spots less distinct than in (?, and smaller than iu persecta ? , the spot in middle
of cell wanting. Otherwise simihir to the male.

Hub. Nias, 2 (?, 1 ¥. W. li.

<•/. A. plana albifera.

Aganais aJbifi'ra Felder, Rchp Novaru^ Lep. II. j). 1. t. lO'l. f. 3 (1874) (Borneo ; nrr J.ava, Celebes).
Eypsa albifera, Pagenstecher, Iris III. p. 11. n. 2tj (1800) (Palawan).

Felder's figure represents doubtless that form of phina which inhabits the
Philipjiine Islands and Borneo (perhaps also Sumatra). The typo-sjx'ciineu of
(ill)ijera bears two locality labels, the upper one '• Manil. Lorr^." = Manila, Lorquin,
the other " Celebes." As a J from Miudoro in the Tring Museum is almost exactly
identical with the ti/pe, and as further all the Celebes specimens oi pinna known to
us are (piite different, there can be no doubt that the correct habitat of Felder's ti/pc,
is Manila.

Agrees with intermedia in the submedian fold of the forewing being marked
with brown scales; the white patch at the apex of the cell is isolated; the black
spots of the hindwing are smaller than iu all the preceding subspecies, though the
number of spots is the same as in persecta and lacteatu.

Ilah. Luzon, 1 c? ('.'//"', ex coll. Felder): Miudoro, 2 i (A. Everett, Deceuibcr
1N94); Piihiwaii; North Borneo, Kiiux Balu, 1 ? : Labuan (iu coll. Staudinger).

K. -T.

e. A. plana ti'ansiens subsp. nov.

i. The exterior basal black sjiots contlueut to a transverse band; the costal
spots also more or less merged together; the two notches of the anterior edge of the
white area less deep than iu persecta; the white patch near the apex of the cell
isolated, but the brown sj)ace between it and the white area very narrow: white
area sliglitly notched between veins 2 and W, not extending so far towanls the outer
margin of the wing as in the preceding races; submedian fold not marked with
brown scales. Hindwing with one small and narrow spot at the a] lex of the cell
(<///>«), or besides wil h a uiuiiilc do| in the middle of the cell anil two po^lmediall

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spots. The black mark at the apex of the cell of the forewing beneath scarcely
larger than the ronnd spot in the middle of the cell. Thoracical black spots more
extended than even in intermedia, the prothoracic lobes being black with u narrow
yellow border.

?. Agrees with the S\ hiudwing below with a minute black dot in the middle
of the cell, and a slender spot upon the discocellnlars.

Flab. Engano (W. Doherty, September 1891), 3 <?, 2 ?.

This form is of great interest, as it leads over from the forms with s])ottod liiiul-
wiugs to those without jjostmedian spots. W. 1{.

./'. A. plana centralis snbsp. nov.

AjinMils allifcra Felder, lieisr Norara, Ltp. II. p. 1 (1S74) {Pro p.) ; Piep. & Siiell., Tijihchr. r. Ent.

XXII. p. 79. n. 40 (1879) (Bonthain : Maca.ssar).
Bypsa alhifera, SneUcn {nee Felder, 1874), I.e. XXXI. p. 144. n. 3G (1888)</')o/). ; Celebes).

(?. Forewing as in albi/erajhwt the outer black dots of the base of the forewing
confluent as in transiens; outer part of submedian fold within white area fiiintly
marked with brown scales ; white area slightly notched between veins 2 and 3 {type),
or not notched between these veins. Hindwing above with one spot at the end of
the cell, this spot as large as in perseeta ; below, there is a second spot of variable
size in the middle of tlie cell ; no postmedian spots. Thoracical spots as in transii'/is.
The brown ill-defined spot between veins 7 and 8 of the hindwing below is joined to
the brown border of the wing.

In one male the white patch at the upper angle of the cell of the forewing above
is shaded over witli brown scales.

?. Like d, but hindwing with one spot only, which stands at the apex of the
cell ; this spot somewhat smaller than in the c? ; the anterior half of the cellule formed
by veins 7 and 8 of the hindwing below is all brown, instead of this cellule having
merely a brown spot beyond the middle of the costal nervure.

hab. S. CV-lebes: Lompa Battan, 3000 feet (H. Fruhstorfer, Jlardi 1890), 2 c?;
Macassar (if/., March 1896), 1 cJ; Bantimoerong (Ribbe), I ?. W. R.

ff- A. plana plana.

Hijpsaplawi Walker, Dst Lep. Net. B. M. II. p. 4.0O. n. 8 (1854) (Java ; nee Ceylon, Silhet) ; Uoraf.

& Moore, Cat. Lep. Ins. Mas. E. I. C. II. p. 294. n. C75. t. 13. f. 9. 9« {i.,p.) (1859) (Java ; nee

Darjeeling ; feeds ooficns ; abundant in January) ; Semp., Vrrli. :. b. Ges. Wini. p. 701. n. 18

(1807) : Hutl., Tr. Enl. Soc. h,n,l. p. .■il9. n. Ifi (1875) (Java) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Tlet. T. p. 389.

n. 2G (1892) ("E. Indies" ex err.) ; Swinh., Cat. Lep. IJel. .Mas. Oxf. I. p. 89. n. 397 (1892)

(Timor ; s.i/«. pm p.).
llypsa comphma Walker, I.e. XXXI. p. 213 {d, nrc ? ) (1864) (Timor) ; Kirby, I.e. I. p. 389. n. 10

(1892) (Timor ; nee Burn) ; IIamp.s., Molh.i i,f India I. p. .")00. n. 1140 (1892) {Prop.).
Ilypm alhifera, Piepers & Snellen, Tijdxehr. r. Enl. XX. p. 5 (1877) (Batavia ; common : desrr. of

caterp. and pupa) ; Snell., ihid. XXXI. p. 144. n. 36 (1888) {Prop.).

The specimens of plana from Bulo Laut (south of Borneo), Java, the lesser
Snnda Islands, and the Tenimber Islands belong all to one subspecies. A. plana
plana is distinguished from the preceding races especially by the hindwing below
having only one very small black spot at the apex of tliecell; seldom there is a second
minnte spot in the middle of the cell. The white patch at the upjicr angle of fhc
cell of the forewing is mostly joined to the white area of the wing; the outer liiack
spots of the basal area are merged together to a transverse band. Tlie thnraiical

( 3G1 )

spots are very large, the prothoracic and mesothoracic lobes being lilack witli a
yellow border. On the underside of the hindwing the black median spot between
veins 7 and 8 is small, often absent. The yellow colour of the base of the forewing
is sometimes replaced by white.

The insect which Snellen describes as albifera var. siifusa from Flores is not a
variety oi albifera Snell. ncc Feld. = plana Wlk., but a species allied to A. istkmia.

Hah. In the Tring Bluseum from Java, Bali, Lombok, Sambawa, Samba,
Flores, Adonara, Alor, Timor, Timorhiut = Teuimber, and Palo Laut (soatli of
Borneo); 42 (?, 28 ?. K. J.

h. A. plana cincta subsp. nov.

Bypsa complaim Walker, List Lep. Ilet. B. M. XXXI. p. 213 (?, nee S) (18G4) (Buru ; nee
Timor); Butl., Tr. Ent. Sue. Land. p. 316. n. 8 (1875) (Buru ; ikc Timor) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Bet.
I. p. 389. n. IG (1892) (Buru ; nee Timor) ; Hamps., Moths of Lidia I. p. 500. n. lUO (1892)
(,Prop.) ; Swinh., Cat. Lep. Bet. Mus. Oxf. I. p. 90. n. 398 (1892) (Buru).

The second joint of the palpi is more extended black than in plana plana;
the black spots at the base of the forewing form two transverse bauds ; the white
patch at the apex of the cell is rather widely separated from the white area; the
latter is somewhat reduced in lengtli, and its anterior edge is very feebly notched ;
the submedian fold is marked with brown scales. The black border of the hindwing
is nearly of even width from the apex of the wing to the submedian vein, and
broader than in any other race, measuring 2\ mm. in width at vein 2. On the
underside the black spot at the apex of the cell of the forewing is small ; hindwing
with one small black spot only, situated at the apex of the cell. Thoracical spots
as large as in 'plana plana ; dorsal plates of all abdominal segments ringed with
black ; black rings twice as broad as the yellow rings ; ventral plates with large
black lateral spots.

As Walker describes as complana first a specimen from Timor and then adds
the description of a Buru specimen, believing his Timor and Bnru individuals to be
sexes of the same " species," the name of complana must be kept for the Timor
insect, and as the latter is, to our present knowledge, not separable from the Javan
plana, has to sink as a synonym oi plana plana.

Hub. Burn (W. Doherty, March 1897), 2 cJ, 3 ? {type ?). W. R.

i. A. plana commixta subsp. nov.

cJ. The costal black spots at the base of the forewing merged together, the
three spots at the base of the cell also confluent, the outer spots not forming u
transverse band; white patch near apex of cell small (2i mm. long), widely separated
from the white area ; the latter as in plana jilana, but the submedian fold with
brown scales. Hindwing with a faint brown postmedian spot behind vein 2 and a
small spot at the apex of the cell. On the underside the hindwing has an elongate
mark in the middle between veins 7 and 8 (length of spot 4 mm.), a minute dot in
the middle of the cell, a faint postmedian spot between veins 5 and 0, another behind
vein ?., and a well marked though small spot at the end of the cell ; the postmedian
spots much smaller than in the Indo-Malayan races of plana. The black spots on
the thorax smaller thau in plana plana, especially those on the patagia ; abdomen
as in jjlana plana.

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( 3G2 )

$. Similar to tlie S, but tbe black basal dots in the cell not merged together,
the black thoracical sj-ots still smaller, and the hiudwing only with one very small
black spot at the end of the cell, no postmedian spots : black patch between veins
7 and 8 as long as in cj, and therefore mnch more extended than in plana plana.

Ilab. Dutch N. Guinea : Humboldt Bay (W. Doherty, Augnst and September
1891), 1 cJ, 1 ? ; Etna Bay (H. C. Webster, August 1890), 1 c?. W. R.

k. A. plana fergussonis subsp. nov.

Differs from all other forms of plana in the hindwing being devoid of a black
spot at the apex of the cell, though there are postmedian spots marked in three out
of four specimens.

S. Resembles the preceding race very much, but the submedian fold of the
forewing is only faintly shaded with brown scales (('//>«), or is wholly white : the
basal black spots are not merged together ; hindwing above and below with two
indistinct postmedian spots, one beyond vein 6, the other beyond vein 2. On the
underside there is a very small black median spot between veins 7 and 8 in t]fpe-
specimen ; in the other niale this spot is not marked ; in both individuals there is,
below, also a spot near anal angle. Black spots of tliorax scarcely larger than in
plana alhij'era, but the median streak of the mesothorax heavy.

?. Similar to S. In one specimen the hindwing has no spots in the white
area, while in the other one there are four spots as in the type-specimen. Abdomen
with rather small dorsal black dots.

Hah. Fergnsson I., D'Entrecasteaux Is. (A. S. Meek, found in September,
October, and December 1894), 2 c?, 2 ? . W. 1{.

32. Asota albiformis.

The white patch near the apex of the cell of the forewing above is in ^1. albiformis
merged together with the white area of the wing, and is much smaller than in all
those examples of A. plana in which it is also joined to the area. The white area is
not or slightly notched twice at anterior edge; there is no distinct notch at the lower
outer angle of the area, while there is a deep sinus m plana. The hindwing is always
devoid of black spots within the white area ; it is particularly worthy of note that
there is no spot at the end of the cell. The black sj)ots of the abdomen are smaller
than in the forms of plana, inhabiting the same countries where albiformis occurs.
The harpe of tbe male is simple as in A. heliconia, long and slender, not divided as
in plana ; the sexual organs of the ? have not been examined by us for want of
sufficient material. Antennae as in plana.

A. albiformis inhabits Borneo, the Philippine Ishuids, Sangir, and Tern5ite; its
range comprises most i>robably all the Moluccan islands.

We have two subspecies of albiformis before us, which are as follows : —

". A. albiformis albiformis.

Uijpaa albiformis Swinhoc, Cut. Li'p. II d. Miis. 0.rf. I. p. 20. n. 400 (1892) (Borneo, type;
Philippines).

Our i'^o females from Borneo and a male from Balabac have the abdomen much
more white than it is in the Philippine males, and the white spot at the ajjcx of the
cell of the forewing larger. Philippine females are unknown to us. The anterior
edge of the white area is in all our specimens but one slightly notched twice.

( .-ics )

Hab. North Borneo: Kiua Rain, 1 ?; Rusukaii Besan, Felirnary 1892, dry
season (A. Everett), 1 ?. Balabac (in coll. Dr. StanJinger); Calapan, Mindoro
sept, (in coll. Stand.); Mindoro (A. Everett, November 1894), 1 cJ ; Negros, lowlands,
February 1890 (Whitehead), 1 c?.

K. .1.

h. A. albiformis ternatensis snbsp. nov.

S. The lower outer angle of the white area of the forewing is not acute as in
albiformis albiformis, but rounded off; the black colour extends at the costal margin
to the base, so tliat there is scarcely a trace of the costal black dots ; of the three
black spots at the base of the cell the two basal ones are merged together, while the
outer one is arrowhead-shaped. The black border of the hindwing is broader than
in albiformis albiformis, measuring 4 mm. at vein 6 and 2f mm. at vein 2, and
extends bej'ond the extremity of vein la. On the nuderside the cellule between
veins 7 and 8 of the hindwing is black, except a white streak along vein 7. Black
colour on palpi and thorax more extended, the prothoracic lobes being black with a
yellow border; segments 3 to 6 of the abdomen are ringed with black above in tlic
type-specimen, while in the second mate the abdomen is marked as in iill)iformi!<
albiformis.

Hab. Ternate (W. Doherty), 2 S.

A female from the island of Sangir in Dr. Staudiuger's collection represents
jjerhaps a third subspecies of albiformis. The white area of the forewing is shaped
as in albforniis albiformis ? , the outer notch of the anterior edge of that area more
distinct. The border of the outer margin of the forewing is decidedly broader,
especially between vein 2 and anal angle. On the underside the cellule between
veins 7 and 8 of the hindwing is for the greater part black. The dorsal and ventral
black spots of the abdomen are much larger than in albiformis albiformis.

W. R.

33. Asota clara.

Hijpm dara Butler, Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. .S18. n. 14 (1875) (Java); Snell., TijcUchr. r. Ent. XXXI.
p. 145. n. 37 (1S88) (Mount Gedeh, 4000 ft.); Kirby, Cil. Lrji. Ilrt. I. p. S80. n. 2:') (1892)
(Java) ; Swinh., Cat. Lip. Uet. Mus. Oxf. I. p. 90. n. 399 (1892) (Java).

c?. Antennae with lateral impressions and tufts of line hairs as in ,1. keliconia ;
harpe nearly as in helironia, simple, spoou-shaped, symmetrical at apex. The white
area resembles that of A. albiformis to a certain extent. There is in one specimen
(^4) from Falabuau a fuscous elongate patch in the basal half of the wing in front of
vein \b, and a small fuscous streak before this patch at the median vein ; the black
basal dots number from costal to hinder margin : 4, 1, 3, 1. In another specimen
(/?), from Bali, the white area is very much reduced in size ; it is limited behind by
the submedian fold, and does not extend, at the median nervure, beyond the middle
of the cell; in a third individual {€), Jit. Gedo, the area has so increased in size as to
occupy the whole wing except the apical fourth.

The hindwing has in specimen li no distinct black spots to the forewing above ;
in individual (7 there are two spots near anal angle, the posterior one of wliich is
indistinct; wliile in the third male {A) both these spots are well marked, and there
is, besides, an indistinct, rather large, fuscous postmedian spot between veins
4 and 6.

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On the underside the forewing is in all three males nearly the same in colonr ;
the hindwing has the anterior margin fuscous close to the apex, and is marked with
a costal, a postmedian (behind vein 2), and a subanal spot in specimens B and C,
while in individual A there is an additional postmedian spot on the disc.

?. One specimen from Mt. Gede (in Dr. Staudinger's collection) resembles
}nale A very much on the upperside, except that there is no discal postmedian
fuscons spot on the liindwing ; beneath, the hindwing has a dot in the centre of
the cell, another at the apex of the cell, besides a costal mark (separated into two
by vein 8) and two spots near anal angle. A second female from Mt. Gede
is similar, but has the fuscons colour of the forcwing much overshaded with white :
on the hindwing above there is one distinct spot only, behind vein 2 ; on underside
the spot in the centre of the cell of the forewing has nearly disappeared, the hind-
wing has a spot at costal margin and two in anal region. In the otheT/emales from
Mt. Gede the fuscons colonr of the forewing is more or less completely replaced
by white ; the black spots of forewing and hindwing below are also liable to
disappear, one female being quite white beneath, except a few fuscous scales at the
costal and outer margins of the forcwing ; in one of these pale individuals there
is an indication of a brown outer border to the underside of the hindwing.

Hah. Java : Mt. Gede, W. Java, 4000 feet (H. Fruhstorfer, 1896), o ? ;
Palabuan, S. Java (zV/., 1892), 1 S; Bali (1 $ in coll. Dr. Staudingcr).

Whether the Java and Bali specimens differ subspecifically we do not know,
because we have seen only one individual from the latter locality. K . J.

34. Asota suflPasa (PI. IV. fig. 3).

/7^i)So «/J(/era Tar. JSi/irusa Snellen, TijihcJir. v. Eni. XXXIV. p. 252. sub n. 51 (1891) (Flores) ;.
Eober, I.e. XXXIV. p. 32G (1891) (Maumorie).

We have a specimen of Asota which agrees very well with Snellen's description
of what he calls alhifera var. suffusa, except in some minor points ; it is a female,
like the type-specimen, and is certainly not a variety of albifera. A. alhifera of
Snellen is Walker's plana, and alhifera var. suff'usa means that suffusa is a
geographical form, or a subspecies, of alhifera = plana ; the specimens of plana
from Flores (and the other lesser Snnda Islands) are, however, not subspecifically
different from plana from Java, and hence suffusa must either be an individual
aberration or a distinct species. The former it cannot very well be, as it differs
considerably, besides in colour, in the shape of the wings from plana.

A. suffusa seems to me to stand best between A. elara and A. istkmia.

llab. Flores ; Maumerie ; Alor (W. Doherty, October 1891), 1 ?. K. J.

35. Asota isthmia.

Ilypsa isthmia Walker, List Lep. Ihi. B. M. VII. p. 1074 (1850) (Manila) ; Swinh., Cat. Lep. Ilet.

ilus. Oxf. I. p. 89. n. 390. t. 3. f. 2 (1892) (Manila).
Neochera (?) isthmia, Butler, Tr. Ent. Soc. Lund. p. 329. n. 7 (1875).
Neochera isthmia, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. I. p. 390. n. 9 (1892) (Manila).

The antennae of the male have lateral impressions' and tufts of fine hairs.

In the only specimen (cJ) from the island of Negros the white patch of the
forcwing situated below the apex of the cell is more extended than in the males
from Mindoro ; the white band on the underside outside the cell is also wider, while
the black border to the hindwing is considerably narrower. Luzon individuals are

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unknown to ns. The /emale (in Dr. Staudinger's collection) has the white cnlouv
on the underside of the forewinjj somewhat more extended than tlie male.

Ilab. Luzon (Manila) ; Mindoro, 2 6 ; Negros, at low altitude (J. Wliitehead,
February 1896), 1 i. K. J.

3*5. Asota tortuosa.

Neochera tortuosa Moore, P. Z. S. p. 570. t. 33. f. 2 (1872) (ludia) ; Snell., Tijdschr. v. Ent. XXXI.

p. 121 (1888).
Hypsai?) tortuosa, Butler, Tr. Ent. Soc. Land. p. 319. n. 17 (187,5) (India).
nijiisa tortuosa, Kirby, Cat. hep. Iht. I. p. 389. n. 21 (1892) ; Swinh., Cat. Lap. TTet. Mits. Oxf. I.

p. 90. n. 401 (1892) (India ; (//^je-specimen) ; Hamps., Motht of hulia I. p. 501. n. 1141 (i892)

(Sikkim).
Ant/ckera tortuosa, Snellen, I.e. XXXVIII. p. 180 (189G) (Sijn. cxcl).

The abdomen bears seven series of black spots ; the protlioracic lobes have two
black spots each. Male a,m\ female resemble each other in colour very closely;
there is no very obvious variability in this species. The white antemedian costal
patch is sometimes prolonged across the cell to the median nervure ; in our Chinese
male this patch stands close to the basal yellow area, while in all the other specimens
it stands well separated from that area ; most specimens have, above, a white mark
in the apical half of the cell ; the discal band is in our two Chinese individuals a
little more dilated at vein 5 and the submedian fold than in most Indian examples.
The second joint of the palpi is shorter, the third longer, than in A. isthmia. The
clasper of the S is broader than in A. heliconia, Nov. Zool. III. t. iv. f. 12, less
curved ; the harpe resembles that of helkonia; the apical widened part is deeply
hollowed out.

Ilah. China: Omei Shan, 1 J, 1 ? ; Sikkim (Pilcher, July 1889), 1 cJ, 1 ?;
Khasia Hills (April 1896), 2 S; Jaintia Hills, 1 cJ, 1 ?. K. J.

37. Asota contorta.

Hypsa contorta Aurivilliiis, Ent. Tidslcr. p. 171. f. 4 (1894) (Java).

Antichera tortuosa, ?>neVLiin, Tijdschr. r. Ent. XXXVIII. p. 180 (1896) (" tortuosa = contorta" ex
errore).

The antennae of the c? have been described in Nov. Zool. III. p. 205 (1896).
The clasper is narrower than in .-1. heliconia; the harpe is more pointed at the apex,
the latter turned upwards. .4. contorta resembles the preceding species in the great
length of the third joint of the palpi and in the pattern of the hindwing and abdomen;
in nearly every other respect it is \yidely different from ^i. tortuosa. The hindmargin
of the forewing is very long for a species of Asota, and the outer margin short ; in
this respect as well as in the form of the male antennae A. contorta and A. kinabalu-
ensis stand isolated amongst the species of A.sota.

Hab. Java : Sukabumi, 2000 feet (H. Fruhstorfer, 1893), 1 <?. K. J.

38. Asota kiuabaluensis.

Asota kinabaluensis Rothschild, Nov. Zool. III. p. G02. n. 10. t. 15. f. 42 (189G) (Kina Balu).

This species agrees structurally with ^1. contorta, but differs remarkably in
pattern, as a comparison of the figures will show.

Ifad. Kina Balu, N. Borneo (<J, ?, in Dr. Staudinger's collection). K. J.

(jTc W rpjttiiivc(t).

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DESCRIPTIONS OF FIVE NEW SPECIES OF LYCAENIDAE,

CAPTURED BY ME. DOHERTY, IN THE

TRING MUSEUM.

By II. GROSE SMITH, B.A., F.E.S., F.Z.S., etc.

1. Arhopala strophe sp. no v.

Female. — Vpperside: both wings silvery ccrnlcan bine. Anterior wings with
the costal margin and the apical third dark brown, the dark area extending rather
broadly along the onter to the inner margin. Posterior wings with the costal margin
broadly pale greyish brown, and the onter and inner margins rather broadly dark
brown; the veins crossing the disc dark brown. One broad tail; cilia white from the
upper median nervnle to the anal angle, crossed with brown at the ends of the
veins.

Underside: both wings brownish white, with bars and spots bright purplish
brown. Anterior wings with the base, a spot in the cell near the base, two broad bars
from the costal margin, where they coalesce, to the median nervnre, one of which
crosses the cell, and the other is at the end of the cell and extends beyond it; another
narrower rather sinuate and oblique bar, halfway towards the apex, from the costal
margin nearly to the lowest median nervnle, a narrow paler submarginal line of the
same length, and a broad marginal band. Posterior wings with a baiid of spots ex-
tending from the costa near the base to the end of the cell; beyond this two broad
bars cross the wings from the costa to the upper median nervule, where they merge
in a dark space which covers the middle of the disc and extends broadly below the
median nervnre to the base; a broad band on the outer margin, bordered inwardly by
a narrow paler line; a dark spot above the anal angle, above which is a dark band
confluent with the dark central space and extending to the inner margin ; a sinuate
pale submarginal line towards the anal angle. Antennae black above, rufous
beneath ; head, thorax, and abdomen grey, the last being tawny beneath.

Expanse of wings : 1;' inches.

liab. Kapaur, Dutch S.W. New Guinea.

On the upperside it somewhat resembles the female of A. eurisiis Druce and
of A. euphrosyne Grose Smith, but on the underside it diflfers entirely from any
known species.

2. Arhopala clarissa sp. nov.

Male. — Upperside : both wings silvery lacteous white, very faintly tinged with
blue. Anterior wings with an apical dark brown band, which extends broadly over
the subcostal nervules nearly halfway to the base, and along the outer margin
gradually narrowing to the outer angle; in that part of the band which extends along
the costa is, in certain lights, a brilliant morpho-blue oblong patch, and the inner
edge of the band along the outer margin is narrowly bordered by a similar colour.
Posterior wings with the costal margin towards the apex pale greyish brown, a sub-
marginal narrow black bar from the anal angle nearly to the lowest submcdian
nervule, a shorter bar between the next two veins, and an indication of other black

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lioes betweeu the veins to the ajiex; outer margin greyish black; a slender black tail,
tipped with white.

Underside: has a general resemblance to A. anthore Hew. and A. kelius Cram.;
but on the anterior wings the space below the median nervnre to the inner margin
is white, crossed, between it and the snbmedian nervnre, b\' three greyish brown bars.
On the posterior wings the white markings are differently arranged, and the
metallic blue lunules toward.s the anal angle are paler silvery blue, bordered
internally by a space irrorated with grey and white scales. Cilia of both wings
white. The antennae have unfortunately been destroyed.

Expanse of wings: 1 finches.

Hab. S. Celebes, August, September, 1891.

3. Hypochrysops antiphon sp. nov.

Male. — Uppersidc: both wings brownish black, with the cells and inner discal
areas brilliant metallic blue, tinged with jiurple in certain lights. The blue area on
the anterior wings extends over the cell and the inner two-tliirds of the discal area;
on the posterior wings it is bounded anteriorly by the subcostal nervure and the
second subcostal nervule, the costal, outer, and inner margins being broadly brownish
black.

Underside : anterior wings with the costal, apical, and outer-marginal areas
broadly bright chestuut-browu, shading inwardly into black; the black area extends
over the cell, a longitudinal space below the cell, and a space at the end of the cell
at the junctions of the snbmedian nervules ; before the apex is an oblique irregular
white baud, and the rest of the wings is white ; along the subcostal nervnre and
in the middle of the cell are elongate streaks of silvery pale metallic blue, the
streak in the cell being interrupted at two-thirds from the base ; beyond the cell
are two transverse silvery metallic blue lines, with similar scattered spots above
them ; a snbmarginal row of five similar spots and an indication of a sixth near the
outer angle. Posterior wings white, with a basal band of chestnut-brown extending
partially along the costa ; the outer third is chestnut-brown, deeply indented by the
white area between the second subcostal and the upper median nervules ; in the
brown area is a snbmarginal silvery blue line divided by the brown veins. Antennae
black ringed with white, with brown clubs. Cilia white, with black spots at the
ends of the veins.

Expanse of wings : If inches.
Hal/. Kapanr.

On the upi)('rside it somewhat resembles //. abjattes Godm. & Saiv., but the
metallic blue area is less extended and the wings are more elongate ; the white
areas of the underside are indistinctly visible through the wings.

4. Waigeum coruscans sp. nov.

Male. — Uppersidc : both wings dark lirown, crossed about the middle by a
common broad oblique brownish white band from the upper median nervule of the
anterior to the inner margin of the posterior wings. On the anterior wings the cell
and spaces beyond and below it are more or less densely irrorated by shining blue
scales, but less extensively than in W. ribhei Hob. Posterior wings with a sub-
basal band and a patch on the disc below the cell of similar scales.

Underside : both wings brownish black, crossed by a brownish white baud, as

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on the npperside, the white band being more restricted than in TT^. ribbei, and its
outer edge on the posterior wings more sinuate ; the subcostal bine band and outer-
marginal row of blue spots as in that species, with an additional broad streak of blue
scales extending along the middle of the cell. Posterior wings with the basal black
band bordered with blue, as in W. ribbei, but broader and more sinuate outwardly;
the outer half of the wings is brownish black, crossed by two longitudinal broad
metallic bauds, which converge but do not form a junction at either end ; the inner
blue band is bordered outwardly by a narrow row of brownish white scales, and the
submarginal band is divided into spots by the black veins. Cilia on both wings
brownish white. Antennae black. Head, thorax, and abdomen brown, the last
being white beneath.

Expanse of wings : 1 J inches.

Ilab. Kapaur.

Allied to W. ribbei, but browner, rather smaller, and the wings rather narrower.

5. Thysonotis albula sp. nov.

Male. — Upperside: both wings brownish black, crossed by a common very
broad white baud. On the anterior wings the white area does not quite reach the
costal margin, where it is narrowest ; thence, widening rapidly to a little beyond the
end of the cell, it extends transversely to the inner margin ; the base is rather
broadly brownish black. On the posterior wings the white area extends over the
inner three-fourths, except at the base, which is narrowly brownish black. In the
dark area of the outer fourth towards tbe anal angle are three submarginal metallic
blue lunules, crowning black spots ; a short black tail.

Underside : as above, but on the anterior wings is a marginal row of pale
brown lunules, followed, internally, by a darker obscure band. In the dark area
of the posterior wings is a submarginal row of conical black spots, which are crowned
with metallic blue lunules ; a row of white lines on the margin, at the base of the
spots, between the veins ; there is an indistinct sinuate pale line above the lunules.

Expanse of wings : 1 inch.

Hab. Kapaur.

Nearest to T. mindarus Feld., but the wings are comparatively rounder; it is
also smaller than that species.

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ON SOME MELIPHAGIDAE AND OTHEE BIEDS FROM

NEW GUINEA.

By ERNST HARTERT.

AMONG i5ome other birds Mr. Rothscliild has lately received four interesting
si)ecies of Mcl/ji/tciffit/ai; collected at elevations of 5000 — 6000 feet between
Mounts Blusgrave and Scratchle}-. One, the largest, is Melirrhophetes belfordi
de Vis, which we have also received from several other places in the Owen-
Stanley range of monutaius. The second in size is almost quite black, or
brownish black, the feathers above less, those below more distinctly edged with
greyish olive-brown. Under tail-coverts smoky brown, with pale greyish rufous
edges. Tips of lateral rectrices pale greyish brown, their inner webs fringed with
pale greyish ruCous brown. The feathers of the chin have the tips of their shafts
bare and some faiut brown spots. In the skin of the lower eyelid is a small
caruncular fold, .and behind and below the hindpart of the eye is a bare patch.
These birds are evidently de Vis'

" Acanthochoera fusca " (//«\s, 1897, p. 3S3).

In his description, however, it should read " loxler " tail-coverts instead of
" upper " tail-coverts. I fail to see why this binl is placed in the genus
Acanthoclioera, as Mr. de Vis spells what is generally called Acanthochaera. If
M. belfordi is united with ihdirrhopketes I see no reason to separate this bird from
that genus, and I shall call it Melirrhophetes fuscus (de Vis). However I do not
■wish to discuss the genera of the Meliphagitlae here, which are not easy to limit.

The third species before me is

Ptilotis salvadorii Ilartert,

described Nov. Zool. III. p. 531 (1890). It seems that Mr. de Vis named this bird
again P. lacrimam, as his description on p. 382 of the last Ibis suits it fairly well,
if we assume that in line 3 from below the word " orer " should be " beloicy There
can be no donbt that tliis must be so, for such penslips (?) are to be fouud in several
cases in the same article, and tlie Novitates Zoologicae have not received the
necessary attention, as shown by the Editors' note on p. 392, and by the description
(on p. 371) of

Neopsittacus viridiceps

as a new species, which is clearly uiy Xeops. pallicaiida, described and discussed in
several places in onr journal.

'{'\w foui'th of the Meliplnfjidue before me is unknown to me. It does not seem
to be described yet --at least 1 cannot find any diagnosis wliich suits it in the least,
and I do not think that I liave overlooked any recent descriptions. I cannot say
exactly to which group of Honey-eaters this curious bird belongs, though I am sure
it must be rcfiMTed ici the genus Ptilotis in the wide sense as treated in the Cat. B.

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Vol. IX. To decide aliont the exact position of this Lird would require a study of
the structure of all the known species, wliich I cannot underttike at present.

Behind the eyes and above the ear-coverts the feathers are so thin that there
is an indication of a bare spot, but otherwise there is no naked skin anywhere, and
there are no wattles, nor any elongated or modified feathers anywhere. The tail is
sli"htly srradnated, the outer rectrices considerably shorter, but the inner pairs
almost equal to each other. This species, which I believe to be undescribed, may
be called

Ptilotis praecipua sp. nov.

cJ. Top of the head and nape black, with olive-grey edges to the feathers.
Sides of the head similar, but with the colours not so well defined and somewhat
merging into the colour of the chin and throat, where the feathers are ashy grey
with darker bases. Short feathers round tlie e3-es of the same colour as those on
the throat. Hind-neck like crown, but somewhat merging into the colour of tlic back,
where the feathers are brownish black, with broad rusty rufous border to the sides.
Feathers of rump and upper tail-coverts deep brown, with faint olive-brown edges.
Primaries blackish, with buff edges to the inner webs ; the outer six (about) with
buff edges to the outer webs, more distinct towards the bases ; the inner ones
without paler edges, except some very narrow ones near the tips. Secondaries like
inner primaries, but a little more distinctly bordered. Wing-coverts deep brown,
with buff edges. Tail dark sepia-l)rown, with faint olive-brown edges and tips.
Feathers of breast and abdomen brownish black, with light greyish buff or pale
yellowish grey broad fringes. Feathers on sides of breast, flanks, vent, and under
tail-coverts dark brown, with broad rusty rufous borders, under tail-coverts paler.

Wing 89—00 mm. ; tail about 80 ; tarsus 27 — 28 ; exposed culmen 20—22.

S . Like male, but colours on back and under parts not so clearly defined.
Considerably smaller, as in most Honey-eaters. (The difference in size, for example,
is very great in the sexes of Melirrhophetes belfordi de Vis.)

Wing 79 ; tail about 74 ; tarsus 2-5 ; exposed culmen 17-6 mm.

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PI. X.

Comatibis eremita (L).

NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE.

Vol. rv. DECEMBER. 1897. No. 3.

G0MATIBI8 EREMITA (Linn.), A EUEOPEAN BIRD.

By the HON. W. ROTHSCHILD, E. HARTERT, a.nd O. KLEINSCHMIDT.

(Plates VIII., IX., X.)

TV /TR. JUNGHANS, of Cassel, first called Kloiuschmidt's atteution to the peculiar
-^-^ tignre of the " Waldrabe" ou PL XVII. in Vol. 11. of Bechsteiu's (iemein-
niitzige Naturgeschichte Deutschlands. While discussiug together this figure, the
authors of the present article came across Gesner's description of the " Waldrapp,"
and following up the literature came to the conclusion that Gesner's bird did not
belong to the Corvidae, as generally su])posed, but was the same as the I/jIs roinata
of recent authors, well known to every ornithologist from the splendid plate in
Dresser's Birds of Europe. The following review of the literature on Gesner's
" Waldrapp " and our plates will show that this bird formerly inhabited parts of
Europe. Though the reasons of its disappearance are not known to us, they may
be similar to those which have caused the Glossy Ibis {This falcinellu£) to become,
from a frequent visitor to England, a rare straggler in our days. (Cf Dresser,
B. Europe, Vol. VI. pp. 336, 337.)

Comatibis eremita (L.).

Upupa eremita Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. Ed. X. p. 118. no. 3 (1758) (Helvetia). (" U. viridis, capite
flavo, cervice jubata. Coreiis sylvaticus Gesn. av. 351 ; Aldr. orn. 1. 11). e. 57. Eremita moiitamis
si/lvaticus Alb. av. p. 16. t. 16. Habitat in Helvetia.")

It is evident that Linnaens did not himself see his ('pupa eremita, but that he
based it on Gesner's, Aldrovandus', and Albin's works.

Gesner in 1555, as well as in his Vogelbuch (1583), and again in the second Latin
edition, gives the figure which is reproduced in our PI. VIII. , and descriptions
which follow hero in English translation : —

" Of the Woou-Raven.

" Corvu-i sylmticiiJi.

" The bird of which the tigiin? is Iiere given is generally called by our people
a Wood-Raven (' Waldra])]) "), because it lives in the uninhabited woods, where it
nests in high cliffs, t>r old ruineil towers and castles, which places also caused it to
l)e called Stone-Raven (' Steiurapp '), or elsewhere in Bavaria and Styria ' Klausrapp,'
from the rocks and narrow caves and holes in which it builds its nest. In Lorraine
and on the Lago Maggiore it is called a .Sea-Raven (' Meerrapp ") ; in other 2)Iaces
Wood-Raven, as in Italy, where a man is lowered down on a rope to take it out of
its nest, as it is considereil a great delicacy (• ein schhkk '). In our country it is

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t'miuJ alsu iu the high cliti's ucai- Plaflers, wlierc some hiiuters weut down I'ur it on
ropes.*

" From its voice it is also ualleJa Uinger (' Scheller '). Some anthers take it to
be the Pluilacrocorax, for in size aud culour it resembles the raveu. It acquires also
a bald head in its age (' er gwiiut auch eiuon Glutz in seiuem alter '), as 1 have seen.
Turnerus takes Aristoteles' Water-liaveu, Pliuins' Phulai:vocora.i:,\ and our Wood-
Raven for the same bird, but it is wrong, because their descriptions are nulike, the
Wood-Raven not having broad feet and not being a water-bird, but seeking its food
in green meadows aud swampy plaees. Our Wood-Haven is of the size of a hen,
(piite black if you look at it from a distance, but if you look at it close by, especially
iu the sun, you will consider it mixed with green. Its feet are also somewhat like
a lien"s, but longer aud the toes split. The tail is not long. It has a crest on its
head ])ointing backwards, though I do not know whetlier this is seen in all indi-
vidnals and !it all times or not. The bill is reddish, long, and suited to poke with
it into the ground, and into the fissures and holes of walls, trees, and rocks, to
extract the worms and beetles which hide themselves in such places. Their legs
are long aud of a dark red. They live on grasshoj)pers, crickets, small fishes, and
frogs. They generally nest on the high old walls of the ruined castles, of which so
many are found in Switzerland. When I dissected their stomachs 1 found, among
other vermin, also many creatures which are injurious to tlie roots of agricultural
plants, especially the millet. They also eat the grubs which produce the cock-
chafers. They fly very high, and lay two or three eggs. They fly a\vay first of all
birds, really in June, or as others told me about St. Jacob's Day. They fly in swarms
and cry ' Ka, ka,' and most of all when their young are taken, which is generally done
about five days after Whitsuntide. They return to us in early spring, when the
storks arrive. If the young are taken from the nest some days before they fly, they
may be easily reared and tamed, so that they fl\' out to the fields and ijuickly
return. The young ones are also praised as an article of food, and considered a
great delicacy, for they have a lovely flesh and soft bones. But those who rob
their young leave one iu every nest, in order that they may like to return in the
following year."

Aldrovandus, Ornithologiae Liber XIX. cap. LVII. (p. iJ7U), reproduces
Gesner's figure of the " Waldrapp," and aliuost all his letterpress, only with some
quite unimportant and unnecessary additional remarks. But on the ibregoing pages
(20s and 2()y) Aldrovandus has the figure of a Phalacrocorax sent to him from
lllyria Q' L'li/dsiis Aldruraiuli Phalacrocorax ex lllyrio missus^') and Bellouius"
Phalacrocorax. These two are evidently meant to be the same thing : the latter
doubtful, and at any rate a very poor likeness, but possibly of a }oimger bird ;
the former a very good representation of the " red-clieeked lliis," and reproduced
in our PI. VIII. This figure, as we have seen, is not quoted in Liunaeus' tentii
edition, but in 1766 (Ed. XII.) he refers to it, quoting "Aldr. oru. 3. p. 270, 207."
The latter (cap. LVI.) contains the description of the Phalacrocorax from lllyria.
Aldrovandus first refers to several birds mentioned by former writers, beginning with
I'linius" Coreits ttquaticii.t, which he considers to be the same as the t'hulacroconix,
aud discusses several vernacular names of diti'erent countries, lie then describes the
bird from the figure sent to liim from lllyria as being of the size of a capon, with

• Only ill the Latin c-dition Ihi; lotk.-, nunv I'a«8au and Kulillieim are said to be its home. _

f It is evident that the created Shag is meant as having been sometimes confounded witli our bird.

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ii loiig pointed red beak. "The head bare and covered vvilh a skin somewhat like
the substance and coh;ur of flesh. From the neck depends a maue, as it is
observed in capons. On the feet are some golden feathers." Bellonius, he says,
shows a similar figure, but without a mane, and with palmiped feet, which
he does not doubt is an inaccuracy of the artist. [The authors of this article
cannot refer the Phalacrocorax of Belon (]). 162) to our bird. The letterjiress
evidently treats of the Cormorant, and the figure (poorly reproduced by Aldrovandus)
is doubtful.] There follow then some notes on habits, but they are all taken
from other old writers, and it is most doubtful whether any refer to the bird in
ijuestion. This is the usual thing with Aldrovandus, who was merely a compiler,
while Gesner (like Belouj was, to a certain extent, also an observer. For us,
therefore, the value of Aldrovandus' work lies merely in the figure of the Illyrian bird.
Linnaeus' third quotation in the tenth edition is from Albin. This author
{Siippl. Nat. Hist. Birds, Vol. III. p. 1(3, and PI. XVI., 1740) describes the bird
as " the 'Wood-C'row from Switzerland."' He says verbatim : —

" This Bird is about the bigness of a common Hen ; its Bill is red, long and tit to
thrust into narrow Chinks and Holes of the Earth, Trees, Walls and Rocks, to fetch
out Grubs and Insects lurking there. It also feeds on Grasshoppers, Crickets, the
(Jrubs of the Cockchafer, little Fish and Frogs. Its Head is of a dusky 3'ellow, with
Shades of Red ; it hath a Crest on the hinder part of the Head hanging down : the
Body, Wings and Tail are of a dark green, with a Shade of Purple ; the Legs and
Feet of the C!olour of the Bill ; they build for the most part in high Walls of
demolished or ruinous Towers, which are common in Switzerland : they fly very
high ; they lay two or three Eggs ; the young fly about the beginning of June,*
and if taken before they can fly are easily fed and made tame, so as to fly out into
the Fields and return of their own accord. The young ones are commended for
good Meat, and counted a Dainty : their Flesh is sweet and their Bones tender.
Those that take them out of the Nests are wont to leave one in each, that they may
the more willingly return the following Year. They are called in Switzerland
Waldrapp and Steinrapp, that is Wood-Crows, because they delight to live in
woody, mountainous and desert Places ; where they build in Rocks and old for-
saken Towers.

" This Bird I had out of the Collection of Sir Thomas Lowther."
It is evident that Albin's article is, for the most part, only a free translation
and digest of Gesner's, but the description of the head seems to be his own, and his
plate, reproduced in our PI. IX., is a very good likeness of the bird, in fact one of the
best in Albin's work, but badly coloured. It is most interesting to hear that he had
the bird out of the collection of Sir Thomas Lowther. This would be the only
Euroi)ean specimen of the bird recorded as having been in any collection, but it is to
be feared that it is long lost.

These being all the references of Linnaeus' tenth edition, there can be no doubt
that h'is i'pupa crem/'ta is not an ipupa, and this he must have felt liimself, ibr in
his twelfth edition, 1 766, p. lo!>, he calls it Cornus eremita t and adds to the synonyms
Briss. av. 2. p. 6, and Will. orn. 306. Let us now consider these.

♦ Albin .ippiirontly wrongly transLittd or tried to irajirove upon Gesner, for Gesner says " Sy &ie|;en<l
zum ersten auss alien voglen Iiinwog," or in the Latin edition " rrini.ie omuium, quod sciam, auolant."
Both thetie can only mean that they leave the country about that time, which, however, seems to be a vcrv
early date.

t Linnaeus' diagnosis in the twelfth edition is : "I '. virescens, capitc flavescente, occipite subcristato
rostro pcdibuMjue rubris. Habitat in llclveliae montibus el destruetis aivibus."

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Brissoii {Ih-nith. II. p. 0, 1700) ciillis I lie bird " Lc Cornrias /(U/je','" " Coracia
cristata." He gives au excellent synonymy up to his time, adding to the references
already mentioned uliove : " Jonst., Aci. p. ',)5 " ; " Willugh. Orn. p. 300";
•• 8chwenck., Ari. Sil. p. 245 " ; " Rzac, Atict. Hist. Nat. Pol. p. 375 " ; '•' Klein, Aci.
ji. Ill, No. 16" ; and " Barr., Ornith. Class IV. Gen. IX. sp. •>." None of these
authors adds anything new, nor does Brisson himself give anything but a digest of
Gesner.

Jonstonns, ///,«/■. _.\(it. de .\rihi(S, 1657, p. 95, only gives au extract of
Gesner's article, and in the edition of 1750 {Theatrum L'ltiversale. de Acihun, I.
p. 130) the same is rej)rinted verbatim. The plate (47) is also the same in the two
editions, and on it we find reproduced both (jlesner's " WaUlrapf) " and Aldrovandus'
" I'halacrocorax ex llbjrio mis.v/.t."

Willughby, Oriiith. p. 3(10 (1070), again repeats Gesuer, and adds that he
susjiects " this bird to be uo other than the Gomcias or Pi/rrkucora.r. But if it be
rightly described its bigness and the crest on its head forbid it." Tlie same is said
on p. 390 of the English edition (1078). Klein, Hist. Av. Prodromu.'i, p. Ill, only
quotes from Albin. SchwenckfelJ, 'riieriotroplieum Silesiacum, pp. 245, 246 (10o3),
evidently mixes the notes on several birds, but does not refer to our bird at all, for
he says: '^ Corcus alpiniis, Pijrrhokora.e, Corvus sylvaticus nocturnus, .\lpia)jjie,
Waldrappe, Nachtrabe, Steinrabe. Totus niger est, Cornice minor. In montibus
altiss. vivit, noctu clamore molestus : Diurno tempore raro conspicitur." Rzac-
zynski in his Jlist. Sat. Cur. Rctjru Polon. (1721) only refers i^^ Schwenckfeld's
bird, and is therefore wrongly referred to in this synonymy.

Barrere (^Ornith. Class IV. Gen. IX. sp. 2) calls this bird ^'- Arqaitla
sylwtica nigra,^^ and shows at least some judgment in removing it from the
crows.

Latham,^je/;. Si/nopnis of Birds, I. p. 403 (1801), quotes from Gesner and others,
and adds : " Neither the young nor the very old birds are said to have the crest,
whence they have been called Bald Crows. Buffon wonders why M. Barrere should
call this a species of Curlew ; but could he have seen either Albin's figure, or such
another, the head would have led him to think so, for it seems quite naked of
feathers, similar to the baldest species of Ibis."

Bechstein, Gemein. Naturg. Deutschl. II. p. 470 (1791), again only translated
from Gesner, but he adds (PI. XVII.) a figure, which is probably made up from
several of the former figures, or given to liim by a person who actually saw the
bird.

lu the second '• vennehrte und verbesserte "' edition (ISOo), pp. 12, 41, however,
he only reprints his former j)aragra])h (ex Gesnero) as a footnote, and repeats the
coloured picture (faitiifuUy reproduced in our PI. IX.), but under the CorctM graculus
L. he says (translated) : —

" We do not yet know its history very well, but there is no doubt that Gesner
gave it under his ' Corctis eremita.' For this is no other bird, as all the Swiss orni-
thologists are now convinced. Gesner was swindled with this specimen, which was
artfully in;ide up, to make it more acceptable."

Therc^ can be no doubt that I'echstein was wrong, for tiiere are many points
which forbid the supposition that Gesner described the Corsus graculus under the
name of his " Waldrapp," especially since he described and knew the chough as
well.

Bechstein's verdict, nevertheless, seems to have settled all about the Corcus

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eremitii for a Ions; time, for we lind it subsequently only quoted us a syuonym of
Pi/rrhocora:c graculus (L.)— f'^'" example, also in Dresser's Birds of Europe, IV.
p. 437.

The first naturalists who rediscovereil the bird were Ehreuberg and Hemprich,
who shot two specimens near fTomfnda, on the Arabian coast. They were mounted
in the Berlin Museum, with the name [hi.s i-omdln Ehreuberg on the stand, but
this name was not published, nor did a diagnosis appear until 1845, when Uiiiqiell
gave a good figure and description of it in S>/xt. Vchc.rs. Viii). X.O. Aj'nkcis.
Eiippeirs figure, drawn by \Volf, was copied as bad as possible iu Reichenbach's
Grallatores as Comatibis comata about 1850. A plate, of course much inferior
to Wolf's, was published in 185U by Levaillaut jun. as Ibis calcus, and Loche
(1867) describes it under the name of Comatibis comata, saying that he met with
it near Boghar, where it was resident. It nested in high, almost inaccessible rocks,
laying two or three eggs, which are bluish white with mostly faint rufous marks.
Its food consists of insects and suchlike tilings. In the same country Canon Tristram
found it in 1850, on the rocky ridges beyond Bou Guizonn, on the road to El
Aghonat. He says of it : " Unlike the rest of its famOy, it resorts to the most
arid and desolate mountain ranges, wliere it consorts with the raven and falcon.
Its food consists of lizards and serjjents. It breeds iu inaccessible holes of the
precipices, which I was unable to reach, though I saw the birds going in and
out. . . .""

The bird was also collected and noticed in N.E. Africa by Henglin, Blanford,
and others, and Henglin described for tlie first time the young, which have the
whole head and neck covered with short dirty whitish feathers, speckled rusty
and brown.

Mr. C. G. Dautbrd afterwards had a splendid opportunity for observing this
bird in a new locality, i.e. at Birejik on the Euphrates, and he gave Mr. Dresser
excellent notes, which we find published in the liird.'t of Europe. Afterwards Canon
Tristram again collected the liird in Birejik, and published most valuable and
interesting notes about it in the Ibis, 1882. These observations agree wonderfully
with old Gesner's notes from Switzerland. They inform us that these birds breed
in company on high cliffs and on the walls of the old Saracenic castle of Birejik,
where they are never disturbed because considered sacred by the Mohammedans.
Their food consists of beetles, orthoptcra, and reptiles. Tristram also describes the
young as follows : " Instead of the bony protuberance at the back of the skull and
the bare red skin, the base of tlie skull i)resented no ]>eculiar development, and the
whole head was covered to the base of the bill with thick short feathers, mottled
black and white."

From all that we have said so far, we can only come to the following
conclusions : —

(1) That the birds desi-ribcd as ('oreus s>/ifaficus, Phalacrocorax from
Illyria, etc., by the older writers are the same as the Ibis comuta of modern
authors.

(2) That this bird formerly inhabited parts of Europe, but that it had evidently
disappeared from our continent before the end of the last century.

The more important synonymy and literature of the species (catalogues and
other books in which tlie name only was mentioned not being quoted) will tiius be
as follows : —

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Comatibis eremita (L.).

1555. Corius ,^i/haliruf, Gesner, Hit. A,,,,,,. III. (de Avibus), p. 351.

1582. Waldrapp, Gesner, Vogdbuch, p. 199.

1617. Conus syliaticus, Gesner. ffist. Anim. (ed, nov.) III. (de Av.), p. 309.

1603. Con: sytt:, Aldrovandus, Oinithol. III. p. 270.

1603. Phalacrocomx ex llli/rlo. Aldiov., Oniilliol. III. p. ilM.

1617. Core, .tylv., Jonstou, Hist. Nat. Av. p. 95.

1650. Con: sijli:, Jonston, Tlieali: Uniiers. Ai: p. 13ij.

1676. Con: syh:, Kay & AVillughby, Oniitholorjiae Lib,: trex, p. :!0C.

1678. Gesner's Wood-Crow, Ray, Willughby's Oniltli. p. 390.

1740. Wood-Croto from Sicitserland. Albin, .S'«/)/j7. Nal. JIht. li. PI. 10, p. 16.

1745. Arqiiata sylvat. nigra, Barrere, Oniilh. Spec, iiouiim. Class IV. Gen. IX. Sp. •>.

1750. Uptijm montann, Klein, Hi.it. Ar. Prodr. p. 111.

1758. U. eremita, Linnaeus, Syd. Sat. Ed. X. p. 118.

1760. Le Coracias hitpe, Brisson, Ornilli. II. p. G.

1766. Corvus eremita, Linnaeus, Si/.tl. Xai. Ed. XII. p. 159.

1775. Le Coracias huppi, llontbeillard (not Buffon !), Uixl. A^l^ Oia. III. p. 9.

1790. C. eremita, Latham. I/ides Orn. I. p. 1G6.

1791. Alpeiirabe, Bechstein, Gem. Xati(r/j. Oeiilschl. II. p. 470, PI. XVII.
1801. nermil Crow, Latham, Svppl. (ieti. Si/n. TI. p. 115.

1805. (Footnote to C. graculuK), Bechstein, 2nd ed. p. 1241 (PI.).

1832. Geroiiticm spec. nor. ex Aegypto, Wagler, /.<«, 1832, p. 1232.

1845. Ibis comala, Eiippell, Si/st. Ueber.-:. Viig. X.O. Afr. p. 119, PI. 45.

1849. Comatibis coinata, Reicheubach, Av. Si/.it. Nat. p. xiv.

1850. Ibis calms {nee Bodd !), Levaillant jun., Kxpl. Scieiil. de I'Atgrrie, PI. 12.

1850. Comatibis (gen. nov.) comala, Reichenbach, Ar. GroUatores, Tab. CXXXIII. fig. 2.383.

1855. Geronticus comatns, Brehm, Heiseskizzen, III. p. 141 ( ? ride Heugl.).

1860. Geronticus comutus, Tristram, Ibi.i, p. 78.

1863. Comatibis com., A. v. Homeyer, J. f. (). p. 269.

1863. Ibis com., Schlegel, JIiis. Pays Das, 4, p. 9.

1867. Comatibis com., Loche, Expl. Sclent. Algerie, Ois. p. 153.

1870. Ger. com., Blanford, Geol. <£• Zool. Abyssinia, p. 436.

1873. Ibis com., Heuglin, Orn. N. O. Afr. II. p. 1144.

1877. Comatibis com., Elliot, P. Z. S. p. 493.

1880. Ibis com.. Dresser, B. Europe, VL p. 329, PI. 408.

1882. Comatibis com., Tristram, Ibi.i. p. 414.

Distribution.

Formerly parts of Europe; Southern Algiers (Bon Gnizoun on the road to
El Agbonat, Bogbar, Province of Bone): j)ri)l)iilil.v throngliont the Sahara to
Aliyssiuia, where Blanford fonnd it near Senafd and Antalo, Henglin on tlie plateaus
of Wogara and Hamedo (the Tring Museum possesse.s a skin brought home
by Scbiniper from his journey to Abyssinia); Red Sea coast of Arabia, Birejik on
the Euphrates.

Our PI. X. is made from tlie skin in the Tring ]\luscuin, and with the hel])
of u coloured sketch taken from life by Mr. Danford and Icindly lent us by
ilr. Dresser.

PoSTSCRIPTUM.

While searching the literature of Comatibis eremita, the authors became
interested in the Ibis generally. They found that there is no reason to confonnd
the Ibis olivacea of Du Bus {Bull. Ac. Bntr. 1S37, p. 105, and Ks(jitisses Ornithol.
PI. 3) with tlie bird found by Ussher in Denkera and figured ]'. /.. S. 1877, PI. o1.
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bird is nntliiiiL;- morp than an nlil Ihiqcdn.'ilnii ki(i<-<l(ifili,('V a cluscly allied spefies not
yet known to iis except by the type. The bird tiirnred /'. Z S. ISTT, PI. 51. thus
remains withont a name, and we name it

Lampribis rara nom. unv.

We l)elii-ve that ('niiiatih's -awX Ihnicdii.slihi are very nsuful and well-established
genera, bnt a closer study will be necessary to decide abont Lmi/prihis and other
genera.

NEUMANN'S HARTEBEEST.

By the HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD.

(Plate XIV.)

UNDER the name of fktbalix neumniiHi I described in the Animh and Magazine
of JS'afaral llisfory, 8er. 6, Vol. XX., October 1^97, p. 37i), a new form of
Hartebeest, discovered by Mr. A. H. Neumann on the east shore of and to the north-
east of Lake Rudolph.

The horns of Bubalis neumanni differ widely from those ofi?. TOi'ir/'rtr(Blyth), of
West Africa, and Ij. hn.-^cbi phus ( Pall.j, of Northern Africa and Arabia, in beinjr
slenderer, and in their tips being inverted instead of jiointing outwards or straight
behind. The nearest ally seems to be B. tora (Gray), of Upper Nubia, Abyssinia,
and Kordofan, which, however, has more slender horns, with more distinct rings,
reaching almost round, a broader forehead, and a generally paler coloration. The
horns also diverge much more in B. tora, as shown at a glance by the distances
between the tips of the horns, as recorded in R. Ward's Horn Measuremenls.

The horns of B. neumanni measure as follows : — (Jireumference at base,
S 273 mm., ? 183 ; total length along the curves, c? 420, ? 345 ; tip to tij), <J 200,
? 249.

The rings of the horns are not very prominent and do not reach all round.

Breadth of skull at forehead, S I'lO mm., ? 80 ; length of skull from base of
horn to upper lip, along the side in a straight line, S 430, ? 403.

("olour of hair fulvous fawn, much richer on the back, wliere there are also

some darker sjxits, which may be stains or natural ; below very much ])aler. Cliin

blackish, tip of tail black. Tlie male is brighter and darker in colonr than tlie

female. There are also on the back some patches with longer, thicker, almost

whitish buif hair, perhaps remains of the wiTiter fur.

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NEW CtENEEA and SPECIES OF MOTHS FROM THE
OLD-WOKLD EEGIONS IX THE TRING MUSEUM.

Rv \V. WARREN, M.A., F.E.S.

Family DEEPANULWAE.

Neoreta gen. nov.

Tliis name is iiropnsed for the species comprised in Section IIa of fhrta
(Hmpsn., F. B. I. I. p. 350), viz. griseotincta Hmpsn., hi/aloclisca Hmpsn. (/'. /»'. f.
IV. p. 479), and olc/ti Swinh., Ann. and Afaff. ffi). XIV. ]>. 434, witli tliis last
as type.

Antennae, botli in c? and ?, stronjjly l)ip('ctinate ; palpi very slmrf. In tlie
latter characteristic it agrees with <i/-r/t/ AVllc. : but that genns ]ias the antennae
serrated, the serrations sometimes free, sometimes coalescent. Cobanilla Moore,
which has the same pectinated antennae as Nroirt'i, differs both from it and Orefa
in having the palpi more largely devehiiied anil nptnrned in front of face.

1. Neoreta olga Swinli., A. and M. 1804, II. p. 434, S: Tr. E. S. 189.5, PI. I.

fig. l-l.

The ? oi' this species is somewhat different in coloration and markings from
tlie (?.

Wings pale monse-colonr, with darker striae ; the inner edge of onter line
faintly brown-tinged ; the costal portion of outer line with a single black blotch
between veins 0 and 7; no darker sufl'usion between the angle and tlie cell ; both
wings with a faint whitish cell-spot, and a slightly brownish patch towards
hindniargin between veins 2 and 4.

Underside like upper, grey, not yellow, with very slight rufous tinge in ])lacos.

The specimen here described is from the Khasia Hills, dated December 1896.

The antennae are strongly bipecHnato.

Family Til YL'J IHDAE.
2. Banisia angustifascia sji. nov.

Foreivings : pale greyisli brown, with slightly darker strignlose markings :
the fasciae of the same colour, narrow and vertical, with faintly darker onter edges :
first at one-fourth, just bent on the subcostal vein : second before the middle, its
outer edge nearly straight, widened along tlie extreme costa : third from costa just
beyond middle, forked below the subcostal, tlie onter arm outcnrved : fourth curved
and without dark edging, from costa before apex to middle of hindniargin ; basal
area rather darker ; the pale intervals between the fasciae traversed by inter-
rupted strignlose lines ; fringe dark olive-brown, with the extreme tips pale
throughout.

Uirnhnngs : slightly ocbraceous-tinged, with subbasal, forked median, and
marginal curved fasciae, all somewhat darker ; fringe as in forewings.

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Underside with the i5trignhie, which are more nnmerons, and the odsres of the
fasciae plainer, on a ligliter gronnd ; the fasciae all dark along the costa.

Thorax and abdomen like wings ; head and palpi darker, deeper brown.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

One ? from Amboina, Angnst 1892 (W. Doherty).

Nearest to B. praensta Warr. from Batchian and //enntesrens sp. no\-. iVom
Celebes.

3. Banisia interalbicaus ^\). uov.

Forcwings : pale grey, passing into dove-colour, and becoming rnfous towards
the margin ; the grey costal and basal portions traversed by miuntely waved darlc
gre_v strignlae, which are outwardly oblique below costa and inwardly oblique in the
lower half ; these strignlae tend to form a sinuous line, edging a slightly darker
basal area, at one-third, and beyond, two narrow vertical fasciae, of which the onter
one is darker, and followed by a single line ; a pale chestnnt jiatch on costa before
apex, finely edged outwardly with black and followed by a snow-white sjiot, with a
few smaller ones and black scales l)eyond ; outer fawn-coloured area with scattered
black atoms ; fringe fawu-colonr.

ITindu'tnffs : with a deeji chocolate bar at base, followed by a white fascia,
which gradually deepens into a broad central chocolate fascia, concisely edged
externally, followed again by a white fascia, which deepens into fawn-colour along
the margin and in the fringes ; the j)ale outer area contains some fine dark dots
arranged in lines ; two more conspicnous beyond cell, and a brown black-edged spot
at anal angle.

Underside whitish, suffused with pale fawn-colour ; basal area and snbapical
blotch jiale chestnut ; apex whitish : median fascia marked by a black-brown blotch
below the middle ; hindwings with the base and median fixscia pale chestnut. Face
and palpi fawn-colour ; fillet paler ; vertex and collar rich brown ; thorax and
abdomen pale pearly grey ; the abdomen with a black-brown basal and median ring.

Expanse of wings : 27 mm.

One ? from Penungah, N. Borneo, December 1S93 (Cator).

Allied to B. trifrophva Swinh., but decidedly smaller, and wirli oilier markings.

4. Banisia pernitescens sp. nov.

Foreioings : dark greyish brown, with a sliglit rufous tinge, very glossy, with
minnte reticulations which are most visible towards the hiudmargin ; basal area
clouded with darker ; an inwardly oblique dark line near base, and a similar one
from costa beyond one-third, curved outwards at inner margin ; an irregular and
obscure central fascia, narrow at costa, its outer edge curved outwards and broken
up into two or three lines which end in anal angle, its inner arm irregularly angled
and constricted on submedian fold : three or four ramifying lines occupy the ajiical
area ; fringe glossy, greA'-brown.

nirulwim/s : paler, slightly fulvous-tinged, crossed by numerous irregular dark
ramifying streaks.

Underside glossy, paler, with the transverse streaks and minute reticulations
slightly clearer. Head and thorax dark brownish : ali<louien jialer.

Ex]ianse of wings : 40 mm.

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One ? from Tawaya, north of Palos Bay, Cielebes, Aiiscnst and September 1896
(W. Dolierty).

Allied to B. altenmtn Moore and (lisgimitlnnx Wair., but darker, and
distiugnislied by its glossiness.

.1. Banisia ramifera sji. uov.

ForewiiiffS : glossy, reddish grey-brown ; tlie costa and base fnscous : the fasciae
indicated by tlieir dai'ker margins only; the first vertical near base, constricted on
snbmedian vein : the second antemedian, constricted in cell and on snbmediau fold :
the third postmedian, narrow at costa, and forking below middle; the fonrtli to
below middle of hindmargin, its edges nearly parallel and straight: the fasciae and
the intervals between tliem traversed by faint interrnjited and shorteneil striae :
fringe concolorons.

IlindwiiK/ii : similar, slightly more ferrnginons, the fasciae all more or less
vertical from costa to onter margin.

Underside much ])aler, with the same markings and slight cell-spots. Head,
thorax, and abdomen coucolorous.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One S from Moroka, British New Guinea, a.jiiii lect, October ISO.") (Anthony).

Forewiugs with costa slightly sinuous ; apex i)rominent ; hindmargin straight
to vein 4, then curved into inner margin ; hindwings developed on inner margin ;
the inner margin itself very short ; the hindmargin obli([nely truncate to vein 1.

(i. Hypolamprus leopardata sp. nov.

ForeiciiK/s : dull ochreous, with indistinct darker fasciae and strigulae, the
whole wing being also suffused with greyish ; a broad diffuse greyish ochreous
subcostal streak, and traces of subbasal and antemedian fasciae; a broadish fascia
from inner margin beyond middle towards apex, spotted and edged with dark grey,
and another narrow close before margin, this last preceded and followed by paler
spaces with dark strigae ; a pale oval spot before ai)ex, with a black dot at its onter
end ; fringe concolorous.

Ilindtvings : without the grey suffusion, so that the pale grounil-colonr is more
consj)icnons, iorming two crenulate fasciae, one on each side of the central dark fascia ,
which extends from middle of inner margin to ai)ex, the base and marginal area
being dark, like the middle fascia.

Underside jjaler, more straw-colour, with tlie fasciae in both wings filled n]i
with tawny and edged with blackish, divided by tlie paler veins ; subcostal region
and cell of forewings coppery red, with the edges of the fasciae marked by velvety
black scales ; the apical spot distinct. Head, thorax, and abdomen glossy ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One ? from ('edar Bay, North Queensland (A. S. Meek).

Both wings strongly bulged in middle of hindmargin, shaped as in rnif/iilali-s
Moore and .-iubrosealis Leech.

'■ Hypolamprus subnictitans sj). nov.

Foreu'ingx : dull rufous ochreous, crossed by dark strignlations ; six dark
costal patches indicate the origin of as many fasciae wliicii cross the wing, and are

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more visibk' towards inner margin, tlie inner margin itself darker and connecting
the bands ; in the third band, which is beut, are two dark patches, one beyond the
cell, the other ou the siibmedian fold ; the pale spaces on costa between the fasciae
are each marked by a black single stvigula, which also crosses the wing ; beyond
the cell the gronud-colour is paler, and the pale spaces form irregular annuli
or tessellations ; a whitish apical spot, with black centre ; fringe rnfoiis, mottled
with darker.

Hhuhcliujs : paler, with more numerous areolae ; three in the middle — one before
the cell-spot, and two contiguous beyond it — being paler and semihyalino.

Underside similar, the ground-colour paler, the markings all plainer : a
subcostal dull fulvous streak, with black speckles and a few lustrous scales.

Thorax and abdomen rufous ochreous ; head darlj red.

Expanse of wings : 19 mm.

One (J from Penang (Curtis), 1890.

8. Hypolamprus unicolor s]!. uov.

Forewings : pinkish fawn-colour, with a few obscure dark striae, the costa a
little paler ; no markings except an indistinct postmediau fascia, of which the edges
only are black above inner margin, at two-thirds ; a lilack apical dot ; and a very
faint line from costa before apex to middle of hindmargin, marked by a dark dot
between each vein ; fringe slightly darker than ground-colour.

Ilindwinys : similar, with indications of a pale median fascia on inner margin
and beyond cell, these spaces being semihyaline.

Underside paler, greyer; the fasciae of forewings pale chestnut ; the subcnstal
region ferruginous, with black spots. Thorax an<l abdomen concolorous with wings ;
face and palpi darker.

Expanse of wings : 36 mm.

One (S from Oinainisa, Timor, November and December 1891 (Dolierty).

Like a very large subrosealis Leech, but distinguished by the pale fascia of

the hindwings.

9. Letchena diversicolor sp.

S . Foreicinffs : dull brick-red, crossed by olive-fuscous strigae, some of which
arrange themselves in regular transverse rows ; three or I'onr curved near base,
a broader one in middle interrupted l)y the oval hyaline spot, and two bevond the
middle; fringe and basal line dark fuscous grey, with a darker middle line.

Hindwings : without the hyaline spot.

Underside duller, often more brownish or ochraceous in forewings, with the
transverse rows of striae more consjiicuons ; some poarl-grey scales on liircwings
near base ; an irregular dark triangular cloud on hindmargin. Heail and shoulders
fuscons ; thorax and alxlomen red.

? with ground-colour bright brick-red.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

Seven S <i , two ¥ ?, i'roiu Kiriwini, Troliriand Islands, May 189.") (A. S. Meek).

Near to L. jdagifcra Butler from Tonga Island. The hyaline sput is a long
oval, between veins 2 and 3 ; in one of the $i it is reduced to a small spdt. ami ii|
anoth(>r il is ijuite absent.

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1". Letcliena plagiata sp. nov.

Foreirhiffs : dull olivc-yelluw, witlj ilull [nirplish gre)' reticulations and bands ;
the costa broadly pnrjilish grey ; a central purplish fascia, bifurcate below the
median, containing two hyaline spots separated by a horizontal yellow dash ; the
upper of the two sjjots sometimes huely divided into two ; a fnnncl-sha])ed mark
from costa at three-fourths, and a enrved line from hindmargin in middle ; fringe
purplish, with a fine basal line.

Hindioiiigs : the same, with the apex broadly purple ; the hyaline sjiots
sei>arated only by vein 2, and the outer of the upjier two often yellow.

Underside the same, but tlie streak at hindmargin jiurplc-black. Head and
shonlders j)inkish grey ; thorax and abdomen yellow.

Expanse of wings : 40 — 45 mm.

Five ? ? from Kiriwini, Trobriand Ishmds, Aj)ril and Jlay IsO.'i (A. S. Meek).

Nearest to L. ^emitrxselhU.s Wlk. iVom Australia.

11. Pharambara micacealis occlusa subsp. nov.

Differs from the type-form of Walker's micacealis in having no jiale semi-
transparent spot at the end of cell, but instead a diffuse blackish cell-spot ; both
wings dull red-brown, slightly paler towards base. Underside with the characteristic
lustrous blue spots.

One 6 from Bali, March and April ls9G (W. Doherty).

12. Siculodes bastialis Wlk.

There arc two forms of this insect. The usual one has the ground-colour
ochreous whitish, the reticulations pinkish ochreous, the hindmargin and fringe
tinged with ferruginous ; the costa broadly darker, marked with lustrous grey,
black-edged, white-centred spots, the intervals ferruginous; a central line is
bifurcate at inner margin, and in cell partially forms an ocelloid spot ; a black line
runs from costa before ajiex to hindmargin at vein 4, and a sinuous ferruginous line
runs from it to anal angle; beyond the first are two black apical dots, and beyond
the second two ferruginous ones. Hindwiugs with ferruginous reticulations, which
often form a central and submarginal ill-defiucd band. Underside whiter, the
markings and reticulations much more defined, bright ferruginous.

In the otlier form the ground-colour is pure wliite; the reticulations grey, like
the costa and fringe, with no ferruginous tints, all the markings indistinct and semi-
obsolete; the underside like that of the redder form.

In the Triiig Museum there are c?c? of both forms from Geraldton, N. Qneens-
land, in no way dilfi^ring from the same forms — also occurring togctl\er —in India,
Ceylon, etc.

1:5. Striglina derasata sp. nov.

Forewinga : ochreous fawn-colour, with obscure blackish strigae and reticula-
tions; the costal region ^ darker, especially towards base; a blackish discal spot,
another beneath it above the submedian, and two smaller ones superimposed opposite
the cell towards hindmargin; fringe long and full, with a faintly jialer basal line,
and the outer third mixed with fuscous scales; a pair of minute dark dots at the
base at the end of each vein.

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llindwiiiga: rather paler, the veins slightly tlarker tbiui the ground-colour,
which is also the case, though less consplcnously, in the ibrewiugs.

Underside similar, but paler, the markings being less developed. Face, jialpi,
and shoulders like base of wings, darker than the thorax and alidomen, which are
concolorous with ground-colour of wings.

Expanse of wings : 36 mm.

One ? from Lawas, N. Borneo (A. Everett).

Very closely allied to S. duplicifmbria Warr. from India, but the hindmargin
of forewings is evenly curved throughout, not indented below apex, which is not
produced in the least. The dark mottlings and spots are far less developed than
in duplicifimbria ; the fringe has no dark middle line, as in that species, but the
outer third darker.

Two SS from Fergusson Island, dated December 1894, and one J from Kiriwini,
Troliriand Islands, collected in March 1895 by A. S. Meek, are also referable here.
The smallest of these expands only 34 mm., the largest 45 mm. In all these the
fringe is wholly uuicolorous, but the extreme tips are here and there marked with
dark scales. In colour and markings they agree perfectly with the Lawas ? . But
along with these three S 6 there is a ¥ , from Fergusson Island, which must be
distinguished as

ab. vulpina nov.

In this both wings are snflused throughout with deep rufous, to the total
exclusion of the dark spots and most of the strigae ; the underside and all the parts
of the body are equally rufous. It is as large as the largest i of the type-form,
45 mm.

Symphleps gen. nov.

Distinguished from all other genera of the family by the fact that veins ,>, 9,
10 of the forewings are all three stalked together.
Tyjje : Si/mpldeps atomosalis sp. nov.

14. Symphleps atomosalis sjj. nov.

Forewings: reddish ochreous, thickly covered with deeper reddish regularly
disposed reticulations; costa with ten to twelve minute snow-wliite spots; cell-spot
silvery white ; fringe concolorous, with minute black dots at base at end of
veins.

Hindwings: similar; the cell-sjwt fainter, divitli-d in two.

Underside the same. Head, thorax, and abdomen ;iii nddjsh.

Expanse of wings: 26 mm.

One S from (ireat Kei Island, Ajiril iMtii (Caplaiii ( '. Websterj.

There is a specimen from .lava in the British Museum Collection marked in
Walker's handwriting " I'gralis dtumosalis," but I can tind no trace of its
publication.

S/culodes ochracca Pagenst., JB. Nans. Ver. XXXIX. p. 160 (mure fulh
described in the /n'.f, 1892, j). Ill) must be closely allied, if not identical.

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Family I'I! .\.\ 1 1 DAK.
lo. Stesichora obsolescens sp. uov.

Forewinyn : pure white, with three or tour lilack costal spots near base, one at
apex, aad sometimes one just below it on the hindmargiu.

J/iiul/ri>i(/.i : with a single black spot in the tail.

Underside wholly white.

Paljii and forelei;s fuscous e.\terually; lace very narrow, wlinlly brown, or
tinged with white below; vertex, thorax, and abdomen all white.

Expanse of wings: 50 — 52 mm.

Three SS. one ?. Two SS from Woodlark Island, 1895; the other S and
the ? from Yanarba, Egum Islands, February iSOo (Meek).

Intermediate between S. nieea Warr. from Kei Toeal, which has the hindwings
wholly white, and S. t/ta/iia Kirsch from New Guinea, which has three marginal
spots.

F.oin.v KI'II'I.I'.MIUM:.
10. Dirades acutilinea sp. nov.

Forewings : dull pale purjilisb grey, with darker grey shades in places ; lirst
line very indistinct, from costa just before middle, forming au acute angle between
veins 4 and 5 beyond the middle and here edged with black, then oblique inwards to
inner margin before middle ; outer line from costa at two-thirds, curved below costa,
and vertical to vein '?>, then oblique and slightly sinuous inwards to middle of inner
margin ; the line itself is formed of ochreons grey scales, edged finely outwards with
dark grey, and more strongly and diffusely internally witli i)nrplish grey; submarginal
line ochreons grey, from apex to anal angle, irregularly waved, edged externally
with purplish and with darker spots on veins; in the intervening space is a
horizontal ])urj>lish black blotch below costa, and ou inner margin before anal angle
a ferruginous cloud, preceded by a ])nrplish ochreous-edged rounded blotch, the
inner edge of which is oblique ; fringe purjilish grey, with a paler basal line.

Hinilwinqs : with the basal two-thirds chestnut mixed with grey, cand striated
with whitish along inner margin ; inner line angled in cell and marked by darker
brown blotches ; outer line hardly bent on vein 4, ochreons grey, with thick
chocolate inner edge and tine outer grey line ; outer third of wing purjdish grey,
browner towards apex and anal angle : a fine dark submarginal line of shallow
lunules edged inwardly with i)ale.

Underside of both wings grey, with sj)arse blackish speckles. Palpi blackish:
face and back of crown grey-brown ; vertex white ; thorax and alidomen grey.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

One ? from Teuang (Curtis).

Hindmargiu of forewiugs entire, of hindwings loothed at veins 4 and T.
Closely allied to />. semi nigra Wan-, from Queensland.

17. Dirades columbaris sp. nov.

Forcicings : dove-coloured grey, without dark irroration ; the lines brown ; first
line angled in the middle of the wing, exactly ^s in D. leucocephalnta Wlk. ; the
second line similar, but, instead of being evenly rounded beyond the cell, bluntly

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lieiit, 1111 vein (), then v(n'tic!il, anil sliui'ply ;iiid rectaiii^rularly lii'iit inwards on vein 4,
edg'ed outwardly by a distinct tine wliite line ; the dark inner brown edging of the
two lines more or less meeting on inner margin and forming a dark patch : a Hue of
shallow brown luuules along hindmargin and close to it ; in leticocepkalata they
are black dots, a little before it ; fringe grey.

Hi ml wings: with inner line twice angled, in the cell and on the submedian
fold ; outer bluntly bent on vein 4, and edged, as in forewings, with whitish : an
indistinct row of grey-edged brownish luuules, from upper tooth uearly to anal
angle ; the brown inner edging of the two lines thickened on inner margin.

Underside uniformly dove-grey, with slight freckling. Head, thorax, and
abdomen all coucolorous : the ]ial[ii and top of face browner ; the vertex white.

Expanse of wings : 2tl mm.

Que ¥ from Penang, 1806 ((Jurtis).

Hiudwiugs with two distinct teeth at veins 4 and 7.

IS. Dirades lactea sp. no v.

ForeiciiKj.s : milk-wliite, slightly dusted with ochreous grev scales, and witli
coarse black scales near base of both wings : lines ochreous grey ; first from one-
tiiird of costa to one-third of inner margin, forming a blunt angle in cell at the
middle of the wing ; second line before two-thirds of costa, shortly oblique outwards,
approximated to first line in middle ; space between filled in with pale fuscous in
middle and on inner margin, forming there a flattened semicircle ; four small black
spots close to hindmargin above middle, and at tlie middle a grey cloud : fringe
white beyond a thick dark basal line.

Hhidwiiigs : with two ochreous lines, both bent in cell, and a small black cell-
spot ; basal area spotted with black along inner margin ; a fuscous dash and black
sjiot at base of lower tooth.

Underside white, with numerous neat fuscous striatious. Head, antennae,
thorax, and abdomen all white ; palpi brown.

Expanse of wings : 1(5 mm.

One cJ from 8.W. Africa.

1'.'. Epiplema instabilata ah. fuscata nov.

In this form of imtahilata Wlk. the whole of the npperside of both wiugs,
except the inner margin of forewings and costal margin of hiudwiugs, is overspread
with rufous grey, more or less mixed with ochreous, the only black markings being
the edge of the lunular submarginal streak.

l-wo % V from the Khasias.

Fasulv (iEOMETlllDAi:.

SuBi-AMiLv OENOCHROMINAE.

Uliolepis gen. nov.

Forewings: with costa cni'ved (hroiighoul ; a[)ex bliuit ; hindmargin curved.
IJiiulwings : with hindmargin curved, both angles rounded.
Antennae of ? with oblique spinosc pectinations; j)alpi decumbent, weak, with
long lax hairs, projecting far in front of face ; tongue absent ; frenulum Ions'

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abtlomeu, -thorax, forehead, auil pectus all hairy ; the underside of wings also with
long hairs as well as scales.

Seuration : forewings, cell ueaily two-thirds of wing : discocellular twice
angulated, the upper and lower thirds vertical, the middle third oblique ; first
median ncrvnle at four-fifths, second close before end of cell ; lower radial from the
lower angulation of discocellular, upper from upper angle of cell; T, ^, '.>, Id stalked:
11 free. Hindwings with costal approximated to subcostal for more than half the
cell ; the two subcostal uervulcs from upper angle of cell ; medians as in torewings ;
radial distinct, from lower ar.gle of the discocellular. Scaling thin and la.x.

Type : UUolepis pilosa sj). nov.

^0. Uliolepis pilosa ^^. nov.

Forewiiif/s : ochrcons grey, dusted with blackish : the lines blackish, double,
e.xcurvcd above middle, incurved below it ; the first close to base ; the second,
antemedian, at one-third ; the postmcdian at two-thirds, indistinctly crenulated ; a
similarly curved median shade, touching a large difliisc^ grey cell-spot ; fringe
ochreous grey, chwjuered with blackish, and with black scales along base.

Uind/ci/iffs : paler, without markings, except au indistinct curved submarginal
shade ; fringe concolorous.

Underside much paler, with no markings. Head, thorax, and abdomen con-
colorous with wings.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

One ? from Sefir-Kuh, Afghanistan.

The stout abdomen and thin scaling of this insect remind one of Biston
hirtavia, but the presence of the radial in the hindwings necessitates its inclusion
among the Oenockrominae.

Subfamily ORTHOSTIXINAE.
Aspilonaxa gen. nov.

Forewingg : with costa very faintly curved, depressed just before apex ; apex
slightly jiroduced : hindmargin obli(]ne, very faintly curved.

llindwhigs : with hindmargin well rounded.

Antennae of ¥ slender, filiform, minutely lamellate and serrulate, unite half as
long us wing ; palpi slender, njjturned in front of face ; tongue and frenulum jn-esent :
legs long and slender ; liindtibiae witli a pair of mmute terminal s]mrs.

Neuralion : cell half as long as wing ; discocellular obli(iue ; first median just
beyond one-half ; second at seven-eighths ; lower radial from centre of discocellular,
njjper from upper angle ; 7, 8 stalked ; 9, 10 coincident, anastomosing with 11 and
12, '.) anastomosing with 8.

IIi//i/tr/pi/ii : witJi costal sinuous and ajiproximated to subcostal ; first subcostal
uervule before end of cell; radial tVom centre of discocellular; medians as in
forewings.

Tyjje : Anpilonaxa lineula sp. nov.

Diifers from Saxa in the long slender antennae and legs ; in the cell being
only half as long as wings, instead of two-tiiirds ; in the costal vein of forewings
leaving 11 some distance beyond the junction of 9 and 10, whereas in ^axa and
PsiloiMJM it rises before the junction and 0 and 10 really anastomose with 11 only.

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21. Aspilonaxa lineata sp. no v.

Foreuinfis : very i)ale Inteous grey, the eosta narrowly blackish near base ;
a round dull black discal spot showing through from the underside ; a very faint
grey line at one-third, parallel to hindmargin and curved below costa ; a grey-
brown oblique outer line, faintly waved, from two-thirds of inner margin towards
apes, before which it is retracted to costa and becomes obsolescent ; space im-
mediately beyond it whitish ; a row of black marginal dots between veins; fringe
concolorous.

JlindwitKjs : with the gre}- line autemedian, and a dark discal spot showing
tlirongh as on forewiugs.

Underside white ; both wings with large round blackish cell-spot and apical
blotch ; marginal dots as above ; the outer line faintly shfiwing through on both
wings ; costa of forewings greyish-tinged. Face, palpi, and abdomen whitish ;
thorax purer white ; legs white, dotted witli black : the foretibiae blackish.

Expanse of wings : 42 mm.

One ? from Omei Shan, W. China, 1892.

22. Eumelea unilineata sp. uov.

Forewings : yellow, with rather sparse dull rosy striae; basal half of costa with
the striae dense ; an oblique faintly marked rosy line from inner margin just
beyond middle towards apex, becoming obsolescent above middle ; fringe rosy,.
with slightly darker red spots at base at ends of veins.

Hiiidwings : with the striae and central line, which is complete, stronger.

Underside similar. Face, palpi, and abdomen yellow, dusted with rosy; front
of thorax rosy; patagia yellow.

Expanse of wings : 52 mm.

One ? from Lawas, N. Borneo (A. Everett).

Akin to JJ. ohliquifascia Warr. from Amboina and E. uiiipuncta Warr.
from Fergnsson Island ; distinguished from both by the entire absence of auv
discal ocellus or inner line.

23. Noreia papuensis sp. nov.

Like N. alhifimhria Warr. from Celebes, but differing in the following points :
the apex of forewings is not produced at all — in alhifimhrki it is minutely sub-
falcate : the fringe of both wings is concolorous with the wings, and the costal
edge of forewings is distinctly pale ochreons. In the ? the ground-colour is
decidedly paler, fawn-grey, minutely speckled with darker ; the oblique line on
both wings is broadly and diffusely margined with black-brown, the marginal
area beyond it being conspicuously paler.

Expanse of wings : 4u mm.

A pair from Kajjaur, Dutch S.W. New Guinea, December 189G (W. Doherty)..

24. Ozola sinuata sp. nov.

Forewings : whitish, with greyisli fuscous atoms ; the lines fuscous, diffuse,
and double; first incurved towards inner margin, straight and vertical above; second
sinuous, widely outcurved round cell, incurved below, both arms dark greyisli

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fuscous, with a fine tcrrugiiions line between them ; a dark fuscous patch oa hind-
margin below apes and above anal angle ; subraarginal line fuscous, parallel to
hindmargin, touching the apex of the two marginal patches ; cell-spot small,
blackish ; central area ])aler than basal and marginal, which are both more or less
sufftised with greyish ; fringe fuscous, with the tips paler, and altogether pale
just below the middle.

lliiidwinys : with blackish cell-spot, doable sinuous postmediau line, the
inner arm more ferruginous and less strongly curved ; marginal area sulfused
with grey. In both wings the veins are finely darker, and tlie marginal dark
dots are very inconspicuous.

Underside more distinctly marked ; space between i)ostmodian and submarginal
lines of forewings on costa chestnut. Thorax and abdomen like wings; face and
jialpi darker.

Expanse of wings : ;i(> mm.

One S from Sumba, February 1896 (\V. Dolierty).

Resembles biangulifern Moore.

Subfamily PSEUDOTERPNINAE.
2r>. Terpna subradiata sji. nov.

Fore/rings : whitish, dusted with pur])lish and fuscous scales, most thickly
in the basal and marginal areas, which are also suffused with pale olive ; first
line from one-fifth of costa to one-third of inner margin, excurved above aud
below the median vein ; cell-spot large, oblique, 8-shaped, filled up with ])ale
olive and edged with purplish scales : outer line olive, from costa at two-thirds
to inner margin shortly before anal angle, oblique outwards to vein 0, then vertical
and dentate to vein 2, thence incurved; submarginal line obscure, between two olive
fasciae, which are interrupted above vein G and between veins 3 and 4 ; fringe
worn.

Hindwings : like forewings; the centre of cell-spot paler.

Underside white, yellow-tinged towards base ; forewings with oblong cell-spot
and broad submarginal band purple, with the veins across it yellowish : a smaller
purplish spot in cell, and a purple dash below it on snbmedian fold : hindwings
with small cell-spot and fascia as in forewings. Face ochreons whitish, the lower
half aud the paljH yellowish ; thorax and abdomen ochreous whitish, speckled with
darker ; basal segments of the abdomen with rusty scales.

Expanse of wings : .54 mm.

One ? from Penang, 1806 (Curtis).

Nearest to T. ocellata Warr. from the Khasias.

Subfamily GEOMETRINAE.

2ip. Agathia succedanea sp. nov.

Forcirings : pea-green : the costa iiiiikish ochreous, finely dusted with dark
atoms ; the base with a dark brown jiatcli reaching from costa to inner margin ;
middle fascia from two-fifths of cosUi to beyond middle of inner margin, entire,
t'awu-coloured with dark edges, bent outwards on median and inwards below :
[lostmedian baud sinuous, its inner edge dark : marginal area dark brown, swollen
in middle, where it is joined by the postmediau band, and there containing a

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single small semihyaliiie round spot; the subapical greeu area irregularly creinilate;
fringe pinkish brown, marked in places with darker.

Uiiuliciiiys : with outer area dark browu-black, its inner edge lined with
yellowish and with slight projections above veins 4 and 2, the outer tooth filled
up with dark chocolate-brown and preceded by a pinkish wliite dash : inner
margin narrowly dark, more broadly in the anal two-thirds; fringe pinkish beyond
the green patch, darker above and below.

Underside pale green, nearly entirely suffused with pale rufous ; the outer
markings red-brown, the middle fascia pale reddish. Face and palpi dark brown
above, jialer beneath. Thorax green, with the rips of the patagia fuscous ; basal
segment and apical half of abdomen dark brown ; the intermediate segments
green.

E.xpanse of wings : oO mm.

One c? from Kina Balu, N. Borneo.

Near .1. rubrilincata \Varr., also from Borneo.

27. Chlorostrota discata sp. uov.

Forewingi : sea-green, faintly white-flecked ; costa ochreons, with fuscous
speckles ; the lines white ; first at one-fourth, angled outwards above and below
median ; second at two-thirds, oblique to vein 0, denticulate and waved, inl)ent at
vein 2, and swelling into a rectangular wliitish blotch, the outer half marked
with rufous and greeu scales : an indistinct jiale submarginal line, and a row
of whitish triangular patches immediately before a row of green marginal lunules :
fringe green, with ])ale base : cell-spot luunlate, white.

Hindwiiiys : with a large pale blotch at apex, containing externally a brown
black patch ; the rest as in forewings.

Underside white ; costa of forewings broadly fuscous-speckled, with dark
specks at origin of the lines, and the cell-spot fuscous ; hindwings with a black
apical blotch. Face, vertex, thorax, and abdomen ochreous ; palpi dark fuscous ;
jiatagia and sh( mlders green.

Expanse of wings : 45 mm.

One ? from Kina Balu, N. Borneo.

Akin to C. textilis Butler {Tkalera).

28. Diplodesma olivata sj). nov.

Fomcinyx : uniform olive-green ; the lines olive-brown ; first at one-third,
angled outwards in cell, where it passes over tlie discal mark ; second at two-thirds,
obtusely beut on vein 0, then slightly waved to inner margin at two-thirds; friuire
yellower.

Hindidnys : with second line only.

Underside paler, without markings. Face palu-brown; fillet wliite; thorax and
abdomen olive-green.

Expanse of wings : 19 mm.

One (? from Sandakan, January 18'.*3.

2'.). Euchloris (?) viridifrons sp. nov.

Forewings : pale a])ple-green, with the costa whitisli ; first line at one-third,
whitish (sometimes very faint), forming two outward curves ; exterior line straight

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and obli(ine from costa before apex to inner margin at two-thirds : cell-spot round,
whitish ; fringe pale greenish white.

Himhvimjs : paler green, without any markings : cell-spot white : veins of both
wings pale.

Underside i)ale green. Head, face, thorax, and abdomen pale green.

Expanse of wings : 28 — 30 mm.

Three 6 S from west of Dinan, Amu Daria.

Ver}- much like E. dis/Htrtita Wlk. (= eft'onimtn Warr.), but distinguished by
the green, not reddish, face, and the absence of any markings on the hindwings.

Veins 3, 4 of neither wing stalked : hiudtibiac with lour spurs.

30. Helicopage (?) velata sj). nov.

Forewim/s: delicate i>ale green, with the markings dull olive; costa slightly
paler, with a few olive-fuscous strigac ; first line thick, at one-third, very sinuous,
and intermitted in lower half of cell; an olive spot at base on the median vein,
another near base of cell, and the discal spot olive ; postmedian and submarginal
lines zigzag, ajiproximated, running mainly parallel to hindmargin, thickened and
diffuse below costa, semi-obsolete and obscure below middle ; an olive spot before
apex : fringe pale green, chequered with olive beyond the veins.

IliiidwiM/s : with the two outer lines only ; these very faint at costa, below the-
radial lost in a large dull dark olive-green patch, which fills up the anal quarter of
the wing, except just along hindmargin ; fringe as in forewings.

Underside whitish green ; the costa of forewings ochreous, with large fuscous
spots ; the commencement of the lines marked with fnscous blotches ; hindwing
with a fuscous submarginal fascia from anal angle to radial, somewhat diffused
basewards. Forelegs and palpi externally fuscous ; face, vertex, tliorax, and
abdomen pure green.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

One c? from Woodlark Island, 1895 (Meek).

Differs from typical Helicopage in having the retinaculum of ordinary structure;,
and vein 11 does not anastomose with 12.

31. Microloxia (?) pallida >p. nov.

Forewings : very pale whitish green, without any markings ; fringe white.

Hindwings : white ; the fringe the same.

Underside like upper. Head and thorax pale green ; abdomen wanting,,
probably white.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One ? from the Canaries.

The antennae of this ? are subserrate : the wings elongate and narrow : paljii
thick, roughly scaled, the third joint as long as the second, slightly depressed and
blunt. Its real position must remain doubtful for the present.

32. Prasinocyma albipunctata sp. nov.

Foreirings : apple-green, densely traversed throughont by numerous irregularly
undulating paler streaks : costa brown from base to middle, then finely white, with
a narrow brown streak beneath apex ; a distinct brown discal spot, with darker

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■centre, at the lower end of tlie cell : fringe in its basal half green, then pearly grey
to the apex, jjreceded by a series of very minute white dots at the end of each vein ;
siibterminal line indicated by a series of rather larger white spots on the veins.

liindwings : like forewiugs, but without the snbtermiual row of dots.

Thorax, abdomen, vertex, and face all green, the last with a minute white dot
•on either side at top and bottom; antennae ochreous white. Underside pale glaucous
green, silky.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One 6 from Snmba, February lyUO (W. Doherty).

33. Rhomborista undiferata.

Comibaena undiferafa Wlk., XXXV. p. 1612.

Walker, in describing this Celebes species, speaks of the hindmargin of fore-
wings as augulated. In three specimens from S. Celebes, collected by W. Doherty
in 1891, all at the same time of year, August and September, a 6 aud ? show
hardly a trace of a bend in the hindmargin, but the third example, a S , has a very
strongly developed angle ; in this instance the marginal line answers Walker's
description exactl_y, and the blotch at anal angle is much longer and shallower, with
white centre, than in the other two : of these, the S has the marginal line very
much reduced, and the blotch at anal angle rounded and black-brown, while the ?
has the marginal line wider than in either of the i S, and, like the blotch at anal
angle, which is very large, pale brick-red. The insect would seem therefore to be a
variable one. In all tlie examples the costal edge of forewings is pure white, with
a broader yellowish line beneath it, and this yellow line, not the white costal streak,
is speckled with red ; the outer cross line, slightly paler and denticulate, is very
obscure, and only visible in one of the S 6- The species is quite distinct from the
Indian deci'xata Wlk.

34. Thalassodes viridicaput sp. nov.

Distinguislied from <jii<idriiiia Guen. by its much smaller size, and the hardly
angulated hindmargin of hindwings ; face and i)alpi pale pink ; vertex green ; costa
of forewings and fringes pale yellow.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One i from S. ('elebcs.

3.5. Uliocnemis delicatior sp. nov.

Forewings : delicate pale green, with the costa rather broadly whitisli : the two
transverse lines slender, white, irregular ; the first before one-third, curved and
waved ; the second beyond two-thirds, slightly angulated outwards below tlie costa
and again above anal angle, where it is followed by a pale brick-red bhitch with two
brown dots at its outer edge ; an indistinct waved white snbmarginal line : cell-spot
small, dark ; fringe whitish green ; a faint wliitish sntinsion between veins 4 and -j
from outer line to hindmargin.

llimhringx : with a large brown-red curved blotch at apex and a pale jiinkish
one at anal angle, the two united by a narrow jiale marginal band, slightly marked
with brown above and with a pinkish line down its centre ; some brown dashes
along hindmargin ; cell-spot brnwii.

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Underside whitisb green, with the cell-spots brown, and the ujiioal blotch of
hindwings showing through. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale green, mixed
with whitish.

E.\panse of wings : ? , 34 mm.

One ? from Japan.

A <J in the British Mnsenm Collection is smaller — 2U mm. i'. amoenaria
Oberth. from Askold Island is closely allied, lint the blotches consist of two
reddish sjiots.

Subfamily STERRHINAE.

'M\. Brachycola mediusta.

Ferixera mediusta Warr., Nov. Zool. III. p. 114, i.

This species was wrongl)- referred to Perixera ; a second <? , lately received, has
all the legs perfect. To the original description there may be added the remark that
the costa of hindwings, along the widened dark central bar, is bright red.

3T. Chiysocraspeda marginata sp. nov.

Forewings : yellow, with orange-red dusting : the base, costa, and hiudmargin
purplish grey: first line near base, angled below costa, then oblique inward, obscnred
by the basal grey shade which it limits, the inner margin at base remaining yellow;
median shade grey, cnrved and dentate : cell-spot minute, black : outer line dark
brown, from costa at two-thirds to inner margin at two-thirds, strongly outcurved so
as nearly to touch hindmargin between veins 2 and 4: apical grey area with paler
patches in middle : a row of blackish marginal dots between the veins, and minute
ones at their ends ; fringe pale.

Hindicings : with the outer brown line parallel to hiudmargin at three-fifths,
leaving outer two-fifths grey, with paler patches along the centre: base of wing grey;
cell-spot white, placed in the grey median shade.

Underside straw-yellow, with all the markings pale grey, rosy-tinged. Face
yellow ; palpi externally deep red ; vertex, shaft of antennae, and thorax reddish
grey: abdomen yellowish.

Expanse of wings : :^(j mm.

One 6 from the Khasia Hills, December 1896.

3x. Craspedia densicornis sp. nov.

Foretcings : pale ochreous, with u faint flesh-coloured tinge, the costa faiiitly
darker at base ; the five lines waved, very obscure, being only slightly deeper tinted
than the ground-colour, all jiarallel to hindmargin ; a marginal row of minute black
dots; fringe concolorous; cell-spot large, round, blackish.

lliiul icings : the same.

Underside greyer, esj)ecially the forewings. Palpi and face brown ; vertex
white ; thorax and abdomen concolorous with wings.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

Four i i from Sumba, February IS'.IO (^V. Doherty).

The species is easily distingnished by the antennae : these are very long, ([uite
three-fourths of the length of the wing, with long fine fascicles of cilia.

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39. Craspedia dohertyi !^l^ nov.

Foretcings : whitish, with very fine and sparse dark irroiation ; the lines
ochveons, diffase ; first at oue-fonrth, curved ; second in middle, snUdeutate, passing
ontside the distinct black cell-spot, and strongly incurved below the cell ; onter line
at two-thirds, wavy and deuticnlate, with a stronger projection beyond cell : sub-
marginal line forming three outward curves and approximated to hindmargin below
middle ; a fine marginal line, leaving the extreme margin white, with concise black
dashes between the veins ; fringe whitish ochreous.

Hindwingx : with the first line absent ; the submarginal and marginal Hues
both slightly waved.

Underside glossy, pale ochreous, with the lines faintly showing through ; no
cell-spots. Face, palpi, and collar dark brown; vertex, thorax, and abdomen white,
the abdomen indistinctly ringed with ochreons.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

Two ? ? from S. Celebes, August and September 1S91 (W. Doherty).

Allied to C.jibuluta, Guen.

40. Mnesithetis inobtrusa sp. nov.

ForetciiKjx : dull olive fawu-colour: the lines faintly jmrple, very obscure ; the
antemedian and postmedian barely visible ; outer line plainer, denticulated ; sub-
marginal shade obscure ; fringe concolorous, with a row of purplish dashes at base,
separated by ochreons spots ; cell-spot large, blackish.

Hindichigs : like forewings, but the cell-spot dull whitish, of raised scales.

Underside dull greyish ochreous, rufous-tinged ; the cell-spots and outer lines
of both wings dark grey. Palpi and face deep brown; vertex and antennae whitish;
collar ferruginons; thorax and jsatagia pale lilac-grey; abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

One c? from S. Celebes, Angnst and Sei)tember l.^iil ("W. Doherty).

41. Mnesithetis ochrea sp. no v.

Foreicings : ochreous, darkened with olive-tinged scales ; the lines obscure,
dull olive, vertical ; first at one-third, straight ; second at two-thirds and third at
five-sixths, both crennlate; space between first and second slightly darker: cell-spot
obscure; fringe concolorous.

UitKhrhig.f : with only a curved outer line distinct, with traces l)cyond it of a
submarginal line; cell-spot linear, of pale ochreous raised scales.

Underside whitish, flushed in the forewings with pink; costa of both wings
yellowish. Face and palpi brown; thorax and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 25 mm.

One 6 from Woodlark Island, Ib'.iu (Meekj.

42. Orgauopoda subbrimnea sj). nov.
Forcwingx : dull brownish ochreous, with a rufous tinge, without any dark
dusting ; the cell-spot rather large, brownish ; indistinct darker antemedian, post-
median, and onter lines ; the costa yellowish, becoming fulvous at base ; fringe
concolorous, with a row of reddisli dashes at base between the veins, interrupted by
yellowish spots at their euds.

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Hindwings: the same, with the cell-spot elongated, double, the edge dark
hrown, with wliite scales inside, especially in the npper half.

Underside of forewings rather dcej) rosy ; of hindwiiiiis paler, more ochreons ;
the lines faintly marked. Face and jialpi deep red-brown ; vertex wliitish : thorax
and abdomen like wings, the abdomen deeper coloured, tinged with red.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

One S from S. Celebes, August and Sejitember IS'.i] (W. Doherty).

Akin to <>. oliresce/is Warr. from Queeiishind.

43. Perixera confiniscripta rubripuncta snbsp. nov.

Differs from confiii/M-rijtta Warr. from tlic Tciiimber [shmds in having both
discal spots large and brick-red in colour.

One iS from S. Celebes, August and Septemlier Is'.tl (W. Doherty).

In Nov. ZooL. IV. p. 48, I described a pair of insects from Tenimber as
Brachjcola (?) minomta. This name must sink, as the species is identical with
Perixera conjini.fcripfd, Nov. Zool. III. p. 374.

44. Perixera (?) pleniluna sp. nov.

Forewings : wholly dull red, witliout dusting or series of spots, except those
along hiudmargin ; the lines obscurely traceable as slightly darker denticulated
curved shades ; cell-spot red, linear, near base, the cell being only one-third of the
length of wing.

Hinduiiigs : the same, but the cell-spot large, roundish, silvery white, with a
tine black somewhat irregular edge.

Underside of both wings deep rosy; the cell-spot of hindwings pale. Head,
thorax, and palpi all red; abdomen wanting.

Expanse of wings : 35 mm.

One ? from Penang, 18U6 (Curtis).

Eindmargin of both wings not crennlate: hindwings with very faint elliow at
vein 4 and prominent anal angle.

4u. Perixera subsimilis sp. nov.

Closely allied to P. roseofii!<a AVarr. from Borneo, but smaller — 3n mm. instead
of 30 mm. — less rosy, and with the cell-spot of hindwings wholly red, not as in that
species triangular, with a white centre. The area between the inner and median
line is slightly deeper tinged than the rest of wing.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

One 6 from S. Celebes, August and September 1>'.»1 (\V. Dolierty).

40. Rhodostrophia farinosa sj). nov.

Forewings ; ochreons grey, thickly dusted with darker ; the costa at base finely
black; the lines dark grey, indistinct: first at one-fourth, curved : outer line at two-
thirds, obscnrely waved, slightly outcnrved above and incurved lielow the middle,
darkest on costa and inner margin ; snbmarginal line of dark grey lunules, those
below costa, ojjposite cell, and on submedian fold being nearer base of wing than the
rest; a row of fine blackish marginal dashes: fringe concolorous: cell-spot large, dark.

llinthcings : the same, but without first line.

Underside of forewings dnll grev, of hindwings whitish; the outer line and

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cell-spots marked. Face ami palpi dark brown ; vertex and base of antennae snow-
white ; thorax and abdomen coucolorous with wings.

Expanse of wings : 3.3 mm.

One c? from Knkn-Nor, Thibet ; one ? from Ta-tsien-lu.

Triorisma geu. nov.

Like RhodoMrophia, but with the c? antennae snbserrate and ciliated : in the
forewings the last four subcostals are stalked, and the second anastomoses with the
first and then with the stalk of the others, so forming a donlile areole. as in Hhorlo-
■stropkia. The second median in both wings rises before the end of cell.

Type : Triori.fma gcimttej-as Hmpsn.

The definition of this genus was accidentally omitted in Nov. Zooi.. IV. p. •,'2<i.

Subfamily TRICHOPTERYGIXAE.
47. Remodes cirrhigera sp. nov.
?. Forewinyi: yellow-green, the lines rather deeper green; basal line marked
•with pnrplish black on costa, snbcostal, median, and snbmedian veins: central fascia
with its inner edge formed of one, its outer of three thick lines, all marked with
blackish above the subcostal, the outer three from vein (3 to the snbmedian, the
inner one only between median and submedian; central area green, with the cell-spot
darker green; two submargiual lines, marked with purplish black wedge-shaped
spots, except between veins (j and 7; a narrow pirrplish grey marginal fascia, marked
with darker spots on the veins; fringe with basal half iron-grey, outer half pale
grey, the darker basal half interrupted by pale spots beyond the ends of veins. In
the two ? ? the blackish markings of the central fascia coalesce laterally so as to
form a dark blotch.

Hinthcinys : dark grey.

Underside dark cinereous. Head, palpi, thorax, and base of abdomen yellow-
green; apical segments of abdomen tinged with grey; antennae externally with each
segment edged in front and at sides with black, leaving the centre yellowish.

In the i the hindlegs are greatly reduced, the tibia and tarsus together
scarcely equalling the length of the femur; the end of the femur has two tufts of
grey hairs, the outer short, the inner concealing the tibia, which is much swollen;
the basal segment of abdomen bears a pair of small lateral tufts of hair, as do the
subapical segments ; the anal segment itself gives off from its base a i)air of long
curved tufts which are curled round its extremity.

Expanse of wings : i, 32 mm.; ? , 28 mm.

One i, two ? ?, from Woodlark Island, 1895 (A. S. Meek).

The iron-grey fringe and marginal band distinguish the species from all otlurs.

Subfamily TEPHROCLYSTIINAE.
Simotricha gen. nov.

A development of ChlorocbjMH. In the $ the area about anal angle of fore-
wings above is clotlied with rough hairs, all the markings there being interrupted.
The npperside of hindwings is similarly without markings, bnt clothed with short
appressed scales.

Type : Hiiiiotricha lacinda Butler {F.iipi(liecid).

C :i!)(i )

4>. Simotricha con versa sp. uov.

Like S. lucinela Bntler, but tlie liiiuhviiigs (if the c? above have the space front
near costa to snbmediaii fold for two-thirds of the length of the wing clothed with
smooth appressed blackisli scales ; the underside of the forewiugs bearing a corre-
sponding bed of deep brown scales, extending from middle of cell to snbmedian vein,
limited outwardly by the outer edge of the central fascia.

Expanse of wings : 10 mm.

One S from the Khasias, July 1896.

SuBFAMttY DEILINIINAE.
4it. Eugnesia intensa >p. nov.

Forewings : yellow, blotched and striated with orange-red, but so overspread
with smoky brown and tawny that only a subcostal patch from base to end of cell,
the subcostal edge of second line, and the extreme himlmargin arc left lighter: costa
dark metallic grey-brown, with fine yellowish and dark striae : tlie three ordinary
lines are visible, more clearly towards costa, by tho denticnlations being filled up
with deeper black-brown; cell-spot small, black: fringe mottled yellow and brown-
black, with a distinct black basal line.

Hindicimis : wholly brown-black, except the edge of the second line, whicii
below costa forms a single yellow lunnlar blotch : some obscure fulvous jiatches
along the extreme hindmargin; fringe as in forewings.

Underside washed with dull fnlvons: both wings with a broad smoky fnscons-
marginal fascia, preceded by a slightly jialer yellowish shade. Face and vertex
yellow : palpi tawny : collar and shoulders metallic grey-brown; thorax yellow;
abdomen black-brown, with anal segment and small dorsal spots ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 42 mm.

One c? from S. Celebes, August and September 1801 (W. Doherty).

50. Syntaracta limitata sji. no v.

Forewings: straw-colour, speckled with ferruginous: costal area above sub-
costal vein dark grey-brown, with fuscous striae, the extreme edge paler; first line
at one-third, oblir^ne and interrupted, dull ferruginous; outer line at three-fourths,
fuscous brown, oliliijne and slightly angled on the median, its outer edge subdentate
on the veins; snbmarginal line rusty brown, interrupted, witli a brown blotch beyond
it at vein 6; the area between veins 3 and 4 brown throughout; marginal line thick,
dark brown; fringe straw-colour, chequered with brown at the ends of the veins;
cell-sjiot lilack -brown.

llindiringii : similar, with a brown-black mark close to base.

Underside duller; the markings thicker and greyer. Face and palpi ferruginous;
thorax and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

One i from Omei Shan, W. China, 18U2.

SuiUAMii.v Al'.HAXINAE.
•I I. Abraxas semitmrpis sp. uov.
Forewings: white, but the ground-colour is almost entirely obscured by a
snft'nsion of brown-grey, caused by the usual spots and blotches becoming blurred

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tiud innuing into each other ; an oblique white patch from the apex and au irregular
blotch beyond the cell-spot, which is deep brown-black ; a broad carved or sin nous
fascia can be detected beyond it, along the centre of which a dull yellow interrupted
line is visible ; basal patch marked with blackish and yellow scales : fringe
brownish grey.

liindiciiiys : white, with a small black cell-spot; a curved postmedian row of
brown-grey spots, increasing in size towards the inner margin, and separated by a
yellow spot from another brown-grey blotch at anal angle ; a row of shallow brown
lunnles along margin between veins ; fringe mottled brown and white.

Underside the same, but duller, greyer. Face and palpi black : thorax and
abdomen yellow, spotted with black.

Expanse of wings : 46 mm.

One 6 from Omei Shan, W. China, 1892.

Svi'.FAMiLV BRACCINAE.
52. Stenocharta picaria s]). uov.

Forewiiigs: deep black; beyond the cell an oblique white blotch, tlie lower
half between veins 2 and 4 broader than the upper; fringe black.

Ilindicing.s: white; the base, costa, and inner margin narrowly, the hindmargin
broadly black.

Underside the same. Head, thorax, and abdomen black: face, collar, and
forelegs white.

Expanse of wings : 36—30 mm.

Two SS from Kapaur, New Guinea, December 1806 (W. Duherty).

53. Hylemera nummulifera sp. uov.

Foretrhu/s : hyaline white in the middle, the basal area and outer half black;
edge of basal area vertical; edge of marginal area curved outwards from before
middle of costa, and inwards from submedian fold to inner margin at two-thirds;
top of the white area above the subcostal vein orange, above which the costal
margin itself is narrowly black ; in the outer black area are two round spots, the
upper larger and yellowish, the lower smaller and orange; fringe black; base of
wing yellow along submedian vein.

Hiiidwings : white, with broad Ijlack hindmargin, containing a single round
orange spot close to margin between veins 3 and 4.

Underside the same. Head and thorax blackish: abdomen grey; collar
crimson.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

One i from Bopoto, Upper Congo, 1806.

•J4. Hylemera renifera sp. nov.

Forewinga: white, semitransparent ; costal margin to subcostal vein lilack:
a square deep black spot before the discocellular, touching the costal streak, ami
prolonged as a smoky shade between veins 2 and 3 to join the dark hindmargin,
which is broad at apex and anal angle, narrow between: the white space between
central fascia and margin broadly kidney-shaped.

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lliHchcings : white, witli hindmargin brouiUy black at apex and anal anirle,
narrow between, where there is a deep semicircular excision: fringes black.
Underside the same. Head, thorax, and abdomen blackish.
Expanse of wings: :!2 mm.
One S from Sierra Leone, 1890.

Subfamily ASCOTINAE.
o5. Darisa differens sp. nov.

Fori icings : greyish white, thickly sjirinklwl with ochreons and fuscons striae;
a double curved fuscous basal line; black coll-sjiot, with dark costal spot above it,
indicating the median line; outer line denticulate, nearly parallel to hindmargin,
slightly projecting at vein 6, followed by an ochreous fuscous shade, which contains
a dark blotch between veins 3 and 4; submarginal lino pale, obscure, preceded by
dark Innnles at costa, beyond cell, and above inner margin; a row of distinit black
marginal spots ; fringe greyish fuscous.

Hindwhigs : with straight antemedian line; the rest as in forewiugs.

Underside dirty whitish, freckled with grey; the cell-spots, and two outer lines
indistinctly, fuscons; a dark fuscous apical blotch on forewiugs. Palpi fuscous;
face, thorax, and abdomen greyish white, with dark speckles.

Expanse of wings : 58 mm.

One S from Omei Shan, W. China, 1892.

5(). Lassaba subdecorata sp. nov.

Foreuings : whitish, covered with close fuscous striae, which are densest along
costa and hindmargin; basal area suftused with fuscous, edged by the first line at
one-fourth, which is curved and sinuous ; outer line sharply denticulated, from costa
at three-fourths to inner margin beyond middle, incurved from vein .5 to snbmedian
fold, then excurved: subniargiual line pale, obscure, preceded by a dark fuscous
dentate shade, interrupted below middle ; a marginal row of dark spots between the
veins ; fringe fuscons; cell-spot black.

Ilindwings : similar, but the cell-spot large and prominent; no basal patch or
first line ; second line central, sinuous and dentate, followed by an ochreous shade,
which also appears on forewings on iuner.margin.

Underside white; forewings with costa yellowish, with broad fuscons strigae;
the large cell-spot, punctiform outer line, and interrupted marginal fascia fuscous ;
this fascia forms an apical blotch, containing the apex itself whitish, and a blotch
on veins 3 and 3. Hindwings with cell-spot, a costal spot above it, the outer and
submarginal lines, both interrupted in middle, fuscous. Palpi and lower half of
face brown; upper half with vertex, thorax, and abdomen whitish, speckled with
fuscous: abdomen beneath and legs jiaie luteous.

Exjianse of wings : .">>> mm.

One S from Omei Shan, West China, 1892.

Allied to L. olditeratu Moore from India.

Subfamily SELIDOSEMINAE.
oT. Petelia farva sp. nov.
Forewings: fuscons brown; the costa paler, with fuscous striae; four obscure
brown transverse shades, basal, antemedian, postmedian, and submarginal ; the three

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first narrow, the last broader, its outer edge irregularly dentate, marked by dark
spots ou veins followed by white scales; three snbapical white marks beyond;
cell-spot blackish, indistinct: fringe concolorons, with a white patch at apex; basal
line dark, with whitish dots at the vein-ends.

Hiiul/vings : with antemedian and postmedian brown bands; the cell-spot
linear, white; fringe wholly brown.

Underside dull blnish grey, with fuscons striations, and a dark grey-brown
submarginal fascia; costa of fore wings ochreons-tinged; a white spot at apex of
fringe. Face and palpi dark brown; thorax and abdomen like wings; vertex
white.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

One S from Tawaya, north of Palos Bay, (Celebes, August and September 1896
(Doherty).

Related to i-e.ciHnrki Guen. from Borneo.

SrBFAMiLV SEMIOTHISINAE.
58. Semiothisa emersaria.

Mucaria emersaria Wlk., XXIII. \>. ;j2.), ? (Silhet ; Moulmein).

Macaria translineata Wlk., XXXV. p. 1658, cJ (Celebes).

The species described by Walker from Celebes does not seem to be sprcitiralhf
separable from emersaria, the Indian species, though the different island forms may
afford slight points of dissimilarity from each other. In a ? from Sumba, which
answers almost exactly to his description of translineata from Celebes, tlie black
discal blotch of forewings is strongly developed, and the costal triangle and centre
of postmedian band of hindwings are both chestnut, while the postmedian fascia
beneath is chestnut also. In a ? from Nias the lower half of the black discal mark
is obsolete, the postmedian fascia and the basal half of wings olive-grey, the fascia
being broader and below dull brown. Again, in a S from near Manila the fascia is
much restricted and ochreous grey, while the basal two-thirds as far as the outer
line is pale grey with scarcely any darker speckles or suffusion, the fascia below
being narrow and dull brown ; the discal black blotch is double, as in the Sumba
specimen, but, like the fascia, much narrower. In structure and outline of wing all
the forms are absolutely identical.

59. Semiothisa parallacta \\';irr., Nov. Zool. \\. p. 112, S.

The ? of this species differs from the S in having none of the black markings,
except the blackish dots along the costa ; the lines are therefore much more obscure
and almost lost in the dense dusting ; the pale apical streak in the forewings is
likewise unrepresented ; the space between the outer and submarginal lines is
slightly darkened so as to form a fascia.

The ? comes from Wassin, British East Africa, and is dated May 1889.

60. Tephrina auteunata ■■'p. nov.

cJ. Forewings: smoky ochreous, with numerous black transverse striae ; the costa
obli<incly striated with yellow and fuscous, rough-scaled ; the base rather darker :
first line curved, at one-fourth, fuscous : second line at two-thirds, brown, evenly
curvcd; cell-spot blackish; marginal area darker through the striae being denser; a

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row of marginal black spots; fringe very broail, oilireous fuscous, with a fiuo whitish
middle line and the ajiices white.

Hiiidiriiujx : similar, their apex darker.

Underside bright fulvous, with fuscous striatious : cell-spot, outer line, and a
median shade fuscous. Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings. Antennae with the
shaft alternate!}- black and snow-white : the ])ectinations black, dusted with white.

? . Foif'irinqs : ochreous, covered with dense sandy brown atoms and striae :
costa striated with darker, and with three dark spots at one-third, one-half, and
two-thirds, from which the three transverse lines rise : these are brown, curved and
waved ; a dark cell-spot and row of black marginal dots ; fringe concolorous.

JlinJ/riiiyx : similar.

Underside pale. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous.

Expanse of wings : 6, 22 mm.; ? , 20 mm.

Two ? ? from Dar-es-Salaam, German E. Africa : 1 J from llustenburg,
Transvaal, September and October 1894 (Ayres).

Subfamily EXNOMINAE.
Gonophaga gen. uov.

?. Foreicings : with costa nearly straight ; apex produced, acute ; hindmargiu
strongly angled at vein 4, concave and subcrennlate abnve, oblinuc lielow: anal
angle obtuse ; inner margin straight.

lliiidicings : truncate at apex : hindmargiu with ])romincnt teeth at veins 4
and 7, deeply excised between, with a smaller tooth at vein 6 ; anal angle square.

Antennae in ? simple ; palpi porrect, stout ; tongue and frenulum present ;
legs long.

Jt'iuiratio/i : as in ^In/soi/raj-///': Warr., but in the forewings 10 and 11 are
coincident throughout.

Type : Gonophaya subptdckra sj). nov.

01. Gonophaga subpulchra sp. nov.

Forewings: fawn-colour, reddish-tinged towards hindmargiu and sjieckled
throughout with black scales ; first line hardly marked except by a few black scales;
second double, from middle of inner margin towards ajjcx, retracted above vein 0 to
costa and there obscure ; ihe inner arm red-brown, slightly bent on submediau fold ;
the outer finer, marked by black dots on veins ; faint traces of a submarginal line,
with dark dots between the veins ; cell-s]iot brown, with a jialo centre: fringe red-
brown.

Jlindicings : with a thick red-brown autemedian line, followed by the cell-spot ;
a postmedian row of black dots on veins ; a submarginal straight rufous line,
externally edge<l with paler.

Underside : basal area ochreous, tinged with brownish and densely speckled
with black; a black streak from cell-spot to inner margin; nuirginal half red-brown ;
the submarginal line marked by whitish spots ; ape.x of forewings with a large
white blotch : a row of black marginal spots at base of fringe. Head, thorax, and
abdomen above concolorous with wings ; abdomen beneath and legs pale ochreous,
speckled with dark.

Expanse of wings : 48 mm.

One ? from Mackay, Queensland.

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6'i. Miantochora inaequilinea Warr., Nov. Zooi,. 11. p. I4-").
This species comes Irom S. Africa, not from 8. America.

03. Omiza sublimbaria sp. uov.

ForeiriiK/.-i : dull purple ; a pale greeu baud from ape.K of fore wings, widening
to inner margin, containing on its outer edge a thick olive-green oblique line ; inner
line brown, from costa beyond one-third, at first broad and oblirpie outwards, then
curved inwards to below the median, and again outwards, becoming olive-green
where it enters the green fascia and reaching inner margin close to outer line :
cell-spot oval, purplish grej', tinged witli brown : fringe dull purple.

Hindwinys : with base and hiudmargin purple, the green fascia wider, the
costal area dull piuk.

Underside of forewings fiery red ; the costa dull orange ; hindmargin dark
grey, narrowing to a point at apex ; inner margin pale grey ; hindwings dull
■orange. Palju orange ; face dark brown ; vertex, antennae, thorax, and abdomen
above puri^le-grey ; underside of abdomen and legs bright reddish orange.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One ¥ from Lawas, N. Borneo (A. Everett).

Triprora gen. nov.

Foreuiin/n : with costa shouldered at base, strongly convex at apex, and faintly
incurved between ; apex depressed, blunt ; hindmargin obliquely curved, faintly
indented below apex ; inner margin convex at base, concave beyond, and slightlv
lobed and fringed at anal angle.

Hindicings : with costa strongly shouldered at base, excised in middle ; hind-
margin truncate from apex to veiu 7, which is shortly dentate, and slightly bent at
vein 4.

Antennae of i l)ipectinate for three-fourths ; j)alpi porrect, the basal joint as
well as each of the others shortly rostriform ; tongue and frenulum present ; no
fovea ; hindtibiae with four spurs.

Neuratioii : forewings, cell scarcely lialf as long as wing; discocellular
■oblique ; first median at seven-eighths, second and third from lower end of cell :
lower radial from well above middle of discocellular, ujjper from top angle ; 7, 8,
1) stalked; 10 and 11 stalked, 10 anastomosing and becoming coincident with 0.
Hindwings with costal approximated to subcostal for half cell ; both subcostals and
last two medians from end of cell.

Tyjae : 'iiiprora trizonata Saalm. (^Hexeris).

<U. Triprora trizonata.

IJexerix trizonata ISaalm., Maday. p. 408, PI. 14, fig. 278.

Hyposidra linearis Warr., Nov. Zool. IV. p. 257.

I find that the species described by me as //. li)U'ari.-< from Natal is, if not
identical with, as I believe it to be, certainly closely allied to, IL'xeris trizonata
8aalm. from Madagascar. Saalmiiller died l)eforc describing his genus, but the
name could not have stood, having been already used by Cirote in 1875 for Cfdti/dris,
a species of Thyrididae. I have therefore renamed and described the genus as
Ti'iprora.

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C"). Xenographia manifesta ^<I). nov.

Foreie'tnqs : vellowisli oclireous, sparsely black-speckled; first liue at one-
third, distinct, formed of three black Inimles, one from subcostal to median, the
second from median to submediau, and the third, abbreviated, to inner margin, the-
last two obliqne inwards, followed by a fulvous shade : cell-spot round, black ;
outer line finer, brown-black, edged internally with fulvous, externally by a whitish
line, running nearly jiarallel to hindmargin from costa before apex to inner margin
at two-thirds ; submarginal line marked by dark blotches, a black-brown one on
vein 6, a smaller one below vein 4, and an indistinct one at anal angle being visible :
a black-brown snbapical dash along hindmargin to vein (i ; fringe straw-colour,
black towards apex.

Hindicings : with the line postmediau ; cell-spot black.

Underside the same, with colour and markings all dull. Head, thorax, and
abdomen concolorons with wings : palpi darker : collar and shoulders, like base
of costa, brown.

Exi)ause of wings : 34 mm.

One (J from the Khasias, October 1896.

66. Zomia innotata sp. nov.

Foretvings : olive-green ; the costa spotted with dark, and in the c? with
blackish strigae from base to middle : first line or band deeper olive, outwardly
ditfuse, its inner edge in the ? before one-third of costa, in the c? at two-fifths and
therefore more oblique ; outer shade dark olive, diffuse inwardly, its outer edge
angled at veins 6 and 3, from five-sixths of costa to five-sixths of inner margin,
edged below with dark purplish black : marginal area shot with purplish grey, with
some scattered black strigulae, and traces of a submarginal black line which forms
a strong curve from vein ."> to 2, touching hindmargin ; fringe purplish grey;
cell-spot green.

Hindicings : orange, with the inner margin a mixture of ochreons, green, and
I)urple scales, with the origin of a dark outer line above anal angle.

Underside of both wings dull orange, the fringes the same : marginal area
of fore wings tinged with dull red, extending into the fringe. Palj)i, antennae, and
abdomen above purplish black ; head and thorax fawn-colour, intermixed with
rufous and olive ; the face deeper fawn ; first segment of abdomen ochreous yellow.

Expanse of wings : c?, 28 mm.; ?,32mm.

A pair from Penang, 18SI() (Curtis).

Nearest to serpc/itinario AVlk., but smaller.

Erratum. — The description of I'xilorcrca apirinta as new at p. 250 was
inserted by mistake, the species having been already described at p. '.>8, where,
however, the genns I'mlocerea was placed in the wrong subfamily, as it belongs
to the Ennominae, not to the Ascotinae.

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PHYLLIXRUS LICHENOSUS.
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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF LIZARDS AND OF
A TREE-FROG FROM NORTH- EASTERN QUEENSLAND.

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By in\. A. GUNTHER, F.R.S.

(Plates XL, XII.)

H. W. S. DAY, who has collected iu Australia aud New Guinea tor the
Triug Museum for some years past, has sent to me a few reptiles which he
iilitaiiied iu the Bartle Frere Mountains. Althouijh specimens from tin; same
district seem to have previously reached the Sydney and Brisbane Museums, and have
been ably described in Australian Journals, I found in the consignment sent by
Mr. Day some interesting forms which I am unable to identify from the descriptions
jinblished.

Carphodactylus gen. no v. Geckon.

Digits rather slender, without any dilated portion, not fringed, with a row of
transverse lamellae below. Claws projecting, rooted between five small scutes, a
I)air on each side, and a median unpaired one above. The two or three distal joints
are angularly bent. Body covered witli flat, very minute granules ; larger tubercles
along the median line of the back, forming a sort of crest. Tail compressed,
tapering.

1. Carphodactylus laevis sp. uov.
(Plate XI.)

Habit slender. Head broad, very distinct from neck, depressed, concave
between the eyes and in the loreal region. Crown of the head bony and finely
rugose, without tubercles. Eyes large, directed i)b]i(piely forwards, about midway
between ear-opening and nostril ; upper eye-lid thin, with sharp i)rojecting margin.
Nostril small, iu the hinder edge of a rather large nasal ; nasals separated by a
patch of small flat scutes. Ear-opening vertical, oval, about one-fourth the size of
the eye. Rostral large, undivided ; upper labials seventeen, lower fourteen ; median
lower labial large, pentagonal, without post-mentals. Body nearly smooth, the
granulations being very minute and flat. Neck \v^th larger tubercles, forming a
triangular patch, the apex of which passes into a median dorsal stripe of tubercles,
which simulates a crest, and does not exteud on the tail. A patch of small scntes
in the ])ubic region. No praeanal pores. Legs slender, granular, witli minute
tubercles.

Tail not quite as long as the body, strongly muscular and comi)resscd in its
proximal portion, the distal being very thin and tapering ; there is no distinct
boundary between the two portions. The wjiolc tail is uniformly covered with small
flat granulations.

Light chestnut-brown, with scattered black spots, about the size of the ear-
opening, ou the back aud sides. Lower parts whitish, with small indistinct

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round white sjwts on the lower jiart of the sides. Tail nearly black, with live
broad whitish rings. Toes irregularly anmilated with whitish.

Total length

Distance of vent from snout

Lengtli of tail ......

Distance of tympanum from snout .
Diameter of the eye ....

Length of fore-limb ....

„ third finger ....

„ hind-limb ....

„ third toe .....

-'. Phyllurus lichenosus sji. nov.
(Plate XII.)

Closely allied to Phi/llanis platurtis, with which it agrees in the general form
of the head and body. The cliameter of the eye is considerably less than its distance
from the ear, and scarcely one-half of its distance from the end of the snout. Ear-
opening a narrow vertical slit. Nostril behind the rostral and supranasal, and above
the first labial. Rostral divided in the middle, very broad ; median lower labial
large, without post-mentals. Tliirteen upper and ten lower labials, without count-
ing some granules round the corner of the mouth. Upper parts covered with
minute granules, with larger conical tubercles which form about ten longitudinal
series ; the series on the border between the side and abdomen contains the most
slender and longest tubercles, all being soft and flexible. Lower parts with minute
flat granules, those in the pubic and ante-pubic regions being enlarged. No spine
above the eye.

Tail as long as the trunk, greatly depressed, leaf-like, ending in an abruptly
attenuated and tapering portion ; its margins are deeply scallojjed. As to the
upperside, the middle muscular jiart is finely granular, and the lateral membranaceous
l)art provided with two series of strong conical tubercles ; the edges of the lobes are
beset with thin spines. The attenuated part of the tail is armed with four series
of strong conical tubercles. Lower ])arts of the tail nuiibrmly granular, like the
abdomen.

Greyish, with symmetrical brown markings, confluent across the back, where
they form four broad cross-bands, the first occujjving the neck.

Total length ll!U millimetres.

Distance of snout from vent .... .s(j „

Diameter of eye ...... 0 „

licngth of tail .50 „

„ atlcnuati'd portion of tail . . I!l „

Tlie integuments of the tail of this species are still more highly sjiecialised for
protective i)urposes than in Phi/Uiiriin iilntuniH, of which 1 have seen specimens
with intact tail, ajjparently not reproduced. In fact the likeness to its surroundings
<if this gecko, when lying flat against a lichen-grown bark of a tree or a rock, must be
perfect. In the collection of the Natural History Museum are three specimens
from the Challenger collection obtained in Queensland, one adiili and two yonng.

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another .specimen IVoiii I'orl ( 'nrtis, coUerdMl liy Dr. ('i)|i])iiii;;i'i- dnriii'^ the vo3'!ige
ot'tlio Alrrt, iuiil ii fit'tli withcint locality reconled. whicli belong to the same species.

The question whether this sjiecies is ideatieal with Gf/iiinodrwti/lus coniiitus of
Ogilby {Records Austral. Mna. II. ji. .s) must be negatived at present, although this
species is reported from the same district, the Belleaden-Ker. In tlie full descrip-
tion which Mr. Ogilby gives of it, the author mentions a strong spinate knob
surmounted by a conical tubercle behind the eye : this is absent in our species.
Beside other differential characters, I may refer to the form of the intororbital
region of G. cornatus, which is described as a deep narrow fossa, owing to the much
enlarged and elevated su]iraciliary region. Its tail is described as covered above by
minute granular scales, intermi.Ked, except on a rerfehral patcli of the leaf-like
e.xpausion, with soft triangular appendages. In our species the granulated part,
which is devoid of tubercles, extends as a broad band along the whole length of the
muscular portion of the expanded tail.

There remains the question whether the specimens referred to onr species
represent, after all, only a certain condition of growth of the tail of I'hijllurus
platarus. This species was originally described from New South Wales specimens,
and may be readily distinguished by the absence of the series of slender tubercles
which flanks the abdomen of I'll, lichenosus. In the majority of the southern
s]iecimens which I have seen, the tail is reproduced and of that appearance which
has led to the description of the nominal form, P. incrmis. However, in a few
specimens the tail is apparently intact, showing quite a different arrangement of
the tubercles, as shown in fig. A of Plate XII. The tubercles are scattereil all
over the surface, except in a narrow median line, and the margin of the leaf-like
expansion is not lobulate. I have never seen a specimen of P. pl'Uiiru,>s like the
one mentioned by Mr. Ogilby (l.c. p. 10), which had a non-tubercular vertebral
jjatrh. Also, the margin of the tail of Pli. platnrus is remarkably thick and swollen.

One of the specimens in the Xatnral History Museum (the one without locality,
as mentioned above, and registered ."j8.4.16.4j is especially intere.sting, as it luis
the tail reproduced. I have figured its tail on Plate XII. fig. B. It is quite
different from a reproduced tail of Ph. platnrus: it is elongate leaf-shaped, not
terminating in a long cylindrical portion. Its margin is broad, very thin, and not
scalloped; in this specimen no tubercles or spines whatever are developed.

3. Egernia frerei »p. nov.

No curved groove behind the nostril. Nasals slightly separated from each
other ; posterior frontals forming a suture together ; vertical contracted in tlie
middle, twice as long as broad, longer and rather larger than the median occipital ;
five supraoculars, of which the second is the largest ; seven supraciliaries : a
complete ring of infraoculars, shutting the labials out of the orbit. Three pairs of
nuchals, of which the two posterior are very narrow. Ear-opening as large as the
eye, with three lobules in front, of which the upper is the largest and obtusely
rounded ; the two others small.

Thirty-four longitudinal rows ol scales round the body: the dorsal are the
largest, obtusely biiarinate : the lateral are the same si/.e as the ventral. As to
the scales on the side of the neck, those bciiind the ear and in front of the shoulder
are very small, and the intermediate visibly smaller than those on the side of the
trunk. Six praeauals.

Tail dejiressed near its root, compressed farther behind. The compressed

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portion is cl<itlie(l above witli a double series of larger scales, and below with a
single median series.

The adpressed limbs overlaji.

Brown, with faint blackish longitudinal bauds along the dorsal series of scales ;
sides blackish, with scattered bluish wliite spots, each contiued to a single scale.
Lower 2'arts whitish, with undulated blackish transverse lines across the throat
and chest.

Total length .

.

. 233 millimetres.

Distance between snout and

tympanum .

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. 1)3

Length of tail .

. 140

„ fore-limb.

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. 35

„ first hind-toe .

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„ second hind-toe (from base of first) .13 „

This species is certainly distinct from all which 1 know by autopsy, and cannot
be referred to any of the other described species, differing by the number or structure
of the scales, sctitellation of the head, etc.

4. Hyla dayi sj). nov.

Tongue subovate, slightly nicked behind. Vomerine teeth in two transverse
series, behind the level of the choauae. Head much depressed ; snout rather longer
than the diameter of the orbit ; canthus rostralis distinct, loreal region sloping
outwards ; interorbital space broader than the upper eye-lid : tympanum distinct,
one-fourth the area of the eye. Fingers strongly webbed, the web extending to the
penultimate phalanx of the third finger ; toes fully webbed. Discs of the fingers
not (juite as large as the tj-mpanum ; a fold along the inner edge of the tarsus.
The distance between vent and snout equals that between vent and heel. Skin
smooth above, granular below ; a fold above the tympanum, none across the chest.
Uniform brownish above (in spirit), whitish below.

Distance of snout from veut . . . .52 millimetres.
Length of hind-limb ...... 1)2 „

EXPLANATION UF THE I'LATES.

riate XI. Upper and side views of Carpkodactylus laetis. Side and lower
views of third toe (enlarged).

Plate XII. PhjUuriis Iklienoxnfi. Fig. A. Upjier view of tail of Ph. /Aaturus.
Fig. B. Upper view of tail of I'h. Uclienosus (reproduced).

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FURTHER NOTES ON GIGANTIC LAND TORTOISES.

By the HON, WALTER ROTHSCHILD.

(Plate XIII.)

SINCE my last recunl nf tlio large tortoise liviug at Triug, which 1 have
hitherto noticed under the head of Tcstiido elepliantiwi, but whose oldest
name is Ti'stado yiyantfa Schweigg., I have taken very carefnl measurements with
the aid of two builder's " plumh-lines," and I find I have formerly made several
mistakes. I therefore give here correct weight and measurements, taken on
August 7tli, 1897.

Weight 3 cwt. 0 qtrs. 2i!| llis. = SSSJ llis.
Length of carapace in straight line . . 40^ inches.

., „ over curve . . . o'^J^ „

Widtli of carapace straight .... 'i'i\ „

,, ,, over curve . . .50 „

„ tortoise over curve .... ,55 „

Plastron width 30 „

length 34 „

I am pleased to say that, after a lot of trouble, I have succeeded in getting
over from Mauritius the very large tortoise which was brought there from Egmont
Island, one of the group of islands in the (Uiagos Archipelago called " 77^? Si.r
Ixlandx" by its former owner Mons. Leopold Antelme.

This tortoise had been known to exist on Egmont Island some hundred and
fifty years, and was of very large size if not fullgrown when fir.st found there.

Its carapace is identical in characters with the carapace in the Paris Museum
in the Jardin des Plautes, which was described by Messrs. Dumeril k Biliron
under the name of 'J'cstudo (hmdhu. Dr. Giinther divided tlie tortoises of tlie type
inhabiting the Aldabra group of islands into lour species — Ti-Mvdo elepliantimi,
T. jionderom, T. //olol/.f.'fa, tiud T-diiudim. Now further investigations show that
T. ponderosa is merely a casual aberration of '/'. ('Icphuiithiii, and 7'. Iiololi.isn is
identical with 7'. ijii/anfea Schweigg., e.xcept for tlie divided caudal plate, wliii'h 1
have proved is also a casual appearance only in the Aldabra tortoises. 1 therefore
think the true classificatiou of the Aldabra tortoises is as follows :—

Species 1. — Testudo gigantea Schweigg.

Teshido gigicntea clephantina.

Tfintndo giganti'a ab. poiidi'ro.vi Giinth.
Species 2. — Testudo duudiiii.

The distribution of these two species is much confused, lint I tiiink it is an
ascertained fact that Tratudo daiidini lJuin.it Bih. is, and was, conlined to the southern
and largest island, and thnclorc is the only Aldabra tortoise still existing in a
wild state.

Testado giginitcii. and 7'. gigantea elephantina were confined to the northeni
and central islands, where they liave been coinpletely exterminat('(l, iuid oidy exist.

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alive on tlio Seychello Islands, where a eonsidenible number are keiit liy tlif pliuiters
in a state of semi-iiomcsticatiou.

The specimen of Testiulo daudini now in the Zoological Gardens, and which
has just come over from Manritins, is niidoubtcdly the largest living laud tortoise,
and its dimensions are as follows : —

Length of carapace in straight line . . .55 iftches.

„ „ over curve .... 07i „

Width of carapace straight . . . . 32 „
„ tortoise over curve; . . • ■ ('f' »
Tiie journey affected the health of this iinimal so uuich that its present weight
of 501) lbs. is no criterion of its proper weight, although in 1805 it weighed only
2411 kilogrammes.

Mr. Antelme, the former owner of this large tortoise, informs me that during
six months of the year it buried itself in the ground and did not eat anytliing.
This fact is most interesting, because it cannot be owing to the winter's cold.

A description of this tortoise, a nudr, lias already been given by Tii. Sau/.ier,
in tlie Comptes Rcndus Hebdomadaires des .Si'ances de VAcadcmie des Sciences,
ISito, part 2, p. 430.

The plate is the reproduction of a iiliotngrapli taken in London.

NEW GENEEA AND SPECIES OE THYlilDIDAE, EPI-
PLEMIDAE, AND GEOMETBIDAE,

FROM SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE WEST

INDIES, IN THE TRING MUSEUM.

By W. warren, M.A., F.E.S.

Family TII ) 'RIIJID. 1 E.

1. Iza quinquelineata sji. nov.

Foreicinqx : whitish ochreous, tinely reticulated with brownish and crossed by
brown bands.

Ilindwiiufx: with five chestnut linos parallel to hindmargin, the first three
double and filled in with brown; first close to base, short, not touching either
margin ; second just beyond, curved and bent; third broad, in the middle, straight
from inner margin to cell, then sharjily bent to \iii]ier margin of cell and there
ending, the bent end dark brown; postmedian and submargiual lines thick, and
becoming cleft towards costa; the interspaces traversed by fine ri])plcd lines.

Underside like upper. Thorax, verte.'c, pal])i, and upper half of face brown;
lower half of face white; abdomen whitish ochreous, tinged with pale brownish.

Expanse of wings: 'M\ mm.

One cJ from Bogota, Colombia.

The forewings are so much rubbed that an exact description of the markings
is impossible. The unusual appeanmee of tlie hindwings will easily distinguish
the species.

2. Iza subtransversalis sp. nov.

Forewings: pale testaceous, with l:iint darker incomplete retieuliition; fringe
concolorous.

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Hi //(///■/ /7I/.S : tiiiiied with reildisli : I'nim .'iliotit uiic-fhinl nl' inner miiry:iii a
(liffnsp broad reddisli streak runs, sliglitly npcnrvod, towards the ajicx, l)efore which
it becomes obsolete.

Underside deejier tinted ; tlx' inner halfnf lo]'ewinj;s ;i.nd tlie liindwing's tinged
witli rosy. Head, thorax, and abdnnica eoneojdi'nus with n]i]ieiside ol' wings.

Expanse of wings: ','4 mm.

One cf from the interior of Snriniun, August \S{>'2 (('. W. Ellacombe).

Probably akin to Siciilni/c.-i ii/iii.-i/(>///osiih'.s Pagenst., //■/'*■, V. ji. 7(i.

The costa of forewings is sinuous; apex produced and subfalcatc; liindmargin
obliquely curved; antennae long and slender ; palpi obliquely porrcct in front of
face. The rosy streak of hindwings is reproduced on basal segment of abdomen,
of which the anal segment with tuft is also rosy brown. The discocellular of fore-
wings is oblique inwards, its npper part somewhat bowed outwards, as in the genus
i.ltijcophimi Warr. All the veins free.

3. Iza triangulifera sp. nov.

Forrwingsi : with ground-colour greyish oehreous, with darker ochreons strigae;
the markings dull red-brown; these brown markings are four in number ; the basal
patch, which is narrow, with the outer edge oldiqne ; a curved sinuous-edged narrow
fascia at one-third, its costal end chestuut-browu to the subcostal; an oblong broad
fascia beyond middle, touching the costa with its npper angle at two-thirds, and
there bright chestnut; the inner edge nearly straight, oblique to middle of inner
margin; the outer edge oblique outwards to vein (5, then more or less parallel to
the inner edge and irregularly crennlate; and lastly a narrow fascia from costa
before apex, chestnut as far as vein 0, oblique outwards at first, its outer edge
joining hindmargin at vein 6, its inner edge there bent and running oblique and
crennlate to inner margin before anal angle ; all these dark markings are faintly
edged with pale, ami, like the ground-colour, obscurely striated; the central pale
space is obliquely funnel-shaped, and edged between the median vein and submedian
fold by irregular jiale hyaline spots; on the costa in the centre of the pale fascia is
a small chestnut-brown triangle; the inner margin of the oblong dark fascia is
deeper brown, forming a narrow fascia containing tlie lilack-brown cell-spot; fringe
pale ferruginous, with the tips dark.

Hindwings : with antemedian, postmedian, and marginal red-brown fasciae,
with irregularly crennlate edges, the central sjjace jialest.

Underside similar. Head, thorax, and abdomen ])alo oehreous, varied with red-
brown; the abdomen with a lateral black-brown stripe towards apex; a ilark brown
tuft of hairs from base of hindtibiae.

E.xpanse of wings: 30 mm.

One i from Petropolis, Prov. Uio de Janeiro.

The wings have the apex ]irominent and tlic liindina,rgins sinuous ; Ihe fore-
wing faintly emarginatc above anal angle, the hindwing below vein 7.

Rhodogonia gen. nov.

J-'crr/rii/(/s : with costa straigiit, curved only just before apex; apex produced,
subacute; hindmargin jirominently elbowed at vein 4 and with a small tooth at
vein 7, incurved between, and obli(|ue below to anal angle ; inner margin convex.

Jlijiihriiuis : with apex rounded, and :i proniiiieni angle at vein 4. Antennae of

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? simple: tongne present: pal))! nprurved, rather Ions; the second joint sqnamons,
the tliird short.

Keiiration : as in Siculodes.

Type : Rhodogonia miniata sp. nov.

4. Rhodogonia miniata sji. imv.

Fore //•//>!/.■< : yellowish oclu'oons, almost entirely snfl'iised and reticulated with
vermUion, and with a few fnscons speckles in i)hxcos; a hirirer inscous blotch hevonil
cell.

J/uir/tciiii/s : the same, with traces of a fuscous shade from tlie blotch to inner
margin.

Underside similar, with traces on the forewinjrs of a central fascia. Ilcinl,
thorax, and abdomen concolorons with wings.

Expanse of wings: 40 ram.

One ? from British (iniana.

•">. Meskea nigi'ata sp. nov.

Fo>\'/ri/if/.i : dark smoky fuscons, slii;;htly I'ul'ous-tiuged, witli hardly any
distinct markings; a paler somewhat ochreous patch towards inner margin beyond
middle, in which can be seen an oblique broad dark mark, followed by a narrow
one; fringe concolorons.

Ilimhriniis : dark fuscons, excejit the triangular anal area, which is j)ale
ochreous with an ochraceons crenulatcd streak through it. tlie fringe along the patch
being also ochreon.s, the upper half ilark.

Underside blacker, the costa of forewings rufous-tinged ; the anal pale space of
liiudwings more tinged with ochraceons. Head, thorax, and abdomen all dark: the
anal segment of abdomen anil the legs pale ochreous.

Expanse of wings: 32 mm.

One ? from the neighbourhood of tlie Jutahi River, Amazons (M. Stuart).

Another ? from Popayan, Colombia (Lehmann), has the costal and inner margin
of forewings strongly tinged with deeji red, and the spot before anal angle large and
pale yellow, and expands 40 mm.

Evidently closely related to Zeiizerodes finnatiiis Pagenst., Iris, V. p. 81,
but Pagenstecher makes no mention of any red markings. His proposed genus
ZeAtzerodex is almo.st certainly identical with Mcskra Grote, wiiicli he does not
quote at all.

Famii.v F.PTI'I.F.MIIi.\E.

Capnophylla gen. nov.

Allied to Gnthyrdit, with which it agrees in the neuration of the forewings; the
base of the median vein is thickened and raised below, causing a dejjression above at
the base of the snbmedian fold. The hindwings are broadly almond-shaped — the
costa strongly arched from base to ajiex, wliich is blunt — and dejiend on each side of
the body, the apex pointing downwards ; the inner-marginal half is strongly folded
underneath, and contains a deep pleat lined with long curled hair ; the outer half of
the hindwings above is clothed with short mcalylscaliug. The subcostal vein with
its two branches occupies the middle of the wing, the costal itself being strongly

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curved upwards, l)nt apjiroacliing the first, subcostal toward-^ apex ; the cell with the
rest of the nenration is entirely hidden by the folds.
Type : CapnophyUn alhiecps sp. nov.

li. Capnophylla albiceps >p. uov.

Foreirings : pale grey, thickly dusted with dark iron-grey towards costa and
suffused on inner margin with brown-black and ferruginous; the lines ferruginous;
the first curved, at one-third, ending in a velvety black streak on inner margin:
second at two-thirds, excnrved in the costal half of wiug, incurved below, and
approaching first line on the submedian fold; a submarginal black lunular line-
from apex, becoming linear and vanishing below middle; fringe iron-grey; a diffuse
dark cell-spot.

Hindwini/s : fawn-colour, the basal half darker and strongly tinged with ferru-
ginous at base and along inner margin, with a ))ent ferruginous line at middle
crossing from costal to inner margin ; costal fringe dark brown.

Underside of forewings cinereous, with numerous dark striae : costal area of
hindwings similar, but paler; rest of wing mealy ochreons : head and thorax deep
black-brown ; vertex and antennae snow-white ; abdomen cinereous lirown.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

Two tJ c? from Sao Paulo, S. Brazil.

Coelura gen. nov.

ForcTvings : with costa arched and very strongly convex before apex; ajjex
produced ; hindmargin oblique, hardly curved, bent below apex.

IlimUviiiij.-i : with apex rounded; hindmargin almost straight or slightly curved;
anal angle with a single small semicircular excision.

Antennae flattened, uniserrate, the teeth short; palpi slender, porrect; tongue
slight ; frenulum present ; legs short ; hindtibiae with four spurs.

^mration : forewings, cell hardly half as long as wing; discocellular concave :
median nervnre bent inwards just before end : all three mediaCi nervules close
together ; the first from the bend, the second close beyond, or the first and second
shortly stalked from the bend ; vein 5 from upper angle of cell ; G and 7 stalked
from the same point: 8, 9, stalked; 10 and 11 free. Hindwings with vein 7 some-
times before, sometimes from, the end of cell ; veins 3 and 4 from the lower
end, or stalked ; the subcostal vein straight, or curved from base.

Type : Coelura transtersata sp. uov.

Erosia omana Druce also belongs here.

7. Coelura transversata s]i. nov.

Foreicinqx : fawn-colour, dark grey along costa, which towards apex is varied
with alterniite whitish and rufous jiatches; the lines fine and i>aler ; first at one-
fourth, angled l>el(iw costa, then obliquely curved, ])reecded by a difi'use dark grey
cloud ; second line at two-thirds, bluntly angled on vein 4, convex above, concave
below, edged finely on both sides with darker: a diffuse dark grey median shade,
and obscure submarginal clouds, with one or two dark dots below apex; fringe pale
grey, with the basal half iimadly red.

IliniliriiK/x : much jialer, towards the costa straw-colour ; the centre of the wing
striated with grey-lirown, and towards the hindmargin with blackish : an obscurp

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cnrvpd antemedian lino and aiijrnlated ]iostnicdian, the latter indicated by black
spots ; iiinev luaig'in ]iale straw, with few niarkinjrs : the veins pale ; a fine black
snbmarginal line : fringe as in forcwings.

Underside yellowish ochreons, tinged with fulvous, witii sjiarse black striae.
Head, thorax, and abdomen fawn-colonr ; face dark brown.

Expanse of wings : 30 lum.

One 6 from Nova Friborgo, Prov. Kio de Janeiro.

In forewings veins 2 and 3 short-stalked: in hiudwings the median straight;
veins 3, 4, and ti, 7, from angles of cell.

Decetiodes gen. uov.

Fore/nnt/.-i : with costa strongly curved throughout : apex shortly and blnntlv
produced; hindmargin slightly sinuous, inbent below apex, nearly vertical; anal
angle well marked.

llinduii<i/s : triangular, both angles well marked ; hindmargin nearly straight.

Antennae flattened, uniserrate ; palpi porrect, angular, shaped as in the
Geometrid genns Ani.'iOflc.s ; tongue wanting; frenulum present : hindtibine with
four slender sjmrs ; all the legs slender.

Nenmtion : forewings, cell half the length of wing; discocellular sinuons; first
median nervnlo at two-thirds, second at five-sixths, the median nervure bent
inwards beyond ; vein 5 from below upper end of cell ; C and 7 from the end; 8, 9,
and in stalked ; 11 free : Imtli 11 and the stalk of the other three rising well before
the middle of cell. Hiudwings with radial from centre of discocellular : tlie rest as
in forewings.

Type : Decetiodes fallax sp. nov.

s. Decetiodes fallax sp. nov.

ForeirirKjn : dull flesh-colour, freckled with darker and with black atoms ; the
costa broadly paler ; one or two small dark clouds near liase ; traces of a pale line
from costa at one-fonvth; onter line pale, edged externally with reddish, oblii|ne and
straight from the apex to vein 2, where it curves to the inner margin at two-thirds
and is followed there by two brown blotches ; fringe concolorons.

Iliixhriniis : without lines.

Underside like the hiudwings above. Head, thorax, anil abduiuen concolorous;
i'ace (lark brown.

Kxj)anse of wings : 30 mm.

( >ne i from t'ucnta, Venezuela.

The species mimics the genus Decctia.

y. Epiplema albiocellata sji. uov.

Foren-ing» : rnfons and grey, with no distinct markings ; costa spotted with
ilark; traces of a much outcurved exterior line at three-fonrths; the up])er half of
hindmargin preceded by a blackish shade : a dark spot in cell; fringe concolorons.

Ilimhriiiy.^ : bluish grey, somewhat lustrous, mixed witli fulvous in the costal
third ; an interrupted, blackish, crenulate autemedian and postmediau line, the
latter forming a strong angle above vein 4 ; discal mark large, white ; a curved
black and ferruginons line from upper to lower tail, with a fine slender white dash
p,bove lower tail ; fringe ferruginous.

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Undersifk' of forewiniys mainly dark slaty ciiiereons : thn oosfa with alternate
yellowish and fuscous markings ; cell-spot whitish. Hindwiugs pale bluish grey,
mottled with darker, and tinged towards outer angle with yellowish: cell-spot large,
whitish. Face and palpi dark brown; thorax and abdomen paler grey.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One c? from Onoribo, March lsfi;5 (C. W. Ellacombe).

Forewiugs with apex bluntly produced : hiudmargiu vertical and slightly mn-
cave to vein 3; there strongly elbowed and ol)li(iuely incurved tn anal angle, which
is squared; inner margin straight. Hindwings with a blunt tooth at end of vein 7
and below vein 4. Antennae of S strongly serrate and jmbescent beneath, minntely
serrate above. In forewings vein 5 from upper end of cell ; G and 7 stalked ; 8, it,
and 10 stalked ; 11 free : all from near middle of cell. Hindwings with 0 and 7
from ujiper end of cell; first and second medians far apart and both from long before
end of cell.

10. Epiplema draco sp. uov.

Forftvim/a : lilac-grey, more or less suffused and dotted with reddish chestnut;
the apical one-third alone remaining of the gronnd-colour; lines chestnut; inner line
from costa at one-third, oblique outwards and strongly bent in cell, then oblique
inwards to inner margin just before middle; outer line at two-thirds, oblique inwards
to beyond cell, where it ajiproximates to the angle of first line, then with a slight
bend outwards to inner margin before anal angle; an indistinct grey and chestnut
oblique siibmarginal shade; two wedge-shaped ferrnginons marks before the excava-
tion; fringe grey; the basal area is varied with grey and chestnut.

liiiuhrings : with a broad central fascia, bounded liy crenulate lines, and the
apical area, dark chestnut.

Underside dark tawny, speckled with black ; forewings with an indistinct
blackish submarginal fascia ; hindwings with a distinct black marginal one. Face
and ])alpi dark brown-black; thorax and abdomen grey.

Expanse of wings : ;iO mm.

One (?, one ?, from above Mapiri, Bolivia, 2000 feet, 1895 (Stnart).

Forewings with apex bluntly rounded; hindmargin strongly toothed at vein 4,
deeply excavated above and very obliqnc below ; inner margin somewhat hollowed
ont before the anal angle, which is broadly produccrl.

Hindwings with Cdsta hollowed out be.voud midiUe, and very strongly excised
at apex above vein 7, which ends in a j)romineut tooth ; two less prominent teeth at
ends of 0 and 4; hindmargin in tlu^ main straight.

Antennae of S flatt<'ned, sul)serratc: the teeth close :ind curved.

1 1 . Epiplema intervenata sp. nov.

Foreiciiigs : testaceous, motth'd with fuscous, the basal area and costa towards
apex flushed with grey; the lines and veins paler ; tirst line at one-third, strongly
bent in midwing below the median vein, and edged outwardly with dark at costa
and inner margin ; second line at two-thirds, vertical to vein 4, then incurved and
liirming a bluntly rounded tooth, the included space darker than the rest of wing.

Iliii(ltviii(/s : the same, with the discocelinlar itself paler.

Underside of forewings dull fulvous, with fuscous strigulae, and towards base
snffnsed with fuscous ; hindwing.s more ochreous, with dark strignlae. Face, palpi,
and collar black-brown; frontlet white; thorax and abdomen like wings.

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Eximiise of wiiijrs : J, 20 mm.; ?,24mm.

A pair from Holiviu, takon between R. Sonjro and H. Snapi, March to Jnne
1896 ((Jarlepp).

Related to E. ochodontaiia Snell., but without the dark luiiule on hindmargin
of forewiugs, and not blackisli beneath; distinguished by the pale lines and veins.

12. Falcinodes (?) rufula s]i. n<iv.

Foiiuciui/s : reiklish fawu-culour, slightly metallic in certain lights ; the lines
indistinct ; fir.st from one-fourth of costa, strongly cnrved ontwards in cell, then
o1ilii|ue inwards : outer line from two-thirds of costa, oblicpie to middle of inner
margin, and closely approximated there to first line, the included sj)ace, which is
fnnnel-shaped, marked with dull leaden-grey striae ; before the first line there
ajijH'ars to be a basal line of the same form, within which the basal area is similarly
marked with leaden-grey striae ; submargiual line indistinct, sinuous, marked by a
black dot on each side of vein 4 ; the veins towards margin paler, with tine dark
striae on them; fringe reddish brown.

Ilimlwings : with a slightly darker central and submarginal fascia.

Underside less red, darker, much striated with fnscous, the forewings escejit
along costa suffused with fnscous. Face and palj)i dull red-brown ; antenuai; and
thorax like wings; abdomen wanting.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One ? from ten miles above Mapiri, Bolivia, 2000 feet, 1893 (Stuart).

The ? specimen above described agrees well with Guenee's diagnosis of the
genus, which, however, he himself admits to be deficient; the legs and abdomen are
wanting.

i:i. Gathyuia orbifera sp. nov.

Forewings : dark purplish grey, slightly tinged with rnfons, especially towards
anal angle and in the cell ; very faint traces of a darker cnrved median line ; outer
line at thret'-lburtiis, dark brown, rnfous-edged, (Mirved outwards to vein 0, then
straight and nearly parallel to hindmargin t<i vein 4, incurved to vein 2 and vertical
to inner margin ; a similar brown line close to hindmargin ; fringe concolorous.

Ilimlwings: dull rufous, with the base, a curved central line, and the fringe
deejier rufous.

I'nderside of forewings dull dark grey, indistinctly nuilllcd: ul' iiiiidwings palei-.
Face, thorax, and abdomen dark grey; vertex snow-white.

Expanse of wings : 21 mm.

One ? from Iquitos, 1S9:5 (Stuart).

The hindwings are nearly round ; in the forewings the cell area is very broad,
the median being ranch nearer than usual to the inner margin.

Hyperplema gen. nov.

/■'ivrwin;/.^ : elongate; costa nearly straight, rounded towards apex, whieli is
lilmit ; liiiidinargin obliipicly curved, entire.

//iitf/wi)i(/s : narrow, with inner angle and hindmnrgin rounded: inner margin
shortened by the excavation of anal angle.

Antennae of S bipectinated ; jialpi long, porrect, the second joint roughly

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scaled, tlic third smuutli, decumbent, much as iu Aiiisodii.s : tougue very miuute :
freuulum present ; anal parts largely developed.

Neuration: forewings, cell more than half as long as wing; discocellular
inangnlated ; first median nervule at five-sixths, second halfway between first and
third ; lower radial from below upper angle of cell ; 6 and 7 stalked ; 8, 9, and lU
stalked : 11 free. Hind wings with 6 and 7 short-stalked: radial from above centre
of discocellular. The forewings have a semitraus2)areut fovea at base.

Type : llyperplcma null's sp. nov.

14. Hyperplema rudis sp. nov.

Forewimjs : dull brownish grey, mottled witli darker ; costa slightly darker :
the two lines darker, geminated ; first at one-third, angled on subcostal and median
veins, then oblique inwards ; second at two-thirds, obliqne outwards, sharjdy angled
at vein 7, then sinuous and oblique inwards; traces of a submarginal line; cell-spot
blackish, distinct.

Iliiuhcimjs : with a double dark autemediau and postmedian crenulated line;
cell-spot blackish ; fringe concolorous.

Underside pale grey. Face, palpi, and vertex white ; thorax and abdomen like
wings; antennae shining white.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

One 6 from Onoribo, August 1892 (C. W. Ellacombe).

An indistinctly marked species.

Leuconotha gen. nov.

Foreicim/a : with costa arched througliuut ; apex rounded ; hiudmargiu obliquely
rounded.

llindiviiu/s : with both angles and hiudmargiu rounded.

Antennae of S bipectinate, of ? lamellate, thickly serrate. Palpi porrect,
smooth, the second joint very long, third short, pointed, decumbent ; legs long ;
hiudtibiae with four ajjproximate spurs ; frenulum present ; tongue invisible.

ycio-dtiou : forewings, cell half as long as wing ; discocellular slightly inbent ;
first median at three-fourths, second shortly before end, third from the end of cell ;
lower radial from just below upper angle of cell ; upper radial stalked with 7 ;
8, 9, and 10 stalked; 11 free. Hindwiugs, costal divergent from subcostal from
base ; the two subcostals short-stalked ; radial from middle of discocellular ; first
median at about one-half, second well before end of cell.

Type : Leuconotha cenosa sp. nov.

lo. Leuconotha venosa sp. nov.

Wings including the fringes pure white; all the veins fuscous; costa of fore-
wings blackish near base. Underside grey-tinged, the forewings darkest. Head,
thorax, and antennae all white.

Expanse of wings : J, 24 mm. : ? , 28 mm.

A pair from Cucuta, Venezuela.

Nyctibadistes gen. nov.
Allied to Oathynia, with which it agrees in the lower radial of forewings rising
below the end of discocellular, and the uj^per radial and last subcostal together from

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the cud ; but in both sexi's veius 'Z and 3 arc stalked, utid the base of the wing shows
a large fovea. In the hindwings the hindiuargin is elbowed at vein 7, becoming in
the ? gibbous towards tlie anal angle, while in the 6 it is excised and the anal angle
forms a conspicuous lobe ; vein L' rising near the base of wing and iu the i running
out into the lobe.

Tvpe : y ijctibadistcis in/onitis sp. uov.

1 'i. Nyctibadistes informis sj). uov.

ForeiriiKjs : fuScous, sliglillv nil'oiis-tinged : an indistinct browu central line :
exterior line dark brown, at four-fifths, slightly excurved in middle : a row of brown
dots before the hindmargin.

llimlirimjs : similar, but with the line strongly angled below the median vein. ;
an iudistiuct cell-spot in both wings.

Underside dull cinereous. Head, thorax, anil abdomen fuscous, the last some-
what paler.

Expanse of wings : 14 mm.

A jiair from Iquitos, 1S'.)3 (Stuart).

Siculodopsis gen. nov.

Forctrinijs : elongate, twice as long as liroad ; costa faintly curved throughout ;
apex subacute ; hindmargin obliquely curved.

Ilimlinm/!< : with well-rounded hindmargin, the aual angle sliglitly lobed.

Auteunae of c? pectinated ; palpi short, porrect ; tongue and frenulum present ;
legs thick ; hindtibiae with four stout spurs ; anal tuft of abdomen long.

yeuration : forewings, cell half as long as wing; discocellular concave; first
median at four-fifths, second shortly before end of cell ; vein ij from upper angle of
cell; n and 7 stalked from the same jioint : 8 and '■> stalked: 10 and II free.
Hindwings with costal well scj)arated from subcostal : the two sulicostal nervules
short-stalked; radial from a little above centre of discocellular; medians as iu
forewings.

Type: Sivtilodopsis Jfavicep^ sj>. nov.

17. Siculodopsis flaviceps sp. nov.

Forewings : dingy ochreous grey, covered with fine black strigulations, and
with a small black subajiical sjiot between veins (i and 7; fringe coucolorous.

Ilindiriny.s : the same, with no black sjjot.

Underside with the striae smaller and obscure. Thorax and abdomen cou-
colorous : face and collar dull yellow ; pal[ii blackish.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One 3 from Sao Paulo, S. Hrazil.

Kamilv (li:nMF/ri!lJ)Ai:.

SriiKAMii.v OENOCHROMINAE.

Parachoreutes gen. nov.
Fairici/iff.f : with costa quite straight till just before apex ; ai)ex shortly
juoduced : hindmargin obliiiuely curved, and minutely indented beneath apex.
Ilindwitiys : triangular ; hindmargin nearly straight.

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Antennae of 5 simj)le, minutely pubescent ; [laljii iiorruet, second joint lonj; and
hirsute, third joint decumbent, blunt and smooth ; tongue and frenulum jjresent.

yeiiration : forewings, cell half as long as wing : discocellular vertical : first
median nervule at five-sixths, second close before third ; radials normal ; 7, S, '.», U),
stalked; 11 anastomosing with costal. Hindwings, costal divergent from base;
first subcostal just before end of cell ; radial from middle of discocellular: medians
as in forewings.

Type : Pitrackorcidcs sithpid-jiurca, sp. iiov.

Allied to Lcjitocteiioijais Warr., but difi'ering in the shape of the ]ial|ii ami in
the neuratiou.

18. Parachoreutes sixbpurpurea sfi. nov.

Foreirim/s : deep fawn-colour, the costa rather darker and marked with a
diffuse, somewhat triangular, ])urplish blotch beyond the middle : an obiiipie purplish
line from costa before apex to inner margin just beyond middle : apical region
slightly fulvous-tinged ; cell-spot small, inconspicuous ; fringe concolorous, with
slight dark marks at base between the veins, more distinct just below apex.

Hindicinfis : with an antemedian straight purplish line.

Underside wholly rosy purple. I'alpi, face, vertex, and collar purjile ; thorax
and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One ? from liio Demerara, British Guiana.

Subfamily MECOCERATINAE.
19. Almodes subrufa sp. nov.

Forewinys : pale olive, dusted with reddish and fuscous scales, and with
reddish fuscous suffusion in ])laces ; first line at one-fourth, bluntly angled in cell,
and vertical from submedian fold to inner margin : liasal area below subcostal
with dark suffusion : cell-spot of dark brown raised scales, followed by a median
line similar tn the first line ; extei'ior line with a blunt prominence on vein (3,
and between veins '.i and 4, then incurved and with a smaller tooth on the sub-
median vein ; space between median and outer line suffused with dark as far
as vein 4; submarginal line indistinctly marked, preceded by dark suffusion at
costa, opposite cell, and above inner margin : a row of red-brown marginal spots
between the veins ; fringe red-brown, marked with olive at ends of veins.

Hindwings : without basal lino ; the whole of the space between the median
and outer lines suffused with dark ; a row of dull red marginal lunules between
the veins ; the cell-s])ot edged with i)aler internally.

Underside of both wings dull brick-red, with the lines and cell-spots blackisii ;
inner margin of forewings from base to outer line blackish. Falpi ochreou.s, dusted
with fuscous ; face ochreous, with a narrow black bar ; vertex pure ochreons :
thora.x and abdomen olive-nchrenns, mucli moll led with dark scales.

Expanse of wings : 4(1 mm.

One <S from Pratville, Jamaica.

Easily distinguished by the red underside.

211. Phellinodes couifera sjj. nov.
?. Fon-wini/.f : white, almost wholly Milfnsed with smoky grey, and with
numerous dark grey freckles : iin irregular conical wliite costal blotch at two-

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thirds; iipex of wing beyond darker lirowii, towards the anal anjrle whiter; a
small dark spot on the discocellular, underneath the white blotch, and another
subcostal near base of cell, as in Hetlyle lieliconiaria (xueii.

Ilindwiiigs : like forewiugs, with the apical region darkest ; the central lield
palest, narrow and nudefined ; fringes grey in both wings.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

Larger and stonter than //. heliconiarin, which it mimics.

One ? from Paramaribo, November 1892 (C. W. Ellacombe). Another ? from
Ega is in the British ilusciim Collection.

21. Phellinodes nigrimacula sp. nov.

Foretvings : whitish grey, suflf'used and striated with fuscous and brown; the
costa whiter between the dark strigulae : a dark blotch below costa at one-third :
a large irregular blotch on the discocellular, edged with black, preceded by a black
speck in the cell ; hindmargiu greyer, with less browu tinge; marginal line dark:
fringe grey..

lliiKhcings : smoky grey, strongly mottled with blackish below the cell and
median vein ; the cell itself hyaline.

Underside of forewings smoky grey, sutfnsed with brown and mottled witii
black above the median, the lower half nnmottled. Hindwings thickly and strongly
striated and mottled with blackish, and snfiused with brown along costa. Head,
thorax, and abdomen fuscous grey, the thorax downy.

Expanse of wings : i"J2 mm.

One 6 from ten miles above Mapiri, Bolivia, IsyS, 2000 feet (8tuart).

Hindmargin of forewings not excised below apex, merely bent at vein 6.

Subfamily ORTHOSTIXINAE.
22. Zanclopteryx floccosa sj). nov.

$. Forewings: white, silky, semilransparent; the costal edge finely grey;
marginal line grey; fringe white.

llindicinga : the same.

Underside white. Head, thorax, and abdomen discoloured, probably all white.

S. With the basal third of costa fringed with woolly hair ; the basal two-
thirds of forewings with rough dingy scaling ; hindwings with a similar sjjace
in the disc.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

One 6, one ?, from Berg-en-Daal, April l.>^02 (C. ^V. Ellacombe).

The wings of this species are broader and shorter than in the rest of the
genns.

2:5. Zanclopteryx subsimilis sj). nov.

Forewings: shining white, tlie costal edge narrowly fuscous ; fringe white,
with a scarcely perceptibly darker basal line.

Ilindiciiigs and underside the same. Heail, thorax, and abdomen white.
Expanse of wings : 20 mm.
One ? from Cucuta, Venezuela.

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Ditfers from tlie ? oi X. _//occo»ir iu the uarrower, more pointed forewings; in
the liiiulwings veins 6 and 7 arp on a long; stalk, while in fhccosn they rise rlosp
to the end of the e.ell.

24. Zanclopteryx venata sp. nov.

Foi-eiciiitj.-i : i)early white, tinged with liluish grey: all the veins fnscons ;
costa and marginal line grey : fringe white.

ninthnngii : similar.

Underside the same. Head, thorax, and abdomen eoncolorons.

E.x])ause of wings : 24 mm.

One cJ from Iqnitos, 1893 (Stnart) : one ? from Paramaribo, November 1892
(C. AV. Ellacombe).

SvniAiiii.v rYLLOPODlNAE.

25. Atyriodes crenulata sp. nov.

Foi-piriiK/s : lemon-yellow ; the gronnd-colonr forming a semi-oval jiateli on
inner margin, and an obliijne irregnlar-oval pateh beyond the middle : all the rest
of the wing black ; fringe black, white at apex.

Eirulwings : yellow, with a moderately broad black liindmargin, which starts
s(piare from before the ape,x and narrows off at anal angle, its inner edge crennlated.

Underside the same. Head, thorax, and abdomen above black ; a spot of
yellow on each shonlder in front : abdommi below yellow.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

One S from Rio Ucayali, Pern, 1S93 (Stnart).

In this example the yellow areas of tlie forewings are enlarged, so as almost to
toncli in the middle. In a second sp<'cimen, also a c?, from Patao, Gniria (Angnst
IS'.U), botli of the yellow patches are smaller and separated by a thick black bar,
and the yellow is rather paler ; in all other respects they agree, especially in the
form of the dark margin of hiudwings.

20. Cyllopoda angusta sp. nov.

Foreicings : dee]i velvety pnrplish black, wilh a large transvei'se oblong [lalc
yellow blotch beyond the middle, not quite touching the eosta.

Ilimlwriifis : with a small oval pale yellow spot at lower end of cell, a dot at
the top end of the discocellnlar, and a deej)er yellow short streak along inner margin
near base ; fringe of lioth wings eoncolorons.

Underside the same. Head, thorax, and .abdomen purplish black ; lower lialf
of face yellow: underside of abdomen and legs whitish.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

One ? , one cJ, from Keyes, Bolivia, duly 189.5 (Stuart).

27. Cyllopoda hypocyauea sji. nov.
Foreicinyii: black, with a blnntly wedge-shaped yellow streak from base above
inner margin, followed by an oblique yellow blotch, of which the inner edge is
straight and the outer irregularly rounded ; fringe black.

llindivinqs : yellow, with the costa broadly black ; the liindmargin also black,
but gradually narrowing towards anal angle and ending iu a point half-way up the

2!)

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inneT mnrffin : tlie lia'~a] area clouded with Maokisli, showing throngh from lielow,
and ill OIK' s|)efirapii marked aliove in thi' middle with n lilaek Idorcli.

Underside the same, but the Viase of liiiidwiii<rs oeiiipied liy a dark lihic-black
jiatcli; liasal half of costa of liindwings yellow. Head, thorax, and abdomen black;
shoulders, sides of abdomen, and legs marked with yellow.

Expanse of wings : ^2 mm.

Two d J from Bogota, Colombia.

Near vesperthia Wlk. The pectinations of the antennae are really formed by
confluent fascicles of cilia.

28. Cyllopoda latimargo sp. uov.

Foirivinys : black, with a small restricted semi-oval yellow patch on inner
margin, and a large oval uliliiiue one towards apex, nearly touching costa and
broader below than above, its outer edge subcrennlate.

Hindivings : yellow, with a very broad black marginal band, occupying more
than one-third of the wing, narrowing towards the costal end ; the base narrowly
black.

Underside the same. Head, tliorax, and abdomen black ; shoulders with a
large lateral yellow spot ; abdomen with lateral yellow line, and yellow underneath.

Expanse of wings : 4-5 mm.

One ? from Rio Demerara, British Gniana.

20. Cyllopoda obtusimacula sp. nov.

Forewings : black, with an oblong yellow blotch, pointed close to base, reaching
to be3-ond the end of cell, broadening outwards and obtusely bent and rounded at
its extremity; the costal edge of this blotch is nearer the costa at its extremity than
in the middle, while its inner edge is further from the inner margin at its extremity
than towards the base.

Jliiidiriiiqs: with the yellow lilotch broader: the black edge on inner margin
narrowed.

Underside the same. Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; abdomen below
whitish, laterally brown.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

A pair from Loja, sent by M. Dognin as lemonia Drnce. Distinguished from
gopala Dogn. and lemonia Drnce by the differently shaped end of the yellow blotch
of forewings. Dognin, in describing his i/npul't, says it can be distinguished from
li:moiiia Druce by its size and more lanceolate wings ; but lemonia exjiands lilt mm.
and gopala 34 — 39 mm. ; the present sjiccies is smaller and less lanceolate ; on the
other hand, the single specimen from the river Numabala which Dognin would refer
to what he wrongly identified as lemonia is the real lemonia Drnce.

30. Cyllopoda semidivisa sp. nov.

Forewings : brown-black ; space between median and snbmedian veins deeji
yellow for two-thirds of wing, the end of the patch rounded ; followed by an
obliipie yellow fascia, not (piite reaching costa, its inner edge indented, its outer
straight, curving below to meet the inner edge bluntly above anal angle : fringe
concolorons, tipped with white at the extreme apex of wing.

Ui ml icings : yellow, with brown-black border, extending along costa — where it

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forms a slight tooth — and hindmargin, ami narrowly half-way up inner margin,
emitting a long blunt tooth to centrp of wing hetwoen veins 2 and 3 ; the extreme
costal edge remains yellow.

Underside the same. Palpi yellow, with the tips Mack ; face and shonlders
yellow ; thorax and abdomen slaty cinereous.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

A pair from Entre Rins, Parana.

31. Erilyccs solilncis liuihr nli. subiutrusa imv.

Ground-colour ratlior dcc])iT yidhiw than in (he fyjic : the central olili(|Ui' lihu'k
band of forewings twice as broad, with a triangular jjrojection in the middle of its
outer side, all but interrnpting the obliijue yellow band that follows it. In the
hindwings the black marginal band is swollen from veins 2 to 4.

One ? from between Manaos and R. Jutahi f M. Stuart).

Momouipta gen. nov.

Foreio'nf/s : with costa curved: apex blunt, rectangular : hindmargin curved,
not very oblique.

Hindwings ; with hindmargin and both angles rounded.

Antennae of c? subserrate, with paired fascicles of cilia : jialpi porrect, second
joint long, third shorter, upturned ; tongue well developed ; frenulum stout.

Seuration : forewings, cell hardly half the length of wing : discocellular
straight, oblique : first median uervnle at five-sixths, second and third stalked ;
both radials near together from centre of discocellular ; 7, 8, 0, 10, stalked from
upper angle of cell ; 10 rising before 7 ; 11 free. Hindwings with cell more than
half the length of wing ; discocellular oblique ; costal free, approximated for some
distance to subcostal : the two subcostal nervules stalked : radial from slightly
above middle of discocellular ; medians as in forewings.

Scaling thin ; wings semitranspareut.

Type : ^[omonipfa alhiplaga sj). nov.

32. Momonipta albiplaga sp. nov.

Forcwitx/M : dull smoky black ; a long white blotch l)etween median and sub-
median fold, its upper edge curved, and both ends pointed ; a narrow white streak
below submedian ; a white curved blotch beyond cell, from subcostal to vein 3 ;
fringe black.

Hindwinqs: white, with black bordered hindmargin, narrciwer in middle, and
broad smoky grey inner margin.

Underside similar. Head, thorax, and abdomen smoky black : underside of
abdomen pale.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

One 6 from R. Dagna, Colombia (W. Rosenberg).

33. Oricia biplagiata sp. nov.
Forewinqn : dull golden-brown, with all the veins and folds yellow ; two oblong
orange-y(d!ow lilotches, one beyond cell below costa reaeliing to lower radial and
apjiroaching hindmargin, the other below the median extending above vein 2 and
nearly touching the submedian below.

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ITi)uhvivg.% : deep oran<re, with a narrow blaok edge along costa and hind-
margin to anal angle.

Underside similnr, lint in forewings the lower ^^ellow spot extends to the base
between the median and snbmedian veins. Face, vertex, patagia, and thorax
streaked, yellow and black ; tlio centre of thorax yellow ; abdomen yellow, with
black dorsal and lateral stripes.

Exj)ans(' of wings : 08 mm.

One ? from Reyes. Bolivia, Angnst 1895 (Stnart).

34. Stenoplastis trimacula sp. nov.

Foreivhips : smoky brown-black, with the veins finely pale ; a white hvaline
patch at base, above and below the median, the lower part towards liase marked liy
a black dash above, along median, and another below, along the snbmedian ; an
obliipie wliite hyaline patch beyond cell, snbdivided into three by the radials : a
white tripartite blotch before apex ; all the veins more broadly i)ale on the course
of the submarginal line ; fringe black.

Ilindintu/s: white, with broad black border to hindmargin; the costal and inner
margins more narrowly smoky.

Underside the same, bnt costa of hindwings white. Palpi black, with whitisli
basal joint : face white ; eyes witli white orbits ; vertex and thorax blackish, the
latter with white lines; abdomen dark grey; legs and abdomen beneath powdered
with white.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

One <J from R. Dagua, Colombia (W. Rosenberg).

Tanaostyla gen. nov.

Forewings : broad : the costa faintly cnn-ed : apex blunt : hindmargin
obliquely curved.

Ilimhcings : narrow ; inner angle and hindmargin rounded : anal angle
obtuse.

Antennae of <3 snbserrate, with fascicles of cilia; basal joint enlarged : palpi
npcurved before face ; tongue and frenulum well developed.

ScdratioK : forewings, cell two-thirds of wing ; discocel hilar vertical, slmrt, the
subcostal and median veins being botli bent inwards towards end of cell ; first
median nervnle at three-fiftjis, second shortly before third ; radials normal ; 7, 8,
9, lu, stalked from before end of cell, 10 and 0 rising before 7 ; 11 free. Hindwings
with discocellnlar obliqne, twice bent in middle ; costal apj)roxiraated to sul)costal
for nearly the whole length of cell ; radial from tlie angulation in iliscocellnlar ;
both subcostals and last two medians on very long stalks.

Type : Tanaostyla diluciila sp. nov.

3."). Tanaostyla dilucida sp. nov.

Foreivings : semitransparent, hyaline white ; the veins and fnlds marked with
smoky fnscons ; costa broadly smoky fuscous for two-thirds, then narrower : a thick
smoky fuscous streak from costa along discocellnlar, narrowing off along vein '.i to
hindmargin, which is also narrowly smoky fuscous, becoming much broader across
the apex ; inner margin narrowly fuscous ; fringe smoky ; the jiale oval space
beyond the cell is whiter than the basal two-thirds.

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llimhcings : with the costa iiud hiudmargiu narrowly smoky fuscons ; inner
margin more broadl}' smoky grey : all the veins dark.

Underside the same. Head, thorax, and abdomen fascons.

Expanse of wings : 39 mm.

One 6 from Popayan, Colombia (Lehmanii).

36. Tauaostyla unimacula sp. uov.

Forcwiiu/s : dull hyaline grey ; the veins coarsely blackish ; costa and inner
margin smoky black, and the whole outer third of the wing likewise, exi-epl an
oblique oval white blotch beyond the cell, extending from the costal vein to vein 4 ;
fringe concolorons.

lliiidtcin<j.< : the same, with the costa and hiudmargin smoky blackish.

Underside duller. Head, thorax, and abdomen smoky black ; face blackish,
with white scales above and at the sides.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

One (? from Reyes, Bolivia, August 1895 (Stnart).

Subfamily GEOMETRINAE.

37. Aplodes flavifimbria s]i. nov.

Fon:wiiiff/i : delicate jjale green ; the costa finely yellowish, widening towards
apex ; cell-spot minute, brown : a very faint ])ale dentate line at four-fifths, parallel
to hiudmargin ; fringe yellowish, with interrupted red scales along the margin,
forming a red spot at apex.

HiudwingH : similar.

Underside pale whitish green. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale green.

Expanse of wings : 2(5 mm.

One 6 from Bogota, Colombia.

AMn to A. nortia Druce, but twice tlie size. The pectinations of the antennae
are very short and delicate.

38. Aplodes rufilineata sp. uov.

Foreivim/s : bright green, with antemedian and postmedian tine white dentate
lines, as in (jlaucariu Guen. ; a minute dark cell-spot : fringe green, with a red
basal line.

Uirulwinyis : the same.

Underside pale green. Face and palpi red above, white beneath ; vertex white;
thorax and abdomen green.

Expanse of wings : 14 mm.

One 6 from Berg-en-Daal, Surinam, May 1892 (C. W. Ellacombe).

Auophylla gen. uov.

Forewbiys : with costa nearly straight, becoming convex towards aj)ex ; apex
produced, prominent ; hiudmargin obliiiuely curved ; anal angle distinct.

Ilindiriufjs : with apex and hiudmargin rounded ; anal angle square.

Anteimae of both sexes bijiectinatc. Palpi very short ; tongue slight ;
frenulum in ? invisible ; hindtibiae with two spurs.

JS^euratioH : forewLugs, cell two-thirds of wing : discocelhUar angled, the lower

( -^24 )

arm long iiiiil olilicinc ; first median at two-thirds, second at seven-eighths ; lower
radial from upjier half of discocellular : 0, Id, 7, 8, 'J, stalked from end of cell :
1 1 free, but bowed towards the costal. Pliudwings, costivl closely a|ipro.\imated to
subcostal to near one-half of cell ; the two subcostal ncrvules stalked : medians as
in forewings.

Type : Auophjlla incladaria U.S.

39. Auophylla multiplagiata >p. nov.

Foreicings : pale green ; the tn.'-ta pale rufous ochreous : a semi-oval jiatch at
base of inner margin, a reuiform cell-mark, aud the hiudmargin, pale ochreous with
reddish scales ; the ochreous marginal space is very narrow in the middle, broader
and triangular towards ape.x and anal angle ; marginal line red, with reddish dots at
end of veins ; fringe oehreons.

Jlind/ri/K/g : the same.

L'nderside wholly pale green, with the base of costa of forewings aud the
marginal line of both wings red. Face, palpi, pectus, aud forelegs red ; vertex
white ; thorax green ; abdomen ochreous, with red crests.

E.xpanse of wings : 26 mm.

One c? from Paraguay (Dr. BohLs).

Akin to iiivasata Wlk. aud veiiezuelata Wlk.

4i I. Comibaena subscripta sji. nov.

Forewinys : dull green, below iW median vein sordid ochreous, dusted with
grey ; the lines thick, dull black, obsolete towards costa ; first at one-third, concave
bascwards ; second at two-thirds, concave outwards and denticulate ; a black
cell-dot ; a dark blotch on inner margin between first line and base.

IliiidwinyH : pale straw-colour, dusted with coarse grey atoms along inner
margin and at base; a dark blotch near base; a broad antemedian grey fascia, contain-
ing tlie large black cell-spot and with strongly defined black edges, the outer edge
acutely dentate : a black dentate and waved postmedian line, well defined on the
jiale ground-colour ; a green marginal fascia, edged inwardly Ijy a rufous and black
irregularly dentate line ; fringe of both wings pale straw-colour.

Underside pale yellowish green ; the forewings with two blackish blotches on
inner margin at base of the lines ; the hindwings with a large black cell-spot. Palpi
dark grey ; face green ; verte.\ white; thorax ochreous, the collar deeper : abdomen
ochreous, tinged above with cmereous.

Expanse of wings : 39 mm.

One ? from Cucuta, Venezuela.

The antennae are shortly pectinated.

A very remarkable looking insect, of which I cannot discover any description.
Moeschler's Comibaeiia lepidaiia from Surinam, judging from the figure, is allieil
to it.

Dryadopsis gen. nov.

Forewinys: with costa curved ; apex rectangular; hiudmargin curved.

Hindwings : with the hiudmargin bluntly toothed at middle ; the anal angle
Bijiiare.

Antennae of c^ acutely subserrate ; frenulum present : legs long : hiudlibiae
with four spurs.

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Neuratioii : t'orewings, cell half as long as wing ; di.scocellular vertical ; first
median at three-fourths, second and third from lower end of cell ; lower radial from
somewhat above the centre of discocellnlar, upper from the upper angle ; veins 7,
8, ;>, 10, stalked ; 11 free. Hiudwings with 3, 4, and 6, 7, from the angles of cell.

Type : Dnjadopais morbilUata Feld. (Nemoria).

The type of Nfmoria morbilUata Feld. is without antennae. I have lately had
an opportunity of examining a S in good condition (e.\cf'j)t for the absence of palpi)
which it seems impossible to refer satisfactorily to any existing genns.

41. Gelasma albidata sji. nov.

Foreicinqs : nearly white, freckled with olive-green ; the two lines olive, at
one-third and two-thirds, oblique and parallel to hiudmargin : costa and marginal
line olive ; fringe white.

Hiudwings : similar, with a linear olive cell-mark.

Underside wholly white. Face and palpi brown ; head, thorax, and abdomen
white ; the thorax olive-tinged.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

One ¥ from Costa Rica (Underwood).

42. Gelasma munda sp. nov.

Forewings : i)ale green, with very faint traces of waved inner and outer lines;
cell-spot large, red-brown ; marginal lino red-brown, interrupted at the ends of the
veins ; fringe concolorous.

Iliitdwiiif/s : the same.

Underside paler, without any markings. Face and palpi brown ; tliurax and
abdomen pale green, the abdomen with the middle segments marked with reddish
grey ; vertex white.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

One S from La Plata.

The apex of forewings is produced and the hiudmargin oMiipie and siarcel}
curved ; the angle of the hindwing distinct. The species bears a superficial
resemblance to ruhvolimharia (jnen.

43. lodis languescens sp. nov.

Forcwiiiqs : pale greyisli green, thinly scaled ; antemedian and postmedian
whitish denticulated lines, the former darker-edged outwardly, the latter inwardly ;
cell-spot darker green ; hiudmargin slightly darker, with pale dots at the vein-
ends ; fringe very pale green.

llimlwingts : similar.

Underside whitish. Head, thorax, and abilomen pale green ; jialpi and forelegs
slightly linged with red-brown.

Expanse of wings : 16 mm.

Three ? ? from Paramaribo, December 1S92 {(1. \\ . Ellaeombe).

The hiudwings are bluntly toothed in middle of liindmurgiu, the margin above
sinnate.

44. Miantonota iutegra sp. nov.

ForewiiKls : jiale apple-green: the costa and Hues whitish; the former diffuse,
the latter concise and slender: first at one-fifth, bluntly angled on the median vein:

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outer line at three-fourths, jianillel to hiiidmargin and faintly bent on the lower
radial; cell-spot and marginal line red, the latter interrujited by pale dots at the
ends of the veins; fringe pale yellow.

Hinduinys : similar, with the outer line bluntly bent at middle.

Underside whitish green. Palpi and face pale green or ochreons below, reddish
above; vertex and antennae white; thorax and abdomen green, the latter tinged with
ochreous or whitish, and with three red-brown blotches in the middle.

Expanse of wings : 3:.' mm.

Both sexes from Putropolis, Nova Friborgo, etc.

4."). Microloxia bistriata sp, nov.

Forewings : pale apple-green: costa, fringe, and two oblicpie lines white.
lliiidwings : the same; vertex and antennae white; face reddish brown.
Expanse of wings : 'M mm.
Two i i from Sao Paulo, S. Brazil.

Neag'athia gen. nov.

Forewings : with costa arched at base, then straight, convex before apex; apex
produced, acute; hiudmargin obsoletely toothed at vein 4, straight above, obliijuely
curved below; anal angle distinct.

Hindwings : with hindmargin decidedly toutlied at veins 4 and 0, excised
between, straight from 4 to anal angle, which is square.

Antennae pectinated; palpi porrect, the second joint long, roughly scaled, the
third quite short: tongue present; frenulum invisible.

NeuratioH : forewings, cell about half of wing; discocellular concave, slightly
bent above middle; first median at three-fourths, second close before third; lower
radial from the bend in discocellular, upper from end of cell; veins lu, T, 8, 'J,
stalked; 11 free. Hindwings, costa bent over sttbcostal from base, approximating
but not anastomosing with it; (5, 7, short-stalked; medians as in forewings.

Wings semihj-aliue.

Type : Neogathia corrupfata Fold. {Nemoria .■')

Oospila gen. uov.

Forewings: with costa straight, convex before apex; apex l)liuit: hindmargin
obliquely curved.

Jliiiduiugs : with well-roiuideil hindmargin; anal angle square.

Antennae pectinated in both sexes; palpi in i short, squamous: in ? much
longer, smooth, the last joint as long as second; tongue and frenulum present : hind-
tibiae of 6 with the terminal sjmrs.

Xeuration : forewings, cell not more than half as long as wing; discocellular
angled; first median at two-thirds; second and tliird stalked; >ipi)er radial stalked
with 7, 8, 9, 10; 11 free. Hindwings with :i, 4, and 0, 7, stalked: the radial obliipie
and sometimes strongly angled.

Hindwings witii an oval raised spot of scales at top of discocellular.

Type : Oospila trilunaria Guen.

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46. Oospila hyalina s]). nov.

Forcicifxj.s : hyaline gToeii, with t'aiut wavy streaks ol' darker greeu; costa
narrowly oc.hreous, dotted with fuscous: an oval Ijrown-black spot with pale centre
on the lower arm of the discocellnlar; a brown-black marginal blotcli from vein 7 to
4, and another at anal angle, both with whitish scales intermixed, and the latter
with a slight whitish centre; marginal line dark brown: fringe whitish, mottled with
brown beyond the veins.

Jlhulwings : with a shallow brown-black apical blotch, a square one oi)i)Osite
the cell, and a larger one at anal angle; cell-spot as in forewings: a shining white
raised spot at the ujiper end of the discocellnlar; fringe and marginal line as in
forewings.

Underside paler, with the markings reproduced. Face brown above, jjaler
below; palpi reddish brown: tarsi, especially the foretarsi, reddish: vertex white;
shaft of antennae white, becoming reddish towards the tip; thorax green; abdomen
])inkish white, with scattered brown scales; the three basal segments with raised
bosses of metallic brown scales.

Expanse of wings : 48 mm.

One ? from Bogota, Colombia.

Hindmargin of forewings indented below a[)ex, bulged Ijelow middle: of hind-
wings excised beyond the cell.

4T. Oospila margiuata sp. nov.

Fore (c hit/ s : pale semihyaline green: cell-spot i)ale, with a red-lirown ring: a
red-brown marginal line, forking at vein 2, and so cutting off a small i)ale triangular
space at anal angle.

llindtvings : similar, but the marginal line simply thickened at ajiex: the top
end of discocellnlar with a raised whitish spot.

Underside pale green, without markings. Thorax and abdomen concolorons;
abdomen with three large and two smaller raised red-brown crests, with metallic
lustre; head wanting.

ExiJause of wings : ii'.i mm.

One 9 from British Guiana.

48. Oospila violacea sp. nov.

Forewinijs : dull sea-green, the costa ochreous; cell-spot large, black, blurred;
some black scales on costa a little beyond: a black marginal line, swollen between
the veins, and preceded by a white dark-edged lunule between each, followed by a
hoary shade, all more or less obliterated by a dnll jturplish sulfusion, which starts
from the apex and swells out into a large. blotch beyond the cell and another at the
anal angle, obsolete between veins 3 and 4, where the lunule remains white; fringe
purple, with white spots at base between the veins.

JlindwiiKjs: with the whole outer half suffused with dull jiurplish: a white oval
cell-spot at top of discocellnlar.

Underside dull yellowish green; cell-spot of forewings and black marginal
dashes shown, with some diffuse dark shading in', places along margin. Face and
palpi dark red; vertex and shaft of antennae white; thorax green; abdomen reddish,
with deei)er red crests.

Expanse of wings : 3> mm.

One y from Rio Uemerara.

(428 )

Pachycopsis geu. uov.

?. ForetciiKjs : with costa shuukk'red iit base, tlicii straiglit, ami hardly convex
before apex, which is blnutly rounded ; hiudmargiii curved.

1 Undid lujs: narrow, the inner margin long, and anal angle squared; apex
strongly rounded; hindmargin rounded, with a percejitible indentation beyond the
cell.

Palpi slender, porrect, twice the length of head; antennae thickened, with
close deep and stout serrations, gradually decreasing to apex; hindtibiae with two
spurs, the outer quite short, the inner very long.

Neurotion: forewings, cell half as long as wing; the discocellnlar concave
above, vertical below: (irst median at four-fifths, second before end, third from end
of cell; lower radial from the top of the vertical lower arm of discocellnlar; (i, 7, 8,
0, 10, stalked; 11 from cell, anastomosing and becoming coincident with the costal.
Hindwiugs with the two subcostals from upper end of cell.

Type : Pachi/copsis tiidentata sp. nov.

49. Pachycopsis tridentata sp. nov.

Forewings: very pale green, with three white denticulate lines; the first near
base ; the second just beyond middle, jutting out and forming a rectangular jjrojection
towards hindmargin between veins 3 and 4; third line submarginal; fringe cou-
colorous, preceded by a row of large pale siiots between the veins.

llindwings : the same.

Underside whitish green. Head, thorax, and abdomen jiale green; vertex
white; antennae ferruginous.

Expanse of wings: 14 mm.

One ? from Paramaribo, November 1892 (C. W. Ellacombe)-

A very delicate species; the specimen is probably somewhat faded, but is
certainly much paler green than either of the two small species Sguchlora froiidarin
and Aplodes glaucaria of Guen^e.

Paromphacodes geu. nov.

Forewings : elongate, widening outwards; costa faintly curved ; apex subacute;
hindmargin obli(jue, hardly curved.

llindwings : with apex strongly rounded, hindmargin nearly straight; anal
angle square.

Antennae of cj shortly bipectinatc, the pectinations stiii' and ciliated; of ?
subserrate; palpi porrect; tongue and frenulum present.

Neurotion : forewings, cell nearly half the length of wings; discocellnlar
oblique below; first median at two-thirds, second shortly before, third from the end
of cell; lower radial from above middle of discocellnlar, ujiper from up])er angle ot
cell or stalked with 7; T, 8, 9, lu, stalked; 11 anastomosing with lli, and 10 with 11
or 12. llindwings with the costal straight, gradually diverging from subcostal;
the twd subcostals short-stalked: radial from above centre of discocellular; medians
as in forewings.

Type : Paromplmcodes ruhrimargo sp. uov.

In the African genus Omphacodes the costal of hindwiugs anastomoses strongly
with the subcostal for three-fourths of cell.

( 429 )

•lO. Paromphacodes rubrimargo .sji. uov.

Foi-eu-uii/.s: bright greeu; tUu cosla bright pijik, with thi; extreme edge white;
fringe with basal half bright pink, the outer half white; inner margin fringed witii
j)iuk to base.

Ilindwinys: white; fringe as in forewiugs from anal angle to middle, thence
wholly white; inner margin fringed half-way with pink.

Underside pale greeu, with the fringes and costa pink. Palpi and foreleg.s bright
pink; face denuded of scales ; vertex snow-white, with a bright i)ink bar in front
at top of face and the collar pink; thorax green; abdomen silky white.

Expanse of wings: 2(3 mm.

One ? from Sao Panlo.

In this species, of which I have only seen a ? , vein 6 rises from upper angle
of cell, and 10 anastomoses with 11. In rtibristellata, of which only the i is at
present known, vein 6 is stalked with 7, and 10 anastomoses with 11 and 12.
Whether the same difference in the neuration of the sexes holds in each species
must be decided by further observation.

ol. Paromphacodes rubristellata sj). nov.

Forewings : green; the costal edge pale ochreous, more thickly underlined with
pale brown; the lines marked by rosy vein-dots; the first at one-third, only marked
by two contiguous spots just beyond the origin of vein 2 and a smaller one beneath
them on the submedian vein ; second line from costa at two-thirds, strongly curved
inwards, so that the spot on vein 2 is approximated to the joint spot of the first lino;
cell-spot lunulate, rosy ; marginal line concise, bright rosy, interrni)ted by pale dots
at the vein-ends; fringe glossy white.

lliiidwing.s : wholly white, with just a faint greenish tinge along the margins,
and the marginal line green; fringe white.

Underside of both wings green, deepest in the forewings where the rosy cell-
spot and line-spots show through; costa broadly rosy, especially at base; marginal
line rosy; in the hind wings green. Forelegs and palpi rosy; abdomen ochreons
white; face and thorax damaged, j)robably greeu.

Expanse of wings : 27 mm.

One i from Bogota (Child).

52. Phrudocentra piipillata sj). nov.

Forcwinfis : deep green; cell-spot small, black; a jjale line at two-thirds,
jiarallel to hindmargiu, edged internally with deeper green; fringe green.

Himlwings : the same; the cell-sjiot larger.

Underside paler green; forewings with black cell-spot. Head, thorax, and
abdomen all green, the last marked with red scales above.

Expanse of wings: 2b mm.

(Several examples from Rio Demerara, British Guiana.

Progonodes gen. nov.

Forewings: triangular; costa nearly straight: u\w\ jiromincnl ; hiuduiargin
obliijuc, little curved.

Jlntdwuigs : kite-shaped; hindmargin faintly crenulale, with a blunt angle in
middle.

(430)

Abdomen with red crests, as iu liacl(eo)<jjila; auteuuae of cJ short, pectinated
nearly to end; jialpi verj- short, not reaching front of face; tongue slight; frennlum
present, bnt weak. Hindlegs fully developed; the tibiae with terminal spurs only.

Neuiadon: forewings, cell half of wing: discocellular concave: first median
at two-thirds, second and third together from end of cell; lower radial from
above centre of discocellular, upper from upper angle of cell; 7, 8, 9, lU, stalked;
11 anastomosing with VZ. Hind wings with 3, 4, and 6, 7, stalked.

Scaling fine and thin.

Tyi)e: Progonodes stagonata Feld. {Iiac/u30sjjila).

53. Racheospila conceutrata sp. uov.

Forewiiigs : aiiple-grecu, the costa white; lines denoted l)y red-brown spots on
veins; first from one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin; outer at tliree-
fourths, parallel to hindmargin, but the lowest spot, on the submedian vein, just
beyond middle of wing; a roundish, red-brown i)atch, edged with yelluwisli, above
anal angle, extending from vein 3 to the submedian fold: marginal line red-brown,
swollen into triangular marks between the veins, the lowest the largest, touching
the anal blotch; cell-spot red-brown; fringe white, tinged with red at base.

Eindioinga : without first line; cell-spot larger; blotch above anal angle oval,
distinctly yellow-edged, between veins 1 and 2.

Underside pale green; the cell-spots and marginal triangles red-brown; costa
of forewings broadly pale. Palpi very long, white below, red above ; the extreme
tip white; face, thora.\, and abdomen green; vertex and antennae white; collar
bright red.

Expanse of wings: 24 mm.

One ? from Jamaica.

Like 7i'. stellataria Moeschl. from Jamaica also, from which it only tliflers by
the possession of the anal blotch.

54. Racheospila dentiliuea sp. uov.

Forewings: apple-green, the costal edge fiuely white; a fine strongly dentate
white line at two-thirda, edged internally with olive scales; an inner line near base
of olive scales; cell-spot smoky brown, with the centre black; a red-brown
marginal line, interrupted at the veins; fringe whitish, with brownish dashes at
the vein-ends.

Jliiidwtngs : the same.

Underside pale mealy green; the marginal line red-brown. Head, thorax, and
abdomen green, the last with a white spot iu a brown ring on the first and third
segments; fillet narrowly white.

Expanse of wings: 32 mm.

One ? from Eio Demerara, British Guiana.

55. Racheospila (?) jaspidata sji. nov.
Forewings: hyaline green, semitriiiis]iarcnt ; the base bright viuons red, this
colour extending also along inner margin below submedian vein and along costa
above the subcostal; a minute red cell-spot; hindmarginal band bright vinous, its
inner edge waved and forming a deep sinus, nearly as far as the margin, between
veins 2 and 4 ; fringe pale green, checiuered with red at end of veins.

( 431 )

Hindtoings : the same, the inuer niargiu red.

Underside similar, tlie reil only showini;; through. Head, thorax, and
ahdomen red.

Expanse of wings : 2s mm.

One example from Rio Domorara, l!rili.>li (jlniana.

The forewings are elbowed in the middle, the hindwiugs excised beyond the
cell. Thongh the wings are in good condition, the body is mncli damaged by
mould. I cannot detect any signs of a frennlnm ; and though the antennae are
pectinated, 1 believe the example to lie a ? ; bnt I leave it in Kacheospila for
the present.

•Ti. Eacheospila rosipara sp. nnv.

Fo/r/r/'/ii/s : pale green : the costa pale llesh-colonr ; cell-spot minnte, black ;
a largo horseshoe-shaped pale flesli-coloure<l blotch on the hindmargin from veiu.s
7 to 4, edged with dark oliocolate, and traversed vertically by a wavy line of reddish
scales, which also extend laterally along the veins; marginal line chocolate, inter-
rupted; fringe flesh-coloured.

JIi/if//c/nf/s : similar, but the blotch extending from vein 8 to below 4 : a
semicircular dark chocolate blotch on inuer margin near l)ase.

Underside pale silvery green, with a brown lunate mark in each wing,
representing the apex of the hurseshoe-shaped marks. Palpi pale green below,
ferruginous above; face ferrnginous, with green in middle: vertex green, with
ferruginous scales ; antennae ferruginous ; tliorax green ; abdomen dark chocolate,
with the dorsal tufts metallic.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

One 6 from Palma Sola, Venezuela.

Subfamily STERRHINAE.
i"i7. Anisodes superflua sp. nov.

Forc/vinys : yellowish ochreous, finely irrorated with rcddisli and black scales ;
first line obscure, at one-fourth, forming a curve outwards above and below flie
median vein : second line at two-thiriLs, denticulate, dill'ase, incurved below the
middh^ ; ciuter line close beyond the second, fine and similarly denticniate ; snb-
marginal line very obscure, but marked by a blackish clouil beneath costa and
by a purplish black blotch beyond cell ; marginal spots pnrplish ; fringe con-
colorous ; cell-sjiot close to second line, formed of while shining scales, edged
with purplish.

nin(hcin<is: with all the lines marked; space between second and third,
from vein 7 to 3, clouded with purple scales, darkest on the discoccllular and there
enclosing a fine white crescent-shajied cell-spot ; snbmarginal blotch beyond double,
and redder.

Underside bright straw-colonr, suffused with rosy, and with all the lines
marked in the same colour ; the ('ell-spots both large, and rosy. Palpi ochreous,
externally rosy ; face dull grey-brown ; vertex and thorax like wings ; abdomen
ochreous, mottled thickly with reddish scales, and with a row of pale dorsal jiatches.

Exjjanse of wings : 'i'i mm.

One ? from Palma Sola, Venezuela,

( 432 )

Brachyprota jren. nov.

S. Foreu'inqs : elongate, the oosta faintly i'iivvimI ; api'x jirddneoil ; liiml-
niiU'gin very obliqiioly oiirvcd, and jiassing into the inner nuirgin withont fnrniini!:
a distinct anal angle.

Hindiviiiqs : abnormal ; the co>ta only two-thirds as long as inner margin,
whicli is as long as the costa of forewings; the liindniargin obli(jnely cnrved out-
wards and meeting the inner margin in a bhint j)oint, veins 1 and 'i rnuning into
the inner margin, vein 3 into the point.

Antennae with jiaiv^ of curved cilia; palpi njicnrvcd in I'nuit ip|' l':ici' : hind-
legs aliortcd.

jS'cdration : forewings, as in I'tychoiwdd. llindwings, with the costal running
abruptly, as a short spur, into the costal margin close to base ; discocellular oblique
ontward parallel to hindmargin ; first subcostal and second median shortly before
angles of cell.

Type : Brachyprota ahnormipennis sji. nov.

58. Brachyprota abnormipennis sj). nov.

Foreirinqii : pale ochreous, tinged with darker ; withont markings, except a
rather large brownish cell-spot : fringe concolorous.

Hinclwings : the same.

Underside similar. Face and palpi brownish : thorax and abdomen ochreons.

Expanse of wings : 16 mm.

One 6 from the interior of Surinam, August 1892 (C. \V. Ellacombe).

The underside of the hindwings is covered with erect hairlike scales, exactly
as in tlie worn specimen of Ftycliopoda percrinita described further on.

59. Craspedia abomata nb. fuscescens \w\\

Differs from Gaenee's type-form in having th(^ grouud-colonr white, not
yellowish : the lines and markings more strongly devclojied, fuscons olive : the
underside of forewings suffused with dull rosy or rosy grey.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.; that of abnrnata is 24 mm.

Two 3 (? from P.olivia, between R. Songo and R. Sua])!, March to .Tune IsOi;
(Garlepp).

(50. Craspedia abomata ah. Candida nov.

Also differs from the type-form in the ground-colour being jicarly wiiilc,
while the lines :\.\-A markings arc very jiale green. Underside ofli<ith wings glossy
white, the costa alone of forewings rosy.

E.xpanse of wings : 29 mm.

One S from Costa Eica (Underwood).

61. Craspedia albidulata sp. nov.

Foreu-inqs : whitish, powdered with grey along the costa and hindmargin,
with a <listinct black cell-spot, and three curved pale ochreons very obscure fasciae,
parallel to hindmargin, antemedian, postraedian, and snbniarginal ; fringe whitish
with a marginal row of black triangles, which are nenrly contiguous.

( 433 )

Hindivings : wifli the cell-spot large and black, traversed by an orhreons
median line ; the snbniavginal liisria broad and indistinetlj' donble.

rnderside densely jiowdeicd with brownish grey, with the cell-spots and
nuirginal spots distinct : the fasciae obscurely marked witli grey lines. Face
and palpi brown-black ; collar brdwn ; vertex and thorax white ; abdomen wanting,
probably white.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One ? from Sao Panlo.

Apex of forewing distinct, Imt not ])riidnffd : Lindraargin uf liuth wings
cnrved.

02. Craspedia ambagifera sp. uov.

Forewinys : whitish ochreous, sutt'nsed in parts with darker ochreons, and
dusted with grey ; the costa gre}- ; first line grey, at one-fourth, bent outwards in
cell and below median vein ; second line at two-thirds, grey, angled on veins 4 and
6, obliqne to the snbmedian fold, then vertical ; outer line at three-fonrths, dark
brown, parallel thronghont to second line ; a brown patch from outer line to hind-
margin, its upper edge oblique and in a line with the upper oblique portion of enter
line ; a grey cloud on costa touching outer line, another on hindmargin adjacent to
the brown patch, and two more above anal angle ; marginal line entire, dark brown ;
fringe ochreous, marked with brown ; cell-spot oval, white, with a brown ring ;
space between second and third lines paler than rest of wing.

HiruhrimjH : the same, without first line.

Underside paler. Face and palpi brown : collar lilackish; thorax and abdomen
ochreons, the latter grey-brown on back.

Expanse of wings : cJ, 26 mm. : ? , 28 mm.

A pair from (Jncuta, Venezuela.

In the $ the outer half of central area on both wings is filled up witii grey,
forming a distinct fascia. The hindmargin of forewings is distinctly bent at
vein 3.

03. Craspedia atomaria sp. uov.

ForewhKjti : bone-colonr, thickly dusted with sandy and fuscous scales ; the
lines ochreons : first cnrved, at one-fourth : central shade obliqne : outer line, often
fuscous, formed of lunnles ; two snbmargiual lines ; a row of black marginal dots ;
fringe concolorons, with minute dark dots at base ujipnsite the veins.

Ilindicinys : the same, with the central shade darker, and antemediau ; both
wings with distinct blackish cell-spot.

Underside paler, witli all the dots distinct: outer line very distinct, dark
fuscous, denticulated, followed by a grey shade. Head, thorax, and abdomen
ochreons, the last dusted with dark scales.

Expanse of wings : 19 mm.

Several from Newcastle, Jamaica.

Allied to C. mbqiiiKh-atti Guen., bnt with sliorter browler wings, and not
so pale.

04. Craspedia deiliniata sp. nov.

Forcwiiiys : glossy white, hanlly <lustcd with grey : the costa grey ; the line.H
very faint; first curved, at uno-third ; second and third parallel to hindmargin.

( «4 )
faiutly waved : a faint cell-line : a marginal row of grey dashes between the veins ;
fringe white.

Tlindiriixj.-i : the same, witliont first line.

Uudersiiio white : the costal half oi' ibrewings snffnsed with oehreons grey, as
far as the enter line, which, like the veins beneath, is oehreons. Face and palpi
brown above, whitish below ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen white : collar oehreons.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

One cJ from Bolivia, between R. Songo and R. Snapi. March to .Tnne 1800
(Grarlepp).

Ci"). Craspedia infota sji. nov.
Foreiri/)(/s : sombre urey, very <lonRely irroraled with blackisli atnnis : tiio lines
very indistinct as slightly darker grey shades, the median rnnning ontsidc the small
black cell-spot: the antemedian and postmcdian being jnst marked witli dark vein-
dots, the hitter acntoly angled beyond the celh a row of blackish marginal dots;

fringe grey.

IIi>i/win//s: with an uutemedian, postmediaii, and tw.. siibmargiiiai wavrd

grey lines.

Underside nniform dnll grey, withont dnsting : the cell-spots, jmstniedian line,
and marginal dots alone marked. Face, palpi, and collar brown-black : vertex and
shoulders whitish : thorax and abdomen speckled grey.

Expanse of wings : 21—24 mm.

Two <?(? from Bolivia, between R. Songo and R. 8napi, Mareli to .Inne ls9(i

(Garlepp).

This mnst be near AcidnliK gcnimt Dogniii from Znmora.

06. Craspedia radiata sp. nov.

Fororiniis : pure white, witli very faint grey irroration : the lines pale grey,
faint : fir.st curved, at one-third : second straight and parallel to jiindniargin from
two-thirds of inner margin, retracted towards costa : marginal line very finely grey :
fringe pnre white ; all the veins grey.

llindirinqs: similar, the enter line cnrv.'d parallel to hindmargin : no first
line.

Underside white ; tlie forewings wirli faint greyish snITiision, and the costa
greyish. Face and jjalpi brown above, whitish lielow ; vertex and shoulders jiale
yellowish ; thorax and abdomen white : antennae black.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One c? from T.olivia. between 11. 8ongo and R. Snaiii, Marcli t.i dune ISlKi

(Garlepp).

07. Craspedia sticticata sp. uov.

Formoings: greyish oehreons, with sli~ght darker irroration ; first line dark grey,
at one-third, curved outwards, and marked by slight dark dots on the veins; median
shade obliqne, sinnons, somewhat denticulate and dift'nse, from costa at three-fourths
to middle of inner margin, incurved below middle ; outer line snbmarginal, regularly
dentate and parallel to hindmargin, each tooth marked with dark grey, and edged
with paler ; a concise row of black marginal triangles ; fringe concolorous ; ceil-
spet black.

( 435 )

llim/wiiifjs : witliuiit lirst liiR'.

Uudersicle, especially (if toi-ewiiigs, rosy -tinged. Face and (,alpi hlack-browu ;
vertex, thorax, aud abdomen coueolorous with wiugs.
Expanse of wings : 26 mm.
One (S from Paraguay.

(18. Dichromatopodia argentipimcta sji. uov.

Foreu-i/if/g : greyish fawu-colour, densely irrorated with dark atoms; first line
at one-fourth and the median shade wavy, marked only by a denser collection of
dark atoms ; onter line at tive-sixths, fine, threadlike, very wavy, incurved beyond
cell, and excurved above and below ; marginal dots small, black, preceded by
faintly paler horizontal streaks of the ground-colour running to a very obscure sub-
marginal line : fringe concolorous, its basal half darker : cell-spot small, black,
externally marked with two or three silvery white scales.

Hindiciiuis : the same, with the cell-spot simply black.

Underside opalescent white, with a pinkish tinge; the costa of both wiu^s rosv;
cell-spots large and dark. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

One S from Palma Sola, Venezuela.

The titfts of the hiudtibiae are wholly whitish.

69. Dichromatopodia olivaceonotata sp. nov.

? . Forewinys : deep brick-red, the costa from base to near apex broadly olive-
ochreous ; the lines of the same colour ; first at one-fourth, straight ; second at
three-fourths, slightly waved, outwardly oblique to vein 4, then parallel to hind-
margin, running in along vein 2, then vertical to inner margin at three-fourths ; a
submargiual festoon of the same colour, close before the margin, sending streaks
inwards between the veins; cell-spot large, ocelloid, deep red, edged with dull olive-
ochreons ; extreme hindmargin and fringe deeiJ red, with fine olive-ochreous lines
from the ends of the veins.

IIiiuhc>H(/s : the same, without first line, and the cell-spot smaller.

Underside dull rosy, without markings. Face, palpi, vertex, and collar red ;
thorax, shoulders, and patagia olive-ochreous ; the tips of the patagia and abdomeu
deep red.

The 6 ajjpears to have an olive-ochreous ground-colour, thickly dusted
with brick-red, but this may be only the result of being worn. The scales of the
hindtibiae are shining blackish.

Expanse of wings : c?, 24 mm. ; ? , 2(5 mm.

Two ? ? from Palma Sola, Venezuela, (juite perfect ; 1 c? from Manaos (M.
Stuart), much wasted.

70. Dysephyra commaculata sp. nov.

Foreiinm/s : straw-colour, finely irrorated with reddish brown, aiul wil li niiicli
red-brown suffusion : costal area red-brown tlmiugliout ; thi' base, a broa,d irregular
autemedian fascia, a small blotch at anal angle, and a large a])ical blotch embracing
a pale apical patch, all red-brown ; the antemedian blotch is bounded inwardly by
the inner line, which is excurved above the median vein and vertical below it, the
paler basal area being crossed by a subliasal red line parallel to the inner line;
second and third lin<'s strongly dentate and near together, the second joining the

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( 436 )

antemcJiaii patch bulow tin; mediiui vein, the third toiu-hiiii; the two marginal
patches ; cell-spot deep red, iuclnded in the antemedian ])atch : marginal s])ots
large, red ; fringe straw-colour and red.

Uiiidicings : red, with an irregular liiuulate-edged straw-coloured patch at anal
angle and smaller patches towards aj)ex; the two dentate lines more or less obscured;
two black spots on the discocellular, and some coarse black scales throughout the
wing.

Underside paler, straw-colour washed with red ; the two lines and cell-spot of
forewings reddish. Face, thorax, and anal segments of abdomen straw-colour ; rest
of abdomen and shoulders reddisli.

Expanse of wings : 32 — 34 mm.

One 6, two ? ?, from Rio Demerara.

Tl. Dysephyra lunifera si>. no v.

Fnrewiiifis : deep j'ellow, with orange-red irroration, tlie whole more or less
suffused with olive-fuscous ; costa broadly smoky fuscous ; tirst line at one-fourth,
bent on the median vein : second a little beyond middle, strongly cscurved round
cell and incurved below middle, distinctly dentate, fuscous; outer line at two-thirds,
very strongly dentate, parallel throughout to the middle line; submarginal line formed
of contiguous black blotches, running obliquely from costa to a blackish patch at
middle of hindmargia ; a fuscous cloud at anal angle ; marginal spots dark brown ;
fringe reddish brown ; cell-spot large, diffuse, smoky fuscous, touching the costal
streak al)0ve, and below the median conjoined to a smoky sulFusion reaching the
inner margin between first and second lines.

Hiiulivings : with all three lines represented ; the space between first and third
wholly suffused with greyish fuscous, the marginal area likewise, but not so deejily;
cell-sjiot double, black.

Underside dull reddish ochreous, with the markings all dull. Head red-brown;
thorax and abdomen yellowisli, speckled with reddish orange.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

Two ? ? ; one, the type, from U. Dagua, Colombia (VV. Kosenberg), the other
from Castro, Parana. This latter is much faded, but ajqiears to belong here. A
third smaller ? (24 mm.) from Cucuta, Venezuela, is possibly distinct ; it differs
in having the second line of forewings not denticulate, and only the upper of the
two black discal spots of hindwings.

72. Eois alternifascia sji. nov.

Forrivi/>f/s : rich yellow ; the costa pnrjdisli brown from base to middle fascia :
three oblique rosy fasciae, their edges finely deeper red and sinuous, tlie first near base
narrowest, tlu^ sulimarginal widest ; this last is traversed either by a deeper red line
or a fine yellow one, and its outer edge is generally crenulate ; fringe yellow.

IliiHlicings : the same.

Underside redder ; the forewings sometimes almost wholly rosy. Face and
vertex rosy ; thorax glossy ochreous yellow ; abdomen yellow, sprinkled with rosy
scales.

Expanse of wings : 1" mm.

Seven examples, all ? ?, from Sao I'aiilo {■<), and ('astro, I'anina (2).

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73. Eois (?) cambogiata sp. nov.

Forewiiigs : bright yellow; the eosta rosy at base; u ijurjile basal patch
not extending above the median vein and there tinged with rosy ; a broad post-
median purplish fascia, fading off towards costa, and edged externally by a dnll
fulvous fascia, both angled on vein (i, the latter throwing off a spur to liindmargin
below the median ; a snbajncal curved dull i)ur]ilish fascia ; frincre yellow.

Ilinil wings : with base dark imrple, rosy-edged ; a central dull puri)le fascia,
most distinct on costa, and edged with fulvous ; a submargiual purple-fulvous
shade, most distinct towards anal angle.

Underside pale yelluwisli ochreous, indistinctly suffused, es])eciiiily in the fore-
wings, with dull rosy. Face, antennae, and verte.x dull red : thorax i)urjile :
abdomen yellowish, with rosy and jmrple suttiision.

Expanse of wings : 1!) mm.

One ? from British Guiana.

The only example is not in very good condition.

74. Eois cruorata sp. nov.

Forawings : yellowish ochreous, with a slight olivaceous tinge ; the costa
and three lines or fasciae dull purple ; first line close to base, oblique and more
or less tilling up the basal area with purjjlish : the second curved, median ; the
third close to hiudmargin, with a projection inward opposite cell and on submedian
fold ; marginal area and fringe yellowish, tinged with reddish.

Hindtvings : the same.

Underside much paler ; the forewings, except along inner margin, tinged with
dull rosy ; hiudwings wholly whitish ; fringe of both wings yellowish. Face rosy ;
thorax and abdomen ochreous olive, sj)rinkled with reddish.

Expanse of wings : 16 mm.

Three S S from Cncnta, Venezuela.

75. Eois quadrirubrata sj). nov.

Forewings : pale yellow, the costa from base to middle deep red; four slender
rosy slightly waved lines at one-fonrth, one-half, three-fourths, and seven-eighths ;
cell-spot rosy ; fringe pale yellow.

Hindwings : similar.

Underside the same, but the costal half of forewings is rosy. I'alpi yellow,
black externally; face yellow below, black above: vertex, th<n-ax, and abdomen
l)ale yellow ; collar ferruginous.

Expanse of wings : 10 mm.

One c? from Petropolis.

Closely allied to F. tendlala Moescliler from Jamaica, but rather larger, with
the red lines more slender.

76. Eois rhodariata ^p. nov.

Forewings : shining, olive-oclireous, with seven oblique rosy lines, the second
and third often coalescing ; the last two close together and brigiit, forming a
marginal fascia ; costa paler ochreous ; fringe ochreous.

lliHiltriiigs : olive-oclireous, with the inner and liindniargins rosy.

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TTnilersido i,'rfy<'i', with tnices of cell-spots ami two cnrveil imtor liiu's. Face
dark brown-black : vertex dull rosy ; thorax shiuiiiu; ochreous ; abdomen rosy.
Expanse of wings : 18 — 20 mm.
Several from Castro, Parana ; also from Sao Paulo.

77. Eois mbrisuffusa sp. nov.

Forewings : golden yellow, dusted throughout with coarse rosy scales ; costa
rosy to one-third ; four rosy lines, slightly waved and ])arallel to himlmargin, not
verticil! as in K. iiimdrirnbrata : first curved, at one-fourth : second just beyond
middle : tliird at threc-fonrtlis : snbmarginal hardly visible ; fringe yellow.

Hindicinys: simUar, the submarginal line distinct.

Underside redder. Face and palpi deep brown : collar rosy ; vertex, thorax,
and abdomen yellow, dusted with rosy.

Expanse of wings : IS mm.

Two S S from Sao Paulo and Castro, Parana.

Ts. Euephyra albidiscata sp. nov.

Forewings : dull brick-red; first line at one-fourth, nearly straight, deeper
red, edged on the inside with whitish ; outer line near the hindmargin, curved and
slightly waved above, edged outwardly with whitish : a row of dark red spots
along the margin between the veins : fringe reddish ; cell-mark linear, white.

llindirings : the same, but darker; the outer Hue more bent in the middle;
the cell-spot silvery white.

Underside dull rosy, with outer and central lines deeper. Face above and
palpi red; vertex and lower part of face white ; thorax and abdomen reddish grey.

Expanse of wings : 27 mm.

One ? from Costa Rica (Underwood).

70. Haemalea bimacula sp. nov.

Forewings : bright brick-red or eopjiery brown ; lines brown-black, with a
purplish tinge ; costa bronzy purplish ; the lines at one-fourth, one-half, and
three-fourths respectively; the first sinuous, outcurved to median, then incurved ;
second more waved, incurved in cell and on submedian fold, outcurved below the
middle; third line irregularly waved and dentate; submarginal line crennlate,
touching a purplish brown blotch at middle of hindmargin and another at anal
angle, the latter with a paler centre ; marginal line purplish, partly interrupted ;
fringe concolorous with wings, but blotched with jjurplisli in middle and at anal
angle ; cell-spot annular, white, with a brown edge.

Hinihri/if/x : without first line; a blotch at apex as well as anal angle, that
at the middle of huidmargin small and almost obsolete ; cell-spot small, dark.

Underside of forewings coppery ochreous, the inner margin whitish; cell-spot
and two outer lines pnr]ilish : liindwings paler, only the margin coppery. Mead
anil palpi dark red-l)rown : thorax and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One d and three ? ? : a pair from Hio Demerara ; the other two ? ? from
Iqnitos (Stuart) and Paramaribo, December 1892 (C. W. Ellaeombe).

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Sf. Haemalea delicata ^p. iinv.

Foreivhiffs : j)ale silky yellow, soiiietiiiK's whitisli ; fh,. costa broadly brick-red,
dui^ted with dark scales ; the three lines slender, wavy, interrupted, parallel to
hiudmargiu, and all slightly curved below costa, at one-third, three-fifths, and two-
thirds respectively ; snbmarginal line red, marked only by a subcostal blotch, and
another in the middle of hindniargin ; fringe yellow.

IIin(/irin(js: like forewings, without tlie red costa.

Underside dull yellow ; costal area of forewings and snluuarginal line dull
purplish. Face, thorax, and abdomen yellow, the last red above; vertex and collar red.

Expanse of wings : 18 — I'.i mm.

Several examples of both se.xes from Newcastle, Jamaica.

81. Heterephyra nibida sp. nov.

Forewhif/s : bright lirick-red ; the lines greenish fuscous, towards the costa
becoming dark red; first at one-fourtli, nearly straight, marked with the dark scales
only below the median vein ; second at three-fourths, irregularly crennlate, inwardly
oblique from vein 4 to vein 2, more strongly marked with dark on inner margin ;
submarginal line irregularly waved, interrupted; marginal dots triangular, red ;
fringe concolorons ; cell-spot deep red.

Hindimncia : the same, without first line.

Underside jialer, with the two outer lines shown. Head and thorax con-
colorons ; bottom of face and the abdomen paler.

Ex])anse of wings : 32 mm.

One S from C'ncnta, Venezuela.

82. Lipomelia divaricata sj). nov.

Forewings : fulvous flesh-colour, thickly and coarsely sprinkled with purjilish
scales; the lines jiurple: first at one-fourth, angled on subcostal, then vertical; second
in middle, bent in below costa, then curved round cell and obliipie to inner margin
near first line; outer at three-fourths, irregularly obli(ine to hindmargin below vein 4,
again touching hindmargin twice to form two small ojicn triangles, and losing itself
in a purple blotch before anal angle which contains some fine lustrous scales, and
the inner edge of which is an oblique purple line touching middle line; marginal
line j)ur]ile, interrujited at the veins; fringe yellow, with purple mottlings; cell-sjior
oval, consisting of raised silvery scales.

Ilindivings : the same, without first line: the jjurple blotch at anal angle
smaller, and not connected with middle line.

Underside of forewings deep fulvous flesh-colour: the two outer lines dark;
hindwings with the liasal four-fifths yellowish, and only the margin red: fringes
yellow, mottled with deep ]iurple. Thorax and abdomen concolorons: face and palpi
red-brown.

Expanse of wings: 17 mm.

One rj from Cucuta, Venezuela ; resembles /,. ei/rm'p/en/' Wavr. from Sao Paulo,
but the hindmargin is straiglit, not crennlate.

83. Lipomelia subtincta sp. nov.

closely allied to /,. msn Hruce (Acrofowifi), hni slightly larger: the central
fascia, not velldw-Kreen, but ibiJI olive-grev; tlie two outer liiu's more acntelv

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dentate; tlie marginal area grey-brown: the silvery discal mark longer and more
prominent. In the liindwings the central fascia is broader, its enter edge rnnning
acutely ontwards to vein 7, forming a sharp tooth both on 7 and 0; in nisa Uruce
this line runs straight to vein 6 without forming any tooth on 7; the outer line
more strongly red-brown towards costa, and the hindmargin preceded above by
red-brown dashes; cell-spot smaller.

Underside straw-colour, with basal lialf nf costii of forcwings reddish: a sub-
marginal straight fascia, narrow at costa, broadening to anal angle, the upper half
reddish, the lower blackish; hindwings with u blackish l)lotch at outer angle.

Expanse of wings: 4U mm.

One ^ from Bolivia, between K. Songo and ]{. Suapi, March to June
1896 (Garlepp).

Neochorista gen. nov.

Foreteings: with costa slightly curved, and towards apex strongly convex;
appx broadly rounded; hindmargin rounded.

Ili//i/ic/ii(/.i : witli tlie hindmargin and both angles rounded.

Palpi stont, shortly porrect ; antennae of S thick, snbserrate, ciliated; tongne
present; liindtibiae short and much thickened, with apparently a single stent ajjical
spur: tarsi qnite short.

Xeunttion : forewings, cell a little more than half the length of wing; discf>-
cellular rather oblique; first median at three-fourths, second close before the end
of cell, third from the end; radials normal; 7, 8, 9, stalked ; 10 and 11 stalked; 10
anastomosing with 7, 8, 9, to form the single narrow areole. Hindwings with the
snbcostals long-stalked.

Scaling fine ; wings semitransparent; abdomen of cj elongate.

Tj^je: Neochorista transpecta Hiib. {Faida).

This species, together with aurata Drnce, have been referred to Eudule, bnt the
costal of hindwings does not anastomose, except at a point, with Ihe subcostal, and
both belong to the Sterrh>Hni\

Odontoptila gen. nov.

Forewinqs : elongate; costa straight for three-fourths, then gradually curved:
apex prodnced, bluntly su])falcate; hindmargin bluntly cliiowed in middle, excised
above and below; anal angle distinct.

Hhit/i/ings : narrow, elongate; apex rectangular; inner margin very short;
liindmargin strongly dentate below vein 4, excised opposite the cell.

Abdomen of 6 long; antennae with long fine cilia; jialpi slender, upturned ;
tongue present ; hindlegs aborted; the tibiae with tufts of hair: the tarsi almost
obsolete.

Neuration : forewings, ceil half as long as wing: first median at four-fifths,
second close before end of cell: radials normal; 7, 8, !>, stalked; lit .inastoniosing
shortly with 11 and again with 8, 9, forming a double areole. Hindwings with the
snbcostals on a long stalk; first median from one-half.

Type ; Odontoptila brunnea sp. nov.

84. Odontoptila brunnea sp. nov.
Foreirings : reddish brown, tinged witli grey towards base; first line obli'iur.
dftrk brown and slender, retracted to costa; an oblicine dift'nse median shade.

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tonchiiig a dark Pcll-spof; diit-ci' liiir diirl; lirown, (ilili(|UP, iVoiu iiiiior ninrgiu at
twcr-tliirds towards ajjex, before wlii(;li it is retracted to the costa and interrupted,
followed I)}' a deep brown fascia, wbicli runs as a narrow streak into apex and is
edged by the paler submarginal line; fringe brown, with a dark I)rown basal
line.

Himhr'nujs: with cell-spot, a dilfiise median, and jninctnlate postmedian line,
brown.

Underside ])al('r brown, rather shining, with the ditfnse median sliade and
dotted outer line marked. Head and thorax black-brown; abdomen rcd-iirown;
vertex white.

Expanse of wings : lU mm.

Two S $ from Sao Paulo.

85. Odontoptila cubitata sp. nov.

Foreirings : dull whitish, semihyaline, with a few scattered dark scales; costa
fnscous; first line at one-fourth, fuscous, curved on the median, then oblique inwards;
second at two-thirds, oblicjue outwards and sharply angled on vein (3, then sinuous
inwards to two-thirds of inner margin ; the cell-spot large, ochreous fuscous,
followed by some fuscous scaling in the angle of the second line; outer line at
four-fifths, brown, flexuous, Iiluntly angled at vein (i; marginal area ochreous
fuscous, traversed by a distinct submarginal line of white luuules; marginal line
brown ; fringe white, with brown tips.

Hindirhiys : with faint antemedian line, small black cell-dot, and double waved
submarginal line, filled up with fuscous only from costa to vein ti; fringe whitish,
with dark dots at tlie teeth.

Underside the same, but ihillei' and more sutfused witli fuscous. Face dark:
thorax and abdomen whitish, the latter marked with fuscous above.

Expanse of wings: 21 mm.

One c? from Cucuta, Venezuela.

86. Odontoptila margarita sp. nov.

Forewini/s : pearly white, semihyaline ; the costa ochreous and grey; first line
very obscure, dark fuscous, at one-fourth, running obliciuely outwards and inter-
rupted, marked by blackish dots on the veins; median line marked only by a black
spot on costa and inner margin; outer line at tliree-fonrths, strongly sinuous, marked
with black in the middle and above inner margin, the sinus outwards above vein 0
and between veins 2 and 4 faintly marked witli grey; followed by a grey shade,
which is darkest in the corresjionding portions, and edged outwardly witli white, its
lower edge lunulate; marginal area grey; marginal line brown, interrupted by the
white veins and by an oblique pale apical streak; fringe white, with blackish dots at
the ends of veins, except veins 5 and 0.

JlirKhinni/x : similar, without any trace of first line.

Underside witli base of costa of forewings and a sinuous snbmarginal fascia
black; the marginal area on forewings also blackish. Face black: tliorax and
abdomen white.

Exjianse of wings: 1 '.i mm.

Two c^cf from Ciicuta, N'eneznela.

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87. Pleuroprucha ochrea sp. nnv.

Forewings : pale ochreous, dusted sparsel}- with dull reddish atoms; the costa
narrowly yellowish; the lines very faint, indicated by darker scales; the antemediaii
at one-third, median slightly beyond middle; outer line at five-sixths, more distinct
and deuticulated; submargiiial indistinct; a marginal row of reddish spots; fringe
concolorons; cell-spot linear, thick, but indistinct.

Hindiringa : more dusted with darker; the lines all indistinct, but marked on
inner margin by darker spots; cell-spot dull brown.

Underside whitish ochreous; forewing darker-tinged towards costa. Face and
l)alpi brown; thorax and abdomen pale ochreous.

Expanse of wings: 18 mm.

One (J from Cucnta, Venezuela.

The palest species of the genus.

88. Pleuropnicha roseipuncta «)>. nov.

Foreiring.-i : ochreous, finely dusted with rosy; inner, outer, and marginal lines
marked by rosy dots on the veins; a diffuse dull rosy central shade; fringe
ochreous.

Hitulwings : similar.

Underside ochreous, tinged with rosy: the forewings almost wholly rosy.
Head, thorax, and abdomen pinkish ochreous; the face deep rosy; vertex white.

Expanse of wings: 14 mm.

Several from Paramaribo, February and July 1892 (('. W. Ellacombe).

Smaller and paler than nulimentaria Gnen.

Polygraphodes gen. nov.

Forewings : with costa curved ; apex subacute ; hindmargin obliquely curved.

Hindicingx : narrow, elongate ; hindmargin dentate, the anal angle truncated :
an excision beyond the cell.

Palpi porrect, slender ; antennae of c? pectinated, the pectinations ciliated :
hindtibiae swollen, the tarsi short : the other legs long.

Xcuration : forewings, cell half as long as wing ; discocellular oblii|ue : tirst
median at five-sixths, second and third from end of cell ; radials normal ; the areole
single, 11 shortly anastomosing with the stem of 7, s, W, lit. llindwings with the
two subcostals long-stalked ; second median from before end of cell.

Type : Polygraphodes boarmi'ita sp. nov.

89. Polygraphodes boarmiata sp. nov.

Forewings: grey, speckled with darker; the lines dark grey, starting from
costal blotches ; first at one-fourth, outcurved al)ove the median, inangiilated below :
median line obscure, curved round the black cell-spot, and becoming obsolete below :
exterior line slightly wavy, marked by blackish spots on the veins, followed by n
darker grey fascia which is edged by a pale submarginal line : a marginal line of
shallow black Innules : fringe grey.

llindwings : similar, without first line, but with a dark s])ot at base.

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Unrlerside flossy cinereous, the liimlwiiigs jialiT. Faee uml palpi dark : tiuirax
grey ; abdomen wanting.

Expanse of wings : 2S mm.

One d from Petropolis, Prov. Rio de Janeiro.

9ii. Ptychopoda (?) amplimargo sp. uov.

Forewings : dull fnlvons, dusted with darljer ; the markings indistinct ; traces
of an autemedian and postmedian Ijrowii line, with a distinct brown cell-spot : tlie
postmedian nearer the hindmargin than usnal.

Hindivings : the same, with a brown snbmarginal sliade.

Underside the same. Thorax and abdomen coucolorons : head damaged.

Expanse of wings : 16 mm.

One S from Petropolis.

The only example is much wasted, Imt the peculiar sliapo of the wings will
distinguish it. The hindmargin of forewings is very oblique and runs into the inner
margiil without any anal angle, the inner margin itself being mucli bulged out in
its outer half. The liindwings are broad, well rounded, anil the inner margin
greatly developed, being folded or thickened ; the cell of the hindwings is very
broad ; veins C and 7 on a long stalk ; vein 3 before lower angle of cell.

01. Ptychopoda (?) jamaicensis sp. nov.

Forewings : whitish grey, dusted with dark grey: a blackish spot at base : the
lines blackish, waved, starting from dark costal spots at one-fourth, one-half, and
three-fourths respectively, the median line on costa being somewhat beyond the
middle ; submarginal shade formed of dark grey blotches, interrnpteil opposite cell
and on submedian fold : cell-spot small, black : a row of black marginal spots
between veins ; fringe pale, with a minute dark dot at base lieyond each vein.

Hi/K/iri//(/» : similar.

Underside dingy grey, the fringes paler. Pace and palpi lilackisli ; vortex,
thorax, and abdomen pale grey.

Expanse of wings : 20 — 28 mm.

Common from Jamaica.

Some specimens are much darker grey, with the lines strongly expressed. In
the forewings vein 10 anastomoses with 11, and again with 7, 8, 9, forming a double
areole ; veins 0, 7, of hindwings are stalked. The antennae of S densely ciliated.
The species snjjerficially much resembles Craspedid jUiulata (inen. from Intlia.

92. Ptychopoda limitata sp. nov.

Foreirhigs : yellow, dusted with ferruginous scali-s : the lines jinrjilisli ; first at
one-third, hue, obtusely bent on the median vein : basal area sutl'used with purplish
grey scales ; outer line at three-fourths, minutely waved, curved towarils margin
from costa to submedian fold, then vertical : marginal area beyond it filled, like the
basal, with purjjlish grey, except the apical fourtli, where the scales are ferrnginons:
in the pale central field a faint ferruginous sinuous lino is visible towards the outer
line and beyond the minute dark cell-spot ; marginal lino dark {>nr]ilisli, tlie fringe
paler.

llinilwinqs : yellow, with ferruginous lines and scales.

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Underside the same, bnt duller ; the costa of forewiugs iinqple. Face and
vertex purplish ; thorax aud abdomen yellow, vari<"d with ferrnginoos.
Expanse of wings : 12 mm.
One (J from Valencia, Veneznela.

03. Ptychopoda percriuita ^^p. nov.

Foii'iciitgs: pale ochreoii.-;, sliglitly yellow -I iiigiil towards the costa, and some-
times very finely dusted with grey atoms, with iive darker ochreons denticulate
lines, antemedian, median, touching the small dark cell-spot, postraedian, and two
snbmarginal : fringe concolorons, with a row of black dots along Imse.

IIliKlui/igs : without cell-spot, and only four lines.

Underside with the lines more distinct ; forewings with the disc tinged with
grey. The costa broadly reddish yellow. Face aud palpi brown-red ; vertex white :
thorax and abdomen ochreons.

Expanse of wings : Ki mm.

Two S S from Castro. Parana, and Sao Paulo.

In the example from Castro, which has the slight grey dusting, the lines are
more distinct and tlie marginal dots larger ; in the other, the lines, not being grey-
tinged, are less obvious, and tlie marginal dots (|uite small.

The hindwiugs are oval, with botli angles aud the hindraargin rounded otf ;
on the underside the costa of the hindwings is armed with two fringed tufts of hair,
one at base, the other in the middle, and there are curled wisps of hair along the
discocellular aud the inner-marginal area : the first two pairs of legs are very long,
the middle tibiae with a tuft of long liairs from the apex and two very unei[nal
spurs, the inner one being as long as the first joint of the tarsi ; the hindlegs are
quite aborted, and hidden beneath a dense tuft of pale hairs; the antennae shortly
pubescent.

04. Ptychopoda rosea sp. nov.

Foreivings : i)ale pearl-grey, dusted aud sufi'used with rosy purple ; costa and
lines purple ; first at one-fourth, second in middle, both vertical, the second slightly
incurved at inuor margin : third from costa at three-fourths to two-thirds of inner
margin, starting from a black costal sjiot, obIi(iue outwards aud angled on vein (J,
thfuee obliijue inwards, marked with dark dots on veins : marginal area snlVuscd
with rosy purple, with the snbmarginal line jiale : cell-spot rosy; fringe reddish
grey, chequered dark and light.

lliiiiliciiuj.-i : with a zigzag dark central line, edged with wliilisli on each side:
marginal area rosy ; fringe dark grey, mixed with whitish.

Underside dull rosy grey, with the markings indistinct. Heail, tiiorax, and
base of abdomen pearly grey: rest of abdomen tinged witli reddish.

Expanse of wings : 19 mm.

One J from Paramaribo, August 18'.i".' (C. W. Ellacombe).

'••5. Ptychopoda subpilosa sp. nov.

Forewings : pale ochreous, tinged with darker along the costa, and with slight
dark spots at one-fourth, one-half, ami three-fourths, indicating the origin of the
three lines, of which only the poslniedian, somewhat denticulate, is jilain ; fringe
ochreous, with slight dark ilashes at base ; cell-spot small, duik.

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llindicinqH : oolireons, witli iiulistiiict cross linos.

Underside with the mavkings of forewings somewhat more visible. Face and
palpi reddish; thorax and abdomen ochreons.

Expanse of wings : 16 mm.

One $ from Cucnta, Venezuela.

In shape of forewings, which are pointed, this spenies resembles Pt. .tiibrestifa.
The hindwings are irregnlarly oblong, the hindmargin bluntly ])rominent below the
median; they are without the tufts and folds of hair which occur in Pt. snliroitita
and percrinita, but instead the whole under surface is covered with fine erect down-
like hair, as in those of Brachyprota ((bnormipfinnis, from which the species
differs in the less exaggerated prolongation of the hindwings, and in their costal
vein being complete.

96. Ptychopoda subvestita sp. nov.

Forewings : ochreons, dusted with darker, esjiecially along the costa ; the lines
indistinct ; postraedian line running nearly straight across the wing to inner margin
before anal angle, indistinctly denticulate ; a small dark cell-spot, and traces of a pale
snbmarginal line between two darker shades ; marginal dots elongated, brownish;
fringe ochreons.

Hindwings : with only traces of curved lines ; cell-spot absent ; marginal dots
as in forewings.

Underside tinged with deeper ochreons, tlie lines mucli plainer; the postmedian
line denticulate; the snbmarginal shades disthict. Head and face brown-red; tliorax
and abdomen ochreons.

Expanse of wings : 16 mm.

One t? from Petropolis; one <?, one ?, from Santos.

This insect is related to Pt, percrinita, from Sao Paulo, having the fringed tufts
of hair on the costa of hindwings beneath, as well as the wisjis of hair along the
discocellular and the veins ; but these are all exaggerated in the present species, the
hindwings of which have on the upper surface also a folded lappet at base of costa
reaching nearly to the middle of the wing, and the discocellular with raised scales ;
the hindwings themselves are much elongated and narrowed at base : the forewings
have a small tuft of hair in the middle of hindmargin ; the tuft of hair covering the
aborted hindlegs is black beneath, while in Pt. percrinita it is wholly ochreons ;
the antennae, instead of being simply pubescent, are snbserrate and clothed with
long cilia.

In the hindwings veins 2 and 3 are stalked, the stalk being curved and
thickened. Snellen remarks a similar peculiarity in his chlorosata from Uhaque,
Tijd. V. Ent. XVII. p. 56; but though he had fourteen S S of his species, he makes
no mention of the tuft of hair on forewings, or of the jiecnliar ajipendages of tlie
hindwings, and so I presume the two species to be different.

The ? has narrower more pointed forewings than the J : but. on the contrary,
the hindwings shorter, obovoid. the hindmargin protuberant towards aual ;uigle.

!i7. Ptychopoda triangularis sp. nov.

Forewings: dull grey, dusteil and marked with darker grey: the lines all
straight, very obliiiue, parallel to the oblique hindmargin: the antemedian generally
obscurely double, the outer arm being retracted to the costa before the dark cell-

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spot ; postmctlian iilwavs donlile, forminfr a dark frrey fascia rnnning to costa before
apex, the onter nrin oliscnrely marked with dark vein-dots ; snbmarginal line double,
both arms fine and more or less lost in the dark marginal area ; fringe grej', witli a
paler median line, often marked with dark at the ends of the veins.

Uindwings : the same, without first line; the inner arm of the niitei- line median
and touching cell-spot, the outer arm indistinctly di'iitioulate.

Underside densely mottled with grey, more or less obscuring the lines. Face
dark grey-brown: vertex whitish; thorax iind iilulniiicii ilnll i;n'y.

Exi)aMse of wings : 2u — 2'Z mm.

Both sexes from Sao I'aulo.

Easily recognised by the shape of the wings, which are both triangular ; costa
nearly straight, apex very acute ; hiudmargin straight and very oblique, as long as
inner margin: annl angle well marked.

9s. Ptychopoda (?) virginea sp. nov.

Forewings : snow-white ; outer line re])resenfiMl liy a sinuous grey-brown cloud,
not reaching above the median ; snbmarginal line greyish brown, obsolete before
vein 4 ; a minute black cell-dot, and series of black marginal dots ; fringe white.

Ilinduings : with very large black cell-spot ; clondy fnscous postmedian and
snbmarginal lines, and some coarse black scales along inner margin.

Underside of forewings with an elongated grey suffusion between veins 2 and 4;
hindwings with a grey cloud on costa at two-thirds. Head blackish ; thorax and
abdomen white, the latter with some grey scales.

Expanse of wings : 14 mm.

One S from Paramaribo, August 1892 (C. W. Ellacotube.

St'BFAMiLY ASTHENINAE.
1*9. Amaurinia chrysocraspedata s]). nov.

Forewings : reddish fawn-colour, more greyish fawn along the costal and inner
margins; space between veins 3 and 6 more reddish and mottled with yellow; wing
crossed by a number of wavy dark lines, of which the basal, median, and antemedian
are most distinct, the median parallel to the bas;il, and the postmedian incnrveil
below middle and approaching the median on inner margin; cell-dot brown : hind-
margin narrowly yellow, the reddish ground-colour finely edged with purple and
bent outwards to touch the margin between veins 3 and 4 ; fringe yellow, tinged
with red at ajiex, middle, and anal angle.

J/itn//n'/)g,s : more brick-red, sometimes witli yellow mottlings ; antemedian
and jiosttnedian wavy dark lines ; fringe as in forewings.

Underside duller; the wavy lines beyond the postmedian ])lainer. Face ilark
brown ; thorax and abdomen concolorons with wings : vertex and shaft of antenna<'
white.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

Two <? S from Bolivia, between B. Rongo and li. Snap!. l\larcli to .Tunc ISOii
((iarlepp).

Foix casaantlru of Druce must be near this, but he makes the hi'ad all red;
besides, the nenration must be different.

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1"|>. Amaiu'iuia consocia sp. nov.

DistiuguishcHl IVom Gueuee's hyperythravia, by the rufous olive tiuge of the
wings, with all the wavy lines obscurely darker, though iadistinct ; fringe deep
yellow, spotted with puri)]e at apex, middle, and anal angle.

Underside much redder, with all the lines more distinct.

One S from Bolivia, between U. hiongo and K. Suapi, i\Iarch to June 1896
(Garlepp).

li»I. Amaurinia xanthoperata sp. nov.

Forew'uigs: purjilish grey, the lines darker purple ; very mucli like .1. clii-yso-
ci-anpedata, but the median line in the present species is incurved below the middle
and j)arallel throughout to the postmedian, while in that the median line is i)arallel
to the basal : hindmargiu more broadly yellow ; the purplish area edged by a deeper
purplish line, bent out in the middle but not touching the hindmargiu'; costa just
before apex yellow; fringe yellow, faintly rod-tinged at apex, middle, and anal angle;
cell-spot black, with distinct red edge.

Hindicings : with a broad straight purple antemedian shade instead of a
narrow line ; postmedian line minutely waved ; margin and fringe as in forewings.

Underside duller purple, with the lines all very uniformly marked. Face and
palpi dark purple-brown ; thorax and abdomen concolorons with wings ; vertex and
shaft of antennae white.

E.xpanse of wings : 23 mm.

Two S6 from Bolivia, between R. Songo and R. Suapi, March to June 1896
(Garlepp).

102. Cambogia aurata sp. uov.

Forewings : deep golden yellow, with tine waved dull reddish lines, of whicb
the outer line at two-thirds and two submarginal lines are thickest and most
distinct ; the outer line is preceded and followed by a very fine line, and there are
three near base liefore the blackish cell-spot ; all the lines swollen and partially
coalescent at costa : fringe yellow, with faint red dots at base.

Hiwlwings : similar.

Underside duller, with the marks showing through. Face, vertex, and front of
thorax ferruginous ; abdomen yellow, mixed with ferruginous ; -fillet and shaft of
antennae white.

Expanse of wings : Itj mm.

Two 36, one ?, from Boschland, Surinam, May lS92 (C. W. Ellacombe).

1IJ3. Cambogia ferruginata sp. nov.

Forewinqs : dull rust-coloured, crossed throughunt by mimerous wavy darker
rusty and grey lines, three beyond middle, ftn-tuing the oul(!r edge of central area,
being conspicuous and projecting todtlilike liclow the middle ; costal area darker ;
cell-sjKjt black.

Iiiii<livii)gs : the same, I he ccil-siiot large.

Underside the same, but paler. Head, thorax, nml abdduu'N ferruginous ; vertex
and antennae white.

Expanse of wings : 'M mm.

One S from Newcastle, Jamaica.

Distinguished by its nnif'urin rusty a[i|ie:iranee.

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1M4. Cambogia lineolata sji. uov.

Foreioings : yellow, varied with orange-red ; the costa broadly orauge-red, with
dull yellow spaces at the extreme edge : a sliort orange-red line close to base,
another at one-third, nearly vertical : outer line at two-thirds, bent on vein 4 ; an
interrupted wavy submarginal line ; the intervals are traversed by faintly expressed
orange-red wavy lines or patches : cell-spot orange-red : fringe yellow, with orange-
red line at base.

Hii)diriii(js : with a straight orange-red line at one-fourth, and another, median,
followed by two wavy and interrupted lines : cell-spot linear : fringe as in fore-
wings.

Underside the same, only paler. Face, palpi, and abdomen yellow ; vertex
white : thorax, collar, and base of abdomen orange : apices of patagia yellow.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

One S from Popayan, Colombia (Lehmann).

Hiudmargin of hindwiugs bluntly angled.

105. Cambogia nigriplaga sp. nov.

Foiewingg : ochreous, the ground-colour almost entirely hidden by grey and
rnfous scaling ; the costa paler ; first line at one-fifth, bent below costa, its middle
vertical; median line also obliciue at first, then lieut and straight to vein 4, then
incurved ; outer line similar, but minutely waved, edged opjiosite the cell ami in
bubmediau field with paler ; space between median and outer line rufons, filled up
with greyish black from vein 2 to inner margin ; submarginal line cloudy, inter-
rupted ; marginal line fine ; fringe concolorous ; a jiale ochreous apical patcli,
obliquely edged from ajiex ; cell-spot Idack.

Uindwings : rufous grey, with black cell-sjjot and three slightly waved dark
lines, the inner margin with a dark blotch between first and second.

Underside paler, with dingy rufous suffusion. Head, thorax, and abdomen
rufous ; vertex also rufous.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One ? from Castro, Parana.

JiK'i. Cambogia (?) semipicta s]i. nov.

Fori'iciiigs : dull olive-ochreous, with scarcely defined traces of darker trans-
verse lines, the outer line alone with its pale edging marked plainer; inner margin at
anal angle marked with dull chocolate ; cell-spot distinct, dark ; marginal line very
fine, waved, reddish : fringe concolorous.

lliii(hciiig.s: with only basal area olive-ochreons : the rest of the wings dull
chocolate, traversed beyond middle by the faintly paler outer line ; fringe olive-
ochreous.

Underside wholly olive-ochreous, tinged with yellowish, and with ]iartial
reddish dnsting. Face ferruginous : head and thorax olive-ochreous : fillet white ;
alidomeu missing.

Expanse of wings : 2U mm.

One ? from Petropolis.

This sjiecies belongs to the grouji with more decidedly jiointed forewings and
distinctly angulated hindwings.

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li-»T. Cambogia tessellata ^^p. nov.

Forc.wi nijii : yellow, the basal half crossed by six nndnlating orange-red lines,
which become purplish and coalescent along costa, leaving two nnsnlFnsed yellow
patches, one in the cell and one in the submedian area, before the edge of a broadish
purplisii red fascia, which is incurved towards costa and below the middle rims
parallel to the hindmargin ; a narrower jiurplish red submarginal fascia, interrupted
between veins 3 and 4 by a projection of the broader fascia to the hindmargin : a
narrow red line from costa before apex to hindmargin at vein 4 : fringe yellow,
che(iuered with reddish beyond the veins : cell-spot distinct, black, placed in the
ui)per iif the two unsuffnsed yellow patches.

lliiitlwiiuj.s : similar : the red lines ut base fewer, the sjjace before the purple
fascia entirely yellow from costa to inner margin : the cell-spot red.

Underside duller, with the markings reproduced. Face, vertex, thorax, and
abdomen ferruginous; fillet and antennae snow-white.

Expanse of wings : 19 mm.

Three ¥ ? from Newcastle, Jamaica.

Akin to C. snellenaria Moeschl.

108. Oligopleura aulaeata Feld. ab. diversicolor nov.

Distinguished from the type-form Ijv tlie grass-green tints of the forewings
being all changed into olive-brown, the inner and outer fasciaform edges of the
central area being separated by a broad median band of the jiale olive-drab ground-
colour. The aberration occurs along with the type-form, and is not sexual.

Two examjiles from Cucnta, Venezuela.

Subfamily TEPHKOULYSTllNAE.
100. Chloroclystis brunneoviridis sp. nov.

I'orewhigx : deep green; tirst line close to base, lilack on costa, the basal area
purplish; a broad central fascia, edged by crenulate irregular dark lines, and filled
up with purple in cell and submedian fold, the inner band wholly dark purple-brown,
the costal portion remaining green, with only the commencement of the lines
marked as black spots ; submarginal line formed of purple hinules, not reaching
costa, and conjoined to central fascia beyond cell by a purjile suffusion ; fringe
purplish green ; the broad green fasciae preceding and following the central area are
each traversed by a single dark line.

Hind winy s : ochreous whitish, slightly green-tinged; fringe grey.

Underside cinereous greenish ; both wings with obscure denticulated darker
lines. Thorax and abdomen green ; i)alpi, face, and vertex ochreous olive, probably
faded from green.

Expanse of wings : 23 mm.

One d from Sao Paulo.

The hindwings are narrnw : the inner margin strongly folded over beneath;
second and tliird medians from lowri- end of cell, the other veins hidden.

11". Dochephora pilosa s]). nov.
Forewings : olive-oclircous, tinged witli rufous brown, the costa and a]iical area
Ijalest : the wings crossed by a succession of interruiited brown lines, curved parallel

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to the hindmargiii, the central iiit:i darkest, murkeil with dark olive-green patches
of scales in the cell, close to base, and along the snlimedian Ibveal depression ;
Iriuge pale olive-ochreons.

Hindwings : shining white, tinged with rufous along inner margin to aual
angle : basal line of fringe dark glossy grey ; a scaleless depression at end of cell
and another before apex.

Underside pale olive ; the whole of the space below the median — including the
elongated foveal depression — as far as inner margin, scaleless and glossy; hindwings
entirely covered with thick somewhat glistening olive hairs, altogether concealing
the nenration. l*al]ii and collar rufous : face and vertex pale ochrcons : thorax and
abdomen olive and grey, the patagia paler.

Ex])anse of wings : 24 mm.

One i from Costa Rica (Underwood).

111. Tephroclystia longicorpus sp. nov.

Foreir/ii(/.s : i)ale silky grey, with dark grey markings ; basal jiatch dark grey,
its outer edge obliciuely curved, with a jialer line down its centre : central fascia
broad, its inner half tilled up with dark grey, with a prominent jirojection outwards
in cell containing the black cell-spot ; its outer half consisting of three parallel dark
grey lines, slightly angled at veins 6 and 4, and marked, especially the outermost,
by black dashes on veins ; a pale ftiscia of ground-colour, traversed by a threadlike
darker line, precedes and follows the central fascia ; submarginal line tine, waved,
and pale, with dark grey shades on each side, the inner one luuulate : fringe iron-
grey, chequered with darker, and with a fine pale line at base.

IJimhcinqs : dull grey, with traces of cross lines from the inner margin ; a dark
cell-spot.

Underside pale grey, with the markings equally plain on both wings. I'aliii
dark grey, with the tips ])ale : face whitish grey, with two black dots at top; vertex,
collar, and thorax pale grey; abdomen cinereous.

Expanse of wings : 2t) mm.

Three Si from Bolivia, between 1{. Songo and R. Suapi, March to June 1896
(Garlepp).

The body from head to anal segment as long as costa of forewings.

11-'. Tephroclystia longifimbria sp. nov.

rorewinqs : silky fuscous, with the markings indistinct ; a basal jjatch, a
median fascia twice as broad on costa as at inner margin, and a wavy-edged sub-
nuirginal fascia, all darker, the intervening spaces, as well as the centre of the
median fascia which contains the dark cell-spot, being pale ; a pale ochreous spot
above anal angle on the outside of the submarginal fascia: fringe glossy fuscous.

////iduiix/.s : wholly dark smoky fuscous, with traces of a deeper median and
submarginal line and dark ccll-siiot; fringe very long, tufted at anal angle, glistening.

Underside dingy ochreous grey, but glossy, the lines and cell-spots indistinctly
darker ; thorax and abdomen fnscons ; head, collar, and anal segments of abdomen
j)aler, more ochreous grey.

Exjianse of wings : 16 mm.

One (? from Sao Paulo.

The shape of the wings is like that of T. pijgmuiaU! of Eurojn-.

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113. Tephroclystia truncatipennis sj). ikiv.

Forewinyx : gre}', with darker suffusion, the veins iu jilaces marked with
blackish ; central fascia formed of two grey bands, marked with black dashes on the
veins and containing a black cell-spot ; a paler grey fascia on each side of it,
traversed by a grey line ; basal area edged by a grey band, with a grey line inside
it ; submargiual line fine, pale, wavy ; preceded and followed by darker grey shades,
the inner one forming a series of dark lunules ; a row of small dark marginal spots,
with dark dashes from them to the snbmarginal line ; fringe chequered light and
dark grey.

Hinchrings : nearly the same, but the central band less distinct.

Underside glossy, cinereous fuscous, with the cell-spot and all the bands
marked dark on costal half of wings. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey ; abdomen
with a black ring at base.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

Two ? ? from Castro, Parana, and Petropolis.

Distinguished by the truncation of the anal angle of hindwings, the inner margin
being short.

Subfamily HYDRIOMENINAE.
Amygdalopteryx gen. nov.

Foj-ewings : elongate, the costa slightly shouldered at base, convex before apex ;
apex rounded : hindmargin obliquely curved.

Hinihvinys : elongate, in the ? normal : the apex and hindmargin rounded ;
in the <S with the apex and upper jjart of margin rounded ; inner margin very
short, hindmargin from anal angle to middle cut off straight, the cell and lower half
of wing clothed with thick furry hair above and below.

Palpi rather long, porrect, the terminal joint decumbent, smooth ; antennae of
J subserrate, with pairs of short cilia, in ? simple, filiform ; forehead with a short
sharp projection ; hindtibiae of c? with four spurs.

NeuratioH : forewings, cell half the length of wing ; discocellular augulated, the
npper half vertical ; first median at five-sixths, second and third from end of cell;
radials normal ; 7, 8, '.), stalked from end of cell ; lu anastomosing with 11, and
then with 7, 8, 'J, forming a double areole ; 11 from near end of areole; 7 from the
end ; 8, 9, lU, stalked from the end.

Type : Amiiydalopteryx duXcife rata Wlk. {Larentia).

114. Camptogramma erebata sp. uov.

Foreiciii(/s : deep purjilish grey, the lines olilique and waved, blackish ; first
from one-third of inner margin, wavy, acutely angled on the subcostal and retracted
to costa ; second from just before apex to three-fourths of inner margin, waved, and
forming a more conspicuous sinus beyond cell, preceded by a broad purplish black
shade ; fringe coucolorous, with small black dots at the ends of the veins between
the crenulations ; a black cell-spot.

fJiniiwinys : similar, but without first line and cell-spot : the outer fascia paler.

Underside wholly deep purplish grey. Head, thorax, and base of abdomen dark
grey: abdomen paler grey. Abdomen and hindwings of the J paler.

Exi)unse of wings : 26 — 30 mm.

One S and several S ? from Sao Paulo ; also from Castro, Parana.

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llo. Epirrhoe (?) gelatina sp. nov.

Foretcings : glossy, wliitish oclireons, tlic ground-colour almost hidileii by
fascons suffusion ; basal patch dark fuscous, edged by the nearly straight dark first
line, from one-fifth of eosta to one-sixth of inner margin, and traversed by a slightly
waved blackish line ; central fascia with its inner edge consisting of two and its
outer of three waved and irregularly dentate dark lines, including a large black
cell-spot ; followed by several pale and dark alternating dentate lines : submarginal
line pale, uniformly dentate, and preceded by a dark shade ; the central fascia is
suffused witli a fnscous cloud which partially darkens tlie jiale space between it and
the basal patch ; marginal area ochreous and grey, with dark dashes between veins ;
marginal line black ; fringe very glossy, dark fuscous, with jialc intervals beyond the
veiu-dots.

Hindwhigs: whitish ochreous, grey-tinged; a distinct cell-spot and curved
l)os(median grey line : a broadish grey marginal fascia.

Underside of forewiugs dull blurred cinereous ; of hindwings whiter, with large
cell-spot and traces of two curved grey fasciae. Face and thorax brown ; abdomen
wanting.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One ? from above Mapiri, 2000 feet, 189.J (Stuart).

The true position of tliis species must await the examination of a 6. Judging
from the character of the fringes, it may be related to the Australian genus
MelitnUas Meyrick.

11 U. Hammaptera aurea sj). nov.

Forewinqs : olive-green, varied with fuscous ; the lines fuscous ; a dark wa\ ed
fascia close to base, followed by a yellowish olive broader fascia containing traces of
darker lines ; central fascia dark fuscous, the inner edge followed by two, the outer
])receded by three, waved darker lines ; the inner edge slightly curved and minutely
waved ; the outer with two or three small teeth beneath costa and a blunt bidentate
projection below median, followed liy a wliite line ; a submarginal deeper fuscous
olive shade containing four waved dark lines, slightly toothed inwards on the veins ;
submarginal line formed of ochreous lunules, edged externally with black below
costa, opposite cell, and above anal angle ; marginal area olive-greeu; marginal line
concise, black, interrupted by olive dots at ends of veins : fringe yellnwisli, elu'(|uered
with dark grey beyond veins ; cell-spot linear, black.

llirulwiiiys : dull orange, with tiie inner area smoky grey for two-thirds ; an
obscure dark curved submarginal line from inner margin to vein -1 : fringe orange,
with black lines at base between veins 2 and 4 only.

Underside yellow ; forewiugs with large black cell-sjmt and broad marginal
black fascia, containing creamy white spots at apex and middle ot margin ; hind-
wings with only traces of a dark fascia and small cell-spot. Face and palpi dull
yellow; thorax olive and yellowish ; abdomen dull yellowish, with grey bands.

Expanse of wings : 45 mm.

One J from Bogota.

The fold on inner margin is slight, and tiie contained tuft orange.

117. Hammaptera pallidiparrs sp. nov.
Foretringx : with ground-colour ochreous whitish, strongly tinged with olive ; the
lines and markings blackish; Ijasal area limited liv a double blackish denticulated

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line and traversed hy two or three fiuer lines; central I'ascia with the inner edge
waved and nearly vertical to inner margin at two-fifths ; outer edge denticulated
and irregular, with two more prominent teeth between veins 2 and 4, to inner
margin at four-fifths ; traversed by six blackish denticulated lines, three inner and
three outer, sometimes leaving a paler space in middle containing the black cell-spot;
the whole of the fascia filled up with smoky black, which in a less degree sometimes
extends over the preceding pale fascia to the base ; between the pale fascia that
follows tlie central dark area and the jiale waved snbmarginal line is an olive-
fuscous fascia, always interrupted below middle and often obliterated by the olive-
ochreous ground-colour, except at costa and above anal angle and beyond cell ; the
marginal space always with two wedge-shaped marks beyond cell ; marginal line
l)lack, interrujited at the veins ; fringe ochreous, chequered with fuscous.

Jliwhriiii/.s : dark smoky fuscous, the fringe paler, with dark line at base.

Underside black, witli a broad whitish postmedian fascia, interrupted below
the middle ; a white apical patcji and another at middle of hindmargin on the
forewings ; the cell-spots black. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous, the
abdomen varied with fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 34 — 42 mm.

Four cJ(?, two from R. Dagua, Colombia (Lehmann), and two from Costa Rica
(Underwood).

A variable species : in the Colombian insects the paler areas arc more ochreous,
iu the Costa Rica sj)ecimens more olive ; the central fascia is sometimes edged
externally by a distinct white line ; the hindwings often show a slightly paler space,
corresponding to the white fascia of the underside.

118. Hammaptera subolivescens sp. uov.

Forewings : olive-green ; markings fuscous : a dark fascia near base, followed
by a broad paler fascia of ground-colour, which, however, sometimes contains another
similar dark fascia ; central fascia of moderate widtli ; its inner edge slightly curved
inwards ; its outer with a strong inangulation beyond cell and another on submedian
fold, with a broad triangular projection between : containing four waved dark lines,
sometimes meeting on the veins and forming annuli ; the whole filled up with
fuscous ; a jiale fascia follows, with a dark tliread down the niiiUUe ; then three
waved dark lines, becoming coalescent below ; submarginal line j)alt!, lunulate,
preceded and followed below costa, opposite cell, and above anal angle by blackish
wedge-shaped markings : fringe olive-green or yellow, chequered with black, and
with pairs of black spots at end of each vein ; cell-spot black, linear.

Uiiidwiuys : dull smoky fuscous ; fringe pale yellow, with black dots at base.

Underside with basal two-thirds, including the large black cell-spot, olive-
fuscous, separated by a bent pale fascia from the smoky black marginal area, which
contains a pale spot at apex and in middle; hindwings similar, but the marginal
dark area obscure.

Head, thorax, and abdomen olive-green or yellowish ; abdomen marked with
grey rings.

Expanse of wings : 40 — 42 mm.

Two JcJ, one ?, from Paraguay and Costa Rica.

In the ? the margin of hindwings is narrowly yellowish, that colour running up
also a short wav along the veins.

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110. Pelurga straininea sp. nov.

Forewings : pale straw-colour; the lines aiid markings gre}- -brown; first line
near base, curved and waved; second line similar, before one-third; followed by
two more lines, the space between them, except at costa, filled np with grey and
forming the inner band of central fiiscia; outer line at three-fourths, sinuous,
forming three blnnt teeth on vein 6, between veins '■^ and 4, and on the snbmcdian
fold; preceded by three waved lines, similarly, except on costa, filled in with grey;
the two grey bands meet below the median and on inner margin; cell-spot blackish;
a faint waved double brownish submargiual line; fringe pale straw-colour, with
brown basal line.

Hindwings : wholly straw-colour, with brown cell-spot.

Underside pale yellow; forewings with outer line of central fascia'thick, brown,
and with a slight apical streak; hindwings with obscure brown postraedian and sub-
marginal shades. Head, thorax, and abdomen straw-colour; thorax mixed with
grey.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One cf from La Gama, Argentina, November 1803.

The face of this insect is armed above with a bifid chitinous projection withnut
scales, and below with a lunulate- one, much less prominent. The margins of the
wings are plain and simply curved, not elbowed and creuulate as in I', comitata.

120. Perizoma fasciolata sp. nov.

Forewings : whitish or pale grey, with a slight ochreous tinge; first line waved,
near base; the basal area filled up with dark fuscous; central fascia with its inner
edge slightly, its outer much waved, formiiig two ])r(ijectious, one above, the other
below the cell, and incurved below the middle; its inner edge followed by one, its
outer ])receded by two waved lines; space between the inner lines filled np with
fuscous, forming a narrow fascia; the outer edge dark only from costa to middle;
submargiual line preceded by dark patches at costa, beyond cell, and at anal angle;
the pale spaces before and beyond the central fascia traversed, the first Ijy two wavy
lines, and the latter by one; fringe greyisli fuscous, with a tiiick line at base, inter-
rupted at the vein-ends.

IJiiulirings : dull greyish fuscous, with a curved jmstmedian line, followed by
a similar pale fascia; fringe as in forewings: both wings with small cell-spots.

Underside dull grey, with the markings showing through. Head and thorax
dark fuscous; abdomen paler.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One 6 from Paraguay; also in some numbers from Goya, Argentine States.

121. Psaliodes confusa sp. uov.

Forewings ; white, the ground-colour more or less obliterated by olive-brown
suffusion, which is again powdered with white scales; an oblii|uely curved wavy
white fascia from one-third of costa to one-fourth of inner margin, its centre
traversed by a brown line and dusted throughout with brown: a similar fascia at
two-thirds, intermixed in the middle, white below the subcostal vein; a wavy white
submargiual line; fringe white externally, ehci]uere<l witii obliipie brown blotciies.

Jlinihrings : grey-brown, with marks of two brown lines on inner margin only.

Underside of forewings bronzy grey, mottled with white; a broad dift'use

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subcostal yellow streak: a bronzy browu triangular costal patch, containing a white
mark; hindwings more mottled with white, with two brown lines and some vellowisli
scales. Head, tliorax, and abdomen olive-brown, speckled with pale and dark browu.

Expanse of wings : 25 mm.

Two ? ? from Newcastle, Jamaica, September 189:?.

Rhopalista gen. uov.

Forewings : ample, broadening outwards from a somewhat narrow base; costa
arched at base aud before apex, straight between ; hindmargin long, bent at vein 4,
more oblique and slightly indented below.

Ilindu'ing.s : narrow; the hindmargin and both angles rounded; inner margin
folded over as a lajipet on the upjierside, the lappet concealing a mass of fluffy
hair.

Antennae simple, filiform, aunulated, ending in a point, but not thickened
before it; palpi short; tongue strongly developed: hindtibiae with four sjjurs;
abdomen stout and hairy, extending far beyond hindwings.

Neuratioti : forewings, cell not quite half as long as wing; discocellnlar vertical
for four-fifths, then sharply oblique outwards; first median at four-fifths, second
close before lower end of cell; radials normal; 7, 8, 9, stalked from well before end of
cell; lU and 11 from cell, 11 at one-half; 10 anastomosing with 11 and again with
8, 9, forming a long double areole; 11 rising from near its end, 7 from the end,
10, 9, 8, stalked. Hindwings with cell one-fourth only of wing, the discocellnlar
concave; costal anastomosing with subcostal for three-fourths of cell, then strongly
divergent; the snbcostals short-stalked, divergent; radial from below the centre of
the discocellular; the three medians all close togetlier from lower end of cell.

Type : Rkopalisfa ignifera Th. Mg.

122. Rhopalista fulvifusa sp. nov.

Foreicuigs: ruddy ochreous, the markings black: four or five curved lines
partially coalescent, uear base, the outermost interrupted aud forming black dashes
on the veins; inner band of central fascia marked by three wavy vertical lines, the
two outer ones partly interrupted; the outer band also consisting of three lines, only
visible near costa, the outermost, however, indicated by faint black dots on the
veins; submargiual line formed of whitish interrupted lunules, followed by black
wedge-shaped marks which reach the hindmargin, and preceded by three black
lines, mucli interrupted and forming three dark blotches, one at costa, the second
beyond cell, the third above the anal angle; this last jireceded and followed by
pale yellowish patches; the whole of the central fascia beyond inner band is
obliterated by a ruddy suffusion extending to the hindmargin below vein 4; an
interrupted black marginal line; fringe ruddy, with blackish patclies beyond veins.

Ilimlwings : with fringe whitisli ochreous, with fine fuscous atoms lying in the
form of three curved fasciae.

Underside pale glossy straw-colour: the costa of both wings marked with the
beginnings of black lines; both wings with the cell-spots large and distinct; fore-
wings with a black ajiical patch iind the apex itself straw-colour. Head, thorax,
and abdomen ochreous; the ajiical half of j)atagia and the metathoracic tuft dark
grey or blackish; the middle segments of the abdomen also tinged with dark.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

One S from Costa Ifica (Underwood).

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The paler ochreoiis portion of the forewings along costa and apex is probably
greenish when the insect is fresh.

The species agrees in neuration and iu the fold of the hiudwiugs with the type-
species ignifera Th. Mg., but the liindmargin of the forewings is simply and evenly
curved and tlie apex not produced; the hind wings are not smaller in comparison
with the forewings, and the abdomen of the S is short and slightly crested; the
metathorax strongly tufted.

123. Xanthorhoe picticolor sp. nov.

Forewings: pale grey, tinged sometimes with green, at others with pinkish;
the markings dull red or blackish; these are exactly as in X./ernigotn of Europe,
but the pale bauds on either side of the central fascia are either pale green or
pinkish.

Hindwiiigs: rufous fuscous or rufous grey, without markings except just on
inner margin ; the marginal line of black interrnpted dashes.

Underside j)ale, with the apical area and costal end of onter line black; the
apex itself white. Head, thorax, and abdomen a mixture of green and reddish ;
the segments of abdomen blackish ; metatliorax with two bosses of metallic bla«k
scales; palpi beneath hairy, with long dark and light scales.

Expanse of wings : 24 — 26 mm.

Two S 6, one ? , from .Jamaica.

Subfamily EUDULINAE.

124. Eudule costata sp. nov.

Very mucli like E. nipmria Wlk. — with whit-h it is probably often coufcninded
— but larger and paler, being more tliinly scaled ; the costal margin of forewings
finely dark; the antennae paler; in cupraria they are black.

Expanse of wings : 26 — 32 mm.

One S, two ? ?, from Sao Paulo ; also from Uio de Janeiro

Eudulophasia gen. nov.

Distinguished from Ewltih' Hiib. by the anomalous uenration of the hindwings.
The upper margin of the cell is very short, about one-eighth of the wing; the
discocellular after leaving the subcostal vein runs parallel or nearly so to the lower
subcostal nervule for three-fourths of wing, and is then ronndly bent to join the
median ; the two subcostals are short-stalked; the radial rises from the bend of the
discocellular ; the medians as in forewings, the first at about two-thirds, the second
at five-sixths. In the forewings the areole is much longer than iu E'lilide: vein 6
rises half-way up the areole, 7 from just before its end, S, 9, In only being stalked
from the end.

Type : Knihdophami inran'a Wlk. (A/neriii).

Subfamily HETEHUSIINAE.

125. Heterusia albata sp. nov.

Forewings: white ; base and costa for one-third black ; apical third black, its
inner edge irregular, running from just beyond middle of costa to inner margin
before anal angle, almost rectangularly bent above vein 2; fringe black.

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Ilindwings : white, with a black apical mark ; fringe white.
Underside similar, but duller. Head, thorax, and abdomen black.
Expanse of wings : 22 mm.
In some numbers from Bogota.
Allied to //. lucit/erata Wlk.

126. Heterusia flavipectus sp. nov.

Foreioings : dnll black, sliglitly frosted with dnll white ; an oblong white
blotch from middle of costa towards but not touching the hindmargin above
anal angle; fringe coucolorons, chequered with white below apex.

HindwiiH/s and fringes wholly black.

Underside of forewings along inner margin dull blackish; along costa dull red,
with white vermieulations; beyond the blotch purple-red, with similar white marks
near the blotcli : fringe with white mottlings below apex and wholly whitish near
anal angle. Hindwings deep dull red, powdered and striated with white. Head,
thorax, and abdomen dull blackish ; face, palpi, legs, and pectus deep dnll
yellow.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

One S from Bogota

Akin to //. mo7-tijjax Butler.

12 T. Heterusia flavocellata sp. nov.

Forcwin^n : black, with a ditfusely edged flattened white basal patch, reaching
to middle of inner margin, but not touching either it or the costa : a roundish yellow
spot towards apex beyond cell ; fringe black.

Hinthcings : white, with broad black hindmargin; the costa and inner margin
white.

Underside similar, but in tlie forewings the white basal area touches the inner
margin and is prolonged and pointed towards anal angle. Palpi black ; face black,
with the cheeks white ; vertex, antennae, and thorax blackish ; abdomen grey ;
shoulders and front of pectus bright yellow.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

Two <SS from Bolivia, between K. Songo and R. Suapi, March to June
1896 (Garlepp).

12S. Heterusia funebris sp. nov.

Forewings: wholly black ; the space on inner margin, which in //. con/lictata
Guen. and the allied species is white, being merely faintly dusted with bluish white
scales; two whitish dentate costal spots: fringe distinctly white and black.

Jlirulwingx : the same ; the cell-si)ot distinct.

Underside of forewings white, with some black strigae along costa from base ;
a velvety black fascia from below middle of costa to lower half of hindmargin ;
apical region and costa deep red, with a distinct yellow spot from costa. Hind-
wings white, strigulated with reddish and Idackislu most densely along hindmargin
from apex, before which the streaks form a reddish blotch.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

Two d<^ from Bogota (Cliihl).

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12'.). Heterusia particolor sp. uov.

Forewings : velvety lilack, witli f(inr small pale cream-coloured costal sjwts, the
first, second, and fourth giving rise to very obscure oblique grey lines ; a creamy
white blotch on middle of inner margin reaching to the median ; fringe black,
strongly chequered with white ; two pale dots on costa before apex.

Ilimliriiiijs : black, with the white blotch of forewings extended to inner
margin as a slightly wider baud ; base and inner margin blackish ; cell-spot
small.

Underside wliitn ; costal half of wing from base to middle with numerous black
strigae ; cell-spot large, black, followed by a broad black fascia containing at apex
an orange-red blotch marked towards base with rows of whitish scales ; costa
with a cream-white tooth iu the black fascia and a large white space in middle
above cell-spot, with two black lines at its centre. Hindwiugs white, with black
spots along costa and inner margin, one large spot near middle of costa ; marginal
fascia complete, black mottled with whitish and pearly scales, having on its inner
edge a curved olive-brown blotch from the costa, and along the margin from veins
5 to 7 a narrow orange-red one. Head, thorax, and abdomen black, sjirinkled with
white, the last most thickly.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One t? from Corvico, Bolivia (Garlepp).

Distinguished from all its allies by the bright orange-red ajiical area of the
underside.

Spiloctenia gen. uov.

Forewings : wnth costa bluntly shouldered at base, then straight ; apex bluntly
rounded ; hindmargin oblicjuely curved.

Ilindicings : with hindmargin strongly rouuded, and slightly indented before
the anal angle, which is somewhat lobed.

Antennae of S pectinated for two-thirds ; palpi well develojied, with second
joint long, obliquely inclined upwards ; third joint porrect, narrower and blunt at
apex; hindtibiae with four sjuirs ; tongue and frenulum present.

Ncwation : forewings, cell not quite half as long as wing ; discocellular vertical
for two-thirds from the subcostal, then strongly oblique, almost parallel to median,
the oblique arm as long as the vertical ; first median at three-fourths, second close
before third ; lower radial from centre of the vertical jwrtion of discocclluhir ; veins
0, 7, 8, and 9 stalked : 10 and 11 stalked ; Ki anastomosing witii .S and '.', forming
a single areole. Ilindwings with discocellular angled, the radial from below the
centre ; the two subcostals stalked.

Type : Sj/iloctenia oceUata sp. nov.

Distinguished from TrochiodM Guen. by the pectinated antennae of i.

l:!0. Spiloctenia ocellata sp. nov.

Forewings : black ; the median vein white for two-thirds of cell; an oval white
spot beyond discocellular and a larger one obliipiely below it between veins 2 and 3;
an oblicpie white subajiical streak, t'ormed of four spots, the two middle ones sejiarated
by vein 6, large and always distinct, the two end ones small, often obscure, and
sometimes wanting; fringe dark, faintly clieciuered with whitish.

lliiKliriiiys : black, with a large round central spot white, with a slight yellow
tinge ; fringe chequered with white, that of the inner margin white.

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Underside dull grey-lirowu along costal region, white along inner margin, deeji
purple-blue l)etween ; costa and veins at liase white ; the suhajiical streak broad
and white, not cut np into spots and nearly touching costa and hiudmargin. Hind-
wings grey-brown ; veins at base white ; a white spot at middle of costa, another at
apex, and a third on hindmargin before the anal angle ; a twice-bent narrow white
line at two-thirds, touching the outside of central spot. Head, thorax, and abdomen
olive-grey ; abdomen ringed with white : palpi black above, white below; face with
the sides white ; a white ring between head and thorax ; legs white, tinged witli
fnscous : underside of abdomen and anal tuft, when expanded, white.

Ex])anse of wings : 32 — 35 mm.

Five (? J from Reyes, August 1805 (Stuart).

In appearance resembling Erateina whitdiji Drnce.

SiBFAMiLV OURAPTERYGINAE.

131. Eatiaria citrina sp. uov.

Foreicingii : pale canarv-yellow, with six oblique brown stripes, the first four
overlaid with silvery scales; the first five parallel and ol)lii|ae outwards, the sixth
oblique inwards, parallel to hindmargin and joining the fifth at anal angle : fringe
yellow.

Ilinrlwinqs : with four stripes, two straight and inconspicuous, along veins
1 and 2, the third and fourth broad, the third central, curved into anal angle,
the fourth submarginal, bent before the tail, and running to anal angle, marked
with silvery scales ; area from tail to anal angle flushed with pale orange ; tail with
two black spots ; fringe yellow, with a dark basal line from vein 7 to base of tail.

Underside paler ; hindwings with only the fourth band and the tail-.spots.
Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings ; antennae brown.

Expanse of wings : 42 mm.

Several examples, all S S , from Newcastle, Jamaica.

STrBFAMiLY PALYADINAE.
Aplogompha gen. nov.

Fore/cint/s : with costa straight till close to apex : hindmargin evenly curved.

HindicitHiA : with rounded hiudmargin.

Palpi stout, porrect ; antennae of <S plumose : hindtibiae with four spurs ;
no fovea on either wing, or tuft of hair on forewings.

Xei/riitio/i : forewings, cell hardly half as long as wing ; first median at
two-thirds, second and third together from lower end of cell ; the two radials
stalked from top end of cell; all the five subcostals stalked. Hindwings with
cell quite half as long as wing ; first subcostal and second median both considerably
before the ends of cell.

Type : Aployompha laj'ayi Dognin (Fido/iia ?).

132. Argyrotome ferruginea sp. nov.

Fon'/cint/s : greyish fawu-colonr, with the disc j'iiler : the basal third bearing
raised silvery scales ; the costal edge narrowly brown ; an oblique ferruginous
elongated cell-mark, with the inner edge and centre nuukcd with raised silvery

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scales; two curved chestnut and ferruginous outer lines, from costa at two-thirds
and three-fonrths, both interrupted opposite the cell, the outer one with silvery
scales along its centre : a dark brown triangular dond on inner margin from centre
to outer line, containing ferruginous scales intermixed : fringe fawn-colour.

Hindwings : more ferrngiuons ; traces of a dark diffuse antemedian shade
with metallic scales on it ; a diffuse brown cell-mark ; a curved diffuse ferruginous
postmedian line; a well-marked chestnut submargiaal line, edged externally with
silvery scales : followed by a row of four metallic dashes ; fringe fawn-colonr,
tinged with ferruginous, and with a pale lustrous line along base.

Underside whitish, tinged with rufous, with a broad snbmarginal orange-
ferruginous shade, most prominent in forewings. Face and ))alpi ferruginous ;
lower part of face with silvery blue scales : vertex, thorax, and abdomen pale grey,
the last tinged with rufous.

Expanse of wings : 39 mm.

Two ? ? from between R. Songo and R. Suapi, Bolivia, March to June 1896
(Garlepp).

Allied to .1. jjrospectata Snell., an example of which was also received from
the same locality.

133. Argyrotome tenebrosa sp. nov.

Forewings: dark iron-grey, the basal half thickly sprinkled with metallic
scales, the costal area dull ; ocelloid mark on discoceliular with <lull yellow
irregularly rounded orbit and metallic embossed pupil : a curved broad dark tawny
shade from below two-thirds of costa to anal angle, with a metallic line along its
centre, and darker scales internally from veins 2 to 4; an obscure dark grey shade
from inner margin at two-thirds, curved above to the ocelloid spot ; fringe glossy,
concolorous.

Hindwings : with basal half hairy and sj)rinkled with metallic scales; a slightly
curved dark tawny snbmarginal line, edged externally with silvery scales, followed
by a dull olive-ochreous marginal space, containing four oval or rounded embossed
metallic spots; basal line of fringe lustrous.

Underside bluish grey, with dark grey snbmarginal shade. Face and ])alpi
dark ferruginous; lower part of face silvery bine. Vertex, thorax, and abdomen
dark grey.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

Two 66 from between R. Songo and H. Suapi, Bolivia, March to June 1896
(Garlepp).

Molybdogompha gen. nov.

Foreicingx : with costa slightly curved : ajiex produced, but blunt : hiudmargin
oblique and faintly curved.

lliiKhiings : with apex and hindmargin well rounded, anal angle sqnare; a
large puckered fovea beneath at base in the 6: the frenulum well develojied, and
the costa slightly shouldered at base.

Palpi short, suberect : tongne developed ; antennae of i well pectinated, of
? simple.

Neuration: forewings, cell half as long as wing : fust median at tliree-fourths,
second at seven-eighths, third from end of cell; the Iwn radials close together from

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upper end of cell : all five snbcostals stalked. Hindwiugs with first subcostal and
second median from before end of cell. Wings with marginal and submarginal lines
of metallic spots.

Type : Molyhdogompha bixeriata sp. nov.

134. Molybdogompha biseriata sp. nov.

Fore/rings : dull ochreous yellowish, with fine transverse darker striae : basal
half of costa dotted with dark ; a rather large oval blackish cell-spot ; a snb-
marginal row of metallic spots, followed by a bright line : marginal area deeper
yellow, with the transverse striae denser ; fringe pale leaden-grev.

Hiiidwings : similar, but without any cell-spot.

Underside pale ochreous, in the forewings suffused with brownish. Head,
thorax, and abdomen ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

One c? from Paraguay (Dr. Bohls).

l:i."). Opisthoxia nitidisquama sp. nov.

Forewiny.s : pale mouse-grey; the costa yellow, marked, especially near base,
with brilliant metallic scales ; three diffuse transverse fasciae of metallic scales,
the first broad near base, the second narrower, just beyond middle, and curved
below costa, the third submarginal, consisting of coalescent spots, the two below
apex disconnected and embossed : outer half of wing dusted coarsely with Ijlack
scales ; fringe concolorous.

Hiiidtcings: with the basal area and the inner margin dusted with metallic
scales ; a sinuous metallic fascia from below apex to anal angle, bordering beyond
the cell a large ocelloid sjwt, the centre black, the iris yellow, broad and split up
into two rings by a leaden middle ring ; the outer part of the iris hidden by a large
embossed spot of metallic scales, which jiartly encroaches on the black jnipil.

Underside pale grey, with the margins darker. Head, thorax, and abdomen
mouse-grey, the thorax with metallic scales ; face and jialpi fuscous, rufous-tinged.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

One c? from Rio Demerara.

Trichogompha gen. nov.

Fore/ci/igis : with costa straight, convex before apex ; hindmargin curved.

Jlinclwing)i : with hindmargin curved : the costa strongly convex.

Palpi and antennae as in Ajdoqoviphu.

Nearation: forewings, cell half as long as wing; discocellular iuangulated:
first median at two-thirds, bent downwards at origin and running to near anal
angle ; second well before angle of cell, third from angle ; the two railials stalked
togetlier from up|)er angle ; the five snbcostals stalked ; submedian vein with two
long tufts of hair, one from near base, the other from towards anal angle, con-
vergent and overlapj)ing in midwing. Iliiidwings with costal vein abruptly arched
near base ; the first subcostal aud second median from before ends of cell ; first
median at two-thirds, straight ; costal area pale, with a radiating bed of flat hairs
on the costal edge.

Type: Trichngomphn opulenta Th. Mg. (Fidonia).

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8iiiiAMir,Y PEILINIIXAE.

l:5t;. Bapta argentea sp. uov.

Forewings : silvery wliite ; the costa more densely wljite, with the extreme
edge ochreons ; a marginal and narrower snbmarginal slightly grey hand, formed
by very fine dark scales, which also line the inner margin : a marginal line of
minnte dark scales ; fringe white ; cell-spot black, rainnte.

I/intl/n'nt/n : the same.

Underside all white. Face, palpi, forelegs, and antennae brown ; thorax and
base of abdomen silvery white ; rest of abdomen ochreons.

E.xpanse of wings : 30 mm.

Two ? ? from Newcastle, Jamaica.

137. Bapta hebetior sp. uov.

Foreuings : dull white, not glossy, finely dnsted with dark grey atoms ; the
lines diffuse and obscure, greyish fuscous, parallel to hindmargin ; first at one-third,
obsolete towards costa ; second at two-thirds, reaching costa, fiiintly crenulate :
cell-spot black, distinct ; fringe white, with black marginal sjjots at base between
the veins.

Ilindwiiigs : with a single slightly postmedian line, not reaching costa, }>re-
ceded by a black cell-spot; costal half of wing white, without any dark freckles ;
hindmargin without black dots.

Underside more thickly speckled, with cell-spots and marginal dots of fore-
wings, but without lines ; inner-marginal area of forewings white. Face and palpi
dark brown : thorax and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One <S from Castro, Parana.

Very much resembling Bapta micantaria Snell. from Bogota, but that sj)ecie8
is said to have vein 1 1 stalked with 7, 8, 9, 10 : hchcfiov is a true Bapta ; 7, 8, 9, 10,
stalked ; 11 anastomosing with 12, and 10 with II.

138. Bapta nubimargo sp. no v.

Forewings : silvery white, sparsely dnsted with black scales ; costa bright
ochraceous, broadening towards apex ; forewings with a vertical grey shade just
before middle ; an irregularly waved postmedian and less distinct snbmarginal
line ; hindmargin with a dull sooty blotch from just below apex to below middle, in
one example reaching anal angle : fringe dark glossy grey, with fine Mack margiiuil
line, white at apex and anal angle ; cell-spot distinct, black.

Ilindwings : without first line and marginal blotch.

Underside ])ure white : forewings tinged with yellowish towards costa, and with
the marginal blotch smaller, but quite black. Face brown ; jialpi and forelegs
ferruginous ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen white.

Expanse of wings : 33 mm.

A pair from Bolivia, between H. Songo and R. Snapi, March to June 1896
(Garlepp).

130. Deilinia sericea sp. nov.

Forewings and kindwings pure satiny white, semitransparent.

Underside the same, the base of costa of forewings blackish ; thorax and

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abdomen white ; vertex bright fulvons, the face paler fulvous ; forelegs and autenual
pectinations fuscous ; the shaft of antennae white.

Expanse of wings : 39 mm.

One S from Bogota.

In the forewings vein 11 rises from cell and anastomoses with the costal :
7, 8, 9, m, are stalked ; 1(J anastomoses with 11, again with 8, 9 : fovea absent.

Eariodes gen. nov.

Forewings: elongate ; costa strongly arched in basal half; apex blunt, nearly
rectangular ; hindmargin oblique, slightly curved.

Ilindtcings : rounded.

Antennae simple, lamellate; palpi short, porrect; hindtibiae of <J with fonr spurs.

Ni'uration : forewings, cell more than half as long as wing ; iirst median at
two-thirds, second just before end of cell, third from end ; radialg normal : 7, 8, 9,
stalked ; 10 and 11 from cell : 11 anastomosing with costal. Hindwings with first
subcostal and second median each before the end of cell ; radial absent.

Type : Eariodes variomacula sp. nov.

140. Eariodes variomacula sp. nov.

Forewings : bright green : the costa narrowly pale ; lines indicated only by
minute dark dots on veins, and these mostly absent ; the first curved at one-third,
the second obliijue and straight from apex to two-thirds of inner margin ; ? with a
yellow red-edged blotch on the outer line embracing veins 3 and 4 ; in the c? the
blotch is reduced in size, and red only, and often altogether absent ; fringe
white.

Uindtciiigs : very pale green.

Underside pale green, with costa of forewings yellowish. Palpi and antennae
ochreous ; forelegs brown ; face whitish ; vertex and thorax green ; abdomen like
hindwings, silky whitish green.

Expanse of wings : 22 — 26 mm.

Several from Sao Paulo ; also from C'astro, Parana.

Subfamily BRACUINAE.

141. Melanchroia ateraea subsp. subnotata nov.

Differs from the type ateraea Cram, in being smaller ; the veins hardly paler :
the white blotch on forewings smaller, that on hindwings only present on the
underside ; fringe of hindwings whitish throughout.

Several examples of both sexes from Bahia.

142. Nelo flora sp. nov.

Forewings: velvety brown-black, with a long narrow orange-red fascia from
below costa just beyond middle to near anal angle : fringe concoloruns.

Ilindtciiigs : wholly lirowu-lilack.

Underside the same, but rather i)aler. Head, thorax, and abdomen all
brown-black.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

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One <? from Bolivia, taken between R. Songo and R. Snapi, March to June 1896
(Garlepp).

Distinguished from Selo dora Th. Mg. by tlie longer narrow red fascia, more
rounded apex of forewings, and wholly lirown-lijack ground-colour of underside.

143. Nelo satellitia sj). nov.

Foi-ewingis : orange-red, the costa and inner margin narrowly, tlie liindmargiu
broadly black ; fringe black.

llindiriMiti : with the red ground-colour restricted to an oval space in the
centre, and a small round spot in the black costal bonier just bcfon? the apex.

Underside of forewings like uj)per, but with a white spot on liiudmargin at the
middle, and a white streak in the costal border above the end of the red area.
Hindwings black, with seven oval white spots, four towards base, the other three
in the outer area. Head, thora.x, and abdomen black.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

One <J from Costa Rica (Underwood).

Subfamily NEPHODIINAE.
144. Leucula nana sp. nov.

Forewings: silky white: the veins grey: costa narrowly blackish: a grey
snbmarginal line, curved parallel to hindmargiu : fringe white.

llimlwiiKjs : the same, without any line.

Underside dull whitish. Head and face yellowish ; thorax and abdomen white.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

Oue ? from Sao Paulo.

Difters from L. (iMinearia Guen. in neuration. In the forewings the second
median rises considerably before the end of cell ; in the hindwings the first sub-
costal rises before the end of cell ; whereas in ahlinearia the second median rises
close to the third, and the two subcostals of hindwing are short-stalked. Both
wings are shorter and broader, the costa of forewings more arched.

Guenee says of ahlinearia that vein 2' is curved downwards : this is, I think,
an error : it is vein 2, the third median, that is so curved : in nana it is straight.

14.5. Nephodia albinigra sp. nov.

Forewings : smoky black, with an obliipie white fascia from beneath middle of
costa towards anal angle, slightly constricted in cell : fringe black, with pale apices.

Hindwings : wholly black.

Underside dark smoky grey : the white fascia rather larger ; costa above it
pale grey, followed by a broad blackish fascia, its outer edge being straight from
before apex to anal angle, the marginal area beyond paler grey ; hindwings dull
black, with a curved slightly post median blacker fascia. Head, thorax, and
abdomen all smoky blackish ; tongue bright yellow.

Expanse of wings : 36 mm.

Two t? (J from Bolivia, between R. Songo and R. Snapi, March to June 1896
(Garlepp).

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Pan-hesia gen. nov.

Forewiiiijs : elongate; costa and inner margin both slightly convex; apex and
hiudmargiu rounded ; anal angle obtuse.

Ilindwings : narrow, elongate : both angles ronnded otl' ; inner margin
shortened, and thickened with a tuft of long hairs fro:n near base.

Palpi very short : antennae of c? pectinated : hindtibiae of d with four
approximated spurs.

Neuration : forewings, cell two-thirds of wing ; the fovea! bar in c? distinct :
first median nervule at one-half, second shortly before end, tliird from end: lower
radial very faint, fiom centre of discocellnlar ; upper radial from ujijier angle ;
11 anastomosing with costal ; 9 and 10 coincident, anastomosing with 11, 1) after-
wards anastomosing with 7 and 8. Hindwings with costal closely appro-ximated to
subcostal for half the cell ; first subcostal nervule from before end ; medians as in
forewings ; no radial.

Type : Parrhesia nigrkena sp. nov.

To this genus belong also cissa Drnce, daelin Druce, and phib/ra Uruce.

14(i. Parrhesia illineata sp. nov.

Foretciiiys : semihyaline white: all the margins and veins black: cell-spot
large, black : of the two radials the lower is not marked with black at all, and the
upper only slightly.

Hvulwings : the same : the discocellnlar hardly marked : tiie tuft of luiir from
inner margin white.

Underside the same, the space Ijetweeu veins :J and 4 of forewings filled in
with black. Face, thi>rax, and abdomen above black; the last white lielow :
patagia whitish.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One S from Bogota.

lu the forewings the median vein is arched at base; thesubmedian is thickened
and distorted, and emits a second bar underneath and parallel to the usual upper
foveal bar, the wing-membrane between these two veins being swollen. There are
no transverse lines as in the other species of tlie genus.

14T. Parrhesia nigrivena sji. nov.

Foreiciiigs : silky white, snbtransparent ; the veins black ; costa black from
base to middle; first line at one-third, oblique, marked by a grey cloud in middle of
cell, a slighter one on submediau fold, and a very obli(iue mark below sul)median vein
towards base ; discocellnlar marked with cloudy black ; outer line curved i)arallel to
hindmargin, from vein 7 to middle of inner margin ; fringe white.

Ilinrhcinqs : similar, without basal line ; the discocellnlar not thickened.

Underside similar, less thickly clothed with white scales ; costal area
blackish. Head, thorax, and abdomen white ; antennae blackish ; tuft of hind-
wings ochreous. •

Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

One S from Bogota, Colombia.

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Subfamily ASCOTINAE.
148. Bryoptera(?) ustifiunosa sp. nov.

Forewingg : with ground-colour whitish, but almost entirely suffused with dark
smoky fuscous, the only places left whitish being the apex, a blotcli at middle of
hindmargiu and ouc within the angle of the outer line; tirst line blackish, curved,
at one-third; outer line at two-thirds, irregularly and minutely dentate, angled
outwards beyond cell, then oblique to middle of inner margin; submarginal line
pale, finely waved; the first line is preceded and the second followed by a brown
shade; from middle of costa to middle of inner margin, almost touching outer line,
runs a thick slightly waved black shade; marginal spots black; fringe mottled
white and blackish.

Ilimlirings : wholly smoky fuscous, with the black median shade less intense,
and touching it on inner margin the beginning of an outer line.

Underside duller fuscous, without markings ; the apical blotch and that on
hindmargiu whitish. Head, thorax, and abdomen all fuscous.

Expanse of ^^^ngs: 30 mm.

One ? from Paraguay.

149. Cleora fulvitincta sp. nov.

Forewings : white, iridescent, with sparse blackish dusting: the lines fine,
black ; tirst at one-third, curved beneatli costa, then oljliipiely sinuous to inner
margin ; basal area tilled up with i}ale tawny; second line at two-tliirds, excurved round
cell, then obliquely waved to middle of inner margin, forming a strong curve from
the submediau fold, followed by a broad tawny fascia, most distinct on inner margin;
cell-spot oval, white with dark edges, touching a dark costal spot above it, from
which rises an indistinct dark median line, touching outer line on inner margin;
submarginal line pale, wavy, between two tawny greyish fasciae, which ojjposite
cell and above vein 0 are marked with blackish; marginal spots black; fringe pale.

Jlindwimis : with basal two-thirds white; a black line at base and narrow
blackish antemedian line; postmedian line blackish, angled on vein 6, beyond the
oval white cell-mark, and followed by a tawny fascia; two submarginal greyish
tawny lunular fasciae enclosing the submarginal line.

Underside iridescent, pinkish white; apex of forewing with a fuscous patch.
Face and palpi greyish fuscous : thorax and abdomen greyish ochreous.

Ex])anse of wings: 3"J mm.

One i from La Plata.

l.jii. Cymatophora mutabilis sp. nov.

?. Forewings : olive-ochreous, dusted with fuscous and ferruginous atoms;
the lines ferruginous, marked with blackish scales : the first double, near base,
curved aud waved; second, before middle, nearly vertical, waved, followed by the
black cell-spot ; outer line at two-thirds, vertical to the median, then oblique
inwards, and again vertical to inner margin, forming a sinus on the submedian
fold, and denticulate outwards on all the veins ; followed by an obscure denticulate
dark shade, which is tinged with ferruginous below the costa, and blackish on
inner margin ; submarginal line pale, j'receded by an interruj)ted line of blackish

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liimilfs, anil followed by a ferrugiuons sliadi', whii-h is inarkoil with lilack iM^yond
the cell ; inargiual spots black : fringe ciiucolorons.

Ilindivings : with ferruginous antemedian, tlonbli^ ferrngininis jjostmedian, and
black-spotted submarginal lines, tlie first two disfinct only on inner margin;
cell-s])ot black.

Underside greyish ochreons, freckled with fnscons ; the C(dl-spots large, black ;
a blackish snbmarginal fascia, which becomes very broad towards costa of forewing.
Head, thorax, and al)domen concolorons with wings.

The above represents the nsnal ? form. The iS are often snfFused with dull
rnfoiis brown, especially towards hindmargiu, with the markings more or less
obliterated, except the black spots on inner margin beyond outer line and the dark
marks beyond the cell. In one form, which may be named ab. fasciata, the space
between the two arms of the basal line and that between the outer and snbmarginal
lines is filled np with dark black-brown, all the rest of the wing remaining rufous
brown without markings ; in the hindwings only the outer fascia is thus dark, and
not so broad as in forewings. The sj)ecies appears common in Jamaica. The hind-
margin is crenulato in both sexes ; in the ? the apex is shortly acute, and the
hindmargin elbowed slightly at vein 4.

Expanse of wings : ?, 40 mm. ; ^, 4(1—44 mm.
Numerous examples from Jamaica.

151. Exelis quadripuncta sp. no v.

Foretcings: greyish fuscous, paler than the generally dark <J 6 oi Exelis pyrolaria
Gnen. from N. America, with which it agrees in size and in the disposition of the
markings ; the lines, however, are more distinct and continuous. The chief
difference is furnished by the hindwings, which have the discal spot almost as large
as in the forewings, which spot is hardly marked in }>>irol(iriu.

Two S $ from Castro, Parana.

152. Hymenomima extersaria sp. nov.
Forewings : whitish grey, suffused with purplish grey and dusted with coarse
black scales, and along the inner margin and snbmarginal line tinged with
ochraceons ; costa blackish, with a few fine pale strigao ; the lines black ; first from
costa at one-fifth, strongly bent in cell, to inner margin near base ; second before
middle, angled below costa, oblique and diffuse inwards to inner margin at one-third,
passing outside the black cell-spot ; outer line at two-thirds, parallel to hindmargin,
and forming a sinus on submedian fold : submarginal line pale, dentate, with dark
markings ou each side, those beyond tinged with ochraceons : nnirginal spots
black; fringe grey; marginal area from above vein 4 to below vein 3 forming a
subquadrate whitish patch.

Hindwings: whiter, without the purplish grey suffusion : a black basal blotch;
a black autemediau lino and black linear coll-s]iot ; iiostniedian line black, sinuate,
and subdentate, followed by an ochraceons shade ; the whitish submarginal line
preceded by a strongly dentate black line and followed by an ochraceons lunulate
shade ; marginal black spots elongate ; the submarginal line is more broadly white
between veins 2 and 4, but there is no pale blotch.

Underside dirty ochreons grev ; the middle and outer lines marked on both

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wings by a row of black dashes on the veins ; costa and apex of forewings blackish.
Face and palpi mottled fuscous and oehreous, the ])alpi exterQally blackish ; vertex
and thorax fuscous, with a few paler scales iu places ; abdomeu ochreons, with some
fuscous scales ; the basal segment black.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One J from Popayan, Colombia (Lehmann).

The lower radial rises shortly before the top of discocellular, but the fovea is
scarcely more than ordinarily developed ; it will be advisable therefore to treat this
abnormal development of the fovea in the c? as of secondary importance, the
position of the lower radial, which is the same in both sexes, being of itself sufficient
to characterise the genus.

153. Hymenomima minuta sp. no v.

Forewinffs : dull ochreons, dusted with fuscous, the markings dull greyish
fuscous ; base of costa above the large fovea dark ; a broad diffuse autcmediau
fascia, forking towards costa ; a similar difl'use fascia beyond the middle, its outer
edge dentate, and marked with dark dashes, followed by a pale indistinct sub-
marginal line ; a darker blotch on hindmargin opposite the cell and above anal
angle ; a marginal row of large dark lunnles ; fringe dingy grey ; an indistinct dark
cell-spot.

Hindwings : with dark cell-spot, and much dusted and blotched with grey,
crossed by three indistinct darker fasciae.

Underside similar, the fasciae rather plainer. Head, thorax, and abdomen dull
cinereous.

Expanse of wings : 16 mm.

One cJ from Popayan, Colombia (Lehmann).

The size of the fovea and length of pectinations of tlie antennae are out of all
proportion to the size of the insect, which bears a remarkable resemblance at first
sight to Hi/poscotis cinerea Butler from India.

154. Hymenomima semialba sp. nov.

Forewings : creamy white, iridescent, slightly dusted with very fine dark scales;
the lines purplish fuscous ; first at one-fourth, double, curved ; a short dark costal
spot before it; cell-spot large, oblong; second line at two-thirds, finely waved,
bent below costa, then straight to vein 4, beut inwards to vein 2, then again straight
to inner margin : marginal area beyond it deep i»urplish grey, dusted with shining
scales ; the veins rather ])aler ; a darker shade jnst beyond outer line ; submarginal
line paler, waved, preceded and followed by a darker shade; fringe purplish grey;
the costa, median and submedian veins marked with bright ferruginous along the
paler basal half of wing ; a whitish spot at apex and anal angle.

Ilimlwingg : similar, but without discal spot, and with a diffuse median line,
most distinct on inner margin.

Underside darker. Face and i)alpi purplish grey ; vertex and thorax
whitish ; metathorax and tips of patagia purplish grey ; abdcanen grey, varied with
femiginous.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One S from Pebas, R. Amazons.

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loo. Iridopsis perstrigata sp. nov.

Forewings : whitish grey, dnsted with fuscons ; the costa thickly marked with
fuscous striae, and dark spots at the origin of the lines ; first line from costa at
one-third, curved to inner margin close to base, darker on the veins ; second from
the middle, very obscure, and approximated to first line on snbmedian fold ; outer
line at two-thirds, marked with black on the veins, outcurved round cell, then
strongly incurved to middle of inner margin, close to middle line : cell-mark
blackish, extending along the discocellular, connected with a black costal spot above
it, and along vein 4 by a black dash with the outer line ; submarginal line whitish,
wavy, distinct ; the enter line is followed by an olive-fuscons shade, which extends
backwards along vein 4 to the discocellular, and forms a darker blotch beyond cell
before the submarginal line ; marginal line dark, crenulate ; marginal spots black ;
fringe pale grey.

Hindwings : paler ; a black line at base ; a straight fuscous antemedian line,
diffuse, and not reaching costa ; denticulate postmedian, followed by a fuscons shade ;
submarginal line and fringe as in forewings.

Underside white, with a pale straw-colonred tinge: costa of forewings yellower,
with dark striae ; forewings with large black cell-spot and broad blackish marginal
fascia, which narrows off towards anal angle and contains at apex a white blotch.
Hindwings with small cell-spot and a short blackish cloud at apex, cutting off a pale
apical blotch. Palpi fuscous ; face grey above, whitish below, with a brown bar
across middle : thorax grey : abdomen whitish, white at base with a black band ;
anal segment ochreons.

Expanse of wings : 45 mm.

One cJ from Bolivia, between R. .Songo and R. Snapi, March to June 1896
(Garlepp).

Isandria gen. nov.

Like Stciialcidia Warr., but the antennae of the ? are bipectinate as well as
those of the S.

Type : lsa7ulria ineffectaria Wlk. {Tephroski^.

Physocleora gen. nov.

Foreicinqs : with fovea in the S largely developed, as in Hi/menomima : tlie
hindmargin entire, obliquely curved.

Ilindicimis: with hindmargin muuded and strongly crenulate.

Antennae of cJ very strongly pectinated ; of ¥ simjile, but with the joints
angled. Tongue and frenulum present. Hindtibiae thickened, witli fonr spurs.

Neuration : forewings with lower radial from centre of discocellular ; 10 and 1 1
coincident.

Type : Physocleora punctilla Schaus.

I.jG. Physocleora pauper sp. nov.

Forewimis : greyish white, with darker grey speckles ; costa marked with dark
spots at origin of the lines ; first at one-fonrth, curved ; second in nuddle, outcurved
above round the distinct black cell-spot, incurved below middle ; outer line at three-
fonrths, outcurved above, bent in strongly on the snbmedian fold ; outer area pale

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blnish grey, containing an obscure darker band of blotches immediately beyond the
onter line, and a broad sliade, with Innnlate edge, before the submarginal, which is
pale ; fringe grey, with large black marginal spots at base.

Hindwings : like forewings ; bnt the basal area thickly dnsted with black
scales.

Underside dull grey, with broad smoky black marginal fasciae to cacli wing ;
cell-spots black. Palpi white, externally brown ; face brown, with a white bar
above and below ; vertex white ; thorax and abdomen wliitish, grey-speckled.

E.xpanse of wings : <?, 26; ?, 28— 34 mm.

A cJ from the interior of Surinam, September 1892 (C. W. Ellacombe); two ? ?
from Rio Demerara, British Guiana.

157. Physocleora pusilla sp. nov.

Forewings : whitish grey, slightly dusted with darker ; costa with fine blackish
striae and black spots at the commencement of the lines ; these are all curved, dark
grey, and slightly marked with blackish on the veins ; the median line almost
touching the small black cell-spot, which it passes outside ; outer line obscnrely
double and angled on the snbmedian fold : marginal space tilled up with dark grey;
marginal spots blackish ; fringe grey.

Ilimhcings : with dark grey antemedian line, sinuous partially double post-
median line, and marginal area dark grey ; cell-spot black.

Underside dull whitish ; the costa of forewings marked with blackish ; marginal
area dark grey, broader at costa ; basal half of wing tinged with grey ; hindwings
with black cell-spot and ape.x only of wing dark grey. Palpi white, dusted
externally with blackish : face black, with a white bar below and at toj) ; vertex
white ; thorax and abdomen wliite, with grey dusting.

Expanse of wings : 18 mm.

One S from Cucuta, Venezuela.

The lower radial rises only slightly above the middle of the discoccllular.

Psilopora gen. nov.

Foreicings : with costa slightly sinuous, convex at base; apex rectangular;
hiudmargin elbowed at vein 4, very oblique below.

Hindirings : with ape.x truncate, anal angle scjnare ; hindmargin irregular,
nearly straight from anal angle to a large tooth in middle, above which it is strongly
excavated and toothed.

Abdomen of cJ elongated, extending beyond hindwings ; antennae in both sexes
thick, simple, lamellate ; face smooth ; palpi porrect, short ; hindtibiae thickened,
with fonr spurs. Forewings of <S without fovea.

yeuration : forewings, cell half as long as wing; discocellular slightly concave;
first median at three-fourths, second at seven-eighths ; radials normal ; 7, 8, 9,
stalked from just before upper angle; 10 and 11 stalked. Hindwings with vein 7
from before end of cell ; medians as in forewings.

Type : Psilopora thesea Schaus.

Stenalcidia gen. nov.

Forewings: elongate; costa faintly curved; apex prominent; hindmargin
obliquely curved, subcrenulate.

Hindtcings : with hindmargin deeply crenulate.

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Anteunae of S pectinated, of ? with the joints angnlatod and ending iu a tine
bristle. Fovea of forcwings generally largely developed.

Neuration : lower radial of forewings from slightly ahove, or from, the centre
of discocelhilars ; veins 10 and 11 coincident.

Type : Steixdcidiu quisquiliaria Gnen.

15S. Stenalcidia diflferens sp. nov.

Forewings : whitish, tinged with grey, and dusted with olive-grey scales ; the
lines blackish, mixed with olive-fnscous scales ; first line near base, distinctly
double, bent below costa and obli([ue inwards ; second line before middle, parallel to
first and approximating to it on inner margin ; both marked with black spots on
the median and snbmedian veins ; outer line at two-thirds, dentate, the teeth black
on all the veins, followed hj an olive dentate shade slightly interrupted above
middle ; submarginal line pale, very wavy, preceded and followed by olive-fnscous
shades containing darker wedge-shaped marks between the veins ; marginal spots
large, black ; fringe grey ; cell-spot crossed by middle line.

Hind wings : with straight antemedian line ; the rest as in forewings.

Underside dull whitish, tinged with Inteous ; the margins dull fuscous, preceded
by a pale luteous fascia ; cell-spots dark ; costa of forewings olive-ochreous, with
dark spots at the rise of the lines. Head, thorax, and abdnmen like wings ; the
abdomen banded with dark grey.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

One c?, three ? S, from Paraguay (Dr. Bohls) ; one S, smaller, from La Plata.

The ? has the lines all much finer black, scarcely dentate, and the ground-colour
is much more varied with ochreous yellow ; but the underside is the same as in
the cj. This diiference iu the distinctness of the lines and in ground-colour exists
also in S. cinclica Schaus from Sao Paulo ; but in that species the ground-colour is
purer white, and the underside has both the middle and outer lines expressed.
Besides, iu the present species the lower radial rises from the centre of discocellnlar;
in cindica slightly but visibly above it.

159. Stenalcidia farinosa sp. nov.

Forewings : greyish ochreous, dusted with darker, and tinged in places with
olive and pale ferruginous, the whole wing having a mealy appearance; costa dotted
with black strigae, and with larger spots at the origin of the lines: the fir.'^t and
second marked only by faintly darker scales on the veins; outer line minutely
denticulate and followed by a broader dentate rufous shade; submarginal line paler,
dentate, with olive-ochreous shading on both sides; a row of dark marginal dashes
before hiudmargin between the veins, as in quisquiliaria Gnen.; fringe coucolorous;
cell-spot hardly marked.

Hindwings: with fine dark curved antemedian line and dark cell-spot: the rest
as in forewings but more distinct.

Underside dull cinereous; the cell-spots plain on both wings; costa of forewings
ochreous with black markings, as in quisquiliaria. Head, thorax, and abdomen like
wings.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One ? from Cucuta, Venezuela.

Differs from quisquiliaria. m the outer line being mnch less oblique.

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160. Stenalcidia fusca sp. nov.

Forewings : greyish rufons, dusted wth dark atoms, which almost wholly
obscure the markings; these appear to be much the same as in S. carea Schaus; the
only clear ones are a dark cell-spot and a pale waved submarginal line; marginal
line black, interrnpted.

H/'ndwi/iffs : the same.

Underside uniform grey-brown, slightly paler than the upperside. Head,
thorax, and abdomen concolorons.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One ? from Paraguay (Dr. Boblsj.

161. Stenalcidia pulverosa sp. nov.

Forewings: whitisli, dusted thickly with line dark atoms, giving the wing a
mealy appearance; the lines finely black; first curved, at about oue-fourth; second at
three-fourths, runs oblicjuely outwards to vein 5, is there bent nearly at right ano-les
and runs straight to vein 2, then forms a strong sinus to vein 1 , marked throughout
by black dots on the veins; median line obscure, bent outwards round the black cell-
spot and closely approximated to the outer line below; submarginal line pale,
strongly dentate, with ochreons and fuscous sliading on either side, the costal area
on the inner side being broadly dark; a fine dark marginal line, bent in to the
marginal spots between the veins; fringe greyish.

Hindwings: similar, without first line, the median shade straight, the outer
line curved from inner margin to vein 0, then dentate.

Underside dirty whitish, speckled with grey; cell-spots distinct; forewings with
dull blackish marginal fascia, broad at costa, narrowed to anal angle, including
a whitish apical blotch and another in middle of hindmargin; hindwings with the
fascia much narrower. Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish, peppered with grey;
abdomen with a curved black band at base.

Expanse of wings : 39 mm.

One ? from Paraguay.

Synecta gen. nov.

Foreicings .- with costa straight till just before apex, which is bluntly rounded;
hindmargin obliquely curved; fovea in J exaggerated, as in IL/mrnnmiitin.

Hindwings : witli both angles and the hindmargin rounded.

Antennae of S pectinated to near apex; palpi porrect, short; tongue and frenu-
lum present; hindtibiae slightly thickened, with four spurs.

Xeumdon : forewings, cell half as long as wing: discocellular vertical: first
median at one-half or two-thirds, second at five-sixths; the two radials stalked from
upper end of cell; 7, 8, 9, stalked; 10 and 11 coincident. Hindwings with first
subcostal nervule from, or from jnst before, upper end of cell ; second median from
before lower end.

Type : Si/necta griseola sp. nov.

Distinguished by the stalking of the two radials; it is an extreme development
of H>/mnomimn, in which the lower radial rises from above the middle of
discocellular.

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102. Synecta cuneifascia sp. nov.

Forewings : dull slaty grey; the costa, veins, and cross lines blackish; first at
one-fifth, second median, third at two-thirds; submarginal at five-sixths; the last
three oatcnrved above and incurved below middle, all parallel; the third marked
by black dashes along the veins, the submarginal by wedge-shaped marks between
them; large marginal black spots at ends of veins; cell-spot large, blackish, on the
median line.

Hindwings : the same, without the first line; cell-spot between the antemedian
and postmedian lines.

Underside darker: both wings witli blackish marginal fasciae. Face, palpi,
collar, vertex, and basal segment of abdomen deep yellow; thorax and rest of
abdomen grey; antennae blackish.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

One c? from ten miles above Mapiri, 2000 feet, 1895 (Stuart).

103. Synecta griseola sp. nov.

Forewings: whitish, thickly powdered and striated with olive-grey; the lines
indistinct; first at one-fourth, second median, both marked by grey costal blotches
and difi'usely curved across wing; third marked by dots on veins below costa; sub-
marginal white, regularly waved, with dark grey suffusion on both sides; fringe
olive-grey.

Hindwings : with three faint curved olive-grey postmedian lines.

Underside dingy whitish grey; the forewings with a dark grey marginal fascia;
the fringes chequered. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey: the face darker.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One (? from ten miles above Mapiri, 2000 feet, 1895 (Stuart).

Subfamily FIDONIINAE.
164. Aspilates candidata sp. nov.

Forewings : shining white, dusted with pale fuscous; the lines fuscons, very
oblique; first slender and indistinct, from inner margin before middle to costa at
three-fourths; second distinct, diffused externally, from two-thirds of inner margin
into apex; a faint curved submarginal line; a marginal row of black dots; fringe
white; cell-spot minute.

Hindwings : with a curved submarginal line, marked by dots on veins; the
marginal dots elongated.

Underside similar. Head, thorax, and abdomen all white.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One 3 from Castro, Parana.

The antennae are very shortly pectinated; in the forewings 7, 8, 9, and 10, 11,
are stalked together.

105. Aspilates plurilineata sp. nov.

Forewings: grcyisli white, with dark grey dusting; costal area greyer; the

lines all oblique and jjarallel; the first at one-third, curved beneath costa, indistinctly

donble: basal area within it grey: second iiiu^ straight, fine, from lieyond two-thirds

of costa to before middle of inner margin, closely followed by an ochreous grey

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sbade; third line immediately beyond, blackish, marked by darker dots on veins,
ranning to costa before apex, also accompanied on its outer side bv a grey shade!
submarginal line diffuse, thick, blackish, from apex to inner margin shortly befon"
anal angle, sliglitly waved, followed by a less distinct more wavy fuscous line;
central space and that before submarginal line paler than the rest of wing: cell-spot
small, dark; fringe grey; marginal line fine, dark, incurved to each nia'rginal spot
between the veins.

llim/uinc/s: paler towards base, with double central, postmedian, and sub-
marginal lines, the inner arm in each case the darker; a small dark cell-spot
between the arms of the central lino.

Underside thickly speckled with grey, with the lines all indistinct. Heatl,
thorax, and abdomen greyish white.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

One <? from Bolivia, between R. Songo and 1{. Suapi, March to June 1890
(Garlepp).

Cataspilates gen. nov.

Foreioings: elongate; costa slightly curved; apex prominent; hindmargin
obliquely curved.

Ilindwings : with inner angle rounded ; hindmargin curved.

Palpi short, porrect ; antennae of ^ pectinated, the pectinations ciliated ;
tongue and frennlum present ; hindtibiae with four spurs, the inner pair long.

Xeuration : forewings, cell half as long as wing ; discocellular vertical ; first
median at one-half, second at seven-eighths ; radials normal ; 7, 8, 9, stalked : 10 and
11 coincident. Hindwings with costal approximated to subcostal for three-fourths
of cell ; subcostals from upper end of cell, or 7 before end ; medians as in
forewings.

T}-pe : Cataspilates tjrisescens sp. nov.

Kit;. Cataspilates!?; arenosa sp. nov.

Fnri'wings : whitisli ochreous, sulfused and finely dusted with deeper ochreous
aud rufous scales, and with a slight pinkish tinge ; the lines all obscnre and parallel
to hindmargin ; first near base, second in middle, both fine ; onter line at two-thirds,
marked below middle by dark dashes on veins, and followed by a broad ochreous
fascia ; a similar fascia along hindmargin, separated by a pale submarginal space ;
fringe concolorons, with slight dark dots at base between the veins; cell-siwt minute.

Ilindiriiigs : whitish, with rufous scales along inner margin.

Underside pinker; hindwings with cell-spot and two diffuse broad pinkish
shades beyond middle. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

Two ? ? from Sao I'aulo.

Though agreeing in the neuration of the forewings, this insect is hardly con-
generic with C. grisescens : the palpi are shortly rostriform ; the forehead with a
cone of scales ; both wings broader, with plain liindmargins.

107. Cataspilates grisescens sp. nov.
Forewings : greyish ochreous, peppered with dark scales ; first line close to
base, angled in midwing, the upper arm very obscure, the lower blackish, geminated ;

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outer Hue oblique, from middle of inner margin to eosta at iive-sixth.s, blackisli,
slightly denticulate, marked by lilack daslics on veins, closely followed by a dark
grey or blackish shade ; snl)marginal line double, denticulate, the inner arm more
distinct, the outer marked by black dashes on veins ; a row of black marginal
dots ; fringe grey ; cell-spot black.

Hindwinys: similar, but paler ; the outer series of lines only distinct on inner
margin ; cell-spot black.

Underside of forewings dark grey, of hiudwings paler with dark grey frecklings ;
both with cell-spot and outer line marked. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons
with wings ; abdomen marked with pairs of black dots.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

Two <i S from Bogota.

The margin of hiudwings is sliglitly crenulate.

168. Fidonia flavinigra sp. nov.

Foreiciiiijs : deep yellow, with the apical third bronzy brown-black ; costa for
two-fifths from base broadly brown-black, thence narrowly to the apical area : in
the ? the basal streak towards its end is connected with a small dark spot below
the subcostal vein ; the inner edge of the dark apical area is more irregular and
ends nearer the anal angle in the <S than in the ? .

Hinclwings : yellow, with a uniformly broad dark liindmargin.

Underside like upper. Face and palpi dull yellow, mi.\;ed with fuscous ; vertex
fuscous ; thorax and abdomen yellow, the latter fuscons-tinged towards apex ; legs
yellow, the forelegs externally fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

A pair from Ciicuta, Venezuela.

SuBF.\MiLY SELIDOSEMINAE.
Oenoptila Warn, Nov. Zool. II. p. 131.

Forewings : with costa nearly straight, carved before apex ; apex slightly pro-
duced, blunt ; hindmargin curved, slightly gibbous in middle.

Hind wings : with hindmargin rounded, the anal angle well marked ; antennae of
<? simple; palj)i stout, the second ijoint sijuamons, the terminal joint minute, porrect;
tongne present ; hindtibiae not thickened, witli four spurs.

JS^'uration : forewings, cell more than half as long as wing; discocellnlar
concave ; first median just beyond one-half, second well before end of cell, third
from end ; lower radial from middle, upper from the top of discocellular ; 7, 8, 9, 10,
stalked from before the end ; 11 anastomosing with the costal; 10 with II, and
again with 8, 9. In the hiudwings the first subcostal and second median both rise
before the end of cell.

Type : Oenoptila mixtala Gueu. (Ouye/ia).

The diagnosis of this genus was omitted in the original publication. The three
species there referred to mixtafa are distinct. Guenee's Iransitaria, with which
Walker's expulsaria is identical, is considerably smaller than mixtata Guen., and
will stand as Oenoptila transitaria. On the other hand alexonaria Wlk., which
is a Jamaican species, has pectinated antennae, and must be removed to a separate
genus, for which I propose the name Oenothalia. It differs from Oenoptila in the
neuration also : vein 11 of forewings not anastomosing entirely with 12, but merely
touching it at a point.

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169. Oenoptila nigrilineata ab. reversa uov.

Like the t3rpe in coloration, but with the costa of forewings concolorous, and
the two lines narrowly pale ochreons, the single line of the hindwings also ochreous;
abdominal tuft of 6 pale.

Expanse of wings : 33 mm.

One c? from Jamaica.

On the penultimate segment of abdomen is a pale line corresponding to the
pale line of the hindwings, and the basal segment is dark. The type-form was
described by me in Nov. Zool. II. p. 129, as an Anayoge (?).

170. Oenoptila rubra sp. no v.

?. Forewinys : deep red, with sparse blackish transverse striae; first line
beyond one-third, denoted by blackish striae, and distinct only on inner margin jnst
before middle ; second line at two-thirds to inner margin at three-fourths, e.xcurved
below middle ; a black cell-spot ; fringe concolorous.

Hindwings : the same, without first line.

Underside paler red, speckled only along hindmargin. Head, thorax, and
abdomen all red.

In the S the ground-colour is brownish fulvous instead of red, the lines some-
what more distinct.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

One c?. two ? ? , from Jamaica.

171. Oenothalia alexonaria Wlk. ab. olivata nov.
In this form the usual deep red ground-colour of the type is wholly overlaid by
an olive-brown tint ; the inner and outer lines, which in the type-form are brown-
black, become finely red, and are marked on the veins by bright yellow spots.

172. Oenothalia subochrea sj). nov.

Forewings : brick-red, densely covered with small dark striae; first line at one-
fourth, curved, preceded by a pale space without striae ; second beyond two-thirds,
irregularly waved, outcurved in middle of wing and incurved on vein 2, followed by
a similar paler space ; cell-spot black ; fringe concolorous.

Hindu-iiigs : with only the outer line.

Underside yellow, with a few dark striae ; a reddish marginal fascia, clouded
with dark ; cell-spots large, black. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous ; face
and palpi deeper red.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

Several ? ? from Rio Demerara. Mr. Schaus has ii from Aroa, Venezuela;
these have pectinated antennae.

In forewings vein 11 is stalked with 7, 8, 0, 10.

173. Petelia interrupta s]i. nov.

Forewings: reddish fulvous, with coarse black speckling; the linos intorruj)ted,
formed of black spots partially conncctpd by black scales ; first at one-third, marked
by spots on the subcostal, median, and snbmedian veins ; second at two-thirds,
curved ontwards towards hindtnargin, and forming a biangulated or bilobed

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projection on veins 3 and 4, preceded by a similarly angnlated brown shade, and
sometimes followed by a dark blotch beyond the cell ; the cell-spot large, blackish ;
fringe concolorons.

Ilindirings : the same, without the inner line.

Underside much paler, almost unspeckled except towards hiudmargin of fore-
wings. Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings, the abdomen with a dark basal
ring-
Expanse of wings : 34 mm.
Two ? ? from Castro, Parana.

The neuration of forewings agrees exactly with that of the Indian species of
Petelia, vein 11 Ijeiug free. In Thi/sampijya H.S. = Pachi/dia Guen., on the
other hand, vein 11 anastomoses strongly with the costal.

Perissopteryx gen. nov.

Closely allied to 'riii/sanopi/fia H.S., of wliich it is a further development.
Abdomen of S beneath with thick curled tnfts of hair. Hindwings of cj with a
large flap on inner margin, folded over on the underside, the false inner margin with
a fringe of long hairs, and the edge of the flap also fringed ; the hindwings small in
comparison with the forewings. Antennae pectinated.

Neuration : forewings, cell not half as long as wing ; first median just beyond
half, second well before end of cell ; radials normal ; 7, 8, 9, 10, stalked ; 11 from
cell, anastomosing with the costal. In the hindwings the internal vein runs down
the flap, the wing being folded along the submedian fold.

Type : Perissopteri/j- rielusa sp. nov.

174. Perissopteryx delusa sp. nov.

Forewings : vinous brown, mnch darker along the costa, with fuscons speckles
and striae ; the lines brown ; first near base, vertical ; second before middle,
followed by the small black cell-spot, which is faintly ringed with whitish ; outer
line slightly concave outwards ; a darker submarginal shade and apical cloud, with
a curved white mark from apex to vein 0.

Hindwings : with straight obli<jue antemedian line, from about one-third of
costa to middle of inner margin ; cell-spot distinct, round, pure white. Fringes of
both wings concolorons, with a pale basal line.

Underside reddish grey or fawn-colonr ; marginal third of forewings clouded
with red-brown; flap of hindwings reddish. Head, thorax, and abdomen cinereous,
the thorax tinged with raldish ; abdominal tnfts and antennae dark fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

One S from Costa Rica (Underwood).

175. Thysanopyga nigristicta sp. nov.

Forewings : greyish fawn, with delicate darker strigulae ; the lines darker,
rather coarse ; first at one-fonrth, vertical ; second slightly before the middle, also
vertical, touching the large round blackish cell-spot; outer line at two-thirds, faintly
curved, parallel to hindmargiu ; marginal third darker fawn-colour, with a diffuse
blackish cloud at apex ; marginal line fine, black ; fringe concolorons.

Hind/rings : witii a dark mark at base, a straight aiitenipdian and very faint
cnrve<l jxistmedian line : cell-spot round, black, with a minnte white centre.

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Underside paler, slightly black-speckled, with a cloudy fiiscons marginal baud,
which is very faint on hindwings ; cell-spot on forewings only. Head, thorax, and
abdomen coucolorons.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

One ? from Costa Rica (Underwood).

Distinguished by the black apical patch of forewings, and the black coil-spots
of both wings above.

ITii. Thysanopyga pygaria (Jncn. ab. ochrilinea uov.

Forewings : greyish moasc-colour, the costa and Hues pinkish ochreous ; the
costal streak broad between the lines, narrow at base : first line near base, angled
on subcostal vein ; outer line curved exactly as in pygnrin, edged internally
with reddish brown, and with faint traces externally of a dentate shade : apical
curved streak grey, indistinct ; cell-spot black, with a tine edge of ochreons scales :
in one example there are faint traces of an oblique brown median line, as in the
type-form.

Hindicimis : with a faint brown autemediau line, followed by the white cell-
spot; a broad j)inkish ochreous snbmarginal fascia, gradually shading off to the dark
ground-colour along the margin.

Fringe and underside as in the type-form. Face, palpi, thorax, and abdomen
concolorous with wings ; vertex paler grey.

Expanse of wings : 34 — 36 mm.

Two tJc? from Newcastle, Jamaica, August 1893.

This may prove to be a distinct species.

Subfamily SEMIOTHISINAE.
ITT. Semiothisa collineata sp. nov.

Foreicinga : ochreous, speckled with brown; the lines pale brownish; first at
one-fifth, curved; second before middle, starting from a brown costal triangle,
sinnons to middle of inner margin; third at two-thirds, strongly angled outwards on
vein 6, then obliquely curved to inner margin not far from middle line; a brown spot
on costa beyond it; hindmargin slightly brown-tinged, especially towards anal angle;
fringe brownish ochreous.

Hindwings : without first line; a minute dark cell-dot; outer line denticulate;
traces of a nearly straight grey submarginal line; the apex tinged with brown;
fringe with a darker basal line.

Underside the same, bnt the snbmarginal line on both wings distinct. Head,
thorax, and abdomen all concolorous.

Expanse of wings: 3U mm.

One S from the Amazons, from the Felder Collection (Bates).

178. Semiothisa crepuscularia sp. nov.
Forewings: dull whitish, subhyaline, with olive -fuscous speckling; the costa
pale, with fine striae; the lines difi'iise, all formed of jiatclies of olive and fuscous
scales; first line at one-fifth, forming an outward curved blotch above and below the
median vein; second line median, oblique, formed of a double blotch below costa,
dentate and darker outwards on the veins, and similar blotches on median and

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Rubinedian, joined together by a darker blotch between tliem; outer line at two-thirds,
fuscous, much broken, followed by an olive fascia, containini; a row of blackish oval
blotches, and internij)ted beyond cell by a streak of the pale ground-colour from
apex; the marginal area itself mixed dark fuscous and olive; fringe olive, with a
paler line at base.

Ilindwings : similar, but much less suffused with olive, an<l the lines therefore
more distinct: the fringe wliitish; cell-spots of both wings large and dark, and a
dark spot at base.

Underside the same, but altogether duller. Head and abdomen olive-grey;
thorax pale grey.

Expanse of wings: 26 mm.

One S from Sao Paulo.

Forewings with ajiex produced and blunt ; hindmargin not excised, but
merely incurved just beneath, and then oblique and straight to anal angle, which is
strongly marked. Hindwings moderately toothed in middle: antennae of $ shortly
pubescent; fovea hardly visible.

170. Semiothisa debiliata sp. uov.

Voreiviiujx : very pale straw-coloiir, dotted with nchraceous and grev atoms:
costa with minute grey specks; the lines fine, pale ochraceous; first at one-fourtli,
angled in cell and on submedian fold; median line straight, from just before middle
of costa to just before middle of inner margin, its costal end thickened ; an oblique
ochraceous discal streak touching the middle line ; exterior line from three-fourths
of costa to three-fourths of inner margin, angled on vein 6, then slightly flexuoas;
traces of a sinuous submarginal line almost touching outer line below middle,
thence oblique to anal angle, followed by a dark spot below vein 4 and another less
conspicuous below vein 3; fringe pale, with a marginal row of small brown dots
at base.

Ilindwings : with nearly straight autemedian and slightly curved and waved
])ostmedian rusty lines; cell-spot black, conspicnous; submarginal line obscure,
curved in the opposite direction to the exterior line, to which it approximates in
the middle.

Underside the same. Thorax and abdomen concolorous witli wings: head and
shoulders tinged with ochraceous.

Expanse of wings: 26 mm.

One d from Paramaribo [tgpe), November 1802 (C. W. Ellacombe); another
from Palma Sola, Venezuela.

Ilindniargin of forewings entire, oblii[uely curved; of hindwings with a ver}'
slight elbow in the middle; fovea of forewings much enlarged; antennae subserrate,
with fascicles of cilia.

180. Semiothisa fidelis sp. nov.

Forewings : pale grey, with dense coarse oehreous fuscous striae, which nil but
conceal the ground-colour: the lines thick, olive-brown, parallel to each other and
retracted towards costa; the second slightly waved, the outer forming lunules
between the veins, and marked on them with dark spots, those on veins 3 and 4
distinct; cell-mark linear, lirown, touching middle line; marginal area darker,
especially the jiart next the onter line, which forms a brown shade; fringe grey,
with some black marks at base.

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Uindwings : the same, without lirst Hue.

Underside tinged with yellow, the markings fuscous; the durk shade beyond
outer line broadened at inner margin and obsolescent towards costa. Head, thorax,
and abdomen concolorous.

Expanse of wings: 26 mm.

Two S (S from Costa Rica (Underwood).

Very much like S. accuimdata Gnen., but in that species the band beyond
outer line is broader at costa than inner margin and chestnut-brown. Hiudmargin
of forewing sinuate, scarcely excised; of hindwings bluntly angled in middle.

ISl. Semiothisa impicta sp. no v.

Foreicings : dull testaceous, freckled with darker; tlie lines dull brown ; first
at one-fourth, bent on the median; second thicker, near middle, slightly flexuons,
passing over the blackish cell-spot; outer line at two-thirds, bluntly bent on vein C
and again on vein 4, slightly incnrved between and oblique below; an indistinct
dark submarginal line, faintly edged with paler, especially beneath costa, where it is
angled; fringe concolorous.

Hindwings : with no distinct cell-spot, the two lines approximating on inner
margin.

Underside still duller. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous.

Ex{)anse of wings : 34 mm.

One ? from the Felder Collection, without locality-label, but collected by Lindig,
therefore probably from Colombia.

Forewings with hindmargin sinuous, slightly incurved, not excised, below
apex.

182. Semiothisa inexcisa sp. no v.

Forewings : pale ochreons, thickly dusted with greyish fuscous; the lines grey;
first at one-fifth, angled below costa; second before middle, oblique inwards, the
dark linear discal mark touching it above; third at two-thirds, obscure, denticulate;
submarginal quite straight to inner margin before anal angle: fringe dark grey, with
an interrupted dark basal line.

Hindwinqs : the same, without first line; the discal spot black, round; the
submarginal nearly straight, but obscured by the dark dusting.

Underside with the median and submarginal lines brown, distinct ; the other
lines obscure; a brown blotch at anal angle of hindwings. Head, thorax, and
abdomen ochreons ; face and jialpi slightly darker.

Ex])anse of wings : 32 mm.

One $ from Maraval, Trinidad, July 1891.

In markings and colouring very much like (S. occultata from Sao I'aulu, but the
shape of wings entirely different; the apex of forewings is bluntly subfalcate, and
the hindmargin without any excavation; the hindwings with hindmargin much less
produced, the tooth quite blunt.

183. Semiothisa nigropunctata sp. nov.
Forewings : dull whitish ochreons, thickly sprinkled with grey and ochreons
striae, as usual more dense towards costa, which is marked with darker sjiots ; lines
ochreons or greyish, thick, parallel to each other and to hindmargin liclow. all

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retracted to costa above, the third bluntly angled, waved below, and marked with
blackish dots on veins ; submarginal line sinuons, obscure, marked by a black blotch
between veins 3 and 4, and by two superimposed black blotches on cither side of vein 7 ;
marginal line fine, blackish, interrnpted ; fringe ochreous ; cell-spot linear, touching
middle line.

Hindwings : with black cell-dot, ochreous antemedian and postmedian lines, the
latter marked by black dashes on veins, and a submarginal shade.

Underside paler, with the lines and markings fuscous ; the submarginal line
fine in both wings; costal area of forewings slightlj' yellow-tinged. Head, shoulders,
and forelegs fuscous ; thorax and abdomen pale, like wings ; antennae mottled,
ochreous and grey.

Expanse of wings : 26 — 28 mm.

Two S S from Cucuta, Venezuela.

In the smaller specimen the two subcostal black spots are obsolete, and the
middle line approximated to the inner. Hindmargin of forewings entire, of hind-
wings with distinct blunt angulation.

184. Semiothisa nitidata sp. uov.

Forewinys : glossy, pale ochreous, with rust-coloured speckling ; the lines rust-
coloured, brown on costa, which is narrowly pale, and marked also with brown dots ;
first line at one-fifth, bent in cell, then oblique ; second line obliijne, straight, just
before the middle, the brownish discal mark touching it above ; third line slightly
waved and luuulate, marked with two largish brown spots on veins 3 and 4 : a sul)-
marginal line parallel to this last, the space beyond the third lilac-tinged ; hind-
margin with interrupted brown line ; fringe ochreous, with yellowish basal line.

Tlindivings : the same, without first line.

Underside paler, the lines brown ; a diffuse externally dentate-edged l.ruwn
submarginal fascia. Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; the face and ]iali>i
darker.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

One (? from the Amazons, from the Felder Collection (Bates).

Forewings with hindmargin scarcely indented below apex ; hindwings with
hindmargin bluntly dentate ; antennae of <S subdentate, with fascicles of cilia : fovea
in forewings of S very inconspicuous.

185. Semiothisa occultata sp. no v.

Forewings : pale ochreons, irrorated with fuscous, sometimes, especially in the
? , so densely as to hide the markings ; the lines grey ; first curved, at one-fifth ;
second in middle, sinuous, the linear grey cell-mark touching it above ; the third at
two-thirds, lunulate and dentate, marked with dots at the ends of the teeth ; the
fourth, or submarginal, grey, fine, and nearly straight to anal angle ; all the lines
brown-marked on costa ; the excision finely marked with brown, like the basal line
of fringes, which are i)ale.

Hindwings : like forewings, but the outer line somewhat bent.

Underside somewhat yellower, the lines and markings brown. Head and
shoulders brownish ; thorax pale greyish ; abdomen ochreous, with two rows of
blackish spots.

Expanse of wings : 6, 32 mm. ; ? , 34 mm.

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Several from Petropolis and Sao Panlo.

Near rigitlata Gnen., but without the black markiiij^s anil brown costal blotcli.
Guenee, noting this in his rigulata, reniiirks that possilily ho hiid another
species mixed up with it.

186. Semiothisa seuescens sp. nov.

Foreicings : whitish ochreons, densely irrorated witli dlive-grey striae; the lines
olive-fnscons ; first curved close to base, very indistinct ; second before middle, thick,
nearly vertical, slightly waved and intcrrnjited, toncliing the cell-spot ; outer line
before two-thirds, dentate and Innnlatc, with black specks on veins, se|)arated by a
slight i)ale space from a uniformly broad blackisli fascia, which is overlaid towards
costa by some olive scales ; marginal space beyond olive, with blackish striae, which
are interrupted towards apex, so that an obliqne streak from ajjcx and another from
costa are formed, of the paler gronud-colour, which slightly interrupts the black
fascia between veins o and 6 ; some blackish scales along the base of the very slight
excision ; fringe dark olive, with paler base.

IlindwiM/s : similar.

Underside of forewings ochreons white, with dcc]i brown striae ; beyond the
outer fascia pure white ; lines and fascia deep brown, distinct ; costa and veins
yellowish ; hindwings pure white, with all the markings deep brown ; the fascia
distinctly edged on both sides. Head, thorax, and abdomen all olive-grey.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One ? from Nova Friborgo, near liio de Janeiro.

Superficially like S. comctij'eru Butler, but easily distinguished by the prevailing
olive tinge.

IS". Semiothisa subclathrata sp. nov.

ForcirinqH : very pale fawn-colour, deejier along the marginal area, more whitish
sjieckled with fown-colonr throughout the basal two-thirds; the lines brown, starting
from brown costal triangles, and all marked with brown spots on the veins ; first at
one-sixth, angled on subcostal, then vertical; second before middle, incurved slightly
iu cell and on submedian fold, followed by the dark brown cell-sj)ot ; third at two-
thirds, bluntly angled on vein 0, then nearly straight, but lunular and bluntly
dentate to inner margin at two-thirds ; followed by a brown-black triangular costal
blotch, the apex on costa, the base produced and nearly touching outer line at angle;
fringe concolorous, with an interrupted dark line at base.

Hinthriiujx : the same, without first line or costal Idotches; fiuge jialer.

Underside white, with coarse fuscous speckles ; costa and all veins ferruginous;
the lines dark biowu, shaped as above, but from the ferruginous costal blotch which
represents the brown-black blotch of upperside a straight brown-black line runs
to near anal angle ; the marginal area beyond it wholly ferruginous, except the
apical area beyond blotch, which is white ; hindwings white, with the lines and
speckles brown ; veins and a fascia beyond an undulating brown subniarginal line
ferruginous. Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; the face and palpi darker.

Exjianse of wings : tJ, 28 mm. ; ? , 32 mm.

Both sexes from Santos and Sao Panlo.

The i has the fovea enlarged; hindmargin of I'orewiugs slightly excavated
below apex, more perceptibly so iu the ? than in the i ; luotli of the hindwing
moderate.

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]i^<^. Semiothisa subvalida sp. inn-.

Forewings: very pale ocUreous, with slightly darker ochreoiis snffiisioii ;iuil
striae, without any rusty or grey atoms, as in S. debiliata; the lines ocliraivons, not
so fine as in that species; the iirst cnrved; the second slightly waved, with the discal
ochraceous mark touching it, exactly as in debiliata; the third more obtusely angled
on vein 0 and marked with slight dark dots on veins : no submarginal line, but the
outer line followed by a faint fascia formed of ochraceous striae arranged in four or
five rows ; fringe pale ; marginal dots minute, black.

fliiuhrings : with antemedian and postmedian lines, the latter with dark dots
on veins ; cell-spot rusty.

Underside paler, with very indistinct markings. Tliorax and abdomen con-
colorous ; face and collar tinged with darker.

E.Kpanse of wings : 20 mm.

One 3 from Paraguay.

Superficially extremely like S. dchUkita: besides the difference in the markings,
the shape of wing is different; both costa and hindmargin of forewings are straighter,
the apex thereby appearing more produced ; the elbow nf hinilwings is mon^ pro-
nounced, and the fovea on forewings very small and obscure.

1^9. Semiothisa trigonata sp. uov.

Forewings: testaceous ochreous, hardly dusted with darker; the lines brown :
first at one-fifth, angled in cell, to inner margin at one-fourth; second before middle,
waved, indistinct, absorbing the linear cell-spot; third at two-thirds, oblique hiinin/x
to vein 0, and thick, tlience lunulate and parallel to first and second ; beyond it a
faint grey line shows through from beneath ; some brownish clouds before apex ;
fringe brown, with brown basal line ; the space between veins 6 and 7, from their
origin as far as outer line, whitish hyaline, the costa above it paler, so that then-
appears a pale costal triangle between lines 2 and 3.

Ilindwtngs : the same, without basal line ; fringe eoni'iilorous.

Underside yellow, dusted with fulvous; discal spots and outer lines deep brown;
the other lines less expressed ; a white triangle at base of veins 6 and 7, and a white
blotch before apex, dusted with brown and preceded by a pale brown ])atch ; hind-
wings the same. Head and shoulders, palpi and forelegs, brown-grey ; collar, thorax,
and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

One ? from Petropolis.

lOii. Tephrinopsis semipallida sp. nov.

Forewinqs : whitish grey, tliii-kly dusted with dark grey atoms ; the costa dark
grey; first line at one-third, sinuous, brownish grey; median shade diffuse, dark
grey, from middle of inner margin to two-thirds of costa, before which it becomes
obsolete ; outer line from three-fourths of inner margin, dark brown, slightly
curving towards apex, before which it is recurved finely to costa ; followed by a
broad brownisii grey shade ; submarginal line pale, nearly straight : marginal line
fine, blackish ; fringe grey ; the area between median shade and onter line is paler
than the rest of wing.

Hindwiiiqs : whitish, dusted with dark grey along inner and hindmargius ; a

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brownish grey line from inner margin at three-fourtlis, fading ont before costa ;
fringe pale.

Underside grey, tinged with ochraceous and dusted with dark grey; a diffuse
snbmarginal brownish fascia. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

One S from Nova Friborgo, near Rio de Janeiro.

li'l. Thamnonoma angulata sp. nov.

Forewinqs : whitish grey, almost wholly siitt'iisod with brown, and with line dark
striae ; first line at one-fourth, black, oblique, bent below costa ; second at two-
thirds, black, oblique, siunons ; space included paler, with an obscure sinuous brown
line down its middle ; outer line succeeded by a brown fascia, edged by the whitish
snbmarginal line ; marginal area whiter ; an obscure oblique whitish streak from
apex ; marginal line of black luuules ; fringe brown.

Hindwings : paler and greyer ; the lines indistinct, except on inner margin.

Underside dull brownish, speckled with whitish, with the markings obscure ;
face, palpi, and front of thorax dark brown ; head, thorax, and abdomen grej', mixed
with brown.

Expanse of wings : 27 mm.

Four S6 from Newcastle, .Jamaica, Angnst 1893.

The forewings have the hindraargin slightly excised from apex to vein 4 ; the
hindmargin snbcrenulate and toothed at vein 4.

192. Thamnonoma ochrifascia sji. nov.

ForeictMiti : dnll brownish grey, dusted with fuscous : costa spotted with dark ;
the only visible markings are a paler ochreous submarginal fascia on botli wings
parallel to the hindmargin, preceded and followed by a darker grey fascia, each
of which is itself preceded by a dark grey line ; fringe concolorous, with a fine dark
basal line, and a row of minute black dots between the veins.

Hindivings : pale grey.

Underside duller, with traces of dark cell-spots.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One <S from the Bermudas.

Xenoecista gen. nov.

A develoj)ment of Semlotliisa : the antennae of the <? with pectinations ; fore-
wings not emargiuate, elongate ; hindwings with a blunt tooth in middle ; liiml
tibiae of cJ much swollen, with four spurs, the tarsi c^nitc short ; fovea present,
small.

Type : Xenoecista subdiversa sp. nov.

193. Xenoecista pallidata sp. nov.

Forewings : bone-colour, with fine fuscous strigulation, the strigae thicker along
costa ; lines dull fuscous, all oblique below, and parallel to hindmargin, bent below
costa, much as in A', subdicersa, but the median line is not forked, and variable in
position, being in some cases nearer the inner, in others nearer the outer line on
inner margin : outer line marked with black vein-dots ; a submarginal shade of

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variuble iiitun.sity, from beyond tJie angle of outer line to inner ina.rgin before anal
angle ; a row of small dark marginal dots ; fringe ochreous : cell-spot black.

Uindwinys : with cell-spot, antemedian and postinedian lines, and distinct
submarginal shade.

Underside with the markings thicker, brown ; forewings washed with yellow,
e.xcept a square apical blotch and smaller blotches along hindmargin, which are
white ; hindwings with the basal area, the space between last two lines, and the
veins yellowish, the rest white. Thorax and abdomen concolorons with wings : head
and collar rather deeper.

Expanse of wings : 2fl mm.

Three <S i — one marked simply Amazons (ttipe), one from between Manaos
and R. Jntahi, and a third frotn La Plata. The last is rather larger and more darkly
marked than the two from the Amazons. One ? from R. Dagna, Colombia fW.
Rosenberg).

Distinguished from A', subdiverm Warr., to which it is evidently closely allied,
by the smaller size and jKiler ground-colour. It is also like »S. aequiferaria Wlk.
from Florida, and might easily be mistaken for that species ; but the $ antennae
are quite distinct, and the hindmargin of forewings shows no trace of excavation.

The single ? from Colombia has the markings more obscured by the denser
dusting ; the black vein-dots on veins 3 and 4 are intensified and united into a black
line, followed by a second blotch lying on the snbmarginal line, which is otherwise
not represented above, though clearly marked on the under surface ; in the hind-
wings the postmedian line is immediately followed by a dark shade, forming with
the submarginal shade a donble baud. The species is evidently widespread, and a
longer series will probably show fnrther variations.

194. Xenoecista subdiversa sp. nov.

Forewinyx: whitish, the ground-colonr almost hidden by dull greyish fuscous
strigae and irroration ; the three lines parallel to the hindmargin and nearly equi-
distant, all bent below the costa, and the median obscurely forked, the small black
cell-spot lying within the fork ; all three rather thick and diifuse, the exterior slightly
waved and marked on each side with black scales at veins 3 and 4 ; submarginal
line waved, indistinct, the space between it and the exterior line forming a darker
fascia ; fringe grey, with a fine dark basal line.

Hindwings : with the median line thickened, preceding the black cell-spot, the
submarginal foscia broader and more marked.

Underside with the markings dull red-brown : the forewings wholly suffused
with dull yellowish ; marginal area wholly red-brown, except a fuscous-dotted square
white apical blotch ; hindwings suffused with yellowish only as far as first line, the
rest white, with the markings red-brown. Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

One <J from Bogota.

I'J.J. Xenoecista triconjimcta sp. nov.
Forewings : greyish ochreous, grizzled with dark grey and brown atoms ; first
line at one-fourth, thick, dark brown, angled below subcostal and partially double;
second in middle, similarly angled, then oblique and fine ; outer line brown-black, at
three-fourths, nearly straight, closely followed by two similar lines, the outer one
somewhat dentate, all the three forming a diffuse brownish fascia ; fringe grey.

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llindwimjs : with diffuse antemediau uiul less distinct triple postmediau line.

Underside tinjjed with ochraceous, the fascia deeper on forewings. Head, thorax,
and abdomen all greyish : the face slightly darker.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One ? from Petropolis.

Forewiugs with hindmargin sinuons ; hindwings with the hindmargin rounded,
the tooth at middle hardly prominent.

SiiiK.iMiLY ENNOMINAE.
I'.Ki. Acrosemia undilinea sji. nov.

Forewiny.t : pale )-ellow, tliickly dusted and in the marginal area wholly
suffused with bright ferruginous ; the lines dark brown ; first at one-third, angled
below costa : second from costa before apex, angled outwards on vein 7, then
obliijue and twice sinuate to inner margin at two-thirds : snbmarginal line denti-
culate, starting from an anguLited black costal streak which is almost connected
with the angle of the outer line ; cell-spot black ; fringe deep ferruginous.

Hiiuhcings : similar, the outer line only once bent ; the submarginal indistinct.

Underside much paler and duller, with the markings obscured. Palpi ferru-
ginous ; face and vertex pale yellow ; thorax and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

One ? from Costa Rica (Underwood).

Mr. Schaus is inclined to consider this the ? of -1. vulpecalaria U.S.; but
Gnenee, who had both sexes, makes no mention of any difference in ground-colour,
but says the ? is larger than the i.

19T. Acrotomodes nigripuncta sj). nov.

Foreiviiigs : bright brick-red, with scattered grey and black atoms ; the costa
pinkish grey ; a double black spot on costa before apex, followed by a grey spot ;
fringe concolorous.

IlindwiDf/s : wholly brick-red, with a few dark scales.

Underside paler, the freckles coarser, confined to forewings and costal area
of hindwings. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous; vertex white; base of
patagia and abdomen whitish.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One ? from Cucnta, Venezuela.

198. Anisogonia deustata Fekl. ab. innotata nov.

Nearest the type-form, having tiii^ cell-spot, the apex of forewings, and two
small spots before middle of hindmargin black ; but without the characteristic large
black marginal blotch.

One c^ from Chili.

l'.)i). Anisogonia deustata Fehl. ah. plana nov.
Wings fawn-colour, lighter or darker, almost uniform, without darker dusting;
the lines distinct, dark brown, or brown edged with pale ochreous.

Underside yellower: the forewings generally with some white marks at apex.

Four 66 from Chili (W. B. Calvert).

A common form of aberration, and chicliy, if not entirely, confined to tiie Si.

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200. Anisoperas subfulvata sp. nov.

Forewiiigs : fawn-colonr, tinged with olive, entirely snifnsed with olive m
tlie central area between the lines ; the whole wiug marked with short dark striae ;
the lines brown ; first at one-fourth, bluntly angled below costa, tlien oblique
inwards ; second at three-fourths, acutely angled outwards below vein 7, then
incurved and slightly waved to inner margin at two-thirds, nearly touching the
base of a brown straight median shade ; a snbapical paler costal blotch beyond
second line ; traces of a submarginal darker sliade; cell-spot small, black ; fringe
concolorous.

Ilindwinqs : with the olive tinge more generally diti'nsed ; a curved dark jjost-
median line and dark submarginal cloud ; cell-spot !>lack.

Underside yellowish olive, thickly striated with brown; cell-spot and outer line
distinct; margins of both wings darker and duller. Head, thorax, and abdomen
olive-fuscous.

Expanse of wings: 39 mm.

One c? from Costa Rica (Underwood).

Both wings rather more strongly angulatcd than in ^-1. (ifropnnctaria Wlk.

201. Azelina constrictifascia sp. nov.

Foreicimjs : pinkish grey, dotted with fuscous and clouded with brownish; the
markings chestnut-brown ; inner edge of central fascia inangled in the cell, then
vertical ; basal area flesh-colour, spotted with fuscous, with a curved brown line
starting from a brown basal spot on costa ; outer margin of central fascia from costa
at five-sixths, running in basewards along the lower radial to the end of cell, forming
a small angle at base of veins 3 and 4, a sinus inwards below it, an angular pro-
jection above and a rounded projection below the submedian vein ; cell-spot deep
black, surrounded with flesh-coloured scales ; the outer end of the fascia below the
costa contains two pinkish grey horizontal patches ; both margins are finely edged
with flesh-colour ; apical patch chestnut, sharply marked by a line from costa, just
beyond the edge of the fascia to the base of the middle tooth ; anal area ochreous
on inner margin, smoky brown along hindmargin, with two indistinct pale grey
lunnles between them, and a pale grey shade along apical area ; a black sub-
marginal dot below apex and below middle tooth.

HindtcmjS : pinkish brown, pale whitish grey along costa ; a minutely waved
brown pale-edged median line beyond the black cell-spot ; the brown tinge is
deepened before this line, and again towards hindmargin, where it becomes tinged'
with olive ; two black submarginal spots between tail and anal angle.

Underside ochreous, tinged with brown and mottled with black ; cell-spots
velvety black, with pale scales round them ; a submarginal pale curved line, beyond
which the marginal area is chestnut, tinged in places with pinkish grey. Face,
palpi, thorax, and abdomen dull brown ; vertex, collar, and shoulders rufous
ochreous ; last two segments of abdomen pinkish ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

Two S$ from San Augustin, Majjiri, 3500 feet, Sciitcmber 189.7) (Arthur
Maxwell Stuart).

Forewings with a tooth at veins (i and 3, the anal angle rounded oiT; hindwings
with apex prominently rounded, a curved tooth at vein 3 and a minute one at vein 2.

Near to A. gamuza Dogn., 4/i/(. ii. E. Bclg. XXXV 111. Xb'M, p. 242, from
El Monje, Loja.

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202. Azelina infantilis sp. nov.

Forewings : ochreous, dnsted with fuscous and rufous ; the central area cbestnnt-
brown ; first line at nearly one-third, oblique outwards and strongly rounded in
cell, oblique inwards from the median to one-third of inner margin : second line
from costa at three-fonrths, obliquely curved inwards to jnst beyond middle of inner
margin, approximating there to the first line, witli a short Idunt projection on sub-
median fold ; (lie included space chestnnt-brown, deeper towards the edges, except
along costa, where the paler ochreous gronnd-colour reappears ; cell-mark angled,
white, semihyaline ; marginal area, from costa just beyond second line to anal angle,
suffused with rufous and brown ; fringe rufous brown.

Hindwings : ochreous, less speckled ; a curved fuscous line at three-fourths ; an
irregular marginal cloud ; the anal angle ochreous and rufous ; two or three black
submarginal dots ; a large dull cell-spot.

Underside pale ochreous, much speckled with fuscous ; the costa marked witli
geminated strigae ; cell-spot of forewings white with black edge, of hindwings
wholly black : a dark crenulated line at four-fifths on both wings ; marginal area
of forewings with a blackish blotch from below apex to vein 3 ; the inner margin
white and glossy ; hindwings with a browu blotch at anal angle and three black sub-
marginal dots. Head, thorax, and abdomen pinkish ochreous, dusted with grey.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

One c? from Onoribo, March 1893 (C. W. Ellacombe).

Hindmargin of forewings obliquely curved, slightly indented only at vein 3:
hindwings with a tooth at vein 3, beyond a slight excision.

203. Azelina maculicosta sp. nov.

Forewings : dark greyish fawn-colour, speckled with fuscous ; first line obsolete
on costal half, fine and dark brown below median, outcurved in the submedian
interval and reaching inner margin at two-fifths; outer line from costa at three-
fourths to three-fourths of inner margin, dark brown, incurved between cell and
submedian fold ; the median area darker and tinged with rufous on tlie veins, along
the costa pale ochreous with fuscous striae ; this pale patch edged inwardly by au
oblique brown line, nearly touching the angnlated white semihyaline discal mark ;
marginal area paler, with rufous clouds ; fringe concolorous ; a series of small black
and white submarginal dots.

Hindwings: uniform gre}-ish fawn-colour, with a darker cross line at two-
thirds.

Underside more rufous-tinged ; in forewings whitish along inner margin below
the median ; outer line blackish, marked by deeper dots on veins ; cell-spot as
above ; hindwings with small black cell-spot and obscure dark outer line : sub-
marginal dots whiter. Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish fawn-colour.

Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

One S from Popayan, Colombia (Lchmann).

Near A. minimn Butler, but the outer line more vertical and more sinuous.

204. Certima unilineata sp. nov.
Forewings : fawn-colour, speckled with fuscous ; the outer and inner lines
marked by the usual black spots on veins ; those of the outer line rather nearer
than usual to the liindmargin and situated on a faint greenisli shade : a thick dull

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red slightly arched obliqne line from costa just before apex to inner margin beyond
middle, followed by a faint reddish shade ; fringe concolorous ; cell-spot black.

Hiiuhvinys : the same, with the line central.

Underside ochreons grey, dusted with black, with the cell-spots and outer row
of dots distinct : the forewings towards the hindmargin suffused with reddish fuscous;
fringes and hindmargin pale grey. Head and thorax concolorous with wings ;
abdomen paler.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

Two (S3 from Bolivia, R. Songo to R. Suapi, March to June ISOO (Garlepp).

205. Cimicodes subapicata sp. nov.

Forewings: dark ferruginous brown, thickly striated with black; the co.sta
olive-green, the extreme edge ochreons with black speckles ; the lines ferruginous,
parallel, both slightly concave outwards; the first pale-edged towards base, with a
whitish dot on the median and submedian veins, and preceded by a small white
dash on the costal streak ; second edged outwardly with paler, and outcurved
beneath the costal streak to a small square white costal spot shortly before apex,
marked with a whitish dot on veins 1, 6, and 7; submarginal line dark, straight to
vein 5, along which it runs inwards, then straight and obliijue to anal angle, followed
below vein 5 by a dark cloud ; fringe wholly brown ; cell-spot black, with a dark
grey ring.

Ilindwings : brighter ferruginous, towards costa olive-tinged : cell-spot black,
preceded by the sinuous not straight line, which is marked b}' whitish dots on
veins ; submarginal line irregularly sinuous, followed by a darker brown shade.

Underside much paler, ochreous fawn-colour, spotted with black ; the sub-
marginal line only indicated ; the marginal area darker ; apex of forewings with
a white blotch ; cell-spot distinctly black. Head ferruginous brown ; front half of
thorax olive-green, like the costal streak ; rest of thorax and abdomen concolorous
with wings ; legs orange, strongly marked with black.

Expanse of wings : 45 mm.

One (? from Bolivia, between R. Songo and R. Snapi, March to June 1896
(Garlepp).

Differs from pallicostata Guen., the type of the genus, in having the hind-
margin of hindwings uniformly rounded, not elbowed ; the hindmargin of fore-
wings more deeply incised below apex, and more conspicuously gibbous at
middle.

206. Cyclomia costipuncta sp. nov.

Foiricings : fawn-colour, smooth, deeper along the hindmargin ; costa with
a few black strigae and a central black blotch ; fringe concolorous.

Hindirinqs : dull deep yellow, dusted with rufous ; a central straight line
rnfons ; a purplish marginal fascia ; fringe pale yellow.

Underside yellow, thickly dusted with ferruginous ; the forewings pale along
iimer margin and with a diffuse marginal fascia ; hindwings redder, with the
marginal fascia less distinct. Palpi cinereous fulvous, the terminal joint dark
brown ; face and vertex yellowish ; thorax and abdomen fawn-colour; antennae
reddish fawn, with the unpectinated apex snow-white.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

One c? from Cucuta, Venezuela. Also from Bolivia (Garlepp).

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207. Cyclomia jaspidea sp. nov.

Forewings : deep rcddisli brown, dusted with blackish; three curved black
lines at one-fourth, one-half, and three-fourths respectively, the middle one travers-
ing a large discal black spot.

Hin(lici7igs : brick-red, dusted with darker red and towards hindiuargin with
blackish, with faintly expressed dark curved central and jjostinedian lines; cell-spot
black.

Underside ochraceons, thickly speckled with bright red; cell-sjwts distinct.
Head, antennae, thorax, and abdomen red, the last tinged with fuscous above.

E.xpanse of wings : 20 mm.

Three c? S from Jamaica.

In one of the above examples the black discal sjiot of the forewings is small
and round, but ringed witli a broad grey orbit, which is again diffusely edged with
blackish.

208. Dectochilus brunnea sp. nov.

Forewings: testaceous, thickly speckled with fuscons atoms, the lines red-
brown; first from costa at one-third, sinuous, curved outwards on the median vein,
to inner margin just beyond middle; second line from five-sixths of costa, oblique
and slightly bent to inner margin, almost touching first line, preceded by a broad
ferruginous shade; the first line is preceded and the second followed by a pale grey
darker-edged line; cell-spot blackish; marginal area deepening in tint towards the
hindmargin, with very faint vestiges of a paler waved and somewhat darker-edged
submargiual line; fringe dark brown.

Hindwings : whitish ochreous, speckled with fuscous; fringe brown.

Underside of forewings reddish brown towards costa, becoming fnlvous towards
hindmargin; inner margin pale, unspeckled; costa grey, paler at apex, with blackish
freckles; outer line marked at costa only; hindwings witli costal half reddish brown,
inner half whitish; a dark obscure submarginal line; cell-spots on both wings dark.
Head and thorax like forewings; abdomen like hindwings, but greyer.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

Both sexes from Chili. Like />. anfucnrin Feiil., but darker.

20'.i. Eusarca (?) parallelaria sp. nov.

Forewings : pale ochreous, dusted and striated with darker ochreous and fuscous ;
the lines brownish, double; first from inner margin near base to the black cell-spot:
outer line parallel to it from just beyond middle of inner margin to apex, the inner
arm marked by black vein-dots, the two below costa larger; the outer arm also
darker at costa; traces of an intermediate central lino and of a submarginal shade
of brown striae; fringe ochreous, brown towards apex.

Uindwinqs : with a double brownish postmedian line, not reaching costa,
followed by a submarginal row of brown blotches; ci'll-spot black.

Underside paler ; the forewings towards base much speckled with fuscous.
Head, thorax, and abdomen all ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

One S from Bogota ; also in Mr. 8cluius' Collection.

]5oth wings are elbowed at vein 4, the apex of forewiug being acute.

Difiers from true Eusarca in that the antennae of the cJ are furnished with
long fascicles of cilia instead of pectinations.

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~'10. Eusarca subfasciata sji. nov.

Forew/»i/s : jiale dull yellow; the lines i'lUiit, rust-coloui-; tirst at one-fonrtli,
curved outwards above and below the median vein; exterior line obliiine, starting
from a large red-brown costal spot shortly before apex; cell-spot i'ainlly darker;
fringe concolorous.

Hindtvings : with a single central brown line.

Underside bright lemon-yellow, with some rust-colonred tleeks; forewings with
a red-brown marginal fascia not quite reaching costa; hindwings with a subajiical
brown spot and the edges of a fascia denoted; forewings with red cell-spot. Head
brown; thorax and abdomen yellow.

Expanse of wings: 32 mm.

Several from Costa Rica.

Along with the type-form occurs another, in which the lin(!s are more strongly
marked; both wings are thickly speckled with ferruginous, and the marginal area
suffused with the same, the snbmarginal line being indicated by darker brown
blotches. This form, which is not sexual, may be called ab. macularia.

Eustenopliasma gen. nov.

Foreiri/i(/.i : narrow, elongate; costa almost straight: apex depressed, blunt,
subfalcate; hiudmargin strongly toothed at vein 3, excavated above, oblique below;
inner margin straight.

Himhcinyn : narrow; hiudmargin irregularly curved, indented beyond cell.

Antennae of c? simple, faintly pubescent; palpi short, porrect; second joint
hairy; third short, pointed; tongue and frenulum present; hiudtibiae with four
spurs.

Neuratioii: forewings, cell two-thirds of wing; discocellular vertical; first
median nervule at four-fifths, second and third from lower end of cell; radiais
normal; veins 7, (S, 9, stalked; 10 and 11 stalked; 10 anastomosing with stalk of
7, 8, 9.

Hindicinij.f : discocellular angled; costal a])proximateil to subcostal for two-
thirds of cell; snbcostals from upper end of cell; second median just before lower
end; first median at three-fourths.

Abdomen with anal segment tufted, and with small lateral tufts on each
segment.

Type : Eustenophasma galeopsis sp. nov.

Probably related to Myehonm H.S.

211. Eustenophasma galeopsis sp. nnv.

Forewings : whitish, dusted and suffused with greyish olive: the Ijasai area,
central fascia, hiudmargin, and a large subapical costal jiatch of this latter colour,
the ground-colour being restricted; first line at nearly one-third, dark olive-grey,
oblique and straight inwards to inner margin at one-third, preceded by a pale line
of ground-colour; second line from costa at two-thirds, oblique outwards towards
the middle tooth, there forming a blunt angle, and sinuate inwards to inner margin
at two-thirds; cell-sjiot blackish; beyond this fascia two or three obscure dark lines
are visible, and a snuill si)ot above the jirojection; fringe olive-grey.

Hindtvings : whitish, simply dusted with grey; cell-spot large, blurred; two
dark grey sjiots ou inner margin above anal angle, denoting the commencement of

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a postmedian and snbmarginal line, of which only the formor is faintly visible;
fringe whitish, mixed with olive-grey.

Underside similar, but less distinctly marked. Head, thorax, and abdomen
olive-grey.

Expanse of wings : 28 — 30 mm.

One S from Sao Paulo; several specimens also in Mr. Schaus' Collection.

~I2. Eutomopepla maculata sp. uov.

Forewings : greyish flesh-colour, with sjiarse black dusting; costal edge broadly
ochreons, with short brown striae; the origin of the two lines shown on costa by
brown triangular marks; the lines themselves indistinct, marked partly by dark
scales and pale ochreous spaces on either side, and both ending on inner margin as
pale triangnlar blotches; first from before one-third of costa to one-fourth of inner
margin, waved; second from before two-thirds of costa to middle of inner margin,
sinuous, marked by an irregular patch of hoary scales beyond and below end of cell,
and ending in a yellowish white patch, internally brown-edged; cell-spot large,
marked by hoary scales and followed by a large irregular hyaline patch; apex of
wing olive, with dense black and grey striae; submarginal line interrupted, marked
by blackish scales, a small white hyaline dot on it above vein 0, and a patch of grey
and black scales with a black wedge-shaped mark at anal angle; fringe red.

Himhnngs: with a broad yellowish hyaline band near base, and three smaller
spots across middle, one costal, one beyond cell-sjwt, the other larger towards inner
margin; cell-spot a patch of hoary and black scales; inner margin whitish, with
brown striae; an obscnre denticulate postmedian line, and a straight lilac-grey black-
scaled line from apex to anal angle; fringe reddish, with black lunules at base in
the excisions.

Underside fulvous, mottled with fnscons speckles, paler towards costa of fore-
wings and base of both wings; the hyaline patches more developed; the second line
in forewings pale at costa, and followed in midwing by a blackish and olive cloud:
submarginal denticulated line and apex lilac-grey; postmedian line of hindwing
marked by a broad olive fascia. Head and palpi orange, mixed with pale ochreons;
thorax and abdomen greyish pink: base of patagia pale grey.

Expanse of wings : 56 mm.

One 9 from South America, without exact locality.

213. Gynopteryx ennomaria sp. no v.

Forewings: pale ochreous, with a few scattered brown scales ; the lines olive-
brown ; first beyond one-third, oblique outwards from below costa to the discal dot,
which is small and black, then oblique inwards and bluntly angled on the subraedian
fold, to the inner margin beyond one-tliird ; the grnund-culour is tinged with fulvons
on each side of this line : second line dark brown, edged finely with paler and then
broadly with fulvous, from inner margin just beyond middle to apex, with a short
fork to costa before it ; a faint waved grey submarginal line ; fringe ochreous.

Himliriiigs : with the second line only; both wings have the marginal area
beyond second line darker-tinted than the basal jiortion.

Underside glossy, with coarse brown speckles ; the lines less distinct. Head,
thorax, and abdomen all pale ochreons.

Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

One ? from Paraguay (Dr. Bohls).

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214. Gynopteryx immaculata sp. uov.

Forewinqs : j'ellow, speckled and striated with pale brownish ; the lines jiale
brown ; first at one-fourth, bent in the cell, then vertical ; outer line gentl}' curved
from costa before apex to two-thirds of inner margin ; hiudmargin from apex to
elbow slight!}' tinged with pale brownish : cell-spot dark brown.

Hiiuhrings : with the line central ; fringes yellowish.

Underside yellow, the outer line dark brown, on the forewings retracted to costa :
hindwings with an additional carved outer line, nearly touching central line on costa
and inner margin. Palpi, face, and antennae brown; thorax and abdomen yellow;
shoulders and base of costa of forewings deeper tinged.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One c? from San Domingo.

21.J. Gynopteryx subcarnea.
Lissostolodes subcarnea AVarr., Nov. Zool. II. p. 144.

The genus and species were described from a ? . The 3 is suiierficially very
diiferent from the ? , being pale ochreous, with the costa and cross lines deep olive.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

The apex of forewings is not produced, and the hindmargin scarcely elbowed,
while in the hindwings the anal tooth in middle of hindmargin is obsolete. The
S antennae are bipectinate, the pectinations short and precise, ciliated throughont,
and with a fine curved bristle from each apex.

The description of the neuration of forewings requires amendment : veins 7, 8,
0, are stalked from just before end of cell ; 10 and 11 ('oincident, anastomosing with
12, 10 afterwards anastomosing shortly with 8 and '.), forming a long narrow areole.

The structure being precisely the same as that of Gynopteryx Gnen., the genus
Lissostolodes must sink.

I have to thank Mr. Schaus for the opportunity of examining the cf, of which
sex he jiossesses a good series.

216. Herbita (?) transversata sp. nov.

Foretcinqs : dull reddish brown, slightly black-speckled ; a black cell-spot ;
a black oblique line from two-thirds of inner margin towards apex, before which it
is retracted to the costa ; fringe concolorous.

Hindwings : with the dark line central ; cell-spot small.

Underside paler and duller, with the dark speckling more distinct. Face, and
palpi dark brown ; thorax and abdomen pinkish grey.

Expanse of wings : 52 mm.

One c? from Costa Rica (Underwood).

Hesperomiza gen. imv.

Fore/rings : with costa gradually carved ; apex blnutly rounded : hindmargin
slightly curved and oblique ; anal angle blunt; inner margin faintly convex.

Hindwings : triangular ; both angles well developed, the apical more rounded
than the anal ; hindmargin nearly straight.

Antennae of 6 bij)ectinated nearly to apex, the pectinations short and fine ;
forehead slightly produced below ; palju stout, jwrrect, the joints obscured ; tongue
present ; hindtibiac^ somewhat thickened, with four spurs.

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JS'euration: forewings, cell half as long- as wiug ; discocellnlar slightly
inangnlatnd ; first mediau at tlircc-fourths, second close before the lower angle,
third from the angle of cell ; radials normal; 11 out of 12; 10 free from cell,
anastomosing strongly with 11 and again at a point with stalk of 8, 9 ; 7, 8, 9,
stalked from jnst before upper angle. Hindwings with the snbcostals from upper
angle; second median not so near the end of cell as in forewings.

Tyjie : Ihsperomiza jaapidea sj). nov.

2 IT. Hesperomiza jaspidea sp. nov.

Foren-iiiifii : ])ink. with faintly darker strigulations, and a few scattered dark
atoms ; costa minutely dotted with dark fuscous ; first line very obscure, denoted
by whitish dots on veins ; cell-spot minute, black ; outer line from costa close to
apex to inner margin at two-thirds, slightly darker, but marked sometimes In-
distinct wliite spots on veins, followed ou inner margin by a blackish spot : marginal
area more dusted with dark scales, and deepening in colour towards the fringe ; a
very faint deuticnlate line just before the margin, marked by pale vein-dots : fringe
deep pink.

Bindicittffs: with costal half white : the rest like forewings.

Underside paler pink, thickly irrorated with black towards base, and at ape.x,
which is greyer ; the lines brown and thicker ; that in the forewings not reaching
the inner margin, which is broadly white ; cell-spots black, distinct. Taljii black-
brown ; face and vertex red-browu : thorax pink ; abdomen ochreous, tinged with
pink.

Expanse of wings : 3',) mm.

Two cJ c? from Sao Paulo.

Somewhat resenibliug Ilimt'ia nexfor Drnce.

Leucomicra gen. nov.

Forewhigs : with costa slightly curved ; apex blunt, rectaugular ; hiudmargin
toothed at vein 4, vertical or faintly incurved above, oblique and slightly sinuous
below.

Himhoings : kite-shaped, with a tooth in middle of hindmargin.

Antennae of 6 ciliated ; palpi porrect, thick, terminal joint hardly visible ;
tongue and frenulum present ; hindtibiae with four spurs.

Neuration : forewings, cell half the length of wing, very broad ; discocellnlar
vertical, concave ; first median at threc-fourtbs, second close before end of cell ;
radials normal ; veins T, S, f>, stalked ; 10 and II coincident, anastomosing with 12,
10 afterwards anastomosing at a point with 8, 9. Hindwings with 7 just before
angle of cell.

Type : Leucomicra leucospilaria AVlk. (Erosia).

218. Magida distincta sp. nov.
ForeiriiKj.'i: deep orange-fulvous, dusted and striated with imrjile; the lines dull
[lurple; first at one-third, thick, oblicjue outwards to middle of cell, then vertical,
and again obliciuc inwards to inner margin beyond one-third ; outer line at three-
fourths, thick, bent below costa and again below middle ; submarginal line from
apex to anal angle coalescing with outer line and forming a wide fascia ; the
marginal spa^e, especially towards costa, densely striated ; marginal line deep red ;
fringe concolorons.

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IliiuhciiKjs : with mediau anil submargiual thick parallel lines.
Underside duller, the space between the twd outer lines faintly Instrous. Head,
thorax, and abdomen concolorons with winss.
Expanse of wings : 20 mm.
One S from Iqnitos, 1893 (Maxwell Stnart).
Akin to M. aurantitn-a Bntler from th(! Amazons.

210. Microgouia affiuis sp. no v.

Forewings : lilac-grey, covered with rufons fawn-coloured strigae, and with a
slight olive tinge throughout ; the rufous strigae thicker and partially confluent in
the basal and marginal areas ; the lines purplish grey ; first from one-third of costa
to one-third of inner margin, bluntly bent outwards in cell and on snbmedian fold,
jireceded by a fine lilac-grey line: second line from four-fifths of costa, acutely angled
on vein T close to hindmargiu, then straight and oblique to middle of inner margin,
I'ollowed by a fine lilac-gre}- line ; submarginal line indicated by grey dark-scaled
dashes on veins ; cell-spot blackish, minute, just beyond first line; fringe rufous,
with pale grey line at base.

Hindwings : the same, with a single straight median line.

Underside olive-fuscous within the outer line, lilac-grey beyond, shading into
olive-fuscous again towards hindmargin ; outer line in forewings corresponding to
that on upperside ; in hindwings at three-fourths, curved and dentate; followed by
a waved subterminal line ; thorax and alnlomen lilac-grey ; head and shoulders
rufous-tinged.

Expanse of wings : .J4 mm.

One 6 from S. America.

Wings short and broad ; costa of forewings strongly arched ; apex blunt,
hardly produced ; hindmargin slightly sinuous ; anal angle well marked.

220. Microgonia apidauia ab. bicolor nov.

Forewings : with the basal and marginal areas deep brown-black ; the area
between the two transverse lines olive-ochreous, finely dusted with grey; tlie median
shade hardly darker beyond the ccU-sjiot.

Flindwings : wholly brown-black, with the line and cell-spot deeper.

Underside like the type, but a little darker ; the apex, as usual in the fore-
wings, white. Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous ; the face and vertex paler.

One S from Costa Kica (Underwood).

Agrees exactly in size, shape of wings, and markings with the type-form.

221. Microgonia chalybeata sp. nov.

Foreuings : pale glossy lilac-grey ; costa and marginal area darker, olive-
tinged ; the costal edge ochreous ; first line obscure, dull olive, at one-third, bluntly
bent outwards in cell and on subraedian fold ; outer line from five-sixths of costa,
very acutely angled outwards close to hindmargiu, then oblique to inner margin just
beyond middle, followed by a lustrous pearly grey line, marked with white vein-
points; a pale blotch on inner margin beyond it, of variable intensity, largest in the ? ;
fringe olive ; cell-spot black ; the first line is slightly marked with whitish on costa
and mediau vein.

lliii'lwings : with the line median; glossy grey towards base, olive-fnscous in

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marginal half; siilimargiiial line indicated hy fine white dashes on veins, which are
also obscurely visible iu forewings.

Underside greyish olive, deep olive in forewings as far as outer line, which is
broadly whitish ; the apex white ; hiudwiiigs jialer, the outer line strongly dentate,
the teeth corresponding to the submargiual white points of the upperside. Tliorax
and abdomen grey ; head and collar ochreous-tinged.

Expanse of wings : 52 mm.

One d from Sao Paulo.

Shaped like M. mexicaria Gaen.

222. Microgonia lilacina sp. nov.

Forewinqs : lilac-grey, sparsely irrorated with black scales, the markings fawn-
colour; a diffuse shade at one-third, nearly vcrti("il, curved outwards in cell and on
snbmedian fold ; a similar median shade, bent beyond cell ; outer line double,
containing white dashes on the veins, from two-thirds of costa, angled on vein 0,
then oblique to inner margin at two-thirds, with a dentate shade from it at vein .">
to inner margin before^ anal angle ; on the costa beyond the outer line is an oval
rufous brown-edged blotch ; cell-spot small, black, consisting of erect scales; fringe
concolorous.

Hindwinqs : with the double line median ; a dentate nearly complete sub-
marginal shade, and the margin itself reddish.

Underside paler, with a broad marginal fawn-coloured fascia; apex of forewings
glossy whitish ; cell-spots black, distinct. Face and vertex dark grey, finely
margined with a whitish line : jialpi dark fawn ; thorax and abdomen very pale
fawn-colour.

Expanse of wings : 46 mm.

A pair from British Guiana.

Nearest M. nedusia Druce, but the wings broader ; the apes of forewing more
acute, but not so much produced ; outer line further from hindmargiu ; both wings
without any olive sufi'usion.

The antennae of the S are clothed with fascicles of cilia.

223. Microgonia olivacea al). straminea nov.

Forewings : straw-coloured, slightly dusted witli rufous ; basal area more or
less filled in with brown, the first line thick ; outer line deep red-brown ; marsrinal
area dull wood-brown, leaving an oblique row of triangular nr Innate blotches of
straw-colour, of which the lowest is the largest, followed by white daslies on the
veins ; the angle of the line also marked with ferruginous brown.

Hindtvings : with basal half more clouded with brown striae ; the central line
red-brown, curved below costa ; the apical area and some central patches less
thickly suffused with brown ; the black blotch narrowed.

Underside of forewings ochraceous, speckled with brown ; the outer line
followed by a thick red-brown shade, dentate externally ; apical third of hind-
margin pinkish grey or whitish ; hindwiugs with a dentate grey band through the
brown marginal area.

One ? from Jamaica, cxpandinj; 7U mm.

A very striking aberration of this variable species.

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224. Mimogonodes (?) squamata sp. nov.

Forewinqs : pale wood-browu, densely dusted with coarse darker brown atoms ;
the veins pale yellowish ; the two transverse lines vertical, slightly siuuoas, dark
brown, the first edged internally, the second externally with paler, at one-third and
two-thirds respectively ; cell-spot indistinct ; fringe dark grey, neatly chequered
with white opposite the veins.

Hindwings : the same, without first line.

Underside much paler, without markings, e.Kcept traces of onter line on fore-
wings. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous ; abdomen paler on sides and
beneath.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

One ? from Reyes, Bolivia, July 1895 (Arthur Maxwell Stuart).

Neodora gen. nov.

? . Forewings : with costa straight, slightly shouldered at base and convex
before apex ; apex rectangular ; hindmargiu strongly elbowed at vein 4, concave
above, oblique below ; anal angle well marked.

Hindii'ings : with ape.x somewhat tnuicate : hiiidmargin rounded, subcrenulate;
anal angle square.

Palpi with the third joint as long as second, decumbent, blunt, and smoothly
scaled ; antennae of ? simple ; forehead slightly tufted.

Neuration : as in Sabulodes, but the discocellular more oblique ; veins 10 and
11 stalked; 7, 8, 0, stalked.

Type : Neodora costinotuta sp. nov.

'Z2b. Neodora costinotata sp. nov,

Fort'icings : white, with olive-fnscous strigae; the veins in places finely marked
with black ; costa and base ochreous-tiuged ; a black blotch at base of costa : a
large velvety black cell-spot, connected obliquely with a black costal blotch before
it, and followed by a similar one, beneath which veins 4, o, and G are blotched with
black ; two black subapical costal blotches, the first outcurved and bent below, the
second giving rise to a blotched and interrupted dark submarginal line ; a fuscous
shade, formed by the thickening of the striae at middle of hinduuirgiu ; marginal
line dark brown ; fringe white, with dark marks at the ends of the veins ; inner
margin and submedian vein with some irregular dark spots in the middle, repre-
senting the ends of the first and median lines, of which the two median costal
blotches mark the beginning,

lliitdwiiigs : white, faintly speckled with darker, with a dark cell-dot and some
fnscons marks at anal angle, denoting the beginning of two submarginal lines.

Underside whitish, the outer line marked by dark vein-spots in both wings,
with a fuscous blotch at its middle in the forewings. Palpi and face whitish,
tinged with fuscous; thorax white and smoky grey ; abdomen white, tinged with

grey.

Expanse of wings : 48 mm.
One ? from Bogota, Colombia.
A species standing quite by itself.

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220. Nepheloleuca acuta sp. imv.

Foreu-ings : deep }-cllow, with a few rather coarse and diftuse brownish
mottlings, and towards hindmargin some fine striae; costa finely white, with fuscous
•lots; first Hue indistinct, curved, marked by a brownisli patch on costa and iuner
margiu; cell-spot minute, placed in a brownish patch on the discocellular; outer line
dnll red-brown, from costa at two-thirds, oblique outwards nud bluutl_v auijled on
vein 6, then sinuous inwards to iuuer margin at three-fifths, marked by brown
white-tipj)ed dashes on veins and followed by a reddisli flush; snbmargiual line
illHlefiaed, touching the angle of outer liue and enclosing a rufous whit('-m;irked
triangular patch on costa, marked below by some rufous clouds, and running to anal
angle; fringe yellow.

Ilimlicings : with the outer line strongly sinuate and dentate, the teeth marked
with long white dashes, followed by a dnll rufous baud, which leaves only a yellow
edge from apex to tail; the tail acute, witl\ a red-brown blotch at base; fringe yellow,
with a dark line at base from tail to anal angle.

Underside deep yellow, with brown mottliugs and a subniargiual red-brown
diffusely edged fascia; cell-spot of forewings large, brown. Palpi greyish; face and
vertex wliitish; thorax and abdomen yellow.

Expanse of wings : 42 mm.

One ? from Cuba, from the Felder Collection.

Distinguished by the smaller size and very acute tail of hindwings from
S. politia Cram.

227. Paracomistis subtractata sp. nov.

Forrtcinqs: ochreous, much speckled and suffused with fiiwn-colour: tlio costa
brownish; first liue curved, at one-third, second from costa at five-sixths, diffusely
fuscous and oblique inwards to vein 5, rather strongly toothed outwards on vein 4,
thence inwardly curved to two-thirds of inner margin, marked by black vein-dots;
cell-spot black; friuge concolorous, with a row of small lilack spots at base at ends
of veins.

Hindwings: with the cell-spot large, black, jilaced iu a pale round space: outer
liue curved, with an indentation corresponding to that in forewiugs.

Underside ])aler, unspcckled except towards hindmargin, with the cell-spots,
the angled outer lines, and marginal spots dark. Face and palpi dark brown;
vertex and basal joint of antennae whitish; thorax and al)domen like wings.

Expanse of wings ; 24 mm.

One 6 from the interior of Surinam, Angust 1802 (C. W. Ellacombe).

Near P. lignicolor Warr., l)ut decidedly smaller and less marked.

228. Paragonia maculata sp. nov.

Forewings: fawn-colour, tinged and striated with olive; the lines indistinctly
darker; first beyond one-third, sliglitly waved; the second at two-thirds, sinuous
inwards in middle, and followed above inner margin by an obscure ochraceous jiatcb
edged with darker; fringe concolorous.

Hindwings : with two dark and more distinct but diffuse postmedian lines.

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Underside paler, with tlio margins deeper tinted. Head, thorax, ami iiliddiueii
like wings.

Expanse of wings : U(.) mm.

Both sexes from Costa Hica ( Under woodj.

Souie specimens are darker fawn-colonr than others.

229. Pergama albivena sp. ikjv.

Forewinyg : with basal two-thirds chestnut-brown, the first line, formed of the
three usual curves, very indistinct, and marked chiefl\- li\- the difference in colour,
the basal one-third being sligiitl)' paler, especially towards costa, and showing traces
of transverse striation; edge of the dark two-thirds oblique, nearly straight, and
marked by a fine pale line; marginal one-third pinkish grey, clouded with brown-red
along margin; some blackish dusting at anal angle; three blackish spots, very
obscure, below apex; veins of the marginal one-third pale; fringe reddish brown.

Hiiidwings : dull reddish grey brown; basal two-thirds darker, edged by a
curved whitish line; marginal one-third more pinkish, with dense grey or fuscous
striae; the veins paler; fringe reddish; one black subapical spot.

Underside of forewings pinkish ochreous above the median as far as the obli(juc
line, which is white, below the median satiny whitish ; apical area chestnut, inter-
rupted below middle by the satiny tint. Hindwiiigs greyish pinjc, dusted with
fu.scous; inner margin paler; the transverse line whitish. Head, thorax, and
abdomen all greyish pink; a slight whitish bar across top of face between the
antennae.

Expanse of wings: 4u mm.

One i from S. America, without further locality.

Forewings with tme blunt tooth at end of vein 6, the margin above slightly,
below shortly and more deeply concave, the lower portion bowed. Hiudwings
without any trace of teeth. Antennae subdentate beneath, with very short thick
fascicles of cilia.

23ii. Pergama lignata sp. nov.

Forctcinys: ochraceous brown, tinged with (dive, with line lilackish striae : the
? more ochraceous than the S; first line dark brown, at oue-third, curved outwards,
as usual, in the cell and again below median, to inner margin at two-fifths ; outer line
from costa at three-fourths to inner margin at two-thirds, with a deep sinus inwards
between the cell and the submediau fold, where it is ])rominently rounded outwards,
preceded by a less distinct line and a deep brown or olive-brown shade, which colour
overspreads more or less the whole of the median area except the costal margin;
cell-spot white, semihyaline ; marginal area with obliipte brown or olive-brownish
clouds, most distinct in the ? , which also has an elongated blotch of dark grey and
ochreous scales, edged by ;i black line beyond the upj)er part of the outer line ;
one black submarginal spot below apex : fringe coucolorous.

Hindwhujs: paler; a dark brown slightly irregular line at two-thirds, edged by
a darker shade within and a paler line externally; an indistinct dark round cell-
spot ; a black submarginal spot below each of the three median uervnles, and one
between the subcostals.

Underside ochraceous, with black strigae; the inner area of forewings jaler;

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cell-spot of forcwiugs outlined with black, of liiadwings wholly black and louud ; a
curved black line at two-thirds on forewings and three-fonrths on hindwings; a brown
cloud along hiiidiuargiu of forewings above vein 3. Head, thorax, and abdomen
concolorons with wings.

Expanse of wings : c?, 38 mm. ; ? , 42 mm.

A ])air from Palma Sola, Venezuela, and a ? from Fort St. George, Trinidad.

Hindraargin of forewings in ? with a prominent depressed tooth at apex and
veins fj and 3, with a slighter one at vein 4 ; of hindwings with slight teeth at all
the veins, most prominent at 3, 6, and 7. In the d all the teeth are reduced and
blunt.

In certain cases the brighter ochraceous tint is altogether absent, and the
wings take a darker more rnfous brown colonr ; bnt the size and markings remain
precisely the same. This form ma}" be convenicntl}' named ab. obscurior.

A (J from Popayan, Colombia (Lehmann), and a ? from between Manaos and
R. Jutahi, on the Amazons (Stuart), both belong to it. The antennae of the S are
subdentate, with quite short fascicles of cilia.

231. Perg'ama plagodiata sp. nov.

Foreicings : pale straw-colour, traversed by numerous fine ochraceous strigae,
which are more dense towards hindmargin; basal patch deeper ochraceous, becoming
rich brown on inner margin ; this patch is much smaller than in P. iiohjgonaria
H.S., diffusely edged externally and extending much farther along inner margin
than on costa ; two pale brown cell-spots, and one or two indistinct dark dots before
the upper tooth ; fringe concolorous.

Hindwings : straw-colour, with the outer third dilFnsely ochraceous, passing
into pale brown towards anal angle ; fringe concolorous, brownish towards anal
angle.

Underside yellow-tinged: forewings with outer third slightly ochraceous and
with a deeper streak from costa at three-fourths ; hindwings with outer third
brownish ochraceous. Head and thorax brown and rufous ; abdomen i)aler,
becoming ochreous on anal segments.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

One S from Cucuta, Venezuela.

In shape of wings, etc., like F. pohjyonariu; but the colouring and markings
remind one strongly of the species of Plagodis Hiib.

232. Pergama uniformis sj). nov.

Forewings: grey, with an olive tinge, and finely dusted with dark atoms; the
central area darker, brownish olive; first line before one-third of costa, olive-
brownish, running obliquely outwards and rounded in cell, then oblique inwards and
curved below median to inner margin at i|uite one-third; outer line from costa at
three-fourths to inner margin at two-thirds, oblique, slightly bulging in cell and
submedian interspace, preceded by a broad olive-brown shade, darker than the rest
of the median area, which towards the costa is of the same grey tint as the basal
and marginal areas; cell-spot small, white, semihyaline, on the upper half of the
discocellnlar ; some oblique olive streaks across the marginal area ; two or three
submarginal black dots below apex ; fringe greyish olive.

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HiiHliciiif/.i : gioy, slightly ocLreous-tinged, with a dark grey line at two-
thirds, most marked, like the atriac with which the wiug is v.anVd, towards inner
margin ; two black snbmargiual spots between veins 2 and 4.

Underside olive-grey, with black freckles ; cell-spot of forewings edged out-
wardly with black, the black extending to the base of discocellular, of hindwings
round and black ; outer line at two-thirds, jiale, on forewings edged inwardly with
olive and straight, on hindwings traversing an olive shade and crenulate. Head,
thorax, and abdomen olive-grey.

Expanse of wings : 39 mm.

Two (? 6 from 8ao Paulo and Castro, Parana.

A dull-looking insect. The forewings have the apex minutely produced, and
a very slight prominence at veins 5 and 3; the hindwings with an equally slight
projection at vein 3 only. The ^ antennae with short oblique fascicles of cilia.

233. Perusia elegans sp. uov.

Forewinys: pale golden yellow; the costal area ferruginous orange, broad at base:
the costal edge grey, with brown specks; basal area faintly tinged with orange; the
lines marked by dark ferruginous points on the veins : first from one-fifth of costa
to near middle of inner margin ; second from inner margin just beyond first line,
straight to apex, the spot on vein 6 black and forming the apex of a ferruginous
subapical costal triangle ; fringe yellow : cell-spot indistinct.

Hindwim/s : white, with pale yellow fringe.

Underside of forewings pale yellow, with all the markings brown ; the cell dusted
with brown; hindwings with costal one-third yellowish, sprinkled with darker; cell-
spot brown; a submarginal line marked only by three brown spots on the three upper
veins. Face pale yellowish ochreous: vertex and thorax bright orange: abdomen
like hindwings.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

One (? from Illimaui, Bolivia (Garlepp).

234. Penisia pulverosa sp. nov.

Foreivings : very pale straw-colour, thickly dusted with olive-grey atoms: the
costa yellower, mth finer atoms; the lines orange, marked by dark brown dots
on the veins, and edged, the first internally, the second externally, by a pale line
without atoms; the first curved and beut on the median, from one-fourth of costa to
one-third of inner margin ; the second from five-sixths of costa to just before anal
angle, slightly bent at vein (j ; cell-spot grey ; fringe pale yellowish.

Hindwiiiys : with the fringe whitish.

Underside with the costal half of forewings dusted with fuscous, the costal
streak darker; the lines fuscous; cell-spot extending the whole length of the dis-
cocellular ; an additional short submarginal line from costa ; hindwings very pale
yellowish, the costa dusted with fuscous ; cell-spot aud a snbmargiual curved row
<if vein-dots fuscous. Head, thorax, aud abdomen all jnile straw-colour.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One (? from Hliraani, Bolivia (Garlepp).

Distinguished from the more tyjiical species of the genus by the dili'ereut
position of the outer line.

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236. Perusia sticta >i>. uov.

Foreicings: very pale straw-colour, finely freckled with fuscous ; the lines
marked only by dark vein-dots, the outer row oblique and straight and close to
hindmargin ; fringe concolorons ; no distinct cell-spot.

Hindicings : pure white.

Underside white ; costa of forewiugs grey ; both wings with cell-spots and
outer row of dots. Head and thorax concolorons with forewings, abdomen witli
hindwings.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One 6 from Bogota, Colombia.

230. Phyllodonta ustaualia sji. miv.

Forewings : pale wood-brown, mnch dusted with blackish atoms ; the lines
dark brown, ill-defined ; first at one-third, uniformly curved and vertical, marked
by a costal streak, a spot on inner margin, and spots on the veins ; median line
oblique from costa and not reaching beyond cell, preceded by a small black cell-spot;
outer line from close before ape.K, bluntly angled below costa, then oblique to inner
margin just before anal angle, marked above by black dots on veins and in the lower
half becoming pale grey and undulating, finely edged with darker ; a small dark
cloud at apex, and a collection of black scales on hindmargin before the tooth;
fringe dark brown.

Ilindwinqs : paler, whitish towards costa, ochraceons towards inner margin :
traces of three dark brown curved lines on inner margin above anal angle ; first
short and curved upwards to end of cell ; second sinuous, edged with pale grey and
reaching nearly to costa ; third close to margin ; the space between the last two
filled up, as far as the tooth, with black-brown, followed by deep brown on the
margin ; fringe from apex to tooth white, with black dots at ends of veins, then
brown.

Underside pale ochreons, suffused with pale brown and coarsely speckled with
fuscous ; discal spots and two outer lines dark brown and strongly marked ; inner
margin of forewings whitish. Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings, dusted with
black; the thorax rather deeper coloured ; palpi darker ; abdomen beneath and legs
ochreons, spotted with black.

Expanse of wings : 39 mm.

One S from Sao Faulo.

Allied to P. sneUi'iii Druce from ('olombia, but not so large ; the hindwings
without the band of pale spots ; and besides, the hindmargin of both wings is simply
incised below the tooth, while in siielleni the incision is deeply circular.

237. Prochaerodes pilosa ^p. n<iv.

Forewings : rufous brown, witli faintly darker striations ; a deeper brown
diffuse shade at one-third indicating the first line; cell-spot small, black; outer line
dark brown, with a paler outer edge, oblique from inner margin to costa well
before apex, slightly bent outwards above and marked by white dashes on veins
6, 7, and 8 ; a diffuse brown shade vertical to anal angle; fringe brown.

Hindwings : similar.

Underside dull brown, without any reddish tinge, deeper towards hindmargin ;

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cell-spots black ; the oblique line faint and palo. Face aud palpi dark brown :
thorax aud abdomen concolorons with wings.

Expanse of wings : 58 mm.

One c? from Popayan, Colombia (Lehmann).

Distinguished by the very thick dense scaling, especially of the underside. The
costa of forewings is all but straight throughout, depressed only just before apex,
which is slightly produced ; hindmargin bluntly elbowed at vein 4, vertical and
slightly bulged above, oblique below. Tooth of hindwiiigs sliort, the margin straight
and oblique on each side ; antennae simple.

Distinguished from P. transtiwtd Wlk. from Jamaica by the quite simjilc
antennae ; in tmnstincta they are strongly ciliated.

238. Sabulodes (?) bilineata sp. nov.

Forewingx : mouse-colour, with an oclireous tinge ; the costa slightly darker ;
the two lines fuscous; first at one-third, slightly curved ; second straight, from
two-thirds of inner margin, retracted to costa at five-sixths ; fringe concolorous :
cell-spot indistinctly darker.

Hindwings: with the outer line only, straight, at two-thirds.

Underside paler, much freckled with fuscous, with traces of the outer line,
distinct only towards costa of forewings. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons.

Expanse of wings : 39 mm.

One (? from Bogota, Colombia.

Forewings with apex minutely produced ; hindmargin visibly angled at vein 4.
Hindwings indistinctly crenulate, with a slightly larger tooth at vein 4.

~3'.». Sicya inquinata sp. nov.

Foreicings: dull yellow, varied with olive dark-centred partially coalescent
spots ; series of similar but larger spots constitute the lines ; the first near base,
consisting of three spots more or less confluent ; the second from costa just before
apex, below which it is somewhat bent, to inner margin at two-thirds, the spot
on costa double ; marginal area below the middle paler, with a lilac-grey suflusion ;
fringe yellow^ above, as far as the elbow, rufous below; a black cell-spot, and a
black spot near base below the median.

Hiiic/wings: paler, varied with black only towards anal angle, where the ground-
colour becomes somewhat deeper; a dark curved central line from middle of inner
margin to midwing ; cell-spot black ; fringe yellow.

Underside paler, the markings duller ; a white spot on costa between the double
apical spots. Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow, the abdomen tinged with grey
above.

Expanse of wings : 33 mm.

One ? from Cucuta, Venezuela.

If Mr. Schaus is right in considering an insect in his collection to be the
same as this, it must be a very variable species, and possibly identical with Sic^a
flognini Th. Mg.

240. Simopteryx subflavata sp. nov.

Forewings : pale glaucous ochreons, mixed with olive-greeu ; the costa rufons
olive ; the two lines fine, ferruginous, the first preceded and the second followed by

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a line of pinkish white scales ; the first from costa at one-lVmrth, lihmtly angled in
cell, then ol)lir|ne inwards, bent on siibmedian fold, tbence vertical to inner margin:
second line from costa at three-fonrtbs, acutely angled on vein T, ol)lii|ne inwanls
and approaching first line below vein :^, then curved ontwardR and slightly denticulate
to two-thirds of inner margin ; both lines thickened at costa ; an oblique brown
streak from costa midway lietween them, above the black cell-spot : si)ace included
pinkish ochreons ; basal and marginal areas olive-green, which is intensified along
the margin itself and preceded by a suffusion of pale ochreons ; a short obliqne white
streak from costa before a]iex ; fringe dee]) olive, with white daslies at base between
the veins, except beyond cell.

UiiiihniKjs : with a single wavy postmedian line, ferrnginous, edged witli wliite;
cell-spot Idack ; fringe bright ferrnginons.

T'nderside of forewings olive-grey along costal half, becoming gamljoge-yellow
along hindmargin and the submcdian fold ; a triangular subapical costal spot
and the cell-spot white ; an olive pale-edged cnrved line from the white triangle
to inner margin, not corresponding to the line on npperside. Hindwings wholly
gamboge-yellow, with a darker curved submarginal line, partially pale-edged :
anal angle tinged with whitish, inner angle with rufous. Face and palpi olive-
brown ; front of thorax rufous grey ; vertex hoary ; thorax and abdomen like
wings.

Expanse of wings : ."lO mm.

One i from Holivia. between R. 8ongo and H. Snapi, March to June 18911
(Garlepp).

'l\\. Spilocraspeda (?) canisquama sp. nov.

Forcirituja : dull liver-colour, darker along costa and hindmargin : the lines
also darker brown, thick : the first from one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner
margin, somewhat outcnrved in cell, edged inwardly with grey scales ; second line
from three-fonrths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, ontwardly edged by a pale
grey line, bent outwards from vein 2 to 5 ; submarginal line very indistinct, but
with a patch of hoary scales between veins :! and 4 : eell-spot black, ringed with
grey; fringe concolorons.

Hiiirlwings : similar, the liindmargin deeply crenulate ; a (hill yellow sjiot on
inner margin beyond tlie outer line.

Underside dull cinereous, with a broad marginal liver-coloured shade, the apex
of forewings pale. Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

One ? from Popayan, Colombia (Lehmann).

"242. Spilocraspeda circumscripta sp. nov.

Foreivings : greyish__brown, the central area rufous-tinged, speckled through-
out with blackish scales ; the inner and outer lines pale ochreons, the inner followed
and the outer preceded by small dark vein-dots ; the first from one-fourth of costa,
angled iu the cell, then sinuous, to beyond one-third of inner margin ; second from
five-sixths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, slightly bent ontwards between
veins 2 and 5 ; submarginal line dark, waved, marked by distinct black spots on
veins, those on veins 2 and :i coalescent and loUowed liy a third spot; cell-.spot
minute : fringe broad, with distinct black spots at base beyond veins.

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Hindwiiigs : paler, without first Hue, the second curved aud obscure ; the sub-
marginal forming a fuscous clond.

Underside paler, much speckled with coarse black atoms ; the outer line ou
both wings marked by black spots; the marginal fringe-spots large. Head, thorax,
and abdomen concolorous with hiudwings.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

One cJ from Bogota, Colombia.

Another J from Bogota, tliough at first sight different in api)earance, I shall
refer to S. circumscripta as ab. differens.

The two lines are shaped exactly as in the type-form, but instead of being pale
are brown, with distinct black dots at the veins; the outer line on both wings is
considerably nearer the hindmargin, with the consequence that on the forewings the
central area is much broader ; the submargiual line is not indicated at all except by
a dark cloud above anal angle, and the cell-spots, which in the type are excessively
minute, are here distinct. In all other respects, alike in size and markings, the
aberration agrees with the type.

243. Spilocraspeda innotata sp. nov.

Forewings: pale sand-colour, thickly dusted with darker; first line at one-
third, very indistinct ; second at five-sixths, also indistinct, appearing as a grey
shade, running jjarallel to hindmargin and slightly incurved below the middle; the
line itself is marked by dark white-tipped vein-dots; fringe paler; cell-spot obscure.

Ilindicings : without first line.

Underside paler, the outer line hardly marked. Head, thorax, and abdomen
all concolorous.

Expanse of wiugs : 34 mm.

One ? from Cucuta, Venezuela.

Nearest to 8. curcilinea Warr., which has an outward sinus in tlie middle of the
outer line of each wing.

244. Spilocraspeda (?) nigripunctata sp. nov.

Forrwint/s : leather-colour, thickly and coarsely irrorated witli black scales ;
the lines blackish, marked by black spots on veins, accomjianied by blackish scales,
and partially united ; the first ill-defined, near base, bent in cell ; second at five-
sixths, marked by a sinuous series of rather large black vein-spots, running in the
main jjarallel to hindmargin ; submargiual line obscure, marked by a black spot
near costa and two or three above anal angle ; fringe concolorous, with black dots
at the vein-ends ; cell-dot small.

Ilindwings: with the cell-spot larger ; the outer line, as on forewings, more
thickened with black scales at inner margin.

Underside pale ochreous ; both wings with a broad blackish marginal fascia.
Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; the abdomen with a black blotch on first
segment, and a few black scales on the back of each of the rest.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

One ? from ten miles above Mapiri, Bolivia, 2000 feet, 1895 (Stnart).

Syrrhizodes gen. nov.
Forewings: with costa faintly curved ; apex blunt, rectangular; hindmargin
curved, hardly oblique.

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JliiHlirings ; \yith well-rouiidyil hindmargiu.

Paliii poiTcct, terminal joint very miiinte, lUHUimbput : forehead witli a sliort
tuft of liair below ; autennue of c? shortly pectinated to three-fourths ; tongue and
freanlnm present ; no fovea.

Neuratlon : fore^rings, cell half as long as wing ; discoceljular vertical ; first
median at two-thirds, second at seven-eighths; radials normal; all five snbcostals
stalked from three-fourths, the first anastomosing at a iioint with the costal. Hind-
wings, costal approximated to subcostal for about hall' of cell: vein T before end of
cell : medians as in forewings.

Tyjie : Si/frhizo(ks deludens sp. nov.

■^4.). Syrrhizodes deludens sp. nov.

Foicinngii : deep brown-red, with rather thick black transverse striae; these
are densest in the median third and towards anal angle; costa marked with black
striae; the two lines paler red, fine, and slightly curved, at one-third and twn-thirds:
cell-spot black, large; fringe concolorous.

HindwiHgs : with the black striae equally abundant throughout; no first line:
the cell-spot black.

Underside of forewings deep rosy, with scattered black specks; of hindwings
ochreous, tinged with red and much striated; the line dark, followed by a paler
ochreous yellow fascia before the dark marginal area. Head and thorax deep red:
abdomen cinereous, mixed with red.

Expanse of wings: 24 mm.

One S from the Ama/.ous.

The species bears a remarkable resemblance to Dirliromatopodia dgillata
Wlk.

■'lAt\. Tetracis edmondsi Butler ab. impunctata nov.

nilVers from the tj'pc-form in having the fringes entirely pale or yellowish
ochreous: in I'dmond.ii they are marked with distinct black spots at the ends of all
the veins in the hindwings and partially in the forewings.

Four iS from Chili (\V. B. Calvert).

■-'4:. Tetracis rivulata sp. ww.

I'orewiiigx : pale ochreous, in the marginal third thickly striated and flushed
with deeper ochreous : the basal portion sjirinkled thinly with brown scales; the
lines faint, slender, pale brown; first at one-fourth, right-angled below costa, the
two arms straight; second finely edged outwardly with paler, and again with
darker, and with some brown scales on either side near inner margin, from beyond
middle of inner margin sinuous towards apex, before which it is bluntly recurved to
costa, and followed there by a triangular ochraceons shade; a small black cell-spot;
fringe concolorous.

Hindwings : the same, without first line; second line curved and wavy.

Underside yellower, especially in the forewings, which are slightly dusted with
darker towards costa: cell-spots distinct, black; outer line fulvous brown; a faint

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submarginal line t'roin the costal triangle, which is edged with wliitish. Head
and thorax pale ochreous, the collar brownish (abdomen wanting).

Expanse of wings: 45 mm.

One ? from Costa Rica (Underwood).

248. Xylolocha linearis sp. no\-.

Forcivings : fawn-colonr, with a rnfons tinge, densely covered with very minnte
brown speckles; the lines and veins brown: first line straight and vertical, from
one-third of costa to one-third of inner margin ; second line from inner margin at
two-thirds obliqne and straight towards apex, before whicli it is acntely retracted
straight to costa lieyond two-thirds; a straight snbmarginal line from jnst before
anal angle to the angle of second line; an indistinct brown cell-spot; fringe brown:
the second line is edged by a line of the pale gronnd-colonr, nnspeckled.

Ilindwimjs : with two brown lines, one central, straight, and jrale-cdged, the
other snbmarginal, faintly cnrved; costal area paler.

Underside like npper, bat entirely without lines or cell-spots, darker towards
hindmargin. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons.

Expanse of wings : 5'3 mm.

Two S 6 from Bolivia, betw'een R. Songo and R. Snapi, March to Jnne iStHi
(Garlepp).

ON SOME NEW BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS.

By the HON. WALTKIJ RoTHSCIITLD.

NYMPH.'VLIDAK.

I. Charaxes blanda sp. nov.

rj. I'ppprsidc: black, witii a strong greenish l)hie gloss, forewing more greenish
towards base and inner margin.

Forewing shaped as in (/udcriana Dew., bnt onter margin strongly dentate.
A small dot at apex of cell, a row of four slightly larger spots beyond cell
lietween veins 2 to 7 (no sjwt between veins 4 and 5), a series of nine sjiots
lietween costal and inner margins in the onter half of the disc, the first six spots
small (diameter i to % mm.), the last three measuring 1^, 2|, 3i mm. respectively;
the first 0 mm. from the tip of the wing, the third 5 mm. from the outer margin;
the others a little more discal and arranged in a nearly straight line. All the
markings of the forewing i)ale bine, the five iijipcr diifs of the outer series with a
wliite centre.

Hindwing with a large ]iale lilne jiatch occupying the greater ]mrt of the outer
portion of the disc ; the patch is about 9 mm. wifle liehind, S mm. in tlie middle,
while its two sections between veins 5 and 7 measure 0 and :U nun. res])ec-
tively; before vein 7 there are two indistinct bine spots, one in front of the patch,
the other more basal ; behind the latter spot stand a few blue scales. In the
black marginal area, which is of nearly equal width between anal angle and vein 5
(namely 3J mm. between the veins), there is a series of six thin submarginal spots of
a pa'e bine colour, besides two more rounded purplish blue dots ut anal angle, and

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live margiual lunnlos between anal angle and vt'iu 6, the posterior one ochraceous,
the others pale greenish bine, with a faint tint of yellow. Hindwing shaped as in
gicderiana, but shorter, and its strongly dentate outer margin mure rounded.

Underside: broccoli-brown. Forewing with three bars in the cell, the second of
which is interrupted; the space between outer bar and the bar upon the discocellulai-
veinletas far down as vein 2 almost silvery white: disc with tlie usual black bars:
two inner ones between veins 1 and 3, the upper of the two straight, just behind the
origin of vein 3; a series of six outer ones, the first two of them between veins r.
and T, standing 4 mm. from the apex of the cell, the next IJ mm. from the cell:
outside this scries of bars the grnuud-colour of the wing silvery white. Outer region
of the wing with a broad silvery band, inwardly l)ordered by spots, which correspond
to the outer series of spots of the upperside; the posterior spots are bluish and
basally joined to black Innules: the two bluish spots in the submedian interspace
are, moreover, joined dutwardly to two ratlier large black spots. The whitish
band extends to outer margin between vein 7 and costal margin, while between
veins 7 and 1 it is separated from the outer margin by a broccoli-brown marginal
border, which becomes narrower behind.

Hindwing has two well-marked silvery white bands, a subbasal one, bordered
outwardly by four lilack bars, which are Cdutinuous and form a nearly straight
line between costal margin and submedian fold, and inwardly by the praecostal vein
and a black bar in the cell. The second white band runs across the disc to
abdominal margin ; it is basally bordered by an almost continuous series of black
bars, the series being interrupted beyond vein 2. A black bar at the apex of the
cell. Outer half of wing marked as in etlirorU's and allies with a series of post-
discal black lunules, to which are joined outwardly olive and reddish brown
markings, the latter almost black beyond vein 2. A submarginal series of blue
dots, the anterior ones of which are obsolete, is followed by four maroon-red
marginal lunules between veins 4 and s, and by diffused yellowish olive buff
margmal spots between vein 4 and anal angle.

Expanse : forewing, length 31 mm., breadth 22 mm.

Hah. Mikindani, German East Africa, between January and May 18'.>7, 1 6

(Reimer).

Allied to Ch. th>ji<i Capr. from the Congo, liut easily distinguishable by the
silvery bauds of the underside.

2. Charaxes pyrrhus keianus subs]!. uov.

i ?. Differs from Ch. i»irrh>is jn^nter Butl. from New Guinea, to which form
oii)yrrhus it is closely allied, in the spot near the apex of the cell of the forewing
above being three or four times the size as in jzipiter and touching the discal spots
which are situated between veins 3 and 4, and in the median band of the hindwing
above being much narrower. On the underside the black discal bar between veins 3
and 4 stands much closer to the cell than in y/^^Z/cr, being continuous with the sliort
bar bevond the apex of the cell between veins 4 and 5.

Hab. Kei Toeal, January to March 1806 (Capt. H. C. "Webster), 3 J, 3 ? ;
Great Kei, April 189G (Webster), 1 6. Type: ? from Kei Toeal.

3. Charaxes pyrrhus seitzi subsp. nov.
i ? . Differs from Ch. pyrrhus galaxia Butl. from Timor in the white basal
area of the upperside of both wings being more restricted, in the two spots near the

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apex of the cell and the two midway betweeu cell and apex of wiiig being nearly ov
totally obliterated. On the underside the median white band of the liindwing is
half as wide again as in galaxia.

Hah. Tenimber Islands : Selarn (W. Doherty, March 1897), 1 J ; 1 J, 1 ? , from
Mr. Kuhlmann; Seira (W. Doherty, June and July 1892), 2 ? ?. T'ljic: ? from
8elarn.

I associate the name of Dr. Seitz, Director of the Zoological Garden at Frankfurt
a. M., with this very conspicuous insect, at the ref|nest nf Wx. L. Knhlmann, whn
sent me a pair of aeitzi.

4. Anaea miranda sp. nov.

i. Wings shaped as in the c? of yl. «/</v'ofo Bates (Biol. Centr. Amer., RhojK
t. 37. f. 1. 2). Outer margin of forewing posteriorly convex ; inner margin straight.
Hindwing with a short tooth.

Upperside : forewing black, with a greenish gloss towards base. A broad
oblique orange band just beyond apex of cell from costal margin to snbmedian fold,
4J mm. wide anteriorly, 12 mm. betweeu veins 2 and 3 : its outer edge convex,
inner edge down to base of vein 3 slightly concave, then convex.

Hindwing metallic black, greenish towards base ; a metallic turquoise-blue
patch extends from vein 5 towards anal angle, its outer edge convex, inner edge
sinuate between veins 4 and 5 and obliquely running towards anal angle beyond
vein 2, the portion of patch beyond this vein being triangular; the patch is 4i mm.
wide in front, 7 mm. at vein 3 ; black marginal area outside the bine patch 4 mm.
wide at vein 4, 2 mm. at vein 2.

Underside : forewing, outer two-thirds pale pinkish buff, shading into mummy-
brown towards outer margin, with some dark speckles and faint linear spots ; basal
third lilack, irrnrated with ])ale vinaceous chestnut and grey, creamy buff at inner
margin.

Hindwing, Inisal three-fourths like base of forewing ; this dark area, the
outer edge of which is almost parallel to tlie outer margin of the wing, includes a
pale vinaceous chestnut band running in an even curve from abdominal margin,
where it is 4 mm. wide, across apex of cell to vein 6, becoming much narrower in
front, ttostal margin near base with a pale spot. Marginal area of wing, which is
of nearly even width, dark vinaceous buff, yellowish olive at the rather ill-defined
edge of the dark basal area. A dark spot covered with grey scales at the base of
the short tooth between veins 3 and 4.

Expanse : forewing, length 32 mm., breadth 2(i mm.

Hab. Bogota, Colombia, 1 S.

The orange band of the forewing and the large blue patch of the hindwing are
characters by whieli tiiis conspicuous insect can readily be distingnislied from the
other species of Anaea.

COCYTIIDAE.

5. Cocytia dtirvillei aurantiaca subsp. nov.

c? ? . Both wings more yellow than in reitrhi. The basal patch is much larger

than in any other form, and orange, not reddish orange ; it extends to the costal and

inner margins, not being separated from them by a black border ; at the subcostal

nervure and at the inner margin of the wing the patch measures 7 ram. in width ;

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in the ? it is somewhat larger than in the cf. Upon the iliscorellnlar veinlet there
is a minute orange clot. The black band of the inner margin is divided by a vitreous
line. On the underside the orange patch of the forewing is wider than above,
reaching at the subcostal vein to the apex of the cell ; the patch of the hindwing
measures 11 mm. at the costal margin.

Black border of wings somewhat narrower than in veitr/ii Bntl.

Ilnb. Tenimber Islands : Seira (W. Doherty, June and Jnlv lS9-.>). 1 i: Selarn
(W. Doherty, March ISOfi), 3 (?<?, 1 ?. Type ': ? from Selarn',

GEOMETRirtAE.
<i. Milionia dulitana sp. nov.

?. Wings, njiperside black. Forewing crossed by a curved orpiment-orange
band, which extends from middle of costal to inner margin, reaching tlie latter close
to hinder angle ; the band is from o to 7 mm. wide in front, and 3 mm. wide behind.
A patch before middle of inner margin is about 4 mm. long and 2 mm. wide, and is
prolonged towards base of wing. Apical region of wing with a series of indistinct
grey spots between veins 3 and 8. Fringe with some whitish scales.

Hindwing, fringe more distinctly white. The greater part of the wing occupied
by a large orpuuent-orauge area which almost reaches base and extends basally
beyond rein 8 ; at the veins the area is dentate. The black border of the wing is
9 mm. wide at vein 8, while it is '> mm. wide at veins 4, 3, and 2, and 3 mm.
at vein l*".

Underside with a metallic bluish green gloss at the base ; band of forewing and
discal area of hindwing orange : forewing without snbapical grey spots.

Head, prothorax, and underside of thorax metallic bluish green ; alxlomen and
legs dirty olivc-browu, with a metallic bluish green gloss.

Expanse : forewing, length ;50 mm., breadth IT mm.
„ liindwing, „ 32 „ „ 18 „

Hab. Mount Dnlit, Sarawak, .T ? ? (Hose leg.).

'i. Miliouia assimilis sp. nov.

? . Resembles both M. (jlaji.ca from the Southern Moluccas and c)/nii>/ei-(i from
the Northern Moluccas. It has, like ajanifcrci , scarcely a trace of the metallic gloss
on the upperside of the wings usually present in glauca and allies. The baud of the
forewing is orpiment-orange ; it is more strongly curved than in either (ihinea or
cyanifera ; it is 6 mm. wide at the subcostal nervnre and 4 mm. at the hinder margin,
which it reaches close to the hinder angle. The black marginal area of the
forewing is .5i mm. broad at vein 4 and 3J. at vein 3.

Below, the base of the hindwing is streaked with metallic bluish green.

Expanse : forewing, length 27 mm., breadth 15 mm.

Ilab. New Hanover, Bismarck Archipelago, 1 ? (Capt. H. ( '. Webster,
February and March 1897).

8. Milionia rona sp. nov.
?. Resembles M. mediqfaaciata Rothsch. The white liand of the forewing
reaches neither costal nor hinder margin, and is widest in the middle, where it measures
6 mm. The hindwing has, instead of the wide band of mediqfasciata, a short and

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narrow reddish orijimeat-oraiige baud, which extends from two-thirds of abdomiual
margin to a little beyond vein 4, being only 2§ mm. broad in the middle and
tapering at both ends. Four last abdominal segments yellow, dorsally ringed with
black.

Expanse : forewing, length 40 mm., breadth 20 mm.
„ hindwing, „ 28 „ „ 22 „

Hab. Ron Island, Geelviuk Bay, Dutch New Guinea, 1 ? (W. Doherty,
July 1897).

i». Milionia dubiosa sp. nov.

3. Differs from M. laediofusciata Kothsch., Nov. ZooL. 1890. p. 326. u. IT, in the
band of the hindwing being yellow instead of red, and in the abdomen (except the
dorsal plate of the first segment and the apex) being also yellow instead of black.

Hab. Kapaur, Dutch S.W. New Guinea, 1 S (W. Doherty, January 1897).

I at first considered this insect to be the male of mediofasciata, of which I
'^^s^ss females only. But as in all the other species of Milionia. the sexes are more
or less similar to each other, it is not very likely that the male of mediofasciata
diifers so much in colour from the female as the above-described 6 does. Therefore
I think it best to draw attention to this mule by treating it as a distinct species.

The wings differ in shape from those of elegans Rothsch. and allies. The costal
margin of the forewing is not bent in beyond the middle as in those species, and the
outer margin of the hindwing is only faintly concave before aual angle.

Hi. Milionia websteri sp. nov.

J. Wings above black, with a strong blue gloss in side light. Forewing crossed
just before the middle by a saffron-yellow baud expanding between subcostal and
snbmedian nervures, slightly curved, 3 mm. wide at the median norvure, with the
edges almost entire ; two spots standing half-way between band and apex of wing,
the second spot the larger (diameter 3 mm.) and traversed by vein o, saffron-
yellow ; a third spot, near hinder angle, before vein 1, linear, at right angles to veins
1 and 2, also saffron-yellow.

Hindwing with a discal red band including a black spot at the apex of the cell :
the band reaches from near abdominal margin to vein 0, is widest in front (5 mm.)^
with the inner edge slightly indented, the outer edge entire, somewhat incurved
anteriorly.

Underside black, bluish green at base. Markings as above, but those of the
forewing paler yellow, and the band of the hindwing saffron-yellow, with a reddish
onter edge.

Shape of wings as in M. eleqaits Rothsch., Nov. Z(.kil. 1.>95. t. T. t. 1.

Head, thorax, base of abdomen, and legs greenish lilue. Abdomen black,
segments 4, 5, and 0 with a transverse lateral yellow band.

?. Wings above and below black, with scarcely a trace of metallic gloss.
Median band of forewing longer than in 3, and somewhat broader. Five subapical
spots, which are merged together to form a deeply indented band expanding between
veins 7 and 3, not reaching the latter. The sjiot in hinder angle of wing broader
and longer than in i.

Baud of hindwing twice the size as in cf, nearly reaching vein 8, anteriorly
tinged with yellow ; its outer edge almost parallel to onter margin of wing : black

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border uf wing only o niiu. wide at vein 7, and '.'j mm. at vein 1''. Hlaik disra|
sj)ot larger than in cj .

Underside as above, hnl band of liindwiug saltVoii-yellow. tinged with red
between veins l*" and 3.

Head and thorax above metallic greenish blue ; rest of body black, with
scarcely any metallic gloss. Base of abdominal segments 4 to 7 yellow laterally,
ventral plates of segments 4 to 6 all yellow.
Size as in elcf/ans Rothsch.

Uab. New Hanover, Bismarck Archipelago, 2 S S,\ ¥ (Capt. H. C. Webster,
February and March 1897).

11. Milionia meforana s]). nov.

(?. Wings above black, faintly bluish in side light. Forewings crossed by a
broad median band reaching from costal to inner margin, the extreme edge of the
margins remaining black, 6J mm. wide in front, 7 mm. in middle, 4 mm. behind,
outer edge more, inner edge less arched. A snbapical patchlike band between
veins 3 and 7, indented at the veins, almost 7 mm. wide between veins 5 and 6, not
touching vein 3 ; a spot in hinder angle before vein 1, ovate. All these markings
yellow, faintly edged with red.

Hindwing with a wide discal yellowish red area, which is more yellow basally at
abdominal margin ; this area extends from abdominal margin, which is black only
at base and at ontcr angle, to vein 7, and is 1 1 mm. wide posteriorly and (i mm. in
front : its outer edge evenly and slightly convex. A small dot at aj)ex of cell
black.

Underside as above. Discal area of hindwing, however, saffron-yellow, slightly
tinged with red outwardly, and deeply sinuate between vein 2 and abdominal margin.

Head and thorax above blue-black. Underside black, with an olive-green gloss.
Abdomen yellow, first and seventh segments black.

Wings shaped as in S of M. elegaus Rothsch., doherVji Rothsch., and tuebsteri
sp. nov.

?. Like i in colour; subapieal band of forewing broader behind, a small
additional spot behind vein 3. Discal black dot of hindwing larger than in i :
discal area below more reddish outwardly, its onter edge not sinuate, merely faintly
concave. Seventh abdominal segment blackish only at tip.

Size as in ele<jaiis Rothsch.

Ilab. Sner, Mefor Island, Geelvink Bay, Dutch New Guinea, 1 <?, 1 ? (W.
Dohert}-, May and June 1897).

Both sexes closely resemble the ? of websteii ii\>. Udv., but are easily dis-
tinguishi'd liy tlic yellow abdomen and the more extended markings of the wings.

12. Milionia cyauifera gilolensis ^ubsll, nov.

S. Dill'crs from ii/cdtifora ri/dm/era in the banil of the forewing being broader
(8 mm. in middle), and standing closer to hinder angle. Tip of abdomen without
yellow hairs.

Ilab. Halmahera, 1 6 (W. Doherty, August 1893).

iiuTE.— iMi/wiiiaJ/afoloi/'i/n Pagenst., Eiit. JS'aclii: 1896. p. 58, and Abli. Senh.
Sat. Oes. 1897. p. 457. n. 485. t. 19. f 5, from Batjan, is Bocintza ;rr«/(«/re Walker,
Lep. Net. XXI. p. 194 (1864), which was described from Batjan and Gilolo, and

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is strtictnrally very diffoveiit from Milioni((, the n\<\n'r snbcostals uf the Ibrowinjr,
for instance, anastomosing- with the costal vein, wliich is not the case in MiUoniu.

Mt/iotna (lurijktiama Thierry Mieg, Bull. Soc. Ent. France p. 44 (1897), from
Batjau, is nothing else bnt a specimen of M. cyunifcra Walker with an nnusnally
bright band.

M. Thierry Mieg, I.e., correctly remarks, with regard to the antlior of Milionia
ratvakcnsis, that on p. 551 of Voijaye de Freycimt we read that " M. Godart a
bien voulu de'crire le petit nombre d'espi'ces nouvelles de L(!'pidopteres qne nous
avons rapportees." From this remark in Voy. de Fi-cye. it should follow that
we have to write ,1/. rau-akemis " Godart." P,nt BI. Thierry Mieg remarks further
that he has a plate of that work " annotee de la main de Boisduval " on which the
figure of M. rawakensis is designated as " C!allimorphe requin nobis,'' and concludes
that Boisduval has descrilied the species in question. In my copy of the Voyaye the
name of Boisduval is not mentioned at all, either in the text or on the plate, and I
really cannot see how the name of Boisduval can be brought in connection with
M. rawakensis.

M

ON THE BIRDS COLLECTED BY ME. EVERETT IN
SOUTH FLORES.

Pakt I.

By ERNST HARTERT.

(Plate III.)

R. ALFRED EVERETT, our indefatigable friend, has sent ns valuable

collections from Flores. He tirst touched this island in August Ib'.Hj,
arriving in Endeh from Makassar, but he found there a letter from the Resident of
Timor, warning the " Postholder " (the highest authority in the place) that he should
not allow him to go into the country in that vicinity. The Postholder said that
there was no security outside the precincts of the village of Endeh, and that the
natives even fired into the place from the steep hills rising immediately behind it.
Under those circumstances Mr. Everett could only shoot a few common birds in the
village, and left at ouce for Savn, where he collected the birds described pp. 203 to
273 of this volume of this journal.

In October 189(5 Mr. Everett returned to Flores again. This time he made
Nanga Ramau (Nanga Roma of the Admiralty chart) in South Flores his head-
quarters. He writes from there as follows : —

"The country in this part of Flores, which is better known as Mangarai, is
verj' hilly even from the margin of the sea, and there are numerous mountains, all
excessively steep and difficult collecting ground, and varying in iieight near the
coast from 3000 to 5000 feet, whilst those farther inland named Pnchu Reah
and Puchu Leoh I estimated to be about 0000 feet. Below about 3000 feet the
land has been cleared for the cultivation of maize and sweet jwtatoes, so that the
vegetation consists for the most part of very dense thorny second-growth scrub with
large tracts of coarse lalang grass, and only the higher portions of the mountains
are capped with the original old forest. My hunters succeeded in collecting up to an
elevation of 5000 feet, but the utterlv lawless condition of the farther interior

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forbade luy sending tlieiu to Puchu Leoli and the still highcT mouutaiiis of Keo
(9187 feet) or Bokka Peak (6502 feet), the first of which is au active volcano and
the second apparently quite extinct. In addition to the attitude of the natives
tbiining au obstacle to my making exhaustive collections from this part of Flores,
my visit coincided with the last two months of the dry season, during which rejitiles,
amphibia, landshclls, insects, etc., are extremely scarce, as the majority of them
aestivate during the tremendous heat which scorches the land at this time — to such
a degree that the earth is baked hard and fissured, great part of the trees shed their
leaves, on many others the foliage hangs shrivelled or leathery, and the air in the
sheltered gullies is as the breath of a veritable furnace. The whole of my party
fell sick with dysentery and fever, owing to the bad water and onr being unable to
procure a sufficiency of food, coupled with the withering heat. Judging from the
highland birds, the reptiles, amphibia, etc., of Flores from elevations between 30UU
and TOUO feet should be uf considerable interest. Of mammals I got hardly any
— a pigmy shrew, several rats, and a wholly black Paradoxiirus* The porcupine is
found, but I did not obtain a specimen. There are also in the island the common
Mac'icus, deer, wild pig, and various bats — also perhaps a Cuscus.

" I think that I have sent you specimens of every species of bird that we met
with, excepting sea-birds, waders, and herons, and the Calornis which was seen
only once. No Edectus was observed, nor any TrichoglossuH or Loriculus.
Sci/tkrops also was absent in this locality, and, strange to say, such ubiijuitous
species as Lalaye timorieusis, Ilulcjon chloris, Haliactu.s leiicoijaatcr, and Mihus
affinis. Meropa ornatus too did not occur, but it had very likely left on migration.
The large Flores crow is said to be C. tnacrorhi/nchus. If so it has developed a local
dialect since it immigrated, for in addition to the usual cawing notes, these birds
utter a peculiar loud sijualling whine, wliich I do not remember ever hearing them
do elsewhere.

" The altitudes given on the labels are to be regarded as approximate, being
taken with a single aneroid, but I have no reason to suppose that they are otherwise
than sufficiently accurate for practical purposes. With regard to the sexing of the
specimens, as on previous occasions the abbreviation ' nat. coll.' signifies that the
native collector is solely responsible for its correctness, and where my initials follow
the sex-symbol it means that I sexed such specimens with special care myself, and
where the symbols appear aloue the sex has been checked by my assistant ur
myself."

The following list of the birds obtained in Flores will show how much Mr.
Everett's zeal has increased our knowledge of the birds of Flores, and from it we
must conclude that an exploration of the high mountains will unveil still more
zoological mysteries.

We have an excellent knowledge of the avifauna of the lowlands of Flores from
Wallace. Afterwards Herr and Frau Weber collected in Flores in 18S8 and 1889,
and they brought home sixty species, of which four were described as new by Dr.
Buttik(jfer, while seventeen others were new to the Flores list (see Biittikofer in
Zool. Ei-ycbiiiss: Reisc in Nied. 0. Indicn (Oii Weber, Vol. III. jip. ^71, 289, 1892).
Two birds from Flores were also mentioned by Biittikofer in Sotcs Leydcii Mas.
1891, pp. 212, 213, and some in Schlegel's Mus. Fai/s-Bas and Vog. Nederl. Indie.

We thus knew nearly a hundred and twenty species from Flores, which number
is now considerably increased. In this volume {iintea, p. 170) 1 have already

• A black specimen of Puyadoxurua hermaphroditiiii (Pall.).

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735 ZoOLOGICJE.V0L.lV.183y.

Pl.HI.

J GJCeuiemans del etlitix

1. ZOSl t «iJ!'.'i ■-•iJh'l- J\L ll.l^'VKib Hart

2. " CRASSTROSTRIS "

3. PACHYCEPHALA NUDIGULA.

giv(Mi [irfliiuinary desci-iptious of sl'vlmi new s|iecics autl a new siiljspeuius IVoiu
Floies, aud Mr. Walter Rothschild described a new hill-wreu {Pnoepijga evei-etti,
antea, p. 168).

I have marked the species hitherto not recorded from Flores with an asterisk.

PASSERES.

1. Pratincola caprata (L.).
Above 3000 feet, October.

*2. Geocichla andromedae (Temm.).
Fonr adnlt birds from about 350li feet. New to the ornis of Flores. Females
are smaller and have the breast a little jjaler. The innles have the wing 136 to
137 mm., the female only 12.5. Also the bill, feet, and tail are smaller in the
female. Tarsus in the adult male 32 mm.; cnlmen from base 35; tail 90.

*3. Geociclila dohertyi Hartert.
Several adult specimens of both sexes from above 3000 and 3500 feet. They
resemble in every way the typical birds from Lombok aud Sambawa (Nov. Zool.
III. p. 555).

*4. Geocichla interpres (Temm.).
A series from S. Flores, agreeing with sjiecimens from Lombok and Sambawa.
The red colour of the crown varies iu depth, which may prove to be a se.xual
character, but this must remain doubtful, for all our specimens are sexed by natives,
and therefore cannot be relied on implicitly.

•5. Phylloscopus borealis (Bias.).
Fhylloscopi were common iu Novembe]-. All those sent are the same as those
which we have received in numbers from most of the other Sunda Islands, but
whether they all belong to the same species or subspecies I am unable to say, for
there are considerable variations iu size. Tlie wiugs measure 64-8, 66, 71, 73 mm.

0. Cisticola cisticola (Temm.).

Three skins with rather dark heads agree with Wallace's C. fuscicapilla from
Timor and Flores, but Dr. Sharpe was probably right in uniting this supposed
species with Cisticola cisticola (Temm.) (cf. Cat. B Brit. Mus. VII. i)j). 250-264).
Tliis bird would tlius be one of tlie most widely distributed /V.i.sc/vs, a fact of which
mention is not generally made when such nearly " cosmopolitan " birds are
mentioned, as this little bird is not known to most writers, excejjf ornithologists.

7. Cisticola exilis (Vig. & Horsf.).
Several specimens from the low country.

*8. Orthnocichlaieveretti Hart.

Antea, p. 170, I characterised this bird as follows : —

c? ad. Head aud hindneck russet, an indistinct paler stripe over the eyes; sides

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of the head brownish bnff. Back, ramp, upper tail-coverts, and tail brown. Quills
deep blackish brown, their inner lining greyish bnff; outer webs much like the back,
but lighter and brighter, and with a slight greenish tinge. Under parts whitish;
breast gre)', lighter in the middle ; flanks grey, with a brownish tinge ; thighs
brownish olive-grey. Under wing-coverts grey. Legs very pale olive-brown. Iris
dark brown, ilaxilla sepia-brown ; mandible ochreons yellow. Total length about
90 — 95 mm. ; wing 53 — 56 ; tail 18—19 ; tarsus 22 — 23 ; culmen from base 16.

? ad. Like the vmle, but slightly smaller. Wing 50 — 52 mm.

A series from close to the sea-level up to 3500 feet.

•9. Brachypteryx floris Hart.

Antea, p. ITO, this very interesting bird was described as follows : —

cJ. Above dull iudigo-blne ; forehead and crown with a brown shade, which
may be a sign of immaturity, as it is well pronounced in one, but not very perceptible
in the other specimen. From the base of the bill to above the eyes a faint grey
line, continued in a pure silky white concealed line above the eye, as we find it in
other species of the genus. Lores and ear-coverts dark brownish ashy. Primaries
and secondaries bhxckish brown, edged with the colour of the back, in the younger
?nale with brown. Throat and middle of abdomen greyish white ; under wing-
coverts, chest and sides of abdomen, thighs and under tail-coverts ashy. Wing
70 — 73 mm. ; tail 60 — 63 ; exposed culmen 13 ; tarsus 34.

? ad. Above of a warm brown ; crown darker ; back, rump, and upper tail-
coverts strongly washed with rulbus. Wings deep brown ; outer webs edged with
rufous brown. The same concealed white superciliary line as in the jiiale. Lores
ashy brown ; ear-coverts brown, the shafts of the feathers light. Chin, throat, and
middle of the abdomen white ; chest and sides of abdomen pale ashy grey ; lower
flanks and thighs brown. Under wing-coverts and under tail-coverts light rufous.
Total length about 145 mm. ; wing 69 — 70 ; tail 58 — 60 ; tarsus 34.

Only two pairs were procured at about 3500 feet.

•10. Pnoepyga everetti Rothsch.

Antea, p. 168, Mr. Rothschild described this pretty little new species as chiefly
differing from P. s/jua»iata (Goidd) (= -P- albicentris Hodgs.) in the remarkable
fact that the sexes are not cousj)icuonsly difiercnt, while in the two Indian species
the male is of a white ground-colour below, the Jemale bright fulvous. The bill
larger than even in P. squamata. The colour much like that of the male of
P. pusilla ; the secondaries and wing-coverts with even larger and more conspicuous
fulvous spots ; back and rump more conspicuously spotted with fulvous ; the head
darker ; the feathers on the sides of the body with darker and more blackish edges.
The nearest ally is evidently P. rufa of Sharpe from Java, in which too the sexes
are said to be alike in colour, but that species is said to be much more rufous. The
wing of P. everetti is 62 — 54 mm. long : tail 16 ; tarsns 20 — 21; culmen from base
15 — 16 ; exposed part of culmen 10.

Mr. Everett sent a series from Repok and other places of 3000 to 3500 feet in
S. Flores.

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*11. Phyllergates everetti sp. nov.

Before describing this interesting form of Phyllergates I must make some
remarks on the otlier forms of tlie geuns.

When Dr. Sharpe, iu 1SS3, wrote the seventh volume of the Catalogue of
Birds, he only knew of two species, viz. Phyllergates coronatus (Jerd. & Blyth)
from India and P. cucullatus (Temm.) from Java and Sumatra. Since then Mr.
Whitehead discovered a little tailor-bird on Mount Kina Balu in Borneo, which
Sharpe * called P. cinereicollis, diagnosing it as follows : " P. similis P. cucullfUo,
sed collo postico et colli lateribus dare cimreis distinguendus.'" This same form
was afterwards collected by Everett's hunters on Kina Bain, while P. cucullatus was
also found in the Malay Peninsula by the late Mr. Davison. Whether, however,
the Kina Bala bird is diflerent from the P. cucullatus of Java, Sumatra, and
Malacca seems questionable. I am indeed afraid that quite old males of
P. cucullatus do not difier at all from the so-called P. cinereicollis, but the matter
should be more fully investigated. Mr. Whitehead also got a bird of this group in
Lnzon, called P. cinereicollis by Grant, Ibis, 1894, p. 510. Mr. Grant says there :
" This form appears to me barely sejJarable from the Indian bird P. coronattis. It
would be extremely difficult to determine a specimen without first knowing the
locality whence it is obtained." This remark, however, is wrong, the white inner
web of the outer rectrices, which have no white in P. cucullatus and cinereicollis,
alone being sufficient to distinguish the two. On the other hand, the Luzon bird
has a small white mark on the inner web of the outer tail-feathers, and a narrow
inner edge of the same colour, together with a slightly shorter bill, and might be
separated subspecifically as

Phyllergates cucullatus philippinus subsp. nov.

Type from Benguet, North Luzon, in the Tring Museum, collected by Whitehead.
Among the birds sent by Mr. Everett from Flores are also two Phyllergates
which differ again from all the others, and which I name

Phyllergates everetti sp. nov.

They have the orange forehead and forepart of the crown, but from the nape to
the tail they are olive-green, of a darker shade and more olive than in the other
forms. The outer pair of rectrices has a brownish white edge along the inner web;
the bill is longer than in any of the others. The bill from the base measures 18 to
18-5 mm. ; the wing, g 49, ? 46 ; the tail 44—49 : the tarsus 18-5 mm.

A male and a female from 3000 and 4000 feet in S. Flores.

While speaking of the present genus I wish also to correct some mistakes. In
Journ. f. Orn. 1889, p. 385, I mentioned two specimens of P. coronatus, shot by me
on the Gunong Ijau in Perak. I said then that they were an adult pair, and that
the female was not young, as was evident from its behaviour also ; but I have now
seen so many carefully dissected skins of P. coronatus that there is no longer any
doubt that I was wrong, and that my supposed _/«?««& was really a young l)ird. It
would not be uninteresting to have a series from Perak, as the taU seems to
diifer slightly, but I cannot be sure about this, as the tail of my adult Perak male is
not complete. Discussing the tails of these birds, 1 must further mention that they

* Ibis, 1888, p 479 ; Whitehead in Exjil. Kina Balu. p. 223.

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consist of teu, uot twelve, rectrices, and that therefore the kej- of the genera in the
Catalogue of Biir/s, Vol. VII. p. 175, requires a great alteration.

According to my views, the status of the species and subspecies of the genus
Phi/llerqates — which, contrary to my former views, should not be confounded with
Orthotomm — is now as follows : —

flnner web of outer rectrix white : P. coronatus (Ilimalayas to Slalay
1.] Peninsula, but birds from the latter country require further attention).
llnner web of outer rectrix mostly olive : 2.

flnner wel) of outer rectrix without any white: F. cucullatiis (Java, Sumatra,
Malay Peninsula, and Borneo. Birds from Borneo are said to have
purer grey hindnecks, and may be called P. ctwullatas cincreicollis.
Those from the Malay Peninsula are also worth special attention).
.Inner web of outer rectrix with whitish edge : 3.
/■Hindneck grey ; beak shorter, above grceuer : P. cucullatus pkilippinus
3. -I (Luzon).

iHindneck olive : beak longer, above more olive : P. eceretti (Flores).

12. Parus atriceps Horsf.
Tvro nudes and n /etnale from S. Flores. {Parus cinereus of Wallace's list,
P. Z. S. 1863, p. 485.)

13. Dicaeum igniferum Wall.
This species was discovered in Flores by Wallace. Everett found it fairly
common in the low country near Nauga Ramau, but in October and November they
were all in moult. There is no difference in size between specimens from Flores and
Sambawa. (Cf. Nov. Zool. III. p. 506, No. 7.)

*14. Dicaeum sanguinolentum Temm.
One male, shot at 3500 feet in South Flores, does not seem to differ materially
from D. sanguinolentum of Java, the only island whence tlio species lias liltherto been
known. The occurrence in Flores is the more remarkable as it has not been found
in any of the islands between it and Java. The specimen from Flores has the red
on the breast a shade lighter than most of the Java skins. The ear-coverts are
distinctlv greyish, while they are as pnrple as the back in the adult Java males, but
as this is also a sign of nonage, it is probable that it is also so in the Flores bird.
Otherwise there does not seem to be the slightest dilTerenee. Wing 50-3 ; tail 2Vt :
tarsus 12 ; calmen from base 1 15 ; exposed culmcn 8-5 mm.

1-"). Acmonorhynchus annae Buttik.
In Zool. Ergebn. Reise Niederl. 0. Ind. p. 301, Dr. BUttikofer described this
pretty bird from a single spirit-specimen. Mr. Everett has now sent us both sexes
in numbers, from elevations of about 3000 to 3.500 feet in the hills of South Flores.
The vmle agrees very well with Biittikofer's descrii)tion, but is perhajis more greenish
above. Beak and feet are black. The wing measures OU to 02'S mm. The hitherto
undescribed female differs from the male in wanting the brilliant 3'ellow spot on the
rumj), in being smaller, and in having the mandible flesh-colonred, with only a dark
brown tip. The wing of the female measures 05 to GT'5 mm. The young male
resembles ihs female.

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1 agree with Messrs. Gates {Fauna Brit. India, liin/g, Vol. J I. \). aTo) and
Biittikofer {I.e. p. 302) that the genus PrionochiUx as recognised in Cat. B. X. is
more conveniently separated into the genera Priono<-hilax (ten primaries, first
of the length of the tarsus, distribution : Malay Archipelago to Tenasserim and
Philippines), Pachijglosm. (ten primaries, first not longer than hind-toe, distribution :
Ceylon), Acmonorlnjnchus (nine distinct primaries, beak as in Priot>ocliilu.<, distribn-
tion : Ceylon, Tenasserim to Philippines and Celebes, 8anghir, Flores), Piprisoma
(nine distinct primaries, under edge of mandible strongly curved upwards, dis-
tribution : India to Borneo and Timor). In Nov. Zool. 11. p. (.5, I already made
remarks on the generic characters of Prionocliilm, bnt I had not then noticed the
two articles of Gates and Biittikofer, and did not go deeper into the question.

16. Cinnyris Solaris (Teram.).
Not rare at Endeh and in tlie low country aronud Nanga Raman. The
brilliant colour of tliroat and abdomen is gained by moult in the skins before me.

IT. Cinnyris pectoralis (Horsf).'
Endeh and Nanga Raman, scarce.

18. Anthreptes malaccensis chlorogaster (Sharpe).

A nude and a femalu from Endeh, none from Nanga Ramau. {Anthreptes
lepida of 'Wallace's list.)

*19. Ptilotis virescens Wall.
One fetnnle from above 3000 feet seems smaller than {hefenialcs from Lombok,
the wing only measuring 59 mm. It would be necessary to compare a large series
to find out whether this is an individual character or peculiar to Flores specimens.

20. Philemon neglectus Biittik.
Two male.<i from Endeh only.

*:21. Zosterops crassirostris Hartert.
(Plate III.)

This interesting new bird has been described antcn, p. 172, with the following
words : —

S ad. Feathers of forehead yellowish white; those of crown blackish brown,
with broad whitish margins, which become more brownish and less conspicuous
towards the nape, where they have vanished altogether. Lores, feathers in front of
the eye, a narrow superciliary line, and feathers under the eye black, the latter
fading into dark brown towards the ear-coverts. Eyelids liare, with only a very
narrow ring of tiny scaly feathers of a blackish colour round the eyes ; behind the
eyes a large naked spot. All the rest of the upper jiarts of a pale olive colour, with
a greenish wash. Quills deep brown, with a very pale bnft" inner lining and light
olive-brown outer edges. Tail-feathers brown, with olive outer margins. Entire
under surface whitish buff ; sides of breast and flanks with a brownish wash. Thighs
brown. " Iris naples-yellow ; bill lead-grey ; legs flesh-colour ; nails grey." Total
length about 130 mm. ; wing 71 : tail 50; cnlmcn from base 10 ; bill from end of
feathering 14-3 ; tars. 20—21. ? like S.

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Mr. Everett sent a fine series, collected in October and November in
South Flores from the low country np to 3500 feet. Most of the specimens
sexed " ? " by the native hunters are smaller, the wing only about fi" mm.,
and the markings on the forehead are less distinct. A male nestling is paler,
with the forehead and crown uniform buff, without tlie black centres, which
give the old bird a striking scaly appearance. The old birds have a bare spot
behind the eye.

*22. Zosterops superciliaris Hartert.
(Plate III.)

? ad. Crown greenish olive, with a dark brown wash. Utmost base of
forehead just above the nostrils and lores pale sulphur-yellow ; superciliary line
from lores over eyes to end of head sulphnr-yellow. The usual Zosteropine white
ring round the eyes conspicuous and broad ; sides of head olive-grey, with a silvery
gloss. Rest of upper surface olive-green, brighter green on back and rump. Quills
dark brown : inner lining very pale yellow ; onter edges light olive-green. Below
sulphur-yellow ; sides of breast, flanks, and thighs with an olive-green wash. Total
length about 127 mm. ; wing 67 — 69 ; tail 52 — 53 ; culmen from base of forehead
16; exposed part of culmen 12; tarsus 19'9. cj ad. like ?. {Antea, ^i. 172.)

A series from 3000 to 3500 feet in the hills of South Flores. A young
female just out of the nest resembles the old birds, but is duller and less distinctly
marked, the yellow superciliary line not developed, the ear-coverts dull olive.

*23. Zosterops citrinella Bp.

Two specimens, both marked " c? " by native collectors, have the wings only
36 mm., while those from Savu and most from other localities have the wings
about 2 mm. longer. A large series of Z. citrinella from Flores might enable tlie
" fearful splitter " to separate them subspeciiically. The type is from Timor.

•24. Zosterops aureifrons Wall.

A fine series from the low country. This species had been discovered in Flores
by Wallace.

*25. Zosterops unica sp. nov.

This new Zosterops is evidently nearest to Z. intermedia Wall., but differs con-
siderably in its much smaller size and in the bright yellow colour of the lower rump
and upper tail-coverts. The tail is pure black. The upperside is also slightly more
yellow, and the sides of the body are a little more distinctly washed witli olive.
Although only one skin, the sex of which is not determined, from Nauga Hamau is
to hand, we need not hesitate in describing this bird as new, the bright yellow spot
on the rump and its small size and black tail being striking characters to distinguish
it. The beak is darker than in nearly all Z. intermedia before me, and I may say
that we have a very large series of it. Total length oi Z. unica about 98 mm. ; wing
51 (against 56 to 57 as the smaller measurements of the wings of Z. intermedia):
tail 35 ; exposed part of culmen 9 ; tarsus 15. The specimen in spirits mentioned
by Buttikofer as coming from Maumeri jirobably belongs to Z. unica.

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*2(i. Lophozosterops (an potius Zosterops ?) subcristata Hai-tert.

This species, or perhaps subspecies, differs IVom [,. dohertiji Hartert from
Saiubawa by haviug the ear-coverts lighter and yellowish (not olive), in the crest
being much shorter, the forehead paler brown, the guttate spots not so sharply
defined and not so pure white. Although 1 promised {antea,'p. 171) to say more
about the generic affinities of this curious little bird, I am only able to repeat
that in the development of the crest it stands a little between Lophozosterops
dohcrtiji and ordinary Zosterops without a crest, thus diminishing the value of
the genus Lojihozosterops.

•27. Anthus rufulus medius (Wall.).
Three specimens from the hills of tlie JMangarai district. Sec antea, p. 2G5.

•28. Anthus gustavi Swinh.
Two skins from the Mangarai district.

*29. Motacilla boarula melanope (Pall.).
From elevations of about 3000 feet in the Mangarai district.

30. Mirafra horsfieldi parva (Swinh.).

Two skins from Mangarai. They are like those mentioned before (p. 266) from
Savu, but one is much darker above, while the other also has the edges of the
feathers on the upper surface less distinct than the Savu birds, but this is probably
due to age. See my remarks p. 266. I am not yet any more sure about these
forms, and it will be necessary to get a series from Java as well as from Australia
to decide finally about the aflSnities of these larks. M. parva Swinh. w-as originally
described from Flores. The wings of our two skins measure (?) 70'5, (sex ?)
72 mm.

31. Munia quinticolor (Vieill.).

(Cf Sharpe, Cat. B. XIII. p. 330.) A small series from the low country of Flores
up to about 3300 feet. The colour of the rump differs, the straw-yellow evidently
being faded or worn off from the golden maroon of the freshly moulted bird. Sumba
skins do not differ from those of Flores. Lombok specimens were separated by
Sharpe, Cat. B. XIII. p. 340, as J/, wallacei on account of the glossy maroon, not
yellow rump and upper tail-coverts. I find, however, with the large series now
before me, that this difference is very slight and not constant, if at all true,
but that the Lombok bird must be scparatoil sul)specifically, if not specifically,
because the crown is much more rufous and not so dusky brown. The wing is also
shorter in M. quinticolor tvallacei (Sharpe). Cf Nov. Zool. III. pp. 559, 583.

32. Munia molucca propinqua (Sharpe).
Common.

33. Munia punctulata uisoria (Temm.).

Also not rare.

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34. Sporaeginthus flavidiventris (Wall.).
A series, all iu iiiotilt ami young.

35. Artamus leucogaster (Val.).
Two males from S. Flores.

3G. Eulabes veneratus (Bj).).
Not rare about Mangarai. Iq what 1 suppose to be very old 7n'tles the wattles
on the occiijut are very much prolouged, measuring from the end of the velvety spot
on the right and left up to 20 and even 25 mm.

37. Corvus macrorhynchus Wagl.

Male and/emale. Wings 350 ((J) and 340 ( ? ) ; gloss rather purplish;

bases of feathers rather white, but apparently not separable from C. macrorkijnchus.
See antea, p. 514.

38. Corvus florensis Biittik.
C. florensis Buttik., in Weber's Zool. Ergebn. Reise 0. Ind. III. p. 304 (1894),
and Notes Leyden Mus. XVIII. p. 187 (1896). One female of this rare little crow,
of which only one specimen is hitherto on record, has been sent by Mr. Everett from
Mangarai. Its wings are 228 mm. ; the tail 169 ; tarsus 45 : culmen from base
48 mm. The bases of the feathers are dark grey.

•39. Lanius superciliosus Lath.
Four skins from Mangarai, shot iu Novemlier.

•40. Pachycephala nudigula Hartert (antea, p. 171).
(Plate III.)
In April I published a Latin diagnosis of this peculiar Pacht/cephala. It differs
from all other species of the genus in the old male having a large bare spot of a red
colour on the throat. This bare place is evidently inflated like a balloon, as it is very
much wrinkled iu the skins, while the other jiarts of the skins are smooth. The
head and throat of the male are glossy black. Quills black, inner edges towards
base greyish white, onter webs margined with olive-green, broader on the secondaries,
greyish on the tips of the primaries. Back, rump, and upper wing-coverts dark
olive-green, upper tail-coverts black. Breast and abdomen greenish yellow with an
olive tinge, under tail-coverts and middle of belly purer yellow. Tail black, tips
dirty olive. Under wing-coverts pale yellowish, greener towards the outer edge.
Total length about 195 mm. ; wing 101—108 ; tail 80—85 ; bill 16—18 ; tarsus
23-5 — 25-5. The aAxiM female also has a bare spot on the throat, but smaller. The
crown of the female is ashy grey ; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts dark olive-
green; wings deep blackish brown, inner edges pale isabolliue, outer borders olive-
green like the back. Tail dark greenish olive. Chin and throat greyish white,
breast washed with green, sides of breast olive-green, remainder of under parts
yellow. Wing 90 mm. ; tail 73 ; tarsus 23 ; bill 14—15. The young male is like
the o\<\. female, but the crown of the head perhaps of a lighter grey, in very young
birds with a greenish wash, and the throat yellow. The throat is feathered, but
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young male seems to indicate tli.it the black crown is partially gained by a change
of colour in the feathers.

This bird was fonml jilentiful between 30(i0 and 4fion feet in the hills of
Mangarai.

41. Pachycephala fulvotincta Wall.
Not rare at Endeh and in Mangarai, from the low country to above 3000 feet.
There is a great deal of variation in the colour of the secondaries and longer wing-
coverts, these being olive in some, rufous in others. The rnfous colour is {)robablv
a sign of nonage, but it is not only found in very young birds, which have blackish
shaft-lines on the breast. The young male has the " irides raw sienna-brown ; bill
dark sepia-brown ; legs light bluish plumbeous, claws light grey-brown."

42. Chibia bimaensis (Bp.).
Half a dozen specimens from Mangarai. Tails to end of central rectrices
only 110 to 115 mm. In (tyj^ical) specimens from Sambawa they seem a little
longer on an average.

*43. Edoliosoma dohertyi Harteit.

To my great surprise, a series "f both sexes of this bird, which 1 had described
from Sumba (Nov. Zool. III. p. 584), is now sent by Mr. Everett from the hills of
Mangarai, where they were not unfreqnently found between 3000 and 400U feet.
The. female, of which Mr. Everett has also collected a number in Sumba, is grey
above, the rump a little lighter, lores blackish, ear-coverts very dark grey with
whitish spots. Wings black, inner edges towards base white, outer webs of largest
upper wing-coverts and of secondaries with very wide whitish borders. Tail black,
central pair dark ashy grey on basal half or more, outer rectrices with wide grey
tips and a narrow almost white edge on the utmost tip, the following one or two
pairs with narrow whitish grey tips. Entire under surface white, greyish on chin,
and all over barred across with greyish black, closest on the throat, widest on the
under tail-coverts, and less deep black on the under wing-coverts. Wing 122 —
124 mm. ; tail about 108 to 110 mm. ; exposed culmen 19 mm.

The young male is coloured like the female, but has longer wings.

44. (Graucalus !) Artamides floris Sharpe.
Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. IV. p. 14 (9 descr.) : Biittikofer, Weber's Zoo/.
Ergehn. einer Reise in Niederl. 0. Ind. III. p. 290 {$ descr.). Both sexes from the
low country of Mangarai. i ad. (A. Everett sexed) : " Irides chocolate-brown ; bill
jet-black ; legs and claws greyish black, with a bronzy gloss on the tarsal scutes."
? . " Iris chocolate-brown : bill black, with a brown tinge towards the base ; feet
grey-black." An evidently younger female shows whitish edges to the grey
feathers of the underside and on a few feathers of the back, and has broader white
borders to the quills.

*45. Pericrocotus lansbergi Biittik.
This is another surprise for the Flores oruis. It was hitherto only known
from Sambawa. (Cf. Nov. Zool. III. p. 569, PI. XI. figs. 1, 2.) Specimens from
Flores do not differ from those from Sambawa.

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•4(i. Microeca oscillans Hartert {nnteu, p. 170).

S ad. Forehead, crciwn, aad tiape dark brown, with an olive tinge ; back
similar, bnt lighter ; rump with a rufons wash ; upper tail-coverts rufons. Wings
deep brown, inner lining rnfons bnff, onter webs pale rnsset (between figs. IG and
19 on Ridgway's PI. III.). Tail chestunt-brown ; shafts of rectrices lighter and
more ferrnginous. Tlimat grey ; chest a little darker grey ; sides of abdomen pale
brown, middle of abdomen greyish white. Under tail-coverts and under wing-coverts
light bnfiF. Total length about 135 mm. ; wing 76 in three skins marked " cf," 78 in
one marked " <?," 81 in one marked " <?," and 75-5 in one marked " ? " ; tail
58—61; exposed part of culmen 11 ; tarsus 18. The female does not differ from
the males.

At elevations of from 30u0 to 3500 feet in South Flores.

There is perhaps some uncertainty about the exact position of this bird.
According to the key in the fourth volume of the Catalogue of Birds, it would fall in
with Alseonax, for the wings are not as long as in typical Microeca. The form of
the bill and its habitat, however, as well as the somewhat stronger feet, seem to
remove it from Alseonax, and it is, I think, best united with Microeca, as in M.
hemixantha Scl. we have already a Microeca in which the wings are comparatively
shorter than in Alseonax.

The fifth primary is longest, the fourth about equal.

•47. Muscicapula westermanni Sharpe.
From above 3000 feet.

•48. Muscicapula hyperythra Blytli.
Not rare at about 3000 and 3500 feet.

*49. Erythromyias dumetoria Wall.

This species, which was discovered in Lombok by Wallace, was met with not
unfrerjuently in the lowlands of South Flores by Everett. It is true that the skins
before me from Flores are less deep black above, with some dark black centres of the
feathers of the crown, giving the head a striated appearance, and that the wing is
generally about a millimetre longer. All these differences, however, are, I think,
probably signs of immaturity, and; one cannot separate the Flores bird without
further evidence.

•50. Piezorhynchus trivirgatus (Temm.).
This rare species is, as far as I know, only known from Timor. Everett shot it
below 1000 feet in South Flores. He says of it : " ? . Iris dark brown ; bill lead-
blue, tipped with black ; legs dark lead-grey." In the description Cat. B. IV.
p. 419, first line from above, it should read "tipped with white" instead of "tipped
with black.''

•51. Cryptolopha montis floris Hartert {antea, p. 171).

A number of skins of a Cryptolopht from the hills of South Flores arc hardly
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dark In-own stripes, starting from above the eyes and ruaning backwards to the najje
in C. moiitis from Borneo, are less couspicnons iu the Floras birds, not being so broad
and only starting from behind the eyes, so that, while they are conspicuous if looking
straight into the face of C. month montis, they are not visible from right in front in
C. montis floris.

It is very interesting to find iu Flures a form so closely allied to one known
from the mountains of North Borneo, Sumatra, and Palawan, and it is a further
proof of a certain similarity between the highland fauna of the great mountains of
various islands of the Eastern Archipelago.

The young bird looks rather dififerent from the old bird. It is of a less bright
yellow below ; the head is dull rufous, with two broii<l brownish black stripes over
the sides of the crown.

*.j'J. Acanthopneuste presbytis (Blyth) (?).

Muscicapa prenbytis, S. MuUer, Tijihchr. r. Xal. Gesck. rii P/n/.<. II. p. 331 (1835 — descr. nulli I)

(" Sumatra " ! ).
Sylvia presbytis, Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 1G9 (descr. princeps) ("Timor" I).
Cf. Seebohm, Cat. B. V. p. 53 ; Gates, Fauna Brit. Iiul Birils, I. pp. 419, 420.

There is a series of specimens of this form from elevations of '.5000 and 3500
feet, which is, I believe, best placed in the genus Ai-anthopmnistc, as in the shape of
the bill they do not agree with typical Cryptolopha, from which they also differ in
their stronger feet, while the wing is not long and strong enough for Phylloscopus.
(See Gates, t.c. pp. 340, 411.) Cryptolopha sarasinonan Mey. & Wigl. from
Celebes also belongs to this same group. It is, however, doubtful whether the
Flores bird can be united with the one from Timor, as the former is much deeper
yellow below; but nothing should be done without fresh material from Timor.

I have no doubt that these birds are resident in Flores and Timor, and not
wanderers from the north, as Seebohm {/■(■■) supposed, without any reason.

•53. Gerygone sulfurea Wall. (?).
One female from Endeh. This specimen differs from G. sulfurea Wall., of
which there is also only one skin in the British Museum, in being darker above
and paler yellow below. The spots before the eyes are also less white, but it
would be venturous to separate it from the Timor bird without further evidence.

54. Hypothymis azurea (Bodd.).
From Endeh and Mangarai.

55. Rhipidura diluta Wall.

A fine series from Endeh and Mangarai, up to above 30U0 feet. M. sumbametisis
Biittik. (Nov. ZooL. III. p. 570) is very closely allied to R. diluta— in fact most of the
differences in colour stated in the author's original description are probably due to
comparison with one single very old specimen in Leydeu from Flores — but the bill
is larger.

*56. Rhipidura semicollaris Mull. & Schleg.

There are several skins of this Rhipidura from South Flores. They do not
diflfer from typical R. semicollaris from Timor in the British JIusenm, except that
the males have the wiugs about 3 mm. longer.

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It may here be meutioned that, when describing R. celebensis sumbcnsis, I
omitted to compare it with R. semicoUaris, of which I had no specimen. However,
although it is closely allied with the latter, it seeius to dilTor in having a wider black
band across the lower throat and chest. This is the same character in which
A', o'leheiisis differs from /'. semicollaris, the darker colonr above, mentioned by
Huttikofer, hardly being a distinctive character. I must await more material to
discnss these forms again, bnt it seems evident to me that R. semicollaris, celehensis,
and sumbemis are very closely allied and can only be treated as subspecies.

67. Terpsiphone floris Btittik. (Nov. Zool. III. p. 585).

A series from Mangarai. They agree perfectly with Biittikofer's original
description, and it seems to me strange that it has not been separated from
T. aj/i/iis before, as it differs very much from it.

The Snmba form (T. sumhaensis A. B. Meyer) is very closely allied. It should
only be separated subspecifically. A specific separation would lead to confusion,
as only the very old ma/cx differ, perfectly old tnalcs of T.Jloris not being separable
from less adult males of T.Jloris sumbaiinsis.

•58. Culicicapa ceylonensis sejuncta subsp. nov.

Differs from C. ce)/lonensis ceylonensis in having the yellow colonr reaching up
to the lower throat, so that only the chin and throat are ashy. This ashy colour is
also much lighter, almost whitish. Most of the specimens are also a little more
golden olive above. Wing also much shorter, 7nales o'7 to 5-Q, female 5'5 mm.,
while in C. c. ceylonensis the males have the wings about G-5, females about (i to
(i-1 mm. The specimens from Suraba, which I called C. ceylonensis (Nov. Zooi..
III. p. 584), belong also to this new subspecies, as two well-prepared skins from
Everett's natives clearly show, while it was not easy to discnss the set of ratlier
jioor skins sent by Doherty.

•59. Hirundo striolata (Temm. & Schleg.).

One male, shot at 3300 feet elevation in S. Flores, has very wide black
stripes below, and very strong black striations on the rump. Its wing measures
122 mm. I think it belongs to H. striolnfn and not to //. japonica, which has been
recorded from Flores.

•60. Pitta maria Hartert (Nov. Zooi.. III. p. .585).

There is, lipsides a large series of the following species. Pitta concinna Gould,
one skin of P. maria with a label in Everett's handwriting, bearing the following
inscription : " Irides chocolate ; bill jet-black ; legs pale purplish brown. November
ISOfi, (J nat. coll., S. Flores, low country." It is no doubt my P. maria, fnWy
agreeing with the tyjje-specimcn and a series received since from Mr. Everett, onlj'
there is no white at all in the wing, a character also fonnd in other specimens from
Sumba, while others have a small white spot on the fifth or fourth and fifth primary.
.\s Mr. Everett is very careful with the labelling of his specimens, as the label is tied
in his original manner, and as there is no possibility of the label ^ffiving become

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cliiiugod iu Europe, I miisl ;i'iil I'ithi ni'iri't to iJio Floi'cs list, allliou-h I c.uiiiot
lielp feeling some relnctaucc in doiiif^ so.

01. Pitta conciuna Gonlil.

A fine .series from the low country of S. Flores. " Iriiles chocolate ; bill jet-
black ; leg.s pinkish white."

STlllGES.

G2, Pisorhina albiventris (Sharpe).

Common in the low country of S. Flores. 6. " Irides deep orange ; bill and
cere dull yellow-green, blackish on sides of maxilla; feet dull dirty ochreons."
? . " Irides golden yellow ; bill and cere dull yellow-green, the edges of the mandibles
and tip of the upper one dusky black ; feet pale dull ochreons, with an olivaceous
tinge."

li:!. Pisorhina sylvicola (AValL).

(? ad. Above pale greyish brown, with longitudinal black markings in the
middle of the feathers and deep brown vermiculations, scapulars with large very
light whitish ochreons markings. Remiges deep brown, onter webs with ochreous
sjwts, inner webs with whitish cross-bars towards the base, less developed on the
primaries, much more so on the secondaries. Disc round eyes buff, with brown
spots ; bristles in front of eyes whitish, with black tips. Feathers under the chin
buff, with deep brown " herring-bone " markings. Breast and sides of body light
huffish brown, with longitudinal black central markings, some white spots near the
shaft and some dark brown wavy ci'oss-lines. Centre of abdomen and l)elly white.
Under tail-coverts white, with some brown cross-bars near the tip. Thighs white,
outside spotted across with dark brown. Tail deep brown, with pale fulvous cross-
bars and vermiculations. Under wing-coverts whitish, with deep brown bars near
the outer edge of the wing. " Iris dnll orange ; rim of eyelids and feet ochre-
yellow; claws greenish horn-colour ; bill dark horn-grey; cere, cnlmcn, and under
surface of mandible light dull yellow." Total length about "270 mm. ; wing 210 to
223 ; tail 108 ; tarsus 30 ; entire culmen 38; bill 28.

This fine large owl was found in the shore-jungle in S. Flores, and was ])airing
in November. It resembles P. scmitonjHca from Japan, but is larger, and has no
l)utf crescent on the upper back. It also resembles 1'. irhitelu'adi, but is much
whiter below, and without tin; white crescent on the hindneck and without the white
lines above the eyes.

Wallace only procured a young bird (sex doubtful) in down, with only a few
feathers, which are exactly marke<l as those of our birils. It is true that the
dimensions of the type are very much larger, but I do nut hesitate to consider our
birds to be the same species.

*<i4. Pisorhina alfredi sj). no v.

<? ? ad. Above rufous, darker or lighter, forehead sjieckled witli white,
feathers of hindneck and back with concealed whitish buff cross-markings at their
bases, scapulars with some large white spots on the outer webs. Remiges blackish
brown, outer webs and tijis rufous; onter webs of primaries, except those of the

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iunermost ones, with some wliite spots on the outer edges; all remiges with bulV
cross-bars near the bases, these bars extending farther towards the tips in the more
inner ones. Tail rufons brown, with faintly indicated dark cross-bars. Face, except
the white speckled forehead, sides of head and ear-coverts, chin, rufons. Breast
delicate]}' mixed of rufons brown and white; abdomen more whitish; under tail-
coverts white, with some faint brown vermiculations. Thighs and coverings of tarsi
pale rnsty rnfons. Under wing-coverts pale buif, spotted with brown towards the
edge of the wing. Bill and feet pale yellow (in skin). Total length about 210 mm.;
wing, 6 150 — 159, ? 162; tail 81 — 82; entire cnlmen 23; bill 18; tarsus 23 mm.
Toes and one-fifth of tarsus bare, the remainder of the tarsus thickly feathered.

Three specimens were procured by Mr. Alfred Everett, in whose honour the
species is named P. alfredi, on Mount Repok and other hills at about 3500 feet in
S. Flores. It is difficult to state the nearest ally of this interesting little owl, but
it seems to remind one most of P. sunia, which, however, differs considerably in
the colour of the bill, abdomen, and forehead, and has sharply defined black shaft-
lines on the back, which are absent in P. alfredi. Also P. lempiji and P. albicen-
tris resemble it, but in both these the tarsi are feathered down to the toes, the
abdomen is of a diflferent colour, the beak larger, the markings on the scapulars
and back are quite different.

{To he continued.)

NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE.

Vol. IV. DECEMBER, 1897. No. 4.

VARIOUS NOTES ON HUMMING-BIRDS.

By ERNST HARTERT.

1. Phaethornis malaris (Nordm.).

WHEN reviewing the genns Phaethornis in the [his for July (1897), I re-
cognised considerably more species than Mr. Salvin in Cat. B. Brit. Muts.
Vol. XVI., but now I have already to allow one more ! My friend Count von Berlepsch
has fully convinced me that I made a mistake in uniting Phaethornis malaris
(Nordm.) and P. supcrciliostis (L.). They are two species differing not only con-
siderably in size, but also in the coloration of the throat and in the colour of the
under tail-coverts. It is quite clear from Brisson's figure and measurements that
his " Polytmns cayennensis lougicaudus," on which Linn^ founded his Trochilus
supercilio.vfs, is the small bird which Gould called afterwards P. /ratcrculi/s.
They are certainly not the females of tlie large P. malaris, the differences between
the sexes not being so great nor the coloration so different in the genus Phaethornis.
It is true that my P. s. moorei and P. s. guianoms are very closely allied, but I
think that the comparison of a series of both shows some slight differences, and
therefore I prefer to separate them snbsiiecifically.

Future investigations will have to be made to show whether P. ririilieanilata
is 'the, female of P. idaliae, as Salvin and others have supposed, but the proofs of
that do not seem to be conclnsive enough, and I ])refer therefore to keep them
separate for the present.

2. Cyanolesbia kingi (Less.).

There seems to be a conspiracy against the name Ornismya kiruji of Lesson,
although there is no doubt that it was given to a Cyanolesbia. The difficulty is to
find out to wliich form the name should be applied. From the figure and descrijition
it is clear that it was meant fnr a form with a blue spot on the throat and a mostly
blue tail. This excludes all forms except the form with blue tail from Bogota and
C. coclestis. I have now — thanks to the kindness of Mr. Loddiges — examined the
Cijanolesbiae in the Loddiges collection. They arc partly " C. goryo" (the blue-tailed
common Bogota form), jiartly C. codestis. Tlie Bogota specimen is not so well stuffed
as the others, therefore most likely the oldest, and thus it may be accepted as the
"type." Furthermore, the first locality ever given for " Ornismia kinyV^ (Boissonneau,
Rec. Zonl. 184o, p. 7) was Bogota, as the original place "Jamaica" was, of course,
an error. We arc therefore, if we wish to preserve the oldest name, entitled to use
the name C. hinyi for tlie lilue-tailed Bogota form (wliich was called C. ijoryo on
p. 48 of my synopsis of the genus in Nov. Zool. 1. p. 48). Mons. Eug. .Simon iu
his catalogue has also adopted the name kingi for this form.

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3. (? ? Helianthea traviesi (Muls. & Verr.).

A Bogota skill recently received dilFcrs from the siipjiosed mi'h; of TTelinnthea
travieni iu the British Sluseum, which I consider to be au old bird, in the following
characters : it is lighter and more green, not so blackish, everj-where ; the chin is
not black, but dark green ; the npper tail-coverts shining golden green, and not
purple-bronze. These differences are probably sexual, as similar sexual differences
are found, for example, in //. lutetiae, viz. less black but more green colour,
differently coloured chin, and differently coloured upper tail-coverts. The second
skin in the British Museum is evidently young.

Eug. Simon iu Cat. Trockil. p. 27 has called attention to the fact that the
descriptions which have hitherto been jmblished of //. traviesi do not agree in all
details, and he thinks it not impossible that //. traviesi is a hybrid between
II. lutetiae and Botircieria torqwita. Such a thing is, of course, not impossible,
but not probable, and the discrepancies in the various descriptions and between
various specimens may rather be sexual or due to age or different localities, for we
have no proper knowledge of this bird, of which only a few skins found iu Bogota
collections are known.

I shall certainly not accept the genus Eudosia for this bird, for it agrees in
all structural characters with Helianthea.

4. Saucerottia inculta (Elliot).

Of this also we have received two skins from Mr. Dnnstall of London. It is
strange that it should have been placed with Eriocnemis, while it is undoubtedly
a true Saucerottia. Mons. Simon {Cat. Trockil. p. 13) believes it to be a melauistic
variety of S. viridigaster (Bourc), which is possible.

5. lache doubledayi Bonrc.

Mr. Salvin, after having allowed specific rank to his /. riitida, has united it
with /. doubledayi in the Biologia Centr. Amrr. He did this on the ground of the
comparison of specimens similar to his /. nitida with the su])posed type of /. doubledayi
in the American Museum of Natural History. The type, however, is still in the
beautiful collection of humming-birds in the possession of Mr. George Loddiges,
whose grandfather formed it, while the specimen in the American Museum, though
given to Elliot by Bourcier, who described I. doubledayi, cannot be the type. I
have now compared specimens of the so-called /. nitida with the type of /. doubledayi
and found them perfectly identical. The identity of /. doubledayi and /. nitida i»
thus established beyond doubt.

1 have to thank Mr. Loddiges for the permission to see and study several times
the well-kept types in his grandfather's collection.

0. Rhamphomicron microrhynchum (Boiss.).

This beautiful lit lie huiuiuing-bird has hitherto only been known from
(Jolombia and Nortiiern Ecuador, and has come to Europe in great numbers in the
Bogota collections. It is not yet recorded from Venezuela, but recently Seuor
Salomon Briceiio Gabald6n has sent us a male and a femak from the Andes of
Merida.

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T. Chrysolampis chlorolaema Elliot,.

In October Mr. Rotlisebild received a jjerfect male from Mr. Dunslall of
London, together with other Bogota skins. It is of the typical Bogota make, and
there can therefore be no doubt that it came from some part of Colombia, or close
by. This is most remarkable, as Count Berlepsch received it direct from Bahia
(see T6is, January 1898, where an article on this bird will be found by Count
Berlepsch). As the Count says, this bird stands somewhat between the genera
Lampornis and Chrysolampis, but may as well be united with the latter (cf.
also Cat. B. Brit. Mus. Vol. XVI. p. 96). The Tring specimen would be the
fourth on record.

8. Eriocnemis mosquera (Del. & Bourc).

Originally described from Pasto in South Colombia, close to Ecuador, and not
uncommon in collections from the northern parts of Ecuador. In the collections of
Mr. Rothschild at Tring, Mons. Simon at Paris, and Count von Berlepsch I have
seen specimens from Bogota, which differ in having the beaks 2 or 3 mm. longer.
They may be distinguished as

Eriocnemis mosquera bogotensis subsp. nov.

(Type in Mus. RothschOd, Tring.) A similar case is represented in Eriocnemis derhtji,
the skins from the Bogota region having been distinguished by me as E. derbyi
longirostris. Recently received specimens coniirm the latter subspecies well.

9. Schistes albogularis Gould.

This rare species is not yet recorded from C!olombia. We have received a
perfect mxde found in a Bogota collection.

10. Eriocnemis berlepschi sp. nov.

Speciei E. /tip-ivestis dictae affinis, diftert rostro longiore, macula gulari sub-
caudalibusque paullo splendeutibus, magis purpurascentibus, supra magis viridi.

Above blackish green with coppery gloss, upper tail-coverts with a dull greenish
sheen. Tail black with a blue tint. Throat black, with a large spot of a dark
metallic somewhat leaden blue. Abdomen of a very dark green. Under tail-
coverts deep purplish blue, almost black, with a metallic gloss. Tibial tufts large,
white.

Wing 61 mm. ; tail 42 nun. ; bill (I'roni end of feathering) 19 mm. (against
lo to 16 in E. ii/'/rivestis).

Hub. t!olombia. (One skin found ia a IJogota collection, received from Mr.
Duustall, London.)

Named in honour of my friend Count Hans von Berlepsch, who first planted in
me the now deep-rooted special love and interest for the fascinating family of the
Troc/iilidae, and from whom 1 have learnt so much.

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11. Heliangelus claudia llartert.

A skill Im-s come to liaiiil which eiitirel}- resembles in every wa}' the type in
this Museum, ouly the under tail-coverts are pure white and the wing is 6 mm.
longer, but on re-examining the type I find that both wings are slightly damaged at
the tip, and therefore the length of the wing given in the original diagnosis must be
considered too small.

The second specimen of II. claudia was also found in a Bogota collection. (Cf.
Nov. ZooL. II. p. 484.)

12. Heliangelus dubius sp. nov.

With the last-named specimen the Museum received an Heliangelus to which
I give the name //. r/ubiujs. It differs from // clarissae in having the tliroat shining
violet-blue, and not so glittering as the rosy red throat of //. clarissae. The
feathers of the throat are elongated as in the other species, but it seems that the
glittering throat-patch is more oval and not so straight below as in //. clarissae, it
being shaped more as in //. spencii and //. macors. The green above is a shade
darker, but not much.

The specimen in Mens. Simon's collection, mentioned by him in note 2 on
p. 32 of his Catalogue de la Famille des Trochilides, which I have seen, is
like my H. dubius. I admit that it is with some hesitation that I describe
this bird, but if it is not separated nominally many other sjiccies wonld liave
to be sunk as synonyms, for examjile Ilcliotr>/jiku riolicollis Salv., which differs
from U. strophianus in about the same characters as my H. dubius does from
//. clarissae. It is possible that Mons. Simon's theory that these darker forms are
melanistic aberrations is right, but as yet we have no jiroof of it, and we do not
know their proper locality, so that it will be better to give names to those at least
of which several entirely similar sjiecimeus are known and which seem to be
distinct enough. This proceeding will more incite future research, and thus be of
more advantage for the present than treating such peculiar forms witli neglect.

That lleliamjelus dubius should be a sjiecimen with the brilliant throat-jiatch
discoloured by any process is out of question. Tlie Triug Museum has such dis-
coloured specimens, for example of //. exortis, but they look quite different and are
detected at a glance.

13. Heliangelus barrali (Muls. ik Verr.).

Of this rare si)ecies I have seen specimens, all from Bogota, in tlie British
Museum, in the Boucard and Simon collections, and the Tring Museum has now
received three skins which seem to bidoiig to it, but it is remarkable that the colour
of the glossy throat-piitdi differs a liule in all three. In all three, however, the
glossy throat is sharply separated from the colour of the breast, and there is u
conspicuous dark area surrounding the throat.

With the three specimens which I must consider to be //. barrali, this Museum
received one which in its coloration agrees with

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It. Heliangelus speciosus (Sal v.).

The throat is of a glittering golden greeu, which is not so sharply separated
from the greeu of the breast as in //. hnrrali, and there is not such a distinct dark
area round the throat. The length of the bill of this bird, however, is not greater
than in the //. harmli, while in the tyjie and in the specimen in the Boucard
collection it is slightly longer. Boucard has further described a skin as //. .simoni
which has the bill like our //. speciosus, i.e. equalling that of //. barrali, while the
colour of the throat differs very slightly from that of //. spKiosus Salv. Boucard
says that his //. simoni must be considered a species if //. speciosxs is kept
separate from //. barrali, and there is some sense in that remark; on the otlier
hand, if the length of the bill is dismissed as being not decisive in our case, Boncard's
as well as our skin can, taking into consideration the variation of the throat-colour
in //. barrali, without difficulty be united with //. speciosus, as Simon did with
Boncard's //. simoni (Cat. Trochil. p. 31, n. 33i)). Nevertheless we have much
to learn concerning all these forms, and I cannot help being somewhat sceptical
with regard to //. speciosus, but shall not of course disregard it as a species until
further researches are made.

To recognise the genus Heliotri/pha as distinct from lleliaitgelas seems un-
necessary, if not inconsequent. If the form of the tail is the distinguishing
character, then H. stropkianus would rather have to be classed with Heliotri/pha ;
if the want of the white collar is taken as decisive, then certain specimens of
//. clarissae, in which it is almost if not quite wanting, are inconvenient, besides
that mere colour-markings are in my opinion not good generic characters.

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INDEX

abbreviata (Gonodela), 251.
ablinearia (Leucula), 4C4.
abuorraalis (Tz-otothyria), 19.
abnormipeimis (Brachyprota), 4li2, 445.
abornata (CraspeJia), 432.
abortivata (Remocle.s), 231, 233.
Abraxa.s, 80, 39G.
Abra-xinae, 8G, 240, 39G.
absconditaria (Brachycola), 48, 21G.
absoqrta (Arycanda), 82.
abyssinica (Galerida), 145, 14G.
acaciaria (Chogada), 93.
Acadi-a, 104.
Acantbochoera, 3G9.
Acanthopneuste, 525.
acapulcae (Proculejus), 293.

— (Undulifer), 303.
Accipiter, 165.

accumulata (Semiothisa), 480.
acentra (Craspedia), 217.
Acidalia, 54, 434.

Acidalis, 225.

Acmonorhynchus, 155, IGl, 518, 519.

Acropteris, 21, 198.

Acrosemia, 486.

Acrotomia, 439.

Acrotomodes, 48G.

Actenocbroma, 207.

actiosaria (Ptychopoda), 60.

aculeata (Micronia), 23.

acuta (Lycauges), 57.

acutilinea (Dirade.s), 384.

acutirostris (Heterolocha), 133.

adaucta (Bnrsada), 240.

Addea, 19.

Adei.xLs, 27.

Adelomyia, 2, 9.

adulatrix (Episteme), 310.

acgeu.s (Papilio), 181.

Aegialitis, 273.

Aegocera, 184, 311.

aequalis (Aganais), 331.

— (Asota), 330.

— (Hypsa), 331.
aequifeiaria (Semiothisa), 485.
Aotheolepis, 68.

aetheraria (Trimetopia), 233.

Aethopyga, 11, 161.

atlinis (Caprimulgus), 163, 2C8.

— (Microgonia), 495.

affinis (Milvus), 514.

— (Strepsigonia), 1 7.

— (Teqjsipbone), 52G.
Aganaidae, 314, 335.
Aganais, 315, 317, 360
Agape, 333.
Agarista, 311, 332.
agarlsta (Hypsa), 332.
Agaristidae, 184, 310.
agassizi (Sertorius), 303.
Agatbia, 32, 208, 388.
aggravata (Craspedia), 50.
Agirpa, 84, 85.
Aglaeactis, 2, 4, 59.
Agnibcsa, 65.
Agraptocblora, 32, 208.
Agyrtria, 2, 4, 6, 151.
Alauda, 142.

alba (Pristoceraea), 183.
albape.v (Glaucopterj-x), 235.
Albara, 12.

albata (Heterusia), 456.
albertisi (Arrhipis), 178.
albescens (Certbia), 139.
albibasis (Gatbynia), 204.
albicapilla (Macropygia), 165.
albicaudata (Gymnoscelis), 228.
albiceps (Capnopbylla), 411.
albiclatbrata (Apostates), 214.
albiclausa (Plerocymia), 236.
albicoUis (Streptocitta), 158, 159.
albidata (Gelasma), 425.
albidiscata (Euepbyra), 438.
albidulata (Craspedia), 432.
albifera (Aganais), 359, 360,

— (Asota), 359-364.

— (HjTsa), 359, 360, 364.
albifimbi-ia (Noreia), 206, 387.

— (Tbalas,sodes), 214,
all>ilimliriata (Banisia), 196,
all)iformis (AsoUi), 315, 357 — 363,

— (Hypsa), 362,
albifrons (Mesomiraa). 85.
albifurcata (Hyposidra), 119,
albigrisca (Fidonia), 100.
albigiilaris (Eriocnemis), 148.
albigutta (Ci.ospedosis), 241.
albilauta (Anisog.amia), .33, 35.
albiniacula (Anisogamia), 3.3, 34.

— (Eumelca), 29.

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albinigra (Nephodia), 464.
albioccllata (Epiplcma), 412.
alliipicta (Victoria), 46.
albiplaga (Momonipto), 421.

— (Potera), 89.

albipimctata (Prasinocyma), 870.
albiquadrata (Potera), S'J.
albistrigulata (Hemitbea), 39.
albivena (Asota), 315, 340—342.

— (Hypsa), 341.

— (Neochera), 341.

— (Pergama), 499.
albiventris (Pi-sorhina), 527, 528.

— (Pnoepyga), 168. 516.
albiviridis (Chlorostrota), 36.
albogularis (Schistes), 531.
albomarginata (Scrobigera), 312.
albomedia (Chalcosia), 309.
albosignata (Petrodava), 115.
albula (Thysonotis), 368.
Alcedo, 11, 160, 163.

alciphron (Damalis), 315, 316, 317.

— (Hypsa), 315, 316, 317.

— (Phalaena), 316.
Alcis, 96, 245.

alexomaria (Oenoptila), 475.
alfredi (Pisorhina), 527, 528.
algeriensis (Ammomanes), 140, 141.
algidaria (Eumelea), 29.

aliciae (Agheactis), 5.
alienata (Aganais), 332.

— (Agarista), 332.

— (Asota), 315, 332.

— (Damalis), .3,32.

aliicomis (Aulacocyclus), 278, 279.
AUaxitheca, 237.
Almodes, 417.

alopecodes (Ptychopoda), 223.
alpestris (Nucifraga), 132, 134.
alpinus (Corvus), 374.
Alseonax, 524.
alternata (Banisia), 380.

— (Mixochlora), 42.
alternifascia (Eois), 436.
alticola (Certhi.a), 139.
altirostris (Galerida), 146.
alyattes (Hyi)ocbrysops), :i67.
Araaurinia, 446, 447.
Amaurornia, 165.
Amazilia, 1, 2, 6, 8.
ambagifera (Craspedia), 433.
americana (Certhia), 139.
Ammomanes, 140.
ampenaria (Uliocnemis), 392.
amplexicaudata (Xantharpyia), 263.
amplimargo (Ptychopoda), 443.
amygdalipeimis (Epiplcma), 201.
Amygdalopteryx, 4.'il.

anabUps (Tenaris), 313.
Anaea, 509.

Anagoge, 239, 476
analiplaga (Buzura), 244.
Anas, 273.

ana.stomosalis (Siculodcs), 409.
andamana ( Asota), 325.

— (Hypsi), 325.
andromedae (Gcocichla), 515.
Androphilus, 155.
Angenora, 125.

angulalis (Hypolampnis). 380.
angulata (Tlianinonoma), 484.
angulataria (Aploschuma), 22.
angulicollis (.-Vpatenia), 177.
angulilinea (Stesichora), 24.
angulo.sa (Remodes), 66.
angiista (Cyllopoda), 419.
angusticornis (Comacupes), 285.
angustifascia (Bauisia), 378.
angustipennia (Chlorostilbon), 151

— (Ptychopoda), 223.
angusti.striata (Galerida), 146.
Anisephyra, 47.

Anisodes, 48, 221, 412, 415, 431.
Anisogamia, 33.
Anisogonia, 4S6.
Anisographe, 2.')4, 400.
Anisoperas, 487.
anua (Antheraea), 182.
annae (Acmoiiorhynchus), 518.
annulata (Buzur.a), 244.
aiinulicornis (Tiiliotropis), 173.
auomala (Zosterops), 157.
Anomalopteryx, 188, 190.
Anonychia, 101.
ansorgei (Aegocera), 311.

— (Ceranchia), .309.

— (Charaxes), 181.

— (Zamar.ada), 261.
antennalis (Asota), 314, 315, 340.
antennata (Teplirina), 399.
Anthoraea, 182.

anthore (Arhopala), 367.

Anthreptes, 161. .519.

Anthus, 265, 521.

Anthyperythra, 255.

Antichera, 365.

antiphon (Hypochrysops), 367.

Antitrygodes, 47.

antucaria (Dectochilus), 490.

Apatenia, 176.

Aphengium, 187.

apicata (Hebdomophruda), 101.

— (P.silocerea), 98.
apiciata (P.silocerea), 259, 402.
apicipuncta (Stesichora), 200.
Apidania (Microgonia), 495.
A]>locldora, 7/J.

Aplodcs, 423, 428.
Aplogompba, 459, 461.
Aploschenia, 22.

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apollinaria (Pi'oblepsis), 50.

Apostates, 214.

Appias, 153.

approximans (Hemitliea), :i'.).

Aptcrygiilau, 188.

a(|uaticii.s (Corvus), .■i72.

Arcina, 124.

Arctoscelia, 102.

arcuata (Dendrocygiia), UK.

arcuatoclypeatus (Aulacooyolus), 278. 282.

Ardea, 264, 272.

Ardetta, '26?>.

Arenaria, 272.

arenicola (Galerita), 143—147.

arenicolor (Ammomanes), 140, 141.

arenosa (Cataspilates), 474.

argentea (Bapta), 462.

argenteola (Ausaris), 12.

argontifusa (Mixochlora), 42.

argentilinea (Ausaris), ly'i.

argentiplaga (Cirrhochrista), 130.

— (Turckheimeria), 243.
argentipuncta (Dichi-omatopodiii), 435.
Argjris, 51).

argyromma (Phrissosceles), 222.

Argyrotome, 459.

Arhopala, 360.

aridata (Heterostegane), 78.

armatus (Straboscopus), 176.

Arquata, 374—376.

arquata (Nucifraga), 132.

Arrhipis, 178.

Artamides, U, 102,523.

Artamu.s, 157, 522.

arthuri (Spliinx), .307.

aruensis (.\ulacocyclus), 281, 282.

Arycanda, 82.

Ascotiuae, 92, 245, 398, 402, 40G.

Ascotis, 92.

Asota, 314, 315—365.

Aspilates, 27, 99, 473.

Aspilatopsia, 100.

Aspilonaxa, 386, 387.

asiiiiuilis (Asota), 331.

— (Chlorostilbon), 152.

— (Milionia), 510.
assmanni (Sertorius), 303.
associata (Sterrha), 62.
astheninae, 05, 226, 446.
Astur, 105, 270.
atacamensis (Rhodopis), 1, 8.
atala (Chlorostilbon), 151.
ateraea (Melanchroia), 403.
atomaria (Buzura), 244.

— (Craspedia), 433.

— (Parasynegia), 80.
atomosalis (Pyralis), 383.

— (Sympbleps), 383.
atricapilla (Munia), II, 161.
atriceps (Pnrns), .'"jIH.

atridisca (Hemithea), 40.
atridiscata (Craspedia), 217.
atrifrons (Znsterops), 161.
atrimargo ( Pauaetliia), 86.
atropunctaria (Aiiisoperas), 487.
attacus (Phalaeua), 31 1!, 343.
attenuata (Nemoria), 42.

— (Pogouopygiii), 240.
Atthi.s, 2.
Atyriodes, 419.
Aulacocyclinae, 274.
Aulacocyclus, 277. 283.
aulae.ata (Oligopleiira), 449.
Auopliylla, 423.
aurantiaca (Cocytia), 509.

— (Eugnesia), 77.

— (Magida), 495.
aurata (.Vnisephyra), 47.

— ( Cambogia). 447.

— (Neochorista), 440.
auratisquama (Steirophora), 07.

— (Zamarada), 122.
aurea (Eriocnemis), 148.

— (Hammaptera), 452.
aureifi'ons (Zosterops), 520.
aureofulva (Chloromachia), 209.
aureola (Anaea), .009.

aureolimbatus (.Icmonorhynchus). 15.'i, 101.

auricincta (.Scardamia), 240.

auriculifera (Problepsis), 59.

aurifera (Fascellina), 118.

auriHamma (Milionia), 51.3.

aurimargo (Clirysocraspeda), 210.

aurora (Diphlogaena), 2.

Ausaris, 12, 13, 195.

austeni (Ceracupes), 274.

australiae (Catharsius), 152.

australiensis (Eumelea), 29.

australis (Aganais), 329.

— (Asota), 315, 329— .331.

— (Eurystomus), 1,")9.

— (Hypsa), .328— 331.
Auzata, 13.
Auzeodes, 255.

avacta (Asota), 315 — 326.

— (Hypsa), 325.
Azata, 104, 251.
Azelina, 487, 488.
Azelinopsis, 115.

aztecus (Pseudacantlms), 305.
azurea (Hypothymis), 525.

balz,ani (Thalurauia), 149, 150.
bandana (Asota), 354.
Banisia, 20, 190,378,380.
banyumas (Siphia), 158.
Bapta, 237, 255, 402.
baiJtuta (Sterrha), 224.
baroni (Buarremon), 4.

( 538 )

barrali (Heliangelas), 532.
Barrama, 28.

basalis (Comacupes), 283, 285.
bastialis (Siculodes), 382.
batesi (Hypselotropis), 173.
biitjancnsis (Apateiiia), 176.
Iwlfoidi (Melirrhophetes), 369, 370.
belliiaria (Percnia), S9.
bengalensis (Alcedo), 11, KiO.
bergii (Sterna), 273.
berlepschi (Eriocuemis), 531.
betularia (Chogada), 93.
bhurmitra (Ectropis), 94.
biangulifcra (Ozola), 388.
bicanthatu.s (Tacniocerus), 276.
bicolor (Artamides), 1G2.

— (Microgonia), 495.

— (Oreta), 16.
bicornis (Spurius), 304.
bicuspis (Taeniocerus), 277.
bifimbriata (Banisia), 20.
biformis (Asota), 322— .325.
bigeminata (Craspcdia), 50.
bibastatus (Ceracupes), 274.
bilinearia (Odontopera), 115.
bilineata (Prisito.stegania), 81.

— (Sabulodes), .",03.
bimacula (Haenialea), 438.
bimaculata ( Phlegoenas), 153, 160.
bimaensi-s (Chibia), .">23.
binotata (Nothomiza), 239.
biplagiata (Oricia), 421.
bipunctata (Stesicbora), 200.
bipunctatus (Hypolamprus), 198.
biseriata (Molybdogompha), 461.
Biston, 386.

Bistoninae, 90, 244.
bistriata (Jlicroloxia). 426.
blanda (Charaxe-s), 507.
boarmiaria (Racotis), 98.
boarmiata (Polygraphode.s), 442.
boarula (Motacilla), 521.
Bociraza, 512.

bogotensis (Eriocncmia), 531.
bohlsi (Gymnognathus), 174.
boliviana (Thaliirania), 149.
bombu.s (Chaetocerciis), 6.
Bombyx, 332, 352.
bonaventura (Craspcdia), 50.
bonthaina (Pachycephala), 158.
— (Siphia), 158, 159.
borbonica (Aganais), 334.
Bordeta, 83.

borealis (Phyllo.scopna), 515.
l)os (Pa.ssalus), 286.
boysii (Certhilauda), 145.
Braccinae, H2, 240, 397, 463.
Brachycola, 48, 392—394.
brachydactyla (Certbia), 136, 139.
Brachyprota, 432, 445.

Brachypteryx, 170, 516.
brachyrhj-ncba (Nucifraga), 132.
brachjThynchos (Xucifraga), 131, 1.32, 134, 1.36.
brachyiira (Galerita), 146.
brc\-icaudatiis (Cblorastilbon), 150.
brevioripcnni.s (Odontotaenius), 290.
brevipennis (Asota), .349.
brevis (Proculcjus), 293, 294.
brittanica (Certbia), 138, 139.
brunnea (Azclinopsis), 115.

— (Dectochilus), 490.

— (Eadotricha), 129.

— (Odontoptila), 440.
lirnnnciceps (Munia), 11, 161.
bninneoviridis (Chloroclystis), 449.
liryoptura, 466.

Bunrremon, 4.

Bubalis, 377.

bucerus (Cylindrocaulus), 304.

Bursada, 84, 240.

buruanus (Papilio), 181.

buselapbus (Bubalis), 377.

Buzura, 244.

cabanidis (Petaaophora), 148.
Cacatua, 164.
Cacomantis, 164.
caeaia (Epiplema), 25.

— (Hyposidra), 257.
caledonicus (Nycticorax), 264, 272.
Calicbodca, 246.

calidata (Heterostegane), 78.

Callidrepana, 13.

Callinaias, 129.

Calluga, 228.

calorhynchus (Phoenicophaea), 160, 164.

Calornis, 158.514.

calvua (Ibis). 375, 376.

Cambogia, 447, 448.

cambogiata (Eois), 437.

Camptogramma, 2.33, 451.

canaraica (Asota), 315—319, 337, 339, 357.

— (Hypsa), 339.
Candida (Cra-spedia), 432.
candid.ata (As]>ilate8), 473.
canisciuama (Spilocraapeda), 504.
caniveti (Chloroatillion), 150.
Capnophylla, 410, 411.

ciiprata (Pratincola). 155, 161, 264,515.

Caprimulgns, li'i3, 2M.

capucinua (Monachalcycn), 153, 160, 103.

cardinalis (Cobanilla), 13.

carea (.Stenalcidia), 172.

caribacus (Cblorostilbon), 151.

caricae (Aganais), 315.

— (Asota), 314, 315.

— (Damalia), 315-317.

— (Hippocrita), 317.

— (Hypsa), 31.5, 316—319.

( 539 )

caricae (Noctua), 31G.

— (Phalaena), Hlfi.

carnearia (Sjmmacra), fi:!.

cameola (Ptychojiofla), '223.

oaroli (Sappho), 4, 7.

Carphodactylus, 40S — 40ii.

Carpophaga, H'lO, 1(55.

Cartaletis, 28.

caryocatactes (Nucifraga), 132—136.

casaandra (Eois), 446.

castanearia (Heteromiza), US, 11 'J.

castissima (Craspedia), 51.

oaauarinus (Jleionornis), 18^.

Cata.scia, 250.

Cataspilates, 474.

catharina (Eriocnemis), 8.

Catharsius, 152.

catoriata (Paeudalcis), 90, 97.

caucasica (Galerida), 146, 147.

Caulifer, 274.

cavicoruis (Tristorthus), 283.

celebense (Trichostoma), 161.

celebensis (Aganais), 333.

— (Agape), 333.

— (Authreptes), 161.

— (Asota), 315—333.

— ( Hypotaenidia), 160.

— (Melilestes), 157.

— (Merula), 155.

— (Oriolus), 158, 159— 1G2.

— (Pitta), 163.

— (Pyrrliocentor), 100, 164.

— (Rhipidura), 266, 526.
celebicum (Dicaeum), 155, 161.
Cenoctenucha, 115.
centralis (Asota), 360.
Centropus, 269.

Ceracupes, 274.
Ceranehia, 309.
Ceratus, 177.
ceraimia (Motacilln), 107,
Certhia, 136.
Certhilauda, 145.
Certinia, 488.
Cerygone, 264.
Cethoaia, 154.
Ceycopsis, 163.
ceylonensis (Culicicapa), 526.
C'haetooercus, 6.
Chalcophaps, 160, 165.
Chalcosia, 309.
Chalcosiidae, .309,310.
chalybcata (Microgonia), 495.

— (Tasta), 76.
championi (Ogyges), 292.

— (Popilius), 297.
Charadrius, 272.
Chara.xes, 181, .507, 508.
Chelonia, 3.35.

chendoola (.\lauda), 14.5 — 147.

Chesias, 124.

Chiasmia, 82.

Chibia, 523.

Chlcnias, 124.

chloris (Halcyon), 1.58, 269. 514.

Chlorocharia, 157.

ChIorocly.stis, 69, 70. 71, 229, 230, 395, 449.

Chloroglyphica, 208.

chlorolaemus (Chrysolampis), 531.

Chloromachia, 209.

Chloromma, 30.

chlorophora (Omiza), 120.

Chloroplintha, 69.

chloroptera (Myzoraela), 157.

chloro.sata (Ptychopoda). 445.

CUorostilbon, 150, 151.

Chlorostrota, 36, 389.

Chogada, 93, 247.

Chondrocephalus, .301.

Chorodnodes, 105.

Chryaocly.stia, 228.

Chrysocraspeda, 49, 216, 238, 392.

chrysocraspedata (Amauriuia), 446, 447.

Chrysolampis, .531.

Chrysoleue, 49.

Cidaria, 236.

Cimicodes, 489.

eincta (Aaota), 361.

ciuctura (Ammomanes), 140, 141.

cindica (Stenalcidia), 471.

cinera-seens (Pseudalcis), 97, 249.

cinerea (Hyposcotis), 468.

cinereicoUis (Phyllergates), 517.

cinereus (Parus), 518.

— (Poliolimnas), 272.
Cinnyris, 11, 155, 161, 519.
circumscripta (Spilocraspeda), 504.
cirrhigera (Remodes), 395.
Cirrhochrista, 130.

cissa (Parrheaia), 465.

Cisticola, 155, 161, 264, 515.

cisticola (Cisticola), 155, 2G4, 515.

citrina (Ratiaria), 459.

citrinella (Zosterops), 157, 205, 520.

Cittura, 163.

claelia (Parrhesia), 465.

clara (Asota), 314, 363.

— (Hypsa), 363.
Clarissa (Arhopala), 360.
clarissae (Heliangelus), 5.32.
clathr.atus ((Jymnognathus), 173.
claudia (Heliaugelus), 532.

clavata (Asota), .338, 340—343,348, 351.

— (Hypsa), 343.
Cleora, 466.
Clepsimelea, 261.
Cobanilla, 1 3, 398.
cochevis (Alauda), 145.
coct.ata (Peratostega), 80.
Cocytia, 509.

( 540 )

Cocytiidae, 509.

coelestis (Cyanolesbia), 529.

Cochira, 411.

coeruleostriga (Lobocraspeda), 242.

CoUcsis, 37. 210.

collintata (Sumiothisa), 47R.

Collocalia, 264, 268.

colonns (Myiagra), 266, 267.

coIiinil)ari.>i (Dirades), 384.

colnmbica (Thalurania), 149.

Comacupe.s, 283, 284.

comata (Comatibis), 375, 376.

— (Ibis), 371—376.

— (Macroptcryx), 11.
Comatibis, 371—376. 377.
comatus (Comaciipes), 285.

— (Geronticus), 376.
combinata (.Stesichora), 24. 200.
cometifera (.Semiothisa), 482.
Comibaena, 391, 424.
comitata (Pelurga), 454.
commaculata (Dysepbyra), 435.

— (Xothabi-axas), 88.
commixta (Gonodela), 106.
Comostolode.'*, 210.
complana (Hypsa), 358—361.
complicata (Parasynegia), 79.
complicatalis (Sicalode.s), 198.
concana (.Agan.ais), 338.

— (Damalis). 338, 339.
concentrata (Ilacheospila), 430.
Conchocometa, 216.
concinna (Pitta), 526.
conciirrens (Eugnesia), 77.

— (Lycauges), 57.
COTfinis (Aaota), .320.
confiniscripta (Perixera), 394.
confiictata (Heterusia), 457.
confusa (Psaliodes), 454.
confuscata (Agathia), 32.
confusidentata (Remodes), 06.
congener (Tephrinopsis). 113.
conifera (Dirades), 204.

— (Phellinodes), 417.
conjuncta (Goniopteroloba), 230.
consobrina (Comostolode_s), 210.

— (Endotricha), 129.
consocia (Amaurinia), 447.
conspicua (Ortbocabera), 79.
constcllata (Camptogramnia), 233.
constrictifascia (Azelina), 487.
contorta (Asota), 314, 315, 365.

— (Hypsa), .305.

— (Remodes), 232.
contortibnea (Alcis), 245.
contracta (Oreta), 16.
convergens (Ourapteryx), 76.

— (Para.synegia), 79. 80.
conversa (Simotricba), 396.
Copbopbkbia, 1 16.

Copidryas, 312.

coquina (Gymnoscelis), 69, 228.

cora (Thaumastura), 7, 8.

Coracia, .374.

corcensis (Galerida), 146, 147.

cornutu.s (Gymnodactylus), 405.

— (Pas,salus), 28(;.
coronatus (Phyllergates), 517.
corra-sata (Triphosa), 73.
correspondens (Eugnesia). 77.
corruptata (Neagathia), 42(1.
coruscans (Waigeum), 367.
Corvidae, 371.

Con-US, 267, 371— .376, 522

Corymica, 116.

corj-ndoiii (Heliocopris), 185.

Cosmogonia, 210.

Cossidae, .307.

costae (Certhia), 137, 1.39.

costalis (CaUuga), 228.

— (Hypsopygia), 126.

— (Nothomiza), 120.
costata (Chelonia), 335.

— (Eudule), 456.
costinigrata (Acropteris), 21.
costinotata (Neodora), 497.

— (Notliomiza), 239.
costipuncta (Cyclomia), 489.
Cosymbia, 54, 217.

Craspedia, 50, 217, 247, 392, 432, 434, 443.
craspediata (Problepsis), 222.
Cra-spedosis, 241, 397.
crassata (Peridela), 110.
crassirostris (Nucifraga), 1.32.

— (Zosterops), 172,519.
crassisquama (.Sphinctocera), 128.
crataegata (Rumia), 122.
crenulata (Atyriodes), 419.

— (Eubjia), 90.
crepuscularia (Epirrboe), 234.

— (Semiothisa), 478.
Crinala, 312.

crinipes (Ptychopoda), 224.
crinita (Platycorota), 12l).
crlstata (Alauda), 143, 144, 145.

— (Coracia), 374.

— (Calerida), 142, 147.

— (Gymnoscelis), 229.
cristatus (Heterops), 145.
cruoraria (Chrysoleno), 49.
cruorata (Eois), 437.
Ciyptolopha, 158, 171, 524, 525.
cubitata (Odontoptila), 441.
cucullatus (Piiyllergates), 517.
Culicicapa, 158, 526.

cumingi (Megapodiu.s), 166.
cuneifa.scia (Synecta), 47.3.
cupraria (Eudule), 456.
cupreata (Eumclca), 29.
cupreipcnnis (Aglaeactis), 2, 4, 9.

( ■i41 )

Cupreivuntrift (Eriocuemis), 148.
cupreum (A|>henijiuin), 187.
curticornis (Remodes). '231, 232.
curvifa-scia (Peridela), 110.
curvigutta (Anisogamia), 34.
curvilinea (Hebdomophruda), IDl.
— (Spilocraspeda), .505.
curviplena (Lipomelia), 439.
Cuscus, 514.
Cusiala, 90.

cuspidatus (Passalotaenius), 289.
cyaneicoUis (Cyanomyia), 3, 4, 6.
cyauifera (Milionia), 510, 512, 513.

cyanocephalus (Monachalcyon), ltJ3.

Cyanolesbia, 2, 3, 4. 529.

Cyanomyia, 3, 4, 6.

cyanotis (Cittura), 163.

cyanoxantha (Xanthomima), 86, 243.

Cyclomia, 489.

Cyclura, 14.

cylindraccus (Aulaoocyclua), 280.

— (Comacupes), 285.

Cylindrocaulus, 304.

Cyllopoda, 419.

Cyllopodinae, 419.

Cymatophora, 466.

Cyrtostomus, 156.

daguanus (Gymnognathus), 174.
dama (Aganais), .355.

— (Asota), 355.

— (Hypsa), 346, 347, 354, .355.

— (Noctua), 365.
Damalis, 315, 317, 339.
daphne (Chlorostilbon), 150, 151.
Daphnis, 307.

Darisa, 247, 398.
darsania (Aaota), 315, 326.

— (Hypsa), 326.

daudini (Testudo), 407, 408.
dayi (Hyla), 406.
debiliata (Semiothisa), 479, 483.
debilis (Chondrocephalus), 302.
decessata (Traniinda), 65.
Decetia, 24, 412.
Decetiodes, 412.
decipiens (Petrejus), 291.
decolorata (Brachycola), 215.

— (Oenochroma), 206.

— (Ozola), 207.

decorata (Cosmogouia), 210.

— (Thalerura), 210.
decoratus (Gymnoguathus), 175.
Dectochilus, 490.

deeiraria (Teplnina), 112.
deflavata (P'ascollina), 25(i.
Deilinia, 402.

deiliniata (Craspedk), 433.
Deiliniinae, 76, 237, 396, 462.

deiphobus (Papilio). 181.
deiphontes (Papilio), 181.
deipylus (Papilio), 181.
deletaria (Bapta), 255.
deliaria (Problepsis), 59.
delicata (Haemalea), 439.
delicatior (Uliocnemis), 391.
delicatula (Epiplema), 202.
— (Strix), 264, 269.
delpbinae (Petasophora), 148.
deltae (Galerida), 144—147.
deludens (Syrrhizodes), 506.
delusa (Perissopteryx), 477.
Dendrocygna, 166.
denigrata (Remodes), 66.
densicoruis (Craspedia), 392.
dentata (Anisogamia), 33, 'ii.
dentifascia (lodis), 212.
dentilinea (Antitrygodes), 47.

— (Phaselia), 245.

— (Prochasma), 82.

— (Racheospila), 430.
derasata (Striglina), 382.
derbyi (Eriocnemis), 531.
Derxena, 206.

deserta (Craspedia), 51, 52.
deserti (Ammomane.s), 140, 141.
designata (Xanthorhoe), 75.
detenta (Probolosceles), 213.
deustata (Anisogonia), 486.
deva (Galerida), 142, 147.

— (Spizalauda), 142.

devexata (Rhomborista), 44, 45, 371.
deviaria (Chrysoleue), 49, 50.
deyrollei (Taeniocerus), 275.
diana (Aganais), 331.

— (Asota), 315, 331.

— (Hypsa), 331.
Dicaeum, 155, 161, 264, 518.
Dichromatopodia, 435, 506.
dichrorbyncha (Pelargopsis), 163.
Dicrurus, 162.

dicta (Aganais), 344, 350.

— (Asota), 344.

— (Hypsa), 344—350.
didiformis (Anomalopteryx), 190.
didina (Meionornis), 194.
diducta (Syndromodes), 45.
difEercus (Darisa), 398.

— (MebiUooblora), 41.

— (Spilocra-speda), 505.

— (Stenalcidia), 471.
digammata (Problepsis), 50.
dilatus (Aulacocyclus), 281, 282.
dilucida (Cliry.solene), 49.

— (Tanaostyla), 422.
diluta (AsoU), 348.

— (Rhipidura), 525.

— (Tridrepana), 18.
Dinoruithidae, 188—191.

( 542 )

dione (Nychitona), 153.
Diphlogaena, 2, 4, 5, 9.
Diplodesma, 389.
Diplurodes, 93.
Dipriodonta, 14.
Dirades, 200, 384.
discata (Abra.\a.s), 86.

— (Arycanda), 83.

— (Chlorostrota), 389.

— (Cra.spedia), 218.

— (Derxena), 206.

— (Epiplema), 202.
discoidalis (Asota), 327.
discolor (Asota), 323.

— (Certhia), 138.

— (Paraprasina), 43.
discreta (Hypsa), 334.
disjunctua (Passalus), 286.
dispar (Ochyria), 72.

— (Parametrodes), 2.50.
disparata (Eulype), 234.
dispartita (Euchloris), 390.
dissentiens (Cinnyris), 1.55, 156.
dissessa (Probolosceles), 213.
dissimilis (Anisographe), 254.

— (Darisa), 247.
dissimulans (Banisia), 380.

— (Pyralis), 126.
dissocia (Tephrina), 112.
dissociata (Xanthorhoe). 73, 74.
dissonans (Oraspedia). 51.
Dissoprumna, 22.

distincta (Magida), 494.
distinctus (Passalus), 28G.
distiuguenda (Gonodela), 106, 108.
divapala (Chloromachia). 209.
divaricata (Gathynia). 26.

— (Lipomelia), 4,39.
diversicolor (Letchena), 381.

— (Oligopleura), 449.
diversiliiiea (Anonj'chia), 101.
djamiHiana (Cacatua), 164, 165.
djampeanus (Trichoglossus), 172.
Dochephora, 449.
Docimastes, 9.

dogiiini (Sicya), 503.

dohcrtyi (Asota), 314, 315, 340.

— (Banisia), 196.

— (Craspedia), 393.

— (Daphnis), 307.

— (Edoliosoma), 523.

— (Geocichla), 515.

— (Lophozosterops), 1. 7, 169, 171, 521.

— (Milionia), 313, 512.
dolosa (Microligia), 125.
domcsticalis (Pyralis), 126.
domiiiicus (Charadrius), 272.
donovani (Xyleutes), 307.
doia (Nelo), 464.

doriai (Ceratus), 177.

dorsonotatas (Gymnognathus), 174.
doryca (Aganais), 354.

— (Asota), 330, 354—356.

— (Hypsa), 352, 353.
doubledayi (lache), 530.
draco (Epiplema), 413.
Drepana, 15.

Drepanulidae, 12, 195, 378.
Dryadopsis, 424, 425.
Dryocoetis, 90.

dubiosa (Milionia), 511.
dubium (Scissirostrum), 162.
dubius (Heliangelus), 532.
dulciferata (Amygdaloptery.x). 451.
dulitaua (Milionia), 510.
dumetoria (Erythromyias), 524.
duplicifimbria (Striglina), 383.
duplicilinea (Gonodela), 107.
durvillei (Cocytia), 509.
dybowskii (Eriocnemis), 8.
Dysephyra, 435.

Eariodes, 463.

ecclipticus (Popilius), 298.

Eclectus, 514.

ectochlora (Gymnoscelis), 70.

Ectropis, 93, 248.

edentata (Pbalacra), 195.

edentulus (Aulacocyclus), 280—282.

edmondsii (Tctracis), 506.

Edoliosoma, 523.

efBormata (Euchloris), 390.

egens (Aganais). 321.

— (Asota), 314, 315, 320, 326, 357.

— (Damalis), 321—325.

— (Hypsa), 320-325.
Egernia, 405.

elegans (Milionia), 313, 511.

— (Perusia), 501.
elephantina (Testudo), 407.
eUioti (Galerida), 144.
emersaria (Macaria), 399.

— (Semiothisa), 399.
Emeus, 189.

emiliae (Chlorocharis), 157.

enca (Coryus), 267.

Endotricha, 129.

Endotrichinae, 129.

enganensis (Asota), 345.

enhydris (He.xeris), 401.

Ennominae, 115, 254, 400, 402, 486.

ensiferus (Docimastes), 9.

Eois, 219, 4.36—438, 44G.

cpbippium (Mus), 263.

epbyrata (Ptocliopliyle), CO.

Ej)icosymbia, 64.

cpionata (Paracrocota), 258.

Epiplema, 25, 201-204, 385, 412.

Epiplemidao, 24, 200, 384, 408, 410.

( 543 )

Epirrhoe, 72, 234, 452.

Episothalma, 38.

Episteme, 310.

Erateina, 4.59.

erebata (Camptagramma), 4.'il.

Eremita, 371.

eremita (Comatibis), 371 — 376.

— (Corvus), 373 — 376.

— (Upupa), 371—376.
Ergolis, 153.

erici (Cartaletis), 28.

Erilyces, 421.

Eriocnemis, 8, 148, 530, 531.

Erionomus, 304.

Eriopterus, 306.

Erosia, 411, 494.

erycinaria (Dissoprumua), 22.

Erycinidae, 2(32.

erythroclilamys (Ammomanes), 141.

erythrogastra (Motacilla), 167.

— (RuticilLa), 167.

— (Sylvia), 167.
Erythromyias, 524.
erythronata (Geoeichla). 161.
etheocles (Charaxes), 508.
Eubyja, 90, 91.

Euchera, 15.

EucWoris, 37, 38, 43, 210, 389.

euchloris (Chlorostilbon), 151.

— (Panychlora), 151.
Eucrostes, 38, 211.
Eudosia, 530.
Eudule, 440, 456.
Eudullnae, 456.
Eudulophasia, 456.
Eudynamis, 164.
Euephyra, 438.
Eugnesia, 76, 396.
Eulabes, 522.
Eulype, 234.
Eumelea, 29, 387.
Euomoea, 124.
Euphalaci-a, 195, 196.
Euphia, 234.

euphrosyne (Arhopala), 306.
Eupithecia, 395.

eurisus (Arhopala), 366.
euroa (Asota), 316.
Eurystomus, 159.
Eurytaphria, 255.
Eurythecodes, 117.
Eusarca, 490.
eusemioide.s (Aganais), 336.

— (Hypsa), 336.

— (Mcthyi)sa), 336.
Eustenophasma, 491.
Eutomopepla, 492.
Euxena, 39.

eva (Djphlogaena), 4, .').
everetti (Androphilus), 155.

everetti (Gerygoiiu), 2i)4, 267

— (Orthnocicbla), 170, 515

— ( Phy Uergates), 517.

— (Pnoepyga), 168, 515, 516.

— (Xanthorhoe), 74.

ewingi (Ptilinopus), 264, 270, 271.
cxaiigulata (Diradcs), 200.
exarhatus (Peuelopides), 164.
excellens (Cinnyris), 11.

— (Ourapteryx), 75.
excisa (Cyclura), 14.
exclamationis (Heliocopris), 186
excur.saria (JIuesigea), 95.
Exelis, 467.

exilinota (Ptychopoda), 224.
exilis (Cisticola), 161, 515.
exortis (Heliangelus), 532,
expositus (Soranus), 294.
expulsaria (Oenoptila), 475.
exquisita (Eoi.s), 219.
extensa (Asota), 345, 350.
externa (Azelinopsis), 115.
extersaria (Hymenomima), 467.
extremata (Lycauges), 57.

falcata (Traminda), 64.
falcinellus (Ibis), 371.
fallax (Ceycopsis), 163.

— (Decetiodes), 412.
falsus (Passalotaenius), 289.
familiaris (C'erthia), 136, 139.
fanny (MjTtis), 3, 9.
farinalis (Pyralis), 126.
farinosa (Rhodostrophia), 394.

— (Stenalcidia), 471.
Fa.scellina, 118, 256.
fasciata (Ascotis), 92.

— (Ozola), 30.

— (Strophidia), 23.
fasciolata (Perizoma), 454.
faustinata (Alcis), 246.
ft'lderi (Tristorthus), 283.
felschei (Popilius), 298.
femoralis (Gymnognatbus), 175.
fergussouis (Asota), 362.
ferrugata (Xantborhoe), 74, 456.
ferruginata (Cambogia), 447.
fcrruginea (Ammomanes), 141.

— (Argyrotome), 459,

fibulata (Craspodia), 53, 247, 393, 443.

fidelis (Sumiothisa), 479.

Fidonia, 100, 459, 461, 475.

Fidoniinae, 99, 473.

(igurata (Somatina), 61.

fiiiscbi ('I'richo.stoma), l.'i5, 159, 161.

Ilagrans (.Vutbopyga), 11.

— (Cinnyris), 11.

flammea (Strix), 264, 269, 270.
flava (Galerida), 144—147.

( 544

flavareata (Brachycola). 215.
flavata (Gandaritis), 235.

— (Pristostegania), 81.
flaveola (Gerygone), 158, 162.
flavescens (Troides), 180.
flavibasis (Hylemera), 241.
Ilaviceps (Siculodop.sis), 416.
flavicoUis (Ptilinopus), 271.
flavicosta (Thalassodes), 214.

— (Zamarada), 122.
flavidiventris (Sporaeginthus), 522.
flavifimbria (Aplodes), 423.
flavilinea (Hydrelia), 227.

— (Oenospila), 212.
flavimargo (Callinaias), 120.
flavinigra (Fidonia), 475.
flavipectus (Heterusia), 4.57.
flavirubra (Peri.\era). 215.
flavitincta (Hemistola), 211.
flavivcntris (A.sota), 332.
flavocellata (Heterusia). 457.
flavostriata (Aethopyga), IGl.
flavotogata (Milionia), 512.
fiexilimes (Cartaletis), 28.
flexUinea (Azata), 251.
fleximargo (Mesoglypta), 205.
floccosa ( Zanclopteryx), 418, 419.
flora (Xelo), 463.

floreusis (Corvus), 522.
flore.siana (Crinala), 312.
floris (Artamides), 523.

— (Brachypteryx), 17U, 516.

— (Cryptolopha), 171,524.

— (Graucalus), 523.

— (Terpsiphone), 526.
fluidata (Gubaria), 108.
forata (Drep,ana). 15.
forsteai (Trichoglossus), 172.
fortis (Tristorthus), 283.
fovcata (Calichodes), 246.
foveicollis (Comacupes), 284.
foveipunctatus (Aulacocyclus), 278.
fracticomis (Aulacocyclus), 279, 282.
fractira.icula (Pitthea), 242.
frantzi (Popilius), 297.
fraterculus (Ammomauus), 141.

— (Phaethomis), 529.

frcnata (Cinnyris), 155, 156, 161.
frenatus (Cyrtostomus), 156.
frerei (Egernia), 405.
frondaria (Synchlora), 428.
fronticornis (Ceracupes), 274.
fruhstorferi (Mimeu.semia), 183, 311.
fucipliaga (Collocalia), 268.
fiilgorigera (Areina), 124.
fulgurata (Halteropliora), 39.
fulvata (Kuphia), 235.
fulvia (Aganais), 335.

— (A.sota), 315, 335, 357.

— (Chelonia), 335.

fulvia (Noctua), 335.

— (Spilosoma), 335.
fulvifnsa (Rhopalista), 455.
fulvilauta (Ausaris), 12.
fulvilunata (Teldenia). 18.
fulvisparsa (Acadra), 104.
fulvitincta (Cleora), 466.
fulvotincta (Pachycephala), 523.
fulvus (Charadrius). 272.

— (Microstictus), 164.
fumatilis (ZeuzorodesV 410.
fumicosta (Gathynia), 26.
fumosa (Hydatocapnia), 78.
funebris (Galba), 178.

— (Heterusia), 457.

— (Photoscotosia), 235.

— (Picas), 164.
furcata (Tephrina), 112.

— (Tbalurania), 149.
furciitoides (Tbalurania), 149.
furcicoruis (Aulacocyclus), 280.
furfurata (Craspedia), 218.
furva ( Petelia), 398.

fusca (Acanthochoera), 369.

— (Stenalcidia), 472.
fuscata (Epiplema), 385.

— (Goniopteroloba), 231.
fuscescens (Craspedia), 432.
fuscibruunea (Alcis), 96.
fuscicapilla (Cisticola), 515.
fuscicollis (Phalacrocorax), 273.
fuscifimbria (Micronia) 22.
fuscigrisea (Cidaria), 236.

galaxia (Charaxcs), 508.

Galba, 178.

galeopsis (Eustenophasma), 401.

Galerida, 142.

Galerita, 143, 146.

galerita (Alauda), 145.

gallica (Galerida), 146.

gambrisius (Papilio), 181.

gamuza (Azulina), 487.

Gandaritis, 235.

ganglbaueri (Eriopterus), 306.

Gathynia, 26, 204, 410, 414, 415.

Gazzola, 159.

Gelasma, 425.

gelatina (Epirrhoe), 452.

geminata (Tepbriua), 113.

genuflexus (Triorisma), 395.

Genusa, 88.

Geocichla, 161, 515.

geoifroyi (Ochthodromus), 272.

Geomctrid,ac, 27, 206, 385, 416, 510.

Geometrinae, 32, 208, 388, 423.

Geopclia, 271.

georgiata (Arycauda), 83.

gerana (Acidalia), 434.

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germaini (Gymnognathus), 173, 174.
Geronticus, 370.
Gerygone, 158, 162, 267, 525.
ghara (Asota), 330, 342, 354, 355.

— (Hypsa), 354.

gibbosus (Popilius), 209, 300.
gigantea (Testudo), 407.
gigas (Patagona), 2, 3, 4, (J, 7.
gilolensis (Milionia), 512.
glabriusculus (Aulacocyclus), 280, 282.
glauca (Milionia), 510.

— (Traminda), 04.
glaucaria (Aplodes), 423, 428.
Glaucopteryx, 235.
Goniopteroloba, 230.
Gonodela, 251.
Gonophaga, 400.

gopala (Cyllopoda), 420.
gorgo (Cyanolesbia), 529.
gouldi (Lesbia), 5, 9.

— (Pteropus), 203.
gracilis (Petrejus), 290.
gracillima (Albara), 12.
graculus (Corvus), 374.

— (Pyrrhocorax), 375.
grandis (Euticilla), 167.
granulifrons (Chondrocephalus), 302.
granulum (Chondrocephalus), 302.
grata (Malia), 159.

Graucalus, 11, 158, 162, 523.
grayi (Ammomanes), 141.
grisea (Anonychia), 102.

— (Chloroclystis), 227.
-(Eubyja), 91.

— (Gymnoscelis), 229.
griseata (Stibarostoma), 220.
griseatus (Caprimulgus), 208.
griseiceps (Astur), 165.
griseiventris (Cyanolesbia), 2, 3, 4.
griseola (Synecta), 472, 473.
griseotincta (Neoreta), 378.

— (Oreta), 378.
grisescens (Cataspilates), 474.
Gubaria, 108, 109.
guderiana (Charaxes), 507.
guianensis (Phaethornis), 529.
gularis (Ptilinopus), 165.
gustavi (Anthus), .")21.
Gymnodiictylus, 405,
Gymnognathus, 173.
Gyiunopera, 08
Gymnoscelis, 69, 70, 228.
Gynopteryx, 492, 493.

haagi (Soranus), 290.
haberi (Odontotaenius), 290.
Haemalca, 438, 439.
haesitandus (Spilospiziaa), 159.
hagedash (Hagedashia), 377.

Hagedashia, 377.

Halcyon, 158, 268, 514.

Haliaetus, 514,

Haliastur, 270,

Haltcrophora, 39,

hamata (Nucifraga), 132.

Hammaptera, 4.'>2.

Hebdomophruda, 100,

hebes (Popilius), 300,

hebetior (Bapta), 462,

hectori (Megalapteryx), 188- 1',I4.

Hedyle, 418.

Heliangelus, 532.

Helianthea, 530.

helianthea (Culicicapa), 158.

heliconia (Aganais), 338, 352.

— (Asota), 314—356.

— (Hypsa), 337—352.

— (Noctua), 343—352,

— (Phalaena), 343, 352.
heliconiaria (Hedyle), 418.
heliconioides (Asota), 315, 338.

— (Hypsa), 338.

— (Neochera), 838.
Helicopage, 390.
Heliocopris, 185.
Heliotrypha, 9, 533.
helius (Arhopala), 367.
heloisae (Atthis), 2.
hemicyclata (Problepsis), 59.
Hemipogon, 54.
hemispila (Xucifr.aga), i:i5.
Hemistola, 211.
Hemithea, 39.

hemixantha (Microeca), 524.
bepaticata (Cobanilla), 13.
Herbita, 493.

hermaphroditus (Paradoxurus), 514.
hermearia (Anthj-perythra), 255.
Herodias, 203.

heros (Oileus), 288.
Hesperomi2a, 493.
Heterephyra, 439.
Heterolocha, 118, 1.33.
Heteromiza, 118, 256.
Heterops, 145.

hetcrospUa (Phrissosceles), 222.
Heterostegane, 78.
Heterusia, 456.
Heterusiinao, 456.
Hexeris, 401.

himalayana (Certhia), 138,
Himera, 494,
Hippocrita, 317,
hiitaria (Biston), 38C.
birtus (Prooulejas), 294,
Hirundo, 2ri7, 526,
hodgsoni (Certhia), 138.
hololissa (Testudo), 407.
honestus (Rimer), 287.

37

( o46 )

horsfieldi (Mirafra), 26G, 521.
huonis (Immctalia), 184.
hjalina (Oospila), 4'27.
byalodisca (Neoreta), i!78.

— (Oreta). 378.
Hydatocapiiia, 78.
Hydrelia, 22G.

Hydiiomcninae, 72, 233, 451.
Hyla, 40G.

Hylemcra. 241, .397.
Hymenocharta, 84.
nymenomima, 407, 4G9, 472.
Hyostomodes, 252.
Hyperplema, 414.

hyperythra (Jlu.scicapula), 158, 524.
hyperythraria (Amaurinia), 447.
hyphenata (Bauisia), 108.
Hypochroma, 207.
Hypochrysops, 367.
Hypocoela, 41.

hypocyanea (Cyllopoda), 419.
Hypolamprus, 198, 380.
hypoleucus (Tringoides), 273.
Hyposcotis, 468.
Hyposidra, 119, 257, 401.
Hypotaenidia, lOiJ, 272.
hypothous (Daphiiis), 307.
Hypothymis, 15S, 162, .525.
Hypsa, 315, 316-319, 365.
Hypselotropis, 173.
Hypsidae, 314.
Hypsopygia, 125.

lache, 530.

Ibis, 370— 37G.

idaliae (Phaethoriiis), 529.

Idiodes, 257.

ignifera (Rliop,aIista), 455.

igniferum (Dicacum), 518.

illepidaria (.\.nisode.s), 221.

illineata (Parrhesia), 465.

illiturata (Acropteris), 198, 199.

— (Anthyperythra), 255.
inibuta (Perixera), 58.
imitata (Cenoctenucba). 115.
iniitator (Taeniocerns), 276.
immaculata (Apatenia), 176.

— (Corymica), 116.

— (Gynoptory.x), 493.
Imnietalia, 184.
impar (Gonodela), 107.
impicta (Semiothi.sa), 480.
impunctata (Barrama), 28.

— (Kucrostes), 211.

— (Lygropis), 129.

— (Tetracis), 506.
inao>|uilinc-a (Miantocbora), 401.
incaudata (Uurapteryx). 7.5.
incisus (Uiiduliter), 303.
includaria (.\uopbylla), 424.

inconspicua (Tephrina), 113.
inculta (Sauccrottia), .530.
indecretata (Microloxia), 42.
iudeiitata (Diplurodes), 93.
indica (Asota), 320, 321.

— (Cbalcopbaps), 165.
indularia (Heterostegane), 78.

— (Stegania), 78.
Induna, 55.

indus (Haliastur), 270.
ineffiectaria (Isandria), 469.
inermis (Phyllurus), 405.
inexcisa (SemiotbUa), 480.
infantilis (Azelina), 488.
infonuis (Nyctibates), 416.

— (Omiza), 120.

— (Strophoptih), 225.
iiifota (C'raspedia), 434.
iimomaria (Gynopteryx), 192.
innot.ata (Anisogouia), 486.

— (Spilocra-ipeda), 505.

— (Zoinia), 402.
inobtrusa (Mne.sitheti.s), 393.
inornata (Bracbj'cola), 216.

— (Gerygone), 267.
inquinata (Sicya), 503.
insiguata (Adeixis), 27.
insignis (Decetia), 25.
instabilata (Kpiplema), 25, 385.
insticta (Acropteris), 21.
insuavi.s (Eois), 220.
insularis (Tacniopygia), 2GG.
insulsata (Euxena), 39.
intacta (Aganais), 347.

— (Asota), 338, 343, 347, 350.

— (Hypsa), 347—350.
Integra (Dirades), 200.

— (Miantonota), 425.
iuteiisa (Eugnesia), 396.

— (Notbomiza), 120.
intei'albicans (Banisia), 379.
interfuscata (Sirinopteryx), 122.
intcrgeneus (Soranus), 295.
intermedia (Asota), 359.

— (Zosterop.s), 157, 161,520.
intermcdius (Haliastur). 270.

— (Monac)ialcyon), iri3.
intermissa (Asota), 323.
interpres (Arenaria), 272.
iaterrupta (Ligdia), .S8.

— (Peridela), 110, 111.

— (Petulia), 47G.
iutervenata (Epiplema), 413.
invalida (Microxcna), 238.
invaiia (Eudulopbasia), 456.
inva-sata (Abraxas), 87.

— (Auopbylla), 424.
inveniista (Syndromodes), 40.
inversa (Asota), 324.
invisibilis (Aploublora), 76.

' 047 )

iodamia (Aganais), 334.

— (Asota), 315. 334.

— (Hypsa), 334.
lodis, 212, 425.

iolata (Petasopliora). 3 — 7.

Iramba, 70.

Iridopsis, 4Gi).

iris (Diphlogaeiia), 9.

isabella (Stiltia), 272.

isabellina (Ammomanes), 141.

— (Galerida), 142, 144—147.

— (Oenoliranas), 105.
Isandria, 409.
Isopleaia, hb.

ispida (Alcedo), 11, 100, 103.
ispidoides (Alcedo), 100, 163.
isthmia (Asuta), 315, 364, 305.

— (Hypsa), 364.

— (Neochera), 304.
ithonie (Appias), 153.
Ixias, 153.
lyugipicus, 158.

Iza, 408.

jabensis (Asota), 332.
jagori (Munia), 11.
jalappensis (Pseudacanthus), 305.
jamaicensis (Ptychopoda), 443.
japomca (Certhia), 138, 1.3'J.

— (Hirundo), 520.
japonicus (Nucifraga), 134, 130.
jaspidata (Racheospila), 430.
ja.spidea (Cyclomia), 490.

— (Hesperomiza), 494.
javana (Aganais), 332.

— (Agape), 333.

— (Asota), 314—332.

— (Bombj-x),3.32.

— (Damalis), 333.

— (Hypsa), 332.

— (Plialaena), 332.
javanica (Hirundo), 267.

— (Mirafra), 206.
javanious (Centropus), 269.
javensis (Conchocometa), 210.

— (Medasina), 95.
jelskii (Thalurania), 149.
junctisti-iatus (Triaenurgus), 306.
jupitcr (Charaxe.s). 508.

kalaonica (Asota), 349.
karintbiaca (Galerida), 140.
kaupi (.lulacocyclus), 280.
keianus (Charaxes), 508.
kinabaliionsis (.\sota), 315, 305.
kingi (Cyauolesbia), 529.
kiriwinae (.\sota), 350.
klingelhoferi (Popilius), :!00.
kochii (Graucalus), 11.
kuhli (Scotopliilus), 20.3.

kuliien.sis (Asota), 318.

lacrimans (Ptilotis), 309.
lactea (Dirados), 385.
lacteatii (.\sota), 358. W^.

— (Chogad.a). 247.

— (Hypsa), 358.
laevicornis (Tristorthus), 283.
laevior (Ogyges), 292.
laevipennis (Craspudia), 52.
laevis (Carpliodactylus), 403, 406.
laevissimus (Ogyges), 291.
lafayi (.\plogompha), 459.
Lalage, 158, 102, 267, 514.
Lampadopteryx, 75.
Lampornis, 531.

Lampribis, 377.
lanceolata (Aganais), 353.

— (Asota), 342, .351, 353, .3.55.

— (Hypsa), 353.
languescens (lotlis), 425.
Lanius, 522.

lansbergi (Pericrocotus), 523.

lara (Asota), 343—347.

Larentia, 451.

Lasiochlora, 45.

Lassaba, 398.

laticornis (Pseudacantbus). 304, 305.

latigrisea (Epirrlioe), 72.

latilineata (Microloxia), 42.

latimargo (Cyllopoda), 420.

— (Zamarada), 261.
latonaria (Argyris), 59.
le.autungensis (Alaiida), 140.

— (Galerida), 145, 146, 147.
lemonia (Cyllopoda), 42(1.
lempiji (Pi.soriiina), .'■|27.
lentigiuosaria (Cenoctenucha). 115.
leiizi (Popilius), 301.
Ieo])aidata (Hypolamprus). 380.
lepida (Anthrcptes), 519.
lepidaria (Comibaena), 424,
Lepiodcs, 94.

Fieptacme. 50.
Leptoctenopsis, 417.
Icptorbynchus (Nucifraga). 132.
Leptostogna, 233.
Tjcsbia, 4, ,5, 7, 9.
Lotcbotia, :'.81.

leucoccphal.ata (Dirades), 384.
Ieucoga.ster (Artamus), 522.

— (Haliaetus), 514.
Leucomicra, 494.
leuconeura (Aganais), 355, 356.

— (Asota), 356.

— (Hypsa), 35G.
leuconota (Aganais), 338.

— (Asota), 338.

— (Hypsa), 337.
Leuconotbn. 415.

( 548 )

leucophaea (Amazilia), 1, 2, 6, 8.

leucops (Dicrurus), 162.

leucopygialis (Lalagc), 102.

leucopjgius (Graucaliis), 158, 16_'.

locicospilaria (Leucomicra), 4!I4.

Leucula, 4(34.

Ucheuosus (Pliyllurus), 404, 405, 406.

Lichtensteinipicus, l64.

Ligdia, 88.

lignata (Gathynia), 204.

— (Pergami), 499.
lignicoloi- (Paracomistis), 498.

— (Scotoptei'ix), 90.
lilacina (Albara), 12.

— (Microgouia), 490.
limitata (Ptychopoda), 443.

— (Syntaracta), 396.
Limoiiitea, '273.

linearis (Hyposidra), 257, 401.

— (Xylolocha), 507.
lineata (Asota), 330.

— (Aspilonaxa), 386, 387.

— (Ptochophyle), 60.
lineoiata (Cambogia), 448.
Lipomelia, 220, 439.
Lissostolodes, 493.
lithina (Scioglyptis), 99.
litiiratus (Xyleutes), 307, 308.
Lobocra-speda, 242.
Loboparadisea, 169.
Loddigeaia, 9, 10.
lorabokensis (Miraeusemia). 310.
longicorpus (Tepbroclystia), 450.
longifimbria {'I'epbroclystia), 450.
longimacula (Bordeta), 83.

— (Percnia), 89.
longipennis (Hapta), 237.
longirostris (Eriocnemis), .531.
Lophozosterops, 157, 171, 521.
Loricuhis, 165, 514.
lucigerata (Heterusia), 457.
lucinda (Simotricha), 395, 396.
luctuosa (Myristicivora), 165.
Indovicata (Eumelea), 29.
lugens (Epiplema), 202.
lunifera (Dysepliyra), 436.
lusitana (Ammomanes), 141.
lutea (Galerida), 146.
luteiceps (Azata), 251.
lutetiae (Heliantbca), 530.
Luxiaria, 109.

Lycauges, 51, ,57.
Lygris, 236.
Lygropis, 129.

Macacus, 514.

Macaria, 399.

macariata (Ectropis), 248.

mackloti (Dicaeum), 264, 265.

macleayi (Caulifer), 275.

macrodactyla (Certhia), 137.

Macropteryx, 11.

Macropygia, 165.

macrorhynclia ( Galerida), 142, 144—146, 147

— (Nucifragii), 1,32.

macrorhynchos (Nucifrag:i), I.'il, 132—136.
macroihynchus (Corvus), 267, 514, 522.
macrosticta (Asota), 324.
macvilata (Chloroglyphica), 208.

— (Entomopepla), 49v(.

— (Galerida), 146.

— (Pai-adirades), 205.

— (Paragonia), 498.

— (Scardamia), 240.
maculicincta (Abraxa.s), 87.
maculicosta (Azclina), 488.
macuUfera (Bursada), 84, 240.
maculosa (Arycanda), 83.

— (Turnix), 160.
niaculosata (Procypha), 121.
maeulosus (Turnix), 2()4, 271.
Magida, 494.

magna (Galerida), 145 — 147.
magnifica (Dapbnis), 307.
mailua (Tenaris), 313.
major (Bubalis), 377.

— (Galerida), 146.

— (Macropteryx), 23.

— (Panychlora), 151.
malabarica (Galerida), 142—147.
malacccnsis (Anthroptes), 161.
malaris (Pbaethornis), 629.
malayensis (Anthus), 265.
malescripta (Cusiala), 90.

— (Heniithea), 40.

— (Leptacme), 56, 57.
Malia, 159.

malisa (Asota), 353.

— (Hypsa), 353.
manadensis (Turacoena), 165.
mandibularis (Nycticorax), 272.
manifesta (Xcnograpbia), 402.
manipurensis (Certhia), 138.
mardinata (Lygris), 236.
margarita (Odontoptila), 441.
marg.aritata (Mctrocampa), 37.

— (Problcpsis), 223.
margiualis (Copidrya.s), 312.
marginata (Asota), 324.

— (Chlorostrota), 36.

— (Clirysocr;vspeda), 392.

— (Kpisothalma), 38.

— (Oospila), 427.

— (Ozola), 207.
marginatus (Popiliua), 299.
maria (Pitta), 526,
marmorata (Chogada), 247.

— (Tephrinopsis), 1 14.
masoni (Comacupes), 285.
masters! (Tacuiocerus), 275.

( 549 )

matthewsi (Pauoplites), 9.
matutina (Alauda), 145.
maugeus (Geopelia), 271.
mavors (Heliangelus), S.^a.
Mecooeratinae, 417.
Meda.sina, 95, 9ii.
mediofasciata (Milionia), 510.
mediof usca (Micronidia), 238.
mediostrigata (Uanisia), 197.
medius (Anthus), 265, 521.
mediusta (BrachycoLi), 392.

— (Perixera), 392.
meeki (Immetalia), 184.
meforana (Milionia), 512.
Megalapterjx, 188—194.
Megapodius, 166.
megaspilaria(Phorodesma), 44.
Megatheca, 230.

megisto (Phalaenoides), 311.
Meionornis, 188 — 194.
Melanchroia, 463.
melanogenys (Adelomyia), 2, 9.
melanoleucus (Phalacrocorax), 273.
melanope (Motacilla), 521.
melanopogon (Tapliozous), 263.
melanorhyncha (Eudynamis), 164.

— (Pelargopsis), 163.
Melilestes, 157.
Meliphagidae, 369.
meliphila (Agyrtria), 151.
Melirrhophetes, 369, 370.
Melitulias, 236, 452.
melliflua (Craspedia), 52.
meloda (Melopelia), 6.
Melopelia, 6.

menete (Aegocera), 311, 312.
meonaria (Phyletis), 222.
meridionalis (Melilestes), 157.

— (Oriolus), 158, 159, 162.

— (Pachycephala), 158.

— (Phoenicophaes), 160, 164.

— ( Stoparola), 158.

— (Troides), 180.
merionoides (Ergolis), 153.
Merops, 164, 268, 514.
Merula, 155.

merulinus (Cacomantis), 164.
Meskea, 410.
Mesoglypta, 205.
Mesomima, 85.
Mesopteryx, 188—190.
Metallochlora, 41.
Metallura, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9.
metaspila (Auisogamia), 33.
Mcthypsa, 336.
Metrocampa, 37.
mexicaua (Certliia), 139.
mexicanus (Pseudacaiitbus), 305.
mexicaria (Microgonia), 496.
meyeri (Cinnyris), 156, 161.

Miantochora, 401 .

Miantoiiota, 425.

micacealis (Pharambara). 382.

micaceata (Tasta), 70.

micantaria (Bapta), 462.

micra (lodis), 212.

Microeca, 170, 524.

Microgonia, 495.

Microligia, 124.

Microloxia, 42, 212, 390, 426.

Micronia, 22, 24.

Micronidia, 238.

microrbyncbum (Rhamphomicron), 530.

Microstictus, 158, 164.

Microxeua, 238.

micrura (Myrmia), 268.

Milionia, 313, 510, 513.

Milvus, 514.

mimeticus (Papilio), 314.

Mimeusemia, 183, 310.

mimica (Chloromma), 36.

— (CoUe-sis), 37, 210.

— (Prochasma), 81.
Mimochroa, 116.
Mimogonodes, 497.
rainahasa (Rallina). 165.
mindanensis (Artamides), 11.
mindarus (Thysonotis), 3()S.
miniata (Rhodogonia), 410.
minima (Azelina), 488.

— (Cbloroclystis), 227.
miniosata (Photoscotosia), 235.
minor (Calornis), 158.

— (Nucifraga), 132.

— (Tacbypetes), 263.
minorata (Brachycola), 48, 394.

— (Eurytaphria), 255.
minuta (Hymenomima), 468.
mirabilis (Loddigesia), 9, 10.
Mirafra, 266, 521.
miranda (Anaca), .')09.
Mixocblora, 42.

mixtata (Oenoptila), 475.
Mnesigea, 95.
Mnesitbetis, 393.
modesta (Agrajjioclilora), 32.
mollis (Ccrancbia), 309.
molucca (Munia), 1.57, 621.
moluccana (Alcedo), 160 — 163.
moluccensis (Tinnunculus), 270.
Molybdogompha, 460.
Momonipta, 421.
Monacbalcyon, 153, 160-163.
monacbus (.Vrtamus), l.')7.

— (Moiiaclialcyon), 160 -l(i3.
moniliata (Abraxas), 87.

— (Auisogamia), 34.
raontana (Certbia), 139.

— (Upupa), 376.
moutanus (Eromita), 371.

mentis (Cryptolopha ), 171, :^24
monycha (Aganais), 35J.

— (Asota), 840, 343.

— (Attacus), 343.

— (Hyi«a), 339-355.

— (Phalaeua), 343.
moorei (Phaethomis), 529.
morbilliata (Dryadopsis), 425.

— (Xemoria), 425.
mono (Volvocivora). ](;2.
moi-itzi (PopiliusX 209.
mortii)a.x (Heterusia), 457.
inosiiucm (Eriocnemis), 531.
llotacilla, 107, .521.
miiUc-ri (Taiiyguathus), H)4.
multiliiieata (Phalacra), IG.
multiplagiata { Auopliyi'la), 424.
multipimctata (Niicifraga), l.'Jo.
multistrigata (Gonodela), 108.
miinda (Oelasma), 425.
Munia, 11, 1.07, lei, 2i;6, 521.
muricolor (Noreia), .80.

— (Rhodostrophia), (;i, 221.
murina (Asota), 347

Mus, 263.
Jluscicapa, 525.
Muscicapula, 158, 524.
muscicolor (Omiza), 120.
muscosa (Anisogamia), 35.
muUibilis (Azafa), 104, 251.

— (Cyinatopliora), KiG.
mutata (Arctoscelia), 103.
Mychouii, 491.
mycrocristata (Galeiida), 145
Myiiigr.!, 264, 26G.

myriaa (Cethosia), 151.
Myristicivora, 16}.
Myrmia, 2—8.
Myrtis, 3—9.
mysticus (Pop;liiis), 29s.
Myzomela, 157.

Xadagarodes, 253.
nana (Epipleina), 204.

— (Euchera). 15.

— (Leiicula), 464.

— (Nolhomizii, 23;i.
uanata (Hemipogou), 54.
nanula ( Eucrostes), 21 1 .
napensi,s (Chlorostill)on), l5o, Ij],
niUiuta (Zamarada), 122.
natalensis (Tyeoonia), 114.
nattereri (Certhia), 137.
natunensis (Asota), 340.

Naxa, 386.

Neagatliia, 426.

neI)ulos:i (Aganai.s), .322—325.

— (Asota), 322.

— (Hypsa), 322-320.

— (Nobilia), 58.

( 550 )

uedusia (Microgouia), 496

Negettt, 88.

neglecta (CoUocalia), 264, 2C8

neglectum (Dicaeum), 264, 265

ucglectus (Philemon), 2G5, 519.

nelirkorni (Dicaeum), 155

Nelo, 4G3, 464.

Nemoiia, 42, 425, 426.

Neochera, 338, 341—364,

Xeochoiista, 440.

Neodora, 497.

Ncopsittacus, 369.

Xeoreta, 378.

Nepbeloleuca, 498.

Nephodia, 4G4,

Xophodiiiiae, 4G4.

nervosa (Asota), 351.

Nesalcis, 96.

nesophora (Hypsa), 334.

nestor (Himera), 494.

neumanni (Bubalis), 377.

Neurotoca, 43.

niuoliarica (Asota), 345.

— (Hypsa), 345.

nictata fC'raspcdia), 51.

nictitans (Epiplema), 203.

nigra (Galba), 178.

nigralbata (Pogonopjgia), 240.

nigrata (Meskoa), 410.

nigricans (G.alonda), 146.

nigriclavata (Parasynegia), 81).

nigricola (Enrythecodcs), 117.

nigriconn's (Agraptochlor'a), 208

— (I.i.vgi-opis), 130.

uigridorsata (Euphalacra). 195, 19G

nigiifrons (Parasynegia), 239. '

nigriiineata (Ocnoptila), 47G.

nigiimacula (Phellinodes), 418.

nigi-imaculata (Anisogamia), 35.

— (Strepsigonia). 17.
nigrimcdia (Xaiithorhoe), 74
nigrinotata (Craspedia), 52.
nigripennis (Ei.isteme), 310.
nigriplaga (Cambogia), 448.
nigripimcta (Acrotomodes), 486.

— (Petrodava), 111.

— (Traminda), 225.
nlgripunctata (Ectroi)is), 93.

— (Spiiocraspeda), 505.

— (Thalassodes), 46.
nigrisculpta (Trichoptcrigia), 68.
nigrisijuama (Acropteris), 21.
nigristicta (Tby.s;mopyga), 477.
nigristriata (Banisia), 197.
nigrivena (Parrhesia), 465,
nigrivestis (Eriocnemi.s), .531.
nigrocellata (Piciocymia), 236.
uigrofasciata (Thaluiania), 149.
"ligromaculata ( Psilocorea), 98.
nigi-upunctata (Semiotbisa), 480.

( 351 )

nigi'oseriata (Auzeodes), 25.').
nigrosticta (Ptycbopoda), l\\.
Ni nodes, 23'^.
Ni.io.x, 159, 2G4, 2(i9.
nipaloiisis (Certbia), 138.
nisii (Lipomelia), 439.
uisoria (Muuia), 266, 521.
nitida (lache), 53i.).
uitidata (Semiothisa), 481.
nitidisquama (Opisthoxia), 4lil.
nivea (Stesichora), 24, 384.
niveipuncta (Epipluma), 25.
niveopuncta (Brachycola), 48.
uivisparsa (Anisoganiia), 33.
nivitacta (Hyposidra), 2.o7.
Nobilia, 58, 220.
Noctua, 31(i— 355.
noctumus (Corvus), 374.
Noreia, 30, 206, 387.
nortia (Aplodes), 423.
notata (Xeurotoca), 43.
Nothabraxas. 88.
Notbomiza, 120, 239.
novaehoUaudiae (Ardea), 2i!4. 272.
Qovus (Popilius), 299.
nubigena (Nemoria), 42.
nubilata (Hyo-stomodes), 252.
nubimargo (Bapta), 462.
Nucifraga, 131, 1.32—136.
Nudaurelia, 182.

nudigula (Pachycephala), IVl, 522.
nugata (Euphia), 235.
Numeiiius, 273.
numicusaria (Decetia), 24.
nummulifera (Hylemera), 397.
Nychitona, 153.
Nyctibates, 415.
Nycticorax, 264, 272.
Nymphalidae, 507.

obliqua (Aegocera), 312.
obliquifascia (Eumelea), 387.
obliquiscripta (Sterrha), 62.
obliterata (lodis), 212.

— (Lassaba), 398.

— (Nobilia), 220.

oblunata (Sphalerosticba), 127.
obrinaria (Brachycola), 215.
obscurata (Peucela), 120.
obsole.sceas (Stesichora), 384.
obsoleta (Agathia), 208.

— (Timaudra), 63.
obtusimacula (Cyllopoda), 420.
occidentalis (Certhia), 139.

— (Tinnunculus), 159, 270.
occlusa (Pharambara), 382.
occultata (Semiothisa), 480, 481.
ocellata (Lepiodea), 94.

— (Ninox), 264, 269.

— (Sicyodes), 2li0.

ocellata (Spili/cteuia), 458.

— (Terpua), 207, 388.
ochodontaria (l'Ji>ipleraa), 414.
ochracea (Siculode.s), 38.3.
ochrca (Acteiiochroma), 207.

— (Eucliloris), 210.

— (IIy]tochronia), 207.

— (JIiiesitheti,s), 393.

— (PIeiiro]>rucha), 442.
ochrealis (Asota), 328.

— (Hypsa), 328.
oolirifascia ('I'liamiioiiouia), 484.
ocliriliuea (Thysaiu)|iyga), 478.
OchlliiMlroums, 272.
Ochyria, 72, 2:!6.
octo|)Uiictata (Syuopsia), 92.
oeulari.s (Stigmatops), 265.
Odoiitopera, 115.
Odoiitoptila, 410,441.
Odontotaeaiii-s 288, 289.
t)euochroma, 206.
Oeiiochrominae, 27, 206, 385, 416.
Oenolimnas, 165.

Oenoptila, 475.

Oenospila, 44, 212.

Oenotbalia, 470.

Ogyges, 291.

Oileus, 288.

oleagina (Euchloris). 58.

olga (Neoreta), 378.

— (Oreta), 378.
Oligopleura, 449.
olivacea (Ibis), 370.

— (Microwonia), 490.

— (Phthoiioloba), 07.
olivaceonotata (Diohromatopodia), 435.
olivata (Copliopblebiii), 116.

— (Diplodesma). 389.

— (Petrodava), 253.
olivescens (Oigaiiopoda), 394.
ooiaiia (Ero.sia), 411.
omi.ssa (Arycanda), 83.

— (Siphia), 158.
Omiza, 120, 258, 4iil.
Omphacodes, 428.

onusta (Arctosoelia), UI2, 103.

— (Asota), 325.

— (Damalis), 325.
Onycodes, 27.
Oospila 426, 427.
opaca (Metallura), 3, 4, 7.
opalesceiis (Albara), 12.
opalina (Terpna), 207.
Ophthalmodes, 249.
Opisthoxia, 461.

opuleiita (Trichogompha), 461.
orbifora((iatliynia), 414.
orbona (Aganais), 326.

— (Asota), :il5, 326— 331.
orbonis (Hypsa), 327.

ordinaria (Bauisiu), 197.

Oreotiochilus, 2, 7.

Oreozosterops, 157.

Oreta, 16, 378.

Organopoda, 393.

Oricia, 421.

orienfcilis (Eurystomus), 159.

Oriolus, 159.

orizabae (Petrejus), 291.

ormeuus (Papilio), 181.

ornatus (Gymnogiiathus), 174.

— (Merops), 1G4, 5i4_

— (Trichoglossu.s), 159, 165.
Orthnocichla, 170, 515.
Orthobrachia, 237.
Orthocabcra, 79.
Ortbosti.xinae, 28, 206, 38G, 418.
Orthotomus, 5)8.

osciUans (Microeca), 170, 524.

Osmotreron, 1(5.'>.

ossicolor (Craspedia), 218.

Ourapteryginae, 75, 459.

Ourapteryx, 75.

ovalis (Craspedosis), 241.

Oxycophina, 409.

Oxydia, 475, 476.

Ozola, 30, 207, 387.

Pachycephala, l.-)8, 171, 522.
Pachycopsis, 428.
Pachydia, 477.
Pachj-glosisa, 519.
pachyrhynchus (Xucifraga), 132
Pachythalia,220.
pagorum (Galerida), 14G.
paliura (Asota), 315, 339.
palliceps (Pitta"), 163.
pallicostata (Cimicodes), 489.
pallida (Ammomancs), 141.

— (Anonychia), 102.

— (Galerida), 143, 144.

— (Microloxia), 390.

— (Munia), ICl, 266.

— (Petelia), 103.

— (Tephrinopsis), 114.

— (Xenochlorodes), 47.
pallidata (Xenoecista), 484.
pallidicincta (Probolosceles), 213
pallidilinea (Crjuspedia), 218.
pallidior(Synoicii.s), 271.
pallidipars (Hammaptera), 452
pallidiplaga (Xemodes), 232.
pallidirufa (Gymnoscclis), 70.
pal|)ebrosa (Zosterops), 157.
Palyadinae, 75, 459.
Pamphlebia, 213.

Panaethia, 82, 86.
panamen.sis (Chlorostilbon) 152
Panoplites, 9.
Panycblora, 150, 151.

( 552 )

paphos (Asota), 315, 337, 338, 343

— (Hypsa), ,337.

— (Xoctua), 337.
Papilio, 181, 314.
IJapillosa (Aetheolepis), 68.
pai)uensis (Noreia), 387.
Parachoreutes, 416, 417.
Paracomistis, 498.
Paracrocota, 258.
paradeicta (Epiplema), 26.
Pai-adirades, 205.
paradiseus (Troides), 180.
Paradoxurus, .014.
Paragonia, 498.

paraUacta (Semiothisa), 112, 399.
parallela (Xenoprora), 226. '
paraUelaria (Eusarca), 49o!
Parametrodes, 250.

Paraprasina, 43.

Paraptychodes, 85.

Parasynegia, 76, 79, 239.

Pareuchloris, 43.

parisnattei (Medasina), 95.

Paromphacodes, 428, 429.

Parrhesia, 465.

parryi (Aulacocyclus), 281, 282.

particolor (Heterusia), 458.

Parus, 518.

parva (Anomalopteryx), 190.

— (Jlirafra), 521,

parvidentata (Acropteris), 199.

parvirostri.s (Ammomanes), 141

parvula (Cacatua), 165.

parvus (Taeniocerus), 276.

Passalinae, 286.

Passalotaenius, 288.

Passalus, 286, 289.

Patagona, 2, 3. 4, 6, 7.

patalata (Auzeodes), 255.

patinata (Syncosmia), 70, 71.

paulina (Carpoph.aga), 160, 165.

pauper (Physocleora), 469.

pectiuata (Pseudalcis). 97, 98, 249.

pectoralLs (Cinnyris), 519.

Pelargopsis, 163.

Pellonia, 222.

pelloniaria (Phyletis), 222.

Pelurga, 454.

Penelopides, 164.

perangusta (Gymnoseelis), 229

Peratopbyga, 238.

Peratostega, 80.

percheroni (Aulacocyclus), 279

Percuia, 89.

perconfusa (Gonodela), 252.

percrinita (Ptychopoda), 432, 444 445

Pergania, 499.

Pericrocotus, 523.

Peridela, 110.

perimcle (Asota), 346, 352.

( 553 )

perimele (Hypsa), 316.

Perissopteryx, 447,

Perixera, 48, 58, 215, 221, 22fi, 3!I2, 394.

Perizoma, 464.

perlatus (Aulacocychis), 281, 282.

pernitescens (Banisia), 379.

peroni (Aegialitis), 273.

perornata ( Chrysoclystis), 228.

perrut'a (Epicosymbia), 54.

persecta (A«ota), 358, 359.

— (Hypsa), .358—360.

persimilis (Chloromma), 36.

perspersata (Eois), 22U.

perstrigata (Iridopsis), 469.

perturbans (Taeuiocerus), 276.

Perusia, 501.

perviata (Paracrocota), 258, 259.

peshwa (Mimeusemia), 311.

Petalia, 103, 250, 334, 308, 476.

Petasophora, 3—7, 148.

Petrejoides, 290.

Petrejus, 290, 306.

Petrodava, 111, 115, 253.

Peucela, 126.

phaeopus (Numenius), 273.

Phaethomis, 529.

Phalacra, 16, 195.

Phalacrocorax, 273, 372, 376.

Phalaena, 316, 332, 343, 352.

Phalaenoides, 311.

Pharambara, 382.

Phaselia, 245.

Phelliiiodes, 417,418.

Philemon, 264, 265, 519.

philippensis (Hypotaeuidia), 272.

philippina (Asota), 350—354.

philippinus (Phyllergates), 517.

pliilyra (Parrhesia), 465.

Phlegoenas, 153, 160.

Phoenicophaes, 160 — ICi.

phoenicoptera(Acidalia), 225.

Phoenicura, 168.

phoenicura (Amauroruis), 165.

— (Ammomanes), 141.

phoenicuroides (Ammomanes), 140, Ml.

Phorodesma, 44.

Photoscotosia, 235.

Phris-sosceles, 222.

phroso (Thysonoti.s), 313.

Phrudocentra, 429.

Phryganeidae, 262.

phryganeoides (Clopsimulea), 262.

Phthonoloba, 67.

Phyletis, 222.

Phyllergates, 155, 517.

PhyUodonta, 502.

Phylloscopus, 515, 525.

Phyllurus, 404—406.

Physocleora, 469.

picaria (Craspedosis), 397.

picta (Sterrha), 62.
picticolor (Xanthorhoo), 456.
Picns, 164.
pieridaria (Micronia), 24.

— (Ste.sichora), 24.
pieroides (Anisogamia), 33, 34.
Piezorhynchus, 524.

pilosa (Dochephora), 449.

— (Prochaerodes), 502.

— (Uliolepis), 386.
Piugasa, 31.
Piprisoma, 519.

pirmal (Heliocopris), 185.
Pisoraca, 221, 222.
Pisorhina, 627.
pitmani (Euchera), 15.
Pitta, 163, 526.
Pitthea, 242.
plagiata (Asota), 315, 3.34.

— (Hypsa), 334.

— (Letchena), 382.

— (Petalia), 334.
plagifera (Letchena), 381.
plaginota (Aganais), 317.

— (Asota), 314—319, 337.

— (Damalis), 317.

— (Hypsa), 317, 318.
plagodiata (Pergama), 500.
Plagodls, 5(>0.

plana (Anisogonia), 486.

— (Asota), 316, 357, 364, 369.

— (Hypsa), 358—360.
planorum (Galerida), 146.
plateni (Cinnyris), 156.

platurus (Phyllurus), 404, 405, 406.
Platycerota, 120, 121.
platypus (Taeniocerus), 275.
platyrhynchos (Nucifraga), 131, 132.
pleniguttata (Abraxas), 87.
plenilima (Perixera), 394.
Plerocymia, 236.
Pk'uropruclia. 442.
plumata (Alaiida), 145.
plumbca (Diridos), 201.
plmilinoata (.\spilatos), 473.
pluviosa (Micronia), 22.
Pnoepyga, 168, 515, 516.
Poecilalcis, 96.
Pogonopygia, 240.
Poliolimnas. 272.
politia (Nepheloleuca), 498.
poUiix (Charaxcs), 181.
polygonaria (Porgama), 500.
Polygiapbodis, 442.
Polysti'oma, 236.
Pompelon, 310.
Ijonderosa (Testudo), 407.
poortmani (Chlorostilbon), 151.
— (Panycblora), 151.
PopiUiuao, 294.

( 554 )

Popilius, 291), 297, 304.

porphyrolaema (Cinnyris), 157, ICl.

Potera, 89.

praeampla (Chlorostrota), 36, 37.

praecipua (Ptilotis), 370.

praetermissa (Alauda), 142, 143, 145.

praeusta (Bani-sia), 20, 379.

Piasinocyma, 44, 390.

prasinus (Chlorostilbon), 150, 151.

Pratincola, l;o, IGl, 264, 515.

presbytis (Acaathopneustu), 52^1.

- (Muscicapa), 525.

- (Sylvia), 525.
PrionochUus, .")19.
Pristoceraea, 183.
Pristostegania, 81.
Problepsis, 59, 222.
Proboloptera, 121.
Probolosceles, 213.
Prochaerodes, 502.
Prochasma, 81.
Proculejinae, 291.
Proculejoides, 292.
Proculejus, 292.
Procypba, 121.

producta (Asota), 315, 32l), 341.

- (Damalis), 319.

- (Hypsa), 319.
Progonodes, 429.
propinqua (Euphia), 234.

- (Munia), 157, 521.
Piosopolopha, 101, 124.
Prosopolophinae, 124, 261, 262.
prospectata (Argyrotome), 460.
protrusa (Zamarada), 123.
prnnicolor (Hyposidra), 119.
Psaliodes, 454.
Pseudacanthiuae. 304.
Pseudacantbus, 304, 306.
Pseudalcis, 96, 249.
Pseudasthcna, 223.
Pseudeucblora, 233.
P.seudomicronia, 23, 199.
Pseudoterpninae, 31, 207, 388.
Pailalcis. 82.
P.silocambogia, 227.
Psilocerea, 98, 259, 402.
Psilonaxa, 386.

Psilopora. 470.

Psilotaphria, 256, 259.

Psittacula. 6, 8.

Ptcrophaiies, 2.

Pteropus. 263.

Ptilinopus, 165, 264, 270, 271.

Ptilopus, 271.

Ptilotis, 3i;9, 519.

Ptochophyle, 50.

Ptycbopoda, 54, 60, 223, 432, 443, 446.

pubicostis (Proculejus), 292

pucherani (Chlorostilbon), 151.

piiciolia (Agaristi), 311.

— (Minicuscmia), 311.
puella (Hypothymis), 158, 162.
pulchra (Xyleutes), 308.
pullicauda (Neopsittacas), 369.
pulveiosa (Perusia), 501 .

— (.Stenalcidia), 472.
pulverulenta (Catascia), 250.

— (Ozola), 30.

— (Ptochophyle). 60.
punctata (Aspilatopsis), 100.

— (I'isoraca), 222.
punctutissima (Steiropliora), 67.
puncticorpus (Bursada), 240.
puuctifrons (Comacupcs), 285.
punctilineata (Sterrha), 63.

— (Syndromodes), 45.
punctilla (Physocleora), 469.
punctulata (Munia), 266, 521.

— (Niuox), 159.
pupillaria (Cosymbia), 217.
pupillata (Phrudocentra), 429.
pura (Buzuni), 245.
purpurascens (AUexitheca), 237.
purpurea (Eois), 220.

— (Megatheca), 230.
purulensis (Chondrocephalus), 302.
pusilla (Physocleora), 470.

— (Pnoepyga), 168, 516.
pustulata (Buzura), 244.
pustulosus (Tribotropis), 173.
pygaria (Ttiysanopyga), 478.
pygmaeata (Tephroclystia), 450.
pygmaeus (Taeniocerus), 276.
pygmeata (Dirades), 2ili.
Pjralidae, 12.5.

Pyi-alis, 126, 383.
Pyraustinae, 127, 129.
pyrolaiia (Exelis), 467.
Pyrrhoccutor, 160, 164.
Pyrrhocorax, 374, 375.
pyrrhus (Charaxes), 508.

qnadraria (Thala-ssodes), 391.
([uadripuucta (Exelis), 467.
quadripuuctata (Tridrepana), 18.
quadrirubrata (Eois), 437, 438.
quadristrigata (Stesichora), 24.
queenslandica (Asota), 328.
quinquelincata (Iza), 408.
quinticolor (Muuia), 521,
quisquiliaria (Stenalcidia), 471,

raalteni (Synoicus), 271.
Rachoospila. 430, 431.
Racotis, 98.
radiata (Cliiasmia), 82.
— (Craspedia), 434.
- (Perixera), 221
radiolata (Tigridoptera), 85.
Kallina, 165.

( 555 )

llambara, 28.
ramifera (Banisia), 380.
randonii (Galerita), 14(i.
rara (Lampribi.s), 377.
Ilatiaria, 459.

rawakensis (Milionia), 513.
recticornis (Soranus), 2'JG.
rectisecta (AdJea), 19.
recurrata (Bociraza), 512.
reducta (Asota), .'52(1, 321.
icduplicata (Gaudaritis), 235.
reevesi (Phoenicura), 108.
i-efulgens (Thalurania), I4'.i.
regulus (Ammomanes), 141.
relicta (Nucifraga), 134.
Remodes, Ci!, 67, 231, 395.
rendalli (Nudaurelia), 182.
renifera (Hylemera), 397.
restrictus (PhaIaenoide.s), 311.
reticulata (Acropteris), 21.

— (Epiplema), 202.
reversa (Bociraza), 28.

— (Oenoptila), 47G.
reversaria (Albara), 12.
Rhamphomicrou, 530.
Rhinodia, 111, 112.
Rbipidura, 158, 260, 525.
rbodariata (Eois), 437.
rhodogaster (Accipiter), 165.
Rhodogonia, 409, 410.
Rbodopbtbitus, 89.
Rhodopis, 1, 8.

Rhodostrophia, 61, 214, 222, 224, 394, 395.

rhombifera (Epiplema), 202.

Rhomborista, 44, 391.

Rbopalista, 455.

ribbei (Waigeum), 367, 368.

ridiculus (Rimoricus), 287.

riedeli (Phyllergates), 155.

rigidata (Semiothisa), 482.

rimator (Rimoricus), 288.

Rimer, 287, 291, 306.

Rimoricus, 287.

riukiuana (A.sota), 350.

rivulata (Tetracis), 506.

robustus (Gymnognathus), 174.

roua (Milionia), ulO.

rosea (Ptychopoda), 444.

roseicapillus (Ptiliuopus), 271.

roseipuncta (Pleuroprucha), 442.

rosenbergi (Aulacocyclus), 279, 281, 282.

— (Hypselotropis), 173.

roseofusa (Perixera), 394.

roaipara (Raeheospila), 431.

rothi (Chorodnodea), 105.

rotliscbildi (Ceratu.s), 177.

rotundata (Pacbytlialia), 221.

rotundatoolypfatus (Aulacocyclu.s), 278, 282.

rotuudimacula (Uursada). 241.

rubida (Aegocera), 312.

rubida (Heturopliyra), 439.
rubra (Oenoptila), 476.

— (Onycodes), 27.
ruljridentata (Syrnli-omodus), 213.
rubridisca (Eucrostes), 38.
rubrifusa (Eumoloa), 29.
rubrilineata (Agathia), 389.
rubrimargo (Paromphacodes), 428, 429.
rubripicta (Tephroclystia), 230, 233.
rubriplaga (Agraptoclilora), 33.

— (Turckbeimeria), 243.
riibripuucta (Puri.xera), 394.
rubri.stellata ( Parompbacodes), 429.
rubrisuffusa (Eois), 438.
rubrolimbaria (Gelasma), 425.

— (Pampldcbia), 213.
rubroviridis (Gymnopera), 68.
rudimentaria (Pleuroprucha), 442.
rudis (Hyperplema), 415.

rufa (Auzeodes), 255.

— (Pnoepyga), 168, 516.

— (Traminda), 65.
rufannularia (Perixera), 221.
rufaria (Racotis), 98.
rufesceus (Galorida), 146.

— (Pyrrhocentor), 160, 164.
ruficollis (Limouites), 273.
ruficoloraria (Terpna), 32.
ruficornis (Microloxia), 42, 212.

— (Opiithalmodes), 249.
ruticoi'pus (Tephroclystia), 230.
rufigenis (Buarremon), 4.
rufigula (Myiagra), 264, 266, 267.

— (Siphia), 153, 159.
rufUatua ( Turuix), 166.
ruliliucata (Aplodes), 423.
rufimargo (Chloromachia), 209.
rufipectus (Spilornis), 159.
ruti^ialsa (luduna), 55.
rufitincta (Prasinocyma). 44.
rufiviuctata (Siriuopteryx), 122.
rufulus (Anthus), 265, 521.
Rumia, 122.

riippc-lli (Galerida), 142 146.
ruptifascia (Epiplema), 204.

— (Xantborhoe), 74.
ruptifasciata (Gouodela), 262.
ruptilinea (Timandra), 64.
Rutioilla, 167.

Sabulodes, 497, 503.

sabulosa (Concbocometa), 216.

— (Ectropis), 94, 248.
Sagittarius (Rimoricus), 288.
sagittata ('I'ephroclystia), 71.
sagittiliuea (Craspedia), 219.
siiloycreii^is (Cinuyri.a). 156.
salsa (Parouchloris), 43.
salvadorii (Ptilotis), 369.
salvadoris (Uudulifer), 303.

( 556 )

samoana (Brachycola), 216.
sanctus (Halcyon), 268.
sanghirensis (Cittura), 163.
sangirensis (Asota), 351.
sanguinalis (Hypsopygia), 126.
sanguinata (Eugnesia), 78.

— (Eumelea), 29,
sanguinisecta (Craspedia), 53.
sanguinolentum (Dicaeum), 518.
Sappho, 4, 7.

sarasinorum (Cryptolopha), 158, 62B.

— (Zosterops), 157.
aargi (Eimor), 287.
sartorii (Proculejus), 294.
satelUtia (Xelo), 464.
saturataria (Anisogamia), 33.
Satumiidae, 309.
Saucerottia, 530.

Sauris, 67.

Bcandulaca (Ccrthia), 137, 138.

Scardamia, 240.

scelesta (Apatenia), 177.

Schistes, 531.

Schoenobiinae, 130.

scintillans (Lampadopteryx), 76.

scintillata (Ausaris), 13.

Scioglyptis, 99.

Scissirostrum, 102.

Scotomera, 127.

Scotophilus, 263.

Scotopterix, 90.

Scotopteryginae, 90, 250.

Scrobigera, 312.

scutellopunctatus (Popilius), 301.

Scythrops, 514.

secutaria (.Stegania), 261.

.scitzi (Charaxes), 508.

sejuncta (Cuhcicapa), 526.

selenaria (Ascotis), 92.

SeUdoseminae, 101, 124, 250, 398, 476.

scmialba (Chloromachia), 209.

— (Hymenomima), 468.
semicoUaris (Rhipidura), 525.
semidivisa (Cyllopoda), 420.
semifascia (Scioglyptis), 99.
semifulva (Epiplema), 25.
semifusca (Asota), 356.

— (Hypsa), 356.
semigrisea (Episothalma), 38.
seminigra (Dirades), 384.

— (Gatliynia), 204.

— (Xaiithomima), 86.
Semiothisa, 112, 399, 478, 479.
Semiothisinae, 104, 251, 399, 478.
semipallida (Tephrinopsis), 483.
semipicta (Cambogia), 448.
semiplaga (Craspedosis), 241.
uemipurpuiea (Rbomborista), 45.
aemirosea (Eumelea), 29.
Bemiscricea (Ptychopoda), 60.

semitessellalis (Letchena), 382.
semitorques (Pisorbina), 527.
semiturpis (Abraxas), 396.
semiviridis (Gymnoscelis), 228.
senegallensis (Alauda), 145.

— (Galerida), 143, 144, 147.
senescens (Semiothisa), 482.
septemnotata (Bursada), 84.
septentrionalis (Asota), 330.
scriata (Banisia), 20.
sericea (Asota), 315, 338.

— (Damalis), 338.

— (Deilinia), 462.

— (Dipriodonta), 14.

— (Euchera), 16.

— (Hypsa), 338.

— (Loboparadisea), 169.
serpentinaria (Zomia), 412.
serraticomis (Microloxia), 42.
Sertoriinae, .302.
Scrtorius, 302.

severini (Tristorthjis), 284.
severzovi (Uuticilla), 167.
siccifolia (Hyposidra), 1 19.
Siculodes, 198, 382, 409.
Siculodopsis, 416.
Sicya, 503.
Sicyodes, 260.
sicberi (Soranus), 295.
sigillata (Dichromatopodia), 6il6.
significans (Aganais), 326, 327.

— (HjTsa), 326.
silonaria (Phyletis), 222.
silvandra (Aganais), 346, 352.

— (Asota). .343, 352.

— (Bombyx), 352.

— (Hypsa), 343, 347, 355.

— (Phalaena), 352.
similaria (Cenoctenucha), 115.
similis (Phyllergates), 517.
siraoni (Heliangelus), 533.
Simoptery.x, 503.
Simotricha, 395, 396.
simplex (Genusa), 88.

— (Hcmithea), 40.

— (Oenochroma), 206.

— (Rhodophthitus), 89.
simpliciata (Auzata), 13.

— (Micronidia), 238.
sinelinea (Decetia), 24.
sinuata (Mnesigea), 95.

— (Ozola), 387.
sinuosa (Asota), 329.

— (Micronia), 23.
Siphia, 153, 158.
Sirinoptcryx, 122.
smaragdinicoUis (Metallura), 5, 9.
smaragdus (Comostolodes), 210.
saellenaria (Cambogia), 449.
snelleni (Phyllodonta), 502.

( 557 )

sofalaria (Scardamia), 240.
solans (Cinnyris), 619.
solilucis (Ei'ilyces), 421.
Somatiua, Gl.
Soranus, 294.

sordida (Pseudasthena), 223.
sordidata (Rhinodia), 111.
sordidum (Aphengium), 187.
sororcula (Azata), 105.
speciosus (Chlorostilbon), 151.

— (Heliangelus), 53?..
spencii (Heliangelus), 532.
sphaerifera (Aganais), 3;!4.

— (Hypsa), 334.
Sphalerosticha, 127.
Sphinctocera, 128.
Sphingidae, 307.
Sphinx, 307.
Spilocraspeda, 504.
Spiloctenia, 458.
Spilopera, 117.
SpUornis, 159.
Spilosoma, 335.
Spilospizias, 159, 165.
Spizalauda, 142.
splendens (Ausaris), 195.
splendidum (Dicaeum), 205.
Sporaeginthus, 522.
Bpurcata (Heterolocha), 118.
Spuriinae, 303.

Spurius, 303.

squamata (Mimogouodes). 497.

— (Pnoepyga), 1G8, 516.
squamiceps (Chlorocharis), 157.

— (Zosterops), 157.
ssewerzowi (Ruticilla), 167.
stagonata (Progonodes), 430.
stanleyi (Passalus), 281.
Stegania, 78, 81, 237, 261.
Steirophora, 67.

stellata (Camptogramma), 235.

— (Oenospila), 213.
stellataria (Racheospila), 430.
Stenalcidia, 469, 472.
Stenoplastis, 422.

stepbani (Chalcophaps), 160, 165.

Sterna, 273.

Sterrha, ('.2, 224.

Sterrhiuae, 47, 214, 392, 431, 440.

Stesicliora, 24, 200, 384.

Stibarostoma, 220.

sticta (Perusia), 502.

sticticata (Craspedia), 434.

stiginatica (Asota), 320.

Stigmatops, 2(!5.

stigmatus (Loriculus), 1C5.

Stiltia, 272.

stoliczkae (Certhia), 138.

stolzmanni (Oreotrocbiliis), 2, 4, 5.

Stopaiola, 158.

Straboacopus, 176.

straminea (Eurythccodes), 117.

— (Microgonia), 49(>.

- (Pelurga), 454.
Strepsigonia, 17.
Streptiicitta, 158, 159, 162.
striata (Hypotaeuidia), 272.

— (Lipomelia), 220.
striataria (Acropteris), 21.
striatopunctatus (Odontotaenius), 289.
strigata (Nobilia), 58.

— (Petelia), 103.
strigivenata (Damalis). 319.

— (Hypsa), 319, 320.
Striglina, 382.
strigosa (Aganais). 318.

— (Asota), 315, 318.
~ (Hyp.sa), 318.
strigosata (Fidonia), 100.
striolata (Hiruudo), 526.
Strix, 264, 269, 270.
strophe (Arhopala), 366.
strophianus (Heliangelus), 533.
Strophidia, 23.
Strophoptila, 225.
subalbata (Glaucopteryx), 235.
subapicata (Cimicodes), 489.
subaspersa (Agraptoohlora), 32.
subbrunnea (Organnpoda). 393.
subcarnea (Gyuopteryx), 493.

— (Lissostolodes), 493.
subcastanea (Munia), 161.
subclathi'ata (Semiothisa), 482.
subcornutus (Sovauus), 297.
subcristata (Lophozosterops), 521.
subcristatus (Lophozosterops), 171.
subdecorata (Lassaba), 398.
subdiversa (Xenoecista), 484.
subfasciata (Eusarca), 491.
subflavata (Simopteryx), 503.
subfulva (Hypucoela), 41.
subfulvata (Ani.soperas), 487.
subfumo.sa (Arycanda), 83.
subfurcatus (Chlorostilbon), 150, 151.
subhyalinata (Abraxas), 87.
subintriisa (Erilyces), 421.
sublinibaria (Oiniza), 401.
subnictitans (Hypolamprus), 380.
subnotata (Jlel.anchroia), 463.
suboliliqua (Ti'idrepana), 18.
subochracea (Angenora), 125.
suboohrea (Oenothaliaj, 47G.
subolivescens (llamuiaptera), 453.
subopacus (Triaeniirgus), 30G.
subperlaria (Craspedia), 53.
subpilosa (Ptychopoda). 444.
suljpulchra (Gonophaga), 400.
subpunctata (Kubyja), 91.
subpurpurea (Parachoreutes), 417.

— (Pingasa), 31.

( 558 )

subqaadrata (Craspedia), 433.
subradiata (Terpua), 388.
subrecticornis (Soranus), 296.
subrosca (Hydrclia), 22(5.
subrosealis (Hypolamprus). 3S(l, 381.
subrubidu (Ziiiduva), 71.
subrufa (Almodes), •117.

— (Rhodostrophia), 224.
subrapta (Asota), 336.
subscripta (Comibaena), 424.
subsimilis (Asota), 315, 357.

— (Hypsa), 357.

— (Perixera), 394.

— (Zanclopteryx), 418.
subspersii (Trisyadeta), 260.
subspi*iat;i ( Polystroma), 236, 237.
subtincta (Lipomelia), 439.

— (Poecilalcis), 96.
subtractati (Paracomi.stis), 498.
subtraasver.salis (Iza), 408.
subvalida (Semiothisa), 483.
subvestita (Ptychopoda), 445.
succedaiiea (Agathia), 388.
sufficiens (Craspedia), 53.
suffusa (Asota), 315, 361—304.

— (Eugncsia), 77.

sulcatipons (Aulacocyclus), 279. 282.
sulcirostiis (Phalacrocorax), 273.
sulfurea (Gerygonc), .">25.
sulphurea (Cacatua), 164, 165.
sumatreiisis (Arrhipis), 178.
sumbaensis (Astur), 270.

— (Strix), 27(1.

— (Terpsiphone), 526.

— (CTrospizias), 270.
sumbana (Asota), 324.

— (Episteme), 310.
sumbawcnsis (Rhipidura), 525.
sumbensis (Rhipidura), 26G, 526.
sunia (Piaorhina), .■)28.
superciliaris (Zosterops), 172, 520.
supercilio.sa (Anas). 273.
superciliosiis (Lanius), 522.

— (Phaethornis), 529.

— (Trocbilus), .529.
superfiua (Anisodcs), 431.

— (Galerida), 144—147.
supremiis (Troides), 180.
sylvaticus (Coivus), 371 — 376.

— (Ercmita), 371.
Sylvia, 167, 525.
sylvicola (Pisorhina), 527.
Symmacra, 63.
Symphlcp.s, 383.
Synchlora, 428.
Syncosmia, 70, 71.
Syndromodes, 45, 213.
Synecta, 472, 473.
SynoicHs, 271.
Synopsia, 92.

Syntaracta, 76, 396.
Syrrhizodes, 505.

Tachypetes, 263.

taczaoowskii (Agyrtria), 2, 4, 6.

taeniata (Luxiaria), 109.

Taenioccrus, 275.

Taeniopj'gia, 206.

taeuiura (Certhia), 138.

Tanaorliinus, 41.

Tanjiostyla, 422, 423.

Tauygnathus, 164.

Taphozous, 263.

Tasta, 76.

tau (Popiliua), 301).

Teldenia, 18.

temmincki (lyugipicus). 1,58.

— (Pterophanes), 2.
Tenaiis, 313.

tenebrosa (Argyrotome), 460.
tenellata (Eois), 437.
tenuipes (Megalapteryx), 18f?— 194.
tenuirostris (Galerida), 146.

— (Nucifraga), 132.
tenuis (Ectropis), 249.

— (Paraptychodes). 85.

— (Petrejus), 290.

Tephrina. 110. 112, 237, 2.V2, 399.
Tephrinopsis, 110, 113, 483.
Tephroclystia, 71, 230, 450, 451.
Tephroclystiinae, 68, 227, 395, 449.
Tephrosia, 469

tereoides (Aulacocyclus), 277.
teres (Aulacocyclus), 277.
ternatensis (Asota), 363.
Terpna, 32, 207, 388.
Teqisiphone, 526.
tessellata (Cambogia), 449.
tes.sellatus (Straboscopus), 176.
Testudo. 407.
Tetracis, 506.

tetragonata (Banisia), 197.
textilis (Chlorostrota), 389.
teysmanni (Rhipidura), 158.
Thalassodes, 44, 46, 214, 391.
Thalerura, 210.
Thalur.ania, 148.
Thiimnonoma, 484.
Thauma.stura, 7, 8.
theklae (Galerida), 142, 143-147.
thesca (Psilopora), 470.
thiemei (Popiliu.s), 3111.
tbricophora (Acidalia), 54.
Thyrididae, 19, 196, 378. 401, 408.
Thysanopygji, 477, 478.
thysi (Charaxcs), 508.
Thysonotis, 313, 368.
tibialis (Iramba), 70.
Tigridoptera, 85, 86.
tigrina (.\ganais), 329.

( 559 )

tigrina (Asota), 315.

— (Damalis), 329.
tigrinus (Turtur), 1G5, 271.
tikotepekensis (Soranus), 2;i().
Timaudra, Ii3, <!4.
timorana (Asota), 349.
timoriensis (Lalage), 158, 2G7, 514.

— (Philemon), 264, 265.
Tinnunculus, 159, 270.
tinnunculus (Tinnunculus), 270.
titania (Stesichora), 384.
tithonus (Troides), 179, 180.
tomentosa (Galba), 178.

tora (Bubalis), .'^77.
torquata (Streptocitta), 162.

— (Bourcieria), 530.
torquatus (Astur), 270.
toi'tuosa (Antichera), 365.

— (Asota), 315, 365.

— (Hypsa), 365.

— (Omiza), 258.
Traminda, 64, 225.
transiens (Asota), 359.
transitaria (Oeuoptila), 475.
translineata (Macaria), 399.
transtincta (Prochaerodes), 50.T.
ti'ansversata (Coelura), 411.

— (Herbita), 493.

— (Peri.'ieni), 58.
traviesi (Helianthea), 530.
Tri.aenurgus, 3U6.
triangularis (Ptychopoda), 445.
triangulifera (Iza), 409.
Tribotropis, 173.
Trichoglossus, 159, 165, 172. 514.
Trichogompba, 461.
trichophora (Chloroclystis), 71.
Trichopterigia, 68.
Tricbopteryginae, 66, 230, 395.
Tnchostoma, 155, 159, 161.
tricolor (Aspilates), 99.

— (Bordeta), 83.

— (Ruticilla), 167.
triconjuncta (Xenoecista), 485.
tricuspis (Tristorthus), 2.84.
tridentata (Pachycopsis), 428.
Tridrepana, 18.

trigonata (Scmiothisa), 48.3.

triliiieata (Pristostegania), 81.

trilunaria (Oospila), 426.

triniaciila (Stcnoplastis), 422.

trimaculata (Pseudoniicronia), 199.

Trimetopia, 233.

Tringoides, 273.

trinotatus (Spilospizias), 159, 165.

Triorisma, 226, 395.

tripartita (Scotomara), 127.

Triphosa, 73.

triplagiata (Hymenncharta), 84.

Trii)rora, 401.

trisecta (Eubyja), 91.
trisinuata (Isoplenia), 56.
trispilata (Hursada), 84.
Tristorthus, 283.
Trisyndeta, 260.
tritrophu.s (Bauisia), 379.
triumbrata (Peridcla), 111.
tririrgatus (Piezorhynehus), 524.
trizonata (Hexeris), 401.

— (Triprora), 401.
Trochiodes, 458.
Troides, 179, 180, 263.
tropicus (Soranus), 297.
Trotothyris, 19.

truncatipennis (Tepliroclystia), 451.
truquii (Proculejus), 29.3.

- (Pseudacauthus), 30,5.
tschudii (Thalurania), 149.
Tjiracoeiia, 165.
turbata (Nobilia), 58.

— (Xanthorhoe), 235.
Turckheimeria, 243.
Turnix, 166, 264,271.
turpis (Nadagarode.s), 253.
Turtur, 165, 271.
Tycoonia, 114.

tj'pica (Gazzola), 159, 160.

— (Munia), 157.

— (Thalurania), 149.

tJliocnemis, 391.
Uliolepis, 385.
unibrata (Oubaria), 109.
undata (Alauda), 145.
undiferata (Comibaena), 44, .391.

— (Rhombori.sta), 391.
undilinea (Acrosemia), 486.

— (Anisogamia), 3.5.
undim.arginata (Zamarada), 123.
Undulifer, 303.
Undulifcrinae, 303.
undulosaria (Psilocambogia), 227.
unica (Zosterops), 520.
unicolor (Hypolamprus), 381.

— (Syndromodes), 45.
unidentaria (Polystroma). 237.
unifascia (lodis), 212.
uniforniis (Pcrgama). 500.

— (Xantheliodes), 31.
uniliuca (Hemithea), 40.

— (Heteromiza), 118, 256.
uniliucata (Certinia), 488.

— (Eumelca), 387.

— (Euomoea), 124.
unimacnla (Hyposidra). 258.

— (Pseudomicronia), 23.

— (Tanaostyla), 423.
uninotata (Craspedia), 219.
nnipuucta (Prasinocyma). 44.
uuocula (Cosymbia). 217

( 560 )

Upopa, 371— 37 G.
Uraniidae, 21, 198, 384.
uranus (Tenaris), 313.
Urospizias, 270.
ustanalis (Phyllodonta), ri02.
ustifumosa (Bryoptcra), ll'ifi.
uviduLi (Eucbloris), 211.

vacuata (Acropteris), 199.
valenciana (Thalurania), 149.
vampyrus (Pteropus), 263.
variabilis (Hyposidra), 119.
varicoloraria (Terpna), 32.
variegatus (Numcniua), 273.
variolosus (Aulacocyclus), 282.
variomacula (Eariodes), 463.
varius (Popilius), 298.
veitchi (Cocytia), 510.
Telata (Helicopage), 390.
velutina (Chloroplintha), 69.

— (Hemipogon), .54, 55.
venalba (Asota), 314, 315, 339, 341.

— (Hypsa), 339, 340, 343.
venata (Zanclopteryx), 419. •
veneratus (Enlabes), 522.
venezuelata (Auophylla), 424.
venosa (Leuconotha), 415.
venusta (Agnibesa). 65.

— (Thalurania), 149.
vermicularia (Prasinocyma), 44.
vermiculata (Hemithea), 41.
vernans (Osmotreron), 165.
versicolor (Aganais), 336.

— (Asota), 314, 315, 336.

— (Hypsa), 33G.

— (Noctua), 336.
vespertiiia (Cyllopoda), 420.
Veturius, 303.
vexillaria (Petelia), 399.
vianim (Galerida), 145.
viciuo (Gymnognathus), 175.
Victoria, 46.

viduata (Apatenia), 176.
vigors! (Ruticilla), 167.
villei (Popilius), 388.
vinaria (Oenochroma), 206.
vinciilotaenia (Ogyges), 292.
viola (Heliotrypha), 9.
violacca (Oospila), 427.

— (Triori.'ima), 220.
virescens (Cacomantis), 164.

— (Ptilotis), 519.
virginea (Ptycliopoda), 446.
viridicaput (Tbal.issodes), 391.
viridicaudatus (Phaetbornis), 529.
viridiceps (Neopsittacus), 369.
viridifrons (Eiicbloris), 389.
viridigaster (Sauccrottia), 530.

viridis (Upupa), 371.

viridulata (PsUotapbria), 256, 257

vitessoides (Aganais), 341. 354.

— (Hypsa), .341, 351.
vittata (Mixocblora), 42.
vitticollis (Gymnognathus), 175.
Volvocivora, 162.

vulgaris (Galerida), 146.

— (Hippocrita), 317.
vulpecularia (Acrosemia), 486.
vulpina (Striglina), 383.

— (Zamarada), 123.

wagneri (Soranus), 295.
%vaigeuensis (Troidcs), 179, 180.
Waigeum, 307.
wallacei (Licbtensteinipicus), 164.

— (Microstictus), 158.

— (Munia), 521.

— (Osmotreron), 165.

— (Tbysonotis), 314.
websteri (Milionia), 511.
westermanni (Comacupes), 284.

— (Muscicapula), 158, 524.
wbitebeadi (Pisorbina), 527.
whitelyi (Erateina), 459.
wiedi (Chlorostilbon), 151.
wilbelminae (Dicaeum), 265.
woodfordi (Asota), 315, 335.

— (Hypsa), 335.

Xantbarpyia, 263.
Xantheliodes, 30, 31.
Xanthomima, 86, 243.
Xantboperata (Amaurinia), 447
xantbops (Psittacula), 0, 8.
Xanthorbop, 73, 456.
Xenochlorodcs, 47.
Xenoecista, 484.
Xenographia, 402.
Xenoprora, 220.
Xyleutes, 307.
xylinaria (Ziridava), 71.
Xylolocba, 507.

yacatanus (Soranus), 297

Zamarada, 122, 261.
Zanclopteryx, 418.
zebrina (Asota), 350.

— (Hypsa), 350.
Zeuzerodes, 410.
Ziridava, 71.

zodiacus (Passalotaenius), 289.

Zomia, 402.

zonalis (Peuoela), 120.

zonata (Syndromodes), 45.

Zosterops, 1.57, 161, 169, 172, 265, 519, 521.

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NOTES ON THE LOCALITIES VISITED BY O. T.
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ON SOME NECESSARY AND SOME DESIRABLE
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NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF MOTHS FROM
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MR. WILLIAM DOHERTY'S BIRD-COLLECTIONS

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Introductiox.

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REDSTART AND ITS EASTERN ALLY . . \VaU(r RolUchUd 107
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FLORES Walter RolhscldU 1G8

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WILLIAM WATKINS,

ENTOMOLOGIST,

HespedfuUy aniumiuxa that fie is constantly
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lists of wliic/i may be obtained on ajiplicatiun.

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The Hon. WALTER ROTHSCHILD,
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Vol. IV., 1897.

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ENTOMOLOGIST,

Respectfully announces that he is cmista/nily
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over the world new and scarce Lepidoptera,
lists of which ma;/ be obtained on application.

COLLECTIONS PURCHASED FOR PROMPT CASH.

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