THOMAS LINCOLN CASEY LIBRARY 1925 fon Gv ae J NY TRANSACTIONS OF THE PENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON oa ear | - rm” : . me J ’ - > ‘ — y x ‘ « 7 ' J] i ‘ = « - 1 a , : » ; : ® 4 + ' ] 1 i _ j ‘ i = es ‘ 1 A 7 ' ‘ « ‘ Fs * > ’ 1 : e v - 1 « me y ‘ Fe ‘ ‘ : i i ® 7 - . - : ) : U 7 , n : f . ake 7 1 \ * ‘ ' ‘ J a Pe W bs Lo a / ‘ F i i ; = + 1 a x e . i i t . “ N . . U - P 1 = f 7 , : t 7 S ‘ aan) i ' 1 ; fs ri I ' i J ’ . ! ‘ . Ay ¢ ( = = 7 o e - q 2 y : fa! : - Fé - 7 5 . . ' * t ' rl ] . = 7 ’ , * b . ' i ‘ he ‘i ; ; ‘ A = ” - 1 et 1 i ‘ , ro . ’ ~ ' i { , ‘ + . . I ‘ : ve a = Es ‘ r + ' i] = 1 i ‘ { ri ‘ - = ‘ = % + be - ue i ; . 7 w * ; 7 t ’ i he , : , hl : Ae ; THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON FOR THE YEAR 1897. EON DON: PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY BY SIMMONS AND BOTTEN, LIMITED, 44, SHOE LANE, LONDON, F.C. SOLD AT THE SOCIETY’S ROOMS, 11, CHANDOS STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE, W., AND BY LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CoO., PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.; AND NEW YORK. —_ 1897. DATES OF PUBLICATION IN PARTS. Part I. (Trans., pp. 1-112, Proc., i-xii) was published 9th April, 1897. 1 eee 113-248, ,, xili-xxxvi) - 2nd July, ,, 5 bl BY at 249-332, ,, xxxvii-xliv) Bs Ist Sept., _,, LW Ce 43 333-434, ,, xlv—lx) 3 16th Dec., __,, TV eee Se » lxi-lxv) 55 2nd Feb., 1898. ? oy ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. FOUNDED, 1833. INCORPORATED BY RoyaL CHARTER, 1885. OFFICERS and COUNCIL for the Session 1897-98. President. ROLAND TRIMEN, F.R.S., F.L.S. Vice- Presidents. THE Rev. Canon FOWLER, M.A., F.LS. ROBERT McLACHLAN, F.R.S., F.L.S. Proressor RAPHAEL MELDOLA, F.R.S., F.C.S. @reasurer. ROBERT McLACHLAN, F.B.S., F.LS. Secretaries. WALTER F. H. BLANDFORD, M.A., F.Z.S. FREDERIC MERRIFIELD. Librarian. GEORGE C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. Council. WALTER F. H. BLANDFORD, M.A., F.Z.S. GEORGE CHARLES CHAMPION, F.Z.S. THE Rev. Canon FOWLER, M.A., F.L.S. HERBERT GOSS, F.L.S., F.G.S. Sir GEORGE F. HAMPSON, Bart., B.A. MARTIN JACOBY. ROBERT McLACHLAN, F.R.5., F.L.S. Pror. 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The other volumes may be obtained separately, also the following :— Pascoe’s ‘ Longicornia Malayana’ .............6. £2 12 0 £119 0 Baly’s ‘ Phytophaga Malayana, Pt.I., Aposta- SUCON Oedesetecrcceccssccasctesccssctacesesctreercertaes 016 0 012 0 Saunders’ ‘ British Heterogyna and Fossorial AY INMCNOPEETO” cecoesceceaseseceorseesesceeesep es 0 4 6 3 4 Saunders’ ‘ Synopsis of British Hymenoptera,’ : PRAY GMI. --nnsasees-ssesnsorssunncernccshs smceoest sense 0 6 0 0 4 6 Newport’s ‘ Athalia centifolie ’ (Prize Essay) Wa -@) 0) a0 The JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS is bound up with the TRANSACTIONS. Fellows who have paid their Subscription for the current entitled to receive the Transactions for the year without further enone and they wili be forwarded free, by post, to any address, i ( wu ) COND ENTS. PAGE Explanation of the Plates viii iBinrathy yeaeee vill Charter and Bae: Taek: 1x List of Fellows ... XXV Additions to the eee tee) XXXIX MEMOIRS. I. A Monograph of British Braconidee. Part VII. By the Rev. Tuomas A. MarsHAatt, M.A., F.E.S., Member of the Société Entomologique de France 1 II. Western Equatorial African Micro- rete tete By The e Right Honble. Lorp WatstncHam, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S.. : 33 III. On Lepidoptera from the Miley Archipelago. Pe EDWARD Meyrick, B.A., F.Z.8. 69 IV. New Coccide collected in izes by the Rev. Alfred EK. Eaton. By R. Newsteap, F.E.S., Curator of the Grosvenor Museum, Chester 93 V. Seasonal Dimorphism in ee Butterflies. By ARTHUR G. Borter, Ph.D., F.L.8., etc. 105 VI. The Prothoracic Gland of Dicranura vinula, and other Notes. By Oswatp H. Latrer, Assistant Master at Charterhouse, formerly Tutor of Keble College... ae 118 VII. On the Classification of two Subfamilies of Moths of the Family Pyralide: the Hydrocampine and Scopariane. By Sir Greorce F. Hampson, Bart., B.A.... es fog UH VIII. Descriptions of New Species of Central and South American Rhopalocera. By F. Du Cane Gopman, F.R.S., F.L.S., and OsBERT Savin, M.A., F.R.S. ... ; 241 IX. A List of the Phytophagous ee eee = Mr. H. H. Smith at St. Vincent, Grenada, and the Grenadines, with Descriptions of New Species: Crioceridee — Galerucide. By Martin Jacosy, F.E.S. (Hispide—Cassidide. By G. C. Champion, F.Z.S.) ... Ee an aS Se «. 249 X. On the Serricorn Coleoptera of St. Vincent, Grenada, and the Grenadines. By GrorGE CHARLES CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 5 Pell XI. Quelques Formicides de l’Antille de Grenada récoltés par M. Smith. Par le Dr. AuGustE ORE aoreeeur a l'Université de Ziirich ws 297 XII. New or little-known er vabiaes from mney pt By ate Pee F. D. Moriceg, M.A., F.E.S.. . 801 (& 434) XIII. Mimetic deaactns By Freperick A. Dixry, M.A., M.D., F.E.S., Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford os so BY) XIV. The Changes in the Structure of the Wings of Butterflies. By A. Rapcuirrr Grore, A.M. nee 333 ( viii) PAGE XV. The Structure and Life-history of Phalacrocera replicata. By Professor L. C. Mian, F.R.S., and R. SHeLrorD, B.A. With an Appendix on the Literature of the earlier stages of the Cy Tk ea by Baron C. R. OsTEN SACKEN, Hon. F.E.S we = 343 XVI. Hasan aii of New Tatiana Both, iageeala aa New Zealand. By Epwarp Meyrick, B.A., F.Z.8., F.E.S. ... 367 XVII. Description of a New Coleopterous Tete oF the Homily, Pausside. By CHARLES O. WATERHOUSE, F.E.S. see) og XVIII. Revision of the Notonectide. Part I. Tameauerions ond Systematic Revision of the Genus Notonecta. my Ge Wie KIRKALDY ... 393 XIX. The Butterflies of conor “By iV M. De LA i Neoprene Communicated by Siz GrorcE F. Hampson, Bart., B.A. 427 XX. New or little-known Sphegide from 7 ema Caurdeton! By the Rey. F. D. Moricz, M.A., F.E.S. we 484 Proceedings for 1897... as aan Sai ae pr ee .-1—lxi Annual Meeting ... ies 500 oss Bee sibs ae 0 lxi—lxv President’s Address _.... a ee a as a ... lxvi—xevil Index iva av oe a ve A = 2 aes Bee XCIN EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. FRONTISPIECE. The late JOSEPH WILLIAM DUNNING, M.A., F.L.S., (Born, Nov. 5, 1833. Died, Oct. 15, 1897.) SECRETARY, 1862—1871. PREsIDENT, 1883—1884. (See Page lxx.) Plate I. See pages 1—31 Plate ve See pages 301—316 5) HIG C9 NE as 33—67 . 317—33 2 ro Vs ‘ 93—103 Si Vili, Xe eX Mode pais 5, 1138—126 See pages 3483—366 ERRATA. TRANSACTIONS. Page 94, line 14 from bottom, for napax read rapaz. Pages 131, 132, 134, 185, for Mixophila read Mixophyla. Page 223, line 17, for Maasen read Maassen. Page 235, line 5 trom bottom, for Milliere’s read Milliéres. Page 287, lines 1 and 3, for Melis’s read Melliss’s. Page 306, line 2 from bottom, for au read an. Page 313, line 26, for nigro-natatur read nigro-notatur. Page 318, line 2 from bottom, for demophile 6 read demophile 9. Page 394, lines 20—21, for pronoti read prosterni; line 24, for pronotum read prosternum. Page 420, line 17, for 1891 read 1871. PROCEEDINGS. Page iv., last line, the species referred to by Mr. Tutt should be Platyptili metznert. Page viil., first line, for Brauer read Brunner. Page lvii., line 2 from bottom, for brachycephala read barycephala. Charter and Bye-Latus OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. CHARTER. Victoria, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith. TO ALL TO WHOM these presents shall come Greeting : Wuereas JosepH Witi1Am Dunnine, of Lincoln’s Inn, in the County of Middlesex, Barrister-at-Law, Esquire, Master of Arts, formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and of the Linnean and Zoological Societies of London, has by his Petition humbly represented unto US, That in the year 1833 certain of our loyal subjects formed themselves into a Society for the Improvement and Diffusion of Entomological Science, and subscribed and expended considerable sums of money for such purposes, and have collected and become possessed of a valuable library and other property, and have been and continue to be actively employed in promoting the objects for which the said Society was founded, especially by the publication of Volumes of Transactions composed of Original Memoirs, read before the Society. Anp wuerras the said Petitioner, believing that the well-being and usefulness of the said Society would be most materially promoted by obtaining a Charter of Incorporation, hath therefore, on behalf of himself and the other Members of the said Society, most humbly prayed that WE would be pleased to grant a Royal Charter for incorporating into a Society the several persons who have already become Fellows, or who may at any time hereafter become Fellows thereof, subject to such Regulations and Restrictions as to US may seem good and x CHARTER. expedient. NOW KNOW YE that WE, being desirous of encouraging a design so laudable, and of promoting the improvement and diffusion of Science in all its branches, have of Our especial Grace, certain Knowledge and mere Motion, given and granted, and We do hereby give and grant, That the said JosrpH Winitam Dunnine and such others of Our loving subjects as are now Fellows of the said Society, or who shall at any time hereafter become Fellows thereof in pursuance of the provisions of this Our Charter and according to such Bye-Laws as are hereinafter men- tioned, shall be a Body Corporate by the name of ‘‘ The Entomological Society of London,” having perpetual succes- sion and a common seal, with power to sue and be sued in their Corporate name, and to acquire and hold any goods and chattels whatsoever. And our Will and Pleasure is, That Jonn Osapran Westwoop, Esg., Master of Arts, Hope Professor of Zoology in the University of Oxford, shall be Honorary President of the said Corporation during the term of his natural life. And that Ropert MacLacunan, F.R.S., shall be the first President of the said Corporation and shall continue such until the Annual Meeting to be held in the month of January next. And our Will and Pleasure is, And we do hereby declare, that there shall always be a Council to direct and manage the concerns of the said Corporation. And that the thirteen persons, who were elected to form the Council of the said Society at the Annual Meeting held in the month of January last, shall form the first Council of the said Corporation, and shall continue in Office until the Annual Meeting to be held in the month of January next. And our Will and Pleasure is, And we further grant and declare, that the existing Bye-Laws of the said Society, as revised and amended at a General Meeting held on the 2nd day of May, 1883, shall be the Bye-Laws of the said Corporation, until the same shall be revoked or altered as hereinafter mentioned. And that it shall be lawful at General Meetings of the said Corporation to revoke or alter any former Bye-Laws, and to make such new Bye.Laws as CHARTER. X1 shall be deemed useful and necessary for the regulation of the said Body Corporate. Provided always: And we lastly declare it to be our Royal Will and Pleasure, That no Bye-Law or Resolution shall, on any account or pretence whatsoever, be made by the said Corporation in {opposition to the general scope, true intent, and meaning of this our Charter or the Laws and Statutes of this Realm, and that if any such Bye-Law or Resolution shall be made, the same shall be absolutely null and void. In Witness whereof We have caused these our Letters to be made Patent. Witness Ourself at Westminster the twentieth day of July, in the Forty-ninth year of Our Reign. THE SEAL. By Warrant under the Queen’s Sign Manual. ( xii j BY E-hA Ws. As AMENDED AT A SpEctAL MEETING HELD 2ND JuNF, 1897.' Cuap. I. Object. THe Entomonocican Socrery or Lonpon is instituted for the improvement and diffusion of Entomological Science. CuHap. II. Constitution. The Society shall consist of Honorary and Ordinary Fellows. Cuap. III. Management. The affairs of the Society shall be conducted by a Council consisting of fifteen Fellows, to be chosen annually, five of whom shall not be re-eligible for the following year. Five shall be a quorum. Cuar. IV. Officers. The Officers of the Society shall consist of a President ; three Vice-Presidents; a Treasurer; two Secretaries; and a Librarian, The Officers shall be chosen annually from amongst the Members of the Council, No Fellow shall be President, or a Vice-President, more than two years successively. Cuap. V. Removal or Resignation of Officers. 1. For any cause which shall appear sufficient to a majority thereof, the Council shall have power to suspend any Officer of the Society from the exercise of his office, or to remove him and declare such office vacant. 2. In the event of any vacancy occurring in the Council or Officers of the Society, at the next meeting of Council BYE-LAWS. Xl after such vacancy has been made known, the Council shall elect some Fellow to fill the vacancy till the Annual Meeting. CuHap. VI. President. 1. The duty of the President shall be to preside at the Meetings of the Society and Council, and regulate all the discussions and proceedings therein, and to execute or see to the execution of the Bye-Laws and orders of the Society. 2. In case of an equality of Votes the President shall have a double or casting Vote. Cuap. VII. Vice-Presidents. 1. The Vice-Presidents shall be nominated by the Presi- dent. Such nomination shall be declared at the Ordinary Meeting next after the election of the President in every year. 2. In the absence of the President a Vice-President shall fill his place, and shall for the time being have all the authority, power, and privilege of the President. 3. In the absence of all the Vice-Presidents a Member of the Council shall preside ; and if no Member of the Council be present at an Ordinary Meeting, the Fellows present shall appoint by a majority to be Chairman such Fellow as they shall think fit; and the Member of Council so presiding, or the Fellow so appointed, shall for the time being have all the authority, power and privilege of the President. Cuap. VIII. Treasurer. 1. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to demand and receive for the use of the Society all sums of money due or payable to the Society, and to disburse all sums payable by the Society out of the Funds in his hands. 2. No payment exceeding £5, excepting for rent or taxes, shall be made by the Treasurer without the consent of the Council. 3. The Treasurer shall keep a book of Cheque Receipts for admission fees and annual payments; each Receipt shall be signed by himself, the date of payment and name of the X1V BYE-LAWS. Fellow paying being written both on the Receipt and on the part of the Cheque which is left in the book. 4. The Treasurer shall demand all arrears of annual payment after such payment shall have been due three months. 5. The accounts of the Treasurer shall be audited annually, previously to the Annual Meeting, by a Committee of six Fellows (of whom three shall be Members of the Council), to be appointed by the President at the Ordinary Meeting in December, of which Committee three (or two, provided that one of them is not a member of the Council) shall be a quorum, The Treasurer shall furnish the Auditors with a detailed account of all receipts and disbursements down to the 31st December. Cuap. IX. Secretaries. 1. It shall be the duty of the Secretaries to keep a list of all the Fellows of the Society, together with their addresses ; to summon Meetings (when necessary) of the Society and the Council; to conduct and produce to the Council all corres- pondence in any way connected with the Society at the next Meeting after such correspondence shall have been received or taken place; to take Minutes of the Proceedings at Meetings of the Society and the Council; to edit the Transactions and Journal of Proceedings: and, generally, to act under the direction of the Council in all matters con- nected with the welfare of the Society. 2. In the absence from any Meeting of the Society, or the Council, of both the Secretaries, Minutes of the Proceedings shall be taken by a Fellow whom the President shall appoint for the occasion. Cuap. X. Librarian. 1. It shall be the duty of the Librarian to take care of the Library and MSS8., and keep a Catalogue thereof, with the names of the Donors ; to call in all Books borrowed, and see that the Library regulations are carried into effect. 2. The Council may employ a Sub-Librarian, who shall BYE-LAWS. XV receive such remuneration as the Council shall from time to time determine, and shall be subject to such Rules and Orders as shall from time to time be given to him by the Council. Cap. XI. Lnbrary Regulations. 1. No Fellow shall, without special permission of the Council, be allowed to borrow from the Library more than four volumes at one time, or without leave of the Librarian, to retain any volume longer than one month. 2. If any book be torn, injured, lost, or not forthcoming when demanded by the Librarian, full compensation shall be made for the same by the borrower. 8. The Librarian shall call in all books borrowed from the Library on the 5th day of January and 5th day of July in each year ; and in case the same be not returned on or before the Ordinary Meeting of the Society in the following month, notice thereof shall be given by him to the Council, who shall then direct a second notice to be sent to the Fellow retaining any book, and in case the same be not returned within the further space of four weeks from the date of such second notice so sent, such Fellow shall in future be dis- qualified from borrowing books from the Library without the special permission of the Council. 4. Subject to such Regulations as may be made from time to time by the Council, the Library shall be open to the Fellows between the hours of one and .six p.m. on every week-day, except Saturday, and on that day between one and three p.m. 5. No stranger shall be allowed access to the Library unless introduced by a Fellow; but a note addressed to the Librarian or Secretary shall be deemed a sufficient intro- duction. Cuap. XII. Election of Fellows. 1. Every Candidate for admission into the Society shall be proposed by three or more Fellows, to one of whom he shall be personally known, and they must sign a Certificate in recommendation of him. The Certificate shall specify the name and usual place of residence of the Candidate. Xvl BYE-LAWS. 2. The Certificate having been read at one of the Ordinary Meetings shall be suspended in the Library, read again at the following Ordinary Meeting, and the person therein recom- mended shall be balloted for at the next Ordinary Meeting. 3. The method of voting shall be by ballot, and two-thirds of the Fellows balloting shall elect. 4. Fellows shall sign the Obligation Book of the Society at the first Ordinary Meeting of the Society at which they are present, and shall then be admitted by the President. Car. XIII. Adinission Fee and Annual Contribution. 1. The Admission Fee shall be £2 2s, the Annual Con- tribution £1 1s. 2. Fellows permanently resident out of the United Kingdom shall pay the Annual Contribution, but shall be exempt from payment of any Admission Fee. 3. The composition for Life Fellowship, in leu of the Annual Contribution, shall be £15 15s. 4. The Annual Contribution shall become due on the 1st day of January in advance; any Fellow elected after Sep- tember will not be called upon for his Contribution for that year. Cuarp. XIV. Withdrawing and Removal of Fellows. 1. Every Fellow, having paid all sums due to the Society, shall be at liberty to withdraw therefrom upon giving notice in writing to the Secretary. 2. Whenever written notice of a motion for removing any Fellow shall be delivered to the Secretary, signed by the President or Chairman for the time being on the part of the Council, or by six or more Fellows, such notice shall be read from the Chair at the two Ordinary Meetings immediately following the delivery thereof, and the next following Ordinary Meeting shall be made a Special Meeting and the Fellows summoned accordingly, when such motion shall be taken into consideration and decided by ballot; whereat if a majority of the Fellows balloting shall vote that such Fellow be removed, he shall be removed from the Society. BYE-LAWS. XVil 3. Whenever any Fellow shall be in arrear for three years in the payment of his Annual Contribution, notice thereof in writing shall be given or sent to him by the Treasurer with an intimation that at the expiration of three months he will be liable to have his name erased from the list of Fellows. In default of payment within that period, the Council may order his name to be erased accordingly, and he shall there- upon cease to be a Fellow of the Society. 4. The removal or erasure of the name of a Fellow shall not affect his liability for Contributions in arrear. Cuap. XV. Privileges of Fellows. 1. Fellows have the right to be present, to state their opinions, and to vote, at all General Meetings ; to propose Candidates for admission into the Society; to introduce Visitors at General Meetings of the Society ; to have personal access, and to introduce scientific strangers, to the Library ; and Fellows who have paid the Annual Contribution for the year shall be entitled to receive a copy of the Transactions published during the year. 2. Fellows shall be eligible to any office in the Society, provided they are not more than one year in arrear in the payment of the Annual Contribution. 3. A Fellow shall not be entitled to vote on any occasion until he shall have paid his Contribution for the year last past. Cuar. XVI. Honorary Fellows. 1. Every person proposed as an Honorary Fellow shall be recommended by the Council; and shall be balloted for, and, if elected, be liable to be removed in the like form and manner, and be subject to the same rules and restrictions, as an Ordinary Fellow. 2. Honorary Fellows shall be exempt from the payment of Fees and Contributions, and shall possess all the privileges of Ordinary Fellows. 8. No British Subject shall be an Honorary Fellow. 4. The number of Honorary Fellows shall not exceed twelve. b XV1ll BYE-LAWS. Cuar. XVII. Ordinary Meetings of the Society. 1. The Ordinary Meetings of the Society shall be held on the first Wednesday in each month (except January), begin- ning at eight o’clock in the evening, or at such other days or times as the Council shall from time to time direct. 2. At the Ordinary Meetings the order of business shall be as follows :— (1.) The names of the Visitors present at the Meeting shall be read aloud by the President. (2.) The Minutes of the last Meeting shall be read ° aloud by one of the Secretaries, proposed for confirmation by the Meeting, and signed by the President. (3.) The Presents made to the Society since the last Meeting shall be announced and exhibited. (4.) Certificates in favour of Candidates for admission into the Society shall be read, and Candidates shall be balloted for. (5.) Fellows shall sign their names in the Obligation Book, and be admitted. (6.) Exhibitions of specimens, &c., shall be made. (7.) Entomological communications shall be announced and read either by the Author or one of the Secretaries. (8.) Business not specified in the above order and dis- cussions arising out of the exhibitions and communications shall be taken at such times and in such manner as the President shall direct. 3. All Memoirs which shall be read at any Meeting of the Society, and accepted for publication, shall become the property of the Society, unless otherwise stipulated before the reading thereof. 4. No Motion relating to the government of the Society, its Bye-Laws, the management of its concerns, or the election, appointment, or removal of its Officers, shall be made at any Ordinary Meeting. BYE-LAWS. xX1x Cap. XVIII. Special Meeting. 1. Upon the requisition of six or more Fellows, presented to the President and Council, a Special General Meeting of the Society shall be convened ; a notice thereof shall be sent to every Fellow whose last known residence shall be in the United Kingdom, at least seven days before such Meeting shall take place: and any motion to be submitted to such Meeting which involves a substantive proposition and is not of the nature of an amendment shall be stated at length in such notice. 2. No vote shall be taken at any Special Meeting unless nine or more Fellows shall be present. Cap. XIX. Annual Meeting. 1. The Annual Meeting of the Society shall be held on the third Wednesday in January. 2. The objects of the Meeting shall be to receive from the Council, and hear read, their Annual Report on the general concerns of the Society; and to choose the Council and Officers for the ensuing year. 3. The Council for the time being shall annually cause to be prepared two Lists, one of which (No. 1 in the Schedule hereto) shall contain the names of Fellows whom they shall recommend to be re-elected, and of other Fellows to be elected into the Council; and the other List (No. 2) shall contain the names of such Fellows as they shall recommend to fill the offices of President, Treasurer, Secretaries, and Librarian for the year ensuing ; which Lists shall be read at the Ordinary Meeting in December, and shall then be fixed up in the room until the day of election. And copies of such lists shall be transmitted to every Fellow whose last known residence shall be in the United Kingdom, before the 20th December. 4. If any four or more Fellows shall desire to substitute the name or names of any other Fellow or Fellows to be elected into the Council or to fill any of the offices of President, Treasurer, Secretary, or Librarian, such four or more Fellows shall give notice in writing to that effect, xX BYE-LAWS. specifying the name or names of the Fellow or Fellows proposed to be substituted: such notice to be given on or before the 31st December to one of the Secretaries, who shall before the second Wednesday in January transmit a List of the names proposed to be substituted to every Fellow whose last known residence shall be in the United Kingdom. 5. If no such notice be given to either of the Secretaries on or before the 31st December, the Fellows named in the Lists prepared by the Council shall be the Council and Officers for the ensuing year. 6. If any such notice be given, the election shall be by Ballot at the Annual Meeting, and the President shall appoint two or more Scrutineers from the Fellows present, not being Members of the Council, to superintend the Ballots and report the results to the Meeting. The Secretaries, assisted by the Treasurer, shall prepare a list of the Fellows entitled to vote, and each Fellow voting shall give his name to the Scrutineers to be marked on the said List, and shall then put his balloting lists into the respective glasses to be provided for such occasion. 7. Any balloting List containing a greater number of names proposed for any office than the number to be elected to such office, shall be wholly void, and be rejected by the Scrutineers. 8. No Ballot shall be taken unless nine or more Fellows shall be present. 9. If from any cause an election shall not take place of persons to fill the Council, or any of the offices aforesaid, then the election of the Council and Officers, or the election of Officers, as the case may be, shall be adjourned until the next convenient day, of which notice shall be given in like manner as is directed for the Annual Meeting. Cuar. XX. Transactions and Journal of Proceedings. 1. The Transactions shall consist of such papers commu- nicated to the Meetings of the Society as the Council shall order to be published therein. 2. The Transactions shall be published quarterly, or at BYE-LAWS. xxl such other times, and at such prices as the Council shall direct for each Part or Volume. 8. Authors of Memoirs published in the Transactions shall be allowed twenty-five copies of their communications gratis. 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Bracon., Vole d:; p. 4, gt >. 2 Black, shining, finely pubescent, middle of the abdomen brownish. Head wider than the thorax ; palpi obscure. Antenne twice as long as the body, slender, setiform, 31-32-jointed, blackish, testaceous at the base. Thorax short, gibbous; furrow of the mesopleurz smooth, very short and narrow ; metathorax pubes- cent, not shining. Wings ample, hyaline with a brownish tinge ;. squamule testaceous ; nervures and stigma dull ferruginous ; basal areolets short and small; radial areolet longer than the pra- brachial, dilated in the middle, sinuated and contracted at both ends ; stigma elongate, linear, emitting the radial nervure near its base ; 2nd* cubital areolet sessile, 7.¢., touching the stigma, which * In Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1895. p. 395, Table of Species (2) 1 ; for “ First cubital areolet,” read ‘ Second,” ete. TRANS. ENT. Soc. LOND, 1897.—pParT I. (APRIL.) il 2 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s Monograph of cuts off its upper angle together with the Ist abscissa ; 2nd dis- coidal areolet short, subquadrate; recurrent nervure rejected. Legs flavotestaceous ; tips of the tarsi obscure. Abdomen as long as the thorax, spathulate, subtruncate at the apex ; Ist segment black, linear, twice as long as its apical width, hardly aciculate, not shining, its tubercles situated in the middle ; the following seg- ments piceous, becoming darker towards the anal extremity. Terebra very short. ¢ Antenne longer, 32-jointed ; 2nd cubital areolet still further invaded by the stigma ; abdomen narrower, depressed. Length, 1 line ; exp., 25 lines. This species is easily distinguished from all others by the peculiarity of the 2nd cubital areolet. It forms by itself the genus Agonia, Forst. Rare in Ireland, accord- ing to Haliday. I have taken both sexes in Hngland, at St. Alban’s, Herts, and Bishop’s Teignton, Devon. See Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1895, pl. vii., fig. 12. 2. Dacnusa phenicura, Hal. De phenicura,, Hal.) Lym. Brit wit p.0e(lS39)eae Marsh., lib. cit., p. 461, ¢. ¢ Abdomen rufous with the Ist segment blackish, 2-3 piceous, the rest testaceous; radial areolet nearly reaching the tip of the wing. Body black, with long hairs; head stout, punctured, wider than the thorax; front smooth; face and cheeks scabrous ; man- dibles reddish ; palpi testaceous. Antenne blackish, shorter than the body, 26-jointed, the 2nd joint rufescent. Thorax subeylin- dric, narrowed at both ends, punctured anteriorly; furrows of the mesothorax humeral only, incomplete, not meeting posteriorly ; a Jongitudinal channel before the scutellum ; antescutellar fovea smooth, bipartite; metathorax scabrous, sloping, narrowed pos- teriorly; mesopleure rugulose anteriorly, smoother in the middle, their furrow rugulose, subobsolete. Wings hyaline; squamulz brownish testaceous ; nervures and stigma fuscous, the latter linear- lanceolate, emitting the radial nervure before one-third of its length ; radial areolet oblong, attenuated towards the apex. Fore legs testaceous ; middle pair the same, but with the fexora and tibie darker ; hind legs incrassated, blackish, with the trochanters and tarsi rufescent; hind femora one-half shorter than their tibie. Abdomen not so wide as the thorax, depressed, pubescent ; 1st segment scarcely twice as long as its apical width, not much narrowed at the base, blackish, finely rugulose, having a longi- British Braconide. 3 tudinal carina which is bifurcate at the base ; tubercles minute, placed near the base ; segments 2-3 brown, very finely rugulose, carinate, smooth, bordered posteriorly with testaceous, which is the colour of the following segments. 2 unknown, Length, 1} lines. Taken once only by Haliday in Ireland, and not seen since by any one. The author adds that it is a singular species, forming perhaps a section apart, but imperfectly described from an injured specimen. 3. Dacnusa talaris, Hal. Da iolants, Jal... Eyma brite, p. 8 (1839). 6g°2); Marsh., lib. cit., p. 464, f 2. ¢ 2? Mesonotum with the mere commencement of a medial furrow, the two ordinary furrows subobsolete, converging towards a fovea in front of the seutellum. Black, with dark pubescence ; mandibles rufescent ; palpi testaceous. Antennz of both sexes about 32-jointed, hardly longer than the body. Thorax oblong- oval, pubescent , the mesothoracic furrows punctulate ; on the fore margin is a short linear impression ; metathorax obtuse, rugose- punctate, with yellowish pubescence, scarcely carinate in the middle. Wings slightly infumated ; squamule brownish ; nervures and stigma fusco-ferruginous ; the latter linear, emitting the radial mervure not far from the base ; radial areolet elongate, sinuated, attenuated towards the extremity. Legs fusco-testaceous ; all the cox, upper margin of the 4 posterior femora towards the apex, tips of the 4 anterior tarsi, and the whole of the hind tarsi, fuscous. Abdomen as broad as the thorax, and scarcely longer, oblong, sub- sessile, narrowed at the base; Ist segment of the ¢ almost linear, of the 2 obconic, robust, somewhat gibbous, one-half longer than its apical width, punctate-rugose, pubescent, with hardly visible tubercles; 2nd seguent pubescent, rugosely punctate at the extreme base, but occasionally smooth, in both sexes. Terebra scarcely exserted. Length, 14 lines ; exp., 22 lines. Var. Scape of the antenn, and legs, dull testaceous; last joint of the tarsi blackish, This is extremeiy like D. lateralis (sp. 15), but differs in having much si orter antennx, and the base of the 2nd abdominal segie i’ usually, though not always, rugose. It is moderately co\nmon, and has been taken in Iingland, Treland, and Cen +l Hurope ; many specimens are in the present writer’s «ollection, 4 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s Monograph of A, Dacnusa semirugosa, Hal. D. semirugosa, Hal., Hym. Brit., ii., p. 7; Marsh., lib. a. p. 463; ¢ 2. 3 2 Radial nervure not sinuated, forming a parabolic curve, remote from the tip of the wing. Black, shining. Antenne about 36-jointed, somewhat shorter than the body in the 9, longer in the 4; the subapical joints short and oval. Mesothoracic furrows very slender, smooth, converging towards a fovea in front of the scutellum ; metathorax rugose, carinated in the middle, covered with not very dense pubescence ; furrow of the meso- pleure rugose. Wings slightly infumated ; squamule brownish ; nervures and stigma fuscous, the latter linear-lanceolate, gradually attenuated to the apex, emitting the radial nervure before one- third of its length; radial areolet lanceolate ; 2nd discoidal areolet open on the outer side ; posterior wings with a punctiform vestige of a recurrent nervure, not found in other species. Legs brownish red ; cox and base of the trochanters black ; femora often streaked with black on the upper edge, the 4 posterior frequently blackish altogether. Abdomen subsessile, oblong, depressed, not much narrowed at the base ; 1st segment cbconic, one-half longer than broad, longitudinally rugulose, with scattered pubescence and almost invisible tubercles ; 2nd segment finely rugulose, the rest smooth. Terebra concealed. Length, 2 lines ; exp., 34 lines. A large species, and easy to determine. Not uncom- mon: found in Ireland by Haliday; in 'ngland by Rudd, Walker, and myself, in Yorkshire, 5. Wales, and Wiltshire. 5. Dacnusa striatula, Hal. D. striatula, Wal., Hym. Brit., 11., p. 7; Marsh., lb. cit., p. 465, ¢. 3d Mesonotum impressed longitudinally with a deep medial furrow ; the two ordinary furrows distinct, but not extending to the point of junction in front of the scutellum. Black, pubescent ; mandibles brownish ; palpi blackish. Antenne ; in skins®, Hab. Evropp—v., 7 & 11, 13,156,212, WJ. 15, 20, 22, 26, 28 , Vals ib t 26 iValTT.. ids ii, 13, 15-6, 22, 26, ar xe. 26, , 28 Germany, 1, 2,4, 6, 7, 11, 14, 15, 21-8, 28 ; Austria, ® 4 uy, 23. Holland, 2% 26 . Winelands 8372, 4216; (234. Inpia—N. India, "19, 24, 5° Nilghi- ris, 30 ; Bur vau—Koni, 33; CEYLON, * 9°, Arrica—Gambia Hquatorial African Micro-lepidoptera. 65 (Bathurst)3!?. 9 XT.-XII.,**;| French Congo (Kangwé, Ogowé River shoe ASC: Gea Natal (Spring Vale)?4 2, ie °°; Zululand,*!. Hawarran Is. (Honolulu)? 27, 33-4. When recording monachellw as new to the African fauna (I c¢:, No. 32), expressed the opinion that Jon- gella was probably only a variety, and Meyrick (J. c, No. 33) sunk longella as a synonym, The acquisition of further specimens confirms the opinion that these two forms cannot be rightly separated. Iam not aware that the variety longella occurs in Kurope, but the ordinary form is certainly met with in other localities, from which I have received it (e. g., India, Africa, and Ceylon), but is apparently not found in the Hawaiian Island, whence I have only received longella. It seems extremely pro- bable that the first description of this species is that of Vabricius, under the name of Alucita mediella (1. ¢., No. 1). Stainton cies attention to this with a “? » (2. c., Nos. 9, 12, 15), and Herrich-Schaffer endorsed his opinion (Schm. Eur. V., Index, p. 29), while Werneburg, Beitr. Schm. I., 489, 591 (1864), regarded itasa variety, or as a worn specimen of Gracilaria alchimiella, Se., to which it seems to me impossible that the description could apply. I hesitate to adopt the name mediclla, F. (nec Hb.); although if this insect were intended it must undoubtedly have priority, and for the present I prefer to retain it as a probable synonym with a “?”’, but not without hope that some further evidence may be obtainable to throw hght upon the subject. I think however that the descrip- tion could fairly apply to a worn specimen of that form in which the head assumes a decidedly yellowish colour. Scatipomra, Wlsm. Scalidomia hirsutella, Wlsm. Psoricoptera (?) hirsutella, Wlsm., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond., Tosi Zot Pl, xl 29): Hab. Gambia—Bathurst, VIII. (Sir G. Carter); French Congo—Kangwé, Ogowé River (Rey. A. UC. Good) ; Natal}. TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1897.—ParT I. (APRIL.) 5 Lord Walsingham on Western & len) Tiquapra, Wkr. Tiquadra lichenea, sp. n. (PI. IL, fig. 26.) Antenne fawn-brown. Palpi, second joint with a loose pro- jecting tuft beneath, apical joint of about equal length, erect, also thickly clothed ; fawn-brown. J/ead and thorax fawn-brown, the latter pale greenish posteriorly. Forewings very hirsute, with patches of upstanding scales, all the margins with rough cilia, except on the basal third; pale bluish green with spots and ill- defined cross-streaks of raised coarse hair-like fawn-brown scales, — giving a somewhat reticulated appearance ; of these some at the end of the disc, and others above and about the outer third of the fold, are more conspicuously raised ; the outer half of the costa, which is very roughly fringed, is distinctly chestnut-brown, and this colour extends narrowly towards the base, the termen also has some chestnut-brown scales, but the majority of the cilia are dirty whitish. Underside fawn-ochreous. Lap. al.,24 mm. Hindwings and cilia fawn-ochreous. Underside the same. Abdomen fawn- ochreous. Legs slightly paler than the abdomen. ype aa Hab. French Congo—Kangwé, Ogowé River (Rev. A. ©. Good); unique. An interesting species allied to goochii, Wlsm. ADELIN A. Nemators, Hb. Nematois parvella, Wkr. (Pl. III., fig. 27.) Nematois parvella, Wkr., Cat. Lep. Ins. B.M., XXVILI., 504 (1865)'. Antenne three times as long as the forewings; cinereous. Palpi almost obsolete. Head cinereous, with some metallic scales. Thorax purplish, with metallic scales. Forewings narrow at the base, widened outwardly, costa depressed to the apex ; purplish cinereous, richly studded with brassy metallic scales, strongly iridescent in different lights, with three yellowish ochreous patches : the first on the dorsal half at the base; the second triangular, narrowly margined with black scales, extending inwards from the costal margin about the middle to the fold ; the third lying beyond the end of the cell, occupying the middle of the apical portion of the wing, and produced narrowly inwards and upwards to the com- Equatorial African Micro-lepidoptera. 67 mencement of the costal cilia, a few blackish scales lying around its margins ; a line of blackish scales crosses the wing obliquely inwards from the costal to the dorsal margin near the base ; cilia iridescent, brassy, with some greenish scales below theapex. Evp. al., 16 mm. Hindwings cupreous, with shining brassy cilia. Abdomen cupreous. Legs cinereous, with rather long hair-scales on the tibie. Hab. Sierra Leone', 11.V.—VI. (Dr. Clements) ; French Congo—Kanewé, Ogowé River (Rev. A. C. Good). I described this species as new before identifying it as parvella, Wkr., and it may be well to publish my description, as Walker’s is hardly precise enough to distinguish it from allied forms occurring in the Malay Archipelago. EXPLANATION OF Prates JI. anv III. [See Explanation facing the PLATES. ] III. On Lepidoptera from the Malay Archipelago. By Epwarp Meyricr, B.A., F.Z.S. [ Read Nov. 3rd, 1896. ] In the Society’s Transactions for 1894, pp. 455-480, I recorded some notes on a collection of Pyralidina from Sambawa, Celebes, and Borneo. In the present paper are included the species of the Geometroid families of Notodontina which belonged tothe same collection ; as well as those of both groups from the islands of Sangir and T'alaut. These, like the former, were collected by Mr. W. Doherty, and the types are in the possession of Mr. H. J. Klwes. HY DRIOMENID i. Sauris abortivata, Guen. §S.. Borneo. S. hirudinata, Guen. Sambawa. S. proboscidaria, Walk. (t). Sangir. Chleroclystis recensitaria, Walk. Sambawa. Caria, Walk. Face with cone of scales. Palpi moderate, porrected, smooth- scaled, terminal joint rather long. Antennz in ¢@ filiform, simple. Abdomen with series of small dorsal crests. Posterior tibix with all spurs present. Forewings withareolesimple. Hindwings with 6 and 7 separate at origin. C. calescens, Walk. S.K. Borneo. The 2 differs from the ¢ in being considerably smaller (f 22 mm., 2 16 mm.), with the forewings duller, the white subterminal line straight on upper half, not waved as in f, the hind- wings grey (in ¢ ochreous-yellow). Pomasia euryopis, sp. 1. ¢ 21 mm. Forewings unusually broad, with the whole disc thinly scaled and irregularly contorted or crumpled in shallow grooves, complicated by a transverse impression below middle ; cell much deformed, longest at lower angle, where it reaches + from base, lower margin rather strongly curved upwards, thickened to TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1897.—Parr I. (APRIL.) 70 Mr. E. Meyrick on form a stout ridge beneath from base to ¢ of cell, where it gives off 2 bent additional vein, which appears to be Ic.; pale whitish-ochreous, suffused with orange-ochreous towards costa and termen ; six fas- cie of irregular bisinuate partly confluent brown striz, first four of about three striz each, fifth of two (three on costa), sixth of one: cilia pale orange. Hindwings with colour and markings as in forewings, but not orange towards costa ; first and second fasciz absent, an irregular clear discal space between third and fourth. Pulo Laut; one specimen. P. gelastis, sp. n. ¢d 16mm. Anal claspers large. Forewings whitish-ochreous, orange-tinged, suffused with bright orange towards costa and ter- men ; six fascie of irregular bisinuate partly confluent dark brown strie, black-dotted on costa, first four of about three striz each, fifth of two, sixth of one: cilia orange, with blackish bars at apex, in middle, and above tornus. Hindwings as forewings, but not orange towards costa ; first and second fasciz absent, an irregular clear discal space between third and fourth containing a dark fus- cous discal dot. Pulo Laut; one specimen. P. vernacularia, Guen. Pulo Laut. Physetobasis heliocoma, sp. n. @ 31mm. Head orange-ochreous, face dark fuscous except on margins. Forewings grey with slight greenish and purplish reflec- tions, whitish-suffused towards dise posteriorly ; subbasal, ante- median, and postmedian curved transverse series of irregular blackish-grey spots ; a black transverse-oval discal spot; subter- minal line faint, cloudy, grey-whitish: cilia grey. Hindwings whitish ; a grey discal mark ; a postmedian series of three blackish- grey spots on dorsal half, and a grey subcostal spot; a suffused grey terminal fascia. Sambawa ; one specimen. Eucymatoge ghosha, Walk. Talaut. Anthyria pictaria, Moore. Sambawa. A. lunulosa, Moore. Pulo Laut. A, grataria, Walk. Sangir. A. metriopis, sp. n. ¢ 23mm, Head ochreous-brown, fillet white. Antenne white, ringed with dark grey, pectinations dark grey. Forewings light fuscous, slightly purplish-tinged ; costa posteriorly yellowish- Lepidoptera from the Malay Archipelago. 71 tinged; about twelve evenly distributed darker striae; a dark fuscous discal dot ; a pale yellow transverse mark towards termen above middle : cilia whitish-yellowish, with a fuscous subbasal line. Hindwings as forewings, but without yellow mark. Pulo Laut; one specimen. STERRHIDA. Hois procrossa, sp. n. g 12mm. Head pale ochreous, fillet whitish, face dark fus- cous. Antenne serrate, cilia 13. Posterior tarsi 1, tibial tuft large. Forewings pale whitish-ochreous, thinly sprinkled with dark fuscous ; costal edge fuscous on basal third; first, median, and second lines faint, slender, fuscous, first and second forming small dark fuscous spots on costa; a dark fuscous discal dot before median line; a terminal series of minute blackish dots: cilia pale whitish-ochreous. Hindwings as forewings, but lines not traceable, except that second line forms small dark fuscous costal and dorsal spots. Sambawa ; one specimen. Leptomeris aspilataria, Walk. Sambawa. L. remotata, Guen. Sambawa. I. crossophragma, Meyr. Sambawa. DL. opicata, Fabr. 'Talaut. Chrysocraspeda permutans, Hamps. S.E. Borneo. C. orgalea, sp. n. ¢ 15mm. Structure as in typical section. Head crimson- fuscous, fillet white. Forewings dull purple; a small irregular yellow spot in disc at $; an irregular deep yellow streak along termen and posterior part of dorsum, forming a projection inwards in middle of termen, and terminating in a quadrate spot in middle of dorsum; a terminal series of purple dots: cilia yellow, tips paler. Hindwings with termen rounded-angulated in middle; dull purple ; a yellow discal dot at 4; an irregular yellow terminal streak, dilated at apex ; terminal dots and cilia as in forewings. Pulo Laut ; one specimen. HETEROCTENIS, gen. n. Face smooth. Palpi short, porrected, with appressed scales. Antenne in @ (probably, therefore, in ¢ also) thickened with to Mr. KE. Meyrick on scales near base, unipectinated, apical third simple. Posterior tibiee in 2 with all spurs present. Forewings with 10 out of 9, I1 anastomosing strongly with 9, forming smal] simple areole. Huind- wings with 3 and 4 connate, 6 and 7 connate or short-stalked. Allied to Chrysocraspeda. Type, H. dracontias. HH. dracontias, sp. n. 9 24mm. Antennal pectinations 5, slender. Forewings deep yellow, with a few ferruginous scales ; a large dorsal patch, bounded by an outwards-curved line from near base of costa to tornus, and a large circular subapical blotch purplish-ashy, edged first with deeper purple and then with ferruginous, and connected in disc by a short ferruginous bar ; a terminal series of ferruginous dots : cilia pale yellow. Hindwings purplish-ashy ; two dark fuscous dots trans- versely placed in disc, and a dot of black scales between these ; a rather narrow deep yellow terminal fascia, edged anteriorly first with ferruginous and then with deep purple ; terminal dots and cilia as in forewings. S.E. Borneo; one specimen. HH, tigrina, sp. n. 9 23 mm. Head orange, face and fillet yellow-whitish. Antennal pectinations 2, very thick. Forewings with termen bowed; yellow, suffusedly strigulated with ferruginous-orange ; anterior portion of disc nearly clear ; a very broad purple post- median fascia, not reaching costa, posterior edge forming a broad rounded projection below middle: cilia pale yellow. Hindwings with termen subdentate; yellow, suffusedly strigulated with ferruginous-orange ; base suffused with purple; a very broad fascia of purple suffusion, occupying from = to 4, posterior edge projecting in middle and below costa; ine dots transversely placed in disc, upper blackish, lower dark purplish: cilia pale yellow. S.. Borneo ; one specimen. Perixera syntona, Meyr. (infermixtaria, Swinh.). Paulo Laut. P. suspicaria, Snell. Sangir. P. homostola, sp. n. dé 34mm. Head light reddish-fuscons, fillet whitish. Posterior tibiee moderate, slender, without tuft. Forewings ochreous, slightly Lepidoptera from the Malay Archipelago. 73 reddish-tinged, obscurely strigulated with light reddish-fuscous ; first, second, and subterminal lines faintly indicated, median rather thick, faint, pale fuscous ; a fuscous discal mark ; a terminal series of fuscous dots: cilia ochreous, tips paler. Hindwings as fore- wings, but first and median lines absent, a small dark fuscous white- centred discal spot. Talaut ; one specimen. Calothysanis aventiaria, Guen. Sambawa, Sangir. Alex palparia, Walk. Pulo Laut, Sambawa, Celebes. GEOMETRIDA. Comostola inductaria, Guen. Sambawa. C'. rubrolimbaria, Guen. S.E. Borneo. PROBOLOSCELES, gen. n. Face smooth. Palpi moderate, porrected, second joint rough- scaled. Antenne in ¢ strongly bipectinated, apical third simple. Posterior tibizw with all spurs present, in ¢ with very long stout projection from apex above tarsus. Forewings with 10 out of 9, 11 free. Hindwings with frenulum ; 3 and 4 stalked, 6 and 7 stalked, 8 appressed to cell to middle. PB. quadrinotata, Butl., Ul. Het, vu., p. 105, pl. L365 fic. 7. Talaut; one specimen. The dark patches are small. Uliocnemis partita, Walk. Sambawa. Thalassodes phrixopa, sp. n. gd 21 mm. Head green, fillet and margins of face white. Abdomen with a white raised dorsal spot near base. Forewings green, with numerous obscure hyaline strigule ; costal edge dark fuscous ; white subcostal and subdorsal antemedian dots; a blackish-grey discal dot ; subterminal and terminal series of white dots : cilia green, tips whitish, costal cilia dark fuscous, becoming white near before apex. Hindwings with colour, discal dot, terminal dots, and terminal cilia as in forewings. Sambawa; one specimen. Epipristis nelearia, Guen. Celebes. 74, Mr. E. Meyrick on ORTHOSTIAID As. Ozola macariata, Walk. Sambawa. O, dissimilis, Warr. Talaut. O. extersavia, Walk. Talaut. O. spilotis, sp. n. gd 29 mm. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, with two rows of blackish spots. Forewings with termen not sinuate ; whitish ; a rather broad grey stripe along costa throughout, lower edge very irregular, extending at base to dorsum; first and second lines represented by dorsal and subdorsal grey spots ; subterminal aad terminal series of grey spots, former interrupted below middle, towards apex connected by a light grey suffusion. Hindwings whitish ; a grey blackish-centred discal spot ; second line repre- sented by small grey spots or dots towards costa and dorsum ; sub- terminal and terminal series of grey spots. Sambawa ; one specimen. Rambara ochreicostalis, Hamps. Pulo Laut, Saugir. R. saponaria, Guen. Sambawa. It. satelliata, Walk. Talaut. Noreia perdensata, Walk. Pulo Laut. MONOCTENIADE. EHumelea rosalia, Cram. Sangir, CaANONISTIS, g. n. Face with short cone of scales. Antenne in ¢ unipectinated, apex simple. Forewings with 10 and 11 stalked, 12 anastomosing with stalk of 10 and 11. Hindwings with 6 and 7 approximated at base, C. rectilineata, Guen., x., p. 18. Pulo Laut. SELIDOSEMID&. Opisthograptis emersaria, Walk. Sambawa. O. isospila, Meyr. Sambawa. Possibly an extreme variety of O. emersaria. Lepidoptera from the Malay Archipelago. 75 Corymica arnearia, Walk. Pulo Laut. Plutodes pardaria, Guen. Sangir. P. hilaropa, sp. n. d 22mm. Forewings yellow ; several purplish-ashy ferruginous- edged spots towards base ; a purplish-ashy ferruginous-margined irregular-edged antemedian fascia, much attenuated on dorsum, posteriorly confluent above middle with an 8-shaped ferruginous discal mark ; second line formed of ferruginous spots, irregular, interrupted above middle; beyond this an S-shaped purplish- ashy ferruginous-edged band from costa to middle ; subterminal ferruginous spots on dorsal half; a double alternating terminal series of ferruginous spots: cilia yellow, indistinctly barred with ferruginous. Hindwings yellow ; a ferruginous mark near base ; a purplish-ashy ferruginous-edged antemedian fascia on dorsal half, dilated dorsally ; second and subterminal lines formed by series of ferruginous spots, latter interrupted by a larger purplish- ashy ferruginous-edged spot above middle ; terminal spots and cilia as in forewings. Pulo Laut; one specimen. Diastictis separata, Walk. Sambawa. D. schistacea, Walk. S$... Borneo. D. subexpressa, Walk. Pulo Laut. D. microdoxa, sp. n. 6 18mm. Head whitish, fillet and a median bar on face black. Forewings white, irregularly strewn with fine fuscous strigule ; first and median lines indistinct, but forming small dark fuscous spots on costa; second line fuscous, sinuate outwards above and below middle ; a dark fuscous discal dot on median line ; subter- minal line indicated by fuscous marks, only distinct towards costa : cilia whitish, irrorated with pale fuscous. Hindwings with termen waved ; white, irregularly strewn with fine fuscous strigule towards costa and termen ; a dark fuscous transverse antemedian suffusion in disc ; a transverse dark fuscous discal mark ; second and sub- terminal lines and cilia as in forewings. Pulo Laut; one specimen. D. sublavaria, Guen. Sambawa. Ectropis biundularia, Esp. Sambawa. EL. petras, sp. un. ¢ 23mm. Head light greyish-ochreous, fillet and a median band of face mixed with brown. Antenne with fascicles of long 76 Mr. KH. Meyrick on cilia rising from minute paired projections. Forewings pale greyish-ochreous, thinly spriukled with white, brown, and dark fuscous ; first and second lines parallel, curved, bisinuate, dark browv, marked with dark fuscous dots on veins and costa, first preceded and second followed by a brown shade ; median brown, rather irregular, indistinct on dorsal half, traversing an indistinct dark fuscous discal dot, and marked with another on costa; a suffused darker spot on middle of shade following second line, fol- lowed by an indistinct pale suffusion ; subterminal line pale, waved, margined with brown and anteriorly on upper half with dark fuscous, interrupted in middle ; a terminal series of dark fuscous dots: cilia ochreous-whitish, basal half obscurely spotted with fuscous. Hindwings with termen waved; colour and markings as in forewings, but first line absent, median indistinct, second less marked, not followed by darker median spot. Pulo Laut; one specimen. Luxiaria ditrota, sp. n. ? 36 mm. Forewings with apex subacute, termen slightly sinuate; whitish-ochreous, with thinly scattered dark fuscous scales; a faint brownish tinge towards base ; lines very faint, brownish, first nearly straight, with indistinct darker dots on veins, median hardly traceable, second angulated above middle, darker- dotted on lower half, between angle and dorsum, followed by a suffused brownish shade ; subterminal line faintly indicated, its anterior margin marked by two large dark fuscous dots opposite angle of second line; a terminal series of dark fuscous dots. Hindwings with termen waved, slightly angulated in middle; colour and markings as in forewings, but first line absent, a fine short dark fuscous linear discal mark before median, second not angulated, hardly curved, the following shade nearly reaching costa, subterminal line without the two dark fuscous dots. Sambawa; one specimen. I possess this species also from Halmahera. DT. exclusa, Walk. S.E. Borneo. Selidosema acaciaria, Boisd. Sambawa. S. propulsaria, Walk. Sambawa. Tigridoptera monochrias, sp. n. ¢g 53 mm. Head and thorax blue-grey. Abdomen ochreous- yellow, basal segment blue-grey. Forewings blue-grey ; a deep yellow-ochreous basal blotch, not quite reaching costa, followed on upper half by two black spots ; first and second lines thick, black, Lepidoptera from the Malay Archipelago. 77 bent above middle, median similiar but indistinct and partially obsolete, traversing a roundish black discal spot ; two posterior series of roundish black spots, second indicating anterior margin of subterminal line. Hindwings blue-grey; first and second lines thick, black, rather sinuate, second interrupted in disc ; discal spot and two posterior series as in forewings. Sangir ; one specimen. T. ptochopis, sp. n. ¢ 50 mm. Head and thorax whitish-grey. Abdomen dull ochreous-yellowish, suffused with whitish-grey towards base, Forewings whitish-grey, subdorsal fold obscurely tinged with dull ochreous suffusion ; black subcostal and subdorsal spots at base ; a small black subcostal spot at 4, and another beneath it ; first and second lines formed by series of small black spots, bent above middle ; median slender, blackish-grey, anguiated beneath costa, interrupted on fold; a small transverse-oval black discal spot before median ; a faint grey line beyond second ; anterior margin of subterminal line represented by a series of small black spots. Hindwings as forewings, but without basal or subbasal spots, or median line ; no subdorsal ochreous suffusion, but a similar one occupying median fold. Sangir ; one specimen. Synegia botydaria, Guen. Pulo Laut. S. imitaria, Walk. Pulo Laut. Hyposidra janiaria, Guen. Sambawa. HI, talaca, Walk. Sangir. H, afflictaria, Walk. ‘Valaut. Abraxas sylvata, Scop. Sambawa. A. labrarvia, Guen. Sambawa. Buzura nephelistis, sp. n. 6 63 mm, Head and thorax yellow-ochreous, face mixed with fuscous. Antennal pectinations 3, apical 2 simple. Forewings with termen almost straight, rather strongly oblique ; light ochre- ous-yellowish, clouded with deeper ; basal and median areas almost wholly occupied by broad bandlike suffusions of dark grey irrora- tion ; posterior edge of second line indicated by an incomplete fascia of dark grey irroration following it, abruptly sinuate out- wards above middle, and more gently inwards below it; sub- terminal line faintly paler, waved, posteriorly margined above 78 Mr. E. Meyrick on middle by a terminal patch of dark-grey suffusion. Hindwings with colour as in forewings ; an ill-defined broad median fascia of dark grey irroration, becoming obsolete dorsally. Talaut ; one specimen. Ephoria xanthocolona, sp. n. g¢ 24mm. Head brownish-orange, fillet pale yellow. Antenne white, hardly subdentate, shortly ciliated. Forewings dull ashy- purple, becoming crimson on margins of yellow markings; a rather broad bright yellow costal band from base almost to apex, narrowed towards base, lower edge irregular, forming a triangular projection before middle, and twice sinuate beyond it; a bright yellow ter- minal streak from apex to above middle, not quite reaching costal band at apex: cilia purple, opposite terminal streak yellow. Hindwings dull ashy-purple ; costal area broadly light ochreous- yellowish : cilia dull purple. S.E. Borneo; one specimen. ‘This species, nearly allied to the Japanese H. formosa, differs from it and the rest of the genus in the absence of antennal pectinations, which are however short and tending towards dis- appearance in them also; in other details of structure it coincides exactly, and does not call for generic separa- tion. Lomographa cogenaria, Snell. Pulo Laut. Deilinia chlorochroa, sp. un. gd 20-23 mm. Head and thorax pale greenish-ochreous. Fore- wings with vein 10 out of 9, connected with 12, and anastomosing with 9, 11 out of 10 between connexions; dull light green, with fine scattered dark fuscous strigule ; first and second lines curved, somewhat waved, dark fuscous; a dark fuscous discal dot. Hind- wings as forewings, but first line absent. Pulo Laut; one specimen. ‘This is in poor condition ; the above description has therefore been made from a better example, which I possess, from Burma. ‘The neuration of the forewings, as given above, shows some details of acquired complexity differing from the normal type; but as all the typical points of structure are pre- sent (the fovea of the hindwings is small and inconspicu- ous, but distinct), there is no occasion to separate the species generically. Lepidoptera from the Malay Archipelago. 79 Hulepidotis fimbriata, Cram. Pulo Laut. EH. hortensiata, Guen. Pulo Laut. EH. guttaria, Boisd. Pulo Laut. Huchlena pyrotoca, sp. n. gd 22mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous. Forewings with termeu bowed and slightly prominent in middle; dark fuscous ; first and second lines darker, bent near costa ; a darker discal spot. Hiudwings bright orange ; a wedge-shaped dark fuscous subdorsal streak, broadest at tornus, attenuated to base, occupying about + of wing. Talaut ; one specimen. H. pallida, Moore. Sambawa. EH. pachiaria, Walk. Sambawa. EH. imbutaria, Walk. Celebes. HE. maculifera, Feld. Sangir, Talaut. EL. vestigiata, Snell. Celebes, Talaut. GALLERIADA. Harracongura, Buti. I have not been able to verify the structural characters of Butler’s type, but have little doubt that the following species is truly congeneric with it ; to prevent misappre- hension, however, I add the leading structural characters of my species (applicable to ¢ only), viz.: Forewings with apex contorted; on upper surface with a short subcostal groove before apex, enclosing a short dense expansible tuft of hairs covered over with broad scales ; cell very large, reach- ing % of wing, transverse vein angulated outwards in middle, 5 from the angulation, widely remote from 4, 7 and 8 out of 9. Hindwings with long pencil of hairs on upper surface from base of costa, lying beneath forewings ; 5 absent, transverse vein absent, 7 anastomosing shortly with 8. H. acrocausta, sp. n. d 28 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, apex obtuse, termen vertical, rounded ; whitish-ochreous, faintly pinkish-tinged, with some scattered dark fuscous scales ; traces of antemedian and postmedian discal spots; a rather narrow dark coppery-fuscous terminal streak, anterior edge straight : cilia 80 Mr. E. Meyrick on pale ochreous-brown, with a black interrupted subbasal line. Hindwings ochreous-yellow, thiniy scaled: cilia pale yellowish, tips whitish. Sangir ; one specimen. Heteromicta rufivena, Walk. Sangir. Picrogama anticosma, sp. un. Sangir.* ANTIPTILOTIS, gen. n. Palpi in ¢ short, curved, ascending. Antennz in ¢@ simple, basal joint with broad projecting anterior flap of scales. Thorax with posterior crest. Forewings in ¢ beneath with subcostal groove towards base, enclosing dense expansible pencil of hairs, concealed by long loose hairs from adjoining surface; 4 and 5 connate, 6 approximeted to 7 at base, 8,9, 10 out of 7. Hind- wings in ¢ above with subdorsal groove towards base, enclosing pencil of dense hairs ; 5 rather remote from 4, 7 out of 6 near origin, shortly approximated to 8. A, rubicunda, sp. n. ¢ 25mm. Head and thorax whitish. Forewings elongate- oblong, termen rather oblique, rounded; rosy-whitish, with scattered dull rosy scales, towards costa and on dorsum somewhat mixed with pale yellow-ochreous ; first and second lines and two dots longi- tudinally placed in disc yellow-ochreous, very indistinct ; an in- distinct suffusion of reddish-brown scales towards termen below middle: cilia rosy-whitish suffused with yellow-ochreous and sprinkled with dull rosy. Hindwings light dull rosy ; subdorsal hair-pencil blackish-grey : cilia light ochreous. Sangir; one specimen. CRAMBIDAK. Autarotis euryala, Meyr. Sangir. THALAMARCHIS, gen. 0. Face rounded ; ocelli present ; tongue developed. Labial palpi long, porrected, triangularly scaled. Maxillary palpi moderate, triangularly dilated. Antennz in @ subdentate, shortly cili- ated. Abdomen in ¢ with dorsal tuft of floceulent hairs near base, concealed by flat scales. Forewings with 4 and 5 closely approximated at base, 9 absent, 11 absent. Hindwings in ¢ above with long pencil of hairs from base of costa, concealed beneath forewings, a loose subdorsal pencil of long hairs, and an expansible * See Addendum (p. 91). Lepidoptera from the Malay Archipelago. 81 tuft of short hairs at tornus ; 4 and 5 short-stalked, 7 out of 6 near origin, connected with 8 at a point before middle. T’. chalchorma, sp. n. 3 16 mm. Head white. Palpi orange, tips white. Thorax grey-whitish. Forewings moderate, subtriangular, termen vertical, rather sinuate inwards on upper half, and with an indentation above middle ; pale silky-grey, with indistinct spots of whitish-ochreous suffusion towards dorsum before and beyond middle ; an orange outwardly-oblique wedge-shaped mark on middle of costa ; a trian- gular orange apical patch, extending on costa from 3, and on termen to indentation, cut by two white lines from costa, first angulated inwards, second curved inwards; a fine paler line near before termen on lower half, anteriorly finely edged with dark grey ; a coppery-metallic streak along lower half of termen, pre- ceded by five black dots separated by ochreous-yellowish inter- spaces ; cilia on upper half of termen orange, base shining white, on lower half coppery-metallic, at tornus pale orange. Iindwings whitish-ochreous, greyish-tinged; hair-pencils light yellow-ochreous; a dark fuscous terminal line round apex: cilia whitish-ochreous, round apex whitish. Sangir ; one specimen. PYRAUSTIDA. Mixophyla xanthocasis, sp. n. ? 10-12 mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi white, second joint fuscous above, terminal joint dorsally flattened, obtuse loosely scaled at sides. Forewings with distinct indentation above middle of termen; white; median line light fuscous, angulated, thick- ened on dorsum; terminal area broadly suffused with ochreous- yellow, most widely on costa, where it encloses two oblique whitish spots, below middle enclosing a transverse-oval white spot, marked anteriorly with two short dark fuscous lines (first indistinct) repre- senting margins of second line, and posteriorly with three dark fuscous subterminal dots, uppermost smallest : cilia shining greyish- ochreous, white at tornus and on basal half round apex, with a blackish subbasal line except on indentation and at tornus. Hind- wings whitish-grey : cilia white. Sangir ; two specimens. I take the opportunity of describing also the following additional species of this genus from examples in my own collection. TRANS, ENT. SOC. LOND. 1897.—ParT I. (APRIL.) 6 82 Mr. EK. Meyrick on M., chrysias, sp. n. ¢6 2 14-15 mm. Head and thorax white. Antenne in ¢ very shortly ciliated. Palpi white, second joint blackish above, terminal joint tolerably cylindrical, pointed. Abdomen in ¢ with anal tuft of mixed black and whitish hairs, Forewings with termen rounded, very slightly prominent on 5; white; median line light ochreous- yellow, strongly curved, becoming orange and dilated towards costa ; two oblique wedge-shaped orange marks from costa towards apex, reaching + across wing ; a pale ochreous-yellowish suffusion extending from beyond median line above middle to middle of termen, enclosing onits lower edge before termen a small rect- angular dark fuscous spot which includes a whitish mark cutting its lower side ; a strong blackish terminal line on upper 2 of ter- men: cilia shining grey, cut by white bars in and above middle, on tornus white, basal half white on upper 2 of termen,a dark grey basal line on lower third. Hindwings and cilia white. Amboina ; two specimens. Oligostigma polydora, sp. n. ¢ 24mm. Head and thorax yellow-ochreous. Middle tibiz clothed with long fine hairs above, and with a pencil of similar hairs from base beneath. Forewings elongate-triangular, termen bowed, oblique, costa folded over above from base to middle, mar- gin of fold dilated except towards extremities by a broad flap of long dense projecting scales, covering a deep circular fovea at end of cell, dorsum strongly bowed and fringed with very long fine cilia ; 7 and 10 out of 9 ; ochreous-orange ; ashining whitish streak from end of cell to near before tornus, where it meets a shining white posteriorly black-edged curved subterminal streak from costa ; a nearly straight shining white streak from beneath costa at + to near angle of junction of these, narrowed beneath ; an obscure semitrausparent whitish streak along dorsum ; an inter- rupted blackish terminal line: cilia pale grey. Hindwings abruptly sinuate beneath apex ; shining white ; beneath costa an elongate-oval grey patch reaching from near base to near middle, edged above with rough grey hairs, and beneath this a linear lon- gitudinal streak of deep black scales reaching middle, these entirely covered by the expanded dorsal area of forewings ; an ochreous- orange postmedian fascia and another along termen, confluent at extremities, terminal fascia black-edged from above middle to near tornus ; two subquadrate black terminal dots beneath sinuatiou, margined anteriorly by white black-edged lunules: cilia whitish- grey, with a grey subbasal line. Sangir ; one specimen. Lepidoptera fiom the Malay Archipelago. 83 O. metriodora, sp. n. 3 21mm. Head and thorax ochreous-yellow. Middle tibi with fine slender pencils of long hairs from base above and beneath. ‘Forewings elongate-triangular, termen rounded, oblique ; on upper surface a fovea at end of cell, and a slight subcostal groove above it; 10 out of 9; shining white, suffused with fuscous in disc towards base ; an orange costal streak from base to }, suffusedly confluent with postmedian fascia; a broad orange partially fuscous- irrorated dorsal streak to 4 ; a triangular orange fuscous-irrorated median patch from costa, apex touching extremity of dorsal streak; a nearly straight fuscous-orange fascia at +, parallel to termen, ending beneath in dorsal streak ; an orange anteriorly fuscous- edged terminal fascia; a black interrupted terminal line: cilia whitish-fuscous, with an interrupted dark fuscous subbasal line. Hindwings suddenly sinuate below apex; whitish-grey, darker- sprinkled ; an orange subbasal fascia, extended along dorsum to meet posterior band ; a broad terminal orange band, leaving a three-lobed apical spot of ground colour, fuscous-sprinkled towards termen on lower half, enclosing on lower half a narrow whitish subterminal streak edged with black posteriorly on its upper half ; a black terminal line opposite this portion, and two semi-oval black dots beneath sinuation : cilia whitish-fuscous, with a dark fuscous subbasal line, lighter round apex. Talaut ; one specimen. O. mormodes, sp. n. 3 2 34-45 mm. Head ochreous-yellow. Palpi in ¢ with ter- minal joint considerably elongate, porrected, terminating in a small hooked scaletuft. Antenne in ¢ dentate. Thorax ochreous-yel- lowish, with three dark fuscous anterior spots. Posterior femora in ¢ with small hairtuft beneath towards apex. Forewings very elongate-triangular, termen oblique, rounded, dorsum in ¢ slightly sinuate; in ¢@ upper margin of cell roughened above with erect scales, and a ridge-like tuft of hairs on 16 towards base ; 10 and. 11 out of 9; shining grey-whitish ; a rather broad fuscous costal streak from base to 3, sending a thick suffused branch beneath. from + to middle of disc ; a long semioval blotch extending along dorsum from near base to near tornus, anterior half dark ochreous- fuscous, posterior half pale ochreous-yellow ; a rather broad dark ochreous-fuscous inwards-angulated fascia from 2 of costa, con- fluent with costal streak, and a similar nearly straight fascia from 3, meeting at % above tornus and not continued further ; a pale ochreous-yellow anteriorly black-margined terminal fascia; an 84 Mr. HE. Meyrick on interrupted black terminal line : cilia fuscous-whitish. Hindwings with short sudden sinuation below apex ; shining white; a dark fuscous subbasal fascia, marked with an ochreous spot towards dorsum; a broad pale ochreous-yellow terminal band, edged anteriorly on upper # by a sinuate dark fuscous line, enclosing an indistinct whitish anteapical spot posteriorly edged with dark fuscous, and an ill-defined shining whitish subterminal fascia on lower half, posteriorly shortly edged with dark fuscous below middle of wing; four small black terminal dots below sinuation, each preceded by a silvery-metallic lunule set in black, and separated by orange interspaces: cilia whitish, with dark grey basal spots opposite terminal dots, and four black basal dots alternating with these. Sangir; two specimens. O. hemicryptis, sp. n. go 2 15-16 mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous. Forewings elongate-triangular, termen oblique, rounded ; 10 out of 9 ; orange ; in ¢ costal half dark fuscous from base to 3, forming an elongate- triangular blotch, rest up to subterminal streak unevenly irrorated with dark fuscous, in 2 wholly dark fuscous from base to sub- terminal streak except a small costal przsubterminal spot; a shining white posteriorly black-edged subterminal streak, hardly reaching margins ; an interrupted black terminal line, forming a larger black dot at apex: cilia whitish-fuscous, basal half darker- mixed. Hindwings with slight subapical sinuation, prominent beneath it ; shining white; a basal fascia, in ¢ orange, in 2 dark fuscous ; a broad ochreous-orange terminal fascia, anteriorly strongly edged with dark fuscous except towards extremities ; a minute black terminal dot in subapical sinuation, preceded by a larger white dot, and two quadrate black terminal dots beneath this, preceded by white black-edged lunules, alternating with bright orange interspaces ; beneath these a pale line, black-edged on both sides, extending along termen from middle to }: cilia as in fore- wings, with a blackish basal dot on prominence. Sangir ; two specimens. O. gephyrotis, sp. n. @ 20 mm. Forewings very elongate-triangular, termen oblique, rounded ; shining white ; a fuscous costal streak from base to terminal fascia, lower edge somewhat prominent in middle ; a light ochreous-orange terminal fascia, anteriorly fuscous-edged in disc, continued from tornus to near base of dorsum, but leaving a white anteriorly fuscous-edged dorsal streak from before middle to Lepidoptera from the Malay Archipelago. 85 near tornus, and enclosing a white fuscous-sprinkled subterminal streak ; a terminal series of black marks: cilia whitish. Hind- wings with short sinuation below apex ; white ; a broad suffused pale orange terminal fascia, becoming deeper on termen, anteriorly edged with blackish for about } in disc ; a silvery-whitish sub- terminal streak round apex ; five black roundish terminal dots below sinuation, preceded by silvery-whitish lunules edged with a few black scales, two lowest remote from the dots: cilia whitish, with grey basal line. Talaut; one specimen. Nearly allied to O. argyropis. Anydraula bombayensis, Swinh. Sangir. Nymphula leucoplaca, sp. n. 6 16mm. Labial palpi long, smooth scaled, acute. Fore- wings very elongate-triangular, termen sinuate beneath apex, bowed, waved, rather oblique ; orange, irregularly and suffusedly irrorated with dark fuscous ; a white suffusion towards base ; first and second lines forming shining white fasciz, strongly edged with dark fuscous, first widely interrupted in disc, second curved inwards and interrupted below middle, upper portion forming three adjacent spots; a shining white dark-edged submarginal fascia, interrupted below middle, upper portion forming three adjacent spots, two uppermost small. Hindwings with termen irregularly dentate-waved, apex forming a very prominent tooth ; colour and markings as in forewings, but second line forming a straight fascia, interrupted in middle only, three upper submarginal spots rather small, subequal. Sangir; one specimen. The form of the hindwings is peculiar and distinctive. N. villidalis, Walk. Sangir; a specimen not showing the dark median line of hindwings, yet apparently identical. Hydrocampa conspurcatalis, Warren. Sangir. STREPSINOMA, gen. n. Face oblique ; ocelli present ; tongue very long. Antenne 3, in ¢ ciliated. Labial palpi moderate, curved, subascending, second joint rough-scaled beneath, terminal joint rather short, pointed or obtuse. Maxillary palpi moderate, filiform. Posterior tibiz with outer spurs half inner, tarsi very long. Forewings with semitransparent bladdery impression in cell, larger in 4, sur- 86 Mr. E. Meyrick on mounted by slight ridge ; 3 and 4 stalked, 10 and 11 out of 9. Hindwings 1 ; 3, 4, 5 approximated at base, 7 out of 6 near origin, anastomosing with 8 to middle. Tyre. S.amauwra. Besides the two following species, Cataclysta cresalis (—susalis), Walk., XVIL., 449, also belongs to the genus ; it occurs in India, Borneo, and Halmahera, S. amaura, sp. n. dé 2 138—15 mm. Forewings elongate-triangular, termen oblique ; dark fuscous ; a white sometimes indistinct dot on costa beyond middle ; a fine white subterminal line, sometimes partially obsolete : cilia shining grey, base darker. Hindwings rather dark fuscous ; faint traces of a pale subterminal line. Sambawa, S8.E. Borneo; two specimens. S. sphenactis, sp. n. ¢ @ 13—15 mm. Forewings elongate-triangular, termen oblique; greyish-fuscous, somewhat darker towards costa ; im- pression in cell obscurely whitish, more distinctly in ¢@ ; a fascia- like narrow-triangular white spot on costa beyond middle, reaching more than half across wing, narrower in ¢ ; a curved white sub- terminal line: cilia pale fuscous, with darker subbasal line, Hindwings greyish-fuscous, with very indistinct darker median and postmedian lines, latter followed in ¢@ by an obscure whitish line. Sangir; two specimens. Nausinoé trogalis, Walk. Sangir. Nevrina procopia, Cram. Sangir. Pleonectusa adhesalis, Walk. ‘Talaut. P. extenuatalis, Walk. (leptomeralis, Walk.). Talaut. Pagyda spiralis Walk. Sangir. Marasmia ruralis, Walk. Sangir. Syngamia trimaculalis, Snell. ‘Sangir, Molybdantha tricoloralis, Zell. Sangir. ELurrhyparodes bracteolalis, Zell. Sangir. Diathrausta profundalis, Led. Sangir. Hydriris ornatalis, Dup. Sangir. Dodanga truncatalis, Walk. Sangir. Diplotyla tellesalis, Walk. Sangir. Lepidoptera from the Malay Archipelago. 87 Tabidia aculealis, Walk. Talaut. Margaronia suralis, Led. Sangir; unusually large. M. vertumnalis, Guen. Talaut. M. nitidicostalis, Guen. Sangir. M. celsalis, Walk. Talaut. MES ) spissalis, Guen. Sangir. M. crassicornis, Walk. ‘Talaut. M. scapulalis, Led. Sangir. M., ityalis, Walk. Sangir. M. invertalis, Snell. Talaut. Omiodes bianoralis, Walk. ‘Talaut. O. vulgalis, Guen. Sangir. Coptobasis crotonalis, Walk. (?). Walker’s type is a 2, but appears to agree; it is, however, a very obscure species, which might belong to another genus. The ¢ here recorded is a true Coptobasis. Sangir. C. mimica, Swinh. Sangir. Pycnarmon jaguaralis, Guen. Talaut, Sangir. Aripana abdicalis, Walk. Sangir. A. macrotis, sp. n. 6 26 mm. Abdomen with a black lateral dot on anteapical segment, anal segment elongate. Forewings elongate-triangular (more elongate than in allied species), termen slightly bowed, oblique ; white, ochreous-tinged towards base and on a costal streak from base to 2; small black basal and subbasal dots on costa ; a small black discal dot at }; a small transverse-oval black discal spot in middle ; a small black costal dot at 2; second line fuscous, indistinct, blackish on costa, broken and interrupted in disc, followed bya pale yellcwish shade ; a large black dot towards termen below middle ; a small blackish apical dot: cilia whitish, basal half yellowish. Hindwings white; a dark fuscous discal dot ; second line as in forewings, but marked with a dark fuscous dot on dorsum ; subterminal dot and cilia as in forewings. Talaut ; one specimen. Cwnostola originalis, Walk, Sangir. OSPHRANTIS, gen. n. Face rounded ; ocelli present ; tongue developed. Antenne ?, in ¢ ciliated with long fascicles (4). Labial palpi moderate, 88 Mr. E. Meyrick on curved, ascending, second joint beneath with dense rough pro- jecting scales, forming a short tuft in front, terminal joint rather short, thickened with rough projecting scales beneath, obtuse. Maxillary palpishort, slender, filiform. Posterior tibize with outer spurs about half inner. Forewings with 3, 4, 5 approximated, 10 out of 9. Hindwings, 1: 3, 4, 5 approximated, 7 out of 6 near origin, anastomosing with 8 to middle. O. paraphea, sp. n. ¢ 13 mm. Forewings rather elongate-triangular, termen sinuate, bowed, oblique ; deep yellow, towards costa and termen suffused with a ferruginous tinge; a dark fuscous costal streak from base to 2; first and second lines dark ferruginous, second irregular, running from a dark fuscous spot on costa at 3 to near tornus, then widely interrupted and recommencing in middle of dise, running to 2 of dorsum ; small rounded dark fuscous spots in dise at 1 and J, latter touching inferior section of second line ; an interrupted dark fuscous terminal line: cilia whitish, base yellowish, a subbasal dark yellow-brown line. Hindwings yellow, towards termen ferruginous-tinged ; second line as in forewings, but superior section reaching tornus. Talaut ; one specimen. Conogethes mimastis, sp. n. d 25-27 mm. Head ochreous-yellow. Palpi ochreous-yellow, second joint with dark grey apical band. Thorax ochreous-yellow, with blackish-grey anterior spot. Forewings rather elongate- triangular, termen slightly bowed, oblique ; light orange, markings blackish ; a small basal costal spot ; a narrow curved subbasal fascia ; first line thick, dilated costally, bent inwards beneath costa ; a narrow transverse discal mark, touching a subcostal streak connecting first and second lines; second line thick, nearly straight, connected along costa with a rather broad terminal band, of which the anterior edge is strongly concave: cilia dark grey. Hindwings orange ; second line thick, nearly straight, blackish ; a blackish terminal streak : cilia dark grey. Sangir; two specimens. C. iopasalis, Walk. Talant. C. punctiferalis, Guen. Sangir. Lepidoptera from the Malay Archipelago. 89 C. wiphialis, Walk. Sangir. Notarcha butyrina, Meyr. Sangir. Dichocrocis tyranthes, sp. n. ¢ 33mm. Head, palpi, and thorax whitish-ochreous. Fore- wings rather elongate-triangular, termen obliquely rounded ; whitish-ochreous, yellowish-tinged ; a blackish terminal line: cilia whitish, towards base ochreous-tinged, with a grey subbasal line, Hindwings with colour, terminal line, and cilia as in forewings. Sangir; one specimen. Daulia afralis, Walk. Sangir. Isocentris illectalis, Walk. Sangir; a very small specimen, hardly 13 mm. PLACOSARIS, gen. n. Face rounded ; ocelli present; tongue developed. Antenne 3, in ¢ minutely ciliated. Labial palpi moderately long, porrected, triangularly scaled, terminal joint concealed. Maxil- lary palpi moderate, filiform. Posterior tibie in ¢ with outer middle-spur very short, rudimentary. Forewings in ¢ with a small flat tuft of enlarged broad scales beneath cell towards base on both surfaces ; 10 closely approximated to 9. Hindwings 1: 3, 4, 5 approximated at base, 7 out of 6 near origin, anastomosing with 8 to middle. P. leucula, sp. n. ¢d 25 mm. Forewings rather elongate-triangular, termen rounded, oblique; yellow-ochreous, suffusedly irrorated with ferruginous ; costal edge dark fuscous; first line almost straight, dark fuscous, edged anteriorly with a fine silvery-white streak, not reaching costa; a dark fuscous discal mark; second line dark fuscous, edged posteriorly by a silvery-white interrupted streak, running from ¢# of costa to 3 of dorsum, middle third moderately curved outwards ; a terminal series of dark fuscous dots: cilia dark ferruginous-greyish, with dark fuscous subbasal line. Hind- wings pale yellowish-ochreous ; second line straight, cloudy, grey, obsolete on lower half: cilia ochreous-whitish, with a grey sub- basal line. ; Sangir ; one specimen. Pyrausta inscisalis, Walk. Talaut. P. tranquillalis, Led. Sangir. P. basalis, Walk. Sangir. 90 Mr. EK. Meyrick on P. suffusalis, Walk. Sangir. P. celatalis, Walk. Sangir. P. hipponalis, Walk. ‘Talaut. P. platycapna, sp. n. 36 23 mm. Head and thorax rather dark fuscous, Antennal ciliations minute (4). Forewings rather elongate-triangular, termen bowed, oblique; light ochreous-yellowish ; a broad rather dark fuscous slightly purplish-tinged costal band from base to apex, thence continued asa terminal band to tornus, extending at base to dorsum, and between first and second lines extending as a cloudy suffusion over disc ; first and second lines dark fuscous, second somewhat waved, running from before 3 of costa towards tornus to below middle, thence suddenly bent inwards to below discal mark, and again strongly curved round to beyond middle of dorsum ; a dark fuscous dot in disc beyond first line, and discal median mark ; cilia fuscous, with a darker subbasal line. Hind- wings pale ochreous-yellowish ; a small roundish dark fuscous discal spot ; second line hardly indicated by a few dark fuscous scales ; a rather dark fuscous terminal band. Sangir; one specimen. Allied to the Australian P, epitrota. Hvergestis anastomosalis, Guen. Sangir. PYRALIDIDA. Cirrhochrista fumipalpis, Feld. Sangir. Jotachena histricalis, Walk. ‘l'alaut. Pyralis pictalis, Curt. Talaut. Diplopseustis metallias, sp. n. ¢ 10mm. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, suboblong, ter- men sinuate, little oblique ; deep ochreous-yellow ; a blackish costal streak from base to first line, marked with a bluish-leaden-metallic spot near base, extended at base to dorsum; first line nearly straight, bluish-leaden-metallic, strongly blackish-edged ; a small semioval bluish-leaden-metallic spot mixed with black in middle of costa; second line nearly straight, oblique, bright leaden- metallic, posteriorly black-edged, preceded on upper half by a blackish blotch including a bright leaden-metallic discal spot, and with a leaden-metallic projection inwards below middle ; bright leaden-metallic roundish terminal spots above and below middle : cilia ochreous-yellow, with series of dark fuscous points. Hind- Lepidoptera from the Malay Archipelago. 91 wings ochreous-yellow ; a small blackish dorsal spot before middle; second line nearly straight, bluish-leaden-metallic on lower half, anteriorly blackish-edged throughout, posteriorly edged on lower half by a blackish blotch extending to tornus, where it meets a leaden-metallic suffusion occupying lower third of termen: cilia as in forewings. Sangir ; two specimens. Sufetula sunidesalis, Walk. Sangir. SICULODID. Siculodes anticalis, Walk. Sangir. S. astrodora, sp. n. gd 15 mm. Forewings elongate-triangular, termen bowed, oblique ; pale brownish-ochreous, irregularly striated throughout with dark fuscous; five nearly straight dark fuscous fascie, second angularly prominent in disc posteriorly, fourth running to tornus, fifth to middle of termen. Hindwings as forewings, but first two fasciz obsolete, third and fourth only distinct dorsally. Forewings beneath with ground-colour more whitish, striz more blackish, fascia more reddish-ferruginous ; a bright ferruginous subcostal streak on posterior half; a black blotch iu disc before middle, marked with longitudinal whitish lines on upper half and a row of bright bluish-silvery metallic dots in middle, beneath this finely whitish-sprinkled ; a broader blackish patch in disc beyond middle, marked with numerous fine whitish longitudinal lines throughout. Talaut ; one specimen. Striglina reticulata, Walk. Sangir. Rhodoneura myrtxa, Drury. Sangir. ADDENDUM. The following species of Galleriadee I had supposed to be Callionyma semifeedalis, Walk.; I am indebted to Sir George Hampson for the information that it is not only specifically but generically distinct. PICROGAMA, gen. n. Face with strong projecting ridge of scales. Labial palpi in d very short, ascending, second joint rough-scaled, terminal short, 92 Mr. Meyrick on Lepidoptera. scaled, in 9 very long, porrected, with appressed scales. Fore- wings: cell in ¢ with lower angle very considerably produced, 4and 5 in ¢@ remote,in @ almost connate, 8 and 9 out of 7. Hindwings: cell very short, 3 and 4 stalked, 7 anastomosing shortly with 8. P. anticosma, sp. n. 3 41 mm., 9 34 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous, partially tinged or suffused with light brown-red. Forewings elongate-oblong, more elongate in ¢, apex nearly rectangular, termen straight, hardly oblique ; reddish-brown, more or less suffused with light ochreous in disc from base to beyond middle ; in ¢ a white longitudinal streak above middle from base to 2, lower edge margined posteriorly with a golden-ferruginous suffusion, indented at 2, terminated by a small round dark fuscous discal spot ; in 2 a triangular dark fuscous blotch in dise before middle, and a transverse narrow reniform spot beyond middle ; a cloudy darker transverse line at 3, in ¢ straight, in ? somewhat curved ; an undefined pale ochreous narrow terminal fascia; cilia light reddish-brown. Hindwings in 4 orarge- yellow, in 2 light ochreous-yellowish. Sangir ; two specimens. IV. New Coccidee collected in Algeria by the Rev. Alfred EF. Eaton. By R. Newsreap, F.H.S., Curator of the Grosvenor Museum, Chester. [Read Nov. 18th, 1896.] Prate LV. Towarps the end of December, 1895, and again quite recently, the Rev. A. E. Eaton very kindly placed at my disposal a most interesting lot of Coccidz which he had collected principally in the neighbourhood of Con- stantine, Algeria, during 1895-6. It is with great plea- sure that Iam at last able to give a complete list of all the species he has taken, together with the descriptions of the new species. My only regret is that I have not been able to do so at an earlier date; but my studies of the British Coccidze prevented my doing so until now. Mr. Eaton also furnished a most valuable list of the food- plants harbouring the Coccid, which has been appended to those insects to which the plants refer. He says :— “The localities in which the Coccids were collected lie between 1700 ft. (in the lowest sites in the valleys quoted) and 2500 ft. above the sea. These are not the lowest nor the highest attainable parts of the district. Their character has more of the Hautes Plateaux than of the Mediterranean Region about it, and may be considered that of the mountains of the Tell or of the outskirts of the Plateaux. This will explain the absence of such shrubs as Viburnum tinus, L., and (practically) Lawrus nobilis, L., from the list and collections.’’* Aspidiotus nerii, Bouché, f 2. This widely distributed and destructive pest was evidently the commonest species met with. It occurred on the following plants :—“ Clematis jflammula, L., Con- stantine, 4, xi1.,’?95, on M’cid, above the Route de la Cor- niche, just beyond the last tunnel. Spartiwm juncewn, L., Constantine, 24, x., 795, hedge above the railway skirting the forét at the commencement of the road up the Man- sourah. Calycotome spinosa, Lk., Constantine, 28, x., 795, * The Bone records were added subsequently. TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1897.—ParT I. (APRIL.) 94, Mr. R. Newstead on New Coccidee on the slopes of the Mansourah. An abundant insect by the descent from the town to the Port d’Aumale, and below the railway between the railway tunnels beside the Route de la Corniche. Ceratonia siliquosa, L., 4, xii., 795, on M’cid in the pine wood. Bone, 4, xii., 796, Mimosa and Robinia pseudacacia, L., Constantine, hedge of a garden in the suburb el-Kantara. Crategus azarollus, L., Constantine, December, on M’cid. Hedera helix, L., Constantine, 26, x., °95, in the town garden ; it probably occurs at Algiers, since ivy there harbours abundance of a Coniopterye. Phillyrea media, L., 18, x., 795, near the Route de la Corniche, on M’cid. Neriwm oleander, L., Constantine, near the Route de la Corniche, by the stream, abont 3 kilomctres from the town; chiefly on small short shoots near the ground in the shade. Bone, 26, xii., 795. Antirrhinwm majus, L., Constantine, 23, x., 795, on the brow of the point of the spur of M’cid oppo- site the Kasba. Stachys circinnata, L’ Héritier, the same as the preceding. Laurus nobilis, L., Constantine, on a shrub planted in the public garden, 2, xii., ‘95.” “ Osyris alba, L., Constantine, 23, x.,’95. Olea europxa, L. (as abundant on the fruit as on the leaves). Smilax aspera, L., Bone, 9, i., 796, by the sea-shore. Chamerops humilis, L., Bone, 20, xii.,’¢5. Preyed upon by Chrysopa vulgaris and Coccinellide.” A. napax, Comst., 2. “On Myrtle. Béne, up the valley beyond the Orphelinat, 27, ii., 796. Chiefly immature ¢, and situate on the uppersides of the leaves along the midrib. Does not appear a common species. Diaspis calyptroides, Costa, ¢. “On Opuntia ficus-indica, Haw. Bone, 20, wil., 795.” Judging from the liberal supply of specimens, and the crowded nature of the scales, the species is very abundant where it occurs. Mytilaspis pomorum, Bouché, ¢. “On Salix pedicellata, Desf. (S. xgyptiaca, L., 7), Constantine, 26, x., 795, border of the Roumel by the garden of the tile-works near a ford below the Route de collected in Algeria by Rev. A. EH. Haton. 95 Sétif, about half-an-hour’s walk from the town.’’? The scales were unusually grey, and larger than typical examples. Mytilaspis minima, sp.n. (Plate IV., figs. 1-5.) ? Scalevery convex, filiform, straight or curved, margins irregular, owing to the numerous hairs on the leaf of the food-plant ; colour pale yellow- brownor red-brown, anal extremity usually paler. Larval pellicle terminal of the same colour as the scale. Long. *50—1°50mm. ? Adult elongate, attenuated in front ; antennz rudimentary. Pygidium (figs. 1, 2, 3) rounded, lobes short, median pair large and widely separated, with the lateral margins usually emar- ginate ; second and third pairs rudimentary. There are generally three pairs of plates on each side beyond the median lobes, which are very long and broad ; and between the median lobes a much shorter pair, widely separated. When present thereisa rather long spine near the second, third, and fourth pairs of lobes, but they are often wanting. Five groups of compound spinnerets are present ; anterior group with 2-5, anterior laterals 3-6, posterior laterals 3-6. gd Scale convex, a little wider than the larval pellicle ; white, with the larval pellicles darker. ¢ Second stage elongate-ovate, closely resembling the ¢ in cha- racter. Pygidium (fig. 4) with 5 almost continuous groups of com- pound spinnerets; the anterior with 3, anterior laterals 7-8. posterior laterals 4—6 ; the median lobes are very broad and deeply emargi- nate ; the second and third pairs are scarcely visible. The plates are somewhat larger and more numerous than in the 9. Larva. Antenne (fig. 5) of 6 joints, of which the third is nearly as long as the rest together ; fifth shortest, first much the widest. Hab. “ Among the rocks at the brow of the wooded slopes of the Mansourah; on Ficus carica, L., 24, x., 95.” ‘he 2 were scattered over both surfaces of the leaves ; but the ¢ were on the upper side along the ribs. This is the smallest species I have yet studied; and in other respects it seems quite distinct. It belongs to that section of which M. cordylinidis, Mask., is the type. Mytilaspis ampelodesmx, sp.n. (PI. 1V., figs. 6, 7.) Scale of the ? long and narrow, sides parallel, white ; larval pellicle white or pale yellow, transparent; second pellicle red- brown inclining to piceous in the centre, usually covered with white secretion ; ventral scale white or yellowish white, and appa- rently incomplete. Long. 1-2°25 mm., lat, 50 mm. 96 Mr. R. Newstead on New Coccidx @ Adult very elongate, sometimes attenuated and curved in front. Rostral filaments very short. Rudimentary antenne with two or three spines. Margin in front with a few spiny hairs. Pygidium (fig. 6) shghtly produced ; first and second pair of lobes very large, chisel-shaped ; third pair nearly obsolete. Plates very long, simple and stout; two between the median lobes and two between the latter and the second pair ; beyond these are usually nine others, arranged in threes. Spines long and slender ; median pairs considerably within the margin ; the rest are arranged as shown in the figure. Ventral compound spinneréets in five groups ; anterior group with 1-7, anterior laterals 15, posterior laterals 15-22 ; in one example the anterior group is entirely wanting. Scale of the ¢ white, a little convex ; larvai pellicle yellowish. d Second stage possessing antenne (fig.7) of six nearly equal joints, This character I have not hitherto observed, and it may be exceptional ; but as my knowledge of the intermediate stages of the Coccidx is very limited, I cannot now offer an opinion. It is certain that the preceding species pos- sesses none. Hab. ‘ Constantine, 5, xii., 795, mountain westward of the town across the valley, at an altitude of about 2500 feet ; 7, xi., 795, among rocks at the top of the wood on M’cid ; 8, xi., 795, among the rocks above the wood on the Mansourah, near the quarries below the barracks.” On Ampelodesma tenax {Vahl.], Lk. This species is allied to Mytilaspis cordylinidis, Mask., in the form and character of the scale; but the structure of the pygidium is clearly distinct. Chionaspis nerti, Newst., 2 and % scales. Although not exclusively confined to Nerium oleander, it is evidently partial to that plant. The Rev. A. E. Eaton says that ‘‘the mostly solitary 2 and its f are common on the oleander, on leaves of well-grown stems, and the 2 makes a light-yellow rounded patch or spot of discoloration in the leaf.” Hab. Constantine, near the Route dela Corniche. Also on the same plant at Béne, 26, xii.,’95. And at Con- stantine three 2 on Olea europxa. Chionaspis striata, sp.n. (Pl. IV., fig. 8.) Scale of the 9 very convex, generally widely pyriform, trans- versely striate, the striz well separated, equidistant, and clearly defined ; shining satiny-white; pellicles pale ochreous yellow or collected in Algeria by fev. A. EH. Katon. 97 colourless; anal extremity of second pellicle of a more decided yellow than the rest. Long. *75-1°25 mm. Q Adult elongate ovate. Rostral filaments short. Pygidium (fig. 8) rather widely rounded and continuous with margin. Ventral compound spinnerets in five groups ; anterior group with 3-4, anterior laterals 9-13, posterior laterals 8-17 ; median lobes short, very widely separated, and between them six very short spines, three on each side of the median line ; immediately beyond the lobes are two more spines, which are followed by faint traces of the second and third !obes and one or two plates. Often, how- ever, spines, plates and lobes are entirely absent. Long. 1°25 mm. ¢ Scale white, closely felted, tricarinate ; pellicle pale ochreous, or greenish yellow, cephalic extremity darker. dg Adult unknown. Hab. On Cypress. ‘‘ Constantine, on the side of the Mansourah, on young trees planted by the garde forestier’s house, and elsewhere in the wood. It occurs also more sparingly in the Mohammedan cemetery... . where in fact it was first noticed.” The study of this unique species has given me infinite pleasure. ‘I'he interesting satiny-white striate scales may be recognized at a glance; and the widely separated median lobes are very characteristic. It is strange, though, that many of the 2 should be without marginal appendages to the pygidium, and even when these are present they are more or less rudimentary. Parlatoria afinis, sp.u. (Plate 1V., figs. 9-12.) Seale of the ? circular, when isolated and upon the smooth surface of the leaf or fruit, but when over-crowded it becomes elongate or widely pyriform ; dusky white or pale ochreous ; larval pellicle at the margin in front, rarely extending beyond it ; second pellicle occupying nearly one-third of the scale ; both pellicles variable in colour, usually dark obscure green or piceous, rarely ochreous red; the anal extremity of the second pellicle often dull orange. The scale is unusually thick, and dusted with ochreous or greyish meal. Diam. 1-1°25 mm. Q Adult (fig. 9) almost circular. Rudimentary antenne with a short curved spine (fig. 10). Rostral filaments extending to middle of body. Segmentation distinct. Margins of abdominal segments fringed with serrate and simple plates, Dermis at margins of TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND, 1897.— PART I. (APRIL) 7 98 Mr. R. Newstead on New Coccidz free abdominal segments broadly set with numerous large pores or glands. Pygidium (fig. 11) somewhat angular ; ventral compound spinnerets usually in five groups; anterior group with 1-3, or entirely absent, anterior laterals 13-20, posterior laterals 14-19 ; margin crenulated ; there are three pairs of well-developed lobes, of which the median pair are much the largest : all deeply emar- ginate at the outer extremity ; fourth pair of lobes almost obsolete. There are two serrate plates between each pair of lobes, beyond them several others, broader and more palmate, with the serrations rather shallow and the tips OJlunt and rounded. Within the margin on each side are 9-10 large crescent-shaped pores or open- ings. Long. -25-75 mm. Scale of the ¢ straight, without carine; pale ochreous or dusky ochreous when upon the undersides of the leaves, white when upon the upper surfaces or in exposed situations; larval pellicle terminal; bright ochreous or dull orange, centre dark obscure green. ¢. Antenne of 10 joints, thickly set with short hairs ; apical joint (fig. 12) very short, suddenly narrowed about the middle and pointed ; it is furnished with two long, stout, knobbed hairs : the first projecting at right angles from the centre of the lower half, the other at the extreme tip. The articulation of the tibio- tarsal joint wide; lower pair of tarsal digitules long and slender, and extending to tip of claw ; upper pair wanting. I can give no further information as the specimens are too imperfect. Hab. ‘ Constantine, along the Route de Sétif, near the Camp des Oliviers, 6, xi., 595. on Fraxinus oxyphylla, Marsh. ; also on Olew europea, iy ., from the same locality ; and from the north side of M’cid.” Parlatoria zizyphi, Lucas, f 2. (Plate IV., fig. 13.) Hab. Bone, 2, 11, 796, on Tangerine oranges. It is necessary here to call attention to some important characters which apparently have been hitherto over- looked. The adult 2 has a large marginal tubercle (fig. 13) projecting from each side of the thoracic segment, and bearing on the dorsal (?) surface a minute spine. “Below the tubercle on\ the extreme margin a similar isolated spine. P. pergandii, Comst., also possesses a similar character, but in this latter there is the merest extension of the body surmounted by a small angular spine. collected in Algeria by Rev. A. EL. Eaton. 99 Parlatoria pergandii, Comst. Hab. Bone, 8, i., 796, on Tangerine orange. Planchonia algeriensis, sp.u. (Plate 1V., figs. 14-17.) Test of the @ short ovate, hemispherical ; opaque: lemon- yellow. Dorsum almost covered with very short woolly filaments, which gradually lengthen as they near the margin. Marginal fringe long, irregular and without design. Anal orifice almost erect and transversely elongate. When the dorsal filaments are worn away, as is often the case, the test presents a wax-like appearance. The test rests in a shallow depression, and is surrounded by an abnormal swelling of the plant-tissues, as in P. quercicola, Bouché, and P. hedere, Licht. Long. 2°50-3°50, lat. 1°75-2'50 mm. Q Adult. Shape uncertain. Mentum monomerous, very short ; unexpanded filaments scarcely longer than mentum. Der- mis (fig. 14) above, with numerous scattered figure-of-eight spinnerets (a) and very long, slender, tubular spinnerets (0) ; ventral surface with small simple spinnerets (c), which occur chiefly near the margin ; at the margin is a double row of figure-of-eight spinnerets. @ Second stage. Antenne (fig. 15) of 6 joints; 1 widest, 2° longest and tapering; 3, 4,5, and 6 gradually widening towards apex; 2 and 4 with a single hair ; 6 with one long and two shorter hairs. Legs (fig. 16) longer than antenna; tarsi twice the length of the tibie, with 3-4 rather long hairs arising froma central constriction; claw twice the length of the digitules. I could trace only a single tarsal digitule, but it is quite possible the others may have been broken away. Dermis with a single marginal and two dorsal rows of figure-of-eight spinnerets of the same character as those in the adult. Larva. Antenne (fig. 17) of 6 joints; 1 widest, 2 narrow at base, 3, 4, 5, and 6 equal. Hab. ‘Constantine, 24, x.,’?95, hedge above the rail- way, skirting the forét at the commencement of the road up the Mansourah ; on Spartiwm juncewm, L.” In many respects this species resembles P. hederx, Licht., but differs in having the test more ovate and not attenuated behind, and in the character of the antenn of the $ 2nd stage. ‘The opacity of the test is also another mark of distinction. 100 Mr. R. Newstead on New Coccidx Planchonia ilicis, sp.n. (Plate IV., figs. 18, 19.) Test of adult ? glassy, almost circular, convex ; constricted at the margin by the first pair of spiracles, but this character is incon- stant, and often asymmetrical ; anal orifice very large and slightly produced ; margin carinate ; without cilia. To the naked eye the colour is bright, shining, greenish yellow; with the anterior half, or anterior margin, bottle-green, sometimes inclining to brown. Under the microscope the yellow colour is seen to be due partly to the numerous effete larval skins ; and the darker colour in front to the shrivelled body of the 9. Theold weathered examples present a greyish appearance, Ventral surface of test with the anterior half dark-brown ; posterior kalf and margin pale greenish yellow ; the line of separation between the colours abrupt. Diam. 1°50 mm. 9 Adult cirenlar. Rudimentary antennz disc-lke and with- out hairs. Mentum monomerous; unexpanded filaments about same length as mentum. Anal lobes minute, each with a single long hair,and between them two shorter ones. Anal ring small, simple, and apparently without hairs. Dermis (fig. 18) above, with very long tubular and circular spinnerets (a) : the former most numerous near the margin; there is a complete single row of figure-of-eight spinnerets (c) placed close together all round the margin ; and near the anal ring a small group of 4 or 5 of the form shown at (D). Test of the ¢ elongate, with a faint median carina, and distinctly segmented. Margin (fig. 19) with a fringe of short glassy filaments arranged in pairs, curved outwards, and meeting together at the tips, somewhat like a pair of callipers. Long. 1 mm. Hab. ‘Constantine, 23, x.,’95, top of extreme corner of the spur of M’cid opposite the Kasba, on the scrub. ‘he same scale occurs plentifully on the Mansourah, near the source of Sidi M’cid. Colour of Coccid, during life, bottle-green below, dusted above with lght-yellow. Much infested by a parasitic Hymenopteron.” This is a brilliant species ; and in its structural charac- ters difficult to separate from P. ilicicola, Targ. Tozz., but the absence of a marginal fringe at once distinguishes it from the latter. There can be no doubt as to the atsence of the fringe, as I possess a large number of specimens in the most perfect condition. collected in Algeria by Rev. A. H. Eaton. 101 Tichtensia eatoni, Newstead, 2. On Olea europea, and Plillyrea media, at Constantine, in Oct., 1895. Ceroplastes rusci, Linn., 2. (Plate IV., figs. 20-23.) @ Adult. Antenne (fig. 20) of 6 joints, of which the third is much the longest. Anal lobes short, conical ; after treatment with potash somewhat triangular and obtusely pointed, each with two gland-pits near the centre towards the apex. Stigmatic area (fig. 21) with about 12 large, irregular, pocket- like processes (fig. 22), near the margin a group of 3-4 circular spinnerets ; and on the margin an irregular row of conical spines (fig. 23). The external characters are not given here, as Signoret (Essai, p. 191) very clearly describes them ; but as he gives no structural characters of the adult ¢?, the description and figures given above may be of use for future reference. Hab. ‘** Constantine, 18, x., 795, near the source of Sidi i >) 5} d 3 M’ cid.” . Ceroplastes nerii, sp. n. (Plate IV., figs. 24, 25.) 2 Adult. External covering dull white, with a beautiful roseate hue ; there are one dorsal and eight marginal plates, all clearly defined and outlined in dark grey, the grey shading off and extending into the plates; nuclei pure white. Anal lobes slightly protruding through the covering. Dermis after treatment with potash non-chitinised, transparent. Antenne (fig. 24) of 7 joints; 3 longest, 4,5, & 6 shortest, and equal. Anal lobes with 2-4 long, slender hairs, each arising from a transparent gland towards the apex. Stigmatic area (fig. 25) with 20-25 grouped spinnerets ; margin with large, very obtuse, conical spines, arrang2d two deep at the centre. Legs normal. Long. 3°5 ; wide 2°50-3°50 ; high 1-7-2:25 mm. Hab. ‘ Constantine, 23, x., 795, on Neriwm oleander. Very local, and found only on young healthy shoots of this year’s growth.” ‘This is a large handsome species, and apparently quite distinct. Itis like C. furidensis, Comst. (Report, 1881, p- 331), in having a non-chitinised skin, but differs in having fewer and shorter stigmatic spines, and marginal hairs; in C. floridensis the latter are closer together and much longer. 102 Mr. R: Newstead on New Coccidx TLecanium hesperidum, Linn., @. Hab. Constantine, October and November; on Ficus earica ; Convolvulus tricolor, L.; Clematis jflammula ; Morus wigra, L, and on Mimosa. As only a few speci- mens cccurred on the above-named plants, [ imagine the species was not very abundant. FEriococcus formicicola. sp.n. (Plate IV., figs. 26, 27.) @ Adult elongate ovate, narrowed behind. Antenne (fig. 26) of 6 joints, 3 longer than 4, 5, and 6 together, has sometimes a central false joint with a very faint articulation. Mentum short, biarticu- late. Anal ring with 6 hairs. Anal lobes normal. Legs ordinary ; tibiz and tarsi, exclusive of claw, in length equal ; digitules to tarsi and claw simple. Dermis (fig. 27) above, with many short tubular spinnerets ; and at wide intervals a minute spine. Margin with a single row of short spines, Sac of @ short ovate, convex, slightly attenuated and recurved behind ; anal orifice large; white and closely felted. Long. 3-3 25, lat. ‘50 mm. Sac of ¢ elongate ovate, slightly convex. Colour and texture asinthe 2. d¢ unknown. , Hab. ‘Constantine, 24, x., 795, on wooded slope of the Mansourah. Brought up by ants after the first rain, and carried underground again within a few days when the weather became fine. Apparently a very local insect ;” on Cynodon dactylon, L. It would seem from the foregoing that prior to the for- mation of the sac, this species lives underground in com- pany with the ants; but for what purpose the latter bring the Coccids to light, after a heavy rain, is a mystery. It is very singular too that the Coccids should leave their subterranean home and construct their sacs on the leaves and stems of the Cynodon, as was certainly the case with those specimens sent to me. It is the first and only species of Hriococcus known to frequent ants’ nests, and is therefore of great interest. Eriococcus thymelex, sp.n. (Plate 1V., figs. 28, 29.) Sac of the 2 short ovate, slightly produced behind, very convex; anal orifice small. Owing to overcrowding of the sacs, they are often irregular in form. Long. 3, wide 2 mm. 9 Adult elongate ovate, narrowed behind. Anal lobes large, cullected in Algeria by Rev. A. H. Eaton. 103 normal. Antenne (fig. 28) of 7 nearly equal joints, 3 and 4 the longest ; there are a few hairs on the last joint, but none discover- able on the others. Legs long and rather stout. Mentum large, biarticulate, with 8 long hairs near the apex ; unexpanded filaments extending to insertion of posterior legs. Anal ring with 6 hairs, Dermis (fig. 29) above almost covered with strong spines : those on the margin much the longest. Scattered amongst the spines are many simple spinnerets. Beneathare numerous minute spines, and a few simple spinnerets. Long. °50—75 mm. Hab. ‘Constantine, 28, x., 795, on the slopes of the Mansourah near the Depdt des fourrages of the Chasseurs ad Afrique; on Thymelea hirsuta, Endlicher.” This species may be readily distinguished by the form of the antenne, and the numerous long irregularly arranged dorsal spines. EXpLANATION oF Prate IV. [See Explanation facing the PLATE. ] > oY " ( 105 ) V. Seasonal Dimorphism in African Butterjlies. By Arruur G. Buruer, Ph.D., F.L.S., etc. [Read February 3rd, 1896. ] Mr. Guy A. K. Marsuatu’s “Notes on Seasonal Dimorphism in South African Rhopalocera” (Trans. Hnt. Soc. Lond., 1896, p. 551), as observed by him in Mashunaland, are of great interest and form a contribu- tion to science which will be very useful to future workers, as exhibiting a part of the truth relating to this engross- ing subject; but a part only, as it is now my object to show. Mr. Marshall has evidently misunderstood my remarks respecting seasonal and local modifications of species ; he has indeed wholly missed my point, which is this :— in a country which is hot and dry throughout the year wet-season forms will be naturally extremely rare (if present at all), whereas the reverse will be the case in an uniformly moist climate. Now where a species ranges throughout Africa to Arabia, it exhibits in one locality a single type (say dry-season), and perhaps in abnormal seasons when light showers fall, a second type (inter- mediate between dry and wet); or if the country be moist a wet-season and an intermediate-season form occur, but no dry-season form. Such is frequently the case in Sierra Leone. In countries where the wet season is out of all propor- tion to the dry, the wet-season form of a species will be naturally better marked ; and the reverse will hold good where the dry season has the advantage. It is very likely that Mr. Marshall may be correct in his opinion, based upon practical experience in Mashuna- land, that, in Acrea, I have called the dry-season form ‘“‘wet,’ and the wet-season form “dry,”’* but I am * He however makes an exception in the case of A. bomba (= indunda). TRANS, ENT. Soc. LOND. 1897.—PaRTI. (APRIL.) 106 Dr. Arthur G. Butler on satisfied that in an unusually dry country the so-called “wet-season form” is sometimes identical with the so- called ‘‘ dry-season form” of a moister country. Indeed, the conditions, as far as the absence of one modification and presence of a new one are concerned, are practically very similar to those which obtain in the N. American Lyceenid, Cyaniris pseudargiolus, beautifully worked out by Mr. W. H. Edwards (Butt., N. Am., u., pp. 315 et seq.). Mr. Marshall is quite correct in saying that it is extremely difficult to define ‘‘the specific differences of butterfles merely from a series of museum specimens when not backed up by a practical knowledge of the habits and range of the species involved.” But, on the other hand, it is impossible for a worker in any one part of so vast a country as Africa arbitrarily to settle, to the satisfaction of everyone, the extent of varia- tion of any one widely distributed species under seasonal and climatic conditions. That Mr. Marshall has amply proved this I can readily show; and 1 do so, not with any desire to detract from the value of his observations, as applied to South African butterflies when in southern S. Africa, but to prove that the conditions differ in the same species when found only so far northward as Nyasaland. ' In my notes on “Seasonal Dimorphism in Acraa” I took what I regarded as the extreme dry and wet developments of the species, not of that phase of the species represented either in the Cape Colony or in Mashunaland ; whether the intermediate forms occur as the dry-season form in one part of Africa, the wet-season form in another, as the sole representatives of the species in a third, or not at all ina fourth, is perfectly immaterial. As developments of the species, intimately connected with and incapable of separation from it, they must be taken into account; but I frankly admit that it is extremely probable, as already granted, that I ought to have called the dry-season form ‘ wet,” and the wet form “dry.” The fact, therefore, that one of my seasonal forms does not occur in conjunction with the extreme southern form throughout its range, or that it occurs apart from the latter at any part of its range, 13 not enough to show that it is not a seasonal phase of a species in some part of Africa. Seasonal Dimorphism in African Butterflies. 107 The species of Acraa mentioned in my former paper will be now separately referred to. (1). A. anucreon, Trim. = A. bomba, Grose-Smith. As Mr. Marshall observes (p. 564), when he examined the British Museum collection there were five specimens labelled as A. bomba (=induna), four of which I have my- self proved to be A. anacreon, inasmuch as the apical patch is not filled in, though more heavily marked than in typical A. anacreon. When, however, Mr. Marshall asserts that the female, admitted to be A. induna, has no connexion with the latter, he is certainly wrong, for we have since received the male, agreeing perfectly with Mr. Grose-Smith’s figure and tolerably closely with Mr. Trimen’s. This example was captured together with a typical male of A. anacreon, by Mr. Crawshay, on the 15th September, 1875, on the Chuona River, Mwewe’s Town, Unyika. If there were any constant difference of pattern on the under surface of the wings between A. anacreon and A. bomba (= induna), it would be possible to force oneself to credit the distinctness of these forms, even though they were captured simultaneously. But there is no constant difference, and absolutely the only distinction between these two specimens, on the under surface, consists in the absence, in the A. anacreon type, of the three dots beyond the cell of the primaries, which (in that type) are usually strongly defined. As a matter of fact the only constant difference between typical A. anacreon and typical A. bomba consists in the absence or presence of the tawny submarginal spots on the apical area of the primaries above. Iam therefore certain, in spite of these two forms having been taken together (which Mr. Marshall frankly admits to be immaterial and due to the overlapping of seasons), that A. anacreon and A. bomba represent the extreme developments of one species in Nyasaland, whether they do or not in southern S. Africa. (2). With regard to the seasonal character of A. peri- phanes and A, guillemei, Mr. Marshall, having seen two specimens of the former in our collection, has his doubts thereon; but he does not comprehend the want of the heavy marginal border in the secondaries. | am now able to resolve those doubts, as other specimens (linking the two in an extraordinary manner) have been since received ; these specimens prove beyond all question 108 Dr. Arthur G. Butler on that the two extremes belong to one species in which the border of the secondaries is sometimes lightly and some- times heavily marked, as in A. anacreon. As with that species also there are no constant differences of pattern on the under surface of the wings. (5). A. doubledayi, Guér. = A. dircra, Westw. Westwood’s description agrees well with the insect which I identified as that species, and which, I have no doubt, is a seasonal form of A. doubledayi. Mr. Marshall, however, when in England, informed me that he haa seen Westwood’s type and found it identical with A. caldarena, Hew.; this was sufficient for me, and I immediately altered the identification. In his paper, however, Mr. Marshall speaks of Westwood’s insect as a seasonal form of A. caldarena, which can be hardly possible, since Westwood says that it is “allied to Aer. oncea, but with a very well defined broad black apex to the primaries”; this exactly tallies with the form of A. doubledayi (=oncexa) which I identified. Of the latter we now have additional examples linking it to typical A. doubledayi beyond all question, and received in the same collection with the white-banded female of that species. Mr. Marshall’s recently published statement has made me feel that I should like personally to compare Westwood’s type both with A. caldarena and the form of A. doubledayi with black apex. (4). Acrea stenobea, Wallengr. = A. caldarena, Hew. Of this identifivation I never felt very certain, because we have a wet development of A. stenobea in A. cecilia of the West Coast. Both A. cxcilia and A. stenobea occur rather commonly in §.-W. Africa. When Mr. Marshall made his remarks respecting my “ Jamentable confusion as to what are real specific differ- ences in Acrza,” “the fallacy of my supposition,” etc., he had not had the advantage of studying our very fine series. Had he done so he would have discovered that A. lygus, Druce (= albomaculata, Weym.) was a form of A. stenobea varying in the direction of A. cecilia, and occurring with it on the Congo. Mr. ‘l'rimen’s description does not accurately describe it, inasmuch as the basal blackish suffusion is more pronounced on the forewing in typical A, lygus, than in any other form of that variable species, A. cecilia. The examples from the “ Hastern extremity of Cape Colony and Basutoland,” if such examples of Seasonal Dimorphism in African Butterflies, 109 A. lygus exist (which is not directly stated by Mr, Trimen) may link A. stenobea to typical A. lygus, and so to A. cecilia, but that they are a seasonal form of it in the extreme south seems exceedingly improbable ; they are far more likely to be a mere albinistic sport, such as occurs in many other species of Acrea. This seems the more probable from the fact that, as far as I have seen, they are always females. It is not at all a conclusive argument that, because in southern South Africa A. stenobea has not been found associated with A. caldarena and because, in Mashunaland, the latter occurs the whole year round without A. stenobea making its appearance, the two do not occur as seasonal forms of one species in any part of Africa. Nevertheless, as all the forms of A. cxcilia appear to occur chiefly iu Southern and South-Western Africa (although typical A. cecilia is also found in Abyssinia), I think the claim of A. caldarena to be regarded as distinct has a firm basis. Regarding this species as a wet-season form, we then still have to look for its dry development; and this leads me to point out to Mr. Marshall that, when he assumes that each species varies seasonally in the same way through- out its entire range, or, because it does not vary in cne district, it therefore varies nowhere, he makes an assump- tion which can be easily disproved by anybody in charge of a sufticiently large and carefully collected series of specimens.* When we see that A. zefes is the extreme wet develop- ment in Sierra Leone of that brightly coloured type of A. menippe found at Uganda, and that A. pseudegina is the extreme wet development in Sierra Leone of the southern A. natalica; whilst in both cases intermediate forms occur, sometimes side by side with the wet form, and sometimes, to the exclusion of both extremes, in inter- mediate localities, we must be very careful not to be too dogmatic in our statements respecting the constancy of either the species themselves, or their seasonal varieties. (5). A. pudorina, Staud. = A. cheribula, Oberth. Accepting Mr. Marshall’s correction as to the black- tipped forms being ‘‘wet” and the forms without black tips ‘dry,’ it is curious that in this species * By which I mean a series labelled, not only with exact localities, but with the dates of capture, and altitudes. 110 Dr. Arthur G. Butler on he seems to reverse the order, telling us that he captured A. acrita in the dry season, and referring me to a paper of Mr, ‘rimen’s which distinctly sugyests that the slightly marked type (which, by the way, 1 almost the same as A. pudorina) is the winter form of “he species captured by Mr. Marshall during the heavy rain ; and he says that, by quietly ignoring this, I have fallen into Oe error of confusing local with seasonal variation. If Mr. T'rimen’s insect were the wet-season form of Mr. Marshall’s, he would have followed my original course ; but what he has done is to confound seasonal and local forms. Admitting that A. pudorina is probably the extreme dry- (not wet-) season form of the species, the form described and figured by Mr. Trimen may occur with it as its wet-season form; whilst if A. acrita occurs (as in Nyasaland it undoubtedly does) with A. cheribula, the latter would be the wet-season, and A. acrita, as Mr. Marshall says, the dry-season form. From Nyasaland however we receive A. chexribula (wet-season), A. acrita (intermediate), and A. pudorina var., of Mr. ‘Trimen’s plate (dry-season), which shows that in dogmatizing respecting seasonal forms, locality must _ be taken into account. My decision respecting this species throughout its range remains as it was, allowing only for the substitution Ole dny 2 for “we b?; and Mr. Marshall’s assumption that, if I had been correct, he ought to have taken A. pudorina and not A. acrita in Mashunaland is based upon a confusion of ideas between local and seasonal forms. To put the matter briefly :—Ifin any part of Africa A. cheribula does not exist with A. acrita, the extreme wet- season form of the species is not developed in that region, and if A. pwdorina does not exist, the extreme dry-season development of the species is wanting, but this does not alter the fact that these intimately connected forms are all one species. ‘Their differences are all limited to the black apex of the primaries above; the borders of the secondaries vary too much in most species of Acrzxa to be relied on, and these variations are not limited either by season or locality. Respecting the seasonal forms of Precis (= Junonia) I have spoken elsewhere. They may be quite correct as regards Mashunaland; indeed I had already published Seasonal Dimorphism in African Butterflies 111 my idea as to J. nachtiyali being a seasonal form of J. artavia when we received a collection from Nyasaland distinctly proving that both occurred together in splendid condition at the same season. I have also proved that J. simia, J. trimeni, and J. cuama fly there together throughout a considerable portion of the year, and cer- tainly both in the dry and wet seasons; this is somewhat disconcerting. In conclusion, I would observe that, whether the forms of Acrxa with black apex be proved by breeding to be a seasonal development of those which lack it, or not, there is not the slightest doubt that they are varietal forms, and not distinct species ; all of them, with the exception of A. caldarena, being already linked together by inter- grades in the British Museum series. 9TH ApRriL, 1897. € 13> ) VI. The Prothoracic Gland of Dicranura vinula, and other Notes. By Oswatp H. Larrsr, Assistant Master at Charterhouse, formerly Tutor of Keble College. [Read March 3rd, 1897.] Prats V. i. THE Funcrion, AND SrrucrurRe, AND HoMmoLocies ox Proryoracic GLANDS. THE present communicaticn is the outcome and con- tinuation of my previous investigations, of which accounts are to be found in Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1892, pp. 287-292, and 1895, pp. 399-412. Being desirous of tracing the source of the potassium hydroxide solution by the aid of which the imago softens the cocoon at the time of emergence, and having already shown that this solution is stored in a special dorsal diverticulum at the anterior extremity of the mid-gut of the pupa, I pro- ceeded in the summer of 1895 to inquire into the nature of the alkaline fluid which is abundantly present in the alimentary canal of the larva. ‘I'wenty larvee in their last stage were procured, their alimentary canals were dis- sected out, and thrown into deci-normal hydrochloric acid of known weight and there minced, while the remainder of their bodies was likewise placed in another vessel con- taining hydrochloric acid of similar strength. I will deal with these latter first, for they led me to more complete results. On the day following the dissections above men- tioned I was astonished to find at the bottom of the beaker containing the hydrochloric acid into which the bodies of the larvee had been thrown, a thick gelatinous deposit covering all the bottom to a depth of about ¢ inch. This deposit was semi-opaque, pale yellow in colour and sufficiently firm to allow of its being removed en masse from the beaker and of being lifted by one side without breaking or indeed bending TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1897.—pant u. (suLy) 8 114 Mr. O. H. Latter on the Prothoracie Gland of excessively. Hxamination of this deposit revealed shreds of the walls of the silk glands scattered through- out the sheet. It at unce occurred to me that if this effect was produced by the action of hydrochloric acid upon the contents of the silk glands, it was possible that the formic acid secreted by the prothoracic (‘‘ neck ”’) glands, as described by Klemensiewicz (8) and Poulton (12, 13) might perhaps in a similar way give rise to the peculiar horny and non-fibrous character of the silk of the cocoon of this species. ‘This suspicion was rendered the more strong by the fact that the sheet taken from the hydro- chloric acid when exposed to the air and allowed to dry assumed in the course of a few hours an appearance and consistency very similar indeed to that of a Vinwla cocoon spun without fragments of wood, etc. Unfortunately I was unable, in consequence of want of material, to proceed further with the subject in 1895, and accordingly was obliged to defer the work till the summer of 1896, when I procured a large number of larve from Messrs. Edmonds of Windsor. My first. step was to determine whether formic acid behaved towards the excised silk glands in the same manner as hydrochloric acid. ) cavity into the body cavity. I find that this is an abnormal occurrence, and though present in all the imagines that I examined in 1894-5, is due to an unnatural obstacle (a glass tube) having been substituted for the natural cocoon. I believe that the unusual efforts made by the imago in endeavouring to escape from such an artificial confinement causes rupture of the thin wall of a bladder connected with the hind end of the gut. In those imagines which have emerged from true cocoons there is such a bladder charged with excretions of a brownish-red colour, but in a few that I caused to emerge in glass tubes I found the wide tube that [ previously described, and have no doubt that the explanation I now give is the correct one. List oF AuTHORS dealing with thoracic sternal glands and similar structures in Lepidoptera and other insects. . BERNARD, H. M., Zool. Jahrb. (Anat. Abth.), v., p. 511, 1892. —, Ann. Nat. Hist. (6), xi., pp. 24-30. . DE GEER, Mém. Acad. Paris savants étrang. 1748, pp. 29-32 ; 1750, i1., pp. 530 & 531. Mém. Hist. Ins., Tom. i., Stock- holm, 1752. Mémoire i., p. 28. Mémoire x., p. 324. 4. Dimmock, Psyche, i1i., June, 1882. 5. GoossENs, Ann. Soc. Ent. France (sér. 4), ix., 1869. 6. Haass, Iris, i., pp. 159, 303, 1884-88. e 8 wo Nm ee . Hotmaren, Bih. Svenska. Akad., xviii., No. 8. . KLEMENSIEWICZ, Verh. k. k. Zool. bot. ges. Wien, xxxii, pp. 459-474, 2 plates, 1882. 9. PACKARD, Proc. Bost. Soc., xxiv., p, 494. 10. ——, Proc. Bost. Soc., xxv., p. 82. 11. ——, J. New York Ent. Soc., ii., pp. 110-127, 1895. 12. PouLTon, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 187. 13. ——, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1887, pp. 295-301. 14. ——, Rep. Brit. Assn., 1887 (Manchester), pp. 765-66. 15. ——, The Colours of Animals, pp. 274-276, 1890. 16. RENGGER, Physiologische Untersuchungen iiber die Thierische Haushaltung der Insecten. Tiibingen, 1817, p. 81. 17. RoGENHOFER, Verh. k. k. Zool. bot. ges. Wien, 1862. 18. ScHAFFER, Dr. C., Zool. Anz., xiii., pp. 9-11, 1889. 19. ——, Zool. Jahrb. (Anat. Abth.), iii., pp. 611-652, 1889. (Abstract in J. R. Micr. Soc., 1889, pp. 633-4.) 20. VON SreEBo.Lp, Vergleich. Anat., 1848. EXPLANATION OF PLATE V. [See explanation facing the PLATE. ] VIL. On the classification of two subfamilies of Moths of the family Pyralids: the Hydrocampine and Scopariane. By Srr Gerorce F. Hampson, BART, BA, [Read March 3rd, 1897.] Tue following paper is a continuation of the classification of the subfamilies of Pyralidx, of which two parts have already appeared in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society and the ‘Transactions of the Hntomological Society for 1896. The subfamilies here dealt with— the Hydrocampine and Scopariane—are both early off- shoots from the most generalized group—the Pyraustine. The Scopariane are a small group of genera characterized by the small tufts of raised scales on the forewing, and usually by their triangularly scaled maxillary palpi resembling those of Crambus, the genus Micraglossa alone being aberrant in having upturned palpi, and the scaling of the maxillary palpi consequently more compact, it has, however, all the other characters, the habits, and peculiar facies of the subfamily. There can be little doubt that the group is a homogeneous one and that it is derived from the Pyraustine near Pioned. It is largely represented in the Palearctic region, but attains its maximum development in New Zealand, where a large proportion of the species of Pyralidx belong to the genus Scoparia and have been exhaustively examined and classified by Mr. Meyrick, to whom I am indebted for the gift and loan of most of the species. Nearly all the species feed on lichens on trees or rocks, and har- monize with them in appearance, but in New Zealand a few species feed on and live among grasses. ‘The most generalized genus is Dasyscopa in essential points of structure, though it has specialized secondary sexual characters; it has the normal palpi, and vein 5 of the hindwings widely separated from 4. From it were derived TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1897,—PparT H. (JULY.) 128 Sir George IF’. Hampson on the through Scoparia with vein 5 stalked or from a point with 4, Mestolobes with vein 3 absent, J'etraprosopus with porrect tufts of hair on the palpal joints, Helipsiodes with the median nervure of hindwing loosely pectinated, and Micraglossa with the palpi upturned. Of the value of the Hydrocumpine as a group there is considerably more doubt; they are primarily dis- tinguished from the Pyraustine by vein 10 of the fore- wing being stalked with 8, 9, but this character breaks down in many individuals of several species of Nymphila, Oligostigma, etc., not in the genera most closely allied to the early genera of Pyraustine, but in the more specialized genera where one would have expected the character to have become fixed; these are to be dis- tinguished by their long maxillary palpi and long upturned palpi with acuminate 3rd joint, except from a few Pyraus- tine genera such.as Sufetula, Massepha, and Homophysa, from which they are to be separated by their facies only. It may in consequence be contended that it would be more natural to distribute the Hydrocampinx among the Pyraustine, as Mr. Meyrick does, in accordance with the forms of their palpi, placing the group of genera allied to Nymphula near Sufetula and Homophysa, the group allied to Coptobasis and Tatobotys near Sylepta and Nacoleia, and Stenia, Diathrausta, Hurrhypara, ete., in the true Pyrausta group; but the fact that the genera Talanga, Daulia, and Parthenodes, which are undoubtedly closely allied to the Nymphula group, have short porrect palpi, and appear to form the transition between the porrect and upturned palpi groups, seems to make it advisable to retain the group, at all events pending further evidence, and not to merge it in the already very inconveniently large subfamily Pyraustine. The genus Cenoloba from Australia is extremely aberrant and not at all closely allied to any other Pyrale, though the well-developed maxillary palpi and the neuration of the hindwing show clearly that it belongs to the family; vein 5 of the hindwings from the middle of the discocellulars is a very generalized cha- racter, only found elsewhere in the Pyralide in Simx- thistis, Tineodes, and Oxychirotis, the first Indian, the two latter also Australian, and all three coming among the very early Pyraustine; the palpi are like those of Tineodes or a Crambus, whilst the fore and hindwings are Classification of the Pyralide. 129 each divided into two lobes like a Pterophorid, and it must be descended from a very ancestral form of Pyrale, having collateral affinities to the ancestor of the Pterophoride. Apart from Cenoloba, the most generalized form in the group is Mabra, with short porrect triangularly- scaled palpi giving rise to Diathrausta with vein 4 of the hindwing absent; secondly, to a group with upturned palpi, the 3rd joint short and blunt, of which Bradina is typical, and Perisyntrocha, Stegothyris, etc., specialized developments with different neuration of the forewing ; and, thirdly, through Talanga and Parthenodes to the typical Nymphula group with upturned palpi, the 3rd joint long and acuminate, the maxillary palpi long and often dilated with scales, of which Tetrernia and “Argy- ractis are forms with specialized neuration. The genus Hydrocampa having been merged in Nymphula, it will be thought by some that the name of the subfamily also should have been changed; but as the word Hydrocanvpine expresses the habits of a larger number of the species in the group, it seems to me quite legitimate to retain it. The constant reckless changing of names in zoology disgusts a large number of keen naturalists who are unable to waste a large amount of time over the literature of the subject, and it seems a great mistake to change well-known names before there is some general agreement as to the principles on which the change should be made and some prospect of its being permanent, which cannot be the case whilst every- one makes his own rules of nomenclature and his prin- ciples of selecting the types of genera. In accordance with these opinions, I have, in this and other papers, retained the well-known names for European genera in preference to the Hiibnerian names of the Verzeichniss and other works, merely indicating, by placing their names in the synonymy, that they may at some future time be adopted for the genera in question. I have to thank Mr. Herbert Druce for the loan of the species described in the ‘ Biologia Centrali-Americana ’ Mr. W. Schaus for the loan of specimens of American Pyralide compared with Guenée’s types in Monsieur Oberthur’s collection ; the Hon. Walter Rothschild for the loan of the whole of his magnificent collection of Pyralidx from the Indian, Malayan, and Australian regions; Mr. TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1897.—PparT ul. (JULY) 9 130 Sir George F. Hampson ow the Elwes for the gift of the types described by Mr. Meyrick from the Malayan region; and Mr. Meyrick for much help with the Australian species, and I wish specially to acknowledge the help derived from his papers, which have cleared the whole groundwork of the classification of the Pyralide. As in my other papers on the Pyralidx, species of which the type is in the British Museum are marked with at; species I have examined, but which are not in the Museum, with a *; whilst species I have been unable to see, and the classification of which is doubtful, are enu- merated at the ends of the genera. When it is stated “Types in Coll. Rothschild and B. M.”, the type is in Mr. Rothschild’s Collection, a co-type in the British Museum. Of a large number of the species not in the Museum, which have never been figured, coloured draw- ings have been made from the types and pinned into their places in the collection, among others of the whole of the types of Pyralide in the Oxford Museum Collec- tion, for the loan of which I am indebted to Prof. Poulton. Subfamily Hyprocampina. Moths usually of very slender build, the legs very long. Pro- boscis present. Forewing with vein 7 from the cell; 10 stalked with 8,9, except in a few species of Nymphula and Oligostigma, and in a small percentage of specimens of other species in these genera, this character, though highly characteristic of the sub- family, not having become a very stable one in the subfamily ; these exceptions may be discriminated from the Pyraustine by their long maxillary palpi dilated at the extremity. Hindwing with the median nervure non-pectinate. The larve of some species of Nymphula feed on water-plants, and are fitted for a life below the surface of the water. 131 Classification of the Pyralide. HY “pqopouay DL au | ee Oe ee TD EE ee pag “BUD OT, “SIPOWMUDS “DWoLgay “wupuubng “DldIIOPI/UT | a : “psliydoseqnag - DISNDAYIDUT “puprouhywojoy -sisnqojdoy “nuapoig ae a DUNT "DULOLyaouD BaD pT “Dyno ee eras re DANWAIDAC ae eee a “ppoysoydrnNy —“sapoonjny piagdopydug “‘nzsowhy ee ‘sryahdouawlizy gos “pubysobud = “Dupounshy sy — BED res “pmousday gy : ae aL “pyaysouwbwnyt ‘WNIDNVOOUGAH AHL ao ANADOTAHG ‘DULL “Dua “ojydourp ‘syonihbupy 132 Kry TO THE GENERA. A. Palpi upturned. a Palpi with the 8rd joint long and acuminate. al Fr ons rounded and not prominent. a? Maxillary palpi filiform and of moderate length. as Hindwing with the outer margin evenly rounded. a+ Antennz with the shaft smooth. a Palpi with the 2nd joint short and broadly rounded with scales b® Palpi with the 2nd joint long and slender c b4 Antenne with the shaft annulate 5 b3 Hindwing with the outer margin excised towards anal angle. 4 Palpi with no sharp tuft at end of 2nd joint in front. a® Forewing with vein 4 present, 11 from cell or absent; hindwing with veins 4, 5from cell. 4 : 3 b° Forewing with vein 4 absent; 11 stalked with 8, 9, 10; hindwing with veins 4, 5 stalked A b* Palpi with a sharp tuft at end of Qnd joint in front 2 6? Maxillary palpi tiliform and very long ; “palpi with the 2nd joint smoothly scaled : c® Maxillary palpi long and dilated with scales at extremity. a? Hindwing with vein 4 absent ‘ b? Hindwing with veins 4,5 stalked c} Hindwing with veins 4, 5 from cell. a+ Palpi extremely long; hindwing with vein 5 from above “angle of cell b4 Palpi moderate ; hindwing with vein 5 from angle of cell. ae Hindwine with the outer margin evenly rounded. a’ Forewing with veins 4, 5 from cell; ML present : b§ Forewing with veins 4, 5 stalked ; 11 absent b® Hindwing with the outer margin ex- cised below apex and lobed at middle : b1 Frons produced to a rounded prominence ; maxillary palpi minute; hindwing with vein 7 from before end of cell b Palpi- with the 8rd joint long and spatulate at extremity; hindwing with vein 7 given 3 from before end of cell . . ¢ Palpi with the 3rd joint short and blunt. a! Palpi with a small triangular tuft in front of 3rd joint. a* Forewing with the cell more than half the length of wing. a Hindwing with the cell more than half the length of wing; abdomen of moderate length. at Hindwing with the outer marge selightly angled at middle 5 Sir George F. Hampson on the Cobo 10. . Orphnophanes. . Luma. . Cataclysta. . Ambia. . Tetrernia. . Thysanoidma. . Mixophila. . Argyractis. . Bristena. . Arzama. . Nymphula. . Margarosticha. . Oligostigma. Cymoriza. . Musotima. . Synvphonia. Classification of the Pyralide. b4 Hindwing with the outer margin excised below apex and lobed at vein 5, or rounded .. bs Hindwing with the cell about one-third the length of wing ; abdomen very long. as Forewing with vein 7 curved and ap- proximated to 8, 9, 10 3 b4 Forewing with vein 7 straight and well separated from 8,9,10 . b? Forewing with the cell less than half the length of wing b! Palpi with the 2nd and 3rd joints conically scaled and tapering to apex c' Palpi with the 3rd joint naked. a? Hindwing with the outer margin rounded. a8 Forewing with veins 4, 5 stalked b3 Forewing with veins 3, 4 stalked. a* Forewing with vein 2 from well before angle of cell b4 Forewing with vein 2 from cell. a’ Forewing with vein 11 from the cell . b5 Forewing with vein 11 stalked with 8, a 108 Ce Forewing with veins 3, ‘4, 5 from the cell. a* Hindwing with veins 4, 5 from the cell. a Hindwing with vein 7 anastomosing with 8 almost to one or coincident with it . b® Hindwing with vein 7 anastomosing with Sto about two-thirds of wing. a® Forewing with vein 11 stalked with 8, 9, 10 ‘ bs Forewing with vein 11 free a? Antenne with the shaft annulate. b? Antenne with the shaft smooth a8 Abdomen of normal length b§ Abdomen very long, especially in male. : : b4 Hindwing with veins 4, 5 stalked : b8 Hindwing with the outer margin truncate and excised towards anal angle 5 B. Palpi with the 2nd joint porrect, the 8rd upturned C. Palpi porrect. a Palpi once to twice the length of head. a! Palpi triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden by hair. a Hindwing with vein 4 absent. “i : b? Hindwing with vein 4 ‘present. a? Both wings with veins 4, 5 stalked b38 Hindwing with veins 4, 5 closely approxi- mated for a short distance. a* Forewing long and narrow, vein 3 from before angle of cell 64 Forewing subtriangular, vein 3 from angle of cell. a Palpi projecting about the length of head; antenns with the shaft smooth. a® Forewing with vein 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9, 10 b§ Forewing with vein 7 curved and approximated to 8, 9, 10 angle of 16. : 30. . Diathraustodes. . 36. 5 Be 38. 133 Aulacodes. Coptobasis. Dracenura. . Hymenoptychis. 5. Celorhynchidia. . Perisyntrocha. . Stegothyris. . Duponchelia. . Strepsinoma. . Niphostola. . Lurytorna. 2. Bradina. . Piletocera. Tatobotys. . Almonia. . Omphaloptera. Diathrausta. Deuterophysa. Stenia. . Hyaloplaga. . Zebronia. 134 Sir George F. Hampson on the b° Palpi projecting about twice the length of head; antennze with the shaft annulate. , 6 18. Daulia. ce? Hindwing with veins 4, 5 not approximated towards origin. at Maxillary palpi dilated with scales. . 46. Psanmotts. b* Maxillary palpi filiform. a” Hind tibiz with the spurs long and equal . 48. Mabra. be Hand tibize with the outer medial spur not more than half the length of inner 47. Eurrhypara. b1 Palpi straightand fringed with long hair below, the 3rd. joint prominent. a? Maxillary palpi filiform. a3 Frons rounded . : é 2 20: Talanga. b3 Frons with a conical prominence : . 19. Margarochroma. b? Maxillary palpi triangularly scaled 17. Parthenodes. b Palpi projecting three times length of head and downcurved at extremity. at Forewing with vein 11 absent . j ; . 42. Zagiridia. bi Forewing with vein 11 present. 43. Clupeosoma. e Palpi projecting three times length of head and straight. al Wings not bifid; forewing with veins 5, 6 present, 11 from cell . : : 41. Camptomastye. bl Wings each divided into two plumes ; forewing with veins 5, 6 absent; 11 stalked with Gh Oh 10, ape wee! 16 - _» 49. Cenoloba. Genus MIxopPHILa. Miwxophila, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1887, p. 269. Angonia, Snell., Tijd. v. Ent., xxxvi., p. 56 (18938). Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint smoothly scaled and not reaching vertex of head, the 3rd well developed and acuminate ; maxillary palpi long and filiform ; frons rounded ; antennz annulate ; tibiz P Mixophila renatusalis, 6, + (from Moths Ind., vol. iv.). with the spurs long and equal. Forewing with the apex rect- angular ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 4,5 well separated at origin ; 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9,10. Hindwing with vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 well separated at origin ; 6, 7 from upper angle. Sect. I. Hind tibia of male without groove and tuft. A. Hindwing of male normal. Olassification of the Pyralide. 135 Type. (1). Mixopuita RENATUSALIS, WIk., xvii., 484. E.Himalayas, TCrambus ermineus, Moore, Lep. Ceyl., Ceylon, Bur- ill., p. 580, pl. 184, fig. 7. ma, Borneo, Angonia crambidalis, Snell., Tijd. v. Ent., Java, Sam- XXEVI., D- OG, pl, option Le bawa. (2). MIXOPHILA TRILINEALIS, sp. n. ¢. Head, thorax, and abdomen white suffused with fuscous. Forewing white, the inner half suffused with fuscous ; ante- and postmedial fuscous lines widening to costa, the former highly excurved at middle, the latter strongly angled at middle, and interrupted by yellow streaks on vein 6 and the median uervules, a fuscous line across apical area ; a fine black line on apical part of margin ; three submarginal black specks between the yellow streaks on median nervules with the cilia beyond them metallic silvery. Hindwing white tinged with ochreous and fuscous. Hab. Fergusson Island, N. Guinea (Meek). JHup., 20mm. Type in Coll. Rothschild. B. Hindwing of f# with a tuft of red scales in cilia at anal angle, the inner area more or less clothed with ochreous scales below. (3). -MIXOPHILA XANTHOCASIS, Meyr., Trans. N.W. Hima- Ent. Soc. Lond., 1897, p. 81 . layas, Pulo Laut, Sangir, Fergusson I., New Guinea. Sect. IJ. Hind tibie of { dilated with groove and tuft of long yellow hair. (4). MrxopuILa cHrysias, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Amboina,Ban. Soc. Lond, 1897, p. 82 . : : . da, N.Guinea, Genus ARGYRACTIS, nov. Palpi upturned, the 3rd joint long and acuminate ; maxillary palpi long and dilated with scales at extremity ; frons rounded Argyractis argentilinealis, 3, 4. antennz of male ciliated. Forewing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 7 straight and well separated from 8 9,10. Hindwing Type. 136 Sir George F. Hampson on the with the outer margin evenly curved ; veins 3 and 5 from angle of cell, 4 absent ; 6, 7 from upper angle. (1). TARGYRACTIS ARGENTILINEALIS, sp. n. d. Orange-yellow and white; fore tibiz banded with black ; abdomen tinged with black. Forewing with the basal costal area suffused with black ; a large triangular black-suffused patch on costa beyond middle with the black-edged white discocellular line on it, defined by a black line, and with a similar irregular patch below it on inner margin, the two patches surrounded with white ; a submarginal white line with silvery edges bent inwards above inner margin ; some black specks on outer margin towards apex ; cilia grey. Hindwing white, with subbasal, antemedial, and medial black lines, the last expanding into a large patch below costa and small spot at lower angle of cell; a curved postmedial black line with the area beyond it orange ; a silvery submarginal line sending spurs inwards on veins 6 and 5, and with a series of black spots on it ; a marginal black line ; the cilia grey. Hab. Espiritu Santo, Brazil (Jones). Hxzp., 16 mm. (2). “ARGYRACTIS IASUSALIS, WIk., xix., 951 . Brazil. (3). -ARGYRACTIS NIPHOPLAGALIS, Sp. 0. Q. Head, thorax, and abdomen fulvous brown and white. Forewing with the ground-colour pure white; the costa orange ; a subcostal brown fascia emitting an oblique antemedial band and terminating at a small discocellular lunule ; an oblique triangular brown postmedial patch with its base on costa and apex on vein 2. A marginal orange band defined on inner side by a fine black line and expanding below vein 2 into a large quadrate patch ; cilia black-brown towards apex. Hindwing white with brown marks at lower angle of cell and near anal angle; an oblique orange discocellular line, the outer area orange from costa to vein 2 and with four large black-centred, white and silver-ringed ocelli with black spots between them on margin. Hab. Dominica (W. H. Eliott). Hep., 18 mm. (4). “ARGYRACTIS SAMEALIS, Feld., Reis. Nov., pl. 136, fig. 14. : : : : . Brazil. Genus EristEena. Eristena, Warr., A. M. N. H. (6), xvu., p. 150 (1896). Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint moderately fringed with hair in front and reaching vertex of head, the 3rd well developed and Classification of the Pyralidx. 137 acuminate ; maxillary palpi long and dilated with scales at extremity ; frons rounded; antennz slightly annulated; legs long, the tibix smooth with the spurs almost equal ; wings very long and narrow. Forewing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; Evistena postalbalis, 2, 2 (from Moths Ind., vol. iv.). 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9,10. Hindwing with the cell about half the length of wing ; vein 3 from angle ; 4,5 ona long stalk; 6,7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8 almost to apex. Type. (1). tERIsTeNa posraLBais, Hmpsn., Ill. Het., ix., p. 175, pl. 174, fig. 3 ‘ ; . Ceylon. (2). ERISTENA MURINALIS, Warr., A. M. N. H. (6); xvii) P50) ; ; : . Khasis. Genus ARXAMA. Areama, Wik., xxxiv., 1183 (1865). Palpi upturned widely in front of head, very long, the 2nd and 3rd joints each about 24 times length of head, the 2nd fringed with scales below, the 3rd naked and acuminate ; maxillary palpi dilated with scales; frons rounded ; antennz annulate; tibis with A pm 9799) y Bg Arzama subcervinalis, 4, 4. the spurs long and equal. Forewing with veins 3, 4, 5 well separated at origin ; 6 from below angle of cell; 7 from angle ; 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 free. Hindwing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 from near middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8 to two-thirds of wing. Type. 138 Sir George F. Hampson on the Sect. I. Hindwing with the outer margin excised below apex and towards anal angle. (1). ARXAMA MONETALIS, Snell., Tijd. v. Ent., Pulo Laut, Xxill., p. 244 ; id., xxvii., pl. 5, fig.3 . Celebes. (2). ARXAMA ATRALIS, sp. n. 2. Black-brown; palpi white below; antenne ringed with white ; thorax mixed with white ; abdomen banded with brown. Forewing with white speck at base and dentate white subbasal line ; a nearly straight white antemedial line; a discocellular speck ; a short postmedial bar from costa with a speck below it above vein 5 and wedge-shaped mark on inner margin ; a submarginal series of white specks ; cilia mixed with white towards apex and outer angle. Hindwing with white antemedial line expanding towards costa; two white postmedial specks below costa; a marginal orange band with white lunule on its inner side below costa, a curved white line inside its medial portion and another towards anal angle, dentate on vein 2. Hab. Gunong IJjau, Malay Peninsula. Hzp., 16 mm. Type in Coll. Rothschild. Sect. II. Hindwing with the outer margin evenly curved. (3). “ARXAMA SUBCERVINALIS, W1K., xxxiv., 1183. Ceram. Genus NyMPHULA. Nymphula, Schrank, Faun. Boica, i, p. 162 (1802). Hydrocampa, Latr., Faun. Nat., p. 478 (1825). Parapoynz, Hiibn., Verz., p. 362 (1827). Synclita, Led., Wien Ent. Mon., 1863, p. 448. Nymphezella, Grote, N. Am. Ent., i., p. 97 (1880). Hygraula, Meyr., Tr. N. Z. Inst., xvii., 129 (1885). Hydeuwretis, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1895, p. 435. Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint moderately fringed with hair in Nymphula fluctuosalis, 3, 2 (from Moths Ind., vol. iv.). front, and reaching vertex of head, the 3rd well developed and acuminate ; maxillary palpi long and dilated with scales at extre- Type. Classification of the Pyralide. mity ; frons rounded; antenne usually annulated ; 139 ocelli usually prominent ; legs long, the tibiz usually smooth, with the spurs almost equal. Forewing with veins 3, 4, 5, from angle of cell; 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9, 10." Hindwing with the cell about half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 strongly anastomosing with 8. Sect. I. Antenne annulate; fore tibiz of male smoothly scaled. (1). NyMPHULA RIVULALIS, Dup., Lep. Fr., viii., p. 341, pl. 233, fig. 8 (2). gas LA STAGNATA, Don., Nat. eng» Kl, oy pl: 363 ov, fig. 3 . : . (3). Newent A NYMPHAATA, Linn, oo Nat., x., p. 274 5 Pnitene potamogata, Linn., Syst. Nat., xe ps 20a: Hydrocampa rivulata, Seop., Ent. Carn., 573. (4). [NYMPHULA INTERRUPTALIS, Pryer, Cist. Ent., i1., p. 233, pl. 4, fig. 5 -: Var. senureiain Leech, Ent., xxii., p. 71, pl. iv., figs. 2, 13 (5). ;NYMPHULA NIGROLINEALIS, Pryer, Cist. Hmt:, 1, p. 253, pl. 4.9) On. (6). “NYMPHULA 2£TaLIs, WIK., xix., 954 Nymphula lotialis, Feld., Reis. Nov., pl. 135, fig. 4. (7). -NYMPHULA IccrusALIs, W1k., xix., 971 ft Leucochroma faulalis, W1k., xix., 973. Hydrocampa formosulis, Clem., Pr. Ac. N. H. Phil., 1860, p. 217. Hydrocampa genuialis, Led., Wien Ent. Mon., 1863, p. 451. Hydrocampa pacalis, Grote, Papilio, i, p: 17. (8). -NYMPHULA EKTHLIPSIS, Grote, Can. Ent., vili., p. 111 : (9). -NYMPHULA DENTILINEA, sp. n. S. Europe. Europe. Europe, Armenia. Japan ; ' N. China. China. Brazil. Weis, a ¢. Head and thorax brown, ochreous and white; abdomen ochreous ringed with white. Forewing ochreous, with a fulvous * In some specimens of nymphwata, responsalis, affinialis, and other species vein 10 arises from the cell. 140 Sir George F. Hampson on the tinge ; a dark antemedial band edged by waved white lines ; a similar medial band with a white spot on it above vein 1, and black spot at costa; a black-edged white lunule before the cell ; a black-edged postmedial white line sharply angled below the costa, then retracted to the lunule and ending at lower angle of cell ; a slightly waved dark line just inside the margin, with a series of dentate white marks on its inner edge, the one on vein 6 long. Hindwing white; ante- and postmedial waved black lines, the latter incurved below cell, and joining the antemedial line towards inner margin; a fulvous marginal band with black line on its inner edge, inside which is a dentate white band. Hab. Florida (Grote). Hap., 20 mm. (10). -NYMPHULA LANCEOLALIS, sp. n. g. White; abdomen ringed with brown ; wings irrorated with brown ; an antemedial waved line defined by brown, and arising from a black spot on costa; a double postmedial brown line oblique from costa to near middle of outer margin, then retracted to near lower angle of cell, waved, and less well defined; the apical part of costa fulvous; the apex acute and produced with a curved black line enclosing a brown mark on margin below it. Hindwing with curved antemedial and sinuous postmedial brown lines ; ashort line from costa below apex and a curved subapical mark, Hab. Espiritu Santo, Brazil (Jones). Hap., 10 mm. (11). NyMPHULA ADIANTEALIS, WIk., xix., 949 . Brazil. (12), *NYMPHULA ABROTALIS, WIk., xix., 956 . Brazil. (13). *NympHu.a nicRA, Warr., A. M.N. H. (6), XVlii., p. 220 : : Khasis. (14). Newent A FCEDALIS, Guen. ape. aad Per Athiopian, 225, pl. 4, figo © 2 . Oriental,and Tee ain tenellulis, Guen., Delt andl Pyr., Australian p. 228. regions. +Lsopteryx leucothoalis, Wik., xvii., 400. t+ Lsopteryx spilomelalis, W1k., xvii., 403. Zebronia ethonalis, W1k., xvil., 484. +Hydrocampa scitalis, Led., Wien Ext. Mon., 1863, p. 451. Physematia epispila, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 257. (15). }NyMPHULA FENGWHANALIS, Pryer, Cist. Ent., ii., p. 235, pl. 4, fig. 11, ‘ . N, China, Classification of the Pyralide. 141 (16). fNYMPHULA SINICALIS, sp. n. Head, thorax, and abdomen brown, fuscous and white. Fore- wing mostly suffused with black variegated with yellow and white, an antemedial line dentate inwards in cell and outwards below cell and with some yellow inside it ; a triangular white spot below end of cell; a postmedial black-edged white lunule below costa with a yellow patch on its inner side; a series of dentate white marks just inside the margin. Hindwing yellow ; a white ante- medial band with waved black edges and irregular black band at middle bearing a white spot; a postmedial black-edged white lunule below costa; the apical area black with a series of white marks just inside the margin ; both wings with the cilia rufous. Hab. Chekiang, China. Hep., 22 mm. (17). {NYMPHULA RESPONSALIS, WIk., xxxiv., Japan, India, 1326 F : ; i : ‘ : Ceylon, and TNymphula turbata, Butl., P. Z. S., 1881, Burma, p. 586, Australia. tT Nymphula marmorea, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1885, p. 434. tisopterye enixalis, Swinh., P. Z.8., 1885, p. 869. + Cymoriza linealis, Moore, Lep. Atk., p. 210. (18). ~-NYMPHULA OBLITERALIS, WIk., xvii., 399. U.S. A., Parapoynz obscuralis, Moeschl., Verh. Z.-B. C. Am. Ver., 1876, p. 432, pl. 18, fig. 39. (19). NympHuLa GurGITALIs, Led., Wien Ent. Mon., 1863, p. 449, pl. 17, fig. 17 . > Brazil. Synclita modestalis, Led., Wien Ent. Mon., 1863, p. 449, pl. 18, fig. 1. (20). -NYMPHULA FILIGERALIS, Wlk., xxxiv., 1533 : 5 ‘ : P . . Brazil. (21). NYMPHULA AFFINIALIs, Guen., Delt. and Socotra, Byres ap. 270 : - : . India, Nico- Botys ardealis, Feld., Reis. Nov., pl. 134, bars. fig. 31. fT Oligostigma incommoda, Butl, P. Z. &., 1881, p. 180. (22). NYMPHULA CRISONALIS, WIk., xix., 961, China, Cey- Hmpsn., Ill. Het., ix., pl. 174, fig.8 . lon, Java, Parapoynx hebraicalis, Snell., Tijd. v. Ent., Celebes, KXlli., p» 240; 2d., xxvil., pl, 4, fig. 11 Australia. Parapoynz myina, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., 1885, p. 482. Sir George F. Hampson on the NYMPHULA DICENTRA, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1885, p. 431. ‘ ‘ + Oligostigma pallida, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 423. (24). NYMPHULA DIMINUTALIS, Snell., Tijd. v. Ent:, xxiii., p. 242: zd., xxvui., pl. 5, fig: 1 (25). -NYMPHULA ENDORALIS, WIK., xvii, 459 Parapoyne distinctalis, Snell., Tijd. v. Ent., Xvili., p. 261, pl. 14, fig. 14. (26). a STRATIOTATA, Linn., Syst. Nat., > P= 529 : : 3 eee paludata, Fabr., Ent. Syst. 3 213. (27). [NYMPHULA HERMEASALIS, Wik: xix. 945-: (28). {NYMPHULA ALLIONEALIs, W1k., ae 453 . (29). {| NYMPHULA PLENILINEALIS, peaae Paps, 11., pal? é (30). NYMPHULA HYDROTHIONALIS, Snell., tad. v. Ent., xviii., p. 262. pl. 14, fig. 15 (31). }NyMPHULA NITENS, Butl., Cist. Ent., ii, p. 536 (32). -NYMPHULA CIRCEALIS, a Wille XVIi., 460 (33). {NYMPHULA TULLIALIS, W1k., xvii., 462 (34). }NYMPHULA SEMINIVELLA, WIk., xxxv., 1717 (Gm: + Nympheella dispar, Grote, N. Am. Ent., 1., Poot. 5). -NYMPHULA OBSCURALIS, Grote, Pap., 1, p. 18 : : NYMPHULA ene Wik. xi. oD tNymphula curviferalis, Wik, X. Forewing with large fovea in end of cell and no fringe of scales. (24). AULACODES SIENNATA, Warr., A. M. N. H. (6), xvil., p. 206 . é - 5 . Queensland. (25). AULACODES ACROPERALIS, sp. 1. Head orange-yellow ; thorax white in front, dark brown be- hind; abdomen fulvous yellow with the first segment white. —~ bo Se Forewiug with the apex produced and acute, dark brown ; the costa orange-yellow: a white spot followed by an orange patch at base ; a triangular white patch from cell to inner margin just before middle ; a pear-shaped white patch beyond the cell with its apex pointing outwards below costa ; an orange marginal band defined on inner side by a fine black line, inside which is a some- what irregular white band; a marginal series of black points. Hindwing dark brown at base ; a broad antemedial white band defined on outer side by a fine black line ; the outer area golden yellow with a black-edged white subapical spot; five medial sub- marginal black spots, the middle one with white centre and with black points on the margin beyond them, the middle ones placed in three pairs; cilia of both wings silvery at base. Hab. Fergusson Island, New Guinea. Hzp., 22 mm. Types in Coll. Rothschild and B. M. (26). *AULACODES WAIGAOALIS, Swinh., Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ined. . : : : . Waigaou. (27). AULACODES DIOPSALIS, sp, 0. Head and thorax white ; palpi and legs marked with brown ; antenne ochreous; abdomen pale yellow, white at base. Fore- wing silvery white with the basal two-thirds of costal area fulvous, expanding into an oblique triangular patch beyond discocellulars with its apex on vein 2 ; a sinuous orange fascia above inner mar- gin with a dark antemedial patch on it ; a wedge-shaped fulvous submarginal band from costa with its apex on vein 2; a marginal orange band joining the fascia on inner area, defined on inner side _by a fine black line and with a marginal series of black points. Hindwing with the basal two-thirds silvery white from costa to below the cell, bounded by a black line from vein 5 to the sub- TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1897.—paRr Il. (JULY.) 12 178 Sir George F. Hampson on the median fold ; the inner and outer areas golden yellow ; an oblique white mark across apex ; a pair of black-edged white ocelli with black spots on their outer edges below the indentation of margin and followed by a black point then a short black line on margin ; cia silvery at base on medial area. Hab. Amboina; Fergusson Island, New Guinea. Hzp., 24mm. ‘Types in Coll. Rothschild and B. M. (28), *AULACODES BRUNNEALIS, sp. n. 2. Head and thorax dark brown ; abdomen with the basal half white, the distal half orange. Forewing dark red-brown, the inner margin white ; a postmedial triangular white patch from costa to vein 3, the costa above it fulvous; a marginal yellow band with waved inner edge, inside which is a series of silvery white lunules conjoined towards inner margin; a marginal series of black specks ; cilia grey with silvery line at base. Hindwing with the base brown; the basal half white bounded by a fuscous lne slightly angled beyond lower angle of cell ; the outer half yellow with oblique silvery postmedial line between veins 2 and la; a curved silvery subapical mark ; a series of four black specks just inside medial part of margin ; cilia grey with silvery line at base. Hab. Humboldt Bay, New Guinea (Doherty). Hup., 20 mm. ‘Type in Coll. Rothschild. (29). *AULACODES CERVINALIS, sp. n. Head and thorax fulvous brown; abdomen golden yellow, white at base. Forewing fulvous brown with a silvery white triangular patch on middle of inner margin extending to subcostal nervure and joined by an oblique postmedial band from costa ; a marginal golden-yellow band defined cn inner side by a fine black line with a white line inside it; a marginal series of black points. Hindwing with the base brown ; a broad antemedial white band with dark mark on middle of its outer edge ; outer half of wing golden- yellow with two subapical silver spots and three pairs of black points just inside the medial part of margin with single points at each extremity of series; cilia of both wings grey. Hab. Humboldt Bay, New Guinea. EHzxp., 22 mm. Types in Coll. Rothschild and B. M. (30). AULACODES JUNCTISCRIPTALIS, sp. D. Head and thorax orange and white; palpi banded with fuscous; fore tibiz and tarsi ringed with black ; mid and hind coxe with tufts of hair ; abdomen orange, the basal segment whitish. Fore- wing orange; a silvery white fascia from base of inner margin Classification of the Pyralide. ies) through the cell, giving off a fascia along vein 2 to join the curved submarginal band, which is defined on outer side by a black line ; an oblique wedge-shaped postmedial patch from costa with its apex on vein 3; a white streak on middle of inner margin ; a marginal series of black points ; cilia grey. Uindwing orange with oblique silvery subbasal line; an oblique silvery mark across apex followed by a dentate submarginal line with an oblique mark beyond it towards anal angle ; a series of small black medial marginal spots arranged in pairs except at extremities of the series. Hab. Fergusson Island, New Guinea. Hzp., f 20, 9 24mm. ‘Types in Coll. Rothschild and B. M. b°. Hind tibizee of male with tufts of scales at mid and terminal spurs; forewing with the inner margin produced to an angle near base. a’, Hindwing with veins 4, 5 from cell. (31). -AULACODES ARGYROPIS, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Pulo Laut, Soc. Lond., 1894, p. 473. : : : Celebes. b>. Hindwing with veins 4, 5 stalked. (32). -AULACODES BASILIssA, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Sambawa, Soc. Lond., 1894, p. 474. Timor. (33). TAULACODES GEPHYROTIS, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1897, p. 84 . ‘ . Talaut. Sect. II. Mid tibize of male without fold and tuft ; hind- wing with the outer margin evenly curved. A, (Aulacodes.) Fore coxee and femora of male with (34). fringes of hair, and a very long fringe ou each side of inner medial spur of hind tibie. AULACODES PSYLLALIS, Guen., Delt. and W. Indies, Pyx5 ps 299) pl: 6, fig: 11 ‘ ‘ ‘ Venezuela, Oligostigma scuthesalis, Wllk., xix., 950. Brazil. Hydrocampa tortalis, Led., Wien Ent. Mon., 1863, p. 452, pl. 18, fig. 3. AULACODES CACHMIALIS, Guen., Delt. and W. Indies, Byr. p.208 ; ‘ ‘ : : : Venezuela, Parapoyna fragmentalis, Led., Wien Ent. Brazil. Mon., 1863, p. 453, pl. 18, fig. 6. Parapoynx gothicalis, Feld., Reis. Nov., pl. 136, fig. 13. Alydrocampa bosoralis, Druce, Biol. Centr. Am, Het., 01., p. 278, pl. 63, fig. 31. 180 Sir George F. Hampson on the +tHydrophysa plumipedalis, Hmpsn., A.M.N.H. (6), Xv1., p. 343, (36). *“AULACODES HABITALIS, Feld., Reis. Nov., ple ish aie 12. : 4 5 : . Brazil. B. (Chnaura.) Legs without fringes of hair. a. Forewing of male without costal fold; hindwing without tufts of scales below the cell. (37). PAULACODES CONVOLUTA, sp. 1. ¢. White irrorated with fuscous; abdomen ringed with brown. Forewing with the basal area mostly suffused with black and bounded by a dark-edged curved white line ; the medial area urorated with black; a postmedial dark-edged white line from inner margin beyond middle to middle of costa, then curved round and almost completely enclosing a spot beyond the cell, then curved upwards to costa before apex and downwards as the sub- marginal line, its first curve filled in with a brown patch. Hind- wing with ante- and postmedial sinuous black-edged white lines, the latter curving round from costa to form the submarginal line ; the outer area irrorated with fuscous. Hab. R. Javary, Amazons (Trail). #ap., 14 mm. (38). *AULACODES HODEVALTS, Druce, Biol, Centr. Am. Het., u., p. 278; pl. 163, fie. 30 . Guatemala. (39). *“AULACODES CITRONALIS, Druce, Biol. Centr. . Mexico, , Am. Het., 1:, p. 247, pple 63,85..28: Centr. Am. (40). FAULACODES SEMICIRCULARIS, sp. 1. @. White ; palpi with the end of 2ud joint black ; abdomen ringed with fuscous. Forewing with ill-defined subbasal and two antemedial curved yellow bands; a large dark-edged semi- circular yellow band on outer half of costa conjoined by a yellow spot to Inner margin and enclosing a smaller costal semicircular yellow band; a marginal yellow band with dark line on its inner edge. Hindwing with subbasal and antemedial dark-edged yellow bands ; a postmedial dark-edged yellow patch not reaching costa or inner margin; a marginal yellow band with dark line on its inner edge. Hab. Espiritu Santo, Amazons. Hep., 18 mm. (41). TAULACODES sECUTALIS, W1k., xxxiv., 1291 Mysol, Solo- Chnaura octavialis, Led., Wien Ent. Mon., mons, New 1863, p. 435 (vec W1k.) Hebrides. Classification of the Pyralide. 181 b, Forewing of male with a large costal fold extend- ing to apex and containing a tuft of hair; hind- wing with tuft of long spatulate hairs below end of cell. (42). fAULACODES CALISTOALIS, WIk., xvii., 442. 8. America. (43). TAULACODES THETYSALIS, W1k.. xvi, 440 .° Brazil. Auctorui. Botys dilucidalis, Guér., Régn. Anim. Ic. Ins., plore iT. ‘ ‘ : : : = Oligostigma nectalis, Snell, Tijd. v. Ent., xix., p. 206, pl. 9, fig. 10: Java. Genus PARTHENODES, Parthenodes, Guen., Delt. and Pyr., p. 252 (1854). Paracymoriza, Warr., A. M. N. H. (6), 'vi., p. 479 (1890). Gethosyne, Warr., A. M. N. H. (6), xvii., p. 221. Palpi porrect, straight and projecting about the length of head, the 2nd joint fringed with hair below, the 3rd short and naked ; maxil- lary palpi large and triangularly scaled ; frons rounded ; antenne of male thickened and flattened ; legs naked, the outer spurs about Parthenodes vagalis, 3, 4 (from Moths Ind., vol. iv.). two-thirds length of inner. Forewing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell; 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9,10. Hindwing with vein 3 from angle of cell, which is about half the length of wing; 4,5 approximated for a short distance ; 6, 7 from upper angle. Sect. I. (Paracymoriza.) Mid tibie of male dilated with a fold containing a fringe of hair; tufts of hair from hind coxe; wings with the outer margin somewhat excurved at middle. (1). ParTHENODES INEXTRICATA, Moore, Lep. Atk p. 210) pl. 7, fig. 7 : . Sikhim. 182 Sir George F. Hampson on the (2). TPARTHENODES VAGALIS, WIk., xxxiv. Punjab, Nil- 1390 ? - * - - 7 : giris, Java. (3). }PARTHENODES AURANTIALIS, Swinh., A. M. Ni a(6), xvi.,p. 304 . : Assam. (4). -PARTHENODES OxyGona, Meyr ean Bat Soc. Lond., 1894, p. 470 é : . Sambawa. (5). PARYTHENODES ECTARGYRALIS, Sp. 0. 2. Head, thorax, and abdomen white mixed with brown; fore tarsi with the Ist joint fringed with scales. Forewing white, suffused and irrorated with brown ; a small yellow spot on median nervure near base ; an obscure yellow antemedial sinuous line defined by brown ; a large oblique eliptical fuscous patch beyond end of cell defined by a fuscous line ; the apical area white with an oblique sinuous yellow band defined by brown between it and the brown area from costa beyond middle to near outer margin at vein 2, then running as a sinuous dark line to inner margin beyond middle ; the apical area also crossed by an oblique curved brown-edged yellow band ; a marginal yellow band defined by brown from apex expanding below the upper oblique band into an irregular patch ; two yellow marks on a fuscous patch above outer angle. Hindwing white with a large brown-edged yellow eliptical white-centred medial mark, sometimes contracted at middle and 8-shaped, and with some fuscous between it and inner margin ; a marginal orange band with fuscous suffusion on its inner side from costa to vein 2, and with five conjoined white-centred rather disintegrated black ocelli between apex and vein 2 and with silver beyond them on margin. Hab. - Fergusson Island, New Guinea (Meek). Eup , 24mm. ‘Types in Coll. Rothschild and B. M. (6). PARTHENODES LORICATALIS, Led., Wien Ent. Mon., 1863, p. 435 (@ ). A . Amboina. Sect. IT. (Parthenodes.) Mid tibize of male with no fold or frmge of hair; hind cox without tufts; wings with the outer margin evenly rounded. A. Forewing with vein 11 free. (7). }PARTHENODES OLIVALIS, Hmpsn., Ill. Het., wili., p. 140; pl. 155; fige8iGs), =< . Nilgiris. + Paracymoriza dentifascialis, Hmpsn., Il. Het., viii., p. 140, pl. 155, fig. 21 (9 ). (8). PARTHENODES EXSOLVALIS, Snell., Midd. Sikhim,