Itc m^m ^ '^- ^^^ ^Ke <^ ^t%=^ «3 ^•'^ri:?^^ 5!^ ^ 'otz:^: - \i..c ■ ^■^tJt^-. (TiZ i^r^ "^^^ NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE. Vol. IV., 1897. NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE H Journal of Zooloo^ IN CONNECTION WITH THE TRING MUSEUM. EDITED BY The Hon. WALTEE EOTHSCHILD, ERNST HARTERT, and Dk. K. JORDAN. Vol. IV., 1897. .:?;''»'.' Issued at the Zoological Museum, Trino. PRINTED BY HAZELI., WATSON, & VINEY, Ld., LONDON AND AYLESBURY. 1897. CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV MAMMALIA. PAOE 1. Neumann's Hartebeest (Plato XIV.). Walter Rothschild .... 377 (,SV aho pp. aO.I aii.l 514.) AVES. 1. Notes on the Localities visited by (). T. Baron in Noithern Peru and on tlie Trochilidae found there (Plate I.). O. T. Baron ..... 1 2. On some Necessary and some Desirable Changes of Names lately used in connection with Philippine Birds. Ernst Hartert . . . . .11 3. Notes on Palaearctic Birds and Allied Forms. Ernst Hartert . . .131 4. Notes on Humming-Birds. Ernst Hartert . 148 5. Mr. William Doherty's Bird-Collections from Celeljes. Ernst IIartekt . . 153 G. On Difl'erences between Giildenstiidt's Redstart and its Eastern Ally. Walter Rothschild ............ 107 7. Description of a New Hill-Wren from Flores. \\'alter Rotuschild . . 1G8 8. On the Figures on Plate II. (Plate II.). Walter Rothschild . . 169 9. Descriptions of Seven New Species of Birds and One New Subspecies from Flores, and of One New Sub-species from Djampca. Ernst Harteut . 17(1 ( vi ) PAGE 1(1. On a Complete Skeleton of Megalaptn-iix teniiipex in the Tring Museum (Plate VI.). C. W. Andrews 188 11. On the Bii-ds Collected by Mr. Everett on Savu. Ernst IIartert . . . 263 12. On some Meliphagidae and other Birds from New Guinea. Krn'ST Hartert . .309 13. Coviatibis eremita (Linn.), a European Bird (Plates VIH., IX., X.). Walter RoTHSc-niLD, Ernst IIartert, and O. Kleinschmidt 371 U. On the Birds Collected by Mr. Everett in South Flores. Part I. (Plate III.). Ernst IIartert ............ 513 15. Various Notes on IIumming-Birds. Erhst Hartert 529 REPTILIA ET AMPHIBIA. 1. Descriptions of New Specie.s of Lizards and of a Troc-Erog from N.E. Queensland (Plat&s XL, XIL). A. Guntheb 403 2. Further Notes on Gigantic Land Tortoises (Plate XIII. ). Walter Rdtuschild 4o7 COLEOPTEKA. 1. On a New Gatharsiua from Western Australia. John W. Shipp . . . 152 2. TroLs E.speces Nouvelles d'Eucn^mides de la Collection de Tring. E. Fleuitaux 177 3. Die Passaliden dichotomiscb bearbeitet. 2"" Theil. — Die Arten. A. Kuwert. 274 4. Some New Anthribidae. Karl Joedan . . . . . . .170 5. On Three Undescribed Coprophagous Lamellicorns. John W. Shipp . . 185 LEPIDOPTERA. 1. New Genera and Specie.s of Moths from the Old-World Regions. W. Warren 12 2. Descriptions of some New Species and Subspecies of Lejndopiei-a. Walter Rothschild 179 3. New Genera and Species of Drepanulidae, Thyridid<ie, Epipleniidae, Uraniidae, and OeomeVridae (Plate V.). W. Warren. . . . . . . 195 4. Some New Species of Heierocera (Plate VII.). Walter Rothschild . . 307 5. Two New Species of Butterflies. H. Grose Smith 313 6. Notes on Ileterocera, with Descriptions of New Genera and Species (Plat« IV.). Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan .... . . 314 ( vii ) PAQB 7. Desci'iptioiis of Five New Species of L>/caeiiul(ie, captured by Mr. Doherty. H. Grose Smith 366 8. New Genera and Species of Moths from the Old-World Regions. W. Warren 378 9. New Genera and Species of Thyrididae, Epiplemidae, and Geometridae. W. Warhen 408 10. On some New Butterflies and Moths. Walter Rothschild .... 507 FOURTEEN P1.ATES. IJoviTAIiS ^JOI-OGIC-E. VbL.lV.1897 Pl.1. ■.%,.. i.KeuiuiruLra; deletlith. l.E-ACiLAEACTIS ALICIAE Salvin. 3.FOKMICIVORA SPECIOSA Salvin Mmter-n Qroe imp. NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE. Vol. IV. APEIL, 1897. No. 1. NOTES ON THE LOCALITIES VISITED BY 0. T. BARON IN NORTHEEN PERU AND ON THE TROGHILIDAE FOUND THERE. By O. T. baron. (Plate I.) SOJME of the localities mentioned in the following notes are referred to in the first paper on the birds collected by me in Peru, and published by Mr. Salvin in the second volume of this journal (Nov. Zool. II. pp. 1-22). The rest will be included in a second paper shortly to appear. I paid special attention to the humming-birds wherever I was, and the following observations on them will, I hope, prove of interest. PACASMAYO. Pacasmayo, the seaport of Cajamarca, is situated on the beach, so that waves of exceptional size wash into some of the houses facing the ocean. It is a place of very little interest, being built upon sand-dunes without vegetation. This causes a great scarcity of birds in the immediate vicinity of the town. I saw only a few sparrows and one humming-bird during my stay there. The humming-bird, Amuzilia leucophaai, was seen feeding from a few flowers, raised in pots and boxes in the hotel garden. I remained only one night, and took the weekly train in the morning for the interior, arriving at Tembladera, 54 km. distant, after a ride of four hours. TEMBLADERA. Tembladera is located on a large dry tract near the liver Yonan. Nothing grows away from the ditches excepting cacti and some desert-bushes. Over the irrigated parts grow various trees, and rice is the principal cereal in the bottoms. The large cactus, not unlike one of Arizona, differing, however, from it by having small pink flowers along the sides of the stems, instead of white ones on the crown as in the latter, furnishes the source of the principal food oi Rhodopis atacaniensis, not only while in blossom, but also when the fruit is ripe and partly eaten by ants or birds. The flowers are first visited by these humming-birds so early in the morning that one can hardly distinguish them when feeding. They continue to feed till 9 a.m., when the flowers close in the hot sun, to partly open again after 4 p.m. Hipe fruit exists nearly at all times, and grows to the size of a small apple. It 1 ( 2 ) is of a sweetish taste, and sticky, so that when a bird sucks at it, it leaves a long thread of glittering juice between its bill and the fruit when flying away. The little Myrmia micrura is also found in this locality, feeding from some small flowers which grow along the dykes. This bird here breeds in June, and frequently builds upon its old nest of the previous season. It selects a bush not over 50 cm. in height, and then places the nest between the top branches. The Tnale at that season watches the female from a high twig iu the vicinity, and whistles a note very much like that of Attkis fieloisat of Mexico, tjccasionally he descends and flies in a vertical semicircle, always making a sound with the tail when on its downward course. The female sits in a thick bush, and at about the centre of the circle so made. Arnazilia leucophaea is also quite common near Tembladera, and also a few Agyrtria tct^zanmvskii were seen in that locality. SAN PABLO. fan Pablo is two days' travel along the river Yonan from Tembladera. The place has an elevation of 7500 feet, just above the level of barren lands. Above the town brushwood is seen along the cations, and even trees grow above 9000 feet. I remained only one day at this place, time enough to recuperate the tired pack-animals. Several species of humming-birds were seen in this neighbourhood, but few in numbers. I saw a Diphlofjaena, probably D. aurora, in a deep caiion near the town, but in spite of all attempts could not get a shot at it. Of other humming-birds Patagona gigas was the most prominent one. This species is far more plentiful in Peru than in Ecuador, where I have only obtained a few after a great deal of work. Addornyia melanogenys and Aglaeactis cujyreipennis complete the list of hummers in this locality; the latter were in large numbers above the town. They are very aggressive birds, and even put the Patagona gigas to flight. Crossing the range towards Cajamarca, and all along the elevated grassy plains, were varieties of agaves in blossom. These were visited by Pterophanes temmincki and (h'eotrochilus stolzmanni. CAJAJIARCA. After travelling eleven leagues from San Pablo over the high plains of 11,500 feet elevation, the road leads downward to Cajamarca. This principal town of North Peru has about eight thousand inhabitants, and lies on the eastern slope of the coast range. On three sides it is surrounded by barren hills, partly cultivated by Indians, whose huts are always surrounded by cacti. Agaves also form a part of the fences. Both of the above-mentioned plants were in bloom, as well as other AmaryUidaceae, and among those I observed on the subsequent day after my arrival a large humming- bird with long tail at a considerable distance. I advanced as quickly as circumstances would allow, and although out of breath and probably a little excited, I had the satisfaction of seeing the bird fall after the shot. I did not know the bird, and considered it entirely new. It proved to be Cyanoleahia griseiventria ! The entire morning was spent in searching for more specimens of this species, but I only obtained one more nude that day. From subsequent observations I ( 3 ) concluded that C. griseiventHs is one of the rarer species of humming-birds. It lives singly among rocky and inaccessible places and in deep canons. Many times the collector has to shoot away several Patagona gigas in order to allovp C. griseiventris to approach certain flowers. During two weeks' stay in Cajamarca I obtained only eight specimens of this species. The Mefallura opaca also may be seen around Cajamarca. I found in !May a nest attached to an adobe house, with two grown young. Generally this bird builds under the roof of a house or under an overhanging cliff. On a hunting excursion up a cation which furnishes the water supply of Cajamarca, I found a nest of Patagona gigas placed on the ground in a little depression in a bank. The nest must have reared many generations of birds, judging from its dimensions of 20 cm. diameter and 15 cm. height. I also found the nest of the same species with j'oung, attached to a branch of :i cactus. Arriving at an elevation of 11,000 feet and entering a cave, I noticed a female Oreotrochilus stolztnanni flying through the entrance. I searched the cave, and was rewarded by finding a nest with eggs attached to the roof of the same. The bird manages to stick some wool into a small crevice very tightly, and then builds from it a hanging nest. Having made this observation, I had no difficulty in finding other nests. At the Hacienda Santa Ursula, near Cajamarca, I saw a Patagona gigas fly from ti large boulder of limestone, which was overgrown with lichen. Suspecting it to be a female I searched for a nest, the bird coming sometimes within a few feet of my head. This strengthened my supposition, but I had to give up the search. Next day I again started the bird from the supposed nest, but did not see the exact place from whence she flew, and did not find it. I had to use strategy by hiding behind rocks, and only then was it possible to see the bird retuni to its nest, which was placed amongst the lichen on a protruding piece of rock, and almost impossible to see from any part. SAN IMARCOS. San Marcos lies about tweh'e leagues from Cajamarca, to which it is connected by one of the best roads in Northern Peru. It is a small place, but has a considerable extent of cultivated area in the neighbourhood. Wood is not so scarce as in Cajamarca ; all creeks and cailons ha\'e plenty of brushwood. Here I discovered my first specimens of Cyanomyia cyaneicollis feeding from \he flowers of an agave in company with Petasophora iolata, Patagona gigas, and Myrtis fanny. Although the first-named species, the C cyaneicollis, had difficulty in obtaining food from flowers where the Petasophora also fed, the Myrtis fanny was entirely overlooked or tolerated, not only by the Petasoplwra, but also by the Patagona gigas. After a day's travel, crossing the Cajamarca river and also the river Huamachuco, I arrived in the Hacienda Malca. MALCA (CA.IAKAMHA).* Hacienda i\Ialca lies on a level with the river bottom of the Huamachuco, and has a temperate climate, where sugar-cane is grown. The hills are covered by low Ijrushwood and cacti, the cafions with willow and pepperwood. * TIii> name is given as Malea in .Mr. Salvin".s pajser. (4 ) Of humming-birds are found AgyHHa taczanowskii, feeding principally from Amaryllidaceae, and Patagoiui gifjas, with Petasophm-a iolata and MyHia fanny from the agave. I also shot Cyanoinyia cyaneicoUis near the river. CAJABAMBA. About six hours' travel from Malca, mostly up-hill, is Cajabamba, a town of about four thousand inhabitants. It lies on the western slope of a mountain which has an elevation of over 12,000 feet. To the westward is the Iluamachuco river, the margins of which are covered with sugar-cane. The hills are clothed with small brushwood ; only the caijons contain some small trees. In the deep cations Diphlogae^ia eva* is found feeding on various flowers, including the agave. It is a shy bird, and difficult to get, owing to the thickets in which it flies. Often one may watch a flower an hour or more before one of the birds nn-ives to feed, and then, after shooting it, it falls into the creek and is carried down with the rapid-flowing water. Thus manj' specimens are lo.st to the collector. The Cyanoleshia gnseiventris and AgyHria taczanowskii are also found below the town. At an elevation of 8000 feet I saw the first Sappho caroli. It proved to be a very shy bird. In spite of all I could do I could not get a shot that day. It was the next morning that I was enabled to discover the hiding-pl.ace of the bird, when it returned from feeding. It sat in a thick bush not over lA feet above the ground. This, as I have experienced subsequently, is the habit of the species ; in all instances they return to their cover after feeding, or when persecuted by other humming-birds. Up the mountain above an elevation of 10,000 feet Lesbia (the species near vietoriae) is found. It is a noisy bird, and can be heard at a distance when in flight, chasing another male which happens to get within its feeding ground. The females keep generally in the brushwood, and are difficult to see. During .lanuary and February is the pairing season, and the birds are then in their best plumage. Then one sees the 'male rise high in the air, and come down with spread tail like an arrow, making a noise like a ribbon exposed to a very strong wind. This is repeated many times, or till the female has shifted to another bush. It is eWdent that the performance of the nude is intended to attract the female. HUAiMACHUCO. One short day's travel from Cajabamba, passing over a very broken country, partly cultivated and partly covered with brushwood, brings the traveller to Huamachuco. It is a small town, and has an elevation of 10,400 feet. Around the town the laud is mostly barren, but the creeks are lined with small trees, principally' alders. In these bushes I found Buarremon rvfigenis and B. haroni. They feed principally under cover, and are only seen when flying from one thicket to another. B. rvfigenis seems to be rather a rare bird, at least in this locality. The commonest humming-bird around is Aglaeactis cupreipennis, and a great many may be seen about a bush common in the ranges of Ecuador and Peru. It is very much covered with spines, has small leaves and a pink composite flower. The Metallura Ofiaea is not uncommon in cafions above the town, and is generally to be seen sitting on a root under the bank of a creek. Interesting is the Oreotrochilus siolzmanni. It seldom rests on a branch, jireferring a high boulder from which it commands a good view over its feeding grounds. Its food is taken from the same composite flower which is sought by A. cnpreipennis, * Oiphlojaina era Salvin. Bull. B.O.C. No. xlii. p. xxx. ( 5) and if a bird of that or any other species attempts to feed, it comes down from its perch and always drives the intruder away. It seems that rights of occupation are always respected by humming-birds, and intruders must give way. On such occasions I have seen two obstinate 0. stohmanni fly high in the air, there get hold of each other with claw and bill, and come down heavily to the ground, still holding fast, till my gun made an end to the fight, and caused them to be preserved for future reference. All Oreotrochili feed while sitting on the flower. Other humming-birds seen near Huamachuco are : Patwjona gigas, Lesbia gouldi, Lesbia (the one near victoriue), Metallura smaragdinicollis, and Myrtis fanny. CHUSGON (HUAMACHUCO). The Hacienda of Chusgon is about eight leagues eastwards of Huamachuco, and has an elevation of about 8700 feet. A considerable amount of cultivated land belongs to it, all near the river. The hills are covered with brushwood to about 10,000 feet elevation, and above that only grass grows. In all my travels I have never seen Petasophora iolata more jilentiful than in a canon, full of blooming sage, in the neighbourhood of the Hacienda. They actually swarmed there, and did not even permit the strong Patagona gigcos to get a footing Among them. If one of them approached, three to four of the P. iolata would immediately set upon it and drive it out of sight. The Lesbia gouldi managed to get along by sucking a few flowers and then dodging quickly into the bush. From Chusgon a trail leads over a range of mountains, 12,200 feet high, to the Hacienda Succha, eight leagues to the eastward. SUCCHA (HUAMACHUCO).* Succha is a very interesting place for a collector of birds, hawng all climates within a short range, the Hacienda being nearly in the middle. The elevation of the place is about 9000 feet, and really is on the slope of the JIarafion gorge. I made an interesting observation here with Dipldogaena eva in shooting six mule specimens from one and the same little twig, each several days apart from the other. The birds chose the position on the twig because they could overlook a pretty large extent of flowers from that place, and drive away any intruder which happened to come there. Of com-se the position of the watching bird was known to other birds of the species, and after I shot the watching one, others would soon find out that the preserve was free to be taken up, and they chose the same favourite position of the twig, only to be shot again at my next visit. Above the Hacienda, and above an elevation of 10.000 feet, I found Aglaeactis aliciae'\ feeding from parasitic flowers which abound upon alder and other trees. The flower is orange-red, and grows in clusters like the mistletoe of otlier countries. They also feed fi-om a bush, the leaves of which are similar to oleander; the flower, however, is more like that of the bean, and is white. The seeds are enclosed in a beanlike pod. * Suecha instead of Succha in Jlr. Salvin's paper. f I'late I. ( 6 ) The bush grows in high mountains, above 8000 feet elevation, in Ecuador and Peru. Chaetocerciis bombus also can be found, at an elevation of 10,000 feet, during -March, and Patagona gigas descends to 6000 feet west of the Marafion, feeding from Amaryllidaceae. VIJJA (HUAMACHUCO). Going down-hill about four hours from Hacienda Succha we get to the river Marafion, along which is a nan-ow strip of cultivated land, planted with coca and >ome fruit-trees. This is called ^'ifla. The banks along the Marafion are completely barren up to about 7000 feet elevation, and the strip of land along the Marafion is only fertile because irrigated by a small creek from the mountains. Agyrtria taczancnuskii seems to claim the exclusive right to feed from the banana flowers in this place, Cyanomyia cyaneicollis seldom getting an opportunity to \isit a flower. I have seen one male specimen of Ghaetocercus hombus ; attracted by my butterfly net, it came very close to me, the eyes evidently expressing the greatest curiosity. The bird had a narrow escape from becoming a cabinet specimen. The small parrot \fhich I discovered, Psittacula xanthops Salv., is not rare in tliis locality. They fly in flocks, and feed on the seeds of the balsas tree and cactus seeds. A large pigeon feeds on the ripe seeds of the coca plant, and gorges itself to such an extent as to burst its crop when falling from a tree after being shot. In the morning the crops of the birds were always empty if shot before 8 a.m. CHEPEN. Chepen, a small town on the sandy plains irrigated by the Yonan river, is four hours' distance by rail from Pacasmayo. Near the ditches and on the river banks can be found large quantities of willows. The hills are generally barren, but in the depressions grow large mesquits. Large quantities of parasitic flowers cover the bushes of every kind, and attract the two species of humming-birds found in this coast region. Araazilia leucophaea is very numerous and Myrmia ynici'ura is not rare, both feeding from the same flowers. It rarely happens that the AmazUia drives away the Mynnia ; the former seems to ignore the presence of the latter. The white-winged pigeon (Melopelia meloda,) is rare here, but quite numerous higher up among the hills along the river Yonan. I have seen and heard the same bird among the reeds on river and ditch, travelling towards Truxillo from the mountains. SANTIAGO. Leaving Huamachuco and following along the river to its source, thence crossing a ridge at an elevation of about 12,000 feet, one comes, by descending some 2000 feet, to a Hacienda called Porcon. The place has about 10,400 feet elevation, and is near t he town of Sant iago. The Hacienda has a very cold climate, and iiroduces only potatoes and barley. The rest is pasture. ( - ) It would be interesting to examine into a local plague or pest of the potato. The tubers are full of larvae of a beetle while in the ground, and are destroyed by the same insect when stored. A larva of a moth adds to the destruction of the stored potatoes. The beetle did not exist in its perfect state during the month of April. The people credit the hail, which falls quite often, with producing the worms, and nothing to the contrary will convince them of their error. Petasophora iolata is the most common of humming-birds here, and Oreotro- cliUus stolsmanni, Patagona gigas, Metallura opaca, and Lesbin (near victwiae) are also found. Here also I observed 0. stolzmanni invariably sitting on rocks instead of on dry twigs like other humming-birds. OTUZCO. Two days' travel from Porcon, over several ridges more than 12,000 feet high, one comes to Otuzco. The roads are very bad, and during the rainy season quite imjjas- sable for pack-animals. There is no shelter for the traveller, with the exception of a rock, in the lee of which the night may be passed, though not without some discomfort. Otuzco has an elevation of about 9000 feet, and lies on an inclined ledge of sandstone, upon which not a tree or bush grows. A few miles down the road towards Truxillo some little vegetation and brushwood can be found. The latter is principally found along gulches and creeks. Along the barren hills, where only a few small flowers could be seen, I found the first Thauviastura cora. The male bird generally rests upon some dry limb, and can be seen a long distance away on account of its long whitish tail playing in the wind. It is a known fact that every humming-bird sits head to the wind, and so it is not difficult to go in the proper direction for a shot. During the pairing season the male is often seen with the tail spread so that the two longest feathers form nearly a straight line, and thus it flutters before the female, which may be sitting in a small bush. The male also flies, like the Leshiae, high up in the air, and then comes down swiftly, making a noise with the tail like a ribbon in a strong wind. I have found the nest and eggs of this species in the latter part of April. The nest is built between small twigs near the top of a bush. Sappho caroli is also to be found in this locality. The retiring habit of this bird could be better observed here than in Cajabamba. The birds always sit inside a bush, especially preferring one in or above a ravine. After feeding they always return to their old place of rest. Myrtis fanny, Petasophora iolata, and Patagona gigas are the only other hummers in this locality. PLATANAR. Half a day westerly from Otuzco is the Hacienda Platanar. The elevation of the place is about 4500 feet. Nothing but barren rocky mountains surround the narrow strip of cultivated land which lies along both sides of the Tnixillo river. Bird life is exceedingly scarce — too far inland for coast birds, and no( high enough for those of the mountains. ( 8 ) Of humming-birds I only saw one nude, Thaumaatura cora, and a number of Amazilia leucophaea, the latter with nest and two eggs on May 10th, 1895. The nest was attached below the roof of the main building of the Hacienda. > TKUXILLO. One day's travel from the Hacienda Platanar is the largest town of North Peru, Truxillo, surrounded by a vast sandy plain, mostly cultivated with sugar-cane. In the interior from Truxillo, at an elevation of about 1700 feet, I found various birds of interest, far more than at Truxillo itself. Myrmia micrura was not uncommon at that place, and had mostly young in their nests on May 15th. Avuizilia leiccophciea, the mo.-it common bird along the North Peruvian coast, is also well represented here, and also a few female Rhodopis were seen near the large cacti which grow on the hills near the coast. CELENDIN. From Cajamarca eastwards across a ridge of mountains over 12,200 feet elevation, and after two days' travel without a hut to give shelter for the night, the beautiful vallevs of Celendin and Vacapampa were reached. The valleys are in a high state of cultivation for Peru, but the hills around are covered with small brushwood. Very few species of birds are to be seen in these localities. I remained here only a few days, long enough to obtain pack-animals to cross the Maranon to Leimebamba. From the valley of Vacapampa, 8500 feet elevation, it is necessary to climb a ridge 1000 feet higher, and thence continue to descend over 6000 feet to the Maranon. The country passed over is brushy, showing more varied vegetation than the part gone over to reach the same river at Vina. Below 6000 feet elevation the brushwood and cacti are covered with landshells, which are also different from those of Vina. The river is passed at an elevation of about 2900 feet. On both banks of the Maranon I found Psittacula xanthops, and shot four specimens. I saw other birds which belonged to the same species as those shot at Vina. Gladly would I have stayed a few days along the banks of the river, but as the contract had been made to deposit my goods at Leimebamba, no inducement would be accepted by the arrieros to alter the arrangement. LEIMEBAIMBA. On the descent towards Leimebamba, at an elevation of about 10,500 feet, already in the timber-belt of the Rio Utcubamba (cotton river), I remained nearly fourteen days. This jiroved to be about the best place to collect birds on my entire voyage, being within easy distance of the high ground above which no trees grow. It was necessary for the birds which adapt themselves to woods to remain some time at the end of their daily upward search for food, and thus they became easy game, or else I could get shots at them on their return to the lower levels in the evening. Here I found the new Eriociwmia catharina Salv.* feeding on various parasitic flowers. It is more of a forest species than Eriociieinis dybowakii, found in openings on the way to Guayabamba at an elevation of 7300 feet. * Ji. eatltarina Salvia, Bull. B. 0. C. No. Jtlii. p. xxx. ( 9 ) Diphlogaena iris also flies in this region. I shot several specimens from my tent while I was busy skinning birds. Although I searched carefully for Loddirjesia mirnbHis all around my camp, none were found till after descending to Leimebamba. The town of Leimebamba is merely a collection of huts, at an elevation of VISoO feet, having little cultivated land, most being forest. Here I again searched for Loddigesia mirabilis, and had the satisfaction, after two days' search, to obtain a inale with the two outer tail-feathers barely developed. Otherwise the bird was in old plumage, indicating the necessity of waiting a few months more for full-plumaged specimens. For the first time in my collecting experience of humming-birds I shot three adult birds (Adeloniyia inelanogenys) with one shot, two 'males and one female. Four birds were flying together, evidently one female and three males, when I fired. Searching carefully I found three birds ; one wMe probably escaped. LEVANTO. Levanto is a small town, a mere collection of huts with stone walls, mostly laid loosely together. It has an elevation of 8800 feet, and is one and a half day's distance from Leimebamba towards Chachapoyas. It is surrounded by forest, some of it quite heavy. In the canons, among thick brushwood, can be found DipJilogaena iris and Loddiges ia mirabilis. Heliotrypha viola is not uncommon in the vicinity, feeding from the same flowers as the D. iris. Besides the above-named species, the following are also found : Aglaeactis cupreipennis, Docimastes ensiferus, Lesbia gouldi, My His fanny, Metalliira smarag- diQiicollis, and Panoplites mattheivsi. SAN PEDRO. San Pedro is a little town or village some four or five hours to the south-east from Leimebamba, and has an elevation of about 8900 feet. The town lies upon a hiU-side, -cultivated towards the Utcubamba river and wooded to the south and up the liill. It must have been a very important place during the times of the Incas, which is indicated by the very large number of burial buildings, still in a pretty good state of preservation. They are all circular structures of stone, some three metres high and four metres diameter. All of them are along the ridge of the mountain. Here I collected the best specimens of Loddigesia mirabilis during December. Lesbia gouldi is very common in this vicinity, and frequently makes it difficult for the above species, which is a more retiring bird, to feed from the raspberry flowers. CHACHAPOYAS. Chachapoyas is situated upon an open plain between the rivers Utcubamba and Ventillas, and has an elevation of about 7800 feet. To the south-east is a ridge of wooded mountains. Upon the slope of that ridge, about four hours from the town, are the ruins of a former Hacienda, once the hunting ground of Mr. Stolzmann, where I also collected some twelve davs. ( 10) I found, as above stated, only ruins, and was compelled to pitch my tent. It so happened that the favoured locality for it was very near a thick bush full of flowers. Hardly was the tent up when I heard the alreadj- familiar sound of the wings of Loddigesia mirabilis. Immediately other arrangements were left and gun seized. I saw a beautiful male L. rnirabilis in the bush, too near to shoot. A thought came to me to save the bird for observation, for which I have never been sorry, although I may have run the risk of losing so fine a specimen. Shortly after a. female arrived and rested upon a small limb. Immediately the vude bird discontinued feeding and flew forward to the female, the tail so spread that the spatules were protruded in front of his bill. In this position it hovered a short time, when a young male appeared upon the scene. The adult male discontinued his performance and sat upon a little branch ; the young hovered before it, flying from side to side about ten inches, and flipping its two long tail-feathers at every extreme of its course, producing a sound as if two fine leather belts were flipped together. The old male soon tired, forced the young to sit down, and then performed in the same way, but flipping the spatules together above instead of below the tail as the young one did. At times the adult male would also fly before the female from side to side, making a noise with the spatules so as to be heard thirty metres off. If the young returned alone and had nothing to play with, he would attack a dry leaf furiously, pick at it, and flap the tail for many minutes at a time. Once two young birds met, one attacking the other. The sitting bird would watch the flying one, moving its head from side to side, and suddenly slip on the branch and into a hanging position. The flying bird would still attack it ; yet the hanging one, although imitating death, had its eyes wide open. GUAYABAMBA (= HUAYABAMBA). Guayabamba is the valley along the river of that name, and has several settle- ments at various elevations. AU is hea\dly wooded, and is a part of the great Amazon forest. I descended to a place called " Huambo," also the former hunting ground of Mr. Stolzmann, one corner-post of whose hut was still standing. The fauna of this place, 4000 feet elevation, is verj' similar to that of Zamora in Ecuador. I found it a difficult place to hunt, because the former settlement had been abandoned and nearly all paths were overgrown. ( 11 ) ON SOME NECESSARY AND SOME DESIRABLE CHANGES OF NAMES LATELY USED IN CONNECTION WITH PHILIPPINE BIRDS. By ERNST HARTERT. 1. Ciiviiyris excellens Grant, Ball. B.O.C. No. XXIII. p. xviii (1895), and lids, 189.'), p. 2o.'), should stand as Cinnyris fiagrans (Ou.«t.), having been described nearly twenty years before by Oustalet under the name of Aethopyga jlagrans in the Journ. de I'Institut, 1876, p. 108, and being excellently figured and described by Shelley in his admirable monograph of the Nectariniidae. The type of G. fiagrans came from Laguna, the same place whence E\erett sent a fine series to the Tring Museum (see Nov. ZooL. II. p. 488). 2. Artamides minda'iiensis Steere is the name still used for a Graucahis with generallj' pure white under tail-coverts inhabiting Jlindanao, Basilan, and some other islands, but it must be called Graucahis hochii Kutter, having been clearly described under that name by Kutter in Ornith. Centralhl. 1882, p. 183. See also Journ. f. Orn. 1883, p. 308, and 1891, p. 293. One might, of course, use the generic name Artamides for it, but I do not consider the differences important enough for generic separation. 3. Alcedo ispida L. from the Philippines would be with more accuracy called A. ispida bengalensis, only the small Eastern subspecies of our kingfisher occun-ing there. 4. Macropte'i'yx coniata would be better called M. comata tnajor Hart., all Philippine birds having very long wings (Nov. ZooL. II. p. 473). 5. In Ibis, 1896, p. 554, Grant has declared that " Munia brunneicepjs is merely the wora autumn plumage of M. jagori." With this sentence he evidently means to say that the birds of Celebes, North Borneo, and the Philippines all belong to the same species, in which he is doubtless right. It seems, however, still a question whether the Celebes birds are not in the main slightly different after all, thus being subsjiecifically separable. In any case Grant has, I think, pointed out the true relationship of the so-called M. brunneicepjs, and it may be further considered whether M. jagori is more than subspecifically different from M. atricapnlla. ( 1-^ ) NEW GENEEA AND SPECIES OF MOTHS FEOM THE OLD-WOELD EEGIONS IN THE TEING MUSEUM. By W. WAKREN, M.A., F.E.S. Family DREPANULIDAE. 1. Albara gracillima sp. nov. Foreivings : pale silky straw-colour, tinged with pale brownish towards costa and apex; the costa yellow; the two lines brown, situated exactly as in A. lilacina Moore ; fringe brown, straw-colour towards anal angle ; no discocellular mark visible. Hindiviiigs: still paler; a brownish postmedian line only visible on inner margin. Underside like upjJer. Face, palpi, and vertex dark brown ; collar ferruginous ; thorax and abdomen pale straw-colour. Expanse of wings : 27 mm. One S from the Khasias. 2. Albara opalesceus sp. nov. c? . Foreivings : pale or dark mouse-colour ; the costa burnished brown towards apex ; lines dark chocolate-brown; first line curved and wavy, verj' indistinct ; exterior line from costa at two-thirds, outwardly oblique and indistinct to near hindmargin, then acutely angled and running nearly straight and thickening to inner margin beyond middle ; apex dark ; an oblique dark line from the apex all but touches the exterior line at its angle, and is continued as a very faint dark line outside it to inner margin and as a series of dark dots on the veins parallel to hindmargin ; fringe dark brown, with the basal line burnished brown; cell-spot very indistinct ; at the lower end of the discocellular is a pale yellow trifid spot. Hindioinga : with costal area pale, the dark oblique line median ; faint traces of a denticulated submarginal line ; fringe as in forewings. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous ; face and antennae dark brown. Underside opalescent grey, unmarked. Expanse of wings : 34 mm. Several <S <S from the Khasias. Nearest to A. reversaria Wlk., from Borneo, which has a burnished blotch in the angulation of the outer line. 3. Ausaris fulvilauta sp. nov. ForeiviTigs : yellow, washed with fulvou.s-orange, the whole surface sprinkled with shining silvery scales, not massed, a? in argeMeola Moore and other species, along the veins; a straight slightly fulvous line from near apex to inner margin at three-fourths ; fringe fulvous, with a basal line of silvery scales. Hinchvinga : the same, the costal area paler. Underside wholly fulvous, without any markings. Head, thorax, and abdomen all orange-fulvous. ( 13 ) Expanse of wings : 40 mm. One ? from Sandakan, March 1891. Distinguished from the aUied species by the orange-fulvous coloration. Walker's generic name Ausm-is (Wlk., Cat. XXVI. p. 1632. 1862), the type of which, scintillata, is very close to, if not identical with, arrjenteola Moore, must supersede Felder's Callidrepana, which dates from 1867 only. 4. Auzata simpliciata sp. nov. Forewings: white, very thinly scaled; costal edge ochreous white; the lines exceedingly faint, formed by sparse blackish scales ; first vertical, beyond one-third, projecting outwards on the median vein, preceded by a fainter line ; second at two- thirds, excurved beyond cell to inner margin near first line, followed by a fainter line containing a dark blotch and dot on vein 4, and a black dot on each vein below and above it ; a strongly dentate but very obscure submarginal line ; fringe white. Hindwings : the same, but the lines single, and no black blotch beyond the second. Underside iridescent white ; costa of forewings fuscous towards base. Face and forelegs brown ; antennae ochreous ; thorax and abdomen white. E.xpanse of wings ; 32 mm. One c? from the Khasias, May 1896. 5. Cobanilla cardinalis sp. nov. Fm^eivings : deep brick-red, with some deeper red and, towards the hindmargiu, blackish strigae ; an obscurely darker postmedian line, angulated beyond the cell ; a sinuate blackish cell-mark with grey centre ; fringe red. Hindivings : red, with a black grey-centred spot at each end of the discocellular. Underside paler and duller ; the margins suffused with grey ; the strigulae blackish ; both discocellulars blackish ; the line of forewings hardly marked. Lee's bright red ; face dark brown ; thorax red ; abdomen pale grey, flushed with red above. Expanse of wings : 26 mm. One S from Penungah, N. Borneo, December 1893 (Cator leg.). 6. Cobanilla hepaticata sp. nov. Forewings : pale liver-colour, with some sparse brown strigulae ; costa with a somewhat diffuse brown triangular Ijlotch at middle, followed by a patch of pale grey scales reticulated with brown ; one or two brown spots near anal angle ; the lines indistinct ; first starting from inner edge of the triangular patch, incurved in middle, to inner margin at one-third ; outer line from outer edge of patch, bent out along vein 6, sharply angled towards hindmargin, then nearh' straight to inner margin before the anal angle ; fringe darker, with slight projecting scales at the veins ; discocellular marked by pale grey scales. Hindwings : with scattered blackish dots, and a minute whitish cell-spot. Underside paler, without markings. Face and vertex dark brown ; thorax and abdomen pinkish grey. Expanse of wings : 26 mm. One (? from Sandakan, April 1894 (Cator leg.). ( 14) Cyclura gen. no v. Foreivings : with costa strongly curved throughout ; apex blunt ; hindmargin slightly incurved to vein 3, then oblique. Himhohigs : with apex rounded ; hindmargin rounded to beyond vein 3 ; inner margin shortened, the anal angle truncate, with a semicircular excision before vein 3. Tongue and frenulum both absent ; palpi short ; antennae flattened and compressed ; hind tibiae with terminal pair of spurs. NewraMon : forewings, cell more than half as long as wing ; discoeellular nearly vertical, slightly incurved; vein 11 free; 10 and 9 stalked; 7 and 8 stalked; 9 becoming coincident with 8. Type : Cyclura excisa sp. nov. 7. Cyclura excisa sp. nov. Foreivings : rufous fawn-colour, with a few brown striae; the lines dark brown; first from costa shortly before middle, acutely angled close to costa, then oblique to near base of inner margin ; second from just beyond middle, running obliquely outwards, with two bright brown velvety blotches on it, acutely angled outwards and incurved to near middle of inner margin ; a minute white cell-dot. Hindwings: with costal area whitish; a fine slightly curved central brown line, with a dark brown cloud beyond it. Underside pale pinkish grey, flushed with reddish in the middle towards hind- margin of each wing. Face, thorax, and base of abdomen reddish ; rest of abdomen pale silky ochreous. Expanse of wings : 26 mm. One S from Penungah, N.E. Borneo, December 1893 (Cat or leg.). Dipriodonta gen. nov. Forevnngs : with costa arched throughout and rough-scaled; hindmargin obliquely curved ; anal angle obtuse. Hindwings : with apex and hindmargin rounded ; anal angle square. Palpi short, porrect. Antennae of tj flattened laterally, uniserrate below ; the teeth broad, close together, and curved; above appearing rasped, with short sharp teeth. Newration : forewings, 10 and 11 stalked, 11 from the areole ; 10 anastomosing with 8, 9, to form the areole ; 6 and 7 both from the areole. Scaling thin ; forewings in disc with oval hyaline patches. Frenulum and tongue both present. Tj'pe : Dipi'iodonta sericea sp. nov. 8. Dipriodonta sericea sp. nov. Fwewings : silky white ; two very faint brown lines near base, strongly curved in cell ; a waved brown line from costa before middle to inner margin before middle, distinct below the median ; a similar outer line from two-thirds of costa to three-fourths of inner margin, strongly excurved in middle ; a brown shade on costa beyond it, approximating to outer line, and forming two dark lunules and dots between veins 2 and 4, and a dot on inner margin ; a grey marginal shade rising from two black subapical dots ; some black specks at apex ; a black spot at base of dis- coeellular, and a minute black dot on inner margin close to base ; lower half of cell ( 15 ) tind space between median vein and subniedian fold as far as outer line semihyaline ; fringe white, with a few dark scales along the white basal line. Hindivings : with a faint median line, double grey postmedian, the outer arm marked with black dots on veins, and single cvu^ved submarginal line ; a minute black dot at lower end of cell. Underside silky white, with costal area of forewings for three-fourths broadly smoky black. Face, vertex, thorax, and abdomen all white. Expanse of wings : 21 mm. Three examples from the Khasias, June 1896. 9. Drepana forata sp. nov. Forewings: fulvous-yellow, becoming fulvous-brown towards hindmargin ; outer line from costa at three-fourths, sharply angulated towards hindmargin, then oblique to inner margin at two-thirds, dark brown in its upper part, becoming orange- red below ; traces of a curved orange median line at costa ; the outer line is pre- ceded by fom- hyaline spots, the two upper and the lowest small, the other larger, between veins 2 and 3 ; a small hyaline cell-spot ; fringe concolorous with hind- margin. Hindtmnrjs : with an orange-red median line. Underside dull yellow ; the hindmargin of forewings orange-red. Face orange- red ; thorax and abdomen like wings. Expanse of wings : 24 mm. One t? from Madagascar. 10. Euchera (?) nana sp. nov. Foreivings : bronzy brown, with pale lilac-grey acutely angled transverse lines ; two at base, two at about one-third, the outer one running out to midwing, there acutely angled, and irregularly wavy and dentate inwards ; a fifth beyond middle, angulated beyond cell, and straight and oblique to inner margin just beyond middle ; two more from apex, parallel to the lower part of the fifth to inner margin before anal angle, the last followed by a purplish blotch with white scales ; some dull purplish blotches along hindmargin ; fringe purplish, with the apex white. Hindivings : more purplish, with six or seven wavy pale lines, the outermost dentate, none of them reaching the costa ; a marginal pale line with dark dots on it; fringe as in forewings. Underside bronzy grey ; hindmarginal area of forewings gilded bronzy. Face and palpi dark purple ; thorax and abdomen like wings . Expanse of wings : 32 mm. One (?, one ? , from Japan. The antennae are shortly unipectinate. 11. Euchera sericea sp. nov. Foreivings: sUky white; resembling pitmani Moore, but with a broad grey central fascia, followed by a curved line ; the submarginal series of spots more incurved at costa. ( Ki ) Hindwings : with the central line of lunate six)ts straight, not sinuate; the sub- marginal line of blotches with two large horseshoe-shaped marks between veins 2 and 3, and 3 and 4. Expanse of wings : 84 mm. One i from Kina Balu, North Borneo. 12. Oreta bicolor sp. nov. Forewings: greyish brown, with fuscous irroration towards costa in the outer half of wing ; the veins paler ; a red and yellow oblique streak from inner margin beyond middle, slightly curved into apes ; marginal area with a few dark specks ; inner margin slightly paler; fringe concolorous. Hindwings: with costa ochreous, merging into reddish; the rest of wing brown ; traces of submarginal lines of dark specks ; cell-marks of both wings angular. Underside deep red, the lines blackish ; forewings with inner margin whitish. Face, vertex, pectus, and legs brilliant red ; antennae ferruginous ; thorax in front lilac-grey ; rest of thorax and abdomen brown ; sides of abdomen bright red. Expanse of wings : 44 mm. One ? from Gunong Ijau, Malay Peninsula. 13. Oreta contracta sp. nov. Foreioings : greyish olive, mingled with bright brick-red, and speckled with fuscous and black scales ; an obscure diffuse median shade ; some irregular black scales before hindmargin, massed towards anal angle into a double blotch, preceded by a scarcely perceptible grey line, starting from a dark costal spot at three-fourths^ bent on vein 6, and straight below it ; fringe red, mixed towards anal angle with brown-black ; a black spot on discocellular at the angulation, and a smaller one at the lower end (these are absent in the <?, perhaps accidentallv). Hindimngs : deep red, with irregularly scattered black scales. Underside duller red mixed with blackish, and with coarse black sjieekles ; a brown nearly straight outer line, plainer than above. Face, palpi, legs, and vertex bright red ; thorax dark brown ; patagia and abdomen reddish grey. Ex])anse of wings : S , 28 mm. ; ? , 30 mm. A pair from Warri, Niger C. P., February 1896 (Dr. Both). The forewings have an angle in the hindmargin between veins 3 and 4, with an excavation above and below it ; inner margin of hindwings lengthened, especially in ihe c? ; hindmargin straight. 14. Phalacra multilineata sp. nov. Foreivings : ochreous, sufl'used and dusted with greyish brown; first line black- brown, obUque from the costa and double, then obliquely dentate inwards to inner margin near base; discal mark oblique, blackish; outer line at two-thirds, brown, minutely crenulate, parallel to hindmargin, forming a brown patch on inner margin, where it approximates to a central line which is very indistinct in its upper cour.se; submarginal line parallel to outer line, marked by dark dots on veins ; space between the two paler, forming a whitish blotch on inner margin ; a .subterminal jnterrupted line formed of wedge-shaped black and white marks ; a dark brown blotch at anal angle; fringe chequered pale and dark ochreous; all the lines start from brown costal blotches. ( 17 ) Hindivings : more or less sufifused with dark brown ; basal area ochreous, with three or four wavy darker lines ; marginal line crenulate and zigzag, slender, bluish white, preceded by four parallel straight lines, which are absent in vidhisaria Guen. Underside ochreous, with the markings brown. Face dark brown ; thorax and abdomen ochreous, the latter tinged with grey. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. Several from the Khasias. Strepsigonia gen. nov. S. Forewings : with costa slightly curved near base, then straight, and strongly arched before apex ; apex falcate ; hindmargin angled at vein 3, concave above and sinuous below. Hindwings : with apex rounded, the inner margin prolonged; hindmargin nearly straight, but with a slight elbow at vein 3 ; antennae of S bipectinate to apex; palpi short; mid and hind tibiae with a terminal pair of spurs. Neuratimi: forewings, cell more than half as long as wing; discocellular strongly inangulated ; first median at three-fifths, second at four-fifths, third from end ; lower radial from just above end ; veins 6, 7, 8 stalked ; 9, 10, 11 stalked ; 6 and 11 shortly separating; 7 at three-fourths of areole, which is long; 10 from just before apex of areole ; 8 and 9 anastomosing to form the areole. Type : Strepsigonia nigrimaeulata sp. nov. 15. Strepsigonia aflBnis sp. nov. Forewings : pinkish ochreous, with grey suffusion ; two black spots on disco- cellular, as in T. quadripimctata Wlk. ; a ferruginous wavy line, nearly vertical, before middle ; a strongly dentate line at middle of costa, running out from veins 3 to 5 and inwards again to middle of inner margin ; the included space pale rufous ; submarginal line pale, lunulate, with dark grey shading on either side, and a dark .spot between veins 6 and 7 ; fringe fuscous, with a broad pale line at base. Hindwings: the same. Underside shining ochreous, with a brown submarginal line on both wings, angulated on forewings; basal half of the latter suffused with rufous. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings. Expanse of wings : 27 mm. One ? from Padang Rengas, Malaj' Peninsula. The hindwings are decidedly angulated at vein 3 ; and the neuration differs fj'om that of S. nigrimaeulata : vein 11 rises from middle of areole; 8, 9, 10 all close to costal margin. The antennae are shortly pectinated. IC. Strepsigonia nigrimaeulata sp. nov. Forewings : reddish grey, with darker grey markings ; the lines indistinct ; first at one-fourth, very obscure ; second and third close together in middle of wing, irregularly curved and dentate, the space between them slightly darker, especially on co.sta ; two black dots on discocellular; submarginal line lunulate and dentate, preceded by a darker shade, and with a dark grey blotch above vein 6 towards apex ; marginal area narrowly greyish ; fringe above the angle dark fuscous, with a lighter mark at ends of veins ; below the angle reddish grey. Hindwings: with costal area pale pinkish ochreous, without darker dusting; ( 18 ) central fascia fomiing an oblong blackish blotch on inner margin, its outer edge denticulate, passing outside a small black dot at lower end of discocellulav ; hind- marginal area tinged with dark grey ; fringe pinkish grey. Underside glossy, vinous ; the outer line blackish and strongly expressed, angu- lated in forewings, curved and sinuous on hindwings. Face dark red ; thorax and abdomen pale pinkish grey. Expanse of wings : 26 mm. One (S from Gunong Ijau, Perak. Distinguished from Tridrepana quad/ripunctaia \\'lk. and its allies b^' the angulation of the wings. 17. Teldenia fulvilunata sp. nov. Foreicings : white; outer line at three-fourths, brownish grey, irregulai'ly bent and forming a rectangular projection outwards between veins 3 and 4, then strongly incurved to inner margin at two-thirds, preceded by a row of fulvous lunules, black- edged internalh', except opposite the cell, where there are two black dots ; the lowest lunule on the inner margin wholly black ; submarginal line fuscous, oblique outwards, and evenly waved to vein 3, then running in and nearly touching the outer line, thence irregularly waved to anal angle; a marginal row of distinct black dots ; fringe white. Hindwings : the same, but the lunules smaller, the space opposite the cell also containing one ; a black spot on inner margin at end of outer line. Underside white ; costa of forewings fuscous at base. Face red-brown, narrowly white below vertex ; thorax and abdomen snow-white. Expanse of wings : 24 mm. One (S from S. Celebes, September 1891 (W. Doherty). 18. Tridrepana diluta sp. nov. Like T. quadripunctata Wlk., but larger and more faintly marked on lioth surfaces. Expanse of wings : (J, 36 mm. ; ? , 38 mm. Khasia Hills. Walker's type of quadripunctata, a <S expanding 22 mm., from Sarawak, is <lecidedly smaller and darker than the large Indian form ; but the smaller form does occur in the Khasias, as well as the larger ; and the two forms may prove to be seasonal. In Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, I. p. 341, Hampi^on gives 26 mm. as the size of the S, and 38 mm. for the ? : the latter evidently belongs to the form diluta ; his description agi-ees with the smaller. I'J. Tridrepana subobliqua sj). nov. Forewings paler ochreous than in T. dilida Warr., with faint rufous dusting; the lines darker, the exterior blackish. Markings aliove as in diluta. On the underside of the forewings the exterior line is thick and black, and runs from the submedian fold straight into the apex, whereas in diluta the line, which is much fainter, is angulated on vein 6 and retracted to the costa ; in the hindwings the outer line is as strongly marked as in the forewings. One i from i?. Java, 1891 (Fruhstorfer). The single siieeimen is intermediate in point of size between T. (lihda Warr. and T. quadripunctata Wlk. ( 19 ) Trotothyris gen. iiov. Forewinijs : with costa strongly shouldered at base, slightly sinuate beyond ; apex minutely produced ; hindniaigin vertical from just below apex to vein 3, where it is bluntly elbowed and excised to anal angle. Hinchvings : narrow, with the projection at vein 3 broader, the excision below as in forewings. Antennae (?) simple; tongue present; frenulum ab.sent ; palpi short, applied to face ; hind tibiae with four spurs ; the legs smoothly scaled. Neuration : forewings, cell not half as long as wing ; discocellular very oblique ; veins 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 anastomosing with stalk of 8, 9, 10, forming a long areole. Type : Trotothyris ahnoriualis sp. nov. lio. Trotothyris abnormalis sp. nov. Foreivmr/s : pale pinkish fawn-colour; the costal and subcostal veins marked with silvery scales ; a large hyaline spot beyond cell, edged with black and externally again with ferruginous, with a small hyaline dot at its base ; outer line from costa above the hyaline patch, forming the edge of the ferruginous border, and below the middle straight and oblique to inner margin at two-thirds, where it is edged with a pale lustrous line ; a wavy darker submarginal line, becoming dark brown towards anal angle, and followed by a feri'uginous patch at the elbow ; fringe dark brown ; there are traces of three or four curved and wavy lines before the hyaline patch"; a minute black cell-dot. Hindivin.fjs : with costal area pale; a dark diffuse pale-edged central line, and traces of a submarginal line from apex to elbow, which is ferruginous ; fiinge blackish ; a dark spot below median vein near base. Underside pearly ochreous, with a pinkish tinge ; marginal area fawn-colour. Face dark lirown ; vertex, thorax, and liase of abdomen concolorous with wings ; rest of abdomen pale grey. Expanse of wings : 28 mm. One ? from Peuungah, December 1893 ff'ator /e^/.). Family THYRIDIDAE. -M. Addea rectisecta sp. nov. Foi'eivings : ochreous, with numerous olalique pale brown tesselated fasciae which become confluent in the costal area and form a brown subcostal streak ; an annular cell-spot, externally dark-edged, followed by three blackish dashes above vein .i ; on the submedian fold towards the base are two or three more dark dashes ; fringe pale, with the base broadly pale brown. Hindim.iujs : with six straight brown fasciae parallel to hindmargin, the third the darkest, the sixth narrow. Underside similar. Face, palpi, and collar pale brown ; thorax and abdomen pale ochreous mixed with pale brown ; the abdomen with a dark ring in middle, corresponding with the dark third fa.scia of the hindwings. Expanse of wings : 16 mm. One 6 from Amboina, February 189:^ (W. Doherty). Distinguished by the straight-cut hindmai-gin of hindwings. ( 20 ) 22. Bauisia praeusta sp, uov. Fm'&unngs : glossy greyish ochreous, slightly reticulated with darker; traversed hv dull rufous grey darker-edged bands ; one at base ; a second just beyond, bent below middle ; the third before middle of wing, broader on costa and inner margin, its outer edge bent on the median; foiu-th beyond the middle, bifurcate below the middle of wing, followed by a curved black-brown streak with ferruginous edges running to hindmargin below the middle ; a short subapical brown streak ; fringe glossy greyish fuscous, with a dark dividing line, the basal portion darker, the apical mottled, dark and light. Hinduinga : with basal, bifurcate median, and broad ferruginous-tinged sub- marginal fasciae. Underside with the fasciae pale coppery brown, with the edges interruptedly darker. P^ace, palpi, and antennae bright ferruginous ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen glossy ochreous grey. Expanse of wings : 36 mm. One ? from Batchian, May 1892 (W. Doherty). 23. Banisia bifimbriata sp. nov. Forevnngs : rufous ochreous, reticulated with brown; the markings chestnut; costa broadly chestnut, suffused with grey ; a vertical brown line near base ; a narrow antemedian chestnut fascia, edged with brown ; a broader inwardly bent chestnut fascia beyond middle containing the dark cell-spot ; a submarginal fascia, interrupted in the middle ; an irregular blackish spot near middle of hindmargin ; fringe broad, bright chestnut, with a black median line. Hindwings : paler, strigulated with dark hrown-black, with two blackish spots above anal angle ; fringe as in forewings, but the dinding line hardly darker. Underside coppery ochreous, with dark strigulations. Head, thorax, and end of abdomen dark chestnut ; rest of abdomen paler, the basal segment ringed with black. Expan.se of wings : 29 mm. One S from the Khasias, May 1896. 24. Banisia seriata sp. nov. Forewings : ochreous, suffused with greyi.sh rufous, and with a few obscure transverse striae ; a curved fascia ju.st beyond middle, most distinct towards inner margin, where it is filled up with grey and extended basewards ; an obscure sul> marginal fascia, in places tinged with grej'. Hindivings : with two grey bands, one central, the other submarginal ; the paler spaces traversed by thinner rufous bands. Underside with the ground-colom- paler and all the markings nmch brighter ; an angulated white mark on the discocellulars, with brown suffusion on each side and a black spot at the base. Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous ochreous." Expanse of wings : 26 mm. One ? from Dar-es-Salaam, German East Africa. ( al ) Family URANIIDAE. 2.5. Acropteris costinigrata ^-p- nov. Forev/incjs : white ; tlie costa marked with distinct black spots at base, which become broader and doubled towards apex ; markings much as in atriataria CI. ; a straight diffuse shade from one-third of inner margin towards apex, a double line from just beyond middle, and a submarginal line of strigulae, all meeting below apex ; costal half of wing above the first diffuse line suffused with grey strigulations except on basal half of costa ; fringe grey, with a darker basal line. Hindwhigs: with an obscure basal, broad central, and narrower submarginal band of grey strigulations, the last, followed by scattered strigulae ; fringe grey, the basal line darker and slightly thickened at the veins ; a single small blackish dot in the tooth. Underside white ; the ccsta of forewings spotted with black. Head, thorax, and abdomen white ; the face black. Expanse of wings : 38 mm. One S from the Gold Coast, West Africa. 26. Acropteris insticta sp. no v. Forewings : dull whitish, with a broad diffuse oblique fuscous shade from one- third of inner margin, a narrower shade from two-thirds, and a still narrower submarginal one meeting below apex ; costa with fine dark strigulae, which are produced as far as the oblique shade ; beyond the submarginal line is a series of strigae vertical to the veins ; fringe white, with fine blackish basal line. Bind-wmgs : with a double basal, suffused broad central, and narrow somewhat broken submarginal fascia, the last united to the margin by irregular strigulae ; fringe white, with black basal line ; no spot whatever in the tooth. Underside grey, paler towards apex of forewings. Face black ; thorax and abdomen whitish. ?]spanse of wings : 32 mm. One (J from Madagascar. In the hindwings the hindmargin is convex above the angle, and slightly concave below it. 27. Acropteris nigrisquama sp. uov. Formvings : white, the markings very much the same as in striataria CI. ; the scales at base of forewings beneath black, and showing through a hyaline spot as a dark mark on the upperside ; hindmargin slightly concave. Hindwings : without a distinct black spot at the tail. Expanse of wings : 36 mm. One (J from Akassa, K. Xiger. 28. Acropteris reticulata sp. nov. Fm-ewings : dull white ; the costa with fine fuscous strigulae ; the whole wing covered with transverse partially reticulated striae; an indistinct double grey line of striae from inner margin beyond middle towards anal angle ; fringe white, with an ochreous basal line. ( 22 ) Hindidngs: with the striae tending to arrange themselves in cross lines; a small black dot in the angle. Underside pin-e white ; thorax and abdomen white. Expanse of wings : 30 mm. One (J from Tenimber, June 1892 (Doherty). Aploschema gen. nov. Fweimrngs: with costa curved from base to apes ; hindmargin curved. Hindtuinffs : ^vith a short sharp tail at \ein 4 ; apex and anal angle rectangular ; hindmargin faintly sinuous on either side of the tail. Antennae of ^ lamellate, subdentate ; hind tibiae of S wifh three spurs, as in Micronia. Neuration: alike in both sexes. Forewings, cell one-third of wing ; discocellular straight ; first median at two-thirds, second close to, third from, end of cell ; lower radial from a little above the middle of discocellular; 6 and 7 stalked; 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 free. Hindwings with 6 and 7 short-stalked ; 3 and 4 from end of cell. Type : Aploschema angidatari" Fab. Dissoprumna gen. nov. Foreii'ings : with costa arched throughout; apex blunt ; hindmargin curved. HindtvinrjR : with a tooth at vein 4 ; the hindmargin above it sinuous, below it straight ; the anal angle lobed. Antennae flattened, lamellate; legs short ; hind tibiae of J with four spurs. Neuration : alike in the two sexes. Forewings, cell one-third of wing ; discocellu- lar vertical ; first median not far before end of cell ; second and third stalked from end ; lower radial from centre of discocellular ; fi and 7 long-stalked ; 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 and 12 stalked. Hindwings with lioth subcostals and la.st two medians stalked. Type : Dissoprumna eryainarin (fuen. 29. Micronia fuscifimbria sp. nov. Forevnngs : white, with sparse ochreous striae, the costa very faintly dotted with fuscous; median and outer ochreous parallel lines ; inner line obsolete; fringe ferru- ginous ochreous, the base darker, and with minute darker dots at end of veins. Hviulivincis : with broad ochreous median line curved into inner margin above anal angle ; curved and denticulated ochreous submarginal line ; some ochreous striae before hindmargin ; fringe as in forewings, with a minute black dot at the base of the tooth, and a large black spot before it. Underside wholly white. Face and palpi dark brown ; thorax and abdomen white. Expanse of wings : 40 mm. Three examples from the Tenimber Islands, .Inly 1892 (\V. Doherty). 30. Micronia pluviosa sp. nov. 6. Forewiiv/s : white, with dark grey transverse lines and strignlations, becom- ing blackish along costa; the strignlations, which are really thick streaks, are all somewhat oblique outwards, while the three lines, which are smoky grey, are jiarallel ( 23 ) to the Liiidmargin, the second and third appearing furcate towards costa ; fringe white, with dark gre)' basal line, thickened above and marked with grey blotches between the veins. Hindwiiigs : with inner margin broadly grey and with three grey streaks, one from near base of costa towards anal angle, the second from middle of costa to half- way between anal angle and tooth ; the third from before apex, slightly curved and denticulate, joining the second before hindmargiu ; the black marginal line swollen above the tooth into black spots at end of veins; a black dash in tooth, a large black spot before it and another on vein 3. Underside uniform grey. Face and palpi black ; vertex white ; thorax dark grey ; abdomen white, grey-tinged. Expanse of wings : J, 58 mm. ; ? , 02 mm. The ? is paler, less densely strigulated ; the underside of forewings with the margins white ; of hindwings wholly white, except the costa. The (J agrees with M. sinuosa in haxing the hindmargiu of forewings indented below apex and above anal angle, the submedian vein of forewings sinuous. In the ? the hindmargiu of forewings is indented only below apex, the rest being slightly convex. One f? from Penungah, December 1893 ; one ? from Kina Balu, North Borneo. 31. Micronia sinuosa sp. nov. Foreiviwjs : dull white, covered with thick greyish ochreous strigulations ; two oblique greyish ochreous streaks parallel to hindmargiu, from inner margin beyond middle and at four-fifths, the first thicker, especially on the inner margin, both becoming obsolete before costa ; fringe white, with a concise brown-black line at base ; hindmargin shortly indented just below apex, and more broadly above anal angle. Hindwings : with a cm-ved central and curved and denticulate submarginal ochreous shade ; some more uniform ochreous strigulae befoi-e hindmargin ; fringe ochreous white ; the basal black line much swollen opposite the veins above the tooth, less so below it ; a black dash in the tooth and a large black spot before it ; an additional, but smaller, black spot on vein 3 before the margin. Underside uniform dark grey ; fringe of forewings white, of hindwings greyer. Face and palpi black ; thorax and abdomen white. Expanse of wings : 54 mm. One S from Palawan. Differs from M. acideata in the neuration : veins 2, 3, 4 of forewings are not dis- torted, but vein 1 is strongly sinuate. 32. Pseudomicronia unimacula sp. uo\. Foreivings : white, the costa minutely strigulated with black ; the transverse lines very pale ochreous, indistinct ; these are six in number, and are arranged much as in Strophidia fasciata, each partially double and forking towards costa, the outside one being a fine single line parallel to hindmargin ; fringe white, with a faint basal line. Hindwim/s : with four oblique ochreous fasciae and two lines of striae along hindmargin, curving into anal angle ; tooth with one large black spot ; marginal line slightly swollen at the veins. ( 24 ) UDderside pure white. Face, thorax, and abdomen all white. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. Two (?(?,! ?, from Dili, Portuguese Timor, .^lay 1892 (Doherty). 33. Stesichora angulilinea ^ip. nov. Forewinga ; white, with ochreous strigulation ; costa finely marked with blackish ; an upright ochreous line from inner margin at two-thirds, slightly curved above and not reaching costa ; a fainter line, formed of striae, half-way between it and the margin ; fringe rufous, with a dark fine line at base. Hinditnngs : with the two lines equally distinct, angled and denticulate in the middle ; some fine straight rufous strigae before hindmargin ; fringe rufous, with shallow black lunules at end of veins ; a black dash in the tail and a black spot before it. Underside white. Face and palpi black ; thorax and abdomen white. Expanse of wings : 48 mm. Many of both sexes from Dili, Portuguese Timor, May 1892 (Doherty). 34. Stesichora combinata sp. nov. Foremngs : white ; basal half of costa with numerous oblique short dark striae ; apex with a double blackish blotch ; two very pale brown oblique lines from inner margin, which become obsolete before the ajiex ; fringe white. HindwiTigs : with two straight lines, the outer one greyer, and a short basal line. Underside of forewings slightly tinged with grey ; the apex smoky grey ; of hindwings white. Face and palpi black ; thorax and abdomen white. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. One cJ from Constantinhafen, German New Guinea. 35. Stesichora nivea sp. nov. Foreivings : white; three black dots near base of costa and one at apex; marginal line and fringe pure white. Hindwings : with fringes wholly white, without a speck of black. Underside all white. Tborax and abdomen white ; face and palpi black ; antennae above white at base, then grey ; underneath yellowish. Expanse of wings : 50 mm. A pair from Kei Toeal, January to March 1896 (H. C. Webster). 3G. Stesichora pieridaria. Micronia pieridaria Guen., Phcd. II. p. 30 (? locality^. Stesichm-a qxuidrislrigata Wan-., Nov. Zool. III. p. 274 (Fergusson Island). The species described liy me as quadristrigata is evidently identical with Guen^'s pieridaria and must sink. F.\.Mii,Y EPIPLEMIDAE. 37. Decetia numicusaria \Mk. ab. sinelinea nov. Forewinga: rufous, with a few brown strigulations at anal angle only ; the sub- marginal apical spots black, with white scales round them ; cell-dot minute ; no trace of oblique outer line ; fringe deep red, with an orange line at base. ( 25 ) Hindlinngs : with the outer half brown, with dense strigulations ; the orange line before fringe conspicuous ; the rest as in type-form. One (J from the Khasias, June 1896. This form is almo.st identical with Butler's D. iasiijnis from the Solomon Islands. 38. Epiplema caesia sp. nov. Foreimiigs : pale blue grey, dusted with fuscous and tinged in parts with fulvous ; traces of a dark curved median line near costa ; liindmargin freckled with iron-grey, edged internally by blackish scales, forming a curved line from near apex to anal angle, protuberant towards cell ; fringe mottled dark and light grey. Hindwings: with costal area white, dusted finely with black, edged by an undulating black line followed by deep chestnut, mixed with fulvous and metallic scales, this tint running up in middle of wing towards base ; on centre of inner margin is a whitish patch varied with yellow and black scales ; a black spot below the base of lower tooth. Underside grey, coarsely mottled with blackish ; the forewings dark, the hind- wings whiter. Face, palpi, and collar a mixture of dark fuscous and yellowish scales ; the collar and basal half of co.sta of forewings varied also with metallic scales. Thorax and base of abdomen like forewings ; anal half of abdomen fuscous, with paler rings. Expanse of wings : 20 mm. One ? from the neighbourhood of iManila (.1. Whitehead). Akin to E. viistahilata Wlk. 39. Epiplema instabilata semifulva subsp. nov. In this local form the markings of the hindwings are all bright fulvous, with a few fuscous strigae towards anal angle and the small black dot before second tail. Expanse of wings : 20 mm. Several examples from the Khasias. 40. Epiplema niveipuncta sp. nov. Fmvvjings : dull grey, traversed liy close vertical lines of dark grey scales and tinged with ferruginous in certain lights ; the costa paler, either ochreous or ferru- ginous, between the striae ; first line at one-third, blackish, edged inwardly with ferruginous ; second just beyond middle, edged outwardly with bright ferruginous, convex outwards from costa to middle, concave thence to inner margin ; submarginal line indistinct, sinuous, blackish ; a deep black dot before ape.x ; fringe mixed, dark grey and feiTuginous, with a paler basal line and paler tips. Hindioings : with the lines rather more distinct, especially towards inner margin ; a pale somewhat ferruginous patch above anal angle ; an indistinct sub- marginal line of black dashes surrounded by ferruginous scales; a snow-white triangular spot before the upper tooth. Underside dark cinereous ; the white spot of hindwings marked. Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings, a mixtm-e of dark iron-grey and ferruginous. Expanse of wings : 16 mm. One cJ from the neiglibourbood of Manila (.1. Whitehead). (26 ) 41. Epiplema paradeicta ^i'. nov. Forewings : white, indefinitely suffused with very pale yellowish ochreons, and with fine yellowish striae ; costa finely dotted with blackish ; beyond the middle are traces of a double yellowish fascia, containing slightly darker striae, the first having on its inner edge a spot of dark brown scales lietween veins 2 and 3, the second with some slight dark scales on inner margin at anal angle ; a minute black suhapical dot between veins 6 and 7 ; fringe white, with yellow basal line. Hindwings : with an ochreous patch at base, angulated in middle of wing ; a pale ochreous line from costa before middle to beyond the angle of basal patch ; a postmedian diffuse yellowish shade from costa before apex to below middle of wing, where it is expanded and reaches from the end of the basal patch to hindmargin, containing a deeper 3'ellow patch opposite the cell, and some very fine darker curved strigae on its inner edge ; a black dot before upper tooth, a very minute one above it, and a brown dot before lower tooth ; fringe white, with ochreous basal line, broader lietween the teeth. Underside white, the costa at base blackish ; a subcostal ochreous fuscous streak from base to four-fifths, where a similar fascia runs straight to anal angle, its inner edge diffuse, its outer edge concise and straight ; a minute black dot between veins G and 7 ; hindwings white, with the costa and a patch opposite cell ochreous ; the dark dots slightly marked ; fringe of upper tooth blackish. Face brown ; thorax and abdomen white and ochreous. Expanse of wings : 21 mm. One ? from S. Celebes, September 1891 (\V. Doherty). The inner margin of forewings is sinuous ; costa of hindwings evenly curved and fringed with hair throughout; the teeth both long, the lower one deflexed. 42. Gathynia divaricata sp. nov. Forevmigs .• pale ochreous, suffused and dusted, except along the submedian ai-ea, with brownish grey and rufous ; the costal region thicklv speckled with grey ; the lines ferruginous ; first from costa at one-fourth, irregularly excurved and bluntly angled on the median vein, thence oblique and straight to inner margin at one-third ; second at three-fourths, stronglj- excurved to below median, then sinuous to inner margin at four-fifths ; a faint ochraceous streak along the cell ; two small black dots or dashes before hindmargin below ajiex ; marginal line fine, dark ; fringe ochreous grey, with a darker dividing line. Hindwings: wholly greyish rufous; first line acutely angled in middle, second curved and hardly angled ; four or fi\e black dashes on feiTuginous scales below the tooth. Underside pale straw-colour, the forewings much smeared with grey. Face and palpi blackish ; vertex and collar dark grey ; thorax ochreous mixed with grey ; the patagia and abdomen ochreous, the latter marked with grey on back of basal segments. Expanse of wings : 24 mm. One cJ from Bonthain, S. Celebes, 5000—7000 feet, October 1895 (A. Everett). Resembles Gathynia fumicosta \\'a.n: from the Khasias, but at once distin- guished by the wholly brown hindwings and their single tooth at vein G. ( 27 ) Family GEOMETRWAE. SiHFAMiLY OENOCHROJIINAE. Adeixis gen. nov. Foreivin(/8 : with costa straight; apex blunt, nearly rectangular; hindmargin oblique, straight above, strongly rounded below, the anal angle truncate. Hindivinijs : with margin and both angles well rounded. Forehead with rough porrect scales; palpi porrect, subrostriform, roughly scaled; antennae of c? bipectinate ; the pectinations stiflf and bent forwards at their ape.x, all strongly ciliated ; those on the inner side of the shaft only half as long as those on the outer; hind tibiae thickened and roughly scaled, with four stout spurs; hind tarsi short, one-third of tibiae ; forewings witli rough hair at base of costa beneath, covering the retinaculum. Nenrcdimi : forewings, cell more than half as long as wing, both margins bent inwards towards extremity ; first median nervule at two-thirds, second before end, third from end of cell ; lower radial from somewhat above centre of discocellnlar ; upper from upper end of cell ; veins 7 and 8, and 9 and 10 stalked, 8 anastomosing with 9 and 10 to form a single areole ; 11 free. Hindwings with costal closely approximated to subcostal for three-fourths of cell, then rather strongly curved away ; cell three-fifths of wing ; first subcostal and second median from before the end of cell ; radial ft-om above the middle of discocellular. Typje : Adeixis insignaia sp. nov. The genus seems to agree in the main with what Mr. ^leyrick (in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of X. S. Wales for 1889, p. 119G) calls Aspilates Tr. ; but as I cannot see how a genus formed for European species can be restricted (?) so as to include Australian Oeaochrominae, I have referred the insect under notice to a new genus. 43. Adeixis insignata sp. no\-. Forewings : mouse-colour, dusted with darker atoms ; no distinct markings ; a slightly darker cell-spot ; an oblique outer line from middle of inner margin towards apex, sometimes marked by darker denticulations on the veins, and traces of a pale curved submarginal line ; fringe concolorous, beyond a very fine dark marginal line. Hindwings : paler, ochreous grey, becoming darker only along hindmargin. Underside the same. Head and thorax mouse-grey ; abdomen somewhat paler -^ palpi tinged with ochreous. Expanse of wings : 21 mm. Two ? ?, four cjc?, from Parkside, Australia. A very obscure-looking insect. 44. Onycodes rubra sp. uo\ . Forewings: reddish fawn-colour, sprinkled with black scales; the lines very obscure, reddish, at one-third, one-half, and two-thirds, oblique from the costa, then vertical and waved ; a paler diffuse grey shade from apex towards inner margin, the marginal area beyond reddish ; fringe reddish. Hindivings : dull red, sprinkled witli black; with two dark lines; the inner margin greyer. ( 28 ) Underside of lx)th wings brighter red ; apex of forewings and inner margin of hindnings grev, the latter with a eiu-ved orange-red band in the middle. Ya.ce and vertex dark brown ; thorax concolorous with wings ; abdomen wanting. Expanse of wings : 38 mm. One ? from Daw.son, N. Queensland (A. 8. -Meek). Subfamily OKTHOSTIXINAE. Barrama gen. nov. Allied to Raiabani Moore ; the wings more thickly scaled, not hyaline ; abdomen not elongated ; hind tibiae of i not thickened or with a pencil of hairs, slender, with the terminal spurs only ; antennae of c? subserrate, with fascicles of very fine cilia. Type : Barrama impunclata sp. nov. 4u. Barrama impunctata sp. nov. Forettyings : whitish, suffused, especially towards eosta, with pale ochreous fuscous; an outer greyish line at two-thirds, slightly more oblitjue than the hindmargin ; a small blackish cell-dot, and row of dark marginal dots ; fringe greyish. Hiivlimnijs : paler, with the line strongly curved and often very obscure. Underside the same. Face, thorax, and abdomen [lale fuscous grey. Expanse of wings : ? , 24 mm. ; J, 26 mm. Ten c?c?, two ? ? , from Weenen, Natal, March 1894. 46. Bociraza reversa sp. nov. Foreivings ; black, with a broad deep yellow lilotch from middle of costa towards anal angle, rounded at the end and not continued basewards along the costa. Hindmngs : with a similar blotch, Init broader, from the inner margin towards apex. Underside the same, but duller. Head, thorax, and abdomen all black ; antennae black at base, with the outer half white. Expanse of wings : 39 mm. Three c?c? from Obi, Moluccas, :\Iay 1892 (W. Doherty). 47. Cartaletis flexilimes sp. nov. Fm-ewings : orange-red, with a broad black marginal border containing three white blotches, the upper one large and irregular in shape, the lower two long ovals ; the dividing line between the two colours is not angularly bent, as in C. erici Kirby, but irregularly sinuous. Hindivings : with a narrower black border from ai)ex to anal angle, narrowest at the ends, and containing seven oval white spots. Underside like upper. Face orange, with a white sjMt at top; frontlet and antennae black ; collar white, with a dark edge ; thorax and patagia striped black and white ; abdomen black with white rings above, orange-red below. Expanse of wings : (?, 52 mm. ; ¥ , 58 mm. A jiair from \\'arri, Niger Coast Protectorate, February 1896 (Dr. Roth). In this species the bar between costal and subcostal of the hindwings, instead of being near the base, is half-way down the cell, much longer, and very distinct. ( ^9 ) 48. Eumelea albimacula sp, uov. Forewings : brown-black ; costa towards base dotted with wliite ; an oblong irregularly dentate-edged blotch beyond the cell from vein 7 towards anal angle ; two small white triangular spots on inner margin before the anal angle ; fringe black ; cell-spol deep black. Hindwinijs : with the white blotch broader, its edges more regularly crenulate, touching the inner margin, and containing the black cell-spot. Underside rather paler. Face and palpi (damaged) tinged with fulvous, probably when fresh wholly fulvous ; vertex and collar fulvous ; thorax and abdomen black ; a small fulvous spot at base of forewings and side of thorax ; legs grey ; fore tibiae fulvous ; tuft of hind tibiae pale. Expanse of wings : 38 mm. One c? from Obi, Moluccas, May 1802 (W. Doherty). This unusually coloured species is, of course, nearest to E. algidaria Wlk. from My.sol. The forewings are decidedly narrow, the apical portion much produced ; hiud- margin very oblique, slightly bent at vein 6 and incurved before anal angle. 49. Eumelea ludovicata cupreata subsp. nov. 6. Fwewings : wholly suffused with rich coppery fulvous, with thick purplish fuscous or olive-fuscous dots and striae; costa purplish, dotted with black ; the lines pui-plisb fuscous; first line curved, at one-third, consisting of a costal spot and a spot on submedian fold ; second from middle of costa, excurved round cell, and also marked by a round spot on submedian fold ; submarginal shade nearly straight, diffuse ; an obscure fuscous annulus on discocellular ; fringe dark. Hindii'ings : with the lines distinct only towards costa ; apex slightly paler, in only one example j-ellowish. Underside yellow ; the forewings suffused with fulvous, and spotted and blotched with brown-red ; the costa and submarginal shade prominently brown ; hindwings with all the spots and blotches tinged with rosy. S. Exactly like the S of the form rahrifiisa from Dili, Timor, except tliat the spot at base of middle line on inner margin of forewings, and the eorre.sponding spot on costa of hindwings, are larger and round. Seven c? cf , three ? ? , from Tenimber, July 1892 (W. Doherty). Intei-esting as showing the local variation, confined almost wholly to the c?c?. These from Tenimber have lost all trace of the yellow blotches which are the special characteristic o{ ludovicata Guen. in the various c? -forms. 50. Eumelea sanguinata australiensis subsp. nov. Differs from the type {sanguinata Warr.) in being about two-thirds the size and less vividly red ; apex of hindwings sometimes narrowly yellow. Several examples from Cedar Bay, south of Cooktown, and Geraldton (A. S. Meek). The ? ? in this species are as red as the cJ c?. •"il. Eumelea semirosea sp. nov. Forewings: olive-fulvous, with rosy transverse striae; the costa yellow, with purple-fuscous striae ; discal ocellus bright rosy ; a curved thick deep ro.sy line at ( 30 ) two-thirds, beyond which the whole marginiil third is siifl'used with deep rosv, including the fringe, the costa remaining narrowly yellow ; no trace of inner or suhmarginal line. Hindwings : the same, with cell-spot obscure. I'nderside similar, but duller. Kace, palpi, and collar marked with lirilliaut red ; thorax, like the extreme base of forewings, yellow ; abdomen yellow and suffused ^vith rosy. Exjmnse of wings : 54 mm. One cJ from Halmaheira, August 1892 (W. Doherty). The apex of forewings is blunt, the hindmargins of both wings more fully curved and rounded than usual ; distinguished by the contrast between the fulvous inner area and the rosy marginal third. 52. Noreia muricolor sp. nov. Fm'nvings : mouse-colour, reddish-tinged, and very finely speckled with black; first line marked only by dark dots on veins ; cell-spot brown ; outer line deep brown, edged outwardly with ochreous, from two-thirds of inner margin towards costa before apex, slightly concave outwards ; fringe concolorous, with a very slender dark basal line. Hindvnnc/s : rather darker ; the cell-spot more prominent ; the obliciue line central and thicker. Underside paler, more speckled, with a sinuous brown outer line on both wings. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. One S from Natal. There is not the slightest trace of an}' hairs on the underside of the hindwings. 53. Ozola pulverulenta sp. nov. Foreimngs : pale greyish ochreous or greyish fawn-colour, with darker mottlings ; the lines indistinct ; first at about one-third, curved ; the second at two-thirds, also curved from costa to submedian fold, then straight to inner margin ; cell-spot slightly darker ; fringe grey. Hindiuings : a little paler, with denser mottlings along inner margin ; fringe concolorous ; a linear cell-mark. Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish. Underside paler, with rufous freckliugs. Expanse of wings : 26 mm. Numerous examples from Weenen. Evidently a very variable insect, both in the ground-colour and in the distinct- ness of the markings. all. fasciata ab. nov. The whole of the central space between the two lines filled up with dull brown, the lines themselves being still dark<r brown and clouded. Xantheliodes gen. nov. Forewitvgs: elongate; costa straight, slightly curved just at base and before apex ; apex rounded ; hindmargin obliquely curved and passing into inner margin without forming a distinct anal angle. ( 31 ) Hiiidwiiifis: elongate, narrow; apex roumleil ; hindmargin scarcely' curved; anal angle obtuse. ?>enulum absent. Antennae of 6 bipectinated nearly to apex, the pectinations clavate ; palpi very short ; tongue slight; face smooth; forehead hairy; hind tibiae with apical pair of spurs ; legs short. Neuration: forewings, cell nearly two-thirds of wing, shorter above than below ; discocellular vertical in upper half, then strongly oblique outward ; first median at three-fourths, second well before end of cell, third from the end ; median vein inclined upwards between the last two ; lower radial from above the angle of discocellular ; upper radial stalked with the last fom- subcostals from end of cell; 11 free from cell, anastomosing with 12 ; 10 closely approximated to 11, and there suddenly bent, but not anastomosing. Hind wings with costal approximated to subcostal near base, then gradually divergent ; the two subcostals stalked; radial from above the angle of the discocellular ; medians as in forewings. Type : Xantheliodes uniformis sp. no\-. 54. Xantheliodes uniformis sp. nov. Forewings: deep j'ellow ; costa naiTOwly black; hindmargin black, rather broadly at apes, gradually narrowing to a point at anal angle. Hindiuings : the same, with the marginal black border much narrower at apex. I'nderside like upper. Face black, yellow above anil below ; \ertex blacky laterally yellow ; antennae black ; centre of thorax and shoulders black ; patagia yellow ; abdomen yellow, with black segmental rings ; legs blackish. Expanse of wings : 36 mm. One (J from Zomba, Upper Shire River (3000 feet), December ls95 (l)r. 1'. Rendall). SuBi-AMiLV PSEUDOTERPXINAE. ■55. Pingasa subpui-pui'ea s[). no\-. Forewi'iujs: white, dusted and shaded with pale olive ; the lines dark olive; tu-st at one-fomth, forming a curve above and below the median, followed by olive dusting ; cell-mark diffuse, dark olive ; outer line at two-thii'ds, dark olive, strongly denticulate outwards on the veins ; submarginal line wavy, bluish white, preceded and followed by pale olive suffusion ; fringe pale olive, with a hardly darker basal line. Uindwi'iKjs : the same, with no basal line and the fringe whiter; inner margin with scattered red scales. Underside white, with the costa of forewings and inner area of both wings broadly suffused with yellow; cell-mark on forewings and submarginal baud on both wings deep purple ; the band touching the margin opposite cell and above anal angle, and there tinged with yellowish. Face, palpi, antennae, and vertex ochreous white, the face above tinged with rufous ; thorax in front olive-green ; i-est of thorax, patagia, and abdomen whitish, with scattered ochi'eous and olive .scales. Expanse of wings : 38 mm. One S from .Sandakan, N. Korneo. .lanuary 1803. ( 32 ) 6(j. Terpna nificoloraria -^p. uov. Like T. varicoloraria Moore, but the wings suflused with rufous brown, and crossed by fine brown and fuscous striae, with hardly any green ; extreme base wlutish ochreous ; first line at one-fifth, fine, black, outwardly oblique and slightly waved; outer line at two-thirds, black, denticulate, with two prominent teeth on veins 3 and 4 ; a black discocellular line ; inner margin between the lines and at anal angle deeper red-brown; a large pinkish white ajiical jmtch, inwardly edged with dark brown, and throwing whitish streaks inwards along the veins ; marginal line black, inten-npted ; fringe rufous, whitish below apex. Ilindivi'iigs : similar ; the outer line followed by whitish grey patches, more or less diffused towards margin. Underside white, with a tinge of ochreous on forewings and costal area of hind- wings ; a hrocul black submarginal fascia, touching margin on forewings opposite the cell ; forewings with black cell-spot. Face and palpi reddish ; verte.x white, tinged with red ; thorax and abdomen rufous and grey, the latter with fine black lines on each side of the tufts. Expanse of wings : 58 mm. One c? from Kiua Balu, N. Borneo. SuBFAinxY GEOMETRINAE. 57. Agathia confviscata sp. nov. Forewings : deep green ; the costa grey, dotted with fuscous ; the base with a vinous-red blotch ; an irregularly bent and angled vertical band at one-third^ rufous grey ; marginal third rnfous grey, its inner edge deeper and sinuous, containing a green blotch below apex, touching hindmargin, and a small green spot between veins 2 and 3 ; fringe rufous grey. Hindwings : with base and inner margin narrowly vinous-red; outer third rnfous grey, containing a green ajjical blotch, its inner edge maiked on costa by a blackish red-edged narrow blotch. Underside pale whitish green, with a fuscous submarginal fascia on both wings. Face and palpi rnfous ; vertex and thorax green ; abdomen wanting. Expanse of vrings : 28 mm. One S from Sierra Leone. 58. Agraptochlora modesta sp. nov. Forewings : nniform deep green ; the costa ochreous. Ilindwings : the same ; the fringe grey, without basal line. Underside wholly green ; the costa of forewings broadly ochreous, towards the base tinged with red. Face and palpi deep red ; fillet whitish ; vertex and thorax green ; abdomen discoloured, probably green. Expanse of wings : 26 mm. One S from S. Africa. Distinguished from A. subaspersa by the much smaller size and uniform green underside. The type of sttbaspersa, however, is a ? . ( 33 ) 69. Agraptochlora rubriplaga sp. nov. Foreivings : deep green ; the costa ochreons, tiuged at base with red ; fringe pale, with a reddish middle line and minnte dark brown dots at ends of veins. Jlindu'inf/s : the same. Underside paler green, fading to ochreons ; costa broadly ochreons, with a large blood-red spot at base. Face, paljn, and forelegs red ; vertex white ; thorax and abdomen green. Expanse of wings : 36 mm. Four 6 S from Natal (A. J. Spiller). 60. Anisogamia albilauta sp. nov. Forewings : pale green, snbtransparent ; the veins with white dots ; costa broadly brown ; a white curved line at one-fourth, and a wavy sinuous white line at two-thirds, followed by white blotches at apex, middle, and anal angle ; fringe green. Hindwings : the same. Underside pale whitish green. Palpi and face ochreons ; vertex white ; antennae brown ; tliorax and abdomen green. Expanse of wings : 34 mm. One c? in bad condition from Moroka, British New Guinea, October 1895, at 35U0 feet (Anthony). The antennae are shortly pectinated for lialf their length only ; the apex of hindwings is not truncate. The species of the genus here described — except dentata — together with metaspila and satia-ataria Wlk. and nicisparsa Butler, differ fi'om the more typical species, pieroides Wlk., etc., in having the two sexes nearly alike in colour and markings. 61. Anisogamia albimacula sp. nov. Forewings ; sea-green, snbtransparent, with numerous whitish strigulations ; the veins darker green, dotted with white; costa finely dark brown, with white dots: no distinct lines, but traces of a curved whitish one at one-third, tvhite on inner margin, and of a wavy submarginal line containing a small whitish blotch between veins 3 and 4, more distinct in the S ; a row of large pale spots along margin at the ends of the veins, white in the cJ, pinkish white in the ? ; fringe green, in the ? marked with pinkish grey beyond the spots ; the hindmargin and fringe distinctly crenulate. Hindwings : the same, with a large double white blotch in the c^ on each side of the second median, which is absent in the ?. Underside pale whitish green. Palpi with second joint green above, third joint pinkish ; lower half of face [)ale ; njiper half, vertex, thorax, and abdomen green ; metathorax and penultimate segment of abdomen brownish, marked with white ; the S with some white dorsal spots, the ? with pinkish spots ; legs and abdomen beneath white ; the fore tarsi fuscous brown. Expanse of wings : 36 mm. Both sexes from Mackay, Queensland ; Cedar Bay, near Cooktown, and Ueraldton (A. S. Meek). 3 ( 34 ) 62. Anisogamia curvigutta s]i. nov. ?. Foreicings : as in .1. albimaculu, thinly scaled, sea-green, with white spots on the darker veins ; the costa narrowly brown, with white dots ; a wavy whitish line is distinct on inner margin just before middle ; a cream-coloured blotch at apex, edged with fuscous, narrow above and swelling out below, reaching to beyond third median, with some fuscous scales along its centre : fringe green, with white spots at the ends of veins on the hindmargin ; the spots in the blotch brown. Hindwings : the same ; the blotch longer and more sinuous. Underside whitish green, the blotches showing white ; a small brown spot at apex of hindwings. Pal]ii, face, and vertex ochreous tinged with brown ; shoulders, patagia, and first segment of abdomen green : thorax and rest of abdomen white ; fore tarsi fuscous, dotted with white. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. Two ? ? from Mackay, Queensland. S3. Anisogamia dentata sp. nov. Forewings : deep sea-green, semitransparent, the veins dark green, dotted with white ; the costa broadly greyish fuscous, with ochreous streaks ; first line at one- fourth, white, distinct only above inner margin ; a pale ochreous fuscous-dotted roundish spot on upper half of discocellular, touching costal streak ; outer line white, at four-fifths, incurved in middle, and forming a broad sinus outwards above and below ; marginal area grey-brown or reddish brown, deeper brown along the outer line and at the costa, where the outer line is itself more broadly white, preceded by a curved green space ; marginal line strongly marked, dark brown ; fringe jialer. Hindwings : similar ; upper half of discocellular marked by a linear white spot of raised scales ; inner margin wholly green. Underside jjearly whitish green ; outer line broadly edged with a blackish dentate fascia, the margin beyond dull white, with black marginal spots. Palpi whitish ochreous, tinged with pale fuscous ; face snow-white below, deep green above ; vertex whitish, thickly mottled with rufous grey ; thorax and patagia deep green ; metathorax and abdomen ochreous, suffused with rufous and densely dusted with black scales, the latter sometimes marked with lateral green scales. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. Two ? ? from Cedar Bay, south of Cooktown, North Queensland (A. S. Meek). Nearest to A. piaroides, but easily separable, not only by the deeper green tint tind absence of bright red markings, but also by the margins of the wings, which, instead of being waved, are very highly dentate, the tooth at vein 4 being conspicuous. 64. Abisogamia moniliata sp. nov. Forewings : deep green, the costa broadly ochreous, speckled with fawn- colour ; first line hardly traceable, ending in a pale spot on inner margin beyond one-third; second line absent; marginal space narrowly ochreons, mottled with fuscous, expanding slightly towards apex and anal angle ; fringe ochreons, with a yellowish basal line. Hindwings : the same. Underside pale whitish green ; the costa of forewings luteous. Palpi ochreous, ( as ) terminal joint fuscons ; face deep green ; fillet and antennae white ; thorax and abdomen green, the latter tinged with pinkish ochrcous. Expanse of wings : 36 mm. One ? from ('edar Bay, sonth of ( 'ooktown (A. S. Meek). 65. Anisogamia muscosa sp. nov. Foreu'inqs : deep green, shagreeued with dnll pinkish white ; the costa pale ochreons, with numerous red-brown dots and blotches ; a red-brown blotch at base, and a dot at base of cell ; a costal blotch at one-fonrth, indicating first line : a much contorted red-brown baud from costa just beyoud middle, incurved below cell along the median vein, running to inner margin before middle ; this band is double at costa, and throws spurs outwards along veins 5 and 3 ; outer band at four-fifths, parallel to hindmargin, composed of red-brown blotches, with paler centres, the largest at costa, those below vein 5 and on vein 2 conspicuous ; a snbmarginal row of red-brown white-tijiped spots between the veins ; fringe green, with pinkish dashes opposite the veins ; cell-spot large, triangular, deep liver-colonr. Hindwings : with the base silvery ; cell-spot smaller, with a small red-brown spot above it ; outer macular line and submargiual row of spots only marked, the former with a consj)icuous blotch above anal angle. Underside whitish green, with the cell-spot and lines only marked in the costal half of forewing. Face ochreous at bottom and along sides, green in middle, edged above and below with red-brown ; i)alpi red-brown above, ochreons below ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen deep green ; antennae deep red-brown, the base whitish ; anal segment of abdomen silvery white, edged with red-brown. Expanse uf wings : 36 mm. One S from Fergusson Island, September to December 1894 (A. S. Meek). 66. Anisogamia nigrimaculata sj). nov. Foreu-ini/s : yellowish green, the costa narrowly dark brown ; first line pale, marked by a brown-black patch on inner margin at one-third ; exterior line lunulate, whitish, followed by three similar lines, which make the whole marginal area appear whitish, excejit opposite the cell. l[iiHhcing,i : with the basal area much mottled with white; the outer line and marginal area as in forewings, but the apex marked with a large black blotch. Underside whitish green, with the black blotch at apex of hindwings. Palpi and face reddish ; thorax and abdomen green. Expanse of wings : 34 mm. One (? from Moroka, British New Guinea, October 1895, at 3500 feet (Anthony). Though taken at the same time and place as .1. (dbilauta, it is t^uite distinct. The antennae are pectinated for two-tliirds, and the apex of" the hindwings is distinctly truncate. 6T. Anisogamia undilinea sp, nov. Forewings : sea-green ; costa white, speckled below with fuscous, the extreme edge remaining pure white ; first line at one-fourth, second at three-fourths, both finely white and distinctly waved : fringe green, with white sjiots at ends of veins. ( 36 ) HindtciiKjs : with no basal Hue. Umlersidc pale whitish j^reeii ; forcwiiip;s towards costa becoming bright green ; the costal edge white, with a bright yellow streak below it from base to middle. Palpi white underneath, green above ; face green, with two white dots below ; vertex white, greenish behind ; antennae with shaft white, and pectinations yellow ; thorax and abdomen green, the latter with white spots on dorsum ; underside of abdomen and legs white ; forelegs tinged with fuscous yellow. Expanse of wings : 34 mm. One S from Cedar Bay, Cooktown (A. S. Meek). Distinguished by the white-edged costa and distinctly nndulating outer line. 68. Chloromma persimilis sp. nov. Forewings : dull olive-green, with the two lines brown, placed almost exactly as in C. mimica Warr. from the Khasias : cell-spot brown. Hinclwhigs : with two brown spots on the diseocellular, instead of the large brown blotch. Underside wholly pale green, with no markings. Expanse of wings : 26 mm. One S from Warri, Eiver Niger, January 1890 (Dr. Koth). In the forewings veins 0, 7, 8, 0, 10, and 11 are all stalked, 11 anastomosing with the costal ; the diseocellular is e.xcurved in the upjier j)art, and rectangular outwards in middle. Chlorostrota gen. nov. Forewings : with costa straight for two-thirds, then cnrvcd; aj)ex blunt; hind- margin bent at vein 4, more oblique below. Hindwings : with hindmargin bluntly toothed at vein 4. Antennae of cf bipectinate to apex ; palpi inclined upwards, the second joint thickly scaled ; third small and bluut ; tongue and frenulum present ; hind tibiae not thickened, with four adjacent spurs. Keuratioii: forewings, cell two-iifths of wing ; first median at two-thirds, second just before angle of cell ; last four subcostals stalked, the first free. Hind- wings with the subcostals and last two medians stalked ; first median just before angle of cell. Type : Chlorostrota praeampla sp. nov. To this genus belongs also albiviridis Moore. 09. Chlorostrota marginata sjt. nov. Forewings : grass-green: the costa ochreons, thickly dusted with brown ; traces of a curved exterior line marked by white dashes on the veins; marginal line brown, preceded by an irregular narrow ochreous brown-dotted fascia, which swells out below vein 4 into a large pale j)atch and smaller j)atchos below the large one. I/i/id/ri/ig.i : the same. Underside wholly whitish green. Face dark brown ; thorax and abdomen (probably) green. Expanse of wings : 38 mm. One $ from Warri, lliver Niger, January 1890 (Dr. Roth). The only example is much worn, and a more exact descrijitiou will be desirable when better specimens are obtainable. ( 37 ) TO. Chlorostrota praeampla sp. nov. Forewings : deep green; the costa whitish, with fuscous speckles ; first line at one-fourth, fine, whitish, oblique inwards ; second line from a dark costal spot at two-thirds, white, bent at vein 6, and incurved at vein 3, where it broadens and runs into a large white anal blotch, marked with flesh-coloured fnscons and green scales; submarginal line white, bent on vein 7, then oblique to the anal blotch, nearly touching a difl:nse white marginal shade, which is edged by green lunules before the white fringe ; cell-spot whitish ; vein G whitish from cell-spot, all the other veins whitish between the outer and submarginal line. Hindwinys : with basal half green, its edge sinuous : costal and inner margins narrowly, outer margin broadly, cream-white ; some rufous fuscous scales at apex and anal angle ; an interrupted green band from vein 6 to anal blotch, followed by another and fainter band of green scales : the lunules below apex deeji fuscous red; cell-spot linear, white. Underside of forewings pearly white, green-tinged in basal half ; costa yellowish : costal area irrorated with fuscous, with two spots and the cell-spot large and fuscous ; a fuscous blotch at anal angle of forewings and apex of hindwings; the marginal spots black. Palpi dark and light fuscous : face dark green above, white below ; vertex whitish ; thorax green ; abdomen white, speckled with green, more thickly towards base. Expanse of wings : 42 mm. One S from the Khasias, June 1896. Collesis gen. nov. ? . Forewings : with costa arched throughout, apex minutely jirojecting ; hind- margin vertical above, curved below. Him! wings : with rounded hiudmargin, the anal angle j>rominently square. Antennae in ? jJectinated; palpi porrect, short; tongue present; frenulum absent. Neuratioii: forewings, cell not half the length of wing; discocellular with lower arm long and oblique ; first median at three-fourths, second before end, third from end of cell ; lower radial from upjier end of discocellular, u])per from the angle : all five subcostals stalked, the first anastomosing with the costal. Hindwing.s witii costal anastomosing with subcostal for half the length of cell ; the two sitbcostals on a long stalk ; last two medians short-stalked. Type : Collesis mi mica sp. nov. Distinguished from Enchhris and its allies, to which it is nearest akin, by the anomalous anastomosis of the costal vein in hindwings. 71. Collesis mimica sp. nov. Forewings : pale whitish green ; a darker green outwardly white-edged oblique line from jnst before apex to inner margin at two-thirds. Hindwings : with the line just beyond the middle; fringe of both wings concolorous. Underside whitish. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous; vertex white. Expanse of wings : 28 mm. One ? from Mpeta, Loangwa Hiver, north of Zambesi, November 180:! (P. T. Coryndon). Superficially very much resembling a small Metrocampa margaritata. ( 38 ) 72. Episothalma marginata sp. nov. Foreioings: deep green; tlie costa rufous, thickly dotted with fuscous and much darker ou basal half; marginal third rufous grc}-, with dark fuscous strigae, edged iuterually by a wavy dark brown line, which forms a sinus in the middle and a curve on the inner margin ; fringe fuscous, with a darker basal line. Ifindicings: similar, liut the costal area bmadly greyish fuscous; the inner margin narrowly rufous brown. Underside pale dull green, with the marginal area reduced, dull browu. Face, palpi, and collar black-brown ; fillet rnfous ; thorax and base of abdomen green ; rest of abdomen and tufts rufous brown. Expanse of wings : 25 mm. One 6 from Sierra Leone. 73. Episothalma semigrisea sp. nov. Foreivinqs : deep green in basal half; marginal half and costa greyish drab, thickly strewn with dark liver-coloured striae ; the two colours separated by a sinuous brown line from tlie lower edge of the costal streak ; a dark l)rown marginal line ; fringe concolorous. Hind wings: with the costal half and the outer half gre}', with brown striae; the inner margin narrowly grey, lea^^ng only a restricted green space near inner margin. Underside dull liver-coloured, with traces of a straight pale submarginal baud, complete on hindwings, but indistinct on forewings, except on inner margin ; costa of forewings ochreous ; inner margin whitish ; a small pale patch below apex, and a larger one before the angle at middle. Face and vertex dark liver-colour ; thorax pale drab ; abdomen greyish cinereous. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. One S from Upoto, Congo (Kev. Oram). Closely related to E. marginata from Sierra Leone, but larger, with the green area much smaller. 74. Euchloris oleagina sp. nov. Foreicinqx : whitish, tinged with yellow : the costa broadly yellowish; fringe concolorous. Ilindwings : the same, as is the underside. Face deep red ; palpi and forelegs reddisli ; thorax and abdomen greased, jirobably concolorous with wings. Expanse of wings : 20 mm. Two 6 6 from Weeuen, Natal, dated October 1893 and January 1895. The antennae are thickened, with strong produced serrations, which are laterally pubescent ; the frenulum is absent ; the wings, like the bodies, are saturated with grease, and were j)robably once greenish. 75. Eucrostes rubridisca sp. nov. Forewings : bright green ; the costa broadly whitish ; cell-spot orange-red ; marginal line of the same colour, with traces of marginal spots. Ilindwings : the same. The fringes of both wings are entirely gone. ( 39 ) Underside paler greeu. Face and forelegs bright ros_v ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen green. Expanse of wings : 13 mm. One 6 from Dar-es-Salaam, German East Africa. 76. Euxena insulsata sp. "nov. Foreicings : dull grey-green ; the lines darker, diffuse ; the first at oue-foarth, curved and wavy; the second from costa at four-fifths to inner margin at two-thirds, slightly bent and thickened downwards ; cell-spot blackish green, rather large : fringe concolorous. llindicings : slightly ochrcous towards base ; no first line ; the outer line denticulate and running to anal angle ; marked, as in the forewings, by pale dashes on the veins. Underside pale yellowish green; the costa of both wings yellowish. Face and palpi brown, paler below ; vertex white ; thorax grej^-green ; abdomen ochreous. Expanse of wings : 45 mm. One <S from North Luzon, 5000 to 0000 feet (Whitehead). 77. Halterophora fulgurata sp. nov. Forewings : bluish green ; the costa pale ochreons, with dark purplish spots ; first line marked only by whitish spots on veins ; second line very strongly dentate, the line itself finely paler, and marked on the veins at the denticulations by white spots ; fringe at base deep red-brown, broadly interrupted between each vein by a whitish dash ; outer half of fringe white, Hindwings : with outer line much plainer, and strongly denticulate, the teeth on veins 7, 6, and 5 being exactly above those on veins 4, 3, and 2 ; a dark green mark on discocellnlar. Underside whitish greeu ; the costal half of forewing brighter green ; costa liroadly white, with strong pnrjde striae. Face, palpi, vertex, thorax, and abdomen coucolorons green ; front of thorax deeper green. Expanse of wings : 45 mm. One S from Moroka, British New Guinea (3500 feet), October 1895 (Anthony). 78. Hemithea albistrigulata sp. nov. Forewings : dull green, thickly covered with minute pale wavy strigulae ; a darker green central fascia, edged by the first and second lines, which are wavy ; thi' outer line indented in cell and on the submedian fold ; fringe pale green. Hindwings : the same ; both wings with a deeper green cell-spot. Underside uniform whitish green. Face, palpi, and forelegs briglit red ; fillet white ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings. Expanse of wings : 20 mm. One 6 from S. Africa. 79. Hemithea approximans >p. nov. Forewings : very pale green ; the costa whitish ; two fine hardly waved white lines, rather near one another ; the first at quite one-third, the second before two-thirds ; fringe green. ( 40 ) Hindwings : with the outer line only ; a faintly darker cell-spot. Underside uniform whitish green. Face ochreous ; vertex white ; thorax and abdomen pale green. Expanse of wings : 20 mm. Two (? (? from AVeenen, Natal. 80. Hemithea atridisca sp. uov. Forewings : semidiaphanous pale bluish green ; the costa ochreous ; lines whitish, denticulate ; first at one-third, second at three-fourths, incurved below middle, and marked most strongly on the veins ; a large cell-spot of raised brown- black scales, edged with pale, on the lower arm of discocellular. Ilindu-ings : the same. Underside paler, with the cell-spot distinct. Face and palpi dark red-brown: vertex and thorax green ; abdomen reddish cinereous. Expanse of wings : 28 mm. Two S S from Natal (A. J. Spiller). 81. Hemithea malescripta sp. nov. Forewings : very pale green, with two faint wavy darker green pale-edged lines at one-third and two-thirds ; fringe paler. Hindwings : with only the outer line ; both wings with an obscnre darker green cell-spot. Underside paler and glossy. Face olive-green ; vertex white ; thorax and abdomen pale green, like the wings; abdomen with slight reddish tufts. Expanse of wings : 22 mm. Three SS, one ?, from Weenen, Natal, August 1894 and April 1895. One of the i S has the lines wliitish. 82. Hemithea simplex sp. nov. Forewings: greyish green; the costa ochreous, dotted with fuscous; the lines darker green, obscure, slightly waved ; first from costa beyond one-third to inner margin before middle ; second at two-thirds to inner margin before anal angle ; fringe green, with a deep green basal line. Hindwings : with the outer line and cell-spot deep green. Underside whitish green, the costa spotted as above. Face dull brown ; palpi above and the wliole of the terminal joint and forelegs dark fuscous ; vertex white ; thorax and abdomen green, the latter with dark red blotches along dorsum. Expanse of wings : 20 mm. One 6 from Sukabumi, West, Java, ls93 (Fruhstorfer). 83. Hemithea unilinea sj). nov. Forewings : pale green ; the costa narrowly ochreous ; inner line very fine and hardly perceptible, curved near base ; outer line at three-fourths, white, straight and oblique to inner margin shortly before anal angle ; fringe paler green, with a whitish line at base. Hindwings : with the outer white line curved ; cell-spots hardly darker. Underside glossy, whitish green. Face ochreous ; vertex white ; thorax and ( 41 ) base of abdomen green ; rest of abdomen ochreous ; basal segments with slight reddisli tufts. Expanse of wiugs : 2:5 mm. Three d S from Weenen, Natal. 84. Hemithea vermiculata sj). uciv. Forewings : jjale green, densely covered with minnte white wavy striae ; no lines visible ; fringe broad, pale yellowish. lliiulwiiiys : the same, with an obscure darker cell-spot. Underside wliitish green. Face and jialpi dark brown ; tliorax and alidomen pale green. Expanse of wings : 19 mm. One 6 from Warri, River Niger, June 1896 (Dr. Roth). Antennae with well-developed fascicles of cilia. Hypocoela gen. nov. Forewings : with costa strongly arched, tlie apex not produced ; hiudmargin oblique, with a shallow excision between veins 6 and 4 ; anal angle well marked. Ilindwings : with inner margin lengthened, apex rounded, hindmargia evenly vnirved. Palpi short, porrect ; antennae of S bipectiuate to two-thirds. Neuration : forewings, discocellnlar acutely inaugulated ; veins 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 1 1 anastomosing with costal. Type : Hypocoela subfulm sp. nov. A development of Tannorhiniis Butler. 85. Hypocoela subfulva sp. nov. Forewings : dnll olive-green, faintly speckled with darker ; a straight oblique brown line from costa at three-fourths, below which it is slightly bent, to inner margin beyond middle, followed by a paler streak; marginal area with an olive- brown shade, broad on inner margin, narrowing to a point at vein 6 ; marginal line dark green, black along the excision and at the submedian fold, and there preceded by some whitish scales ; fringe rufons olive, with two white patches in the excision ; a small black cell-dot. Ilindwtjujs : the same, but the snbmarginal fascia of uniform width throughout and much speckled with darker ; fringe rufous. Underside of forewings yellow-green, becoming fulvous towards inner margin, with two Idack spots in cell and a black snbmarginal and marginal blotch towards inner margin ; liindwings deep orange-fulvous, with a few black specks. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. One c? from Warri, River Niger, June 189G (Dr. Roth). 86. Metallochlora differens sp. nov. Foreicings : pale apple-green ; tlie costa yellowish, with fine purplish striae ; a minute red cell-dot ; faint traces of two darker green paler-edged wavy transverse lines, first from costa at one-fourth, second at three-fourths, to one-third and two- thirds of inner margin respectively ; fringe yellow. ( -12 ) Hindtcinqs: with the cell-dot bright red, tiie outer line exenrved in middle : hiudinargin visiblj' elbowed at vein 4. Underside uniform pale green. Face and palpi rnfons : vertex, tliorax, and abdomen vivid green ; abdomen with shining brown-red dorsal blotches. Expanse of wings : 2n mm. One S from Tenimber, July 1S92 (\V. Doherty). Ilistingnished from the other species of the genns by the much more developed antennae of the 6. These are subdentate, the teeth with Ion;/ fascicles of cilia. ST. Microloxia ruficornis sp. uov. Forewings : pale yellowish -. the costu deep ocluvous ; fringe coacolorons. Ilhufwifif/s : the same. Underside similar. Palpi, antennae, and forelegs reddish ; face yellowish, edged with red ; thorax and abdomen yellowish. Expanse of wings : 14 mm. • One S from Weenen, Natal, January 1895. Tlie insect is in very good con- dition, and the wings do not seem to be either faded or greased. A ? from the same locality, dated December 1893, not in good condition, with, the fringes gone and the wings somewhat greased, must be referred here. This has^ the antennae snbserrate, and expands 19 mm. 88. Microloxia (?) serraticomis sp. nov. Superficially exactly like Nemoria attenuata Wlk., but whereas in that species the antennae of the S are simply pubescent, in this they are subpectinate and pubescent, the pectinations being short, claw-shaped, with a fascicle of cilia at the end ; in this respect the insect agrees neither witli Nemoria nor Microloxia. Walker's two species indecretata from India and latilineata from Australia agree with the present species both in the structure of antennae and in the markings of wings, and it is possible they may be all three identical. Several specimens from Natal. N. attemmta Wlk. occnrs not only at the Cape, but also in Sierra Leone ; WoUaston's species nubigena from Madeira must be very near it. 89. Mixochlora alternata sii. nov. Forewings: deep green, with four pale hoary green fasciae more or less parallel, the second interrupted above by a deep green discocellular lunule ; the first two dark green fasciae not oblique outwards, as in rittata Butler; costa narrowly yellow : fringe green. Hi7idwings ; with the basal area and two fasciae i)alcr. Underside pale green, scarcely tinged with yellow. Face and palpi deep velvety green ; vertex and thorax dark green ; abdomen ])ale green, with dark green markings ; base of antennae white. Expanse of wings : 45 mm. One S from North Luzon, 500U to OUUU feet (Whitehead). Distinguished from M. vittata Butler by the absence of yellow below and by the parallel bands above ; nrgentij'usn Wlk. from Sarawak is much more silvery. ( 43 ) Neurotoca gen. nov. Allied to Kacldoris and Farrucldoris, agreeing with the latter genus in having l-iectinated antennae in the ?, while thu hindwings are ronnded as in Euchloris ; the hindwings without freuulnm; distinguished by an abnormal furcation of vein 6 of the hindwings. Type : Neurotoca notata sp. uov. 90. Neurotoca notata sp. uov. Foreirinfis : pale green, faintly strigulated with whitish, with a rather thick white line at two-thirds running parallel to hindmargin ; fringe whitish. Hindwings : the same, with a semicircular red-brown patch on the middle of inner margin. Underside whitish. Head, thorax, and abdomen green, the last with red dorsal blotches. Expanse of wings : 34 mm. One ? from Mpwapwa, East Africa. Paraprasina gen. nov. ¥ . Foreici)iys : elongate ; costa straight, convex before apex ; hindmargin curved, obliiiue. Himhvimjs : with apex rounded ; anal angle square ; hindmargin slightly curved. Thorax and abdomen robust. Palpi porrect, long, reaching well in front of face ; tongue absent ; frenulum (?) absent ; antennae thick, shortly pectinated on the inner side, the pectinations being developed from the base and gradually shortened ; serrate at base on outer side, the serrations increasing and becoming at half the shaft pectinations as long as those on the inner side. Neuration : forewiugs, cell half the length of wing ; discocellular augulated ; first median at three-fourths, second and third from end of cell ; lower radial from a little above the centre of discocellular ; 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 11 free. Hindwings with the two subcostals stalked. Type : Paraprasina discolor sp. nov. 91. Paraprasina discolor sp. nov. Forcwinys : pale whitish green, without any markings ; the fringe concolorous. Hindwings : the same. Underside white. Face and palpi pale below, dull ferruginous above ; vertex,, thorax, and abdomen all i)ale green. Expanse of wings : 40 mm. One ? from S. Africa. The only example is much faded, and it is impossible to say what shade of green it may have had when fresh. 92. Pareuchloris (?) salsa sp. nov. Forewings : white, dotted with blue-green and with the lines of the same colour ; first at one-fourth, second in the middle, joined by the green cell-spot ; third ( 44) nt three-fourths, somewhut bent, to aual augle ; all the lines are dift'ase and become obsolete before the costa ; fringe greeu and white. [iinil wings: with a long greeu mark on discocollular; a curved denticulate postmedian line and narrow submarginal line blue-greeu ; also the triangular space between veins 2 and 4 ; inner margin and costa white. Underside white. Face and palpi brown ; forelegs spotted brown and white ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen white. Expanse of wings : 36 mm. One ? from Sierra Leone. Prasinocyma gen. nov. Allied to Thalassodes Gueu., with which it agrees in neuratiou and character of scaling ; but while the hindmargin of the hindwings of Thalassodes is always angulated, in Prasinoo/ma the hindmargin of both wings is rounded. The species are mainly African. T.qje : Prasinoc>/ma vermicularia Guen. {Thalassodes). 93. Prasinocyma rufitincta sp. nov. Forewings: bright green, semitranspareut, covered with innumerable white sinuous striae, the $ with fewer than the 5 ; costa narrowly white ; base of wing and median uervure marked with dull rufous ; fringe concolorous. Hindwings : like forewings, with no rufous at base. Underside pale wliitish green. Forelegs and antennae red ; head, patagia, and base of abdomen green ; thorax dull rufous ; rest of abdomen greyish white. Expanse of wings : <?, 28 mm.; 5 , 34 mm. A pair from Lifu. 94. Prasinocyma unipuncta sp. nov. Forewings : slightly diajihanous, deep green, the paler striae very minute and indistinct ; costa narrowly ochreous ; fringe greeu ; discocellular marked with darker green : a small white spot edged externaDy with brown scales on inner margin beyond middle. Hindwings : similar, with no white spot. Underside paler. Face, palpi, and forelegs red brown ; vertex white : tliorax green ; abdomen ochreous. Expanse of wings : 19 mm. One S from Weenen, Natal, October 1895. Rhomborista gen. nov. Allied to Oenospila Swinhoe, from which it difl'ers in the hind tibiae of the S having two pairs of spnrs. The hindmargin of the hindwings is excised between veins 4 and 6, at each of which there is a conspicuous tooth. The margins of both wings are marked by a diamond-shaped festoon. Type : R. devexata Wlk. Phorodesma megaspilaria Unen. and Coniibaena undiferata Wlk. also belong here. ( 45 ) 95. Ehomborista semipnrpurea sp. nov. Forewings : deep green ; the costa white, with a grey-brown jiatch at base ; disco- cellnlar marked with two red-brown spots ; first line obsolete ; second at two-thirds, irregularly wavy, followed by a dull purplish grey marginal area, of which the central part is paler and the edges reddish brown ; a round green snbapical patch ; marginal line dark brown ; fringe reddish ochreons, with dark dashes opposite the veins. Ilindwinqs : green ; the discocellular marked with two red spots ; a red denticulate postmedian line ; the inner margin red ; the red marginal line thickened with reddish grey scales at apex and veins 6 and 4 ; fringe reddish ochreous, with dark dashes at veins 4 and 6. Underside glossy whitish green ; the forewings with a broad dark fuscous band. Head, palpi, and collar reddish grey ; vertex white ; thorax green ; abdomen reddish grey. Expanse of wings : 34 mm. One ? from Chittagong Hills. Allied to R. devexata Wlk. Syndromodes gen. nov. Forewings : triangular ; costa slightly arched, shouldered at base ; hindmargin oblique, faintly curved. Hindwiiiys : with well-rounded hindmargin, the apex rounded, the anal angle rectangular. Antennae of S pectinated, of j simple ; palpi porrect, short ; tongue feeble. Xeuration : forewings, veins 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 11 anastomosing with costal. Hindwings with costal anastomosing with subcostal for two-thirds of cell. Type : Sijndroinodes unicolor sp. nov. Like Lasiochlora Warr. in neuration, but the antennae of the j are sometimes simple, and the species of much smaller size. 96. Syndromodes punctilineata sp. nov. Forewings : pale green, with a sinnons outer line, marked only by red-brown white-edged dots on the veins ; this line, which is at about two-thirds of the wing, is outcurved in middle and vertical towards inner margin ; fringe with a pale yellowish line at base, then a broad dull red line marked with deeper red spots opposite the veins, the apical half being white. Hindwings : similar. Underside pale green. Face and palpi green, the vertex paler ; thorax and abdomen discoloured, probably green. Expanse of wings : 18 mm. One S from S. Africa. Agrees with diducta Wlk. and zonata Wlk. in having the costal of hindwings anastomosing with the subcostal for two-thirds of cell. 97. Syndromodes unicolor sp. nov. Forewings : wholly green ; fringe whitish ; costa narrowly white. Hindwings : the same. Underside pale green. Face pale brown ; vertex white ; thorax and abdomon green. ( 46 ) Expanse of wings : cJ, 18 — 22 mm.; ?,24mm. Several examples from S. Africa. 1 should have referred this species to invenusUt, Wlugru., but in a remark on the nenration of his insect he speaks of an areole, which the present species certainly has not. 08. Thalassodes nigripvmctata >-i). no v. Vore.wings : deep green, thicker scaled tlian usnal in this genus, with numerous wavy silvery strigulae ; no transverse lines, but a distinct lilack cell-spot ; costa finely ochreous white ; fringe green, with no basal line. [finrhrini/s : the same. Underside uniform i)alc green ; the costa of forewiiigs ochreous. Fiice and terminal joint of jmlpi deep brown-red ; vertex and tliorax green; abdomen cinereons- ochreons, bnt probably faded. Expanse of wings : 28 mm. One S from the Cameroons, West Africa. Victoria gen. nov. ? . Foreirings : elongate ; costa slightly indented in middle, strongly arched before apex ; ajjex minutely produced : liindmargin crenulate, sinuous, elbowed at vein 4. Ilinihrinys : with crenulate hindmargin, toothed at veins 0 and 4. Antennae of ? bipectinate, with a tuft of scales at base ; the short palpi and face hairy ; tongue absent ; pectus hairy ; metathorax and basal segments of abdomen crested ; legs wanting. Ne.ui-atio)i : forewings, cell one-half the wing ; first median at two-thirds, second and third from angle of cell ; last four subcostals stalked, first free. Hind- wings with the two subcostals stalked ; medians as in forewings. Type : Victoria albipicta sp. nov. 09. Victoria albipicta sp. nov. Farewings : green ; the costa fuscous, speckled witli I'nl'ous ; first line at one- fourth, white, vertical, broadening to inner margin ; second at three-fourths, whitit and slender, slightly waved, vertical, ending in a triangular white patch before anal angle, with fuscons striae on it, and followed, between veins o and 6, by a small square white blotch ; a white blotch at apex ; a thick black crenulate marginal line, partially edged with white ; fringe rufous fuscous ; cell-sjJot large, ocenjiying the whole length of the discoccllular, and marked with reddish scales. llindwings : whitish at base and along costal third, then pale green, with whitish striae : a small black cell-dot ; fuscous dots on the four upper veins and on inner margin, indicating a postmedian line; marginal line and fringe as in forewings. Underside whitish, green-tinged ; costa and fringes rufous ; the white markings of upperside showing through. Face, palpi, vertex, and collar ferrugiilous ; thonix and patagia green ; abdomen reddish (probably green when fresh). Expanse of wings : 45 mm. One ? from Grahamstown, S. Africa. ( 47 ) Xenochlorodes gen. no v. ?. Foreioings : witli costa feebly arched and somewhat bent at two-thirds ; apex blunt ; hindmargin obliqne, faintly curved ; anal angle distinct. Hindwings : with hindmargin slightly curved ; apex roiindeil ; anal angle square ; costa shouldered at base. Palpi quite short, not reaching front of face : tongue weak ; antennae sub- serrate, thickened with scales towards base ; scaling of underside of wings hairlike. Ne.uration : forewings, cell half the length of wing ; discocellular angled, the lower arm obliqne; first median at five-sixths, second and third short-stalked ; lower radial from above the angulation of discocellular; upper radial stalked with the five subcostals, separating near base sliortly after 11; 11 anastomosing with costal; 10 anastomosing with and becoming coincident with 11 ; 9 out of 8, very short. Hindwings with costal anastomosing with subcostal nearly to end of cell ; the subcostals long-stalked ; medians as in forewing.s. Type : Xenockloro'les jjallida sji. nov. 100. Xenochlorodes pallida sp. nov. Foreiviiiys : very pale whitish green, laxly scaled; the costa narrowly white ; I he lines whitish and slightly waved; first before one-third, edged outwardly with <larker green ; second from costa at fourrfifths, obliqne to inner mai-gin at two- thirds, inwardly edged with darker green ; fringe whitish green ; cell-spot linear, whitish, very faint. Ilindunngs : with only the outer line, which is a little bent in middle. Underside white. Face reddish ; vertex and antennae white ; tiior.-ix and abdomen concolorous with wings ; legs reddish. Expanse of wings : 20 mm. One ? from Beirut, Syria. St-bfamily STERRHINAE. 101. Anisephyra aurata sp. nov. Foreici lujs : deej) gilded yellow, with traces of a curved submarginal line marked by brown dots between the veins ; ocellus small, edged with brown ; fringe <leep yellow. Hind/vings : the same ; the ocellus larger. Underside yellow, speckled with brown ; a curved brown submarginal line, containing a blotch bevond the cell and above inner margin, before which it is much incurved ; a marginal lino of slender brown dashes between the veins ; ocelli distinct. Thorax and abdomen yellow ; head wanting. Expanse of wings : 26 mm. One d from Kalao, south of Celebes, December ls!)5 (A. Everett). 102. Antitrygodes dentilinea sji. nov. Fori'U'ings : whitish, tinged in ]]laces wirh rnfous, and with a few scattered dark brown scales ; costa narrowly rnfous ; a curved brown line near base, concave outwards, and not reaching costa ; exterior line from costa at three-fourths, angled obtusely on vein 6, and acutely between veins 2 and 3, thence concave to inner (48 ) margin some distance before the anal angle ; three large roundish green blotches, edged with red-brown in the median area, one in cell before the discocellnhir, one below it beneath the median, the third and largest beyond the discocellnlar ; two smaller blotches of purple-brown scales between the origins of veins 2 and 3, and 3 an<I 4 ; an obscure rufous shade, excnrved round them to inner margin near middle : a series of greenish wedge-shaped marks beyond outer line, followed by a waved reddish subterminal line; veins towards margin marked with rnfons: marginal line red-brown, swollen between the veins ; fringe glossy, whitish, varied with rufous, and with dark dashes opposite the veins. Hindwings : the same, bnt deeper rufous. Underside whitish, with a faint rufous tint : the exterior and marginal lines rufous. Face and paljii dark red-brown ; verte.x, tliorax, and abdomen pinkish ochreous, speckled with red-brown. Expanse of wings : 33 mm. One ? from Sierra Leone. Distinguished from the Indian species by the exterior line not running to the anal angle. Brachycola gen. nov. A development of A nisof/es Gueu., characterised by the hind tibiae of J, which are quite short, with a tuft of hair from their base, and with three long curved spurs from the extremity; in other respects agreeing ynih Perixera Meyr. Type : Brachycola absconditaria Wlk. This genus is equivalent to Hampson's Anisodes, Section I., to which he gives the name Perixera ; bnt Perixera Meyr. is his Section II., with the hind tibiae of S fully developed and the median pair of spurs absent. 103. Brachycola (?) minorata sp. nov. Forewings : ochreous, densely irrorated with reddish atoms; first line marked by three dots lying in a curve ; cell-spot red-brown : a sinuous dilfuse grey central shade ; exterior line near and parallel to hindmargin, marked by dark vein-dots ; minute red dots at the ends, and also between the veins ; fringe yellowish. Hitiduinys : the same ; but with the cell-spot larger, formed of raised white scales with a dark edge. Underside of forewings pale dnll rosy, of hindwings white. Palpi rosy above, ochreous beneatli ; face deep red ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings. Expanse of wings : 26 mm. One 6, one ?, from Teuimber, July 18',i2 (W. Uoherty). The only c? has lost its hiudlegs ; but it is most likely a Brac/ii/cola. 104. Brachycola niveopuncta sj). nov. Foretvings : dull reddish, speckled with darker, and with reddish grey markings ; first line indicated by three dark dots on veins ; central shade diffuse, wavy ; exterior line with irregularly placed dark dots on veins : marginal area mostly suffused with reddish grey, with the submarginal line ])aler : 'iiiiidmargin crenuhited, with dark dots at end of veins; fringe concolorous. Ilindwingn : the same ; cell-spots of both wings small oval, white, formed of raised scales. ( 49 ) Paljn and face whitish ochreons below, bright rosy above : antennae white : vertex, thorax, aucl abdomen reddish grey. Underside dnll red, suffused with darker. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. Two a, three ? ?, from Cedar Bay, Cooktown (A. S. Meek). Chrysolene gen. nov. Akin to Clinjsocrusped'i Hmpsn. ; the i antennae pectinated ; hindlegs not reduced, the tibiae with two pairs of spurs ; forewings acute and produced at apex ; both wings more or less strongly elbowed in middle ; first subcostal of forewings not stalked with the other four, but anastomosing with them to form the areole ; hiudwiugs with last two medians from angle of cell or on a short stalk. Type : Chrysolene deciarm Wlk. {Hyria). 10.5. Chrysolene cruoraria sp. nov. Forewings : yellow, with bloo<l-red strigulations ; basal half of wing from one- third of costa to anal angle, puiisle, edged with blood-red striae ; a similar-coloured blotch at apex, surrounded l)y blood-red striae; so that the yellow ground-colour is restricted to an oblique fascia from middle of costa to anal angle and along outer half of costa and the hindmargin except at the elbow ; fringe yellow. Himlwings : with the whole area except a narrow marginal space purple, edged with blood-red striae ; the marginal space yellow, with red striae ; fringe yellow ; a darker jiurple cell-spot. Underside the same, but duller. Face and palpi yellow, edged with red ; Tertex, antennae, and thorax purple ; abdomen yellow. Expanse of wings : 24 mm. One ? from Cedar Bay, (,'ooktown (A. S. Meek). Another ? from the same locality has both wings wholly suffused with purple- red, except the hindmargin on either side of the elbow, which is narrowly yellow; abdomen and underside of wings all red. loo. Chrysolene dilucida sp. nov. Foreicings : with ground-colour yellow ; costal area broadly olive-grey, this colour running down as far as the median vein at the end of cell and beyond the outer line, where it runs to the elbow ; the inner half of the wing is suffused with deep orange, intersected by the yellow veins ; the two lines yellow and broad ; the first at one-fourth, angled in the cell, then obliipie inwards; second at two-thirds, angled at vein 4, and again bent near inner margin ; cell-spot small, black ; fringe yellowish. Hindwinqs : with the centre hyaline, the base and marginal fascia olive-fiiscons, the latter very broad towards inner margin, and containing yellowish patches wliicli appear to indicate a sulimargiual line ; the hyaline space with a grey cloud from •costa ; fringe yellowish. Underside pale yellowish, in the forewings tinged in places with red. Face yellowish ; vertex and front of thorax grey ; thorax and abdomen yellow, duste<l with grey. Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 4 ( 50 ) One ? from Sarawak. Akin to deviana Wlk. The specimen is not in fresh condition ; the antennae are thickened towards base, subserrate, and witli thick rongh scales along the upper side of the shaft ; both wings blnutly angled at vein 4 ; forewiugs with a single areole, vein 11 anastomosing wth the stalk of 7, S, 0, 10. lu the hindwings 3, 4 and G, 7 are long-stalked. 107. Craspedia aggravata sp. nov. Forewings : ochreons, densely dusted with black atoms ; first line carved, narrow, median shade broad, incurved below middle, both pale fulvous, the first marked also by black dots on veins|; outer line dark grey, thread-like, dentated, the teeth marked by black dots on veins, that on inner margin larger, followed by two somewhat confused grey lines, which also are marked by a darker spot on inner margin ; a marginal row of black dots between the veins ; fringe full, ochreons, with a row of black dots along base opposite the veins ; cell-spot small, black. Hindwings : with antemediau fulvous shade ; postmediau denticulate, and two snbmarginal lines, all more or less marked with fulvous ; cell-spot larger. Underside with the outer lines marked, and the basal half of forewings suffused with grey. Face and palpi black ; collar ferruginous : vertex and shoulders pure ochreons ; thorax and abdomen ochreons, thickly dusted with black. Expanse of wings : 20 mm. One S from the Khasias. The hindwings have the hindmargin slightly waved, and indented opposite the cell. 108. Craspedia bigeminata sp. uov. Forewings, : bone-colonr, dnstcd with fuscous ; no first line ; a small black cell- dot ; a double fuscous line oblique from middle of inner margin to apex ; a simOar double line from near anal angle, joining the other below apex : a fiiint single line close before hindmargin ; a black marginal line, swollen between the veins ; fringe ochreons, with dark dusting. Ilindicings : the same, the cell-dot on the outer of the two mediau lines. Underside much dusted with ochreons fuscous, especially towards base of forewiugs ; the inner arm of the second double line denticulated. Face and palpi deep red-brown ; thorax and abdomen bone-colour. Expanse of wings : 24 mm. One 6 from Natal (A. J. 8piller). 109. Craspedia bonaventura sp. nov. Forewings : white, with tine and si)arse dark atoms ; first line fine, ferruginous, often obsolete or marked only by ferruginous dots on median and submedian veins; cell-spot black ; middle line grey, denticulate, at two-thirds ; outer line ferruginous, wavy, very fine, incurved beyond cell and marked there by two black lunules internally and grey scales externally: marked also alwve inner margi^i by three black lunules, and grey scales externally, these last forming a roundish blotch on inner margin ; an irregular row of dark grey snbmarginal blotches, the largest on vein 6 ; a ferruginous subapical spot. Hindwings : with two irregular rows of grey blotches beyond the outer line ; ( 51 ) cell-spot with a grey riug round it before the central gre)- dentate line ; fringe of both wings white, with a row of shallow black lunules between the veins. Underside whitish, sprinkled with dark scales, with the cell-spots and two outer lines distinct. Face and palpi black ; collar ferrnginons ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen white. Expanse of wings : 26 mm. Common from S. Africa, and also occurring in Abyssinia. The African equivalent of the Indian nictata Guen. 110. Craspedia castissima sp. nov. Fomcinqx : dull cream-white, with sparse black scales ; a small black dot at base below submedian vein ; first line at one-third, indicated by three black dots, on subcostal, median, and submedian respectively; a small black cell-spot ; median shade grey, dentate, strongly excnrved in upper two-thirds ; outer line at four-fifths, marked by black dots on veins, connected by a fine grey line, the three below costa in a line oblique outwards, the lower five in a curve; snbmarginal line of the ground- colour between two grey dentate shades ; a row of large black marginal dots ; fringe white. Hindwings : the same, without first line, the central shade becoming ante- median : the cell-dot larger. Underside greyer, with the markings obscured. Palpi above and externally and toj) of face dark fuscous ; lower half of face, vertex, thorax, and abdomen white ; the abdomen with black dusting ; collar ferruginous. Expanse of wings : 20 mm. Several from Cedar Bay, Cooktowu (A. S. Meek). 111. Craspedia deserta sp. nov. Forewings : pale rufous ochreous, dnsted with dark scales; first line curved, diffuse, from costa at one-third to inner margin at one-fourth ; median line oblique, slightly curved, from costa at two-thirds to middle of inner margin, becoming obsolete towards costa ; outer line from four-fifths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, curved and concise, blackish, with black dots on veins, followed, except beneath costa, by a dark oblique shade ; snbmarginal line indistinct ; cell-spot black, distinct ; a row of linear marginal dashes ; fringe concolorous, with a dark grey line before the tips. Hindwings : with the central shade distinct and antemedian, preceding the dark cell-spot ; the outer line minutely waved, followed liy two darker shades ; fringe as in forewings. Underside similar, the lines less distinct. Face, palpi, collar, and forelegs dark ferruginous : vertex white ; thorax and abdomen concolorous with wings. Expanse of wings : 24 mm. In some numbers from Weenen, Natal. The wings are narrow and elongate, as in Lycauges Butler. Some examples are pale ochreous, without any rufous tinge. 112. Craspedia dissonans sp. nov. Forewings bone-colour, dusted with grey, and with all the lines grey ; these are all placed almost exactly as in C. deserta ^Varr., liut are more diffuse and ( 52 ) coarse ; the first line is beiit below costa, and being rather farther IVoni the base approaches the median shade above the inner margin. Both wings are broader and shorter in proportion than those of cleserta ; and the hiudwings are bulged in the middle of hindmargin ; the antennae of the cJ are thicker, sitbdeutate, with denser fascicles of cilia. Expanse of wings : 2(i mm. A pair from Weeuen, Natal, October 1893. 113. Craspedia laevipennis sp. nov. Foreicimjs : cream-white, thickly and smoothly scaled, with very tine sparse blackish atoms : costa narrowly ochreons ; the lines ochreons ; first obscure, reaching inner margin nearly in middle; second at three-fonrths, waved and sinuous, approaching first line on inner margin ; fringe ochreons. llinduiny.s : with the outer line only ; both wings with minute ochreons cell- spot. Underside white ; costa of forewings broadly ochreons at base. Face and palpi brown-black ; vertex and collar ochreons ; thorax and abdomen white. Expanse of wings : 20 mm. One cJ from the Cameroons, "West Africa. The wings are short and broad ; hindwings with hindmargin bluntly bent in middle. 114. Craspedia melliflua s]). nov. Forewings : dull yellow ; the costa narrowly pale brown ; lines pale brown ; first very obscure, at one-third, wavy ; second from costa at three-fourths to inner margin at two-thirds, slightly sinuous ; fringe concolorous ; cell-spot pale brown. Ilindwiiu/.H : with the line central ; no cell-spot. Underside yellowish ; forewings towards base tinged with rufous grey. Face and palpi blackish ; vertex and collar pale brown ; thorax and abdomen yellow. Expanse of wings : 24 mm. One cJ from Natal (A. J. Spiller). The hindmargin of hindwings is distinctly elbowed in middle, that of forewings slightly bulged. ll.j. Craspedia nigrinotata sp. uov. Forewings : whitish, densely irrorated with black scales ; costa with five black spots, one close to base, second at one-fourth, third beyond middle, fourth at two- thirds, fifth towards apex ; first liue from second spot, faintly ochreous, with a dot on median and snbmedian ; median line curved round cell, ochreons, mixed with grey scales, denticulate ; outer line evenly curved, minutely dentate, blackish ; submarginal cloudy, interrupted opposite the cell and above anal angle ; a marginal row of distinct black Innules ; fringe grey ; cell-spot distinct, black. Hindwings : similar, without first liue. Underside dull grej-. Face white, deep black above ; palpi blackish, vertex white ; thorax and abdomen white, sj)eckled with blackish. Expanse of wings : J, 20 mm. ; ? , 24 mm. One ? , two tJ (J, from Zoniba, Upper Shird district, May 1895 (Dr. P. Reudall). The two (?(J are much paler than the ? : but, being both much worn, this may ( 53 ) be owing to the loss of the black scales ouly. The species is closely allied to Jibulata Gnen. and its Indian forms, c? antennae with Hne fiiscicles of cilia ; hind tibiae thickened, with a jiencil of hairs and without spurs ; ? with four spurs ; vein 3 before end of cell. 116. Craspedia sanguinisecta sp. no v. Foi'civiiujs : greyish ochreous, smoothly scaled ; with fine darker dusting ouly towards base and throughout the marginal area : costa narrowly red ; first line at one-fourth, fnscous, slightly oblique inwards, and bent beneath costa ; second from costa beyond middle, acutely angled on vein 0, thence oblique and irregularly sinuous to middle of inner margin ; third from four-fifths of costa, bluutly angled on ,vein 6, thence oblique inwards, slightly waved, to inner margin at four-fifths, marked opposite the cell and ou submedian fold with blood-red ; marginal area dusted with fuscous, and with an obli([uely edged darker fnscous blotch beyond angle of third line ; marginal line concise, blackish ; fringe ochreous ; a grey cell-spot. Hindivings : with antemedian and postmedian lines only, both fuscous ; cell- dot minute, deep black. Underside much more speckled with fuscous : the two outer lines exjiressed and much more waved than above. Face and jialpi dee]i brown ; collar dull ferruginous ; vertex white ; thorax and abdomen concolorous with wings. Expanse of wings : 26 mm. One ? from Weenen, Natal, March 1894. 117. Craspedia subperlaria sp. no v. Forewings : white, with sparse blackish atoms ; exterior line at five-sixths, pale ochreous, denticulate ; a row of black marginal spots, and a small black cell- spot ; fringe white. Hindtvings : the same. Underside white, unspotted. Face and jialpi brown ; collar ferruginous ; thorax and abdomen white. Expanse of wings : 28 mm. One ? from Warri, Iliver Niger, June 1896 (Dr. Roth). 118. Craspedia sufficiens sp. nov. Forewings ■• whitish, sparsely dusted with dark scales ; first line at one-third, nearly tonching the brown cell-spot, pale ochreous ; exterior line at five-sixths, strongly denticulate ; traces of a submarginal line ; a row of round black marginal dots : fringe white. Ilindwings : the same. Underside white ; basal half of forewings tinged with rufous. Face and palpi black-brown ; collar ochreous ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen white. Expanse of wings : 26 mm. One c? from the Cameroons, West Africa. Hindmargin of hindwings slightly wavy an<l beat in the middle ; antennae with long ciliatious. ( 54 ) Epicosymbia gen. nov. Like Cosymhia Hiib., but with different neuration ; in the forewings 10 anastomoses with 1 1 , and then with 8, 9, forming a double areole ; in the hindwings the two snbcostals are stalked ; hind tibiae with one pair of sj)urs. Type : Epicosymbia perriij'a sp. nov. 110. Epicosymbia perrufa sp. nov. Foreicimjs: dull vinous red, the lines deeper red; first from costa at one-fourth to inner margin at one-tlard, exeurved in cell: a diffuse curved median shade beyond the deep red cell-spot ; outer line at four-fifths, curved, dentate outwards ou the veins, followed by a red snbmarginal shade ; marginal line purple, interrupted by jialer dots at end of veins : fringe vinous red. IIi)t(lici»(i.'y : similar. Underside paler red ; the e.-vterior line simply curved, not denticulate. Face dark red-brown ; vertex white ; palpi, collar, thorax, and abdomen reddish. Expanse of wings : 24 mm. One J from Natal (A. J. Spiller). Hemipogon gen. nov. Forewinys : triangular ; the costa straiglit, but strongly convex l)efore apex ; hindmargin obliquely rounded. Ilindwinys : broad, both angles rounded off ; the hindmargin strongly rounded. Paljji slender, porrect ; antennae pubescent ; hind tibiae of cJ thickened, with a tuft of hair covering the aborted tarsi, and without spurs ; hindwings of S clothed with hair towards inner margin, and with the fringes of inner margin long. Xeurotion : as in Ptychopoda Stj)li. Type : Hemipogon velatina sp. nov. To this group probably belongs Acidalia thricopkora Hmpsn. from Burma, the type of which, in the Elwes Collection, I have not seen. 120. Hemipogon nanata sp. nov. Forewings: ochreous, slightly dusted and suffused with darker ; the lines very obscure, brownish; first at one-third, curved towards base; second wavy, in middle, touching a small dark cell-spot ; outer line at three-fourths, slightly exeurved below middle ; marginal area rather darker ; fringe concolorous, with a row of minute dark dots along base at the ends of the veins. Hindwings : more dusted with brownish ; the outer line very indistinct, marked by a brown spot on costa and inner margin ; cell-dot minute. Underside uniform oclirenus, with the cell-spots only marked. Face and paljii dark brown ; thorax and abdomen ochreous ; the tuft of the hind tibiae is red. Expanse of wings : 12 mm. One S from the Tenimber Ishinds, .July 1892 (W. Doherty). The rough hair ou underside of hindwings is confined to tlie inner-marginal area. ( 55 ) 121. Hemipogon velutina sp. uov. Forewings : greyish oclireons, the costal region sparse!}' sjiriukleil with lilack atoms; cell-spot dark; au obscure darker waved outer line at three-fourths, aud faint traces of a median line : fringe concolorous. Himlivini/s : with cell-spot, and no trace of any line. Underside rather paler, without markings ; the hindwings are more or less clothed with hair throughout, most thickly along inner margin and towards anal angle. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous ; face and palpi dark brown. Expanse of wings : 17 mm. One <? from Batchian, March 1892 (W. Doherty). The tuft of hair on the hind tibiae is blackish inside. Induna gen. nov. Forcivinys : ample ; costa straight, convex before apex ; apex blunt : hind- margin well curved. Hindicim/s : rather elongate, with fully rounded hindmargin. Antennae of S pectinated, of S strongly serrate ; jjalpi stout, roughly scaled, porrect, reaching well in front of face ; hind tibiae of S fully developed, not thickened, with a terminal pair of spurs. Neuration : forewings, cell half as long as wing ; discocellular vertical ; sub- costal and median veins bent inwards towards extremity ; first median at three- fourths, second before end of cell, third from end ; radials normal ; last four subcostals stalked from before end of cell ; first bent down to anastomose with them at a })oint. Hindwings with subcostals from end of cell ; second median before €nd. Scaling coarse and jjowdery. Type : Induna rufisalsa sp. nov. 122. Induna rufisalsa sp. nov. S. Forewings : pinkish ochreous, tliickly dusted with sandy rufous scales : the «osta broadly greyish ochreous, with fuscous atoms ; the lines darker ; first at one- third, curved below costa, then oblique inwards ; middle line at two-thirds, slightly inbent below costa, and angled outward rectangularly on vein 6, then oblique to middle of inner margin ; outer line at three-fourths, finely waved, and dentate inwards ; submarginal line pale, between darker shades ; a small dark cell-spot ; a fine dark marginal line, swollen between the veins and interrupted at them ; fringe dec]), concolorous, with a dark line of scales near base. llindicings : the same, without first lin(!. Underside similar, the inner margin of forewings whitish. Face and 2)alpi dark brown ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen concolorous ; ? much paler, with pale ochreous ground-colour and much less red irroratiou. Expanse of wings : S , 26 mm. ; ? , 28 mm. A considerable number from Weenen, Natal, Jlarch 18'J4. Isoplenia gen. nov. Foreivinys : ample ; costa evenly curved thronghont : apex blunt, nearly rectangular : hindmargin curved. llindiiings : with fully rounded hindmargin. ( 56 ) Palpi short, hardly reaching beyond face. Antennae of S finely pectinated, the pectinations ciliated, slender, ami nearly at right angles with the shaft : of ? also pectinated, bnt shorter, the pectinations more ol)li(iae and not extetidiug to apex : hind tibiae of <S normal, with a terminal pair of spurs ; of ? with fonr spurs. Nettration : forewings, cell half the length of wing : the discocellnlar vertical : the median and snbcostal veins l)oth bent inwards towards extremity ; first median nervule at fonr-fifths, second before, third from end of cell ; lower radial from a little above the centre of discocellnlar ; upper radial normal ; 7, 8, 9 stalked, from before end of cell : 10 and 11 free, from cell ; 10 anastomosing with 11 and again with 7, 8, 9, forming a double areole : 7 from apex of areole: S, 9, 10 long-stalked. Hindwings with veins 7 and 3 both before angles of cell. Type : fsoplenia tristuuata sp. nov. 123. Isoplenia trisinuata sp. nov. Forewings : in S l)rick-red, or brownish red ; in the ? duller, greyer, densely sprinkled with red atoms : the lines deep red ; first at one-third, bent below costa, thence sinuous to inner margin ; second at two-thirds, angled inwards on snbcostal and outwards on vein 6, thence sinuous and vertical to inner margin beyond two- thirds : third angled outwards on vein 6, thence sinuous and wavy to just before anal angle ; a more obscure zigzag subterminal line, its angles joined by reddish streaks between the veins to the marginal Hue, which is finely red : fringe con- colorons : cell-spot dark. Hindwings : the same, withont first line. Underside pale pinkish ochreous, with the two outer lines shown. Face and palpi deep brown : verte.x and antennae red : thorax and abdomen like wings. Expanse of wings : c?, 26 mm.; ?, 32 mm. Three t?cf, two ? ?, from Weenen, Natal ; two 6S and one ? dated December 1893, the other pair March 1894 ; in both cases the SS much fresher and in better condition than the ? S . Leptacme gen. nov. Forewings : elongated, the costa straight till close to apex ; apex produced, somewhat acute ; hindmargin slightly sinuous, very obliquely curved below, the anal angle rounded off. Hindwings : slightly protuberant at veins 6 and 4, incnrved between. Palpi and tongue almost obsolete : antennae of ? filiform : mid tibiae with one pair of spurs ; hindlegs and abdomen wanting. Xeuration : forewings, cell nearly two-thirds of wing ; discocellnlar straight ; first median from seven-eighths, second shortly before, third from end of cell : the median nervure itself bent upwards towards the extremity of cell : radials normal : veins 10 and 11 stalked : 7, 8, 9 stalked ; the stalks anastomosing, 11, 7, 10, 8, and 9 rising in the order given. Hindwings, with cell two-thirds of wing ;'the dis- cocellnlar obli(iue ; the two subcostals on a very long stalk ; medians as in forewings. Type : Leptnemr midescripta sp. nov. ( 57 ) 124. Leptacme malescripta sp. no v. Forewings. : brick-red, with extremely fine darker red dusting ; a small dark cell-dot : no distinct markings, but traces of a cnrved darker red fascia parallel and near to hindmargin : fringe concolorons, with a row of minute black dots at base. llindicings : the same : the cell-spot larger ; traces of an antemedian shade. Underside like upper. Face and palpi red-brown : vertex ])inkish ; thorax concolorous with wings. Expanse of wings : 17 mm. One ? from Weenen, Natal, March 1895. 125. Lycauges acuta sp. nov. Forewings : ochreous, sprinkled with rufous ochreons atoms, the lines rufous or pale brownish ; cell-spot white, edged with rufous : first line from one-third of inner margin oblique towards the cell-spot : second line a broad diffuse shade from middle of inner margin to costa before apex, where it is joined to a finer line from inner margin before anal angle : fringe dark rufous, with a paler basal line. Hindwings : with difliise central submarginal rufous shade. Underside j-ellow, with the rosy strignlae and Imes brighter. Face and palpi brown : vertex and antennae whitish ; thorax and abdomen rufous ochreons. Expanse of wings : 25 mm. Two ? ? from Natal (A. J. Spiller). Distinguished by the very acute subfalcate apex and oblique hindmargin. 126. Lycauges concurrens sp. nov. Forewings : bone-colour, sprinkled with fuscous atoms ; the lines dark grey and verv oblique ; first curved, from one-third of costa to near base of inner marn-in : median shade thick and diftuse from three-fourths of costa to before middle of inner margin, towards costa recurved and faint ; outer line concise, serrate on the veins, from middle of inner margin straight towards apex, recurved and faint from vein 6, followed by two diffuse grey shades, which coalesce in the apex of wing : a small black cell-spot ; fringe bone-colour, with darker scales intermixed : a fine dark marginal line. Ilindivings : more suffused with rufous scales : the markings the same, without first line. Underside similar, the base of forewings more thickly dusted with dark scales. Face, palpi, and collar dark ferruginous ; vertex whitish ; thorax and abdomen concolorous. Expanse of wings : 26 mm. One (? from Mpeta, Loangwa River, December 1S95 (Coryndon). 127. Lycauges extremata sp. nov. Forewings: bone-colour, tinged with ochreous and dusted with fuscous ; first line very faint, curved and oblique below, from lone-fourth of costa to one-fourth of inner margin ; median sliade thick and dilfnse from middle of inner margin towards apes, edged e.Kternally by the oblique waved outer line, both becoming obsolete before ( 58 ) reaching costa ; traces of two dark snbmarginal shades ; a row of black dots between the veins on margin : cell-spot black : fringe concolorons. Ilindwijigs : the same, bnt the outer line is separated from the central shade by a pale space. Underside with only the cell-spots shown. Face, palpi, and collar dull brown ; vertex pale ; thorax and abdomen like wings. Exi)anse of wings : 24 — 26 mm. Two ? ? from Akassa, Eiver Xiger. 128. Nobilia nebulosa sp. nov. Forewings : dnll red-brown, with nnmerous j)ale wavy somewhat shining striae ; the costa grey-brown, the streak much narrower than in y. (urbata Wlk. : an undefined paler pinkish grey central fascia, with the onter edge curved and dentate, but without any distinct line, containing a darker-coloured spot on the discocclinlar; a narrow whitish waved line from near costa before apex to hindmargin below vein 4, reappearing as a small triangle on vein 3, and forming a Innnle above anal angle, followed above vein 4 by some indistinct grey streaks : fringe reddish brown; beyond a dark red marginal line. llindicings : the same, the submarginal waved line more distinct and less interrupted ; cell-spot elongate, grey, with a dark dot below. Underside bronzy pink. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons with wings. Expanse of wings : 39 mm. One (5 from Amboina, August 1892 (W. Doherty). Quite distinct from both the common X. Uirbata Wlk. and the other Bornean s])ecies -V. strigata Warr. 129. Perixera imbuta sp. nov. Forewings : dull brick-red, with very fine fnscous irroration ; the line? dark grey, indistinct ; first at one-fourth, angled in cell and on submedian fold, and marked by dark dots on veins ; median shade at two-thirds, denticulate, and incurved below middle ; onter line in the usual place of the submarginal, marked by dark dots on veins ; fringe concolorons ; a double row of marginal blackish dots between and at the ends of the veins ; cell-spot blackish. Hindwings : the same. Underside dull rosy, the outer line only marked by reddisli dots. Palpi, head, thorax, and abdomen brick-red : face whitish in the lower half, deep red above. Expanse of wings : 26 mm. One <? from the Khasias, July 1896. 130. Perixera transversata sji. nov. Forewings : dull brick-red, dusted with darker atoms ; markings dark fuscous ; first line at one-fourth, indistinct, angled outwards below costa ; outer line at five- sixths, denticulate, marked by dark dots on the veins, incurved totvards inner margin ; a small white cell-dot, with dark scales round it ; an oblique diffuse nearly straight dark median shade from costa at two-thirds to beyond middle of inner margin ; fringe concolorons ; a row of dark marginal spots between the veins. ( 59 ) Hind wings : with the shade central, slightly bent, following the small white cell-dot ; outer line approximated to median on inner margin. Underside whitish ochreous, in the forewings tinged with rosy. Paljji pale ochreons, tinged with red above : face whitish, with a red bar at top ; verte.\ and shaft of antennae white ; thorax concolorons with wings ; abdomen wanting. Expanse of wings : 33 mm. One c? from Cedar Bay, North Queensland (A. S. Meek). 131. Problepsis auriculifera sp. nov. Forewings : pure white, the costa fuscous to middle ; discal ocellus distinctly ear-shaped, fulvous, with metallic leaden and black scales all round the margin, and similar linear spots in the centre between the veins ; a round fulvous annulus below it, with similar scales ; some silver}' scales along inner margin : postmedian line smoky ochreous ; the submarginal line formed of blue-grey cuneiform spots, the outermost line of blue-grey triangular spots ; marginal line dark blue-grey ; fringe glossy white, with a darker dividing line. Hindwings : with a dark oval ocellus, its margin marked as in forewings, followed by an obscure annnlns on inner margin, with silvery scales to anal angle. Underside white. Palpi and face black above, white below ; vertex black : collar, thorax, and abdomen white. Expanse of wings : cJ, 26 mm. : ? , 32 mm. A pair, bred, from Singapore. Distinguished from deliaria Guen. by the differently shaped and much darker ocelloid spot. 132. Problepsis digammata sp. nov. Argi/ris latonaria var. "Wlk. XXIII. p. b07, nee Guen. To Walker's description, which is good as far as it goes, may be added that the discal annulus of the forewings is marked with black scales above, and on the hindwings is wholly silvery ; in these wings the central line is not interrupted by the discal mark, but passes inside it. One ? from Pieter Maritzburg, Natal. 133. Problepsis hemicyclata sp. nov. Forewings: white, the costa narrowly smoky ochreons : discal ocellus fulvous, horseshoe-shaped, not reaching below the median vein, edged within ou the outer side only by a black curved mark, with some silvery scales iu the centre, and with a line of brilliant silvery scales all round, these being continued without closing the ocellus at the bottom along each side of a pale ochreous streak to the inner margin; postmedian line yellowish ochreous ; submarginal line of blotches smoky grey ; the subterminal line yellowish ochreous, not grey, as in (ipollinaiia Guen.; marginal line also ochreous ; fringe white, with an ochreous dividing line. Hindwings : with a long silver-edged annulus with an ochreous centre ; some irregular silvery marks along inner margin to anal angle. Underside white. Palpi white, tijtped with fuscous ; face white, except the extreme top, which is fuscous ; vertex white, with a fuscous spot in front ; thorax and abdomen white. ( 60 ) Expanse of wings : 38 mm. Three ? ? from Kei Toeal, January to March 1896 (H. C. Webster). Distinguished at once by the darker tints of the ocelloid spot in forewings not reaching below the median vein. One specimen has traces of a pale ochreous inner line near the base. 134. Ptochophyle ephjrata sp. nov. Forewings: pinkish ochreous, thickly irrorated with reddish striae: the lines dull greyish fuscous ; first at one-fourth, curved ; median shade from two-thirds of costfl, to beyond middle of inner margin, ditfase, incurved below middle ; outer line at five- si.xths, wavy, incurved oijjjosite cell, darker marked on the veins ; indistinct red dots along margin between and at the ends of the veins ; fringe paler, j)inkish ochreous ; cell-spot hardly visible. Hiruhoinijs : with two lines, and the cell-spot large, oval, black-edged, with paler centre. Underside whitish ochreous, in the forewiugs tinged with rosy, with all the markings faint. Thorax and abdomen coucolorons ; head damaged. Expanse of wings : 26 mm. One ? from the Tenimber Islands, July 1S92 (W. Doherty). Allied to P. lineata AVarr. from Dili, Timor, but larger, and with all three lines marked. 135. Ptochophyle (?) pulveinilenta sp. nov. Foreivings : pinkish, densely and uniformly dusted with brick-red atoms ; a dark red cell-spot, and row of similar spots along hindmargin between the veins ; fringe concolorous. Ilimhcingx : precisely similar. Underside pale pinkish ochreous. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous ; face paler. Expanse of wiugs : 20 mm. One ? from Perak. The antennae, which are subserrate, are much thickened close to base. In the hindwings the two subcostal nervules and last two medians, which typically rise from the ends of cell, are stalked. 13G. Ptychopoda semisericea sji. nov. Forewings : pale ochreous, finely dusted with grey : the lines grey, oblique and diffuse ; the antemedian and median straight ; the outer and two submarginal lines waved ; cell-spot black, before the median line ; fringe ochreous, with a row of minute dark specks at ends of veins. Hindwings : the same ; the lines very obscure. Underside with the markings more distinct : basal half of forewings greyish. Face and palpi blackish ; thorax and abdomen ochreous. The tuft of hind tilnac is black inside. Expanse of wings : 18 mm. One iS from the Khasias, June 189.5. Like P. actiosuria Wlk., but much paler ; the anal angle of the hindwings slightly produced and rectangular. ( 61 ) 137. Ptychopoda nigrosticta sp. nov. Foreicings : ochreons, (lusted with fine blackish atoms : a ilistiiict dark cell- spot ; first line and median line only indicated by blackish scales on costa : outer line at three-fourths, curved near costa, and marked by minute dark vein-dots; fringe concolorous, with a pale line at base, followed by a row of comparatively large black dots. Ilimhrintjs : the same, but without any distinct line. Underside yellower ; the forewings with the basal half, except on inner margin, dark brown-grey. Face and jialpi dark brown : thorax and abdomen ochreous. Expanse of wings : 12 mm. One d from AVcenen, Natal, Octolier 180.5. The cell of forewings is two-thirds as long as wing, of hindwings one-half. In the forewings vein 1 1 rises very far back, before middle of cell, and is bent down to anastomose with the stalk of the other four subcostals, which also rises well before the end of cell. In hindwings the two subcostals are short-stalked. 138. RhodostropMa muricolor sp. nov. Forewings : greyish mouse-colour : in the cJ without any markings ; a slight black cell-spot ; fringe paler. Hindwings : paler, towards the costa tinged with ochreous, with traces of post- median and submarginal grey lines. ? darker, dusted with fuscous atoms ; an obscure oblique inner line, a faintly double nearly straight postmedian, and slightly sinuous submarginal line, all darker than the ground-colour ; cell-spot distinct; hindwings strongly tinged with ochreous towards apex and paler, with the postmedian and submarginal lines distinct. Underside more yellowish, with the outer lines marked. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings, the abdomen somewhat paler. Expanse of wings : 26 mm. A pair from Simla, August 1896. 139. Somatina figurata sj). nov. Forewinrjs : whitish, thickly dusted with grey atoms; the lines dark grey; first at one-third, vortical and somewhat waved ; outer at three-fourths, fine and wavy, parallel to hindmargin, except the costal portion, which runs obliquely outwards ; preceded by a thicker dentate median shade, excurved round cell ; cell-spot an oblique figure of 8, filled up with olive-fuscous and finely edged with metallic scales; submarginal line pale, waved, between two dark fuscous grey Innulate fasciae; a fine black marginal line, swelling out into spots between the veins and with a larger dark mark opposite the cell ; fringe white. Himhrings : similar, but the cell-spot narrower and elongate. Underside white, with a submarginal row of dark dots on the veins ; costa of forewings rosy. Palpi, face, and forelegs rosy ; lower part of face whitish ; vertex and shaft of antennae white ; collar ferruginous ; thorax and abdomen white, the latter with a black mark on anal segment. Expanse of wings : 34 mm. One cJ from Weenen, Natal, December 1S93. ( 62 ) 14fi. Sterrha associata sp. nov. Forewings : bi)iie-C(il()ni-, tinged with grey ; the lines dark grey or blackish ; first at oue-tiiird, enrved, from a dark spot ou costa ; cell-spot dark ; outer line at fonr-fifths, curved and tine to the iirst median, then vertical and thicker, also starting from a dark costal spot ; two dark snbmarginal fasciae, between which runs the paler snbmarginal line ; fringe concolorons, with minute dark specks in the basal half opposite the veins. Ilvii/iciiu/s : the same ; the marginal dusky area broader. Underside rather darker. Face and palpi black ; vertex, tliorax, and abdomen concolorons. Expanse of wings : 12 mm. Two (S<S from Weenen, Natal, April 189.5. cf antennae ciliated ; hind tibiae of 6 fully developed, with a terminal pair oi' large spurs. 141. Sterrha obliquiscripta sp. nov. Foreioings : wliitish, thickly bnt finely dusted with fuscous atoms ; with five orey oblique lines : the first, very indistinct, at one-third ; the second median passing over the black cell-spot ; the third at three-fourths, with hardly perceptible dark dots on the veins behind : the fourth thicker and nearer the third on inner margin than on costa : the fifth subtermiual, fine and indistinct : a marginal row of lilackish dashes ; fringe whitish, with a dark middle line. Hiiuhcings : with four lines. Underside darker, especially in forewings, which towards co.sta are suffused with grey: the outer three lines only shown. Face and ]ialpi dark brown ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen whitish. Expanse of wings : 24 mm. One S from Weenen, Natal, August 1894. Antennae of c? with fine fascicles of cilia ; hind tibiae simple, short, with terminal spurs only ; vein 3 in both wings before angle of cell ; vein 7 of hindwings before upper angle. 142. Sterrha picta sp. nov. Forewings : silky white : the basal region with a pale violet stain, which forms a sharp tooth along the median, and runs out along costa to the middle of the wing, where it becomes deep violet ; first line marked by a deep violet spot on inner margin at one-third on the edge of the violet tint, with another spot of mixed bright ochreous and black scales obliquely above it : cell-spot black, distinct, consisting of raised scales ; outer line at four-fifths, parallel to hinilniargin, bright ochreous, interrnpted below middle, and becoming deep violet above inner margin : a row of deep violet marginal dots ; fringe fnll, pure white. Iliiuhmnga : white ; a minute dark cell-spot and row of marginal dots ; costa at base and inner margin along middle stained with violet. Underside of forewings violet-grey, deej)er towanls costa, with the cejl-spot and marginal spots black ; traces of two wavy snbmarginal lines ; fringe white ; hind- wings white, with costa stained with violet ; cell-spot and marginal dots black. Face and fore tibiae and femora deep violet ; palpi and vertex ochreous white : thorax and abdomen jiure white, the latter with reddish dorsal spots. ( 63 ) Expanse of wings : 19 mm. One 6 from Weeneu, Natal, January 189.3. The antennae of the cS are finely ciliated ; tlie hiud tibiae slender, with the terminal pair of spars only ; veins 6 and 7 of hindwings stalked. At first sight the violet stain suggests an accidental disfignrenient of the white gronnd-colonr ; but the perfectly symmetrical outline of it on both wings prevents the acceptance of this e.xplanation. 143. Sterrha punctilineata sp. nov. Foreivinqs : white, with delicate dark dusting, especially along the costa ; the lines oblique, jiarallel to hindmargin ; first indicated only by two spots, one on submedian vein at one-third, the other on the median ; a distinct blackish cell-dot: onter line fine, ochreous, at four-fifths, marked with neat dark dashes on the veins externally : between it and the cell-dot is an obliqne broadish ochreons line or shade, which api)roaches the exterior line towards costa, where it is somewhat curved : snbmarginal line ochreous, indistinct ; a black marginal line, containing dots between the veins ; fringe white, with two lines of fine dark scales. Jlindwings : similar, the central shade narrower and passing inside round the cell-spot. Underside the same : the forewings somewhat tinged with ochreous. Face, palpi, and collar black : vertex, thorax, and abdomen white. Expanse of wings : 19 mm. One (J from Weenen, Natal. The antennae of cJ are subdentate, with coarse fascicles of cilia : hiud tibiae short, rather thick, with terminal spurs only : the tarsi long ; vein 3 in both wings before the angle of cell ; vein 7 of hindwings before the upper angle. 144. Symmacra camearia sp. nov. Foreiviiiijs : pink, thickly dusted with brick-red scales ; the lines brick-reil ; first at one-third, bent in cell ; second at two-thirds, irregularly waved and slightly, oblique ; third at three-fourths, slightly waved, vertical for two-thirds, then bent in to inner margin near second ; a faint paler waved snbmarginal line ; fringe con- colorons ; cell-spot annular. llindwinii^ : with two slightly waved and curved red lines, and a pale sub- marginal line. Underside dull pink. Face, vertex, and palpi deep red-browu : collar reddish ; thorax and abdomen jjinkish. Expanse of wings : 21 mm. One ¥ from Labuan, North Borneo, October 1894 (A. Everett). 145. Timandra obsoleta sp. nov. Foraviiu/s : pale ochreous, with a slight fiesh-coloured tint, and very faintly irrorated with darker ; the obliqne line very obscurely pinkish or fuscous, or altogether absent; submarginal line grey, nearly straight and sometimes obsolescent, but generally finely marked with pink at costa ; fringe ochreous, sometimes pink- tinged, with a fine pinkish marginal line : cell-dot minute. lliiidwiuf/s : the same ; the submarginal line, when present, just bent in the middle ; in both wings tlie area beyond the oblique lino is slightly deeper-coloured tlian the basal half of the wins. ( 64 ) Underside ochreons, in tlie forowings slightly tinged witli jiiukish aud with distinct dark irroration : the basal fringe-line dark ; the outer line only marked, and that indistinctly, grey. Face and jjalpi red-brown; thorax and abdomen concoloroiis with wings ; vertex paler. Expanse of wings : 27 mm. Many examples i'rom the Khasias. This obscurely marked insect appears quite distinct from any of the hitherto described species ; it is, at all events, a good local form. 14r,. Timandra ruptilinea sp. nov. Forewhigs : yellowish ochreons, speckled with rnfons : the costa dotted with fuscous, more thickly towards base, and with the costal edge from base wholly fuscous ; cell-spot large, difinse, rosy ; the oblique line obsolete, except at inner margin, where it is reddish and followed by another short reddish line ; submarginal line obscure, grey, very sinuous, marked at apex by a dark dash and two or three dark vein-dots ; fringe reddish ochreous, with a reddish line at base. HindiciM/s : with the oblique antemedian line faint except at costa, where it is distinct and brown, followed by a small brownish red blotch ; jwstmedian line sinuous : basal area of wing paler than outer area. Underside deeper yellow, with strong rufous aud fuscous irroration ; the outer line strongly marked ; cell-spots large aud reddish. Face, palpi, and collar deep red-brown : vertex, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous. Expanse of wings : 24 mm. One S from the Khasias, June 1896. 147. Traminda falcata sji. nov. Foreicings : ochreous, suffused with dull rosy and irrorated with red : a reddish oblique line from apex to inner margin beyond middle ; fringe reddish ; cell-spot deep purple-red, with a white centre. lliudiri/iys : with the cell-spnt small and inconspicuous, the red obli(|ne line central. Underside yellower ochreous, with bright rosy striatious : no trace of a sub- marginal row of spots either above or below. Thorax and abdomen concolorous ; head wanting. Expanse of wings : 25 mm. One (? from Natal (A. J. Spiller). Independently of the markings, this species is distinguished by the long narrow forewing, more arched costa, subfalcate apex, and sinuate hindmargin. 148. Traminda glauca sp. nov. Forewinga : glaucous green ; a rather darker green paler-edged oblicjue line, slightly waved, at two-thirds, followed by a scarcely perceptible line of dark green spots ; fringe concolorous ; no visible cell-spot. Iliruhcings : the same, with white oval cell-spot. Underside whitish green, the whole of the forewings and costa of hindwings suffused with dull rosy: both wings with traces of a line of grey sjmts, ]iarallel and ( 65 ) near to hiudmargin. Palpi, face, and forelegs briglit red : vertex white : head, thorax, and abdomen green. Expanse of wings : 34 mm. One (S from Sierra Leone. lu the forewings the costa is convex towards apex, which is sabfalcate : hiud- margin obliqne, hardly curved ; hindwings bluntly elbowed. Allied til Saalmiiller's decessata from Madagascar, occurring also iu Abyssinia. 149. Traminda rufa sji. nov. Forewimjs : pinkish ochreous, thickly dusted with pink, either bright or greyisli : first line at most indicated by three reddish brown dots ; second line darker pink or reddish, from costa at three-fourths, below which it is slightly curved, to inner margin beyond middle, followed by a paler shade and a similarly obliiiue row of reddish dots : cell-spot white, small ; fringe concolorous. Hituhvimis : the same, but with the cell-spot large and edged thickly with red- brown, touching the oblique line, which is antemedian. Underside lil^e upper, but with coarser mottliugs and no oblique line. Head, thorax, and abdomen pink : the vertex whitish. Expanse of wings : 26 mm. Three cj <S from Weenen, Natal. Saalmiiller's decessata from Madagascar must be very much like this sjiecies, but green instead of pink ; and as the species of this group occnr of both colours, this may be a local form. Subfamily ASTHENINAE. 150. Agnibesa venusta sp. nov. Foreivings : with the white gronnd-col(,)ur almost wholly hidden by chestnut and grey suifusion ; basal area with three pairs of thick strongly curved chestnut lines, alternating with silvery grey lines, the last of the latter being silvery white ; a broad median chestnut fascia, tinged with orange on costa and towards its inner €dge, traversed by a single angled silvery grey line ; marginal area purplish grey, traversed by a narrow indistinct, a broader more distinct, and a still broader more rufous-tinged marginal dark grey band, all bent, correspondingly witli the edge of the median fascia, opposite the cell, the interval on each side of the central more distinct band becoming white on the costa ; below the submedian fold the median fascia and the outer bands are obsolete, the inner margin becoming white ; fringe rufous grey, white below. Hindwing.s : white, wilh abroad antemedian and postmedian and double sub- marginal olive-grey band. Underside of forewings dull purple-brown, witli the inner margin and some costal Ijlotches whitish : hindwings white. Head and thorax chestnut ; abdomen white. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. Two 6 6 from Sikkim, July 1889 (Pilcher %.). ( 66 ) Subfamily TRICUOPTERYGINAE. 151. Remodesf?) confxisidentata sp. nov. Foretoings : dnil grey-greeii, with darker green confusedly dentate vertical lines ; basal patch edged by a dark green line, and containing two or three less plain lines ; inner edge of central fascia formed by a similar dentate line, marked with very dark green on costa, median and snbmedian veins ; the paler green band between the basal patch and central fascia traversed by a fine similarly dentate line : enter band of central fas(^ia consisting of three irregularly dentate dark green lines, the middle of the fascia remaining pale green and containing a small dark green cell- spot ; snbmarginal line dark green, very distinct, irregularly bent and dentate, preceded and followed by a paler green band traversed by a fine green waved line ; a marginal row of deep green lunnlcs between tlie veins, which are pale green ; a row of black marginal spots at ends of veins ; fringe yellowish green, with a yellowish basal line. Hindwings : brownish grey. Underside reddish grey. Paljii witli the very long second joint straight, pale green, terminal joint black with ochrcous tip ; face and vertex pale green ; thorax darker green ; abdomen cinereous green ; antennae ochreons green at base, becoming black in the outer half. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. One ? from Pieter Jilaritzbnrg, Natal. The hindmargin of the hindwings is decidedly crenulate. This species some- what resembles Remodes (?) angulosa Warr. from Amboina ; but the dentations of the lines are neither so regular nor so deep, and the lines are nearly vertical tliroughout. The type being a ?, the genus must for the present remain doubtful, like that of angulosa. 152. Remodes (?) denigrata s}). nov. ? . Forewings : pale whitish green, the cross lines bright yellowish green ; a green spot on c^osta at base, followed by a broadish diffuse fascia, its inner edge concise and angled on subcostal vein ; separated from central fascia by a broad band of the ground-colour, traversed by two green lines, the first denticulate, the second waved: central fascia composed of first a green shade, broad on costa, narrowing to a point on inner margin, next a narrow almost obsolete band of ground-colour, and last a series of three or four waved lines, wliich at the costa form two green bands : these four lines become purple from vein fi to the snbmedian, the inner shade being purple only below the median ; following the central fascia comes a band of the ground- colour, traversed by a single denticulate green line and two curved green fasciae, the first the broadest, diffusely waved externally, both concisely edged externally ; a row of dark green spots at the ends of the veins ; fringe green, the inner half darker. Hindwings : pale grey, with ochreous fringe. Underside rufous cinereous ; forewings in cell and along costa dull olive-green. Face, palpi, thorax, and base of abdomen bright green : abdomen grey, tinged with green ; antennae ochreous, becoming dark grey towards tips. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. ( 67 ) One ? from Perak. Distiugnislieil by the bright yellow-green tint and the total absence of black scaling. It is referred to Betnodrs provisionally. Steirophora gen. nov. Allieil to Sauris Guen. and Remodes Gnen., bnt the hindwings in the J arefnlly developed, as in Phthonoloha Warr. : characterised by a long, horny, scaled, tongne- shaped process from the base of the abdomen in the S, lying beneath, and reaching to the end of, the long second segment. Hind tibiae without spnrs ; fore tibiae with a long tnft of hair from the femoro-tibial joint. Palpi rostriform, twice as long as head ; antennae ligulate, with pointed apex. Neuration : as in Sau/is. Type : Steirophora punctatissima sp. nov. Besides the two species now described, I find that the insect named by me Phthonoloha olivacea, Pr. Z. S. 1893, p. 363, mast also be referred to this genus. 153. Steirophora auratisquama sp. nov. Forewings : pale silvery grey, more or less suffused with blackish scales ; the veins markeil with gilded yellowish green, and often with scales of the same colour suffused over the basal half and along the subcostal region ; a dark line close to base, and two be3'ond representing the basal fascia, starting from a blackish costal blotch; central fascia broader on costa than inner margin, its inner edge consisting of two, and its outer of three, wavy lines, more or less marked with blackish, and forming blackish spots on costa ; submarginal fascia curved, narrower, con- sisting of two lines, also forming a blackish costal blotch, and with a blackish blotch beyond it opposite the cell : subtermiual line consisting of black sagittate marks, often much obscured : a marginal line of black lozenge-shaped spots ; fringe pale grey, with darker grey blotches on basal half intermediate between the black spots of hindmargin. (In one ¥ there is a total absence of the blackish irroration ; the gilded yellow scales are pale olive-green, and all the markings clearer and more distinct.) Hindtvings : dull smoky-grey ; the fringe concolorous. Face and thorax gre}', mixed with yellowish or olive-green scales ; abdomen grey; antennae anniUated, dark and light ; palpi fuscous and ochreous. Underside dull brownish cinereous, with an olive-j-ellow tinge. Expanse of wings : cJ, 30 mm. ; ? , 36 mm. Java: one J, three ? ?, from West Java ; one ? from Bandong ; two ? ? from South Java. 1.54. Steirophoi'a punctatissima sp. nov. Foretvings : yellowish green, very finely and thickly powdered with dark scales; the transverse lines all formed of black more or less wedge-shajied spots on the veins; a double series close to base, and a similar one beyond ; central fascia con- sisting of two inner and three outer rows ; snbmarginal fascia also of two rows, with a darker blotch beyond cell ; a marginal line of large black Innules, their convex side outwards ; fringe concolorous ; the pale spaces between the fasciae are also each traversed by a less prominent line of smaller spots or dots. ( 68 ) Hindwings : yellowish cinereous, darker towards the hindmargiu, with a paler carved fascia at two-thirds ; the cell-spot dark. Underside pale dnll cinereous. Head, thorax, and ahdomen olive-ochreous ; the vertex and thorax mixed with dark jrrecn : antennae annnlated green and fnscons. Expanse of wings : 40 mm. One c? from Bonthain, S. Celebes, 5000—7000 feet, October 1895 (A. Everett). The wings of this species are narrower, the forewings much more pointed, with hindmargin more oblique than in the others. 155. Trichopterigia nigrisculpta sp. uov. Forewings ; creamy white, the costa yellowish : marked simply witli black lines and spots ; a curved line close to base, from which a black line rnns in along inner margin to base ; inner line at one-fourth, strongly ontcnrved in cell ; central fascia marked by two sinuous lines, the inner of which is inangnlated on subcostal vein before being ontcnrved in the cell, and the outer is double, both incurved below the middle and approximated, oblique ontwards below the submedian vein ; submarginal line sinuous, double, interrupted above and below cell, followed by conical patches of black scales between the veins ; a submarginal row of horizontal black dashes on the veins, touching pairs of black spots on the margin and followed in the white fringes by black spots ; the space before and after the central fascia is traversed by a sinuous line of black dashes on the veins, starting from an oblique costal streak. Hindwings : white ; the fringe with faint grey dots at end of veins. Underside white, with the lines showing through. Face and palpi white, the latter dark grey externally ; forelegs mottled black and white : thorax and abdomen white ; thorax speckled with grey, and with the outside of the patagia black and ochreons ; abdomen with a black dorsal line. Expanse of wings : 39 mm. One ? from Darjiling, March 1889 (POcher leg.). Subfamily TEPHROCLYSTIINAE. Aetheolepis papillosa Warr., Nov. Zool. III. ]>. 124. At the time I described the $ of this species the ? was unknown. It proves to be very much like the ? of Gijmnopera Tubroviridis, but without any red scales iu the cell. Forewings : ample, pale grey or whitish green ; the lines deeper green, especially at the costa ; basal jiatch small, edged by a dark green line and with another line close to base ; a similar dark green curved line forms the inner edge of the central fascia ; the outer edge is angled on vein 6, and less strongly again on vein 4, below which it is marked only by dark dots on veins ; three similarly angled green lines are visible within the fascia : submarginal line double, dark green ; a dark green macular line before the margin ; the pale bands on each side of the central fascia are each traversed by a fine green line ; fringe pale green, chequered with darker. Hindwings : paler, with four curved lines, only the outer two being distinct. Most of the lines on the forewings are marked on the veins with blackish scales. ( 69 ) Underside of both wings dull green, with the markings grey .and obscure. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale green : the latter dark at the base and anal segment, and with a black lateral line. The same size as the cj. This species occnrs also in Sikkim : a cJ and two ? ? are recorded from the Pilcher Collection, taken, the c? in A])ril, the ? ? in May and July 1889. In this cJ the underside of the hindwings is pink rather than dull brown. Chloroplintha gen. nov. S. ForewinffS : broad; costa strongly arched at base, then straight till just before apex, which is produced but bluntly rounded ; hindmargiu well curved ; inner margin convex and fringed beyond the middle. IlitKhcinys : with both angles anil the hindmargin rounded. Abdomen short and stout ; palpi reaching well beyond forehead, second joint laxly scaled, third short with smooth scales ; tongue and frenulum present, the latter fine ; antennae filiform, the joints minutely angular ; hind tibiae with four spurs. Neurution : as in Cliloroclijstis, vein II, after anastomosis, becoming coincident with 12 ; the snbmedian sinuous. The hindwings above are covered with a thick pile in place of scales and at the base with long hairs. On the underside both wings have coarse and mealy scales. Type : Chloroplintha vdiitina sp. nov. 156. Chloroplintha velutina sp. nov. Foreicings : very pale green : a black curved streak close to base ; inner edge of central fascia distinct, slightly curved and with an angulation on the snbmedian fold, blackish on costa and inner margin, pinkish brown between ; the outer edge only plain on inner margin, where it is blackish, represented by a double curved row of black dashes on the veins, angled beyond cell, where it is preceded by some jiiukish brown scales, and ending in a black costal spot beyond the middle: a curved series of black dashes also represents the submarginal line ; between the black dashes the veins are marked with series of white dashes ; on the inner margin the centre of the fascia is represented by a whitish mark traversed by two fine black lines ; a slightly darker green shade precedes the hindmargin, which has a dark marginal line ; fringe greenish, chcipiered with darker. Hinchviiigs : dull brownish grey; the fringe of the same colour, short and curled. Underside dull rufous grey ; the apical area of forewings green. Head, thoraX) and abdomen pale green, the thorax with some dark scales intermixed, the abdomen with a black ring at base. Expanse of wings : 28 mm. Two S cJ from Bonthain, S. Celebes, .5000—7000 feet, October 1895 (A. Everett). 157. Gymnoscelis coquina sp. nov. Forezvings : sordid ochreous, the irrorations and markings fuscous mixed with rufous, in some specimens with a tinge of olive-green ; basal area with four or five denticulated dark lines, angled below costa, the outermost, which is placed before the middle of wing, forming a strong projection in the cell; outer line at two-thirds. ( 70 ) denticulate, aud bluntly angled in the cell, dark fuscous, preceded by a fuscous shade and obscure transverse lines, which pale off towards the first line, followed by a denticulate pale and another dark line ; submargiual line uniformly denticulate, pale, preceded by a fuscous shade, which also grows paler towards the second line : marginal area fuscous ; a sijuare pale ochreons or whitish blotch on hindmaro'in between veins 3 aud 4, interrupting the snbmargiual line ; fringe dark fuscous, with a blackish marginal line at base, interrupted by pale spots at the ends of the veins, which are produced as pale dashes through the dark fringes. Ilimlwings : with the basal two-thirds reddish fuscous, the outer line thicker and darker than in forewiugs, followed, as in them, by a pale and a dark line, but the dark line is again followed by a broad pale space ; marginal area reddish fnscons, traversed by the denticulate snbmarginal line and with a pale patch as in forewings; extreme inner margin marked with reddish and blackish scales, precedcil by a longitudinal space along the fold which is ])alo ochreons and without dark irroratiou. Underside dull grey. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreons, mixed with fuscous ; palpi darker towards the tips. Expanse of wings : 19 mm. Several examples of both sexes from Cedar Bay, Cooktown (A. S. Meek). Allied to G. ectochlora Hmpsn. from India. 158. Gymnoscelis pallidirufa sj>. nov. Forewings: whitish, the basal and marginal areas suffused with dull rufous: the median slightly dusted with grey scales, edged with blackish, preceded and followed by a whitish fascia traversed by a rufous grey line ; edge of basal patch and inner edge of central fascia oblique inwards towards inner margin ; outer edge of fascia straight to vein 4, then angled and oblique inwards ; snbmargiual line pale, denticulated ; central fascia crossed liy wavy grey lines and tinged along costa with rufous ; fringe grey, with dark spots at base between the veins. Ilindwings : like forewings, the snbmargiual area with a small whitish blotch in the middle. Underside dull rufous grey, with the markings indistinct. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey, with darker scales intermixed. Expanse of wings : 19 mm. One ? from Bonthain, S. Celebes, 5000— TOOU feet, October 1895 (A. Everett). The antennae are thickened and finely serrate : it is probably akin to Tramba tibialis Moore ; iu the absence of the S it may be left at present in Gi/mnoscelis. Syncosmia gen. nov. Agreeing in the nenration of forewings with Chlorocbistis, of which it is a develojiment. Hindwiugs of S with the inner margin towards anal angle developed into an ear-shaped lobe, which is folded over flat on the u]iperside, the margin from the angle to vein 5 being straight ; veins 3 and 4 both from the lower angle of cell- The palpi are long, porrect, clothed with long hairs from the base, which wholly conceal the joints ; antennae thickened and ciliated. Type : Syncosmia patinata sp. nov. ( 71 ) 159. Syncosmia patinata sp. nov. Foreivings : mainly greenish ; the basal area pinkish ochreous, with a short vertical blackish line near base, some blackish scales, and two curved blackish lines towards the ontside ; central fascia with its inner edge formed by a thick black band curved like the two lines of the basal patch, the rest green, the outer edge waved, angled at vein 6, and with a bilobed projection below middle, with two waved dark lines within it ; a j)ale similarly waved submargiual fascia with two dark lines through it, and pinkish on the costa, followed on costa by an oblique blackish and rufous blotch; marginal area pure dark green, unmarked; marginal line finely black : fringe ochreous, with dark grey patches opposite the veins. Ilindicings : whitish, tinged with grey along the hindmargin ; the inner margin, lobe, and fringe ochreous. Underside of forewings dull cinereous, with the markings indistinct ; of hind- wings whitish. Paljn green, with the tips black: face, vertex, thorax, and abdomen pinkisli ochreous, the two last thickly marked with black. Expanse of wings : IG mm. One (? from the Khasias, May 1896. Closely related to Cliloroclijstis trichoplwra Hmjisu., which may perhaps be included in the genus, though the structure of the hindwings appears to differ. 160, Tephroclystia sagittata sp. nov. Foretcings : pale fawn-colour ; the lines starting as black spiots on the costa ; first line close to base ; second in middle, passing over the strongly marked black discal spot, then with a single strong curve inwards running to inner margin beyond middle : third at two-thirds, slightly angled below costa, then curving parallel to middle line and minutel}' waved into the anal angle ; submargiual line ver)' indistinct, indicated by a dark spot on costa and a brownish cloud at anal angle ; a thin strong black marginal line at base of the fringes, interrupted by the paler veins ; the costa is marked with a black spot beyond the first line and before the second, these being the beginning.s of lines which cross the wing jiarallel to but much fainter than the lines which are visible, and similar faint lines are visible between the second and third lines. Hindwings : paler, with two submargiual lines of black wedge-shaped markings ; fringe and basal line as in forewings. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous. Underside paler, with the markings indicated. Expanse of wings : 25 mm. Oue ? from Weeiien, Natal. 161. Ziridava xylinaria subrubida subsp. nov. Like typical xi/linuria Wlk. above ; the underside dull rosy, with the costa, hindmargin, and broad postmediau fascia smoky black ; hindwings with marginal half blackish. Oue 6 from Indrulamau, Bonthain, S. Celebes, 2300 feet, September 1895 (A. Everett). Walker's type was from Sarawak ; in his description he does not mention the underside. Hampson, in III. Lep. Ilet. VIII. p. 106, gives the underside as paler. ( 72 ) SUBFASHLY HYDRIOMENINAE. 162. Epirrhoe latigrisea up. nov. Forewinffs : cinereons, tiuged in parts witli rnfons : inner edge of central fascia from costa before one-third, obtusely bent in cell, then straight to inner margin, whitish, with a dark edge ; a similar line limits the basal patch, which contains two dark lines : onter edge of central fascia beyond two-thirds, i)arallel in the main to hindmargin and slightly projecting above middle, whitisli with a dark inner edge ; the fascia itself darker than the rest of the wing, and with two dark central lines ; central fascia edged by a pale grey space, most distinct on inner margin ; marginal area dark fuscons, the sabmargiual line hardly visible ; the apex greyer ; fringe fnscons, with dark basal line. llhuhciiigs : similar, without basal markings. Underside cinereous, with indistinct markings. Head, thorax, and abdomen all cinereons. Expanse of wings : 26 mm. One ? from Zomba, Upper Shiri River, 3000 feet, December 1895 (Dr. P. llendall). 163. Ochyria dispar sp. uov. (J. Forewings : purplish fuscous, varied with grey and rufous: a dark line close to base ; basal area varied witli rufous and foscous, and i)ounded by a thick curved blackish fascia, which is also mixed with rufous ; fascia between basal area and central band very narrow, pale grey, edged finely with whitish, and angled on tlie submedian fold ; median area broad, the outer edge beyond two-thirds of costa, indented opposite the cell and below vein 2, with a bilobed short projection between, dark purplish fuscous, containing three blackish dentate lines, two towards the outer edge dentate inwards, and one towards the inner edge dentate outwards and tonching the blackish cell-spot ; tliis fascia is edged with whitish externally along its upper half, and followed liy a grey baud containing a grey and a black waved line, and marked with rufous opposite the cell ; submarginal line waved, grey, followed by short black lunnles and preceded by long black blotches, which are laterally joined ; fringe purple-fnscous ; all the grey lines are slightly metallic. Uindtcings : smoky grey, with a black cell-spot and traces of a pale bent post- median band and waved submarginal line ; marginal line fine, blackish ; fringe fuscous. Underside dark grey, with cell-specks and three obscure curved dark lines. Head and thorax dark fuscous ; abdomen wanting ; antennae subdentatc, with fascicles of cilia. ? with all the grey markings replaced by rufous ochraceous, especially the two pale ftisciae tliat edge the median area ; the projection of the median band stronger and the sinuses above and below it deeper. Underside tinged with ochraceous ; the costa towards apex and the fringes ochraceous ; the lines more distinct'; abdomen dark jjurplish fuscous. Expanse of wings : 38 mm. One c?, two ? ?, from North Luzon, 5000— 600U feet (Whitehead). ( 73 ) 104. Triphosa corrasata sp. no v. Forewings : olive-grey, with a flesh-c(il(inred tiut ; liues double, velvety black, with paler centres, all interrnpted ; a dark blotch at base of costa ; a double basal line acutely angled on the subcostal vein, ending at the median, whence a faint single line can be traced towards base of iuner margin ; edge of basal patch indicated by a much broader double line also angled on the subcostal, marked on median and submediaii veins, interrupted in cell and submedian fold : inner edge of central fascia marked by a brown triangle on costa, a blotch on the median, and a small spot on the submedian : the pale space between basal patch and fascia marked by dots on the veins, indicating a traversing line ; cell-spot black, close to the costal triangle ; outer edge of fascia marked by an oblique costal blotch, preceded by a short zigzag line ; submarginal line marked by a double costal blotch, a smaller one beyond cell, and a serpentine streak above anal angle, all these with ferruginous centre; intervening space marked by a sinuous row of dots on veins ; a row of black marginal Innules : fringe olive-grey. Hindwings : with two dark lines at base ; a blade cell-spot ; two faint grey wavy median lines : a wavy black postmedian line and double waved submarginal line, the latter interrupted between veins 3 and 4, and only distinct below, where it is tinged with ferruginous ; margin and fringe as in forewings. Underside dull pinkish cinereous, with indistinct markings, black cell-spots, and rows of black dots on veins. Palpi and front of thorax blackish ; face grey, with a black bar above ; vertex brown ; thorax and abdomen pinkish grey, with a few black specks. Expanse of wings : .58 mm. Two ? ? from the Khasias, May 1800. 165. Xanthorhoe dissociata sji. uov. ? . Foreicings : greyish oehreous, almost wholly suffused with dull brick-red ; basal area small, brick-red, edged with a brown wavy line oblique inwards, followed by a broad paler band, ochreons and red, containing three irregularly dentate brick- red lines ; central fascia very broad, brick-red ; its inner edge waved like the liues of the preceding band, the outer at live-sixths, slightly indented opposite cell, and more strongly on the submedian fold, with a slight blunt prominence between, con- taining seven dentate darker red lines, three towards the base and four externally, the inner pair sometimes connected on the median vein ; cell-spot black, of slightly raised scales ; the fascia is finely edged with white, followed by a red line and then by two dentate dark lines, on a pale whitish or yellowish ground, before the paler dentate submarginal line ; marginal space darker, interrupted by a pale oblique apical streak ; marginal line formed of pairs of black dots ; fringe reddish. Hindwings : dull grey, with four sinuous darker antemedian and four post- median similar lines, the space between the lines slightly paler. Underside of forewing grey, thickly speckled with red above the median ; whitish grey, hardly speckled, below it ; cell-spot distinct ; outer line dark, followed by a pale line, both indistinct below the middle : hindwings white, densely speckled with black and slightly with red : cell-spot distinct ; onter line marked. Face j)ale reddish ; palpi and vertex dark red ; thorax and abdomen reddish grey. S with the lines much less i)rominent : the central fascia only half as wide, the ( 74 ) €dges obliijue aud wavy, white ; the red lines of the fascia close together, forming two red bands, embracing a central pale olive-ochreons space ; marginal area greyish, tinged with fnscoas towards the edge, the dentate lines indistinct: a darker costal spot before the pale apical streak ; hindwings with the markings more distinct, and coloured towards inner margin. Expanse of wings : ? , 36 — 38 mm. ; S, 32 — 30 mm. One cJ, four ? $ , from North Luzon (Whitehead). Very mucli like a large X.fernigata CI. liwi. Xanthorhoe dissociata ali. nigrimedia uov. In this aV)erration the transverse lines are nearly all absent ; the basal patch is TufoDS, edged with white ; the central fascia black-brown, with the dark lines distinct only towards costa, edged by a white line and followed )iy a pinkish white space in which the lines are marked by a pair of dots on each vein ; the margin suffused with dark fuscous ; tlie costal sjiot black-brown. Hindwings and underside as in the type. Abdomen grey, with a bright red basal band. One S from X. Luzon. Hardly recognisable at first as being the same species ; but the luiderside is precisely the same as in the tj-pe-form. 167. Xanthorhoe dissociata ab. iniptifascia nov. Forewings wholly dull reddish brown, the lines faintly darker ; central fascia shaded with brown towards costa, aud ^^•ith a lilack horizontal blotch from edge to edge above the median, and a smaller black blotch below submedian, not reaching the outer edge ; apical streak hardly paler ; the costal blotch reddish brown. One S from N. Luzon. 168. Xanthorhoe everetti sp. nov. S. Foreu'ings : dull grey, dusted with darker grey: the markings brownish grey ; basal patch narrow, its outer edge straight, [aud traversed by two or three straight dark lines ; central fascia with the inner edge curved, the outer slightly bent below costa, and with a blunt prominence on vein 4, formed of two smaller fasciae, which meet on the median, enclosing above it an irregular oval pale space, on the inside edge of which lies the black cell-spot, and above the inner margin two narrow annnli ; these fasciae are sometimes marked with blackish sutTusiou above the median ; submarginal line indistinct, pale, and wavy ; both the pale interspaces and the darker fasciae are traversed by numerous wavy darker lines ; marginal line formed of pairs of dark spots ; fringe grey. Hindwings: paler dull grey, with numerous transverse curved lines, which are chiefly visible on inner margin, forming a broadish central and narrower submarginal fascia ; cell-spot black, before the edge of the central fascia. Underside dull cinereous, with tlie cell-spots and edges of the fascia blackish. Head, thorax, and abdomen all dull grey, tinged with brownish. In the ? the ground-colour is paler, somewhat tinged with olive, while the dark markings are more decidedly reddish ; all the lines and markings much more concise ; the fascia margined on both sides with a narrow black-edged whitish line. Expanse of wings : d", 30 mm. ; ? , 32 mm. ( 75 ) One ?,two SS, from Bonthain, S. Celebes, 5000—7000 feet. October 1S95 <A. Everett). Allied to A', r/esif/nata Hufn. : the S <S are somewhat worn, and way possibl}', •when fresh, have had the markings as distinct as in the ? . Subfamily OURAPTERYGINAE. 169. Ourapteryx convergens sp. nov. Forewings: white; the markings pnrple-lirown, with pnrjile-gre}' centres ; costa marked with a few brown spots near base ; an irregnlar (ibliijne blotch from costa near base reaching the submedian fold ; two oblique streaks from costa at one-third and two-thirds converging to anal angle, containing between them a discal streak starting from costa ; an irregnlar macnlar snbmarginal band, broken up near costa, and narrowed to a point before anal angle : a uniformly broad marginal band not reaching anal angle ; the fringe dark along it and white below ; a horizontal streak from base along the submedian vein, not quite reaching the first oblique band ; a narrower streak along the inner margin itself joining the first band. Hindwinqs : with the markings duller ; a streak along the submedian vein ; another along the median and first median nervule uniting with a curved macular band from middle of costa to form a V-shaped mark ; a sinuous snbmarginal band from costa before apex to anal angle, followed in its upper half by an aggregation of greyish blue strigae ; five black snbmarginal spots ; fringe rufous, with a fine black marginal line. Underside like upper. Face and jialjii brown ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen white. Expanse of wings : 54 mm. One ? from Simla, May 1896. Near to 0. excellens Butler from Kashmir. 170. Ourapteryx incaudata sp. nov. Forewings : white, the costa at base reddish ; two faint, pale brown, oblique, and parallel lines at one-third and two-thirds ; fringe whitish, with a faintly darker marginal line. llindicings : with the inner line of forewings continued for two-thirds of wing ; hindmargiu bluntly elbowed at vein 4. Underside white ; the costa of forewings yellowish. Face, palpi, antennae, and a streak on each shoulder bright ferruginous ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen white. Expanse of wings : 5(3 mm. One ? from Kina Balu (A. Everett). The tail reduced to a small tooth. SiBFAMiLY PALYADINAE. Lampadopteryx gen. nov. Forewings : broad and short ; costa arched throughout : apex rectangular : hindmargin slightly curved : anal angle square. HindiviiK/s : very ample, with rounded hindmargin. Palpi minute ; antennae of ? filiform, slender ; abdomen very short, only half as long as inner margin of hiudwings. ( 76 ) Iseuration : forewings, cell not half as long as wing ; first median at three- fonrths, second just before lower angle of cell ; radials normal : 7 and 8 stalked: 11 anastomosing with 12 ; 9 and 10 absent. Hindwings with 3 and 7 both rising before ends of cell. Tyjw : Lampadopteryx scivtillans sp. nov. 171. Lampadopterjrx scintillans sj). nov. Foreicings : velvety brown-black, with eight curved rows of spots of brilliant silvery blue scales — three basal, one antemedian, two postmedian, one snbmarginal, and one marginal ; fringe brown, with a white fleck below apex. Hindwings : with four rows of spots — antemedian, median, postmedian, and sub- marginal ; hindraargin becoming white ; the fringe white, brown at apex, where there is a single spot of the marginal row of scales. Underside brown in forewings ; the costa tinged with bluish white : a median fascia of white spots between the veins. Hindwings pale bluish white, with three interrupted brown fasciae — one median, one postmedian, the third snbmarginal, forming a blotch at apex, and followed at anal angle by a short marginal line. Face brown, with four white spots : vertex brown, with a white spot on each side ; thorax and abdomen brown, with scattered lustrous scales. Expanse of wings : 28 mm. Two ? ? from Sandakan, N. Borneo, July 1893. The spangles vary from blue to silvery, and the ground-colour from browu to brilliant garnet, according to the incidence of light. 172. Tasta chalybeata sj). nov. Like T. mieaceafa Wlk. from Borneo, but the metallic scales are steel-blue and silvery, not gilded ; in the pale olive snbmarginal space of the forewings there is a row of separate steel-blue spots between the veins, not a confused shade. In the hindwings the elliptic ocelloid spot has its shorter axis towards the base of tlie wing : in micaeea/a the reverse is the case. A pair from Bua-Kraeug, South Celebes, 5000 feet, February 1896 (Frnhstorfer). The examples from the Khasia Hills agree with the Celebes form, not with the Bornean. Subfamily DEILINIINAE. 173. Aplochlora invisibilis sp. nov. Forewings : dull mealy green, with a dark linear cell-mark and the fringe green. Hindivings : the same, with small obscure dark green cell-spot. Underside paler, somewhat glossy, with an obscure dark snbmarginal fascia on each wing. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous. E.xpanse of wings : 20 mm. One ? from Akassa, 11. Niger. Eugnesia gen. nov. A development of Parasynegia and Sgntaracta ; distinguished liy the perfectly simple antennae of the 6; both wings more elongated and narrow; the legs very ( 77 ) long ; hind tibiae of S with fonr spurs. Forewings without fovea ; the retinaculum a tuft of hairs. Type : Eugncsia correspondens sp. nov. 174. Eugnesia (?) aurantiaca sp. nov. Foretcings : dull yellow, witli dull orauge-red specklings and markings : costa paler, dotted with black ; cell-siiot deep orauge-red ; first line hardly marked, except by a blotch on inner margin at one-third ; second line diffuse and broad at two-thirds, outcurved above and bent in on the submedian fold, its outer edge denticulate ; some submarginal blotches in place of a line : a row of small blackisli marginal dots between the veins ; fringe coucolorous. Ilindimigs : the same. Underside paler and duller. Head, thorax, and abdomen mottled, orange-red and yellowish. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. ' One ? from Geraldton, near Cairns, Queensland (A. S. Meek). I refer this ? to Eugnesia in consequence of the length of the antennae and the bulging of the hindmargin of the hindwings in the middle. 175. Eugnesia correspondens sji. nov. Forewings : ochreous yellow, thickly sprinkled with orange speckles, which often become confluent ; costa and lines grey or dark grey ; the first at one-tliird, the second at two-thirds, the first preceded, the second followed by black dots on veins, the one thereby becoming dentate inwards, the other dentate outwards ; submarginal variable, sometimes simply orange or orange mixed with grey, partially interrupted, irregularly wavy, more or less connected with dark blotches below apex, in middle and above anal angle ; a blackish cell-spot, and row of black marginal sjiots, these last variable in size and sometimes obsolete ; fringe yellowish, chequered with dark. Hindwings : the same. Underside pale ochreous, the markings grey. Face, vertex, thorax, and abdomen yellow, dotted with orange ; the abdomen in J with dark dorsal spots. Expanse of wings : 35 — 39 mm. One c?, two ? ?, from N. Luzon (Whitehead). 170. Eugnesia correspondens ab. concurrens nov. In this example the costa of forewings and all three lines are dark purplish grey, thick and diffuse ; the space between the second and third lines from inner margin to vein 4 is entirely filled uj) with purplish grey or l)lackisli, and connected with similar-coloured blotches on hindmargin below apex and in the middle ; the abdomen also has a purplish grey blotch at base. One <S from N. Luzon (Whitehead). 177. Eugnesia correspondens ab. suffusa nov. Wings almost wholly sufi'used with orange, overspread with grey ; the hind- margins only remaining pale yellow, with orange speckles. One S from N. Luzon. (78) 178. Eugnesia sanguinata sp. nov. Forewings : pale yellow, overrim with deep blood-red, leaving only isolated patches of the gronnd-colour, viz. one at the base, one before and one after the red cell-spot, and a larger one on the snbmcdian fold in the centre ; a narrow interrupted obliqne first line and a slightly curved and interrupted outer line, neither reaching the costa : submarginal line denoted by a few pale specks ; costa yellowish, with numerous short blackish strigae ; fringe yellow, chequered broadly with dark brown at the ends of the veins. Hindtcings : with the blotches representing the outer and submarginal lines more developed, and with four large irregular blotches in basal half, that at the end of the cell the largest ; fringe yellow, preceded by a narrow paler yellow space along hindmargin, containing deep red-brown spots at the ends of the veins. Underside dnll rosy, with the paler spots faintly indicated. Palpi blood-red, witli the tips of all the joints yellow ; face red, with the centre yellow : thorax and abdomen blood-red, varied with yellow. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. One (? from Eoon I., Dutch New Guinea (W. Doherty). The hindwings have the rounded hindmargin slightly produced in the middle. 179. Heterostegane aridata sp. nov. Forewings : pale yellow, irrorated with darker yellow ; the costa ferruginous thronghont, darker from base to middle, with minute dark striae ; an irregularly waved brown line in middle, starting from a dark costal spot, and touching a small black cell-dot ; a similar but more obscurely marked line at three-fourths ; traces of a submarginal line near costa only : fringe yellow, with no dark basal line. Hindwings : with black cell-dot, and faint curved antemedian and postmedian lines. Underside yellow, with the cell-dots black, and the basal half of forewings, as far as the submedian fold, brown. Thorax and abdomen yellow ; face, palpi, and collar yellow, marked with ferruginous. Expanse of wings : 19 mm. One i from Weenen, Natal, October 1895. 180. Heterostegane indularia Gnen. ab. calidata nov. Guenee's type of Steqania induhu-ia was from Abyssinia ; the species occurs also in S. Africa, but appears to be very variable in the strength of the markings. The extreme form here described might well be mistaken for a separate species. Instead of the pale yellow gronnd-colour of the type, its ground-colour is deep yellow ; the ferruginons markings of the type are intensified, and, besides, the other three lines, basal, median, and exterior, are all marked, wavy and denticulate, in ferruginous, the costa being deep ferruginous throughout. The difference is not sexnal, both sexes occurring from Natal agreeing with the type-form and with the aberration. 181. Hydatocapnia fumosa sp. nov. Forewings: ashy grey, dnsted with darker, becoming purplish grey beyond the outer line ; costa purplish grey ; cell-spot black, distinct ; first line obscure, at ( 'y ) one-fourtb ; second line at two-thirds, irregularl}' waved and somewliat dentate dark purplish, to inner margin just before anal angle : a row of blackish marginal spots : fringe concolorons. Jlimlwincis : the same, but with a small cell-spot. Underside paler, with a smoky purplish grey marginal fascia. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark grey, mixed with jjaler ; vertex and shaft of antennae whitish grey. Expanse of wings : 26 mm. Two ? ? from "Warri, River Niger, February 1896 (Dr. Roth). 182. Orthocabera conspicua sp. nov. Forewings : milk-white ; the costa bronzy ochreous, striated with fuscous : a fnscous dot on the subcostal vein just before the origin of vein 6 ; an orange-red dot at middle of discocellalar, with some scattered scales of the same colour beyond it along vein 5 ; a curved single orange-red streak from the discocellular dot to base of inner margin ; a ferruginous oblique line from costa before apex to middle of inner margin, widening downwards, in its lower course consisting of three lines, ferruginous, yellowish, and lilac-grey, bent below costa above and beneath vein 7; followed by a ferruginous line starting from a ferruginous spot on vein 7, succeeded by an irregularly waved fine rusty line ; fringe pale ochreous, without any marginal line. Hinihcinijs : with an antemedian triple-coloured line, a thick ferruginous postmedian line, followed by a regularly waved rusty line ; fringe ochreous, with some rnst-coloured scales at base towards apex only. Underside white. Thorax, abdomen, and lower half of face white ; palpi, upper half of face, and vertex bright ferruginous. Expanse of wings : 48 mm. One ? from Toli-Toli, North Celebes, November 1895 (Fruhstorfer). 183. Parasjmeg;ia convergens sp. nov. Forewings : yellowish ochreous, with coarse red and grey speckles : the lines reddish grey ; first at one-fourth, forming two curves, and marked with three black dots on the veins ; second from three-fourths of costa to beyond middle of inner margin, strongly dentate ; the teeth marked by black dots on veins, markedly sinnate inwards beyond cell and in the submedian fold, preceded by an indistinct inner line, which rises from inner margin near first line, as in P. compUcata Warr. ; marginal area marked with irregular blotches below apex, in middle, and above anal angle ; a row of deep red marginal spots between the veins : fringe yellowish, with reddish grey spots opposite the veins. Hindwings : with grey basal line, denticulate middle line, with blackish dots on the teeth, and preceded by a greyish shade, and denticulate, partially double, snb- marginal line ; cell-spots on both wings small, blackish. Underside straw-colour, with the markings grey. Palpi fuscous ; face, head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish ochreous, the face brownish above ; the markings stronger in ? than in cj. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. A pair from the Khasias, July 1896. ( 80 ) DistingnisbeJ from 1'. coniplicuta by the different markings of liindwings, and by the yellow, not ichite, vertex. It may prove to be a well-marked form of P. atomaria Warr. 184. Parasynegia nigriclavata sp. nov. Foretvings : pale yellow, with orange speckles and lines ; the lines of forewings much as in P. conrergens, but less denticulate : a black spot at base of costa, and a black dot at base of cell : first line with a large black spot on the subcostal, smaller ones on the other veins ; cell-spot large, black ; teeth of second line black : two black spots obliquely below apex ; some angular contorted markings in middle velvety black : marginal dots black : fringe yellow, with a black spot at apex and in middle. llindtrings : with an orange-grey basal line, a partially double orange central line running to costa well beyond middle (iu coiiven/ents this line curves into the middle of costa), with a black spot on inner margin and costa, and a black luuule from vein 6 to 7; submargLual line nearly straight from anal angle to apex, with a black spot on inner margin, a black Innule from 0 to 7, and a black streak beyond running into the fringe. Underside with the black markings showing through. Palpi dark brown : face yellow, with two black spots in middle : head, thorax, and abdomen yellow, the last with a black orange-edged ring at base. One d, one ?, from the Khasias, June ISUG. Peratostega gen. nov. Forewings: ample, triangular : costa straight, till jusi before apex, which is slightly depressed and produced ; hiudmargin entire, rotmded, faintly sinuate above. Hindwi7i(is : with rounded hiudmargin : aual angle squared : submedian fold strongly developed, the inner-marginal area folded beneath. Palpi porrect, slender ; tongue weak : antennae of <S pubescent, subdentate : hind tibiae with four spurs. Neuration : forewings, cell half as long as wing ; discocellidar vertical : first median at three-fourths, second just before angle of cell ; lower radial from centre of discocellular, upper from upper angle : 7, 8, 9 stalked from before angle ; lU and 11 coincident. HindOTngs with veins 7 and 3 both before angle of cell. Type : Peratostega coctata sp. nov. lS."i. Peratostega coctata sp. nov. Forewings : dull brick-red ; costa dotted with blackish ; the lines obscurely darker ; first line not marked ; median nearly vertical, passing over the black cell-spot : outer line at three-fourths, diffusely fuscous ; towards the anal angle and along the hiudmargin the wing is tinged with fuscous ; fringe concolorons, beyond a deeper basal line. Ifinr/wings ; the same. Underside paler, pinkish fnlvous, glossy, without any markings. Face -and palpi rather bright reddish ; vertex darker ; abdomen reddish : thorax paler, pinkish grey. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. One (? from Pnlo I'.ai, N.E. Borneo, June 1894 (Gator). ( 81 ) Pi'istostegania gen. nov. Allied to Steqania ; veins 10 and 11 of forewings coiucident ; antennae of S serrate ; forewings of c? with a fovea ; the lower radial decidedly above middle of discocellnlars. Tyjte : Prist ostet/ania triUncata Moore. 186. Pristostegaiiia(?) bilineata sp. nov. ForewinflS : pinkish oehreous, linely irrorated with fuscons ; the costa yellowish ; first line at one-third, slightly oblique outwards, yellowish ; second line beyond two- thir<ls, slightly obliqne inwards, yellowish ; the space between the lines somewhat darker, especially towards each line ; cell-spot hardly darker ; fringe concolorous, with a reddish liasal line. Hindwings : with no first line ; the cell-spot prominently darker ; outer line from three-fourths of costa to inner margin just above anal angle, Ijcfore which it is bent, yellowish, internally with a darker shade ; fringe as in forewings ; the hind- margin is elbowed at vein 4. Underside duller, with outer line and cell-sjiot marked witli fuscous, especially on the veins. Face, palpi, vertex, and antennae pale ferruginous ; thorax and abdomen concolorous with wings, the thorax rather paler. Expanse of wings : 38 mm. One ? from Sandakan, North Borneo. 187. Pristostegania flavata sp. nov. Forewiw/s : ^^ellowish, flushed witli deeper yellow ; costa at base brown ; the basal area darker ; the lines slender, ferruginous ; first at one-fourth, bent below costa, then oblique ; second line straight, in the middle ; third at five-sixths, slightly curved ; fringe concolorous, beyond a very fine marginal line. Ilindwings : with only two lines. Underside paler, thickly dusted with reddish brown ; the lines reddish. Face and j)ali)i reddish brown ; vertex yellowish ; collar dark brown ; thorax and abdomen yellow. Expanse of wings : 26 mm. One (J from Weenen, Natal, February 1894. Prochasma gen.inov. Allied to Stfi/ania, VQina 10 and 11 of forewings being coincident : distinguished by the fully pectinated antennae of the t?, and the strong metallic metathoracic tuft. Type : Prochasma niimica sp. nov. In the type-species the cell of fbrevvings is imlf tlie length of the wing. 188. Prochasma mimica sp. nov. Foreicings : oehreous, overrun witli dark fuscous strigae, which along costa and inner margin become confluent : a wliite curved band near base, and an irregularly edged white band at two-tliirds, parallel to hindmargin ; a wavy interruiited wliite submarginal line ; some pale scales at apex ; a yellowish horizontal streak from first ( 82) line to hindmargiu along the median ; cell-spot large, Mackish ; a marginal row of black dashes ; fringe cheqnered ochreons and fuscons. Hindwhiffs : whitish, tinged with yellowish, with sparse fuscons strigae ; cell- spot large, dark ; a fuscons postmedian line from inner margin above anal angle to lower angle of cell ; marginal area fuscons, much broken up by the paler ground- colour. Underside the same, but duller. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous, speckled with fuscous ; metathorax with a tuft of metallic scales. Exj)anse of wings : 24 mm. A pair from the Khasias, May 1896. The cell half as long as wing. Superficially this insect is extremely like my (lentilinea, wrongly referred to Psilalcis, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 431, but tlic neuration differs, and the outer line does not approach the inner. 189. Chiasmia radiata sp. uov. Fore.whigs : straw-colour, tinged with ochraceons ; covered with black transverse strigae, whicli tend to become laterally confluent, the ground-colour only sho^ving as a curved inner band at one-fourth and an oblique irregularly edged band at three- fonrths ; the central fascia contains a large dark cell-spot, and is edged, especially externall}', by a line of dark spots on the veins, those on costa and inner margin being blotches; marginal third black, broken up by two radiating streaks of ground- colour from the outer band — one oblique to apex, the other below vein 4 — and by the interrupted snbmarginal line, so that there are formed two costal blotches, the outer one quite small, a central triangular blotch, and a square blotch at anal angle ; fringe straw-colour, chequered with black, and almost wholly black beyond the base of the triangular blotch. Hindwings : the same, but without the dark base, the central fascia blacker, the outer area interrupted in the middle only. Uuilerside similar, but darker. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous, intermixed with blackish, especially at base and apex of abdomen. Expanse of wings : 26 mm. A pair from the Khasias, May 1896. Subfamily BRACCINAE. Arycanda Wlk. VII. p. 1775 (1856). This generic name must supersede Guen^e's Panaetkia, published a year later. Type : Arijcanda maculosa Wlk. from Sumatra. 19(1. Arycanda absorpta sp. nov. Like A. maculosa Wlk. from Sumatra : Imt the marginal row of black streaks all separated from each other by tlie jjaler veins, not blotelied at the aj)ex ; the central streak bent outwards and absorbing the cell-spot. One ? from Lawas, North Borneo (A. Everett). An example from Nias, also a ? , is paler blue than the Bornean insect ; tlie central streak is still more strongly bent, and on the underside the cell-spot is quite distinct, with two Mack liands on each side, whereas in absorpta it is still adjacent to the bent band. ( 83 ) 101. Arycanda discata sp. nov. Forewinijs: pale slate-colour, the markings black ; two bLu'k spots close to base, above and below the median : another pair just beyond ; first line curved from one- fourth of costa to near base of inner margin, marked by tliroe spots on the costa, median, and submedian respectively ; cell-spot round, velvety black ; three post- median lines, the first much curved round cell, the second less curved, the third nearly straight, all formed of spots on the veins, which above the middle become confluent ; a marginal band of horizontal streaks between the veins ; fringe concolorons. Hindwings : with a spot at base and a straight line before the black cell-spot ; two lines of spots be3'ond, those of the first line rounded, of the second Innate and semiconfluent ; marginal streaks as in forewings. Underside with very large black cell-spots, dbscure outer line, and marginal streaks. Face, head, and thorax slate-colour ; abdomen yellowish, with basal segment slate-colonr, bearing a pair of black spots. Expanse of wings : 52 mm. One 6 from Bunguran, Natuna Islands, October 1894 (Hose). Like i/eorgiata Guen., but the cell-spot is clear of the lines. 192. Arycanda omissa sp. nov. Like absorpta Warr. in having the marginal streaks separated, but with only five black bands, the central one being absent ; the cell-spot quite distinct and separate ; the basal bands blurred, with a deeper purplish shade round them ; on the underside there is only one diffuse black band between the spot and the base, and in the hindwings hardly a trace of an)' spots at all at base. Both wings beneath much more suffused with dark purplish. One ? from Sarawak. 193. Arycanda subfumosa sp. nov. Smaller than maculosa Wlk. and its allies, with tlio transverse lines much narrower and more resolved into separate spots, as in geonjiata Guen., liut the cell- spot is quite separate between the fourth and fiftlj bauds ; in the hindwings the three bands are entirely composed of spots, the central band being very thin and inconspicuous. On the underside the outer half of the forewings is dull smoky black. One ? from Lawas, N. Borneo (A. Everett). This form occurs also iu Sumatra. 194. Bordeta longimacula sp. nov. Forewings : black, with three cream-coloured sjiots, smaller and more concise than iu B. tricolor Warr., but in the same relative positions; the first oblique, from subcostal vein before middle towards anal angle, not quite reaching the submuilian fold, pointed at the lower end and with the outer edge slightly bent ; the other two in a line parallel to the first half-way towards ajjcx. llinihoings : orange, with the margins <dl black, but the hindmargin interrupted iu the middle by the orange ground-colour, which nearly reaches the margin. ( 84 ) Underside the same. Head black: collar and pectns oebreous: antennae blai;k, with the cilia oehreous ; thorax black : atjdoiuen orange, with a black dorsal stripe except on first segment, which is orange ; the S with the base of anal segment also yellow. Expanse of wings : 58 mm. A pair from Sattelberg, near Finschhafeu, German New Guinea. 195. Biirsada septemuotata sp. nov. Fore/n/i(/s : dull black, with three pale yellow spots — one at base, traversed by the dark subcostal vein, a larger oval obli([ue one in the middle, and a reniforni one towards a])ex. Ilindivings : with four yellow spots — a large one at base, a snbquadrate one of the same size in middle, a small oval one towards apex, and one still smaller on inner margin above anal angle ; fringes of both wings unicoloroi;s. Underside as upper. Palpi, vertex, and antennae black; face and collar yellow: thorax black, with a yellow lateral spot between the wings ; abdomen wanting; forelegs black, with base of coxae yellow. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. One c? from Kina Balu, N. Borneo. Akin to /)'. mncidifera ; the wings narrow and elongate ; all the yellow spots smaller ; the tip of the forewings black. 190. Bursada trispilata sji. nov. Foreivim/s : brown-black, with three yellow spots ; first longitudinal, near base, beneath the median vein ; second transverse, narrow, with irregular edges, from subcostal at middle towards anal angle ; third elongated, with curved edges towards ajx'x. I lindii'hH/s : deep yellow, with all three margins black. Underside the same. Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; a small yellow s])ot in front below each shoulder. Expanse of wings : 36 mm. One ? from Moroka, British New Guinea, 3500 feet, October 1805 (Anthony). Hymenocharta gen. uov. Allied to Agirjja, with which it agrees in neuration, but of stouter build : the thorax and ])alpi and inner margin of hindwings hairy ; antennae of d thicker, with coarser jiectinations and blunt apex : antennae of ? also pectinated ; palpi twice as long as face : hindmargin of hindwings indented below vein 2. Type : lli/menockarta triplagiata sp. nov. 107. Hymenocharta triplagiata sp. nov. Foreivinija : black, with two oblique shining white hyaline patches \ first near base, oblique, diffusely edged, not touching costa or inner margin : second towards apex, from subcostal to near hindmargin above anal angle, the lower part swollen. UindunmjH : with a white fascia of uniform width from second quarter of costa to near hindmargin, running parallel to inner margin. ( 85 ) LTuderside similar. Face, palpi, head, tliiira.x, and abdomt'ii all bruwu-black ; pectus, hind half of abdomen below, and whole of the anal segment orange. Expanse of wings : 36 mm. Two (Jcf, two ? ?, from Dar-es-Salaam, German East Africa. Mesomima gen. no v. Foreirinqs : elongate, narrow; the costa straight for three-fonrths, then cnrved; apex blnnt, ronnded and not produced in the (?, slightly prodnced and rectangiilar in the ? ; hindmargin obliijuely curved. Hiiuhciiu/s : narrow, the hindmargin strongly ronuded from apex, slightly curved towards anal angle. Antennae pectinated in both sexes ; palpi short, pointed ; tongue and frenulum present. Forewings with an elongate fovea lietwceu the submedian fold and the submedian vein, the latter bent downwards at base and sinuous; this fovea is visible, though not nearly so strong, in the ? . Neuration : forewings, cell two-tliirds of wing : the subcostal and median veins strongly inbent towards extremity; first median at two-thirds, second close before end, third from end of cell ; radials normal ; 7, 8, 9 stalked from the bend in the subcostal ; 10 and 11 stalked, 11 united with the costal liy a bar. Hindwings with costal only shortly ajiproximated to subcostal ; the tirst suljcostal nervule and second median from well before the ends of cell ; no radial. Type : Mesomima a.lUfrom sp. nov. Akin to Agirpa ; distinguished by the long fovea, and the absence of a bar between veins 9 and 10. 198. Mesomima albifrons sji. imv. Foreipiiujs : fulvous red ; tlie apical tliird black, containing an olili(|ue variable- shaped white blotch ; the hindmargin black to anal angle. Ilind/nnt/s : with hindmargin narrowly Idack, stronger in the ? than in the <S, its inside edge irregularly crenulate or rounded. Underside the same. Vertex and antennae black ; face snow-white ; thor.ix fnlvous red ; abdomen cinereous, with white dorsal spots on each segment. Expanse of wings : <?, 39 mm. ; ? , 45 mm. A pair from Kuilu, French Congo, 1892 (Mocqnerys). This sj)ccies is almost an exact facsimile of Paraptijchodcs tenuis I'utler ; that, however, has the costa of forewings black, and the hindmargin of hindwings spotted, not margined with black ; the abdomen yellowish white, with Idackish segmental rings. 199. Tigridoptera radiolata sp. w\. Forewings : dull slaty blue, with the inner margin bull' below the submedian fold for two-thirds from base ; a buff streak beyond cell ; a black spot below costa at base ; two more just beyond, one obliquely below the other, followed by a curved black line which is interrupted at the submedian fidd and marked by a black dot on submedian vein ; a black cell-sput, followed by three curved black lines, the first touching the cell-spot and parallel to the basal line ; the second less curved, the outermost curved outwards at costa ; all three interi-npted at the fold and marked ( 86 ) by a black spot on tlie .snbmediau vein ; marginal area marked with long black rays between the veins ; fringe concolorons. Himhciiiqs : with tiie three outer lines and cell-spot, and the radiating lines bej'oud ; butt" streaks along cell and i)eyiind it, and along the submedian fold, and a smaller one below the costal vein. Underside slaty grey, with three central blackish symmetrically bent lines, the two outer ones diffuse ; diffused blotches on the outer lines ; the cell-spots deep black ; a bhwrk streak from eosta of forewings near base. Head slate-colour ; thorax slate-colour, mixed with bulf : patagia and slioulders each with a black spot ; abdomen buff. Exj)anse of wings : 00 — 65 mm. Two ? ? from Palawan. Xanthomima gen. nov. Forewiruji : witli costa straight, apex blunt ; hindmargin curved. Hindwings : with rounded hindmargin. Forewings of ? as well as c? with fovea. Aeitmlion : as in Tujridoptera H.8. and allies, but the veins are nmcli finer, and the whole insect of weaker build. ^Vings without markings, yellow with black margins. Tyjie : Xanthomima cyanoxantha, Meyr. ( Tigridoptera). Panucthia atrhnnrgo Warr., Nov. Zool. 111. p. 298, from Fergnsson Island should be referred here. 200. Xanthomima seminigra sp. nov. Forewings : orange, this colour being limited to a semicircular space from base to middle of inner margin, with its upper edge rather irregular: the rest of the wing velvety black, with all the veins slightly paler, the black running along costa and narrowing to the base. Ilindtcings : with the basal area orange, within a slightly curving line from middle of costa to a little above the anal angle. Underside similar, the black running up along costa of hindwings, but not reaching base. Face, palpi, legs, pectus, antennae, vertex, and shoulders black ; thorax and abdomen orange. Expanse of wings : 40 mm. One ? from Kei Toeal, March 1896 (H. C. Webster). Subfamily ABRAXINAE. 201. Abraxas discata sp. nov. Foreiving$ : white, the costa and hindmargin broadly and unevenly smoky black ; the costal border for three-fonrths of cell reaches to the median vein; a large round black cell-spot touches the costal border and is generally connected with hind- margin by a horizontal blackish streak of varying thickness; the hindmargiual border generally has a small white apical sjiot ; this spot sometimes is much developed and interrupts the inner edge of the marginal border along the veins, and in these cases a fine whitish line appears above the anal angle. ( 87 ) Hindwings : with the costa narrowly and the hiudmargiu 1)roa<lly bhick ; cell- spot variable in size, sometimes all but obsolete. Underside the same. Face and collar yellow; thorax and alidomen yellow, spotted with black. Expanse of wings : .34 — 40 mm. A good series from Pnio Lant, south of Borneo, May 1891 (W. Doherty). Related to A. subhi/alinafa EOli., but larger and without any yellow markings. 202. Abraxas invasata sp. nov. Like A. maculicincja. Wlk., but with two series of black submargiual spots instead of one ; the marginal row partially confluent with those of the outer sub- marginal, while the inner or postmedian row is nearer the base of the wing ; apical third of forewings wholly black, but containing a single triangular or hook-shaped white spot ; a black costal curved spot close to base, nearly confluent with a thinner one on inner margin ; a large black costal blotch at one-third, with irregular black spots below it ; cell-blotch large, sometimes connected above with some small sub- costal spots ; base of both wings with several small irregular black spots and streaks. One (?, one ? , from Kina Balu, North Borneo. 203. Abraxas moniliata sp. nov. Forewings : cream-white, with smoky blackish markings ; the liasal area yellow, limited by a broad curved black line, dentate outwardly on the median and snbmediau veins, and crossed by a similar curved line following a black basal spot : the cell occupied by a diffuse blotch, connected above with a median costal blotch, and throwing oif below a narrow sinuous mark, sometimes double, to the inner margin ; an exterior fascia of confluent round spots, bent opposite the cell ; a similar submarginal fascia, its inner edge curved, its outer crenulate, confluent below with the exterior fascia, and followed below by three or four blotches, which are also sometimes confluent ; a marginal row of dark lunnles blackish, like the fringe. Hindwings : with the base, an antemedian fascia, swollen in cell and on inner margin, a postmedian curved double fascia of confluent spots, and a marginal scries of lunules with the fringe blackish. Underside the same. Legs, palpi, face, and antennae black ; vertex yellow : thorax and abdomen yellow, with numerous black spots. Expanse of wings : 58 mm. A pair from Bua Kraeng, South Celebes, .5000 feet, February 1896 (Frnlistorfer). 204. Abraxas pleniguttata sp. nov. Foreioings : white, with basal patch fulvous, edged with blacki.sh brown and interrupted below the median ; central area with a double dark grey spot on inner margin, a large round one on the submedian fold, two more obliquely above it, a large cell-blotch, and costal blotch above it ; in the darker examples these are all more or less confluent ; exterior line formed of two sinuous rows of round grey spots, divergent towards costa, confluent and purple-tinged mixed with fulvous below ; in the dark specimens the outer row becomes a line, and the spots become laterally confluent ; an irregular row of s])ots follows ; a row of marginal spots, sometimes confluent, with one submarjjinal on vein 4. ( 88 ) Himfu-ingx : with a spot at base : a double spot ou costa an<l inuer margin iu the central area ; enter series as in forewings, but less developetl. Underside the same. Thorax and abdomen yellow, with the ordinary black spots. Expanse of wings : .58 mm. One cJ, two ? ?, from N. Luzon (Whitehead). 205. Genusa simplex sji. nov. Wings wholly dull mealy white ; a slight tinge of yellow close to apex ; a black dot on snbcostal of forewiugs near base, and traces of tliree or four small grey dots below costa just beyond. Head, tliorax, and abdomen all coniiolorous, without dots. Palpi above i'aintly tinged with fnscons ; pectinations of antennae pale fuscous. Expanse of wings : 45 mm. One c? from Bongao Island, Suln Archipelago (A. Everett). 206. Ligdia interrupta sp. nov. Forewings : white : a basal patch of mixed fuscous and ochreous scales, its edge curved and wavy from one-fourth of costa to one-fourth of inner margin, the fuscous costal striae continued nearly to the outer ftiscia, the inner edge of which is concise and indented beyond cell, the outer diffuse and broken by a partly dentate and partly lunnlate white line, accompanied by black sj)Ots : marginal area white, with an irregular and smoky blotch on liindmargin opposite the cell, and some scattered striae above anal angle ; marginal spots black ; fringe white, fuscous opposite the cell : cell-dot large, black : the costal area and a wavy line down the outer fascia marked with shining leaden scales. Ilimlwings : with the base narrowly dark, the white fascia therefore twice as broad as in forewings. Underside like upper. Face, palpi, head, and thorax ilark fuscous ; abdomen white. Expanse of wings : 24 mm. Three 6S from Natal (A. .1. Spiller). Nothabraxas gen. nov. Forewitiqs : with costa straight or slightly indented in middle; apex blunt; hindmargin obliquely rounded ; anal angle obtuse ; inner margin somewhat convex. Jlhuhvings : with liindmargin and both angles rounded. Antennae of c? plumose, the tips simple ; palpi porrect, short : hind tibiae with a i)air of sjmrs ; in the forewings veins 10 and 1 1 are stalked. Type : Xot/iaOraxa-i commacidata sp. nov. Differing from Negeta Wlk. iu having the margins of the wings simple, not angulated. 207. Nothabraxas commaculata sp. nov. Forewings : pale straw-colour, almost white ; the markings grey-brown ; costa with irregular brown spots ; a larger one at one-fourth, the origin of the first line, which is curved and preceded by a line of small dark sjiors on veins : cell-spot oval, connected with a costal spot above it ; a broad obli(jue irregular-edged fascia from ( 89 ) costa before apex to inner margin before anal angle, connected along the snbmedian area with the first line, and beyond the cell with a marginal fascia, which does not quite reach either apex or anal angle ; fringe grey-brown, except at apex and angle. Hindwings : straw-colonr, with a ronnd cell-spot, a i>ostmedian line of grey spots, and a few on the margin, the last not symmetrical. Underside dtdler. Face fuscons ; shoulders and thorax straw-colour, with black tips : abdomen yellow, with black segmental rings. Expanse of wings : 42 mm. One 6 from Mpwapwa, East Africa. 208. Percnia longimacula sj). nov. Distinguished from P. hclluaria Guen., with which it agrees in size, by all the spots being elongate and narrow ; the two middle rows apjiroximated to each other, the spots of the outer one linear ; the second spot of inner row, which in helluaria is ronnd and at the junction of vein 2, is double, on the median and vein 2 beyond the origin of the latter ; veins 6 and 7 of the hindwings are shortly stalked. One ? from Knlu. 200. Potera albiquadrata sp. nov. Foreivings : black : a few yellowish and one small white spot near base ; a white spot in middle of cell ; a broad sinuous white fascia, its top straiglit, from snbcostal to middle of inner margin, where it is marked by some black spots : a slender white dash parallel to and just beyond its upper extremity ; a row of five white elongated quadrate spots between the veins before the hiudmargin. Him/whujs : white ; the costa and inner margin broadly smoky black ; hind- margin with broad black fascia containing five quadrate white spots ; a dark spot in the cell. Underside like upper. Palpi and antennae black ; face and vertex yellow : patagia yellow, theii- tips black : thorax yellow, with black bands ; base of abdomen with a black ring ; rest of abdomen yellow, with saddle-shaped black dorsal blotches on each segment, and a pair of spots on the first two. Expanse of wings : 52 mm. One S from Batchian, March 1892 (W. Doherty). Allied to F. iilhijAaya Warr. from S. C'elebes, but snificiently distinct. 210. Rhodophthitus (?) simplex sp. nov. Forewings : wholly pale pinkish ochreous, at the base tinged with bright rosy. Hindwings: whitish; fringe concolorons. Underside dull whitish ; the hindwings also tinged with rosy at base and along costa. Face brown ; collar ferrnginous ; thorax pinkish grey : patagia bright rosy ; abdomen ochreous, with the segmental rings rosy ; legs rosy. Expanse of wings : 48 mm. One ? from the Songive Valley, Lake Nyassa. The insect is considerably wasted, and the above must consequently be taken as only an approximate description ; there are no traces of markings. ( 90 ) ScBFAsriLY SCOTOPTERYGINAE. 211. Scotopterix lignicolor sp. nov. cJ. Foreicings : reddish brown, with dense fuscous striation ; the liuos black and thick ; first at one-fonrth, waved and slightly oblique, preceded by a pale space of jrronnd-colonr ; second line at throc-fonrtlis, waved and incurved Ijelow the middle, followed near the costa by a i)aler shade ; subniarginal shade diU'nsely dark; marginal line crenulate, black ; fringe concolorons, with darker mottlings. Hind wings : similar, without the first line ; both wings with distinct black cell-spot. ? with ground-colour bright straw-colour, suffused and dotted with red- brown and fuscous, the pale ground-colour apparent after the second line, at the apex, and along the costal region. Underside rather duller. Head, thorax, and abdomen all brownish. Expanse of wings : 44 mm. A pair from Lawas, North Borneo (A. Everett). Subfamily BISTONINAE. 212. Cusiala malescripta sp. nov. Forewings : silvery white, with sjjarse course grey speckles : the lines Ibnued of aggregations of grey and black scales, much interrupted ; first at one-fourth ; median line touching the black linear cell-mark, approximated on inner margin to the outer line, which above the middle is outcurved and waved ; submarginal line fairly continuous, thicker than the other lines, outcurved beyond cell ; black marginal dots between the veins ; fringe wiiite. Ilindwings : the same, without the basal line, the submarginal more sliarply excnrved opposite the cell. Underside with the dark speckles less scattered ; marginal area suffused mth dark grey, a blackish submarginal fascia, broad at the costa ; discal spot thick and black ; liindwings almost white. Face whitish, with a broad velvety black bar above and a fine black line at top; vertex, thorax, and abdomen white, with scattered fuscous atoms. Expanse of wings : 52 mm. One ? from Kalao I., south of Celebes, December 1895 (A. Everett). 213. Eubyja crenulata sp. nov. Forewings : dark grey, speckled and suffused with dark brown, and with rufous in places ; first line strongly curved near base and running to the base at inner margin ; outer line at three-fourths, black, strongly but bluntly angled opposite cell, then concave outwards to inner margin before anal angle : cell-spot blackish ; a dark brown shade along cell running out to hiiidmargin, with a rufous submarginal patch above it ; fringe concolorous, witli a lihuk crenulate basal line. Ilintlwings : with a dark central shade and cell-spot, and a twice-angled black postmedian line. Underside fuscous brown, the lines indistinct. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous ; the latter with the basal segment paler. Expanse of wings : 36 mm. One ? from Natal (A. J. Spiller). ( 91 ) 214. Eubyja grisea s]i. nov. Forewings : dull grey, dnsted and striated with darker ; the lines dull blackish ; first at one-fourth, curved and indistinct ; second at three-fourths, forming a marked ])Vomincnce opposite the cell, then strongly concave outwards to inner margin shortly before anal angle ; fringe grey, with a dark basal line. Flindwings : paler, with a sinuons outer line and traces of an autemedian line on inner margin : both wings with dark cell-spot. Underside dull grey, the cell-spots larger. Face and palpi dark fuscous ; head, thorax, and abdomen grey. Expanse of wings : 45 mm. One ? from Zomba, British Central Africa, April 1895 (Dr. P. Kendall). 215. Eubyja subpunctata sp. nov. Forewings: pale grey, vrith a faint lilac tinge, sparsely varied with black scales ; the costa dotted with black ; the lines black, distinct ; first at one-fourth, starting from a black costal spot, sharply angled on the subcostal, then oblique and twice bent to inner margin close to base : onter line at two-thirds, obli(|ue outwards and bluntly angled opposite the cell, oblitine inwards to the submedian fold, then vertical to inner margin at two-thirds ; central line from a black spot at middle of costa, still more oblique outwards and more sharply angled than the outer line, running parallel and near to it at inner margin ; submarginal line obscure, shown np by a diffuse dark denticulate shade preceding it ; marginal line black, sub- crenulate, swollen into spots between the veins, from which dark streaks run towards the submarginal : fringe grey. Uimhnngs : with curved and somewhat interrupted black antemedian and postiuedian lines, with a large round black cell-spot between them ; submarginal line indistinct except at inner margin. Underside" whitish, with the costal blotches, the cell-spots, and a series of smaller spots representing the two lines, all strongly black. Palpi and collar black ; face whitish, with a black bar across middle : vertex white : thorax and abdomen grey, marked with black ; abdomen at base with a black streak laterally. Expanse of wings : 3(i mm. One c? from Weeneu, Natal. 216. Eubyja trisecta sp. nov. Forewings : pale or dark grey, dusted with darker and tinged with rufous in basal and marginal areas ; the lines black : first at one-third, strongly and regularly curved ; second at two-thirds, oblique and forming a sinus be_vond the cell ; cell-spot black ; costa dotted with ochreous ; fringe dark grey beyond a thick black basal line. Hindwings : with inner line absent. Sometimes the whole wing is suffused with fuscous or dark grey, and the rufous tints are obscured : in other examples the central area of forewings and inner two-thirds of hindwings are paler, and the rufous areas distinct. Underside dark rufous grey, with the outer line brown : in the paler specimens with inner two-thirds of both wings paler. Thorax, face, palpi, and pectus very hairy; all as well as abdomen fuscous cinereous ; the thorax often darker ; antennae with the shaft white and the pectinations black. ( 92 ) Expanse of wings : 44 mm. Six <S c? from Natal (A. J. Ri.iller). The costa of forewings is concave and producod iti front ; the hindmargiu strongly curved. 217. Synopsia(?) octopunctata sp. nov. Forewings : grey, dusted and sntl'nsed with darker ; the lines dark grey or blackish, obliiine ; first from a dark spot at one-third of costa, acutely angled in cell, then oblique to inner margin close to base, preceded by a diffuse dark shade ; outer line at three-fonrths, excurved beyond cell, then obliqne, slightly sinuous to middle of inner margin, followed by a dark shade ; cell-spot round, diffuse, of black and grey scales ; a central line rises from a dark spot above the cell-spot, is doubly dentate beyond cell and oblicinely sinnons inwards to inner margin jnst before outer line ; submarginal line pale, cuneiform, edged internally with dark grey and followed by dark grey snflfnsion ; a marginal row of black spots between the veins : the dark shade beyond the outer line is diffused beyond the cell to the hindmargiu : fringe grey. Ilitifhrinqx : with antemedian and postmediau dark lines, the latter followed by a thick dark shade ; a wavy pale submarginal lino, with dark edges ; cell-spot as in forewings. Underside shining whitish grey : both wings with round rell-s])ot and macular apical spots velvety black. Palpi dark ; lace fuscous, with a fine white line above and below ; head, thorax, and abdomen grey, speckled with darker. Expanse of wings : 45 mm. One ? from Weenen, Natal. Easilv distinguished by the black spots of the underside. In the forewings veins 11 and 12 are stalked ; lU free, but anastomosing with 11; 7, s, 1) stalked. Subfamily ASCOTINAE. 218. Ascotis selenaria Tliib. ab. fasciata nov. Forewings : with the ground-colour and markings as in tlie type-form : but the whole outer half of wing beyond the median line suffused with rufous fuscous, leaving a grey blotch at apex and two whitish grey blotches below the middle and above anal angle, the large discal spot, which is trident ate, remaining also nnsuffused ; the basal area is likewise faintly tinged with rufous. IlinJwim/s : the same, but with the hindmargiu beyond the double jmstmedian line whitish from anal angle to vein 6. Underside white, with the snbmarginal line in both wings blackish, in the forewings connected with hindmargiu by a large subapical black blotch : cell- spots black, that on the forewings very large and with the middle tooth prolonged outwards. Expanse of wings : 58 mm. One ? from Grahamstown, S. Africa, sent along with two ordinary white SS expanding 45 mm. Although at first sight tins insect appears to be (|uite a distinct species, yet on closer examination the only real difference, apart from the fuscous suffusion, between it and typical selenaria Hut), lies in the sine and shape of the cell-spot of forewings. ( 93 ) 219. Chogada betularia sp. nov. Forewinqs : white, thickly peppered witli black scales, especially along the costa ; first line near base, diffuse and double ; outer line at two-thirds, finely denticulate, not excurved round cell, but incurved below middle ; snbmarginal line cloudy, interrupted below middle ; a marginal row of black spots between the veins ; fringe mottled, white and grey ; cell-spot large, blackish, with white scales in the centre ; traces of a median line touching it ; all the lines starting from dark costal blotches. Hindivings : with straight antemedian line ; dentate postmedian strongly out- curved round cell, and followed by a dark grey shade ; the rest as in forewings. Underside white, with large black cell-spots and a blackish jiatch at ajiex of forewings containing an apical white spot : traces of outer line on forewings and submargiual on hindwings. Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish, peppered with dark grey. Expanse of wings : 45 mm. Two (? S from South Africa. Quite distinct from C. acaciaria Boisd., without any ochreous or fuscous tints whatever. 220. Diplurodes indentata sp. nov. Forewings : dull brownish grey, dusted with fuscous ; the lines blackish ; first at one-fourth, curved from costa to submedian, and there slightly angled ; cell-spot linear, blackish: central line from a dark costal spot above it, slightly curved, and bent on the submedian ; exterior line blackish, and with black dots on the veins, sinuous, forming a sinus outwards beyond cell and again below middle, sharply angulated inwards on the submedian fold, the angle nearly touching the middle line ; followed by a dark fuscous shade ; snbmarginal line of the ground-colour, irregularly dentate, marked by darker shades on each side ; fringe concolorous, with dark dots along the margin at base. Hindwings : the same, but the inner line straight and prominently black on inner margin. Underside greyish white, with the cell-spots and central lines marked ; outer third dark fuscous, its inner edge uniformly curved, the extreme margin becoming pale before the fringes. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous ; tufts of abdomen largely developed, dark grey. Expanse of wings : 26 mm. One (? from Penuugah, N. E. Borneo, December 1893 (Cator). 221. Ectropis nigripunctata sp. nov. Forewings : ochreous grey, coarsely irrorated with fuscous ; the lines blackish, starting from dark costal spots and marked with dark dashes on the veins ; first from one-fourth of costa to near base of inner margin ; median excurved round cell to inner margin before middle ; outer at two-thirds, angled on vein 6, then oblique inwards, again bent on vein 3 to middle of inner margin, touching median line on the submedian fold ; snbmarginal line pale, waved, preceded by dark lunules ; a row of black dots between the veins be/ore the hiudmargin, preceded by obscure dark dashes : marginal line finely black, interrupted by pale spots adjacent to the black ones ; fringe grey ; cell-spot blackish. ( 94 ) Ilitidwings : with a black mark at base ; a lilackisli autemediau line and waved postmedian and submargiual lines, the last with a blackish blotch on costa. Underside whitish, shining ; the forewings slightly smoky-tinged and finely freckled with darker, with black cell-spot and snbapical costal blotch ; hindwings whiter, with smaller cell-spot and ronudisli black apical blotch ; head, thorax, and abdomen grey, the latter dark at base. Expanse of wings : (?, 34 mm. ; S , 32 mm. A pair from Warri, River Niger, February 1896 (Dr. Roth). 222. Ectropis sabnlosa sp. nov. Forewimja : pale whitish ochreous, dusted with yellowish ochreous and grey scales, especially along the costal region and beyond the outer line ; the usual Hues very distinct, except the exterior denticulated line ; the blotch beyond it at middle dark ochreous ; fringe whitish ochreons, witli a row of rather large black marginal spots at base. Hindwings : with less suffusion. Underside the same, without markings : the costal half of forewings darker. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous. Expanse of wings : 38 mm. One J from Amboina, February 1892 (W. Doherty). Paler and smoother, not so yellow, as bhurmitra Wlk. 223. Lepiodes ocellata sp. nov. cJ. Forewings : grey, smoothly and rather thinly scaled ; first line blackish, at one-third, angled or curved beneath costa, then ol)li(|ucly bent inwards to base of inner margin ; outer line at two-thirds, oblique outwards to lower radial, then inwards to inner margin in middle, with a sinus inwards between first median and submediau veins ; a diffuse dark denticulate submarginal line, often very obscure ; apex generally darker ; cell-spot round, dark-edged, with raised grey scales in the centre ; in some examples a very faint central line is traceable ; fringe ])aler, with dark basal line. Hindwings : with three transverse lines, the cell-sjiot touching the central one. In the ? the lines are more curved, less abruptly bent. The first line is generally preceded, and the second followed, by a diffuse dark shade. Underside pale whitish, with the veins thickly marked with orange scales and in the ? freckled with blackish scales; the cell-s])ots large, velvety black; the forewings with an apical black blotch, the hindwings witli a submarginal curved blackish fascia, often limited to the apex only. Palju ferruginous, mixed with fuscous ; face, vertex, thorax, and abdomen whitish or greyish. Expanse of wings : 24—20 mm. Five d" S from Mpeta, Loangwa Uivx^r, an attluent of the Zambesj, November and December 1895 (Coryudon) ; one ? from Bathurst, S. Africa. As stated above, the lines in this ? are curved, not angled or bent, as in the S 6 : the forewings beneath have a marginal black fascia throughout, the fascia of the hindwings being also marginal. When more cxami)lc8 arc obtaiimblc fur comparison, the Bathurst insect will probably be found to be a constant local form. ( 95 ) 224. Medasina javensis sp. nov. Foreioings : red-brown, suffused witb dai-k(u-, aud with dark red-brown stvia- tions ; costa striated with bhick, but without black spots at origin of lines : first line hardly expressed, except at inner margin by a short streak ; median line forming an oblique brown-black streak above inner margin, obsolete above ; the discal spot hardly marked ; exterior line as in M. parisnattei Wlk., excurved at vein 0 and there nearly ol)solete, red-brown below, edged with jjaler, and almost touching median line above inner margin ; followed by a darker brown fascia from inner margin to vein 5, where there is a horizontal dark streak ; submarginal line rufous, irregularly waved, with a paler patch in middle ; a row of slender black lunules along hiiulmargin: fringe rnfous fuscous. Hindwings: with basal third deep blackish brown, with an antemediau blackish line, a curved and dentate pustmedian line, edged, as in fore wings, with jialer, and followed by a deeper shade as far as snbmedian. Veins of both wings pale reddish ochreous, dotted with fuscous. Underside smoky brown, with the median line and submarginal fascia blackish; marginal area whitish, fuscous speckled, interrupted by a black shade opposite the cell and above anal angle ; in the hindwings the exterior line also is shown, and the paler margin is only interrupted opposite cell. Head aud thorax red-brown : abdomen deep cinereous, with a black ring at base ; anal segments becoming rufous. Expanse of wings : 65 mm. One S from Java. Mnesigea gen. nov. Foreivings : broad; the costa nearly straight, convex just at apex, which is blunt ; hindmargin obliquely rounsled below, straighter above. Hi7idwings : broad, both angles rounded, the hindmargin waved, and with a rounded incision opjiosite cell. Palpi porrect, cpiite short ; antennae (d) very slender, the pectmations fine and at right angles to the shaft, ciliated themselves ; forewings without fovea ; hind tibiae slender, not thickened, with fonr spurs. Neuration : forewings, cell half as long as wing ; discocellular straight, rather oblique ; median vein strongly bent upwards towards its extremity; first median nervnle at three-fourths, second at seven-eighths, third from end of cell; lower radial above middle of discocellular, approximated to upper; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10 and 11 coincident or stalked. Ty|3e : Mneaigea sinmta sp. nov. ; exciirsaria Guenee will better come into this genus. 225. Mnesigea sinuata sp. nov. Forewings : grey, powdered with blackish scales, and partially tinged with pale brownish ; first line strongly curved, near base, fine, with black spots on veins ; second line sinuous, from costa at three-fourths to inner margin before middle preceded by distinct black wedge-shajied dashes on the veins ; median line also sinuous, passing through the dark cell-spot aud a black dash at base of vein 2, and followed by a second fine line, sinuous like itself; the exterior line is followed by a j)ale, and that by a fuscous, line containing a dark sjiot between veins 3 aud 4 ; marginal area darker, with an obscurely waved submarginal pale line ; fringe ( 96 ) concolorous, beyond a fine slightly crennlate marginal line with dots between the veins. Himhcings : with antemedian and postmedian slightly curved lines, the latter followed by a pale brownish shade ; an oval cell-spot ; submarginal line and fringe as in forewiugs. Underside of forewings brownish grey ; of hindwmgs whitish, with grey suffusion. Face and palpi dark brown : vertex, thorax, and abdomen like wings. Exjianse of wings : 32 mm. One cJ from Parkside, South Australia. Nesalcis gen. nov. In Nov. ZooL. Vol. III. j). 131,1 described the c? of Aids (?)/uscibn/n>iea from Jamaica, and gave the nenration of the forewings. It would be more correct to say that veins 9, 10, 11 are stalked, 11 anastomosing with the costal and 9 witli 8. I now find that the ? has antennae almost as strongly pectinated as the d , which, together with the nenration, mus* separate the species from Aids, and I propose the above generic name for it. 226. Poecilalcis subtincta sp. nov. Forewinqs: pinkish grey, thickly dusted with fuscous atoms, in parts with a rufous suffusion ; fovea in 6 exaggerated, reaching from near inner margin to near median, which is slightly bent upwards and runs at a distance of only one-third from the costa ; first line at one-third, curved, blackish, darker on the veins, touching fovea on inner margin ; outer line at two-thirds, slightly curved outwards to vein 6, then vertical to vein 5, thence concave inwards to vein 2, and again from vein 2 to inner margin beyond middle ; submarginal line blackish, indented from vein 5 to 4, edged with whitish opposite the cell and more strongly above anal angle ; the outer line is followed h\ a rufous shade, and a rufous patch is on the hindmargin in the middle ; cell-spot linear, blackish, connected with a black costal spot above it ; fringe fuscous, beyond a subcrenulate marginal black line. Ilimlwinys : pinkish grey, with sparser irroration ; cell-spot larger ; an inter- rupted curved ijostmediau line, black on inner margin ; submarginal line whitish, uniformly dentate and edged inwardly by a lilackish shade, becoming obsolete on costal half. Underside of forewings dull ochreous, suffused with fuscous and much irrorated ; the marginal area towards apex brownish ; hind wings yellowish ochreous, with sparse dusting. Face, palpi, and collar dark fuscous ; thorax piukish grey ; abdomen cinereous, the basal segments with pairs of black spots. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. Several cJcJ from North Luzon, oOdO— 6000 feet (Whitehead). Pseudalcis gen. nov. Agrees with Medasina Moore in that vein 11 of forewings rises out" of 12, but in scaling and markings almost exactly like Dryocoetis Hiib. ; the $ antennae are plumose ; in the forewings vein 10 is sometimes shortly stalked with 7, 8, 9 ; sometimes free from the cell. Tj'pe : Pseudalds catoriata sj). nov. ( 97 ) 22T. Pseudalcis catoriata sp. nov. Forewinqs : wliitisli gi'ey, irrorateJ with olive-fuscons striae ; tlie lines olive- fuscous ; first at one-fourth, twice outwards curved, to inner margin near base ; median line thick, sinuous ; outer line at two-thirds, dentate and ontcnrved opposite cell, followed b}- a diffuse olive-fuscous shade ; submarginal line pale, indistinct, preceded and followed by a series of dark blotches, interrupted between veins 3 and 4, and darker opposite the cell : a marginal row of squarish black spots between the veins ; fringe olive, with the tips white, and white throughout at the ends of the veins ; cell-spot olive, with thick black edges, tridentate. Hindwings : .like forewings. Underside dull stone-grey, with the apex dull lilackish ; costa spotted with black ; cell-spots indistinct. Palpi and face dark olive : two white dots ou lower jiart of face ; the ujiper third, fillet, vertex, and basal joint of antennae white ; thorax and abdomen whitish, mixed with olive scales. Expanse of wings : 50 mm. Several SS and one ?, the latter much worn, from Pulo Laut, S.E. of Borneo, May 1891 (W. Doherty). Closely allied to Fseiulalcis cinerasnens from the same locality ; smaller and paler, and differing in neuration : in cinerascens vein li.» is shortl}' stalked with T, 8, 9 ; in catoriata it is free from the cell. 228. Pseudalcis cinerascens sp. nov. Forewings : fuscous grey, with darker irroration : the costa with black strigae ; first line at one-fourth, blackish, wavy, and partially double ; a sinuous crenulate central line touching the base of the dark-edged ocelloid cell-s[)ot ; exterior line at two-thirds, evenly curved and strongly dentate, edged with paler and followed by a diffusely lunate shade ; submarginal line pale, denticulate, preceded by a dark denti- culate shade and followed by an obscure row of darlc patches, except on the third median ; a row of blackish marginal lunules between the veins ; fringe fuscous. Iliudtvings : with no basal line: the central line becomes antemeilian, touchinu- the cell-spot as in forewings : postmedian dentate line strongly marked, and followed generally by a much darker and broader shade than in the forewings. Underside stone-grey, with broad blackish margin to the forewings, narrowed to the anal angle : tlie hindwings with a submarginal dark fascia bent at the cell and thence nearly obsolete : forewings with oblong black cell-spots. Face and palpi dark fuscous, mixed with ochroous ; head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous grey. Expanse of wings : 02 mm. A series of S S, bat no ?, from Pulo Laut, May 1891 (W. Doherty). 229. Pseudalcis (?) pectinata sp. nov. Foreioings : whitish, suffused aud coarsely striated with dark grey ; first line from one-fourth of costa to near base of inner margin, blackish: second line at two- thirds, excurved round cell, strongly concave and incurved to the sul)median vein, where it is angled outwards: submarginal line whitish, waved, and dentate, preceded by a dark shade ; a row of black marginal spots; fringe grey; cell-mark Innular, edged witii black. 7 ( 98 ) Hindwimjs : with central line excnrvcd round cell, and marked witli black dots on veins ; cell-spot and marjriiial area as in torewings. Underside wholly smoky brown, blackish towards hindmargiu. Palpi blackish at the tips ; thorax and abdomen dark grey; vertex and antennae jiale grey. Expanse of wings : 45 mm. One ¥ from AVarri, River Niger, February 1806 (Dr. Roth). Agrees with Pseudalcis in neuration, but the antennae of the ? are pectinated. 2311. Psilocerea apicata sp. nov. Forewings: fawn-colour, with a rufous tint : tlie veins dull rust-colour; the whole surface finely dusted with iilackish atoms : linos pale ochreons, edged with ferruginous ; basal line forming a strong angle outwards on the median, thence sinuous inwards to the inner margin, its outside edge ferruginous ; exterior line from apex of forewiug to middle of inuer margin of hindwing, internally edged with ferruginous ; cell-spot small, black ; extreme apex before the exterior line darkened with blackish scales ; marginal area beyond exterior line rather paler than rest of wing, with an indistinct cloud ruuning vertically upwards from anal angle. Hindunngs : with basal half darker than outer half, which has a smoky shade along its centre. Head, face, thorax, and abdomen pale fawn. Underside much paler, with coarse black atoms and an iridescent pearly tinge ; exterior line and cell-dots alone faintly indicated ; apex of forewing darkened. Expanse of wings : 48 mm. One <S from Natal. 231. Psilocerea nigromaculata »]>. nov. Forewings : ochreons, sutfused and dotted with fulvous, and in places with coarse black mottlings ; costa grey at base : the lines oblique, fulvous ; the first at one-third, angled beneath costa, and with coarse black dots in the upper part ; exterior line oblique from apex to middle of inner margin, thicker below, preceded by a finer oblique fulvous line ; some black snbapical costal blotches ; submargiual line indistinct, but marked by two black blotches between veins 2 and 4 ; a black cell-spot ; fringe concolorous. liindwbigs : the same, without the first line. Underside pale straw-colour, with coarse black speckles : costa of forewings much marked with black ; the blotches of the submarginal line black, and a central black fascia on hiudwings; cell-spots black: apical blotches of forewings marked with brown. Palpi ferruginous ; head, thorax, and abdomen ochreons, spotted with fulvous. Exjianse of wings : 39 mm. One S from Madagascar. 232. Racotis boarmiaria vufaria subsp. nov. Like li. boarmiaria Guen., but with the npperside of both wings strongly tinged with rufous. The pale underside much dusted with fuscous atoms. One ? from Moroka, British New Guinea, 3500 feet, October 1896 (Anthony). ( 99 ) 233. Sciog'lyptis lithina sp. nov. Forewimi'i : cream-colour, tinged with grey; \i dark spot on costa before middle indicates the origin of the first ]ine ; a small dark brown cell-spot : second line from a dark mark just before apex runs obliquely to middle of inner margin, marked only by brown linear spots on veins : towards inner margin there are traces of a brown line before it and parallel to it : beyond the cell a brownish blotch runs from outer line to hiudmargin, crossed by the submargiual line, wliich there is whitish, Imt scarcely distinguishable below ; a row of small dark marginal spots : fringe con- colorous, spotted with brown below tlie a])ex. Hiiidiciiigs : with two brown straight central lines, one on" either side of the discal spot, which is black ; a wavy indistinct snbterminal and submargiual line. Underside yellower, with the markings black ; both wings with black cloud towards apex. Face grey-brown ; palpi white below, grey above : thorax and abdomen ])ale grensh. Expanse of wings : 34 mm. One ? from Mackay, Queensland. 234. Scioglyptis semifascia sp. nov. Forcwimis : pale ochreous or bone-colour, with scattered dark fuscous atoms : the lines very indistinct : first at one-fourth, curveil, brownish : second from costa at three-fourths, curved inwards to inner margin beyond middle; submargiual line <lentate, more distinct ; the space between the last two lines filled in with fuscous from the third median to inner margin : a marginal row of dark spots, preceded by an indistinct fuscous shade ; fringe ochreous. llhidirings : like forewings. Underside the same, the markings only showing through. Head, thorax, and abdomen all pale ochreous. Expanse of wings : 36 mm. One J from Humljoldt 13ay, Dutch New Guinea, October 1892 (W. Doherty). Subfamily FIDONIINAE. 235. Aspilates tricolor sp. nov. Forewings : pale pink, with two broad jet-lilack oblique streaks, one from inner margin close to base towards ajjex ending in a ]]oint at three-fourths, the other from middle of inner margin towards apex slightly bent and broadened above anal angle and not quite reaching apex ; the space between them pale cream ; the second is followed by a dull olive shade containing a black blotch at anal angle ; fringe pink, ^v^th broad jet-black marginal line. llhiilicimis : pale yellowish cream-colour, with the fringe and some scales near anal angle jjink. Head, thorax, and abdomen jiiuky yellow. Underside bright red, with a few scattered fuscous scales ; the inner margin of both wings pale yellow ; markings of forewings showing through. Expanse of wings : 30 mm. One 6 from Weenen, Natal. A very .striking and beautiful insect. ( 100 ) Aspilatopsis gen. nov. Allied to IJehdomojjldHda AVarr. gcii. nov., but with vein 1 1 missing instead of vein 7 ; 7 and 8 stalked from before ui)per angle of cell ; 9 and 10 stalked shortly before them ; 9 anastomosing with 7 and 8 to form the areole, which is much shorter ; the two snbcostals of hindwings from angle of cell. Wings broader, as in Aspilates ; antennae of <S jilumose, with long pectinations. Type : Aspilatopsis punctata sp. nov. 236. Aspilatopsis ptinctata sj). nov. Forewings : fulvons ochreons ; first line at one-third, marked by two browu sjiots, one in cell, the other on submedian fold ; the latter much nearer the base than the former ; cell-spot distinct, blackish ; an oblique brown line from costa just before aj)e.\ towards inner margin at two-thirds, before whii'h it becomes obsolete ; the ground-colour before this line is slightly darker ; fringe with basal half red-brown, apical half whitish. llindtciyigs : pale ochreous towards base, deeper and freckled with reddish towards hiudmargin. Underside deep rosy ; the inner half of liiudwings ]iali'r. Face, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; palpi and forelegs tinged with rosy. Expanse of wings : 34 mm. Two S (? from Weenen, Natal. 23T. Fidonia strigosata sp. nov. Forewings : whitish, ochreous-tinged, and uniformly and thickly dusted with fuscous dots and striae ; the lines fuscous, somewhat interrujited ; first at one-fourth, nearly vertical : outer line at three-fourths, ])arallel to hiudmargin, formed of brown lunules between the veins, followed by a parallel row of browu spots between the veins ; a row of fuscous brown margiual spots ; fringe whitish, with two faint grey lines ; cell-sjiot browu. Ifin(//ci)i(/s : without first line ; the cell-spot minute ; tlie outer line coutiunous, not formed of lunules or followed by a line of spots ; veins of both wings ochreous. Underside much more tinged with yellowish, espec-ially along costa of forewings ; the markings indistinct. Head, face, tliorax, and abdomen white, .speckled with fuscous. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. One ? from North Luzon, oOOO— 600O feet (Wliitehead). This must be allied to the species from 'W'est Java dcscriljed by me as Fidonia albigrisea. Hebdomophruda gen. nov. Forewings : elongate, narrow : costa straight, somewhat bent ujiwanls and convex before ajiex, whicli is sliglitly produced but Ijlunt ; hiudmargin strongly curved. Hindwings : with apex rounded and anal angle well marked. Antennae of i pectinated throughout : forehead slightly tufted : puljii roughly scaled, jwrrect, the terminal joint drooping: liind tibiae with two ])airs of ajijiroximate spurs. ( 101 ) JS^'ennit/o/t : forcwings, cell three- fifths of wing : discocellular strongly curved : first median at fonr-fifths, second just before tlie end, third from the end of cell ; radials normal : vein 7 absent : veins 10 and 11 stalked from three-fifths : veins 8 and 0 stalked from just before end of cell : 10 anastomosing witli 8 and '.i at a point, forming a very long areole ; 11 from near the end of areole : 8 and 9 on a short stalk from the end. Hindwings, costal approximated to subcostal for three-fourths of cell ; the two subcostals stalked ; the discocellular inangulated ; the second median well before angle of cell, nearer to the first than to the third. Related to P rosopolopha Led. Type : Ilebdomophrmla cuniUnea sp. nov. 238. Hebdomophruda apicata sp. nov. Forewhujii : pale wood-brown, sufi'used ;in(l mottled with fuscous ; costa dotted with brown, and darker towards base ; a thin black line from one-third of inner margin to near apex, curved upwards beyond the middle, edged on l>oth sides with a brownisli shade ; a black oblirjue streak from apex : a small black cell-spot ; a faint brown slightly waved line from near base of inner margin to below cell-spot, there angled, and becoming obsolete : traces of dark and pale longitudinal lines above it ; margiual line finely brown : fringe concolorous. Himhcinf/s : pale brownish, mottled with fuscous ; the inner margin darker : traces of three curved dark lines towards hindmargin, most distinct towards the inner margin. Underside cloudy ochreous, sjieckled with dark fuscous. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brownish ochreous, speckled with darker. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. One c? from Weenen, Natal, April 1894. In this species veins 8 and 9 of forewings are on a longer stalk from apex of areole than in ourvilinea : vein 11 from near its apex. 239. Hebdomophruda curvilinea sp. nov. Forewi/igs : brownish ochreous, flith a few coarse brown speckles ; a diffuse brown-black shade in cell below the subcostal ; a similar but more diffuse shade along inner margin ; a thick brown-black obliijue line from middle of inner margin to apex, slightly outcurved beyond middle : hindmargin suffused witli brown-black : fringe with the inner half concisely brown-black, the outer half whitish. Hindwings : wliitish, with a faint brownish tinge, especially towards the anal angle. Underside paler, tinged with yellowish, with the markings as above : hind- margin of forewings and costa of hindwings l)right rosy. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings ; the thorax usually paler ; the forehead and jjulpi tinged w4th brown or reddish. Exjiause of wings : 34 mm. Four 6 6 from Weenen, Natal : two dated March and two August 1804 ; the August captures in much better condition than the others. Subfamily t^ELIDOSEMlNAE. 240. Anonychia diversilinea sp. nov. Forr.wings : pale wood-brown, finely dusted with fnscous ; the costa dotted with fuscous ; first Hue oblique outwards, from costa at one-fourth to inner margin at ( 102 ) (jnite oiie-tliirJjbroacll}- diffused with red-brown externally; onter line al tlnvc-lbnrths, strongly angled outwards opposite the cell, deeply concave above and below, with a diffuse broad red-brown inner shade ; cell-spot blackisli, with a brown costal spot above it ; a brown subapical costal spot ; hindiuargin hardly darker, never with the distinct grey-brown shade that a])pears iu griaea Butler ; marginal line rLMl-lirown, distinct ; fringe coucolorous. Ilindwiitgs : paler brown, with small cell-spot and red-brown postmedian line, distinct on inner margin and becoming obsolete beyond the cell. Underside reddish ochreons, with distinct red-brown striae; forewings with black cell-spot and costal edge of outer line ; hindwiugs with a strongly bent submarginal brown line. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous. Kxjianse of wings : cJ, 32 mm.: ?,38mm. Several from Sikkim (PUcher It'!/.). Distinguished from .]. t/n.^ca Butler by the browner tint and stronger markings, and especially by the direction of the first line. 241. Anonychia pallida sjj. nov. Forewings : whitish ochreons, witli a jiink tinge, and dusted with dark grey ; first line vertical, faintly curved, brown, edged outwardly with rufous : second line l)rown, angled ontwards beyond cell towards hindmargin, and concave above and below, as in A. grisea Butler, with a broad internal shade of olive-fnscons : a small black cell-spot, and a fnscons spot on costa beyond it ; hindmargin with an ochreous grey suffusion, containing dark horizontal streaks between the veins connected with the black marginal line : fringe greyish fuscous. Hindicings : paler, with a pale brown postmedian line, bent in the middle and not reaching costa ; traces of a bent and waved submarginal line ; cell-spot grey ; area within line and before hindmargin tinged witli jiale brownish grey ; marginal line waved, dark brown ; fringe pale grey. Underside yellowish, dotted with brown ; inner-marginal area of forewiiigs I)early white ; a brown submarginal line, most distinct towards costa. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons with wings ; face more whitish ; palpi ferruginous. Expanse of wings : 28 mm. One ? from Simla, April IsiHi. Arctoscelia gen. nov. Forewings: elongate; costa curved thronghont ; apex blunt: hindmargin obliquely roimded, snbcrenulate. ff/nduings : long, both angles and hindmargin rounded. Antennae simjde in both sexes, lamellate : forehead hairy; palj)i porrect, short, densely hairy; a tuft of long hair from abdomen at base of hindwings ; femora and tibiae of hindlegs clothed with enormous tnfts of hair, as long as the tarsi, and with four spnrs. Underside of hindwings wholly woolly. The ? is without any hairs except on pectus. Neuration : forewings, cell more than half as long as wing; discoccllultir vertical; first median at three-fourths, second before end, third from end of cell ; radials normal: veins 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10 and 11 stalked: 11 anastomosing with the costal. Hindwings with first sulicostal and second median both before the end of cell. Type : Arctoscelia onusta sp. nuv. ( 103 ) 242. Ai'ctoscelia onusta sp. unv. cJ. Forewinqs : smoky black, with sliglit pale striatious; the lines deeper bl;icl<. accompanied by pale dots on the veins ; first line at one-fonrth, angled outwards in cell and on submcdian fold ; second line at three-fourths, curved parallel to hind- margin and outwards above inner margin, dentate inwards between the veins, the outward teeth on the veins followed by whitish spots, that on costa large ; sub- marginal line wavy, obscure, finely pale : a large diftuse cell-blotcli on the disco- cellular ; fringe concolorous, subcrenulate ; costa in places speckled with paler. Hindwings : smoky brown, darker towards hindmargin : fringe dark brown, paler at base, with a dark marginal line. Underside of both wings smoky brown, the hiudwiug woolly. ? somewhat paler and browner ; the underside with the ccll-si)ots and curved postmediam line blackish. Face, palpi, and thorax blackish, very hairy ; abdomen cinereous browu. Tufts of the legs in S rufous fuscous. E.xpanse of wings : 44 mm. One cJ, two ? ? , from N. Luzon, .5U0U— GOOO feet (Whitehead). 243. Arctoscelia onusta ab. mutata nov. A pair from the same locality ditier sutticieutly to deserve a separate description. Gronnd-colour olive-ochreous, thickly dusted with fuscous, the veins ferrnginoas : costa ferruginous ochreons, thickly dotted with black : the lines black, distinct aud denticulate, with faint whitish dots on veins ; the discal mark a black ring with pale centre; snbmarginal line preceded by a coarse black shade, interrupted between veins 3 and 4; fringe ferruginous, mottled with dark fuscous. Hindwings smoky brown, as in the typo. Underside of wings, head, and thorax smoky brown, not so dark as in the type. The yellow veins of the forewings are dotted with black, the intervals being filled up with smoky fuscous, powdered with fine whitish scales. Although so different in appearance, there can be no doubt of their being a form of onmta. 244. Petelia sti'igata sp. nov. Foreivings : mouse-colour, with numerous dark fuscous striae ; the lines brown ; first near base at one-fifth, slightly curved ; second similar, before middle, followed by a distinct dark cell-spot ; third at three-fourths, oblique ; a short ol)l!quc black streak from apex, continued vertically, then running inwards and denticulated along the outer line, which it nearly touches ; the space between them brownish ; a pale grey triangular blotch below apex ; fringe concolorous. Ilindwinqs : with antemedian and median ciuwed brown lines ; the cell-sjiot white ; hindmargin darker. Underside glossy cinereous, witli dark speckles. Face and palpi brown: vertex white ; thorax and abdomen concolorous with wings. Expanse of wings : 26 — 28 mm. Three d S from AVeenen, Natal. 24.3. Petelia strigata ab. pallida nov. Ground-colour paler, ocbreous grey ; the markings all more distinct : the sub- marginal line black and denticulate throughout : the triangular jialc spot diiFuse and inconspicuous ; underside much jialer. ( 10-1 ) Three t?c?, one ?, from Natal, collected by A. J. Spiller. This is probably merely a local form. The ? has the speckliags mach coarser; one cJ is much suffused in the forewings with rnfous brown. Subfamily SEJIIOTHIStNiAB. 246. Acadra fulvisparsa sji. uov. Forewings : white, thickly sprinkled and snft'nsed with ])nrplish grey; the lines dark purplish brown ; first line from just before the middle of costa to inner m.-irgin near base, starting from a costal patch ; second line from the same patch, acutely angled outwards towards apex, then straight and oblique to inner margin close to first line ; third line from costa at two-thirds, also acutely angled outwards near hindmargin, tlien straight and oblique, geminated, to inner margin at middle : two straight submarginal lines from inner margin before anal angle, coalescing and rnnmng into hindmargin beyond the angle of third line ; a whitish grey-speckled ]iatch at apex, with dark spots on costa and hindmargin ; costal space beyond third line fnlvous, this colour being irregularly diffused below towards the hindmargin and along the median nervules : a small dark cell-dot be_vond the first line ; a thick purplish brown marginal line ; fringe white, much suffused and mottled witli purplish brown. Ilindwings : with a dark basal line, a thick antemedian line, double postmedian and submarginal lines, all straight, purplish bmwn ; the broad central area white, almost unspeckled, with a black cell-spot ; hindmargin from tooth to anal angle narrowly white ; marginal line from apex to tooth thick, purple-brown, the fringe dark ; from tooth to anal angle fine, with the fringe white. Underside with the markings all suffused dark purj)lish brown, the fulvous costal patch large and well defined ; head, thorax, and abdomen jmrplish grey, mixed witli whitish. Expanse of wings : 36 mm. One S from Warri, River Niger, February 1890 (Dr. Roth). The hindmargin of forewings is oblirpie outwards from apex to vein 7, then oblique inwards, with a shallow double excision between veins 7 and 4. 247. Azata mutabilis s]i. nov. Forewings : brown, with darker speckles and striae ; the lines ferruginous, marked with dark brown or black ; first close to base, angled beneath costa ; second wholly ferruginous and obscure, passing over the cell-spot : outer line at two-thirds, minutely waved, and curved below costa, sometimes marked with brown-l)lack, followed by a dull lustrous line and again by a dark shade which contains a black spot between veins 3 and 4 ; marginal area darker ; an interrupted brown-black marginal line ; fringe concolorous. Ilimlicings : without the black s])ot, and with a submarginal ferruginous curved line. Underside bright fulvous, with black speckles to the outer line, then dark brown, with the margin again becoming fulvous. Face, palpi, and vertex dark brown ; thorax and abdomen grey. Expanse of wings : <?, 22 mm. ; ? , 24 — 2() mm. ( 105 ) One c?, 2 ? ?, from Penungali, N.E. Borneo, December 1893, January 1S04 (Cator). The c? shows hardly a trace of concavity lielow the apex of forewings : one ? has a sliglit incision ; the other and larger example has it distinct from vein 7 to 4, the marginal line being wholly black within it. The hindwings are crennlate, with a blimt angulation in the middle. 248. Azata sororcula sp. nov. Foretoings : dnll wood-colour, with darker brown irroration ; the lines darker brown, at one-fonrtli, one-half, and two-thirds respectively, all slightly bent below costa, then minutely waved to inner margin, parallel to one another ; marginal area suffused with darker, with a rather large blackish blotch in the middle adjacent to the outer line ; cell-spot and marginal line dark Iirown ; fringe brown, chequered with darker, with a pale base and dark median line. Hindwinc/s : with the cell-spot large ; an antemedian and postmedian line ; marginal area darker, but without the black blotch. Underside whitish, with coarse coalescent brown and ochreous sj)eckles ; the veins ochreous ; marginal area brown, towards the hindmargiu freckled with white in the lower half of wing. Head, thnrax, and abdomen concolorous. Expanse of wings : 26 mm. One ? from Zomba, Upper Shire District, May 1895 (Dr. P. Rendall). The hindmargin of forewings is slightly bent at vein 4, hardly indented above and more olili(|ue below : of hindwings snbcrenulate, with a perceptible tooth at vein 4. Chorodnodes gen. nov. Forewings : ample : the costa straight for tive-sixths, then strongly arched and depressed to vein 8 : hindmargin bluntly elbowed at vein 4, the anal angle strongly marked. Hindwings : with the hindmargin excised below apex and forming a large bluntly bidentate prominence at the ends of veins 6 and 7, and a deep almost semicircular excision between 6 and 4, thence running nearl}' straight to anal angle, which is obscurely lobed. ■ Palj)i porrect, moderate ; antennae simple ( ? ). JWiar/tion : forewings, cell not half as long as wing ; discocellular bent, the lower arm oblique ; iirst median at two-thirds, second close before end of cell, third from the end; radials normal; 7, 8, '.» stalked; 10 and 11 stalked. In the hindwings the subcostals and last two medians rise close together from the ends of cell. Type : Chorodnodes rothi sp. nov. 240. Chorodnodes rothi sjt. nov. Forewings : ochreous whitish, with a dull olive tinge, and speckled with olive and fuscous; first line at one-sixth, starting from a brown costal spot, running out along, and bent rectangularly on, the sirbcostal, and incurved from the median; second line at two-thirds, incurved at costa, then straight to near inner margin before anal angle ; followed by a smoky olive-brown suffusion, the space immediately ( 106 ) succeeding the Hue beiusr piilcr and edged by a Hue of dark teetli, ditl'iise above and becoming black-brown and more distinct towards inner margin, where the line ends in a dark blotch : siibmarginal line pale, wavy, edged by brown triangular blotciies, excnrved above towards hindmargin : cell-spot large, curved, brown with black edges, covering the whole of the discocellular and merged in a brown costal spot above ; a narrow brown marginal line just before the actual margin, which is of the pale ground-colour : fringe rufous fuscous, jiale below the apex and at vein 3. Jfr/ir/trimj.i : with a black cell-spot, preceded by a forked antomcdian brown line : the pale gronnd-colour becomes smoky olive towards the hindmargin, and contains a dark brown snbmarginal line from costa before apex, bent in the middle and incurved and obsolescent towards inner margin : a curved whitish line from anal angle to hindmargin o])])osite cell : snliapical ])rojection with a large brown white- edged blotch : marginal line deep brown, leaving, as in forewings, a fine pale space beyond it, and from costa to vein 7 edged internally by a pale line ; fringe from apex to projection and in the excision opposite cell dark, the rest pale. Underside whitish, with coarse olive-fuscous s])eckles ; a broad brown sub- marginal fascia, its inner edge crenulate, and extending in forewings to hindmargin opposite the cell, in hindwings filling up the prominence and irregularly broken 1>elow. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous white, speckled with darker. Expanse of wings : 58 mm. Two ? ? from Warri, River Niger, April l><m (Dr. Uotli). This very conspicuous insect is named in ht)nour of tlie collector. 25(t. Gonodela commixta sj). nov. Forewings : whitish, this ground-colour almost entirely hidden, except towards apex and hindmargin, by purplish grey and brownish suffusion ; costa j-ellowish ochreous, with fuscous striae ; the three lines dark brown, .it one-third, one-half, and two-thirds resjjectively, all bent below costa, tiien oblique and parallel ; a dark, somewhat irregular, marginal line : fringe dark grey, with a paler base. Hindwings : with slightly waved antemodiau, postmodiau, and snbmarginal lines ; both wings with black cell-spot. Underside whiter, much freckled with fnscons ; a broad snbmarginal fuscous fascia : forewings with a white subapical spot ; hindwings with the inner-marginal area whiter : head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. One 6 from Warri, River Niger, February 1890 (Dr. Roth). The hindwings have the hindmargin produced in the middle, and somewhat convex on either side: antennae filiform, hardly pubescent. 251. Gonodela distingaxenda sj). nov. Forewings : whitish, uniformly dusted with fuscous atoms ; the marginal area sufinsed with pale puri)lish grey, which sometimes extends along the iimer margin and pervades the basal area ; costa grey, mixed with ochreous ; first line at one- fourth, outcurved from costa, bent above the median, and oblique inwarcts ; median line generally diftuse, curved just below costa, touching the cell-spot, and incurved so as to approximate to the inner line below the middle ; outer line bluntly angled on vein 6, thence minutely waved to inner margin at thrce-fourth> ; submurginal line obscure, pale grey or whitish, preceded at costa by a triangular fuscous blotch, ( 107 ) and below the middle by some iiTetriilar-shaped blackish patches ; a pale grey apical lilotch ; fringe fuscous, mottled with darker, and with a darker central line ; marginal line blackish, variable in intensity. Hini/u'im/s : witli thick antemedian line, including the cell-spot, slightly waved postmedian and pale snbmarginal line, following a blackish shade. Underside whiter, thickly dusted with darker ; all the veins ochreons : tbe lines and shades browner, distinct in the ? , paler and mixed with ocbreous in the J J. Face, ])alpi, and collar dark brown ; vertex and abdomen pale grey ; thorax fuscous grey. Expanse of wings : J , -i-i mm. ; ? , 34 mm. Two SS, one ? , from Weenen, Natal. A well-marked species, distinguished by the uniform striation and ])uri>lish grey suffusion. 252. Gonodela duplicilinea sp. nov. ForetcinffS : greyish white, dusted with dark grey, and partially suffused with fuscous ; the lines brown, at one-fourth, one-half, and two-thirds ; all angled on the subcostal, then oblique, slightly waved inwards, the first and second thickened on costa ; the third double, each arm marked by a black spot at the angle, and by two on veins 3 and 4 respectively, the upper of the two outer ones being small or obsolescent, the lower prominent ; a brown costal triangle beyond outer line and a fuscous cloud on hindmargin opposite cell; cell-spot and marginal dots black; fringe fuscous, with a dark central line and pale base. Uin(hmng» : similar, but the second line nearly central, followed by a broad brownish fascia. Underside whitisli, with the fascia and veins ferruginous. Head, tlnn-ax, and abdomen cinereous. Expanse of wings : 30 — 32 mm. Four ? ? from Weenen, Natal, October 1S93. 253. Gonodela impar sp. nov. ? . Forewings : white, with scattered fuscous scales ; the costa yellowish, with dark striae ; first line obscure, curved, close to base; median line bent at costa, then vertical, touching the black cell-spot, with a blotched inner shade adjacent ; exterior line at two-thirds, brown, sharply angled outwards on subcostal vein, then vertical and slightly waved to inner margin at two-thirds ; marginal area suffused with purplish grey ; a blackish costal streak touching angle of outer line, followed by two pale blotches, the lower one oblong, distinct, and white ; a triangular whitish spiace on hindmargin below middle ; blackisli blotches beyond outer line between veins 3 and 5, and on the submedian fold : a crenulate dark grey marginal line ; fringe white, chequered with grey at ends of veins, altogether grey opposite the cell. Ilindwings : with thick double antemedian line preceding the black cell-dot, and wavy subdentate postmedian line : marginal area as in forewings, with one black blotch between veins 3 and 4. Underside white, fuscous-speckled, with the markings deep brown ; the ccll- jxits large. Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish ochreons. cJ with both wings sufi'used with dark purplish grey, mixed with olive-ochreous. ( 108 ) scales, the marginal area ileepest ; all the markings can he obseurely traced : iiniler- side exactly like that of the ? ; head, thorax, and abdomen all dark grey. Ex])anse of wings : 'iC^ mm. One (J, one ?, "Warri, River Niger; the o dated February, the ? June, 1896 (Dr. Hoth). The forewings of the <S are much narrower and more elongate than those of the ? , the hindmargin more oblique and not convex ; the hindwings more rounded, the tooth at vein 4 not so ])rominent as in ? . Though taken at different dates, and so dissimilar at first sight in ajipearance, I feel sure they are sexes of the same sjieeies. The ? is very much like the ? of G. di sting uenda AVarr. from Natal. 2.")4. Gonodela multistrigata sj). nov. Forf.icings : white, densely striated with fuscous, and with the basal and mar- ginal areas more or less suffused with fuscous and ochreous scales ; the lines black ; first at one-fourtli, curved below costa, shortly indented on the median vein, then obliquely curved inwards ; median line also curved below costa, then obliciue, sometimes preceded by a dark line in the lower half, sometimes thick and diti'use throughout : exterior line outcurved from costa, forming a narrow rectangular projection beyond cell, then irregularly waved to inner margin at two-thirds, followed below middle by a thick fuscous shade, which leaves two or three spots of white beyond the line ; this shade becomes black between veins 3 and 4 ; sub- marginal line obscurely jialer, preceded on costa by a dark blotch : a dark black- streaked cloud on hindmargin ojiposite the cell : cell-spot black, distinct : all the lines thickened on costa, the exterior line followed on costa by an oclireous or white spot ; fringe mottled, dark and light fuscous, with a pale base beyond a line of black marginal luniiles. Hindwings : with a dark, sometimes diffuse, antemedian line and a dentate jiostmedian one : submarginal line pale, preceded by a dark fascia containing black blotches in the middle ; fringe as in forewings. Underside white, with coarse dark speckles ; middle and exterior lines isartially double, the latter followed by a fuscous fascia, which is diffused to hindmargin opiwsite the cell in both wings, and in the forewings is extended to the apex : the cell-spots black. Head, thorax, and abdomen cinereous, mottled with fuscous. Expanse of wings : J , 30 mm. ; ? , 32 mm. Six examples of both sexes from Weenen, Natal. 255. Gubaria fluidata sp. nov. Fore-wings : purplish grey ; the basal area browner, edged by a sinuate brown line, and containing the l)asal line, which is angled below costa : second line brown, only slightly angled below costa, the angulation filled up by the purplish grey shade, which protrudes somewhat above the median vein : the white central fascia has therefore its edges both irregularly curved, instead of straight ; a broad blackish fascia beyond second line, forming a square black blotch on costa, edged ]>j the paler but indistinct submarginal line ; marginal area purjilish grey; a dark marginal line; fringe purplish, flecked with white below apex and above anal angle ; the white fascia is much freckled with brown towards costa and contains tlic black cell-spot. Hindwings : with the basal area short, not reaching beyond the middle of inner margin, the white fascia therefore running to the margin just beyond middle and ( 109 ) not uaiTOwed off; outer line partly double ; the black markings set in yellow scales: a small white blotch on hindmargin below the angle. Underside with the basal area yellow, edged irregularly witli Immwu : the marginal dark brown area including more than h:ilf the wing in the hindwings, with the white marginal blotch distinct. Palpi ferruginous : head, thorax, and abdomen above purplish grey; anal segment of abdomen, sides, and underneath yellow. Expanse nf wings : 36 mm. One ? from Penungah, N.E. Borneo, December 1893. 250. Gubaria umbrata sp. nov. Forewini/s : whitish, irrorated and, except along the sjiace between midille and outer lines, suffused with dull brown ; first line at one-fourth, obscure, bent below costa, then oblirpie ; middle line diffuse, passing over the dark cell-spot ; outer line bluntly angled on vein G, then incurved to inner margin at two-thirds ; the brown marginal area marked with blackish blotches beyond the line, above inner margin, between veins 3 and 4, and beyond the angulation ; from this last blotch a ))ale mark starts towards the apex ; fringe brown, with paler base, beyond a dark brown marginal line. Iliiuhriihjfi : with broad diffuse antemedian shade, distinct black cell-spot, and strongly sinuous brown postmedian line : the dark brown outer third with two blackish blotches. Underside whiter, with the same markings : thorax and abdomen concolorous ; I lead wanting. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. One c? from Natal (A. J. Spiller). The hindmargin of forewiugs is slightly bent at vein 4: of hindwings crenulate, more strongly above the tooth at vein 4. 257. Luxiaria taeniata sp. nov. Forewint/s : ochreous, dusted with reddish and fuscous scales : the lines parallel to hindmargin: first at oue-fourth, bent on subcostal, brownish, interrupted; median shade diffuse, from a dark grey costal spoi ; outer line marked by distinct red-brown spots on the veins, bent at vein 6, and sinuate above inner margin, followed by a broad grey clearly dentated fascia, which is again succeeded by a more obscure and narrow dentate shade ; fringe ochreous, with a fine reddish subcrenulate marginal line at base, preceded by distinct reddish dots between the v(>ins ; cell-spot linear, grey, obscure. Hindwings : the same, but the cell-sjiot black, round, and distinct. Underside whitish straw-colour, with the markings deep brown ; a dentate submarginal fascia, touching the margin beyond the cell, and precedi^d by the dotted outer line ; cell-s])ot and lower part of median shade expressed. Face and palpi ferruginous ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen ochreous. Expanse of wings : 38 mm. One ? from W;irri, River Niger, June ISiKi (Dr. Roth). ( 110 ) Peridela gen. nov. The species referred to tliis geuiis bear t(i iionodi'la the same rehitioii that Tepltrina Dnj). does to Te.phrinojjsix Warr., the antennae of the S being pectinated instead of simj)!)- pubescent. At present they are all African insects. Type : Peridela crassata sp. nov. 258. Peridela crassata sp. nov. Foieir//t(/s: greyish white, tliickly ilusted with fnsc-ons atoms, the marginal area suifused with grey aud fnscons ; the lines darker ; first from one-fourth of costa to inner margin near base, curved below costa ; middle line from nearly two-thirds of costa to inner margin before middle, nearly straight and mncli thickened below middle ; onter line at three-fourths, black, slightly curved below costa, oblique and irregularly waved to twtvthirds of inner margin, finely edged externally with paler, and followed by a dark fuscous shade, which is black at osta and between veins 3 and 4, and is edged by pale grey scales forming the submarginal line : cell-spot black ; veins towards liindmargin ochreous : fringe fuscous, with a pale base, anil a line of Ijlackish lunules along margin. Ilindwings : with thick antemedian and wavy postmediau blackish lines : a black blotch between veins 3 and 4 in the dark marginal area. In the J the central area between the middle and outer lines is decidedly paler than the rest of the wing ; in the S the difference is scarcely perceptible. Underside paler, with the markings more distinct. Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous grey. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. One J, one ?, from Mpeta, Loangwa River, December IfJO.'i (Coryndon). 2-50. Peridela curvifascia sji. nov. Forewings: whitish, speckled and snlfused with fuscous aud lirowu, except a curved and sinuous i)ale fascia between the middle and outer Hues, which is speckled only; a dark dot near base ; a curved aud wavy first line at one-third; a sinuous oblique median line from costa beyond middle to inner margin ratlier before middle: outer line similar, but broken, followed by a diffuse dark Ijrown shade : the apex paler ; a black cell-si>ot. Hindiring.i: similar, without first line: fringes mottled whitish and brown. with a dark crennlate basal line. Underside similar, but duller. Head, thorax, aud abdomen darjv fuscous. Expanse of wings : 20 mm. One S from Mpeta, Loangwa River, December ISfi.j (Coryndon). 260. Peridela interrupta sp. uov. Forewinqs : white, with jjalo brown suffusion, and dusted with fuscous ; the markings dark brown and blackish, distinct ; costa suffused narrowly wif h fuscous ; first line at (jne-fourth, bent below costa ; median line shortly beyond it, curved ; both starting from a dark brown costal spot : outer line from an oTilique costal streak, sharply pomted at its extremity, interrupted by the i)ale ground-colour below subcostal ; its lower two-thirds curved, dark lirown, followed on costa by a brownish ( 111 ) triangnlar spot with dark brown outer edge, and below by a thick blackish and fuscous shade, which forms an acute tooth outwards below vein 4 : a small dark spot before apex, and a brownish triangular cloud on hindmargin below apex : fringe fuscous, with pale basal line. Ilimlwings : with dark brown antemedian and postmedian lines, nearly straight and approximating on inner margin ; the space between them white, with a clear dark cell-spot ; postmedian line followed by a broad fuscous shade containing a narrow black blotch iu middle : submarginal shade white : marginal area striated with fuscous. Underside the same, but less distinct. Face and palpi dark brown: thorax and abdomen fuscous. Expanse of wings : 30 mm. Three S <S from Weeuen, Natal. 261. Peridela triumbrata sp. nov. Forewings : whitish ochreous, witii thick and coarse fuscous strigulation : the costa and veins tinged ^nth yellowish : the lines thick and diffuse, dark brown ; first at one-fourth, angled on the subcostal vein, then oblique to inner margin near base, much thickened below the median ; second from middle of costa, which it does not appear to touch, to inner margin just beyond first line ; outer line from costa at two-thirds, finer, angled outwards on vein 6, then oblique to inner margin bej-ond middle, followed on costa by a brown blotch, and below the angle by a brown shade, which broadens to the inner margin and is bounded by the pale indistinct sub- marginal line ; marginal line dark brown, crenulate : fringe ochreous, with dark mottlings ; cell-spot l)rown, touching middle line. Ilimlwings : with single antemedian, double postmedian, and waved submarginal brown lines ; cell-spot distinct, blackish. Underside with the markings all paler. Face, palpi, collar, and vertex brown, with ochreous scales ; thorax and abdomen ochreous, with brown scales intermixed. Expanse of wings : 20 mm. One 6 from Penaug. Much resembling /'. intern</j/'/ from Xatal, but without the strong black outer tooth. 262. Petrodava(?) nigi'ipuncta sp. nov. Fore/rings : yellow, sutt'nsed with deeper yellow or dull orauge : costa minutely dotted with purplish ; a purplish black costal spot before apex, accompanied by three or four black striae ; fringe deep yellow. Hindwiiigs : wholly yellow. Both wings with deeper yellow cell-spot. Underside wholly yellow. Head, thorax, and abdomen all yellow. Expanse of wings : 26 mm. One ? marked simply Australia. A species of very doubtful location until the 3 is known. 263. Rhinodia(?) sordidata sji. nov. Forewiiigs : dull ochreons grey, with dark grey striations ; an indistinct central shade, passing over the dark cell-spot ; a diffuse curved dark shade at five-sixths running to anal angle ; a dark marginal line ; fringe grey. ( 11-^ ) Eindnings : the same. Underside paler, ochreons dusted with brown ; the submarginal shade brown and ranch more distinct. Face and thorax brownish grey ; palpi and antennae paler : abdomen wanting. Expanse of wings : 20 mm. One ? from Natal (A. J. Spiller). The antennae are thick and slightly subserrate : palpi j)orrect, as long as io Rhinorfia Gnen., to which genus, in the absence of the (J, it may be provisionally referred. 2(i4. Semiothisa parallacta sp. nov. Forewings : sandy ochreous, thickly dusted with olive-fuscous, and with a darker tint towards hindmargin : costa dotted with lilack, and with a black spot at origin of inner and outer lines, and two more before apex : lines olive-fnscons, all angnlated below costa, then oblique and parallel to hindmargin, at one-fourth, one- half, and three-fonrths respectively : the onter line more strongly angled beyond cell, and marked with blackish above and below the angle, the angle itself partially obliterated by a pale streak towards apex ; submarginal line waved, indistinct ; a line of brown dashes along hindmargin between the veins, which are paler : cell-spot faint, brown : fringe ochreous grey, with a paler basal line. Ilindwings : with antemedian line curved round the black cell-spot, wavy post- median line, and two submarginal dark shades, the inner one with some black scales or spots upon it. Underside straw-colonr, thickly mottled with brown ; the veins and costa yellow, the latter striped with black ; forewings with an interrupted brown marginal fascia: lines brown, intcrrnpted. Head and thorax like wings ; abdomen paler ochreous. Expanse of wings : 27 mm. One i from Zomba, Upper Shire River, 3000 feet, December 1S95 (Dr. P. Kendall). Hindmargin of forewings entire, of hindwings bluntly toothed. 265. Tephrina deerraria Wlk. ab. (?) dissocia uov. All the markings much less varied and distinct than in the type ; the outer line less sinuous ; the marginal area beyond it uniformly fuscous ; the two inner lines obscnre, and often obsolete. One cJ, two ? ? , from Weenen, Natal, January to March 1S94. A much neater-looking form than the type, and possibly distinct. 2(iii. Tephrina furcata sj). nov. (J. Foi-ewings : sandy ochreous, dusted with darker; the three lines oblique,, and distinct only towards inner margin, at one-fourth, one-half, and three-fourths respectively ; the first and third brown towards inner margin, the first edged internally, and the third externally, with i>aler : the middle line diffuse, dark ochreous ; the outer line is bent before apex and retracted to costa, -the angle marked by two small black spots, and throwing oft' to hindmargin below apex a pale oblique streak ; the onter line is followed by a darker ochreous shade, edged by the obscurely paler nearly straight submarginal line : fringe concolorons ; the marginal line finely brown, with darker dots at ends oi' veins. ( 113 ) Hindicings : with a straight brownish, externally pale-edged, line from inner margin before anal angle to costa at two-thiVds, before whicli it is retracted : a small black cell-spot. Underside duller, with the outer line and shade alone marked. ? paler, towards the hindmargin dusted with blackish scales : first and second Hues nearly obsolete ; third more curved, pale ochreons throughout, on the inner margin edged inwardly with black scales, and with a black spot on each side between veins 3 and 4 ; the black spots at the angle plainer. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons with wings. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. One c?, one ?, from Weenen, Xatal, October 1895. The hindmargin of forewings is almost imi)erceptibly indented at vein 7, thence curved obliipiely to anal angle. In the hiudwings the hindmargin is nearly straight from anal angle to vein 4, where it is faintly bent, and slightly crennlate between 4 and fi, fi and T, at which last vein it is again bent. 267. Tephrina geminata sp. uov. Forewings : ochreons, finely dusted with fuscous ; the costa brownish ; first line at one-fourth, brown, curved below costa, then oblique : outer line oblique from before ajiex to beyond middle of inner margin, followed by a brownish fascia, marked with darker opposite the cell ; an indistinct double submarginal streak ; a row of dark marginal spots between the veins : fringe ochreons and fnscons. Hhnhcinys : with the outer lines much paler ; both wings with a small black cell-spot. Underside the same, but much jialer. Face and paljii brown : thorax and abdomen ochreons. Expanse of wings : 26 mm. Two cJJ, one ?, from Weenen, Natal, October 1893. 26S. Tephrina inconspicvia sji. nov. Forew/ngs : very pale sandy ochreons, with darker ochreons irroration ; costa dotted with pale fuscous ; first line at one-fourth, second at two-thirds, faintly darker, both bent below costa, then straight and slightly oblique, the second followed by a slightly darker fascia ; marginal line pale brown ; fringe concolorous ; cell-spot ochreons. Hint/wings : with cell-sjiot minutely black, the outer third of wing beyond the faint postmedian line darker. Underside still paler, with the markings faintly visible. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous ; shaft of antennae white. Expanse of wings : 26 mm. One cJ from Weenen, Natal. 260. Tephrinopsis cong'ener sp. nov. Forewings : whitish ochreons, thickly irrorated with dark ochreons : the costa narrowly brown ; traces of a curved brown line at one-fourth ; a dark linear cell- spot ; outer line at five-sixths, slightly curved below costa, thick, brown, followed by a fine indistinct line : area beyond suffused with deeper ochreons : a fine brown marginal line ; fringe ochreons. 8 ( 11-1 ) Hindivings : similar : the onter line tbinuer, and obsolescent above middle. Underside yellower : the veins ocbreons ; mar<.anal area tinged with rnfons. Face, jialjii, and collar dark brown : vertex, tborax, and abdomen like wings. Expanse of wings : 20 mm. One d from North Lnzon, .60uO— GOOO feet ("Whitehead). 2711. Tephrinopsis marmorata -^p. nuv. Forewings : pale ochreons or bone-colonr, varied with fnscous striae and atoms; the lines dark fnscons or blackish ; first at one-fonrth, bent below costa, then obliqne : second central, straight and obliqae : third blackish, at two-thirds, angled beyond cell, then incurved to inner margin at two-thirds, followed by a brown shade marked with black patches, which is again edged by the pale ochreoxTS snbmarginal line, which ends in a pale triangular apical patch ; the margin beyond it darker, with thicker striae ; marginal line concise, brown : fringe pale fnscous, except at extreme ajiex, where it becomes ochreons. Ilindtcings : with cell-dot and postmedian line brown, the latter followed by a pale brown shade, sometimes marked with dark spots. Underside duller. Face, vertex, and collar dull brown : thora.x and 'abdomen ochreons, spotted with brown. Expanse of wings : 34 mm. Both sexes from Weenen, Natal, October 1893 to January 18'.)4. The species varies much. The above description was made from a dark specimen: the palest aberration, for which I ])ropose the name pallidu, is yellowish ochreons, with all the markings faintly fulvous, and no dark dusting whatever, and all intermediate forms occur. The fringes vary from fnscons to ochreou.s, or ochreons chequered with darker. 27 1. Tycoonia natalensis sp. nov. $. Forewings: olivc-ochreous, striated and sutFused with rufous and fuscous, the whole marginal area being ferruginous brown : first line at one-fonrth, bent below costa, rufous, starting from a fuscous costal mark ; median shade diffuse, including the small black cell-spot : outer line at two-thirds, indented basewards beyond cell and on submedian fold : snbmarginal line wavy, indistinct, the marginal area within it deeper coloured tlian that beyond it ; a dark blotcli at anal angle : fringe rufous, pinkish white towards apex. Ilindwings : similar ; the median line less diffuse ; the submarginal marked by black blotches below apex. Underside bright yellow, with fuscous striutions : forewings with some red scales in the submedian area ; marginal area bright ferruginous, tinged with yellow on costa, and with a whitish smear below apex ; in the hindwings with a yellow patch in middle of hindmargin. Face and paljii dull brown ; tliorax and abdomen like ground-colour of wings. ? . Pale yellow, finely speckled with brownish ; tiic lines all fine, only the onter one distinct, and without the indentations that are visible in the S ; ma'i'ginal area hardly darker, suffused and speckled with dark towards apex and anal angle ; fringe yellow. Underside yellow, with the marginal area pale ferruginous along the outer line : the head, thorax, and abdomen all vellow. ( 115 ) Expanse of wings : 38 mm. One (J, one ? , from Natal (A. J. Spiller). The hindwings are slightly truncate at apex, the hindmargiu bluntly crenulate in its upper half. In Fetrodava Mosignata, from the West Coast of Africa, the upper half of hindmargin is strongly dentate, witli deep incisions between the teeth. The forewings of the t? have a long double fovea between the submedian fold and vein, partially visible above ; the cell in both sexes more than one-third as long as wing. Subfamily ENNOMINAE. 27:,'. Azelinopsis brunnea sp. nov. Forewings : ochreons, tinged with ferruginous, thickly dusted and, except towards apex and costa, nearly entirely suffused with fuscous brown ; a diffuse oblique blackish first line at one-third, and a still more diffuse reddish brown shade in middle just beyond an angulated hyaline mark on tlie discocellular ; outer line finer, nearly straight and oblique at three-fourths, bluntly angulated below and retracted to costa, followed by a black spot between veins 3 and 4 ; fringe concolorous. Hiiuliciiijjs : similar ; but the central shade bejori: the tritid hyaline cell-mark, which is closely followed by the straight and double outer line ; the black spot further from the line than in forewings. Underside much paler, with fulvous suffusion and fuscous sjieckling. Head dark rufous ; thorax and abdomen deep brown. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. One S from Assaba, River Niger (Dr. Crosse). Much smaller, but in shape and markings agreeing well with Azelhwp&is externa Warr. from Mackay, Queensland. This $ has the antennae armed with short thick pectinations. Cenoctenucha gen. nov. Like OduntOjjera Stph., but with simple, not pectinated antennae, in the ^J. Tyjie : C. similaria Moore. 273. Cenoctenucha imitata sp, nov. Almost exactly like 0</oHtopera hilinearia Swinli., but the ground-colour slightly yellower ; the lines dark grey ; first at one-third, curved and bent on the median and submedian veins ; the second faintly dentate and evenly curved from costa to inner margin ; the first preceded and the second followed by pale spots on the veins ; a straight oblique dark grey submarginal shade beyond second line ; this submarginal shade is distinct on the underside, liut is wanting in bilinearia ; the S antennae being simjde and not pectinated will serve to distinguish it. Cenoctenucha urmilarin Moore has two deep excavations in the hindmargin between the apex and central angle ; C. lentiginosaria Swinh. has the same portion of the hindmargin perfectly straight : the present species shows two faint curves with a slight tooth between them, exactly as in 0. bilinearia Swinh., with which it also agrees in size. A few examples from the Khasias. ( 116 ) Cophophlebia gen. uov. Forewings : ynth. costa nearlj- straight, curved slightly at base and towards apex ; apex rectangnlar ; hiudmargin obliiine to vein 3, where it is faintly elbowed and more oblique below. Hindwimjs : with apex snbtrnncate, slightly elbowed at veins 7 and 3, and ])rodnc('d at anal angle. Palpi porrect, short ; tongue minute ; antennae of d strongly bipectinate ; hind tibiae flattened and slightly thickened, with four spurs. Neuration : forewings, cell three-fifths of wing ; discocellular vertical above concave below ; first median at five-sixths, second aud third from end of cell ; lower radial from above the centre of discocellular, upper from upper end of cell ; veins 8 and 9 stalked from before end of cell; 7 missing; 10 and 11 stalked and anastomosing shortly with the costal. Hindwings with first subcostal and second median both before ends of cell ; radial from above centre of discocellular. Type : Coplwjjhlebia olivatn sp. uov. 274. CophopMebia olivata sp. nov. Forewings : yellowish olive-green ; costa pearl-grey ; the Hnes deeper green ; first at one-third, bent below costa, then oblique inwards, edged internally with pearl-grey ; second at four-fifths of costa, angled outwards above vein 0, then oblique inwards, slightly sinuous to submedian vein, where it curves more obliquely to inner margin near middle ; it is edged outwardly with pearl-grey, aud preceded by a fainter sinuous green line : traces of an oblique median line ; submargiual line hardly visible ; some dark striae above anal angle ; fringe green, becoming brown at anal angle. Ilindicings : with straight diffuse median line; fine slightly wavy postmedian line, edged with pearl-grey; some dark striae towards base of wing. Underside much yellower, the markings dark green : marginal area tinged with grey. Head and thorax olive-green : abdomen (apjiareutly) more ochreous. Expanse of wings : 34 mm. One S from Zomba, Upper Shire River, 3000 feet, December 18y5 (Dr. P. Kendall). Superficially somewhat resembling the species of the Indian genus Mimockroa Warr. 275. Corymica immaculata sp. nov. Forewings : yellow, with very faint, hardly darker, irroration ; costa minutely dotted with brown, and with a brown streak from base to second line ; the three lines distinct, ferruginous ; first at one-fourth, bent in cell ; second before middle of costa, strongly bent, or angled outwards be3'ond the small black cell-spot, and obliqne inwards to before middle of inuer margin, where it ends in a small white spot ; third line from before apex, where it is narrowly forked, to two-thirds of iiui,er margin, sinuous ; fringe yellow, witli the base brownish and tips whitisli : no dark spots on inner margin. Ilindicings : with antemedian and postmediau pale ferruginous lines ; a small black cell-spot ; marginal area rather deeper coloured. Underside yellow, with numerous ferruginous striae ; the lines ferruginous, the ( in ) outer one thickened : npper half of marg-inal area with ferrugiaous striae massed together, and also below the lower end of cell. Palpi aad lower half of face j-ellowish : upper half of face and vertex shining white ; collar ferruginous ; thorax and abdomen yellow. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. A pair from Sikkim, April and May 1880 (Pilcher %.). Distinguished by the distinct lines, and the sinuous Kiicrnnidatrd margins of the wings. Eurythecodes gen. nov. Foreicinys : broad, the costa arched throughout ; apex slightly produced : hind- margin bluntly elbowed at vein 4, oblique below, slightly concave above ; anal angle blunt. Hindmnqs : with a small tooth at vein 4, the margin somewhat convex on either side ; both angles well marked. Palpi porrect, rough beneath, hardly reaching beyond face ; antennae of ? shortly and evenly pectinated. Neurat>07i : forewings, cell very broad, about half as long as wing; discocellular with lower arm oblique ; first median at two-thirds, second well before end, third from end of cell ; radials normal ; veins 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10 and 11 coincident, anasto- mosing at a jioint with costal, and not separating till near costa. Type : Einyt/iecodes nigricola sp. nov. Akin to Spilopcra and its allies. 276. Eurythecodes nigi'icola sp. uov. Forcicinqs : jJale ochreous, thickly dusted with rust-coloured atoms, the basal and marginal areas darker: first line at one-third, rectangularly bent on the subcostal vein and vertical to inner margin ; second line from two-thirds of inner margin, curved towards apex, but retracted to costa, and joined at the angle by a short oblique streak from apex ; this line is edged outwardly, and the first inwardly, by a diffuse brown shade ; a minute dark cell-spot ; fringe concolorons. Hindtcings : with the dark line central, i)receded by the small cell-spot. One of the two examples is wholly suffused with fuscous grey, having the outer line bent as well as curved, and the marginal area much darker, showing traces of a paler waved submarginal shade between darker clouds towards inner margin. Underside paler, with the line of the hindwings doubled towards costa. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings. Expanse of wings : 30—32 mm. Two ? ? from Warri, River Niger, February 1896 (Dr. Roth). 277. Eurythecodes straminea sji. nov. Forewhigs : straw-colour, dotted with rufous aud fuscous scales ; costa spotted with dark ; first line at one-third, obscure, pliuubeons, bent outwards, with ferru- ginous marks on the veins on its oiitside edge ; outer line from two-thirds of inner margin, straight and oblique towards apex, angled ou vein 7 and retracted to costa, plumbeous, preceded by a row of red dots on veins ; some fuscous and rufous dots forming a shade from apex to angle of this line; a vertical greyish streak from inner margin before anal angle ; fringe grey; a minute black cell-dot. ( 118) Jlindnimjs : with an angiilated median line, jdimibeons, edged inwardly by a tliin rnst-colonred line, and preceded by a black cell-sjiot : marginal area somewhat clouded with darker, with traces of a dark blotch beyond the angle of the line. Underside less speckled, the lines obscurer. Head, thorax, and abdomen straw- colour. Expanse of wings : 36 mm. One ? from Warri, Hiver Niger, February 1896 (Dr. lloth). 2T8. Fasceliina aurifera sp. nov. Foreu-ings : dull purplish brown, striated in j)arts with darker, and with paler ochraceons tints ; an oblique dark line at one-third, bent at costa ; an oblique diffuse dark median shade; costa between these two lines with a shallow pinkish grey patch, irrorated with dark ; some gilded ochreons scales below it ; a wavy dark brown outer line from inner margin at two-tliirds, retracted to costa and acutely angled outwards below apex ; the costa beyond it pinkisli grey ; a broad gilded ochreons submarginal shade ; margin itself and fringe brown ; the excisions on outer and inner margins very shallow and inconspicuous. Hindicimis : brownish ochreons, with scattered dark striae ; a very wavy dark postmedian line, preceded by a dull burnished central fascia ; an obscurely waved dark submarginal line ; margin and fringe deep brown. Underside of forewings ochreons and yellow, thickly covered with fine jiurple striae ; the costa yellow ; the central baud vinous red ; outer line and marginal area red-brown ; submarginal shade gilded yellow : hiudwiugs deep 3'ellow, with purplish striae along costa, and two wavy and interrupted postmedian purjjlish lines, coalescing towards inner margin ; hindmargin irregularly purple. Pectus and basal half of abdomen below yellow. Face and palpi red-brown ; thorax black-brown, paler in front ; abdomen cinereous, becoming very deep fuscous towards apex. Expanse of wings : 3s mm. One c? from Jlouut Mulu, North Borneo (Hose). 279. Heterolocha spurcata sp. nov. Forewings : yellowish ochreons, with numerous dark fuscous transverse strigae; first line from a large costal blotch at one-third to inner margin at one-fourth, dark fuscous ; second line from five-sixths of costa to inner margin at two-thirds, with a large dark fuscous and black blotch beyond it between veins 2 and 4. Ilindirings : with a dark curved submarginal line. Underside the same. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous. Expanse of wings : 28 mm. One ? from Weenen, Natal. The only example is very mucli worn, and the description is necessarily some- what deficient. 280. Heteromiza vinilinea sj). nov. Forewings: fawn-colour, with fine fuscous irroration ; an oblique exterior pale line, edged internally with red-brown and marked by minute dark dots on the veins, simply curved below costa, not angulated as in JI. caatanearia Moore, from costa shortly before apex to inner margin at two-thirds, produced across hindwings as a median line ; fringe of both wings concolorous ; no cell-spots or inner line. ( 119 ) Underside of both wings paler, -witli a curved brown line beyond middle ; liind- wings with a largish brown cell-spot. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons ; abdomen below whitish. Expanse of wings : 39 mm. One 5 from Lomi)a-Battan, South Celebes, 3U00 feet, March 1896 (Frnh- storfer). The neuration of forewings differs from that of //. castanearia Moore ; veins lU and II both rise from cell, 10 anastomoses with 11 and again with the stalk of 8, 9. 281. Hyposidra albifurcata sp. nov. Foreicinys : dnll smok}- black, with deep black cell-spot ; at two-thirds of costa a white fascia rises, widening downwards to vein 3, and there bifitrcating to inner and hindmargin : ti[) of wing white ; fringe black, except at end of the white streak. Ilindicini/s : with tlie streak beginning broader, its edges diverging nniformlv to either side of anal angle, so forming a conical fiiscia, with two or three black spots Bear anal angle. Underside duller. Head, thorax, and abdomen all black. ' Exjtanse of wings : 42 mm. One c? from Bongao, Snlu Islands. 282. Hyposidra prunicolor sp. nov. Forewhiqa : purplish grey, tinged in parts with brown; the markings indistinct; traces of a darker basal patch, edged by a bent pale fascia; a shining greyish denticu- late curved line at two-thirds ; marginal area with a diffuse dentate-edged shining grey fascia, narrowing towards anal angle. Hindwings : with a dark diffuse antemedian line, a pale waved and curved postmediau line, and a pale grey cloirdy fascia from costa close to this last line and runniog to anal angle. Underside dull purplish brown, with the lines dark brown. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons ; the face darker brown. Expanse of wings : 70 mm. One S from Stephansort, German New Guinea (Cotton and Webster). Forewings with the apex not so much ])roduced, but the projection deeper vertically: the hindmargin simply incurved, not excised, below vein 6, and bowed to anal angle. 283. Hyposidra variabilis ab. siccifolia nov. Forewings : brownish ochreons, with dark brown transverse striae, the base suffused with fuscous ; a straight, inwardly oblique, dull red-brown streak across centre of wing : an indistinct curved dark brown exterior shade ; some brown clouds towards apex and anal angle. Hindwings : with diffuse dark brown curved antemedian and postmediau "bands ; marginal area broadly dark brown : both wings with black cell-spot : fringes dark brown. Underside like upper, with the markings less distinct ; ajjcx of forewings pale grey. Head, face, and thorax dark brown ; abdomen paler. Expanse of wings : 70 mm. One ? from Cedar Bay, south of Cooktown, Queensland (A. S. Meek). ( 120 ) 2^4. Nothomiza costalis Moore ab. intensa uov. All the yellow tints of both wings are replaced by pink, except in the centre of the costal blotches : the rest of the wings is filled liy dark grey scales, the veins remaining pink. The example is a <?, taken in the Khasias, dated May 1896. 285. Omiza chlorophora >i). nov. Forewings : pale pinkish dral), towards hindmargiii snffiised with darker, and sprinkled thronghont with nnmerons striae of contiguons blackish atoms ; centre of wing occupied by an olive-green furcate fascia ; the inner edge strt)ngly carved outwards from one-fourtli of costa to middle of inner margin, tlie outer irregularly sinuate from costa at four-fifths to inner margin at two-thirds, the fascia thus being very narrow on inner margin (and still more constricted on the submedian fold) and very wide on costa ; this costal portion containing a triangular space of the ground- colour, which almost interrupts the outer fork by a streak from its apex ; the space immediately round the fascia is paler and not striated: fringe ochreous grey. Ilindivings : with costal area ochreous ; two small roundish green blotches in middle between median vein and inner margin ; fringe yellowish. Underside uniform bright orange-fulvous. Face fuscous ; thorax and abdomen concolorous with wings. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. One c? from Wetter, May 1892 (W. Uoherty). 286. Omiza informis sp. nov. Forewings : reddish fawn-colour, speckled with black ; first line absent ; second obscure, and shown mainly by the diiFerence of colour, from nearly two-thirds of inner margin towards apex, where there is a pale spot ; the central area is rather deeper coloured than the basal and marginal areas, especially towards the costa ; jnst beyond the oblique line is a faint wavy line, which diverges from the second line towards inner margin ; cell-spot black ; fringe deeper red. Ilindieings : with costal area pale ochreous : a postmedian bent line, darker on the inner half, followed Itetween veins 2 and 3 and 3 and 4 by small pale spots edged outwardly with darker. Underside paler, brighter pink mixed with yellowish, freckled with fnscons and reddish ; the cell-spots black ; forewings with inner margin whitish, and a yellowish fascia from inner margin beyond outer line as far as vein 4. Face and palpi deep red ; thorax and abdomen like wings ; vertex paler. Expanse of wings : 28 mm One <i from Chandkhira, Sylhet. This must be very closely related to 0. ynascicolor Warr. from the Karen HilLs, the type of which is a ? in Mr. Elwes' collection, but 1 can scarcely think them identical. 287. Platycerota crinita si', nov. Foreivings : reddish testaceous, speckled with black ; lines red-brown ; first at one-fourth, vertical, slightly wa%-ed and bent at costa : second from apex to middle of inner margin, straight and oblique, followed by two white or whitish oval ( 1-^1 ) spots obliquel}' beneath each otiier at apex ; a small blark cell-dot ; fringe con- colorons, the basal half darker, beyond a fine dark marginal line. llindivings : with minute black cell-spot and central red-brown line ; the marginal half paler, less reddish. Underside the same, but paler and duller. Face, palpi, and vertex red-brown, as is the base of costa of forewiugs ; thorax and abdomen concolorous with wings. Expanse of wings : 36 — 39 mm. Two c?(? from North Luzon, .5000-0000 feet (Whitehead). The two species placed together by Hampson under Plat'/fei-ofa (Faun. Brif. Ind. Motlis,^o\. III. p. l.j.j) differ from each other in the neuration, and the present species differs from both : vein 11 of forewings anastomoses with 12 ; 7, 8, 9, 10 are stalked together ; 10 anastomoses with 11 after its anastomosis with 12, and again anastomoses with 8 and 9. A further poiut of difference consists in the presence of a tuft of hair on the submedian nervure of the forewiugs of the S on the underside. Procypha gen. nov. Forewings : elongate, with costa straight till near before apex, then suddenly deflexed ; apex square, bluntly subfalcate (there l)eiug a small tooth at the end of vein 7, below which the hindmargin, which is shortly vertical above it, is faintly incurved), bulged below middle, and again rather incurved before anal angle ; inner margin sinuous, convex at base and anal angle, with a long concavity between ; the anal angle loljed. Hindwi7igs : with costa sinuate ; strongly shouldered near base, then concave, and convex again to end of the costal vein, from which to vein 7 it is strongly concave, the apex at vein 7 being acutely prominent ; the hindmargin below it like that of forewiugs. Palpi porrect, hairy, the third joint short ; antennae of ? moderately pectinated. Neuration : forewiugs, cell about half as long as wing ; discocellular vertical above, oblique below ; first median at five-sixths, second only just before end of cell, third from the end : radials normal ; last three snbcostals stalked ; first two coincident and free. Hindwings with costal apjjroximated to subcostal for Imt a short distance, then abruptly curved away ; the two snbcostals and last two medians from the ends of cell ; discocellular strongly inangulated. Ovipositor of ? exserted. Type : Procyjiha vwculosata sp. nov. Allied to Proboloptera, Meyr. from Australia. 288. Procypha maculosata sp. nov. Forewiugs : dull brick-red, with a few scattered black scales; costa grey at base; first line blackish, but obscure and interrupted, from costa at one-third to inner margin at one-fourth, angled in cell, thence oblique, with dark dots on veins ; exterior line at two-thirds, starting from a black blotch, angled on vein 6, thence oblique to inner margin beyond middle, with two confluent black blotches on it, one on each side of vein 3 ; submarginal line denoted by two black blotches on either side of vein 6 and a large blotch at anal angle. Him/wings : without lines ; with a few dark atoms, and a large black blotch beyond cell ; fringe of both wings brighter red. Underside the same. Face, palpi, and abdomen above reddish ; thorax and abdomen below paler. Expanse of wings : .52 mm. One ? from the Cape of Good Hope. ( 122 ) 289. Sirinopteryx nifivinctata Wlk. ab. interfuscata nov. In this example the cell of forewings and the interspaces between the veins be3"ond the middle of hotli wings are neatly filled np wth fawn-colonred scales, the veins themselves remaining broadly yellow : the fringe also is fawn-colonred beyond the yellow basal line. This suffusion is rather more extensive in the left forewing than in the right, whereas in the hindwings the reverse is the case. Underside equally suffused with the upper. One ? from tlie Khasias, May 1896. An example of the common liumia crutne(jntu Linn., now in tlie Tring Museum, affords another illustration of this individual development of coloration. 2'.i(i. Zamarada auratisquama sj). nov. Forewings : semihyaline, densely striated with transverse grey-green scales ; the costa gilded yellow, with fuscous marks : marginal area bright red-brown on a yellow ground, its inner edge pale yellow and mucli waved, and with a paler yellowish submarginal waved line : fringe yellowish, chequered with red-brown and blackish ; a dark streak on discocellular. Hindwings : the same. Underside more strongly iridescent ; the marginal area yellowish, with a red-brown submarginal fascia. Face and palpi ochreous ; thorax dull green ; abdomen greenish, with pinkish grey dorsal patches. Expanse of wings : 30 mm. One S from Warri, Eiver Niger, February 1896 (Dr. Roth). 2!.)1. Zamarada flavicosta sji. nuv. Forewings : ])ale iridescent green, with no basal dark scales ; a small black cell-dot ; a few dark scales on the veins towards and on inner margin; costa yellow, with a few dark scales : marginal area pinkish grey, separated from the hyaline space by a crenulated yellow-edged black line, sinuate outwards between veins 2 and 4, and traversed along its centre by a straight row of five red-brown triangles : two more above the anal angle ; fringe yellow, with two dark marks below ai>ex and three above anal angle, wholly yellow ojqiosite the cell ; marginal line subcrenulate, reddish brown. Hindwings : the same, but with only three reddish triangles below the costa towards apex. Underside with the marginal area dark jiurjilish fuscous, almost black. Face, palpi, thorax, and abdomen ochreous : the last tinged with reddish grey. Expanse of wings : 30 mm. One (?, two ? ? ,from Warri, Uiver Niger, February 1890 (Dr. Roth). One of the ? ? has the sinus iu the forewings bilobed and shallow; the S and the other ? show a deep and broad angulation ; but this is probably ouly an accidental difference. 292. Zamarada nasuta sp. nov. Forewings ; pale yellowish green, iridescent and transparent ; the costa yellowish ; a red-brown patch at base ; hindmargin purplish grey, with darker specks, bounded by a dark line from three-fourths of costa to three-fourths of inner ( 123 ) margin, but forming a deep sinus between veins 2 and 4 nearly reaching to liindmargin ; a snbmarginal wavy iridescent line, denticulate below costa and inwardly edged by a rod-brown shade ; marginal line finely black, interrupted at the veins; fringe bright rufons: a small black cell-dot. Ilindwings : the same. Underside like upper, but the fringes yellower. Head and thorax red-brown: body wanting. Exjianse of wings : 17 mm. One ? from Lokoja, River Niger (A. Cook). 20:3. Zamarada protrusa sp. nov. Forewings : pale translucent green ; the costa reddish ochreous, spotted with black ; a black cell-dot ; outer line black, from subcostal at two-thirds, waved to vein 4, then suddenly ontcurved and rounded near margin, returning along vein 2 and reaching inner margin at twothirds ; marginal area dull brick-red, dusted with black scales, traversed by an interrupted row of brighter red lunules : basal line of fringe dark brown ; fringe reddish. Hindwings : the same. Underside vitreous ; marginal area blackish, except a]>ex of forewings, which is ochreous. Face, palpi, thorax, and abdomen reddish grey. Expanse of wings : 20 mm. One ? from Akassa, Eiver Niger. 204. Zamarada undimarginata sp. nov. Forewings : very faintly greenish hyaline, the costa bronzy brown ; marginal third nearly uniformly dark brown, with an obscurely darker denticulate shade traversing the middle, edged internally by a wavy black line with lustrous outer edge, the line forming two rather more prominent sinuses between veins 2 and 4 ; fringe brown, with a thick darker line at base. Ilindwings : with the brown margin narrower, the dark line less regularly waved and between veins 2 and 4 ajiproachiug the margin, forming a bilobed broad sinus ; no cell-spots. Underside exactly the same. Face, palpi, and antennae dark brown ; thorax and abdomen concolorous with wings ; anal segment of abdomen brown. Expanse of wings : 38 mm. One S from Akassa, River Niger. 20.J. Zamarada vulpina sp. nov. Forewings : pale iridescent green ; the costa, base, inner margin, and broad marginal area bright rufons ; the latter with a deeper rufous internal edge, forming a rounded sinus between veins 2 and 4 ; a yellowish wavy submarginal line ; fringe and small cell-spot rufous. Ilindwings : the same. Underside with the marginal area gilded yellow ; a red-brown irregular fascia along its inner edge. Head, thorax, and abdomen all rufous. Expanse of wings : 22 mm. One c? from Warri, River Niger, P'ebruary 1896 (Dr. Roth). ( 124 ) Subfamily PROSOPOLOPHINAE. Arcina fulgorigera Wlk. XXVI. p. 1T44. This species and genus were overlooivcd by Mr. Meyrick iu bis paper on the Selidosemidae, published in the Proceedings of the Linneun Society of S. S. ^y(des, 1891 (II. 6). The genus is allied to Chlenias — not Chesias, as Walker states — but is scarcely identical. The antennae of the 6 are strongly pectinated : Walker says "very slightly" pectinated : bnt his type is a ?, not, as he made it, a S. In the forewings veins lo and II are free, 7, 8, 9 stalked, 6 being also shortly stalked with them. The thorax is strongly crested, as iu Chlenias. The 6 now before me (labelled N. S. "Wales) shows no silvery edging to the lines ; it should rather be described as pale grey. Euomoea gen. nov. Forewings : elongate; the costa faintly sinuate, arched towards base, and slightly incurved before apex ; apex rectangular ; hindmargin strongly curved and oblique below, the anal angle obtuse. ilindwings : with fully rounded hindmargin. Antennae of c? bipectinated to apex ; palpi porrect, rather decumbent, reaching a little before forehead ; tongue present. Neuration : forewings, cell three-fifths of wing ; the median vein upcurved towards extremity of cell ; discocellnlar vertical : first median at three-fourths, second shortly before end, third from end of cell ; radials normal ; first and second subcostals stalked ; third, fourth, and fifth stalked ; second anastomosing with and becoming coincident with stalk of third and fourtli. Hindwings with costal approximated to subcostal for half the cell ; subcostals from top end of cell. Type : Euomoea unilineata sp. nov. Eelated to Frosojwlopha Led. 29G. Euomoea imilineata sp. nov. Foreicings : yellowish uchreous, witli numerous short brown striae and atoms ; some patches of dark brown scales from base along the sul)median fold : a minute brown dot in cell, and a black cell-spot at the end : a brown straight obliiiue line from apex to beyond middle of inner margin, not marked below the submedian vein; fringe rather darker than the ground-colour. Hinrhcings : except hindmargin, paler, with a dark cell-spot. Underside deeper yellow, witli only the cell-spots marked ; the dark oblique lino showing tlirongh. Paljii and forelegs brown ; face, head, tliorax, and abdomen coucolorons with wings. Expanse of wings : 32 mm. One S from Zomba, Fiiper Shire River, 3000 feet, December 1805 (Dr. P. Rendall). Microligia gen. nov. Forewings: very long and narrow; the costa straight, slightly inbent beyond middle ; apex produced, blunt ; hindmargin well curved. Hindwings : ample, the hindmargin slightly indented opposite cell and pro- tuberant in middle. ( 125 ) Abdomen in 6 long and slender, the anal tufts prominent : forehead rounded : palpi porrect, squamous, rostriform : antennae of c? with short thick pectinations : hind tibiae thickened, with four spurs. yeiiration : forewings, cell quite two-thirds of wing ; the subcostal and median veins bent inwards towards their extremity ; first median at three-fourths, second before end, third from the end of cell: radials normal : last three subcostals stalked, second anastomosing with the stalk of tlie next two to form the areole, first free. Hindwings with costal approximated to, subcostal for half the lengtli of cell : first subcostal and second median from before the end of cell. T3'pe : Microligia dolo.su sp. nov. 207. Microligia dolosa sp. no v. Forewings : silky whitish, with %'ery fine grey irroration ; a rather large dark grey cell-spot, and a dark grey oblique apical streak just reaching the lower angle of cell ; fringe whitisli. llindtcimjs : silky whitish, without darker dusting. Underside of forewings dull grey, of hindwings whitish. Head, thorax, and abdomen all white. Expanse of wings : 26 ram. One tj from the Cape of Good Hope. Family PVR.iLI]).lE. Subfamily PYRALINAE. 298. Angenora subochi-acea sp. nov. Forewings : ochreous, thickly sprinkled with rusty ochreous and more sparsely with dark fuscous scales ; first line at one-third, blackish, curved : second at two- thirds, parallel to hindmargin, approacliiug first line at inner margin, followed by a pale ochreous line which is edged outwardly with a blackish shade ; cell-spot dis- tinct, black ; costa dotted with black and jjale ochreous between the lines : fringe grey, with thin black line at base. Hindwings : rather paler, with two curved dark lines, and suffused with rusty ochreous towards hindmargin ; fringe as in forewings. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings. Underside dull ochreous, dusted with fuscous, especially along costa of forewings ; a tliick dark central line to both wings. Exjianse of wings : 20 mm. One cf from Weenen, Xatal. 299. Hypsopygia sanguinalis sp. nov. c?. Forewings : brilliant rosy: the two lines pale yellow, at one-third and two- thirds, starting from triangular pale yellow costal spots ; the first vertical, the second slightly bent, to inner margin close before anal angle : costa and hindmargin deej)er red ; fringe yellow, with red basal line. Hindwings : the same, with two fine curved and wavy jiale yellow lines : the basal half of wings suffused with deep orange-red. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings. Underside duller rosy, with the markings faint. ( 126 ) Expanse of wings : 18 mm. One <S from Weeneu, Natal. Differs from costalis Fabr. in being pure red without a trace of darker scales, the red running through to hindmargiu without a j-ellow border, in the fringes having a red basal line, and in the much smaller size of the triangular costal spots. 300. Peucela zonalis sp. nov. Forewings : rufous grey, finely dusted with black atoms; costa somewhat coarsely dotted with blackish ; first line at one-fourth, indistinct on costa, thick towards inner margin, dark brown, slightly waved ; second line at three-fourths, pale, edgeil with (hivk brown on either side, minutely wavy, and forming a short angle inwards below the subcostal and above the inner margin, between which it curves slightly outwards ; a row of dark marginal dots ; fringe rather paler, with two darker lines ; cell-spot indistinct. llindivings : redder, with two dark curved lines, ajiproximated on inner margin, the outer somewhat dentate and edged outwardly with paler, the inner edged inwardly with paler ; fringe and margin the same as in forewings. Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish grey; the segments of the latter with darker edges, and with a black ring near base and in the <? also before apex, which is paler. Underside dull reddish, mottled with fuscous ; both wings with dark outer line. Expanse of wings : 3, 22 mm.; S , 2u mm. Both sexes from Weenen, Natal. One ? is much paler than the 6, having very few dark scales on an ochreous rufous ground-colour. On the other hand, a second ? has the wliole marginal area and the lower half of the central area of the forewings strongly brown-black, leaving the basal area and costal portion of central area dirty ochreous, while the anal region of the hindwings is also broadly blackish. This form may be called ab. obscurata. The black belt at base of abdomen will, however, always serve to distinguish the species. 301. Pyralis dissimulans sji. nov. Forewings : greyish fnscous ; the basal and marginal areas dull chocolate-brown ; costa dotted with white from base to outer line ; the edge of the dark basal patch at one-third, obliiiue, parallel to hindmargiu, followed by a white line and a diflfnse whitish patch, neither reaching the costa ; a darker cloud beyond the cell ; outer line at five-sixths, white, curved oittwards in middle, and ending at the anal angle ; fringe grey, mth a broad dark grey basal line, the tips whitish below the apex. Ilixf/ichu/.f : grey; the central area whitish grey, edged by jialcr lines with dark margins ; fringe as in forewings. Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous grey. Underside mucli ]ialer, dusted with fuscous, and with the markings all more or less represented ; the hindwings with the two curved lines well marked, broad and diffuse. Expanse of wings : 20 mm. One <S from Weeneu, Natal. This species reminds one of small examjiles oi farinalin Linn, and domcsticalis Zell.; the straight edge of the basal patch will at once distinguish it. The patagia are well developed, reaching well behind the thorax. ( 127 ) 302. Scotomera tripartita sp. nov. Forewinqs : pale reddisli brown over the basal, dark brown iu the central, and pale reddish grey iu the marginal area ; first line before one-third, dark brown^ outwardly oblique and slightly wavy, reaching inner margin in the middle, edged towards the base with pale ; second line at three-fourths, dark brown, edged out- wardly with pale, oblique inwards parallel to hindmargin as far as the first median, then vertical to inner margin before anal angle ; the central area thus twice as wide on costa as on inner margin ; costa between the lines dark, dotted with whitish ; a dark cell-spot ; the pale marginal area reddish along costa ; a marginal row of black spots ; fringe reddish grey, with darker line near liase. HindivinffS : dull whitish, with traces of a dark postmedian line from costa, which vanishes iu middle of wing ; a dark marginal line before the fringe, which is paler towards anal angle. Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish grey. Underside pale straw-colour, with the darker central portions showing through ; costa of both wings thickly dusted with reddish fuscous scales ; marginal dots and fringe as above ; a cell-spot on hindwings. Expanse of wings : 20 mm. One <S from Weenen, Natal. The only example has no tongue visible, but in all other respects it agrees so exactly with Scotomera that I have no doubt this is an accidental mutilation. Sphalerosticha gen. nov. Foreivings : with costa straight or incurved ; apex blunt ; hindmargin slightly oblique and curved ; anal angle well marked. Himhi'ings : triangular, the hindmargin nearly straight, the inner margin long. Vertex and patagia densely and coarsely scaled ; ocelli absent ; tongue well developed : labial palpi obliquely porrect, squamous, the third joint distinct ; maxillary palpi invisible: antennae (t?) quite shortly ciliated, the shaft thickened towards base, the basal joint inflated. Neuration : forewings with cell half as long as wing, the discocellular nearly vertical ; first median intva a little before lower angle, second and third from the angle ; lower radial just above it ; upper radial well below upper angle of cell ; last subcostal from the upper angle, /)re, and slightly curved downwards, as is likewise the upper radial ; third and fourth subcostals stalked from the angle ; second from close before the angle, first some distance before it. Hindwings with the discocellu- lar very oblique below; the costal free ; the two subcostals from upper angle of cell : first median at three-fourths, second shortly before the angle, third and radial from the angle. Type : Sphalerosticha ohlanuta sp. nov. The neuration in the forewings is abnormal, the fifth subcostal being free, as in the Pi/ruusfinae ; but instead of curving upwards close to the fourth, it is bent downwards away from it. 303, Sphalerosticha oblunata sp. nov. Forewini/s : greyish white, evenly jjowdered with dark scales; costa exceedingly minutely dotted with black ; first line indistinct, blackish, before one-third, vertical ( 128 ) and slightly wavy ; second line at five-sixths, blackish, evenly concave outwards, followed by a pale whitish line which expands along costa to apex ; marginal space filled in witii chocolate-brown and with a row of small black marginal dots ; fringe reddish, with a fine pale basal line ; cell-spot blackish. f//n(/iri»ffs : whitish, rather glossy, with a dark cell-spot, and faint sinuous line from beyond middle of costa to inner margin above anal angle ; a marginal row of black spots ; fringe whitish, tinged with reddish towards apex. Head, thorax, and abdomen eoneolorons with forewings. Underside whitish; forewings with some dark scales in the cell, and with the veins pale over the chocolate marginal space : liindwings with dark cell-spot, a small spot beyond it, another on c()sta at beginning of the sinuous line, and a short mark below the first median within the sinnous line. Expanse of wings : 24 mm. One S from Weenen, Natal. Sphinctocera gen. nov. Forewings : with costa straight ; apex rectangular : hindniargin vertical above, oblique below the middle. Hlndicings : broad, with hindmargin well curved and both angles rounded. Ocelli present : tongue fairly developed : labial jialpi long, rostriform, decum- bent, thickly scaled, the third joint not distinguishable from the second : maxillary palpi minute, filiform ; forehead with diffuse tnft of hairs ; antennae in 6 thick, lamellate, somewhat flattened ; the basal joint long and thick, the shaft articulated to it, and bearing a small tooth on the upj)erside at a distance equal to the length of the basal joint. Neuration : forewings, cell half as long as wing ; the discocellular angulated ; first median at three-fourths, second at five-sixths ; third and lower radial close together from lower angle of cell ; upper radial and last subcostal from upper angle : third and fourth subcostals shortly stalked out of the fifth : first and second free. Hindwiugs with the two subcostals shortly stalked, the first anastomosing shortly with the costal. Type : Sphinctocera crassisf/utana sp. nov. 304. Sphinctocera crassisquama sp. nov. Forewings : glossy dark grey, the scales coarse and l)road, dark grey with pale tips : first line at one-fourth, bent in middle, diffuse, dull red ; second line at three- fourths, parallel to hindmargin, dull red, with a whitish dash on costa and a few white scales above inner margin ; cell-spot dull whitish ; the whole central area is slightly sprinkled with reddish scales ; marginal area and fringes wholly dark grey. llimhring.'i : dull oclireons whitisli, with dark grey fringe and a dark discal spot; towards the hindmargin tlie wing is dusted with greyish, and there is a faint trace of a paler curved submarginal line. Head, thorax, and patagia dark grey, with a sprinkling of red scales; abdomen greased, jirobably }>ale like the hindwiugs. Underside dingy fuscous grey, the hind- wings more ochreous : outer line of forewings pale, of liindwings reddish edged with pale. Expanse of wings : 20 mm. One <f from Weenen, Natal. ( 129 ) Subfamily ENDOTRICHINAE. 3(i,T. Callinaias flavimargo sji. no v. Fairwinys : snow-white ; a black dot at middle of base, aud anotlier at base of costa ; a donble curved orange line at one-third, with a black costal dot on the outer arm and a black dot below the median on each ; second line also donble, orange and oblique outwards to beyond cell, curved inwards below, aud rusty brown-black, slightly wavy, crossed by a horizontal orange dash from discocellular to hindmargin ; marginal space below it darkened with fuscous scales; extreme hindmargin narrowly orange, slightly broader at the apex, where it is edged inwardly by a thin curved black line ; fringe with basal half yellowish, apical half white. Ilituhcinys : with the first double line blackish, not orange, nor reaching the costa; the second from anal angle, with the outer area diffuse, the inner formed by a short black streak and a succession of wavy dots ; marginal space and fringe as in forewiugs, but with no black apical line. Head, thorax, and abdomen white, the last with a black dot on back of second segment ; labial palpi with a black spot externally at apex of third joint ; maxillary with one at apex of second. Underside whitish, with traces of a curved subterminal line on both wings outside the line of the uj)perside; a dark dot on costa between the two on the ujiperside, and a dark spot on hindwing to represent the inner line. Expanse of wings : 19 mm. One ? from Weenen, Natal. 30(i. Endotriclia brunnea sp. nov. Foir/c/'/ifffi : pale grey, dusted and suffused with rusty brown ; costa nniformlv dotted with black and j)ale oclireous, the pale interspaces geminated ; first line at one-third, oblique, parallel to hindmargin, black, followed by a silvery white line ; these lines are slightly crooked at the median vein and do not quite reach the costa ; second line close to hindmargin, bent outwards in middle and faintly edged with blackish ; central area with a blackish shade, which forms a more conspicuous spot below the median vein ; the veins towards hindmargin pale ; a series of black marginal spots ; fringe grey, with thick dark line towards base. IliiidirhKjs : paler, less brown, with two thick dark lines, close together on inner margin and wide apart at costa ; each line witli a paler centre ; marginal spots and fringe as in forewings. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous ; the latter with a black ring corresponding to tlio inner line of hindwings. Underside pinkish grey, dusted with darker; the costa blackish, with the pule spots larger; hindwings with two coarse black lines. Expanse of wings : 17 mm. One cf from Weenen. The patagia only of average length. Possibly a form of J'J. ronsohrina Zell. SuBF.vMiLv rV IJATSTIXA Iv 307. Lygropis impunctata sji. nov. ForfiriiKjK : deep yellow, glossy, without markings of any kind. Iliiidirhi'i-t : tiie same. ( 130) Head, tbonix, abdomen, and underside all yullow. Exjjanse of wings : 20 mm. A few from Wecnen. Nearest to nigricornis Hmpsn. from Abyssinia, but that species has the antennae black. SiBFAMav SOHOENOBIINAE. 308. Cirrhochrista argentiplaga sp. nov. Forewings : pale yellow, with orange-red sntt'usion along costa at base and before apex, and less strongly in the marginal area; a large irregnlar-shajjed oblong silvery blotch in the disc, bordered by the orange-red lines ; the first from costa beyond one-third, straight and inwardly obli(ine to below the snbmediau vein, then bent at a right angle to inner margin before middle ; second from two-tliirds, oblique outwards to beyond cell, then parallel to hiudmargin, forming a sinuous curve as far as the submedian fold, thence straight to inner margin near first line ; tlie costal portion of this blotch is snffnsed with yellow ground-colonr, and on the •discocellular is a yellowish blotch mixed with orange-red scales; fringe yellow, vnth a broad bright orange-red line at base, and a duller red line in the centre. Ilindicini/s : yellow, suflused with dull smoky fuscous as far as a curved dull brown submarginal line, beyond it unsnfiFused ; fringe pale yellow, with a red basal spot just opposite the cell. Face, palpi, and antennae orange-red ; thorax and abdomen yellow, washed with orange, especially the shoulders and front of thorax. Underside glossy straw-colour ; the disc of both wings suffused with reddish fuscous. Expanse of wings : 34 mm. One S from Weeneu, Natal. ( 131 ) NOTES ON PALAEAECTIC BIRDS AND ALLIED FORMS. By ERNST HAIITERT. THESE notes, which I hope to be able to continue at some futnre time, are only in a few cases intended to settle questions finally — as far as this is possible at all. They contain suggestions for future work. They will, I hope, show that a great deal remains yet to be done in Palaearctic, and even European, ornithology. Some of these notes are chiefly intended for British ornithologists, because it seems that many of our friends on this side of the Chaunel have not lately paid the same attention to the interesting geograj)hical subspecies of our birds wliich a number of Continental ornithologists have recently bestowed on them. Very few species of European birds are so thoroughly studied in ccenj direction that nothing remains to be found out, to be- corrected, to be modified, or to be completed, may it be in their distribution, their local subspecies, their nidification, their habits, their food, their nomenclature and classification, or their anatomy and structure. This may be keenly admitted, notwithstanding all the admirable works written on European ornith- ology, from Naumann and Macgillivray, from the commencement of Dresser's great work and others, up to our days, when we find " observers " and egg-collectors everywhere, but very few collectors of skins ! Or can any one deny the truth of my statement, if he bears in mind that British ornithologists have not hitherto under- stood the different forms of the nut-crackers and tree-creepers, if in a recent meeting of the B. 0. C. there were different opinions about the tree-creepers having a song or not, if widely diti'erent opinions are dilated on about the question whether a bird can or cannot alter its colour without a moult ? On the other hand, I must also admit that often (piestions about the habits and notes of birds would not be discussed if the opponents had read what Naumann wrote on the question. jMany "peculiarities'" of habits, migration, different colorations and pro]iortions would be explained if the local forms of birds were more accurately studied ; but this mnst chiefly be done in their breeding-places, not on migration, when the birds are far away from their often unknown homes. If we know the differences between all the local forms, then we shall often be able to say whence a bird shot on migration came, but otherwise not. What is chiefly wanting, even in the largest collections, is a good material of skins from ull the dift'erent countries. Without good series from all the diffei-iint localities, the (questions of the various subspecies cannot be settled. The Genus NUOIFRAGA. Although some of the old authors had already recognised differences in the bills of the European nut-crackers, ('. L. Brehm was the first to clearly distiuauish between the stout-billed and the slender-billed form, and to give names to them. He named them Sucifnuja brachi/fhi/nrhos and Naci/raya macrorliynchos, in 1»^3. Very little attention has generally been paid to these forms for a long time after, and one of the reasons for this is, I believe, the bewildering number of names afterwards bestowed on nut-crackers by C. L. Brehm, who, in addition to his X. brachorliijnchos and N. inacrorhi/nrhos, subsequently nami'd a S. platyrliynchos., ( 132 ) hamata, minor, arquata, and alpestris. Of these arquata and alpestris are " nomina nnda"' without any nse, hamntn and minor seem to refer to somewhat aberrant specimens of the slender-billed form, jilat>jrli>jnil>0!< is evidently a thick-billed bird. Most of these are named from single birds, evidently shot on mignitiou or when astray, so that even their home is quite uncertain. With regard to the proper home of X. bracki/rhi/nchos and X. macrorhynchos, C. L. Brehm was also quite uncertain, but his descriptions are so clear that we cannot be in doubt about the meaning of his names. In spite of Brehm's puzzhug niultiplication of forms iu later years, there were always clear-headed ornithologists who had material enough to recognise the differences between the two forms first separated in 1823. In 1845 Monsieur de Selys LoDgchamps separated two forms, but he evidently did not have the two before him, his alleged differences being individual aberrations. In the same year (ls45) Mr. R. Fisher figured and described botli forms very well in the Zoologist, but it mnst be admitted that nothing like a series from breeding-places was known at the time. The year to bring them to the front once more, and eHectually, was iss;. In that year Professor Rudolf Blasius wrote an excellent monograph on the European forms of Xucifraga in the Orn/s. The great immigration into Euroi)e of the slender-billed form in 1885 evidently gave rise to this valuable work. In the same year appeared my article on the " Birds of East Prussia " {MitfJieilungcyi (les Ornitliologifichi'ii Yereins in Wien), in which I very distinctly distinguished between " X. canjocata.ctt's brachjrlii/ncha," the resident form breeding in East Prussia, and " X. c. raacrorht/ncha,'^ the Siberian form, occurring in East Prussia and other parts of Germany as a migrant from autumn to spring. In my article on X. c. bracliy- rhi/nrka, however, is a mistake, the home of X. rdryocotactes macrorhijncha being said to be the Alps. The somewhat contradictory remark under "j;V. c. hrachy- rhyncha,'^ however, points to its being a lapsus calami. IMy differentiation between the two forms is also repeated in Ibis, 1802, pp. 309, 370. I collected a large series in East Prussia in the breeding-places, where I also found nests and eggs, and all the sjjecimens from No. 50 to No. 00 mentioned on pp. 480-483 in drnix, Vol. 11., were shot and skinned by me, though no mention of it is made. Both Professor Blasius' work and my remarks on the nut-crackers were imfortu- nately burdened with most unnecessary synonyms. We both considered Brehm's names brachyrhynchos and macror/n/nchos (meaning short-billed and long-billed) not very approjiriate. because it is the stoutness and slenderness rather than their short- ness and length that distinguishes them, and Professor Blasius substituted and used for them the more fitting terms jmchyrhynchiis and leptorhynchus, meaning stout-billed and thin-billed. I suggested mildly that the names crassirostrix and fenuiiostris were more appropriate ; but I did not (even worse I) use them in the headings of my articles, nor at any time afterwards. It is needless to say that neither of our names can be used. Since 1887 it may be said that German ornithologists generally liave recog- nised the two forms, and in English works on ornitliology I find two notes — that is, one of Seebohm in fbis, 1888, pj). 230-241, and one in his Birds of 4116 Japanese Empire, p. 99. Scebohm there declares that there is, in his opinion, not a western and an eastern form, but an arctic and a temperate form, and he unites the Japanese form with the European one (the brachyrhynchos of Brehm), while Blasius said it was the same as the Silierian one, i.e. I?rehm's macrorhynchos. Certainly the latter statement is wrong, but it cannot either be united with the Enropean form, ( 133 ) as will be shown liereafter, uot can one form be said to be more arctic than the other. Ill Ibbs a very elaborate article on the N'infrfigafi of Tschnsi-Rchmidhoffen appeared iu the Verh. zool. hot. Ges. Wien. It is somewhat surprising that, in spite of all these more or less accurate statements, British ornithologists have not yet all accepted the two forms. But in 1894 Professor Newton {Dictionary of Birds, p. 047) repeated his former statement that, " as in the case of the Hnia {Heterolocha acutirosfris), the considerable differ- ences in the form and size of the bill of examj)les of this species are now supposed (sic) to depend on the sex — that of the cock being stout and short, while in the hen it is long and thin." This statement is absolutely wrong. I have now before me a fine series collected by me in East Prussia for the Homeyer collection, now in Braunschweig, and kindly lent me by Professor Wilhelm Blasins, and a number of Siberian nut-crackers, and in neither of the two forms is there any remarkable diiference in the size of the beak in the sexes. Perhaps Professor Newton had before him the two species, i.e. & male of the European one and & female of the Siberian one, or the dili'erences which be noticed were such slight individual ditferences as are always found in birds.* Again in the same year (1804) Dr. Sliarpe, in A Handbook to the Birds of Great Britain, Vol. I. p. IT, says: "Two forms of nut-cracker in Europe are recognised by many naturalists, X. carjocatactes, and a short-billed form, S. brachyrhynchus, the sujiposed differences between which we have never been able to appreciate." Be this as it may, the nomenclature might have been right (X caryocatacies and X. brackyrhynchus being the same thing), but in fact they differ at a glance by the form and size of the bill, the extent of white on the tips of the rectrices, and general size. The reason why ornithologists have found it so difficult to recognise the two is, I believe, that the one often invades the countries inhabited Ijy the other. Therefore in museums we find, or should find, both forms from Germany, parts of Russia, Austria, France, etc. When, however, clear-headed field-ornithologists collect and observe them, it will be found that the stout-billed form alo?ie breeds in Scandinavia, Lappland, Bornholm, the Russian Baltic jiro- vinces, and East Prussia, as well as, in a very slightly differentiated form, the Alps, the Carpathian and Sudetic Mountains, and perhaps the Pyrenees. This bird is not a migrant. In East Prussia it never leaves its home, and is not even, as a rule, found out of the very forests where it breeds. In the Alps it descends to lower hills if too deep snow covers its haunts ; but also there it can on no account be called a migrant. On the other hand, the slender-billed form is an inhabitant of Siberia, where it breeds, and whence it wanders far and vfide. Single individuals of the latter form are very often observed in Europe, and it is probable that many wander so far every year, but in certain years, notably 1754, 1802, 1844, 1856, 1859, 1804, 18.^5, 18(tG, they appeared in extraordinary numbers. The natural history of these two forms of Nucifraga clearly shows that many problems regarding species and subspecies in ornithology cannot be solved by the cabinet-ornithologist alone. It further shows the importance of exact labelling, still (incredible, but true I) neglected by some collectors. In fact, labels like " Germany, 1800," are entirely insufficient. We may, and sometimes must, be content with tradeskins without exact locality, such as Japanese, Bogota, and New Guinea skins ; but, though they may be very valuable at the time, they are only * See also Stevenson, Birds of Xor/olk, p. 2S-I, and the eonimeut to it by A. G. liutler in British Birds, their Xesti and Eggs, London, 1897, p. 143 and footnote ! ( 134) meagre substitutes for the properly labelled examples, which every musemn official should try to acquire iu their ])laces iu time, la fact, it is most important that collectors should add either on the labels or in a diary, besides the exact localities, dates, sexes, and colours of bare parts, which are generally seen on proper labels, whether the birds were breeding or appeared in flocks as migrants, whether they frequented the pine- or fir-woods, the beech-woods or the parks and gardens, etc., or that they should publish such observations as they liad the fortunate opportunity to make. I have hitherto only spoken of two forms, namely, the thick-billed form, the lY. cari/ocatactes (L.), afterwards renamed N. hrachjrhjnrhoi by Brehm, and the Blender-billed, 3'. macrorhijnchos of Brehm. This is not far wrong indeed, but in 1889 Dr. Eeichenow called attention to the fact that the majority of specimens from Scandinavia, Lapplaud, and East Prussia were paler on the back and head than those from the Central European Jlountains, and he therefore named the latter .V. relictu. Dr. lleicheuow also said that the Alpine form had smaller white spots on the back, biit I iind that this is not generally the case, but merely an individual character. Also the paler coloration varies a good deal, but northern specimens are always rather pale above, while those from Switzerland and from the Carpathian Mountains are very seldom so pale. It is therefore advisable ta keep the latter apart under Reicheuow"s name S. i-dicta, though the form is only recognisable if a good series is compared, and not always constant, and though the " nomen nudum " X. alpestris of C. L. Brehm might have been accepted for it, to simplify the already encumbered synonymic list. The two other forms are mostly very constant. 1 have not yet seen an intermediate one from Europe, as far as the size of the beak goes ; but occasionally the white tips on the tail vary, and some Asiatic examples vary also very much in the size of the beaks. The alleged difference in the size of the white spots above and below, which I have not yet mentioned, is very variable. As I said before, the Japanese form of uut-cracker has been considered by Seebohm to be the same as the Eurojiean thick-billed form. Stejneger, however (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1888, pp. 425-432), declares that the Japanese birds belong to the slender-billed form. The author also differs from Seebohm in considering that the slender- and stout-billed forms are eastern and western, and cannot be called " arctic " and " temperate." Though in this latter statement Stejneger is undoubtedly right, he is exactly as wrong as Seebohm, who unites the Japanese form with the European form, if he unites it with the Siberian bird. It is true that Stejneger's view is more sensible with regard to the distribution of these birds, and that he already mentioned the possibility of somebody separating the Jajianese form in fnture as a further subspecies. This latter course is undoubtedly the only right one. The Japanese nut-crackers have the beaks midway between those of the two other forms, thougli often more resembling those of tlie thick bills. In all other characters, however, except the form of the bill, the Japanese form is closest to the Siberian form : the white tips to the rectrices are large ; the upper tail-coverts, which are mostly uniform in iV. earyocatactes caryocatactcs and nearly always finely spotted with white in iV. c. macrorhynchos, are mostly finely spotted with white in N. c. japonicus subsp. nov., as 1 name the Japanese form. The spots below are very large iu N. c. japonicus, and mostly with a creamy tinge, the brown colour above very dark. ( 135 ) There is no doubt that these three forms must be kept separate, for to say that they are alike is wrong. It is, however, possible, and even probable, that several more local forms exist in C!entral Asia, where enormons mountain-ranges remain nu('xi)lored, or in parts of Northern Asia. In the Seebohm collection, now in the British Mnsenm, is a skin labelled as being found in the Tian Shau, which has a long wing (186 mm.) and a stout and powerful bill, though only 38 mm. long from the frontal feathering to the tip. It belongs very likely to a local thick-billed mountain-form. Then there is a skin from the Kurile Islands which I take to belong to N'. c. japoniais. Its wing is short, only 173 mm. One from Peking has the wing 1 78 mm., the bill only 35 mm. long, and not thicker than in Siberian examples. I have not been able to examine specimens from the Pyrenees, where it is said to lireed ! I append a synopsis of the old-world species and subspecies of the genus XuciJ'raga, as far as established at present. With regard to the nomenclature used here, I refer my readers to my article in No. 523, 1897, of the Zoologische Anzeigi^r. With regard to the gender of the name Nucifraga, Brisson, who founded the genus, certainly used it as a feminine word, and this ino<lus has generally been followed, though (J. L. Brehm used it as a masculine, and this seems to be right, as it is clearly a masculine noun, such as agricola and many others. However, what are we to do, to follow the (often erroneous) usage of the founder of a generic name, or use it in its grammatically proper gender ? The first would be preferable, as in cases of new and not classic words the gender may be uncertain. There now arises another question : are we modern purists in jtriority of nomenclature (juite logical and consequent in adopting all names in their original spelling and yet altering the gender of the specific name to bring it in uniformity with the generic term ? A diii'erence exists already between some authors and others : some alter also the gender of nouns, such as jnscator, sil/ilat)ix, into piscatrix, sMlator; others alter only the gender if the names are true adjectives, if necessary, so as to bring them into conformity with the genus. I believe that all this is still a remainder of bvgone times, when zoological nomenclature was entirely ruled by philological and etymo- logical pretensions, and not by common sense and practical requirements alone, and when a " classisch gebildetes " word was often thought to be of greater merit than a new observation, and a " nicht classisch gebildetes " word a greater crime than an erroneous statement. I believe that if we only try to use all specific names (as well as generic ones) entirely unaltered, we shall find it less trouble and more convenient, and in no way illogical or against our classical feelings, if we simply regard them as names and not as adjectives — which is much preferable, as less than two-thirds of our specific terms are adjectively formed — see for example all the dedication- names and many others. Nucifraga Brisson, 18G0. 1. Rump and upper tail-coverts centred with the same large white patches as the back : N. multipunctuOi Gould. (Kashmir and Western Himalayas to Kumaon.) 2. Kump and upper tail-coverts, as well as middle of throat, lower abdomen, and sides of body, without white spots ; lateral rectrices white for their apical half : N. hemispila Vig. (Himalayas, from the Sutlej Valley to Bhutan.) 3. Itump and upper tail-coverts with few and smaller white spots than the ( 136 ) back ; middle of throat, lower abdomen, and sides of body spotted like the breast : S. cari/ocatdctex (L.). a. Beak very stout ; white tips to rectrices small : njiper tail-coverts mostly nnspotted ; colour of npper parts iretierally very i)ale : X canjocatuctes cari/omtactes (L.)- (Scandinavia, Bornhoim, Lnpj)land, Russian Baltic jirovinees, ami eastern jjarts of East Prnssia.) b. Beak, tail, and upper tail-coverts as in a ; colour of upper parts generally deeper brown: N. cari/ocatactes relicta (Uchw.). (Central Enro|)ean Mountains— Alps from west to east, Carpathians, Sudetic :\louiitains, Harz Mountains, ? Pyrenees.) c. Beak slender and thin ; white tips to rectrices much larger ; upper tail-coverts mostly with fine white spots: X canjocatactes mar.rorloinchos (C. L. Brm.). (Siberia, migrating into Europe— and perhaps parts of China ?) «■/. Beak not so stout as in a and b, l)ut stouter than in c ; upper tail-coverts and tail as in c ; white spots below generally a little larger : ,V. canjo- catactes japonicus Hartert. (Northern Japan, Kurile Islands.) Besides tlie literature discussed at some length before, I wisli once more to call special attention to Herr von Tschusi-Schmidhofifen's articles in Oniis, Vol. V. pp. 130-148, Tab. II., and in Verh. zool.hot. Ges. Wien, 18S8, pp. 407-506, Tab. XI. These (and Professor Blasius' article) have provided us with such e.xcellent notes and such cart-ful measwements that I saw no need to repeat them here. Neither of the two authors thought it advisable to separate the Alpine form from the North- European one, and they are indeed hardly separable, though a good series sliows in the mean the lighter colour of the former, and many of tlie Scandinavian birds have also larger beaks, though not always. The Gknus CERTHIA. A much hunted ground, and yet not fully exhausted ! Since 0. L. Brehm separated the German creepers into two species, one being C.faniiliaiis. the other C. brack;/clact)/la (which he always considered as a species and not as a subspecies), there has been, among Continental ornithologists, much controversy about tliese forms. The great Naumann strongly opposed Brehiu"s oijiuion about the creepers, and up to recent times the Continental ornithologists who recognised the two forms were very much in the minority, but quite recently I myself (since 1887 in print), Rudolf Blasius, Fliiricke, Kleinschmidt, Deichler, Prazak, and otliers have recog- nised C. hra/:l>f/(/arti/!a, and thus in Germany the truth is rapidly gaining ground. The truth is that tlie two are quite distinct, though the name '' bmch</dacti/la" is misleading, the coloration being, in my opinion, the principal) character, and not the hind-toe but the liind-claw differing in length. C./amiliaris, probably the same as the Scandinavian bird, is almost universally found in North-East Germany. In East Prussia I have frequently found the latter. In Hinterpommern E. von Homeyer never found C. brach/dactyla, though he knew it from Vorpommern, where both occur (Homeyer in (itt.). However C. bmchydactfjla ku» been foimd in Ea_st Prussia, but it is there very rare indeed, and specimens are. I think, not quite so typical as western ones, nor are western C. J'amiliaris quite so jironounced as eastern ones. Near Wesel, on tlie Lower Rhine, I have shot many specimens, and they were all C. hrachjdactyla, as well as all the specimens I ever saw from Holland, including several skins kindly sent to the Tring Museum by Mr. Blaauw of 's Graveland. In most ( 137 ) parts of Germany, however, both Ibrms occur near each other, as, for example, in Saxony and Hessen. In these countries the ('. fa mil iuris is chiefly found in the pine- and fir-woods, and in higher elevations, while C. brachi/dartijla is mosth' met with in the valleys, on the oaks, willows, etc., and in the gardens. Kleinschmidt, FlOricke, and Deichler are convinced that C.familiaris is the bird of the pine- and fir-woods, while C. brachi/dactyla is the form of the leafy woods, parks, and gardens. On the whole they seem to be quite right in their conclusions, but this difference in the haunts of the two forms must not be considered to be an unchangeable law. C. hrachjdactyla was met with near Wesel in woods of pine and fir as well as in gardens; C.J'amiUarinvi often found among the beeches, and in East Prussia I have also shot it in mixed woods and gardens. On the whole (\ hrachydactyla is a more western bird, and it seems not to occur in high altitudes. Intermediate forms are evidently rare, but they occur. C. L. Brehm, E. F. von Homeyer, Kleinschmidt, and others have declared that the two forms can easily be distinguished by their call-notes. 1 have not had the opportunity to hear them, as they have had, close together, therefore I dare not speak on this point with confidence, nor is my ear musical enough to remember the exact height or depth of such a fine note many days afterwards, so as to exactly compare it with that heard on the later occasion, but I have a notion that the British creeper's note difiers a little from that of any I have ever heard on the Continent. I recommend this for observation to those who have very fine musical ears. It would also seem, from the doubts that have been cast on the British creepers being able to sing, that they do not so often utter their feeble little though jiretty song as their Continental cousins do. In any case the creepers sing everywhere in the spring, beginning in January or February, as all field-ornithologists must know. Unfortunately 1 have not enough material of South-Euroirean Ccrtkiae to say whether only one or two forms occur there. However I have not seen typical C. hraclnjdactijla from South Europe. All the (\ Jamiliaiis I have seen from South Europe seem to have a little darker brown ground-colour above, but otherwise are not different from typical ( '. Jamiliaiis. They' seem to agree with birds from Switzerland and from the mountain-ranges in Southern Germany. If it were possible to separate them, they would have to be called G.fnmiliuris costac (Bailly) (1847). Brehm's name, C. macrodacfi/la {Handh. Viig. DeufsM. p. 208, 1831), is, like so many of Brehm's names, somewhat uncertain, and cannot reasonably be used for it, though Stejneger (JJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1887, p. 607) claims priority for it. C. nattereri Bonaparte (1838) is a nomen nudum, and when used again in 18.50 it was preceded by C. rostae of Bailly. Crossing the Channel we find in Great Britain a form which is very closely allied to C. hrachydactyla, but differs in being above darker, with the rump much more tawny rufous, and in having on an average distinctly shorter bills. They are, sometimes, not easy to distinguish from Dutch specimens, but if a series is compared the difierences are evident. Proceeding from the west to the east, we find in Siberia a form which is very near to Swedish C. familiaris, but which has more white above. It is known under the name of C. scandulaca of Pallas, and ])robably extends as far west as East Prussia. Proceeding farther eastwards still, to Japan, we find again two forms : in the northern island Yezzo one said to be the same as ('. fumiUaris scandidaca, and in the southern parts one in which the light markings above are smaller and tinged with tawnv, and in which tlie under tail-coverts and lower abdomen are tinged with ( 138 ) tawu}- bnflf. These iiave been nnited with the typical C. familiaris of Europe by Seebohm and by Stejiipger, in the latter author's explicit and valuable article in U. S. S'af. Mus. 1887, pp. G06-610. Although I have not seen very many examples (the Tring Museum possesses only two at present) I cannot unite the Hondo form with the North-European form. The ground-colonr of the back is deeper brown, the rump of a deeper tawny ; the under tail-coverts seem to be more strongly suffused with tawny, and the beak and wing on the whole decidedly shorter. This form (type from Northern Hondo, in Mr. Rothschild's Museum) 1 must separate as C. familiaris japonica subsp. nov. Neither this, nor C. M-an(/ul'(C(i, hr(uli'iilart-ila^ hrittanica (spelt thus by the author), are species, for all their characters are variable, and intermediate forms between most of them seem to occur. The same may be said of the various North-American forms. It is only in the Himalayas, and in Turkestan and Kashmir, that we meet with a number of well-defined species. There are now six recognised species in these mountains and one subspecies. The following is a very condensed review of the different forms, as far as they are now, in my opinion, sufficiently established. It contains seven species, and one of them is divided into ten, another into two subspecies. Certhia L.. IT 58. ( Tail distinctly barred throughout : 'Z. ' \ Tail not barred, or with obsolete bars : 3. f Above more brown ; beak shorter : 1. C. liimalaijanaYig. (. Above more grey ; beak longer: 1a. C. himal. tacnittra (Scv.). Flanks and lower abdomen ferruginous; centre of breast and abdomen fnlvous; chin and throat white : 2. C. stoliczkae Brooks. Whole lower surface earthy brown; axillaries and under wing-coverts white; under tale-coverts pale ferruginous : 3. C. discolor BIyth. C'hin, throat, and breast buff; remainder of under surface earthy brown : 4. C. maniptircnsis Hume.* Lower surface whitish or pure white : 4. r Fourth primary with a very pale fulvous mark in the middle of the outer 4. I web : 5. C. familiaris with its subspecies. C Fourth primary with no fulvous mark in the middle of the outer web : 5. r Lower abdomen suffused with pale fulvous brown ; above much darker; tail . I always without an indication of bars : 6. C. nipalens/s. I Lower abdomen paler; above much lighter; tail mostly with obsolete bars near the tip : 7. C. hodysoni. Of C. familiaris the following forms are at present, I believe, tenable ; but more will be discovered, as large countries are unrepresented in creepers even in the British Museum and other large collections. 1. ('. familiaris familiaris L. North, ? Central, and ? Southern Europe. Distribution not yet definitely understood. 2. ('. familiaris scandidaca (I'all.). .Siberia to East Europe. More white above than 1. 3. ( 139 ) ? :]. C.familiaris costae (Bailly). Central and South Europe. Doubtful form, but probably nearest to C.familiaris familiaris and a little darker above. 4. C. familiaris brachydacti/lu (Brebm). Central Europe, chiefly the western parts. Differs from C. familiaris familiaris in having the rump much darker tawny rufous, the light parts of the feathers of the upper surface less iu extent and not so whitish, the bill generally longer, the hind-claw in the mean shorter. Breast and abdomen never of such a clear satiny white as in C.fatmliaris familiaris, hnt this character is often overrated, as the under parts of western birds are nearly always soiled, the trees in these thickly populated countries being sooty. Flanks rusty. 5. C. familiaris brittanica (Uidgw.). British Islands : England, Scotland, Ireland, Isle of Man. This is evidently the only form of creeper found in the United Kingdom. Mr. Rothschild and his brother, Mr. Charles Rothschild, have brought together an already nice series from England, Scotland, Ireland, Isle of Man ; but more are still desirable, especially from North Scotland and other less pojjulated districts, where they are clean, those from the thickly inhabited countries being almost black below, from their constant creeping on the always dirty stems of the trees. The British creeper diiiers from ('. familiaris //rac//t/(/acfi/la of West Europe iu the orange-tawny colour of the rump being more extended and slightly more orange, the whole aspect of the upper surface being more rufous, the beak averaging decidedly shorter, the hind-claw longer. 0. C. familiaris japonica Hartert. Island of Hondo or Nippon. Beak as short as or shorter than that of (.'. familiaris brittanica, wing averaging shorter ; breast purer satiny white, the light markings of the upper surface more white. Much deeper brown, and with less whitish markings than C. familiaris familiaris, and generally smaller. 7. C. familiaris americana (Bp.). Eastern North America. Very much like C. familiaris brittanica, but the light markings on the upper surface more white. Very much like G. familiaris familiaris and C. familiaris costae, but the rump deeper tawny. The tail sometimes shows obsolete c