Novitates Zoologicae V19

NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE
H
IN

Journal of ZooloQ^

CONNECTION

WITH THE TRING MUSEUM.

EDITED BY

The Hon.
Dk.

WALTER ROTHSCHILD,

ERNST HARTERT, and

F.R.S., Ph.D.,

Dr. K.

JORDAN.

Vol. XIX., 1912.

(WITH FOURTEEN PLATES.)

Issued at the Zoological Museum, Thing

PRINTED BY HAZELL, WATSON & VINEY,
1912—1913.

I,D.,

LONDON AND AYI.ESBURV.


^t


CONTENTS OF VOLUME XIX.

(1912).

GENEUAL SUBJECT.
PAGES
1.

On

...........

Term "Subspecies"

the

EoTnsciiiLD

used

as

in

Systematic

Zoolog)'.

Wai.teu

— 136

13a

MAMMALIA.
1.

Descriptions of Two Giant Rats from New Guinea, pre.sented to the
British Museum by tlie Hon. Walter Rothschild, F.R.S.
Oldfield

Thomas

91—92

AVES.
1.

Note on Conurus asruyinosus and the

2.

List of a Collection of Birds

of

Mr. A.

Birds collected by

Bay, in North-Eastern British

Two New
Hellmayr

C. E.
.").

The Birds

Binls

of

Description

of

Yunnan.

6.

Ornithologlsche

7.

On some

84

— 85

made by Mr. Albert Meek on the Kumusi
New Guinea. Walter Rothschild

and Ernst Hartert
4.

.

British

and Ernst Hartert
List

T. Salvadori

.........
.........

River, North-Eastern

0.

allied species.

S.

Meek

New

from

at

Haidana, CoUingwood

Guinea.

Walter Rothschild

tlie

.

.

Collingwood Ingram

Miszellen aus

Timor

Group

of

Gebiet.

206

i.'U7

— 2iJ9

21U

— 211

269

— 310

Islands.

......

dem Imlo-Australischen

187

EitwiN

Stresemann

— 35]
373 — 374
311

unfigured Birds.

(Plates

I.

and

Ernst Hartert

II.)

.

.

COLEOPTERA.
Congo Museum at Tervueren.

1.

List of the Anthi-ibidae in the

2.

New A nthribidae

in the Collection of

3.

Neue

des

Apionen

(Illustriert.)
4.
5.

Nord-

und

Hans Waoner

H. E. Andrewes.

De.scriptions

Museum.

Esp^ces

et

.

........
........

Siid-Amerikanisi-hen

Formo.san Anthrihiilae collected by H. Sauter.
d'

K. Jordan

K. .Jordan

63

67

87

90

F.iunengebietes.

K. Jordan

.

.

.

97

118

137

II.")

247

268

Varietes Nouvelles de Coecinellides du British

DocTEUR Sicard


(

vi

)

LEPIDOPTERA.
PAGES
1.

New

Nocliddae in
\V.

Region.

tln'

.........

Tring Museum, mainly from

Wahren

Museum from New

2.

New

3.

Caligida Hybr. salmoni, a new Hybi'id of

Geomelridae in the Tring

J.
4.

W. Warren

.

.

Synonymic Catalogue of
Descriptions

of

7.

New
New

8.

Some New

9.

Some New

11.

New
New

12.

Some

10.

— 57

68

— 83

(Illustrated.)

New

from

Lambessa

of

.

.

Algeria.

.

.

Walter

.118

.

the Syntomid Genus Balacra Walk., with
XIV.)* WAi/rER
Species.
(Plates XIII.

—

119

EoTiiscHii,D
G.

1

86—87

On an apparently New Form

A

Guinea.

.Satiirniidae.

Tnclo-Orieutal

Henry Watson

RoTILSCniLD
5.

tlio

Walter Rothschild

Bornean Aegeriidae and Syntomidae.
Mauretanian Moth.s.
Sphiit/jid(ie.

.....
......
......
......
—
.

.

Walter Rothschild

(Illustrated.)

Oriental Zygaenidae.

Walter Rothschild and K. Jordan

K. Jordan

Syntomidae.

Walter Rothschild.

Lithosianae.

Walter Rothschild.

\miig\ive({ Sipilomklae, Aeijerladae nni\ Arctianae.

(Plates III.

122

— 127
—
135
128

146 — 150
151 — 186
212 — 246
125

V.)

Walter Rothschild

— 122
— 124

375

— 377

SIPHONAPTERA.
1.

2.

List

of Siphonaptera collected in Eastern
K. Jordan and N. C. Rothschild

On Siphonaptera
and N.

0.

collected in Algeria

Hungary.

(Illustrated.)

58

— XII.)
(Plales VI.

— 62

Karl Jordan

Rothschild

357

— 372

RHYNCHOTA.
1.

Notes on the structure of the sexually modified segments of the Cimlcidne
= C'linocoridae), with special i-ef erence to Cliiiocoris columharius
(

2.

Notes on C'linocoridae, a
family of Rhynchota, with the descriptions of
a New Genus and
Karl Jordan and N. Charles
Species.

(Jenyns). (Illustrated.)

N. Charles Rothschild

....

'

Rothschild

.

.

.

INDEX

.

.

9:1— U6

352—356
379-403

• N'ot Plates

I.

and

II.

.is

given in the text.


OF PLATES IN VOLUME XIX.

LIST

I.

II.

Leucopsar rothschildi

III.

Si/Htomidae.

IV.

Si/iitoniidae

V.

VI.

Manias henschi Oust, ami

— XII.

;iuil

G'l'.andid,

By

II.

By H. Grouvold.

(rmcujjic/c tertia.

By Horace Knight.
and

S ijntomidae and

By Horace Knight.

Aeijeriadae.

By Horace

Arclianue.

Algerian Siphonaptera.

By K.

Kniglit.

.Jordan.

By Horace

XIII.

SijntomidcK (Genus Balacra).

XIV.

Si/ntomidae (Genera Balacra and Metarclia),

The Parts

of this

Volume were

—

No.

1,

containing pages

No.

2,

containing page.s 151

No.

3,

containing pages
1913.

Gronvold.

1

1.50,

issueil

— 377

379—403

issued as follows

Kniglit.

By Horace Knight.

:

April 30th, 1912.

— XII., issued December
1912.
— V. and XIII. — XIV., issued April

and Plates VI.
.and Plates I.

21st,

l-lth,


ERRATA.
Page

from bottom, and 02, line 10 from
"
"
"
instead of
be
Keyser."
KeyssBv

91, line

I)

11!)— 122, the

Plate.s

121, No.

This species

„

line

10.

t,

for

after "fig.

this article are
is

40,''

185, No. 1G7, the specific

read

name

,

31(),

liiK-

1

from

bottom

read

and ?

XIV.

fig.

(ig.

I.

and

38.

39."

:

name should read
nicht

mehr

"

liorics," not

" Lori»is."

instead

of

uielir nicht.

,,

,,

iiudayensis

„

.,

malai/aims.

.,

,.

malat/eiisis

,,

,.

malayanus.
Syphia.

top

„

Siphia

Iiottom

,,

„

„

..

slioii

should read roscipemiis not roseipeunis.

194, No<. 49 and 50: the generic

312,

XIII. and XIV., and not "

figured on Plate
'^

name

bottom, collector's

cJ

Sangir

:

S

1C3

„

,,

,,

,,

..

..

?

Sangir

:

1G3.

junge Vogel

„

„

Jungevogel.

1892

„

.,

1S22.

Mundspalto

.,

,,

Mnndspilte

II


,JL.

NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE.
V^

H

Journal oX Zoolotj^.

EDITED BY

The Hon.
Dr.

WALTER ROTHSCHILD,

ERNST HARTERT,

F.R.S., Ph.D.,

and Dk. K. -JORDAN.

Vol. XIX.

No.

1.

Pages 1—150.
Issued April 30th, at the Zoological Museum, Thing.

PRINTED BY HAZELL. WATHON & VINEV.

1912.

Ld..

LONDON AND AYLESBURV.


XIX.

Vol.

NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE
EDITED BY

WALTER ROTHSCHILD. ERNST HARTERT,

and

CONTENTS OF NO.

KARL JORDAN.

I.

NEW XOCTVIDAE IN THE TPJNG MUSEUM,

MAINLY FROM THE INDO-ORIENTAL
REGION
LIST OF SIPHONAPTERA CiOLLECTED IN
EASTERN HirNGARY. (IlluslraUd)

W.

Wa

1—57

K. Jordan and X.
Rothschild

('.

.

OF THE AXTHRIBIDAE IN THE
CONGO MUSEUM AT TERVUEREN
NEW (iKOMETKIDAE IN THE TRING
MUSEUM FROM NEW GUINEA
NOTE ON CONURUS AERUGIXOSUS AND
THE ALLIED SPECIES
CALIGULA iiYUR. SALMONI, A NEW HYBRID
OF SATURXIIDAE. (Illustrated)
NEW AXTHRIIilDAE IN THE COLLECTION
OF H. E. ANDREWES
DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO GIANT RATS
FROM NEW GUINEA PRESENTED TO
lAHi:

.

....
.

THE BRITISH MUSEUM BY THE HON.
WALTER ROTHSCHILD, F.R.S.
NOTES ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE
.

SEXUALLY MODIFIED SEGMENTS OF
THE CIMICIDAE (= CLIXOCORIDAE)
WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO GLINOCORIS COLUMIiARJUS (JENYNS).

(Ilhis-

tra(ed)
10.

NEUE APIONEN DES NORD- UND SUDAMERIKANISCHEN FAUNENGEBIETES
(Illm(rie>-t)

12.

ON AN APPARENTLY NEW FORM OF
LAMUESSA FROM ALGERIA
A SYNONYMIC CATALOGUE OF THE SYNroitll) (3ENUS BALACRA Walk., WITH
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES.

13.

NEW BORNEAN AEGERJIOAE AND

11.

.

(Plates

I.

and

II.)

......

TO illDAE

15.

16.

ON THE TERM "SUBSPECIES" AS USED

Walter Rothschild

Walter Rothschild

Walter Rothschild
Waller Rothschild

Waller Rothsch ild and
A'.

IN SYSTEMATIC ZOOLOGY'
17.

18.

.

SYK-

NEW MAURETANIAN MOTHS
SOME NEW Sl'llIXGIDAE. {Illustrated)

U.

Have Wayner

FORMOSAN AXTHRIIilDAE COIXECTED
BY H. SAUTER
SOME NEW ORIENTAL ZYGAEXIDAE

Jordan

Walter Rothschild


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NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE.
Vol.

XIX.

APRIL,

1912.

No.

1.

NEW NOCTUIDAE

IN THE TRING MUSEUM, MAINLY
EEOM THE INDO-ORIENTAL REGION.
By W.

warren,

Subfamily

M.A., F.E.S.

ACRONICTINAE.

Canna javensis

1.

spec, no v.

from spleiideiis Moore, which it most resembles, in the
the median and inner-marginal fasciae have the brown much
mixed with green, especially towards costa the inner edge of the median fascia is
s(|uarely angled below the subcostal vein, and its outer edge is obliijue inwards at

Forewiny

differs

:

following particulars

:

;

both stigmata are more distinctly marked
the onter
more uniformly green, the oblique streak from reuiform to apes not being
marked, and the inner-marginal band is more broadly interrupted by green towards
costa instead of outwards

area

;

;

is

the base.

HiiidwuKj

:

with

white,

submarginal fuscous band mncli reduced and

the

restricted to the costal half of wing.

Underside with the ground colour whiter, the submarginal bands reduced
wings the patch at end of cell of forewing nearly

to patches in costal half of
obsolete.

Expanse of wings
1

(J

34

:

;

mm.

from Java.
2.

Acronicta nigromaculata

spec. nov.

Forewing : white, the basal two-thirds more or less wholly suffused with olivefuscous thickly speckled with black, which leaves pale spaces above median before
and after inner line and at base of inner margin costa at base, the base of cell, and
;

submedian fold black to inner line, the pale space above it extending below cell
to submedian fold and there white
space beyond inner line containing the round
inner line black
orbicular with brown centre, whitish annulus, and black outline
and double, squarely projecting outwards above vein 1
median line black and
double, waved, more or less lost in the broad dark suffusion, which also envelopes

the reniform, and is marked along submedian fold by blacker streaks continued
vaguely to termen outer line finely double, lunulate-dentate, followed by three
dark blotches, one at costa and one on each fold, connected with a row of
submarginal olive lunulcs, between which aud a terminal row of black studshaped marks the narrow submarginal line lies
fringe chequered black and
;

;

;

;

;

white.

Hindwing

:

white in

iind terminal shade,
J

S

,

fuscous grey in ?

which are

all

,

with dark cell-spot, outer line, veins,

obscured in the darker ^

,


(2
Uiulersiile white, suffused

)

with fuscous in forewing, except the costal streak

and inner-marginal area, speckled with fuscous in hindwing along costa only, with
a dark bar from costa before middle, and the outer line marked by dark spots
the cell-spot large and dark in both wings.
at and below costa and on each fold
and lined with olivc-fuscons, the abdomen
mixed
thorax
Head and

whitish,
with
second
segment black, its tip and the third segment
grey
paljii extenuilly
;

;

pale grey

;

black and white.

tarsi spotted

Expanse of wings

mm.

40

:

SS

taken in February and
2 (?

1 cJ from
November
and
189.3
in
the
?
?
October
;
Darjiling
May 1896,
(F.'Moller);

1

cJ

Sikkim, April 1888 (Col. Pilcher).

Thalatha argentea

3.

spec. nov.

from margin to
silvery white; the narrow basal patch, reaching
a
on

before
a
truncated
conical
costa
middle,
triangular patch on
patch
margin,
inner margin at middle, and a diffusely edged smaller patch on costa before apex,

Forewing:

black

;

a

slight

brown

termeu between veins 3

on

smudge

and

5

;

a

few

scattered black scales above anal angle ; fringe mottled black and white.
Hindwing: dark fuscous grey, paler towards base and inner margin, darkest
apically

;

fringe dark, paler at anal angle.

Underside glossy iron-grey in ibrewing the costa sprinkled with white scales,
and with a small white spot at three-fourths and a white streak just before apex
fringe with white chequering along base
hindwing whitish, with the central area
and apex bronzy grey speckled with white a dark cell-spot and outer line.
head and
Palpi black, with the tips of second and third segments white
;

;

;

;

;

shoulders, and the metathoracic

thorax

black

white, the

tuft

abdomen fuscous grey

;

;

shoulders

tijiped

with rufous

pectus, legs, and venter black

;

;

the legs

dotted with white.

Expanse of wings

mm.
New Guinea,

24

:

2 JcJ from British

from Welsch River (type) and Area River

respectively (Weiske).

Subfamily
4.

MOMINAE.

Trisuloides pygaria spec. uov.

Forewing fuscous grey, with darker fuscous suffusion in parts the oval space
before outer line from subcostal vein to vein 3, the filling up of outer line itself, and

:

;

the subterminal line below vein

edged,

5 whitish

waved and oblique outwards;

;

inner line blackish, inwardly pale-

median shade

thick, strongly developed,
orbicular stigma round,
oblique outwards to below vein 3, then oblique inwards
filled up with brown ; reniform a narrow
inner arm
lunule
witli
pale edging
grey
of outer line dark grey ; outer arm fine, but swollen into a brownish blotch on
;

;

submedian interval

;

subterminal

line

from costa

to vein

5 thick and black

;

terminal lunules brown edged with white; fringe yellowish at base, grey at tips.
Hiniltcing : yellow a fuscous terminal border, of even width from costa to
;

vein 3, the inner edge only continued to anal angle
the fuscous terminal lunules
and fuscous.
mottled
broadly edged with pale yellow
yellow
fringe
;

;

Underside yellow the forewing with the costal streak, a large blotch on
and the rest of wing to subterminal line, except along inner margin,
;

discocellular,


(

3)

the outer and subtermiual lines
a yellow blotch beyond cell
hindwing with the costal area and the terminal third of wing black and
the first, before middle, short,
white speckled
two black lines from costa
the
with
the
black
cell-mark
second, from middle, curved to vein 3
coalescing

blackish fuscous
jialer

;

;

;

;

;

;

;

fringe yellowisli grey.

Face, vertex, and antennal tuft pale oclireons
terminal segment wholly
black, the

pali)i

;

black

in front pale ochreous,

shonlders yellower

abdomen dingy grey, the
grey mixed with yellowish
anal segments tlnckly clothed with masses of grey woolly down ; pectus and
the tarsi black spotted with ochreous
antennae black, shortly
legs ochreous
externally

ochreous

;

thorax

olive

;

;

;

;

pectinated.

Expanse of wings

mm.

66

:

?, considerably worn, from Benkoelen, W. Sumatra (Ericsson).
Differs from tyjiical Trisuloides in the antennae (?) being
1

pectinated instead

of simply serrate and in the woolliness of the anal segments.
5.

Trisuloides papuensis spec. nov.

fnscous varied with black and white dusting, but, except in the
Foreiviruj
terminal area beyond subterminal line, without the brown tinge of sericea Btlr.,
:

which it otherwise much resembles the inner black line is more oblique inwards,
and straighter, less wavy followed by a black median shade, which at costa is
oblique inwards, is then curved outwards and Inuulate-dentate to vein 2, then
inbent and ending on inner margin as a diffnse shade beyond inner line orbicular
;

;

;

stigma absent

in the only

specimen

;

indicated only by a brown liar
with white instead of brown, and

reniform

;

outer line Innulate-dentate, double, filled in
without the large whitish lunule beyond it on submedian fold; subterminal line
also narrowly white, the space between them brownish fuscous thickly irrorated

with bluish white

the space beyond cell before the outward curve of outer line
;
a triangular patch of wliite scaling beyond subterminal line
fold
fringe brown, dark mottled, white bejond the submedian

diffusely whitish

on submedian

;

;

interval.

Rindiving : brownish fuscous, with the centre dull yellow, running through
from costa to inner margin above anal angle a small white triangle on termen in
submedian interval, with the fringe beyond it white.
Underside with all the markings blurred and confused
the basal two-thirds
;

;

dull yellow, the outer third dark fuscous and brown
a diffuse dark median cloud
across discocellular the outer line dark above the submedian fold the white marks
;

;

;

present at anal angle in both wings.
Face, vertex, and palpi fuscous and ochreous, the palpi externally browner
shoulders paler ; thorax and abdomen fuscous grey and ochreous the dorsal tnfts

;

;

darker; pectus, venter, and legs brownish.
Expanse of wings 50 mm.
:

One (?
March 1906

from

Biagi,

Mambare

River,

New

British

Guinea,

5000

ft.,

(A. S. Meek).
0.

Trisuloides polyphaenaria spec. nov.

Forewing greyish ochreous with a faint olive tinge the markings olive green
basal patch olive, its edge slightly curved, nearly vertical, followed by an olive
green line ; median shade olive green, oblique outwards frou; costa to median, then
:

;

;


(

4

)

and oblique inwards the dark green cell-spot lies on its njiper arm
outer line dark olive, double, filled in with pale, oblique outwards to 6, vertical to 4,
then incurved ; the inner arm lunulate-dentate, the outer obscured by the olive
shade following, which is itself obsolescent below vein 4 this shade is limited
less distinct

;

;

;

oblique inwards to vein 7 and
terminal area beyond it, especially at apex,
angled outwards on veins 6 and 4
brownish olive, below the middle all the markings are i)ale and blurred a row
externally by the

subterminal

i)ale

line,

which

is

;

;

fringe olive and greyish ochreons.
with a broad greenish fnscous terminal border,
:
yellow,
bright
Himhiing
olive green pale-edged terminal lunules
indistinct below 3
fringe pale grey.

Underside yellow in basal areas, the outer fawn-colour speckled with grey costa

of terminal olive lunules

;

;

;

;

of forewing fawn-colour a diffuse blackish blotch on discocellular of forewing, and
a dark olive fuscous
a less distinct blotch on hindwing from costa over end of cell
fascia in forewing beyond outer line.
;

;

Head, forelegs, and thora.K jiale fawn-colour, the face and outside of palpi
browner legs brownish fawn the abdomen is entirely denuded of scales.
Expanse of wings 46 mm.
;

;

:

One

from Palaboehan, Ratoe, Java, Wynkoopsbaai (Fruhstorfer).
from typical Trisuloides in the antennae of the ? being almost simple,
with a few short bristles, but without visible serrations.
?

Differs

T.

Trisuloides albiplaga spec. nov.

Forewing: red-brown with some white irroration along costa and inner
margin, and black and white dotting along veins, towards inner margin with dark
and pale speckling inner line black, oblique from costa to submedian fold, thence
inwardly obli(ine, edged on each side by lines of white and red-brown scales,
followed by a short streak of white and reddish scales along submedian fold outer
line black, lunulate, bent at vein 4, followed by a snow-white line and preceded
;

;

from costa to vein ^ by a whii;e line swollen into a blotch between veins 5 and 7,
the stigmata large and
and running inwards along vein 5 to below reniform
dark with thick black outlines
subterminal line reddish brown mixed with white,
whiter at each margin, sharply inangulate on vein 7 and indented only on vein 1,
;

;

l)receded by large dark wedge-shaj)ed spots between the veins, edged with reddish,
and on costa by a black blotch reaching outer line terminal black lunules edged
;

by white and reddish scales

;

beyond submedian fold a black triangle

;

fringe browu,

varied with pale scales.
:
orange with broad black terminal border narrowing off to an
mottled
brown and white.
angle ; fringe
Underside orange at base between subcostal vein and submedian fold in
outer
forewing, in hindwing along inner margin from costa to terminal border

Ilimiwing

;

two-thirds of forewing fuscous with a broad oblique white band from costa beyond
middle to vein 3, and a white erect spot at anal angle
hindwing with a largo
fuscons blotch from costa to discocellular and a broad terminal border, preceded
;

from costa to vein 3 by a broad white blotch.
Face and vertex fuscons with the sides whitish

palpi white in front, the
terminal segment and second
segment externally blackish shoulders fuscous, with
the bases and tips ochreous
the tips in
patagia olive brown, darker at base,
place:} white; dorsum orange with the line of tufts and the anal segments fuscous;
;

;

;


(5)
venter blackisb, with wliite segmental rings
pectns dull orange
thickly dnsted with brown.
? 70 ram.
Expanse of wings c? 66 mm.
;

:

legs ochreons

:

;

from the Khasia Hills, Assam (t3-pe) one cJ from Darjiling
is smaller, and less distinctly marked.
The
last
(F. MoUer).
The ? has the antennae almost simple, with a few short bristles.
2 ^tJ, 5

8.

? ?

;

Tambana nigra

spec, nov., a^id snlisp. fuscipennis subsp. nov.

the lines, which are dimble, the edges of the
Foreicinq : purplish black
the narrow terminal area,

stigmata, and tlie praesubmarginal shade deep black
the inner and outer lines
the centres of stigmata, and the costal spots dark grey
a
median
shade
dark
lunnlate-dentate
fringe
purple grey.
conversely
veins towards
HiiHlwiiiy : yellowish straw-colour, deeper yellow in the ?
;

;

;

;

;

;

termen black;

lilack

fringe

com})lete in the ?

a fuscous terminal border,

;

in

ill-defined

the

tj,

.

Underside of forewing dull blackish, the

cells

and inner margin dull straw-

straw-colour, becoming blackisli terminally; both
wings with large difl'use discal blotch and dark outer line fringe dotted with white
beyond the veins.

colour

of hindwing mainly

;

;

Head, thorax, and
its sides in

legs blackisli

mixed with pale grey

basal half with luteous hairs

Expanse of wings

46

:

;

hairs

;

abdomen

black,

pectus woolly, olive grey.

mm.

2 (?(?, 1 ? from the Khasia Hills, Assam.
In the form from Burma subsp. fuscipennis subsp. nov. the upperside of
hindwing and the undersides of botli wings are dingy fuscous with a luteous tinge

—

—

;

the outer line on both wings on underside
Expanse of wings 50 mm.

is

more strongly bent

at middle.

:

1

Elwes

?

from Bernardmyo, Burma, 7o00

ft..

May

1890 (W. Dohcrty), from the

Collection.
9.

Forewing

:

not so complete

Hindwing

:

Tambana

pallidipennis spec. nov.

like nigra, but the ground colour paler, greyer
the lines filled up with pale grey.

;

the black suffusion

;

uniform pale straw-colour, witii the fringe dark fuscons
with traces of a faint subterminal shade.

;

some

in

cases, especially in the ? ?,

Underside dirty straw-colour

;

a diftuse dark discal blotch in forewing

the

;

outer lines and terminal border fuscons.

Head, thorax, and legs blackish with a stronger admixture of pale hairs; the
hair at base of

abdomen

Expanse of wings
10

c?c?, 3

? ?

:

at the sides paler.

46

mm.

from Java: Pengalengan, Preanger

Subfamily
10.

;

Bandong

;

Palaboehan.

EUXOINAE.

Euxoa fumipennis

spec. nov.

Forewing luteous grey, suftused throughout with deep smoky blackish, the
paler ground colour showing as a diffuse band only beyond outer line
:

;

mnch

markings

as in E. radians Guen. from Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand
the
filling up of the inner line, the median nervure, the annulns of the orbicular stigma,
;


(6)
and the sabterminal
into separate spots

line are all pale
;

and

distinct

the last sometimes broken up

;

a thick, blackish, nearly vertical, median shade passes over

the reniform.
:

Iliixliriiig

white, the veins strongly

brown

;

the whole wing, excei)t the cell

the
and space beyond it, tinged with pale fuscons, more thickly along the margins
termen with a broad diffuse blackish border, partially darkening the fringe.
Underside of forewing dull grey with the termen darker; of hindwing white
;

with

all the margins blackish.
Head, thorax, and abdomen
Expanse of wings 42 mm.

all

dark fuscons blackish.

:

4

from Lifu, Loyalty Islands.
Larger and darker than radians, to which
¥ ?

11.

it is

Rhyacia spilosata

nearest allied.

spec. nov.

Foreirini) : uniform dull grey-brown, with all the markings obscnred orbicular
and reniform stigmata filled up with darker, without distinct annnli or outlines inner
and outer lines conversely dentate-lunnlate, the teeth of the former pointing basewards those of the outer, as usual, double subterminal line marked by a double

row of brown spots, the inner between, the onter on, the veins a row of terminal
;

;

;

;

;

black dots

;

the terminal area narrowly darker.

: somewhat
paler than forewing; the fringe concolorous.
Underside of forewing dark, of hindwing paler the latter with cell-spot and

Ilindwiinj

;

outer

line.

Head, thorax, and abdomen all concolorous.

Expanse of wings 36 mm.
1 cf without
locality, from the Elwes Collectio.i
:

Nepal

frontier,

taken at an elevation of 12,0U0
12.

ft.,

Rhyacia papuana

1

;

July

?

from Phallalooug on

tlie

190.i.

spec. nov.

As

large as triangularis Moore, which it most resembles.
the
Forewing: purplish brown, without the reddish tinge of triangularis
costal streak broadly pale to beyond the reniform
the two stigmata pale, both
confluent above with the streak, and both touching median veiu below
the cell
blackish throughout
claviform stigma pale, with diffuse dark purplish outline
outer line purplish, lunulate-dcntate
the subiuargiual preceded by a row of dark
;

;

;

;

;

;

luuules.

Hindwing:

spot and outer

dull pale grey, darker towards termen,

showing a dull grey

cell-

line.

thorax and jiatagia deep brownand tegulae rufous ochreous mixed with grey, the tegnlae
with a broad but diffuse blackish middle line abdomen furry grey.
Pal])! extcrniilly, vertex of hea
black

;

tips of palpi, face

;

Expanse of wings 42 mm.
1
i from the Angabuiiga River, British
:

1904

to

February 1005 (A.

13.

S.

New

Guinea, OOUU

ft.,

November

Meek).

Rhyacia praetermissa

spec,

nov.,

and subsp. insulata subsp. nov.

costal
Forewing: purplish fuscous in the ?, jiale reddish Ijrown in the S
streak whitish from base to reniform stigma, dotted with grey, sometimes pink;

(

tinged, plainer iu ? than

n

lines finely lilaok, conversely
c?
edged with paler the
inner obliqne and double, the internal arm slender, preceded by a diffuse grey space;
tbe outer lunulate-dentate
submarginal obscurely paler, indicated by the terminal
;

;

;

area beyond it being darker, preceded at costa by a black bar cell and a blotch at
base of submedian fold blackish orbicular stigma pale, dependent from the costal
;

;

streak, ronnded triangular

;

reniform with

j)ale curi'ed

inner edge.

fuscous grey, paler basewards.
Underside with outer line and cell-spot on both wings.

Hindwing

:

Head, palpi, and patagia purplish grey tegulae oohreou-!, with two rufous
and the tips velvety black abdomen, underside, and legs brownish grey.

lines

;

;

Expanse of wings 42 mm.
1 d', 3 ? ¥ from the
Nilgiri Hills
:

1 i from Ooty, S. India.
;
Closely allied to this species, but differing in being slightly smaller, with the
hindwings pale at base, 2 ? ? from Bonthain, Celebes, taken between .OOUO and

60U0 ft., October 1895, by A. Everett,
insulata subsp. nov.
14.

Rhyacia stigmatias

S

may

spec. nov.

for the present be separated as subsp.

and

pallidistigma ab. nov.

ab.

grey or luteous grey, dusted with darker and more
or less strongly tinged with pink
of ¥ wholly dull brick-red costal edge red
the lines dark, marked by dark spots on costa, disposed as in the allied species,
Foreicirtff: of

jiale lilac

;

;

;

but rarely clear; the outer line outcurved and emitting rather long dark teeth
on the veins stigmata of the pale ground colour edged with brown
the lower
half of reniform always black in the cJ, unicoloroas in the ¥
snbterminal line
;

;

;

sometimes indicated by a dark shade on each side
fringe reddish with a dark
marginal festoon in the pale grey examples, without the festoon in the red
forms of the i, and in the ¥ ?.
;

Hindwiny:

pale luteous grey.

The colouring of the
In

the

thora.x varies with that of the forewing.

ab. pallidistigma ab. nov. all three stigmata are
pale

ochreous, and

the lower half of the reniform stigma velvety black.
32
36 mm.
E.xpanse of wings
:

—

from the Angabunga River, British New Guinea, GOOD
November 19U4 to February 190.5, and 1 3 from Biagi, Mambare River, .5000
April 1906 (A S. Meek).
(i

c?c?,

3

¥ ¥

15.

fc,
ft.,

spec. no7.

Rhyacia griseithorax

Forewing: pale
grey with a faint greenish tint; the sp.'ckling and lines
olive brownish
inner and outer lines double, filled in with pale
grey the inner
lilac

;

;

outer line sinuous, followed by black and
strongly angled outwards below vein 1
white dashes on veins ; submarginal line double, brown filled in with
paler,
;

hardly bent, preceded by a chocolate brown costal shade; stigmata all large, grey
with paler annnli and brown outlines, the claviform
reaching to be\-ond orbicular,
and the reniform produced inwards along median vein
fringe brown and
;

with a bright rufous white basal line

;

costal

elge pale greenish

grey,

ochreous

for

three-fourths.

Hindwing
Underside

:

fuscous grey, dark before termen
fringe white, tinged with rufous.
costa of both wings and termen of
grey
forewing
;

blackish

broadly brick-red.

;


(8)
Face,

darker

slionldors,

grej- tiuged

deep red

patasiiii,

with red

;

dorsnra
and thorax ver}- i)ale greenisli grey
venter, pectus, iuside of legs, and palpi externally
;

ochreons.
tips of palpi reddish

;

Expanse of wings

mm.

W)

:

2 ? ? from the Khasia Hills, Assam.
«

Hi.

;

spec. nov.

and the basal area
pale clear ochreons, only the costal streak
but the inner liae appears to be toothed out-

:

Fm-eiving
o-rey-brown

Rhyacia mundipennis

lines scarcely visible,

wardly above and below vein

1

clavifurm stigma with a dark dot at

;

its

apex

;

orbicular a flattened oval, the centre blackish in a wide ochreons ring, outlined
reniforra an obli(|ue figure of 8, filled up with black in an
with pale brown
ochreons ring, of which only the inner half is wide and edged with brown ;
;

veins (5, 5, and 2, and slighter ones on
slight black-brown streaks at termeu on
those
on
submedian
fold
1
and
the

vein
0, 5, connected by faint brown streaks
;

with the reniform
:

IlincliciiK/

;

fringe ochreons, scantily mottled with brown.

with

ochreons

pale

slight

brown

dashes

terminal

fringe

;

ochreons.

forewing and costal

half of

Underside ochreons, with the costal

in

edge

brownish.

dull

hindwing
Head, jialpi, and tegulae pale oclireous, tinged with rather bright fulvous
abdomen dark grey.
thorax and patagia dark brown
30 mm.
Expanse of wings
1 ? from Bandong, Java.

;

;

:

Hermonassa stigmatica spec

17.

Forewiiicj

the subbasal

olive-fiiscons, often

:

and inner

with a slight reddish tinge

subcostal vein a sharp, pale,
the subterminal preceded by a dark shade
;
black, and distinct, broadly outlined with ochreons.
:

;

the lines pale

;

edged with black, the former emitting along

angulated line towards the latter; outer line dentafe-

distinctly

lunulate

Ilindwimj

nov.

;

sometimes tinged or even

dirty whitish,

three

all

stigmata large,

suffused witli

in

grey

the ?.
of forewing brownish grey, the costa oclireous speckled with

an obscure dark cell-spot and outer line: of himlwing whitish with
blackish cpll-s])ot and an outer line from costa to vein 0; costal area broadly

Underside

rnfons

;

ochreons, tlecked with fuscous.

Head and thorax concolorous with forewing

;

the abilomea greyer

;

the legs

redder.

Expanse of wings
4

;{()

:

—

W'l

mm.

4 ? ? from Bhntan (type);
10 cjc?, 1
Darjiling (Dr. Lidderdale)
fJc?,

;

July— August 1889 (W.

Forewimj

didl

more

esjiecially the

?

Darjiliiig,

A].ril

18S9 (Pilcher)

Darjiling (F. Moller)

Hermonassa furva spec

brick-red with

blurred and obsolescent

?

;

1

$ Naga

1
;

i

Hills,

Doherty).
18.

:

1

an olive tinge;

the lines accompanied
outer line; costa marked
;

nov.
all

by dull
by

the lines and markings
lustrous bluish scales,

blackish

spots

edged

with


blnish scales at

elongate
crescent

the

lines

stigmata black, with

;

;

;

out ine

ditl'ise

;

;

Hindwing

dull whitish.

:

the costal elge from before middle
forewing olive brown
apex pink; of hindwing whitish, the costal region pale greenish brown.
the abdomen reddish grey.

Head, thorax, jiectns, and legs reddish

Underside

to

origin of

t-lio

the orbicular diffusely
apparently continued inwards to base
the reniform Innate, more conspicuous, limited inwardly by a grey
a row of distinct black terminal Innnles.

claviform

the

of

;

;

32 mm.
Expanse of wings
3 c?:

Hermonassa lineata

10.

olive brown,

Forewing:

spec. nov.

and shaded

speckled

the veins and outlines of the

India.

in

jilaces

with darker;

three stigmata finely ])ale ochreous

all

the stigmata
edged with dark;

;

large and well-defined; lines all jiale ochreous and distinct,
the outer dentate-lnnulate, oblique inwards below vein 5 to just beyond middle
of inner margin
a row of dark (errainal lunules ; fringe brown, like wings.
;

uniform dull luteous grey.
Underside of forewing dark grey, the costa ochreous towards base, becoming
reddish at one-third
of hindwing silky whitish, the costal area ochreous,
dnsted with olive scales, with traces of the commencement of a dark outer
line and submarginal shade.

Hindwing

:

;

Head and thorax dark glossy red-brown
dorsum
tegnlae pink-edged
dark
red-iirowu
venter
and
greyish fuscons, the anal tuft rufous
;

legs
pectus
and the tibial tufts bright rnfons.
;

;

;

Expanse of wings

40—44 mm.

:

2 6
Distinguished by

its

ft., July 1886 (H. J. Elwes).
and conspicuous markings.

large size
20.

Eurois perviridis spec. nov.

Smaller than either drcns

Btlr.

or

magnifica

Moore

;

the

green

scaling

veins and centres of upper stigmata lilac
predominant throughout the wing
the cell black
claviform stigma quite small, green
grey, speckled with black
;

;

with black outline

;

the other

stigmata without any red scaling
wedge-shaped marks before subterminal line complete and distinct.
Hindwing : fuscous grey, darker terminally ; the fringe white.
;

Expanse of wings

.00

:

21.

;

black

the

mm.
Ectopatria renalba spec. nov.

in basal area and along
brownish fuscous, faintly rufous-tinged
Foreioing
costa paler, being much mixed with whitish scales; inner and outer lines black,
the
outer lunulate-dentate

orbicular and reniform
conversely pale-edged,
:

;

;

stigmata

with

rufous

brown centres and pale

annuli

defined by

black

;

the

round, small and indistinct; the reniform deeply indented on outer
the annulus broadly white, with a white spot on costa above
edge at middle
it ; subterminal line

pale, interrupted, preceded and followed by black streaks
orbicular

;

in the intervals

;

those below veins 5 and 6 continued to outer edge of reniform
lunules along termen
fringe brown, with pale line at

stigma; a row of black
base.

;


10

(

)

Ilindwinq : fuscous, with the basal half whitisli.
Underside of hindwing white, with the terminal border fuscons.

Head and

abdomen

like forewings;

tliorax

greyer, whitish beneath.

Expanse of wings: 30 mm.
from Tasmania, 1891 (Barnard

¥

1

«

Coll.).

Subfamily HADENTINAE.
22. Craterestra postlineata sjiec. nov.

Hmps. from

S. India, Init only two-thirds of the size.
streak pale with oehreous lines as in
the
costal
Foreu'iny : brownish fnscons,
that species, bnt the inner margin remains of the dark gronnd colour except at anal

angle the orbicular and reuiform black in the brown ground colour iu the c?, partly

Resembles

C. hifaacia

;

in

the

i)aler costal

area in the ?

;

outer line of points sometimes continuous, the line

fringe brown.
dnll whitish, with dark cell-spot and outer line of points before the
darker shaded terminal border fringe grey; in the ? the whole inner margin from

being dentate-lunulate

Hindwing

terminal spots black

;

;

:

;

base widening to terraen is pale red-brown.
Underside of forewing grey, tinged with oehreous and dark-dusted along costal
of hindwing whitish, brown-speckled along
streak, whitish towards inner margin
costa ; terminal area of both wings darker grey, outer lines and terminal spots black
;

and distinct

;

a black cell-spot on hindwing.

Head and thorax black
underside of thorax

Expanse of wings
2

300U

to

Jcf,

nOUO

ft.

:

20

abdomen red-brown

;

pectus, legs, and venter blackish

;

mm.

from the

?

1

:

i)ale.

(Sir

(i.

Elwes

Collection,

from

N.W. Himalayas,

Maudi,

Young), 1883.
23. Craterestra scalata spec. nov.

the base of cell, a broad
Foreioinq : oehreous tinged with brownish or pinkish
streak along median and another with irregular edge along inner margin and the
;

termen broadly blackish brown, the latter limited above by an oblique line from
apex to vein 4, followed by a yellower oblique pale space from costa to median,
crossed by distinct black veins and grey interspaces; a white dot at lower end of
reuiform the inner and outer lines slightly marked by black dots
fringe black
;

;

brown.

Hindwing

white, with a slight irregular grey border as far as vein
fringe grey above vein 1.

:

black terminal dots

1

;

some

;

Underside of forewing grey-brown, paler along inner margin of hindwing
fringe of both wings brown.
;

whitish, tinged with grey-brown at apex

Head and thorax

greyish

;

oehreous,

tho dorsum

darker

;

palpi

externally

blackish.

Expanse of wings 20 mm.
2 ? ? from Mt. Marapok, British North Borneo.
:

24.

Tiracola rufimargo spec. nov. and abb. grisescens, pallidistigma, and

venata abb. nov.
Forewing
pink

:

the

:

greyish oehreous faintly tinged or often wholly suffused with deep
edge often whitish ; sometimes the median area, at others the

costal


(

11

)

lines marked by black veinterminal, more rarely both, deeper red or brownish red
dots, those of the inner line sometimes connected by a grey thread orbicular stigma
;

;

a white dot; reuiform conspicuous; the inner edge consisting of a narrow black
crescent with gre} scales preceded by five velvety red-brown or black-brown spots
the onter edge also of five spots, the two between veins 5 and 6 confluent joined at
;

;

the inner lower end by an oblique black bar from costa, representing the upper part
;
submarginal line inconspicuous, slightly paler with darker edges

of median shade

;

apex always pale tlie whole wing is covered with faint elongate striae of dull olive
scales mixed with black atoms
fringe concolorons, with a bright pale line at base
;

;

beyond a row of dark terminal

dots.

dull greenish fuscous, the costal area above vein G and the terminal
the fringe pinkish grey, beyond black terminal spots.
Underside of forewing dee]) ]iiiik with the costal and terminal margins ochreous

Hindwing

:

area dull pink

;

;

of hindwing ochreons with the costal and terminal margins reddish speckled with
dark.

Head and thorax concolorous with forewing,
laterally pinkish

the

dorsum always greyer, but

palpi externally, except terminal segment, deep red-brown or

;

blackish.

Expanse of wings

:

5U

— 58 mm.

from Biagi, Mauiliare River, British New CJuiuea, 5000 ft., April
1906 (type), and two from the Upper Aroa River, April 1903 (A. S. Meek).
Of this species, separable at once by the deep pink margins of hindwing from

T. plagiata Wlk.
which species also occurs in New Guinea three quite distinct
al)erratious come from the same locality.
7 c^fT, five

—

The

first

—

—

ab. grisesceiis ab. nov.

— has

and dotted with black
the reniform stigma and

costal edge whitish

of the outer line

;

costal bar equally obscured
jiink areas both darker and more contrasted.

with the fuscous and
(JcJ, 1

;

the whole forewing olive grey, with the
the lines less distinct, except the teeth

? of this

form from Biagi,

all

—slightly

;

the hindwing

smaller than the typical form.

The second — ab. palUdistigma ab. nov. is larger than the type form, the forewing suffused with deeper red and darkened by olive-fuscous striations and black
atoms the dots of the lines accompanied by dark shades the median shade dark and
diffuse throughout, tiie upper arm not forming a black bar
reniform stigma filled
up with whitish ochreous more or less mixed with grey and outlined with didl redbrown the subterminal line paler and more conspicuous the whole underside
;

;

;

;

;

deeper red.
5 cJcJ,

the single ¥ smaller and duller than the is a
nov.
development of the last, being darker,
owing to the greater intensity of the olive-fuscous striations the median area and the
terminal as well is deeper than the rest of the wing ; the subterminal line standing
1

The third

?

—

from Biagi

;

ab. venata ab.

—

;

finer and jjaler
the centre of the reniform stigma darker grey, while the
median shade is sometimes continuous across wing, at others confined to the dark

out

;

costal portion

2

c?

J,

1

;

?

the veins, especially towards termen, are finely whitish.
from Biagi, and 1 ? smaller and paler, from the Upper Aroa River.
,

Genus Hypopteridia gen. nov.
Differs from Dasijgaster Guen. in the abdomen of the the anal and praeanal segments clothed with very long tufts of hair, and without the
shaggy lateral tufts which distinguish that genus; while the thorax lieneath bears


12

(

)

large lateral tufts, expansible as winglets, beneath tbe hindwings ; the antennae of
the termen of hind wing is strong!)the S are ciliated and armed with bristles
excised between apex and middle.
;

Type

'

reversa Moore.

//.

:

25. Sideridis lineatissima

nov.

sjiec.

veins all tinel}- white,
Foreu'ing : ochreons gre_v with numerous black speckles
the intervals with rufous grey lines ; median vein white in outer half, thickening
;

towards end of

where

cell,

it is

slightly hooked, preceded

by a minute dark dot, and

followed by dark scaling on each side of vein 4 at base
the orbicular and reniform
lines
as
a pale
marked,
usual, by blackish vein-spots
stigmata ditfusely yellowish
;

;

;

yellowish space above vein 1 from base to inner line ; a diffuse pale streak from
a row of minute dark
apex, with a dark terminal triangle beyond it above vein 4
terminal dots ; the alternate dark and ligiit lines of the wing continned through the
;

fringe.

Hindicing

:

blackish fuscous, with

some black terminal dots

;

fringe white witli

a grey line beyond middle.
Underside pale ochreons speckled with blackish the forewing suffused with
fuscons in and beyond cell
a dark outer line starting from a black costal sjiot,
;

;

becoming punctiform on hindwings terminal spots black fringe concolorous.
Head, thorax, and abdomen grey tinged with rufous, the dorsum with dark
grey palpi externally brown.
Expanse of wings 46 mm.
;

;

;

:

1

?

from Darjiling (F. Mnller).
26.

Hyphilare binigrata

spec. nov.

Forewing : grey drab speckled with fuscous the cell and space beyond ochreons
without dusting; the costal area usually somewhat greyer; inner and outer lines
marked by dark spots on veins, the outer widely double reniform stigma pale with
;

;

a round black dot at

lower end, followed between the bases of veins 3 and .5 by a
quadrate black blotch with diffuse outer edge the snbterminal line hardly marked
terminal dots small and black fringe iron-grey.
its

;

;

;

the
:
dark fuscous terminally, becoming whitish towards base
and
veins
the
whitish.
darker,
cell-spot
fringe
Underside of both wings of c? silvery whitish, of ? glossy ochreons grey

Hindwing

;

;

terminal dots in both wings, the cell-spot
in

in

liiadwiag, and a costal sjiot at two-thirds

forewing black.

Head, thorax, abdomen above and below, and legs
forewings

;

the ventral tufts in

Expanse of wings

:

34

t?

all

greyish ochreons, like the

black.

mm.

2 cJ(J,2 ¥ ? from the Khasia Hills, a pair dated October 189.5, and
May 1893.
27.

Forewing

:

Hyphilare ossicolor

1


Shillong

spec. nov.

bone-colour with slight dark dusting and a very faint tinge of rufous

terminally; inner line marked by dark points on veins, oblique to submedian fold,
then bent inwards outer line lunulate-dentate, appearing double, the teeth on the
;

veins forming the outer and the Innules between them the inner arm; reniform
tht
stigma paler with a dark dot at lower end and slight grey cloud beyond
;


(

end of the median vein whitish
distinct black terniiniil dots

Hindwimj

:

veins darker;

;

;

13

)

a slight oblique grey shade from apex

fringe concolorons.
the costal third bone-colonr

dark grey
the 9 a dark curved onter
;

in

;

;

a row of

a dark cell-spot and the

followed by a darker border;

line,

fringe bone-colonr.

Underside bone-colonr the cell of forewiiig dark grey, and in the ? a dark
grey outer line in botli wings; terminal black spots a dark cell-spot in hindwiug
costa of both wings pale brownish speckled with black.
Head, thorax, and abdomen bone-colonr; ventral tuft blackish.
S 30 mm. ? 40 mm.
E.xpanse of wings
;

;

:

;

;

from Darjiliug the (? captured by F. Mdller,
May and June 1889, 75UU ft.
Allied to Aavistigma Brem. and inomaia Leech.
1

c?, 1

?

;

Subfamily

?

by Knyvett,

GUCULLIANAE.

Genns Isolasia

gen. uov.

Hmps., with which

Allied to Elwesia
in the

tlie

upstanding prothoracic crest

similar long spatulate-tipped

hairs

;

;

it
agrees in the main, and especially
but the dorsum is also strongly tufted with
the praeanal segments of the abdomen are

armed with lateral tufts of hair, which are equally strong in the ? and in the
termen not so deeply crenulate as
woolly
jjcctus and femora densely
Isolasia
biramata
Elwesia.
Type
spec. nov.

;

c?

;

in

:

28. Isolasia

Fore.wing

:

biramata

spec. nov.

pale ochreous, slightly rufous-tinged, with the basal area to beyond

middle of inner margin, a triangular blotch on middle of costa, and the terminal
area beyond subterminal line dark brownish fuscous
the pale ground colour
;

therefore forms a large V, of which the longer outer arm runs from before apex to
inner margin and the shorter inner arm begins with the pale orbicular stigma
the

;

the subbasal angled
the inner oblique outwards,
pale with dark edging
hardly waved; the outer forming outer margin of the costal triangle and marked

lines

;

;

arm of the V
snbterminaj line edged
sometimes bright ochreous, preceded by
brown wedge-shaped spots reniforra stigma obscured by the brown of the costal
a wavy dark terminal line
triangle, but slightly edged with ochreous
fringe
fuscous brown with pale chequering and pale basal line.
Hindwing : brownish grey, paler towards costa, with dark cell-spot and
as

two dark

the

across

lines

outwardly by the dark

shorter

;

terminal area,
;

;

;

terminal line.
In the ? the contrast between the dark and light areas is less consjiicuons, the
ochreous ground being browner and the fuscous areas paler and more broken up ;
the reuiform stigma pale; the hindwing more uniformly fuscous.

Underside pale ochreous in the c?, greyer ochreous
fuscous and rufous
cell-spots and outer line dark brown.

in

the

?, dusted

with

;

Head, thorax, and abdomen brown with ochreous speckling
of

abdomen

;

the lateral tufts

rufous.

Expanse of wings
1 9 from Sikkim

:

36

(0.

Pilcher in August ISbU,

mm.
MoUer), 3(?c?from Sikkim (Darjiling), taken by Col.

(

AMPHIPYRINAE.

Subfamily
'29.

14)

spec. nov.

Dipterygia multistriata

Forewing : ])ale grey-biowii suffused with fuscous in the basal two-thirJs,
inner line black, forming
terminal third dusted with bright i)ale scales
strong outward teeth in the intervals ; the outer line lunulate-deutate, oxcurved
above middle; subterminal line pale brown, preceded and followed by black streaks
?.

and

in

;

in the intervals

from apex to inner margin, the veins also showing

finely black

;

the space beyond outer line from inner margin to vein 2 and to vein 3 at termen
the upper stigmata pale brown defined by
paler brown streaked with fulvous
darker in the cT the fuscous suffusion is darker and embraces almost the whole
;

;

wing except the pale area round anal angle,

much

Uindwing
which
line

the markings are conse(}uently

atid

obscured.

is

:

pale luteous, whiter towards costa, slightly suffused with brownish,
a dark cell-spot, veins, and outer

deeper along termen and inner margin

;

fringe paler.
the
Underside of forewing dull grey-brown, slightly dusted with ochreons
costa and some streaks at termen above anal angle ochreons
hindwing ochreons,
;

;

;

dusted and streaked with reddish along costal and

a[)ical

areas

dark

a large

;

cell-spot, and rufous outer line in costal half.
lower half of face ochreons
Head, shoulders, and patagia fuscous brown
dorsum ochreons dilfused with grey
thorax pale brown
j)ectns ochreons
legs
:

;

;

;

blackish ringed with ochreons.
Expanse of wings : S 38 mm.
1

c?, 1

?

from Sikkim

;

the

S

;

?

42

;

mm,

taken by D.

MdUer

in

June 18^8, the

?

by Col.

Pilcher in June 1880.

Nearest apparently to the Bornean ivi(/ir/tfa Wlk. easily distinguished by
the pale hiudwings with dark cell-spot and the absence of a pale streak along inner
;

margin of forewing.

3U.

Stenopterygia commixta spec. nov. and ab atribasalis

Forewing

:

nov.

ab.

brown, speckled and clouded with darker brown, and

in parts

a slight leaden ]>urplish patch at base of vein 1,
and another on the same vein beyond outer line; lines black and double at costa,
suffused with brownish fuscous

;

median partly filled in with blackish, the median separating the
brown
pale
stigmata and sometimes forming a dark patch in submediau interspace
outer line
a black streak above inner margin before inner line, stronger in the ?
the inner and

;

;

subterminal line pale brown, interrupted, with a pale
strongly luuulate-dentate
the anal angle
patch above vein 4, crossed i)y darker streaks above veins 3 and .5
;

;

and terminal area, especially in the ?, sufl'used with darker; terminal black
lunnles
fringe dark brown.
Jlim/iriiig : dark brownish fuscous, with the fringe jialer.
In the ab. atribas'dis the whole basal two-fifths, except narrowly along inner
margin, is snlfused with black, obscuring all markings, the terminal area and
;

This

space before anal angle being also clonded with dark.

may

be a distinct

species.

Underside dark brown, the costa in both wings with pale speckling
wing with basal half ochreous and a large dark cell-spot both wings with
;

darker outer

line.

;

hinddiffuse


(

15

)

Head and tliorax of S jiale and dark brown mixed the dorsnm greyer pectus
in
and femora and nnderside of palpi ochreous legs lilack ringed with ochreous
the 5 the shonlders and jiatagia are dark.
;

;

;

;

Expanse of wings 34 mm. the aberration 37 mm.
1 t?, 3 ? ? from Penang (Curtis).
:

;

31.

Sasunaga interrupta

no v.

sjieo.

Resembles leuaorina Hmps. and oUvaria Hmps. in both sexes, but certainly
The S is larger, with pile ochreons ground colour an oblique black
the cell black before and beyond
streak above inner margin before inner line
reniform inwardly brown,
orbicular stigma, which is gre)^, small, and quadrate
of
instead
outer
diffuse
and
line,
showing the strong curve
jagged
outwardly

and
olive
brown
horizontal stripes and the
by
pale
beyond cell, always interrupted

distinct.

;

;

;

;

a pale streak from reniform along vein 5, continued beyond snbterminal
? with the broad white streak from base cut by the dark median
termen
the pale streak on vein 5 beyond
beyond which the streak is narrower

black veins

;

line to
line,

;

;

snbterminal line

is

always present

;

and, as in the

S

the outer line

,

is

interrupted,
is olive

but in this case by the pale groundcolour from the apex; the hindwing
fuscous, darker in ? than cJ.

Expanse of wings 44 mm.

Upper Area River, Biagi, Mamliare River, Angabunga River, Upper Setekwa
River, and the Ninay Valley, New Guinea: Icucorina also from all these localities.
:

Sasunaga longiplaga spec

3:3.

nov.

:
greyish ochreons slightly tinged with pale brown ; the veins
costa tinged with olive and marked with pairs of short oblique dark
strigae ; the costal blotch before subterminal line olive grey, with only the narrower
end above vein 7 blackish a fine black streak from base below cell an oblong

Forewing

cJ.

finely black

;

;

;

blackish fuscous blotch from inner line to termen including
beyond subterminal line comprising a pale streak on vein 5

roundish

;

the reniform obscnre and undefined

;

beneath the outer end of the black basal streak

and space below it,
orbicular stigma pale,
before the oblong dark blotch and

is

cell

;

a short white streak.

Hindwing dark fuscous, with fringe pale.
Expanse of wings 30 mm. to 40 mm.
3 c? jj from Penang, April 1898 (Curtis), (type), and
the latter browner and larger.
:

:

33.

Sasunaga apiciplaga

1

^ from Gunong

Ijau,

nov.

spec.

Forewing purplish black in costal half of wing as far as snbmedian fold
an oblique white streak from base of costa along vein 1, followed above by a black
?.

:

inner line

triangle before

beyond inner

;

line

dull

;

inner margin

below the white streak greenish grey,

dusted with fuscous

rufous

;

cell

black

;

orbicular

and

reniform leaden grey, the latter outlined with white, followed by a pink streak
to outer line
outer line white just below costa, then dentate-lunulate, filled up
a roundish white spot at apex tinged with pink ;
with greyish fuscous and pink

;

;

snbterminal line

dashes

;

fringe fuscous

Hindwing

preceded and followed by black streaks and
and pinkish, pale pinkish at apex.

ill-defined, pinkish,

fnscons, the fringe pale.


(

Underside glossy grey with a
dark grey and fuscDUs.
Head and shoulders blackish

16)

faint red tinge

;

costa of linth wings dusted with

thorax and patagia (damaged) pinkish ochreous,
;
when
darker
redder
and
venter, pectus, and femora
perfect ; dorsum grey
jirobahly
with
black
rnfons grey
ringed
pale.
legs
;

;

Expanse of wings 3(j mm.
1 ? from Kei Island, December 1896 (H. Kiihn).
:

and

t>maller than oe/iistin,

without the vinous tint of that species.

Sasunaga basiplaga spec. nov.
much like that of interrupta Warr. but

34.

Forewinq


:

very

smaller and more

the veins finely black and the intervals streaked with dark
uniformly grey-brown
a small blackish blotch at base of inner margin, and an oblique black streak above
;

;

orbicular
before inner line, which is strongly dentate, pale edged with black
stigma annular, with brown centre, white ring, and black outline reniform illdefined and outwardly diffuse, followed along vein 5 by a pale streak, running

beyond subterminal line to termen.
the costa dark in basal half and
? whitish ochreous tinged with olive green

it

;

;

;

before subterminal line, and the terminal area from above anal angle to middle
base of cell with a wedge-shaped black mark.
:

IliiidwiiK/

fuscous, darker in ? than in

;

the


Underside of forewing grey-brown, with the costa at base, some streaks
the inner margin white;
towards apex, and a terminal dash below vein 5 ochreous
;

hindwing ochreous speckled with brown along costa, towards termeu suffused with
brown a large dark cell-lunule and curved outer line the veins brown.
Head and thorax ochreous mixed with olive brown and grey the dorsum grey,
sometimes dark grey
pectus, venter, femora, and underside of palpi ochreous
;

;

;

;

;

venter with a middle row of double black spots.
Expanse of wings 40 mm.
:

from the Khasia Hills; 1 ? from Waigieu (Waterstradt)
1
?
from Ninay Valley, Central Arfak Mts., Dutch New Guinea, February and March
1009, 1 ¥ from Kumasi River, British New Guinea, June 190" (A. S. Meek).
2
1

?

;

3.i.

Euplexia exangulata

spec. nov.

The species much resembles £. pct-tinata Warr., but differs as follows it is
always smaller^SO mm. only as compared with 36 ram.; the dark median area is at
the amount of brown scaling in the basal area is greater
once narrower and paler
:

;

;

the inner white

band forms an angular projection on submedian

fold

into the

much less prominent than in sinuata
and the reniform stigma is more strongly marked with leaden grey at top
and bottom. Sikkiui and Bhutan only. The antennae of the tJ are bi2)ectinate.

area, stronger than that in ijectinata, but

median

Moore

:

30.

Euplexia rostrifera

spec. nov.

the markings black ; neither the basal nor median area nor
;
Foi-ewing
basal area traversed by a curved
the terminal black markings reaching inner margin
:

white

;

inner white band narrow at costa, broad at middle, constricted
on vein 1 by the inward projection of median area, then running in to base and outwardly confluent with the outer white area orbicular stigma dark plumbeous very

white snbbasal line

;

;


(

faintly defined by paler

17

)

reuit'orm white formiug part of outer area, the median
area formiug a black hook beyond it and ending in a brown
point above inner margin;
onter line scarcely defined by two
terminal area
i)aral]el series of black atoms
;

;

above middle pnrple blackish, inwardly edged with black, the edge extending to
snbmedian fold, beyond which the termen is white fringe
purplish with a whitish
;

basal line swollen into spots at the veins.

dark brownish

fuscous, paler basewards, witii a white terminal
to 3 separated by a black streak from white
spots on veins 2
fringe black at apex, below vein (i witii the tips white.

Hindwing

:

streak from vein

and 3

;

1

Underside blackish irrorated with bluish white scales, and
deep black along
termen
base and inner margin white
cnll-spots wliite, that in forewing
;

;

conspicuous.

Head, thorax, pectus, and legs black
abdomen blackish, whitish at base,
the tufts black ; metathoracic tuft,
of
tips
palpi, and basal segment of antennae
white.
;

Expanse of wings
?

1

:

30

mm.

Bonthain, Celebes.

37.

Euplexia nigroplumbea spec. nov.

the
Forewinq : bone-colour, sutt'used to a large extent with purple black
median area below middle, the cell on each side of orbicular stigma, and a submarginal band deep velvety black brown, the paler spaces below middle flushed
with brownish flesh-colour median area projecting beaklike inwards in submedian

interval, the pale band before it excurved at median and strongly below vein 1, its
centre j)nr|)lisli
outer edge of median area oblicpie and straight from vein 8 to 4,
then slightly inbent and again oblique to below vein 1, shortly bent outwards again
along inner margin followed by an obli([ue pale space, brown-tinged below middle
with two purplisli ])arallel transverse streaks above and a broad ditfuse purple shade
;

;

;

;

below

;

which

a velvety black shade from below costa before apex to anal angle, above
is widened and diffuse and followed by a brown patch
fringe purplish,

it

;

with pale dots at the vein ends ; upper stigmata like the costal sti'eak purplish
black ; the orbicular finely, the reniform more strongly outlined with ochreous, the

the orbicular reaching below
latter with an ochreous streak across its middle
;

vein, tiieir converse edges contiguous at lower end.
Hindwing : dull ochreous whitish, becoming dark smoky fuscous along

median

termen

;

the veins dark terminally, vein '^ black and thick, marked by a subterminal pale
spot and crossed by a terminal pale streak; the inner margin narrowly fuscous ; the
fringe purple black with the tips wliite.
Underside of forewing leaden fuscous sprinkled with blue-grey scales towards
costa before apex with four white spots
fringe
termen, the inner margin whitisli
deep brown with yellow dots at the vein ends and a bluish middle line hind;

;

;

wing whitish, the

costal

and terminal areas fuscous, thickly sprinkled with bluish

scales.

Head, thorax, pectus, and legs purple black palpi internally and in front pale ;
metathoracic tuft ti[iped with white, base of dorsum and lateral hairs pale ; anal
segments fuscous the dorsal tufts black.
;

;

Expanse of wings 34 mm.
1 (J from Kina Balu, N. Borneo.
:

2