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Show 1S87-] COLLECTION FROM CHRISTMAS ISLAND. 523 TERIAS AMPLEXA, sp. n. Perhaps nearest to T. desjardinsi of Madagascar, but very distinct from all described species; wings above bright gamboge or lemon-yellow; primaries with black costal margin and a perfectly regular, rather narrow, external border of almost equal width throughout and regularly sinuated between each pair of nervures ; secondaries with a narrower border formed by the union of a series Terias amplexa. of marginal spots, the inner edges of which are bracket-shaped, .->-,. Body quite normal; under surface bright sulphur-yellow, with marginal black dots and indistinct brown markings, as in T. hecabeoides ; no subapical brown patch on the primaries as in T. desjardinsi. Expanse of wings 42 millim. One male example. In colouring this species corresponds better with T. moorei from Camorta than with T. desjardinsi; but the regularity of the border to the primaries separates it at a glance from all the described forms of this group. The Moth is much injured; it. is a small insect approaching Pyralis miseralis, Walk., but is too much broken and rubbed to enable one to say whether or not it is an undescribed species. VIII. ECHINODERMATA. By F. J. BELL. The Echinoderms are common Indo-Pacific species: viz. Linckia diplax (M. Tr.), Ophiocoma athiops (Ltk.), Ophiocoma scolopen-drina (Ag.), Actinopyga miliaris. A specimen of Actinometra is unfortunately too much injured to allow of description, but undoubtedly belongs to an undescribed species, distinguished by the large number of cirri; cirri, as a rule, being numerous in Antedon and scanty in Actinometra. |
