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Show 1892.] [ LEPIDOPTERA FROM SANDAKAN. 123 NYCTEMERID<E. LEPTOSOMA INTEGRUM. Nyctemera integra, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. v. p. 1879(1866). Originally described from a Philippine example. LEPTOSOMA REGULARE. Leptosoma reguluris, Snellen, Veth's Midden-Sumatra, Lep. p. 34 (1880). The specimen in the present collection differs from the typical form in the abbreviation of the outer marginal border of the secondaries on the upper surface. LIPARID^;. ADLULLIA GUTTULATA. Euproctis guttulata, Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. xxix. p. 36. n. 3, pi. 1. fig. 3 (1886). One female. Described from a Sumatran example. ADLULLIA, n. sp., Swinhoe, in lift. A slightly damaged female. The generic term Adlullia of Walker takes precedence of Chcero-tricha, Felder, as in general use. Mr. Kirby, however, holds that the type of Chcerotricha is synonymous with Gogane. LIMACODID^E. SCOPELODES VENOSA. Scopelodes venosa, Walker, Lep. Het. v. p. 1105. n. 3 (1855). A male example. The female only was previously known to us from Silhet and " E. India " ; the male now sent is very like that sex of & auro-grisea, but the abdomen is more decided!}' banded with black ; the abdominal half only of the secondaries is ochreousand the primaries below are more distinctly veined with whitish. The following appears to me to be a new genus of Nycteolidce; the male, from Borneo, has been for some years in the Museum collection. NYCTEOLIDCE. S I G L O P H O R A , n. gen. Allied to Chandica, primaries with nearly straight costa, slightly arched external margin and more strongly arched inner margin; a deep longitudinal groove behind the costal vein on the under surface ; subcostal with four ordinary branches, the two last emitted from a long footstalk; the fifth branch emitted from the end of the cell close to the upper radial, the lower radial emitted near the third median and therefore looking like a fourth median branch: secondaries rather short, deeply excised in the male on the radial interspaces, merely angulated in the female ; costal vein united to the subcostal |