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Show 124 MK. A. G. BUTLER ON [Feb. 16, close to the base, separating from it at about the middle of the discoidal cell and running thence to apex ; subcostal emitting two branches from the anterior angle of the cell; discocellular weak, inarched ; radial emitted at the inferior angle of the cell; second and third median branches emitted from a long footstalk near to the radial: body robust, similar to that of Chandica; palpi long, thick, and compressed; antennse, long, thick, simple; legs rather thick, the middle tibise armed with two unequal spurs, the inner ones very long ; posterior tibiae with four spurs. Type S. bella. SIGLOPHORA BELLA, n. sp. (Plate VI. fig. 2.) Basal three-sevenths of primaries bright lemon-yellow, ornamented by little irregular undulated lines and rings of blackish brown and bounded externally by a dark imperfect line; a costal patch beyond this area of the same colour and crossed by dark brown irregular lines; remainder of wing vinous brown in the male, rust-red in the female, varied by a few inconspicuous darker spots; a deeply dentated submarginal line of yellow-indistinct in the male, but sharply defined and partly bounded internally by black spots in the female; fringe vinous, sericeous, spotted with grey: secondaries with the basal half ( 3 ) to third ( § ) sericeous semitrans-parent white, tinted externally with yellow and bounded by a badly defined reddish band ; remainder of wing vinous grey; fringe with a pale basal line: thorax bright yellow, varied with rust-red markings: abdomen bright rust-red, with a yellow spot in the centre of the basal segment, in the male specimen before me the sides and margins of the segments are pearly whitish (possibly owing to abrasion) and the anal tuft is blackish ; on the under surface the defined markings have all disappeared; the yellow portions of the wings are softened down and the remaining area is grey, a reddish band separating the yellow from the grey areas: body below pearly white ; palpi and fore tibiae yellowish, banded with vinous grey. Expanse of wings, 3 24, $ 23 millim. 3, Borneo, 1879 (coll. B.M.). $, Sandakan. NOTODONTID.E. C E L E I A , sp. inc. A much broken example of a fine and apparently new species of this genus. CAREIDJE. C A R E A , n. sp. Fragments of an unnamed species, shortly to be described by Col. Swinhoe, were in the collection. DREPANULIDJE. D R A P E T O D E S NUMMULARIA. Drapetodes nummularia, Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. xxxii. n. 11, pi. 1. figs. 4, 4 a (1889). A single female example. |
