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Show 642 ON LEPIDOPTERA FROM BILLITON. [June 4, HETEROCERA. Fam. SPHINGID^E. Subfam. CH^EROCAMPIN^E. Chcerocampa suffusa, Walk. List Lep. Brit. Mus. Het. pt. viii. p. 146 (1856). The type was obtained at Hong-Kong. Mr. Moore tells me he has specimens from Borneo. Fam. LITHOSIIDJE. HYPSIA SILVANDRA, Cr. Phalcena (Bombyx) silvandra, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. pl. 369. f. D (1782). Fam. SATURNIID^E. ANTHERAA BILLITONENSIS, Moore, n. sp. Male. Upperside pale purplish ferruginous, suffused with grey on external borders ; ocelli oval, defined by a narrow dusky line, blind, outer half bordered within by a narrow yellow line and a central transverse line: fore wing with the area within and below the cell brighter ferruginous; apex yellowish; an oblique discal, pale ferruginous, narrow lunular band, bordered within by a dusky lunular line and without by a straight dusky line; a dusky black streak crossing the middle of the cell, and another from its base to the hind margin; hind wing with the base brighter ferruginous; a dusky-bordered, pale yellowish, transverse, discal, sinuous band, the dusky border encircling the ocellus and terminating on abdominal margin above end of sinuous band. Body bright ferruginous. Expanse 4\ inches. Hab. Billiton Island, Malay archipelago. In coll. H. Druce. Nearest allied to A. frithii, from Darjiling. Fam. ERE BID JE. NYCTIPAO CREPUSCULARIS. Phalcena (Attacus) crepuscularis, Linn. Syst. Nat. 2811. 13; Clerck, Icon. pl. 53. f. 1-4 ; Drury, Ins. i. p. 37, pl. 20. f. 1, 2. A species frequently sent from Hindostan. Fam. HYPOPYRID^E. HYPOPYRA FENISECA. Hypopyra feniseca, Guen. Noct. iii. 200. 1599 (1852). In the British Museum, from Silhet. Tribe URANIDES. Fam. NYCTALEMONID.E. NYCTALEMON DOCILE, Butler, in litt. Very closely allied to Nyctalemon hector, White, from Borneo |