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Show 1"80.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM FORMOSA. 671 LlTHOSIIDcB. 39. MlLTOCHRISTA SINICA. Miltochrista sinica, Moore, Ann. & Ma*>. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xx. p. 87 (1877). One large male example. 40. CRAMBOMORPHA ENTELLA. Phalcena Tinea entella, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pl. 208. f. D (1782). One specimen, rather worn. 41. KATHA IMMACULATA, sp. n. Primaries buff-coloured, slightly sericeous, paler below than above ; secondaries cream-coloured, margins and tips of veins tinted with ochreous: body above testaceous, front of head pale, below cream-coloured, the legs slightly darker. Expanse of wings 11 lines. One specimen. This species would be well represented by Mr. Moore's figure of Systropha auriflua; but the neuration is entirely different, the fourth and fifth subcostal branches of the primaries being emitted from a footstalk which starts from below tbe third branch as in Katha. The natural position of K. immaculata will be next to K. intermixta. 42. DEIOPEIA PULCHELLA. Tinea pulchella, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 884 (1766). Var. Phalcena lotrix, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pl. 109. f. E (1779). Six specimens, four of which belong to the variety D. lotrix. 43. NOLA INNOCUA, Sp. 11. Primaries sordid white, base of costa whity brown, limited below by a short black dash; a circular brown spot in the cell, bounded externally by a black zigzag line which runs to the inner margin at basal third ; a brown costal patch, terminating below in a black spot at the end of the cell; a brownish discal belt immediately beyond the cell, bounded externally by a partially black angular zigzag line ; sub-marginal area and marginal line brownish : secondaries silvery white, apex slightly brownish : body pearly white, palpi brown-speckled towards the tips. Under surface shining, primaries brownish, secondaries and body pearly white. Expanse of wings 6 lines. One specimen. Allied to N. Candida from Japan. 44. NOLA SPRETA, Sp. 11. Primaries above brown, crossed by three parallel irregularly undulated blackish lines, the first across the basal third, the second discal, the third submarginal; a marginal series of black dots : secondaries silvery white, semitransparent, with slender brownish marginal line and veins: thorax pale brown, metathorax and drums pearly ; abdomen shining grey with a longitudinal dorsal black dash at the base. Primaries below pale brown ; secondaries white, with brownish |