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Show 1880,] LEPIDOPTERA FROM FORMOSA. 687 PALYADIDcE. 134. EUMELEA AURELIATA. Eumelea aureliata, Guenee, Phal. i. p. 394, pl. 22. fig. 6 (1857). One example. AciDALIIDcE. 135. A C I D A L I A NESCIARIA. Acidalia nesciaria, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xxii. p. 750 (1861). One specimen. 136. ACIDALIA PERLINEATA. Acidaliaperlineata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xxiii. p. 775(1861). Acidalia eulomatu, Snellen, Tiid. voor Ent. 1876, p. 42, pl. 3. fig. 21. Five specimens. On the same plate as that on which "A. eulomata " is figured is a representation of a splendid little member of the family Adelidse, described by Herr Snellen as a Simeethis! (and referred to the family Tineidae ! !) under the name of " Simeethis pronubana." Lord Walsingham has called m y attention to the fact that this supposed new species is nothing more nor less than Badera prodigilla of Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. v. p. 1820 (1866), referred by the latter author to its proper family and well described as follows : - " Cuprea, micans ; caput viride, subtus pallide ochraceum ; alee anticce strigis tribus basalibus viridibus, secunda arcuata, dimidio exteriore purpureo; posticce vitta lineacjue abbreviata pallide ochraceis." The locality of the type is in both cases Java. Whether the description in the Tijdschrift is more complete than Walker's I cannot say, since the figure is unmistakable, and the description occupies two entire pages ; but it seems strange that the long antennse of the species never suggested the family Ade-lidae to Herr Snellen, and that in penning his minute description no thought of Walker's concise diagnosis ever flashed across his brain. 137. ACIDALIA REPLETARIA ? Acidalia repletaria, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xxiii. p. 778 (1861). One specimen apparently referable to this Australian species. 138. TlMANDRA AVENTIARIA. Timandra aventiaria, Guenee, Phal. ii. p. 3 (1857). A specimen of this Australian species. 139. ZANCLOPTERYX FRAGILIS, sp. n. Small for the genus. Snow-white : wings semitransparent, with minute black marginal dots connected by a very slender crenulate dusky marginal line; a continuous irregularly sinuated discal testaceous line : primaries with a second testaceous line across the |