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Show 1888.] LEPIDOPTERA OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND. 545 5. TERIAS PATRUELIS. 8 • Terias patruelis, Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vol. xxii. p. 46, pi. iv. fig. 5. 2 • Slightly paler above than the male ; the inner edges of the black-brown border of primaries slightly diffused ; expanse of wings 38 millim. 2 . Christmas Island, October 1st. Dr. Anderson collected males on Elphinstone and Pataw Islauds, Mergui Archipelago; the species, however, seems to be widely distributed, as we have received it (only differing in being a little smaller) from Bombay and Mhow. HETEROCERA. LIPARID.E. 6. PORTHESIA IRRORATA ? 5- Euproctis irrorata, Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. Comp. ii. p. 347 (1858-9). c?. Christmas Island, 2nd October. Only one worn specimen was obtained ; it is probably the male of Moore's species: the primaries are irrorated beyond the middle with brown (not with black) scales. For a Porthesia it has unusually large antennae and rather more prominent eyes. HERMINIID-E. 7. H Y D R I L L O D E S , sp. n. Probably a new species, with palpi as in H. gravatalis (Bocana gravatalis, Walk.) of Borneo ; the example is very badly rubbed, but enough colour remains to show that the basal half of the secondaries below is ochreous, that these wings also have only one band across the disk, and that all the wings have a blackish discocellular spot. No exact locality given. EUDRAGANA, gen. nov. Nearer to Dragana than to anything known to m e ; but differing in its narrower smoother palpi, which are directed obliquely upward and have a pointed terminal joint; the thorax flatter ; the head not crested in front, the antennae longer ; neuration similar. 8. EUDRAGANA LIMBATA, sp. n. 2 • General coloration of Draganapansalis, rather less ochraceous ; primaries whity brown, slightly inclining to yellowish, with an internally irregularly trisinuated greyish external border edged with black ; a marginal series of black dots ; orbicular spot punctiform, black, interrupting a zigzag grey line which limits the basal area ; reniform spot represented by a black annulus, interrupting a central zigzag band formed by two approximated greyish stripes; fringe shining whity brown ; secondaries shining pale whity brown, with a broad internally diffused grey outer border ; fringe yellowish as in |