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Show 1892.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM SANDAKAN. 127 white-edged ; mesothorax buff, speckled with black; tegulae and metathorax white, spotted and speckled with black ; abdomen whitish with grey dorsal spots : primaries below smoky grey, with dull white inner margin; costa partly whitish ; an indistinct transverse dark postmedian stripe and a subapical pure white spot: secondaries whitish irrorated with grey scales; a black crescent at end of cell followed by an arched discal grey stripe and a diffused grey external belt which tapers towards anal angle ; body below whitish, palpi brownish, fore and middle tibiae white barred with blackish. Expanse of wings 33 millim. A single male example, with slightly damaged abdomen, but otherwise in good condition. HOMOPTERID^E. HOMOPTERA CRUEGERI. Homoptera cruegeri, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. l88C,p. 411. n. 51. Evidently a very wide-ranging species. CATEPHIIDJE. MELIPOTIS CYLLARIA. Phalcena (Noctua) cyllaria, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 251. figs. C, D (1779). This species, which varies greatly in the coloration of the primaries (like the other species of Melipotis), is identical with M. cyllota and M. signivitta. Achcea purpureilinea, Walk., probably the same species. OPHIDERID.E. O P H I D E R E S FULLONICA. Phalcena-Noctua fullonica, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 812. n. 16. OPHIDERES AURANTIA. Ophideres aurantia, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 607. PHYLLODID^E. POTAMOPHORA MANLIA. Phalcena-Noctua manlia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. p. 144, pi. 92 fig. A (1779). The variability of this species is well known ; one of Mr. Pryer's specimens is very pretty, the reniform spot and a stripe connecting it with the inner margin being bright ochreous: we have one similar^ example from Darjiling. LYGNIODES MAURUS, Staud. An imperfect example of a fine species allied to L. endoleuca, but with the fringes and the abdominal area of the secondaries bright ochreous. Mr. Druce has received examples of this species from Dr. Staudinger with a name above given, but I am not certain that it has been published. |
