422 JN'OVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXI. 1914. 



52. Westermannia breviceps spec. nov. 



Nearest to 11'. tupiri, bnt diflfeiing in the dark figure of outer Iialf being deep 

 purplish fuscous instead of brown, broadly defined throughout with whitish ; its 

 inner edge strongly curved, without indentation in cell ; its lower extremity 

 appearing shorter and stouter, with the sinus before it shallower; hiudwing 

 whiter, with the termen fuscous and the veins dark. 



1 ? from Rook Island, July 1913 (A. S. Meek). 



53. Westermannia columbina spec. nov. 



Forewing : sandy grey speckled and suffused with brown ; the dark figure of 

 outer half assuming the shape of a pigeon's head and neck, with a large oval 

 snow-white blotch at end of cell for the eye, separated from the sinuous pale 

 outer line by a leaden blue space, the median vein and veins 3 and 4 also being 

 blnish, as in cornucopia. 



Ilimluing : brownish fuscous. 



Underside bronzy brown with the white reniform of forewing showing through. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen sandy grey speckled with brown. 



Expanse of wings : 30 mm. 



1 ? from Gunong Ijau, 2000 to 3000 ft., March 1898 (Butler) (type) ; 1 ? 

 from Eukit Putns, Selangore, 3000 ft.. May 190G ((Jurtis), Malay Peninsula. 



Subfamily CATOCALINAE. 

 54. Catocala fugitiva spec. nov. 



Poreicing : grey with a tinge of olive brown; subbasal line fine, oblicpe below 

 middle ; inner line oblique, excurved above and below middle and again below 

 vein 1, dentate inwards on the median and vein 1, preceded by an olive brown 

 clouding which leaves a narrow pale space before the line ; a black streak from 

 subbasal line below middle rnuning into the cloud ; outer line black, shaped as 

 in timur Bang-Haas, preceded above and below the pale intrusion of the outer 

 line by olive brown shading, which somewhat obscures the reniform stigma ; this 

 has its centre brown, ringed with pale and outlined with black ; subtermiual line 

 pale, zigzag, edged by a sharply zigzag black line and separated from outer line 

 by a brownish dark-edged shade ; a slight dark obliqne streak from below apex ; 

 terminal line of black Innule j ; fringe grey with tips paler ; beyond the inner 

 line an oblique pale band from costa meets the pale intruding arm of outer line. 



llimliciiig : rather pale red; the terminal border black, inwardly toothed on 

 vein 2, with a sinus of red across submedian interval nearly interrupting it ; 

 apex and fringe white ; inner band narrowing from costa to vein 1 curved, not 

 angled. 



Underside white, the inner-marginal half of hiudwing tinged with rosy ; an 

 oblique blackish baud from near base of forewing meets a curved black band from 

 the middle ; a broader outer black band leaves the apex and fringe grey ; hiudwing 

 with the median band bent inwards to inner margin, which is narrowly blackish ; 

 terminal band as above. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey, the latter brown tinged, without dark 



