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NEW SPECIES OP THYRiniDAE, rBANIIBAi:, AND 

 GEOMETBIDA E FROM THE ORIENTAL REGION. 



By W. warren, M.A., F.E.S. 



Family TIIYRTDTDAE. 



1. Pharambara squalida s]iec. nov. 



Eesemliles /'//. rariahiliH Pa.i;-. (=f<(Uar Warr. = jiliasianalis Swinli.), but not 

 quite so large and always dirty brownish ochreons instead of blaekisli fiiscons : 

 both wings have a small but distinct ronnd black spot at end oi' cell, which is 

 absent in the larger species. 



Family URANIWAE. 



Subfamily EPIPLEMINAE. 



2. Epiplema flavida spec. nov. 



Forpwiiifi : pale yellow; a pnrplish grey red-edged patch at base extending 

 along npper margin of cell to its end; a large pnrplish grey blotch before enter margin, 

 reaching from below costa to vein 3, its inner edge angled inwards towards end of 

 basal patch ; a few purplish specks along costal and inner margins ; fringe yellow. 



I]iii(licing : with the marginal patch narrower and partially intcrrnjited at 

 middle; a jmrplish patch at middle of inner margin; a black cell-spot, and some 

 pnrplish specks along costa; a dark speck below base of lower tooth. 



Underside whitish, with the markings very dull purple. 



Face, thorax, and dorsum imrplish ; vertex yellow; fillet and antennae white; 

 abdomen beneath, and legs white. 



Expanse of wings : 27 mm. 



1 ? from the Taiping Hills, Malay Peninsula, August 1904. 



Quite distinct from any other Epiplema, and recalling somewhat a Phitoiles. 



Fam ily (iE OME TR fJjA E. 



Subfamily DYSPHANIINAE. 



'^. Dysphania flavicorpus spec. nov. 



?. Differs from />. imjiciatrix ^Van■. from Isabel Island in having the dorsum 

 yellow instead of purple, and tlie pale spaces of both wings whiter. 



S. Peej) pnrj)le : the whitish spaces of forewing showing only as obscure 

 ]ialer purple or purj)lish white spots ; hindwing wholly purple, the orange band 

 of the ? much interrupted and variable; in the strongest marked example, which 

 1 have taken as type, there is an elongated orange blotch from above anal angle to 

 vein :} as in the 'i', i)nt narrower ; two irregular orange lilotches towards outer margin 

 between 3 and T), and two contiguous horscshoo-shaped Idotches, one on each side of 

 vein 6 ; also a separate orange blotch on inner margin, corresponding with the 

 yellow blotch -in the white area of the 9; in the least-marked and darkest 

 example there is merely a long thin orange streak on inner margin ,to vein U, 



