(122) 



20. B. rubrostriata (Auriv.) (PI. II. fig. 37). 



Metarclia rubrnglriala Aurivillius, E/il. Tiilskr. vol. xix. p. 185 (1898). 



27. B. daphaena (Hmpsn.) (PL I. fig. 19). 



Pseudapiconnma daphaena Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. lift. Bril. .!/«<, vol. i. p. 150 (1898). 



28. B. affinis (Rothsch.) (PI. I. fig. 20). 



Pseudapiconoma affinis Rothsch., .Vor. Zool. vol. xvii. p. 442 (1910). 



29. B. invaria (Walk.). 



Aiiace hifaria Walker, List Lep. Lis. Brit. Mus. vii. p. 1720 (185G). 



Metarctia iinaiia Hmpsn., Cut. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. vol. i. p. 146 (1898) (partim). 



NEW BORNEAN AEGERIIBAE AND STNTOMTBAE. 



By the Hon. W. ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D., F.R.S. 



AMONG a nnmber of Heterocera submitted to us for identification by 

 J. C. Monlton, Sarawak Mnsenm, Borneo, the following Aegeriids appear 

 to be new. The types are in the Tring Museum. 



Family AEGERIIDAE. 

 1. Aegeria ruficrista sp. nov. 



S . Head and tliorax brownish black ; antennae black; forelegs blackish brown 

 ringed with white, middle legs dark brown, tarsi with one cinnabar red and two glitter- 

 ing bine liands ; hindlegs, basal half black with grey-blue scaling, tibia and first joint 

 of tarsi with a gigantic tnft of brilliant cinnabar red hairs with two black spots and 

 some patches of blue scales, rest of tarsi black with three broad glittering blue bands ; 

 pectus blnish white ; abdomen black-brown with narrow bairlike white rings on the 



edge of the segments. Forewing black-brown with vitreous streak in cell and 



vitreons jiatch scaled ))artially with o]ialescent bine beyond cell. Hindwing 



vitreous, with black-brown outer and opalescent blue inner-marginal band. 



Length of forewing : 8-5 mm. 



Hab. Rock Road, Sarawak, April 21, 1909. 



2. Sphecia coeruleonitens sp. nov. 



<J. Head, thorax, antennae and abdomen black; forelegs black clothed with 

 very long woolly hair except the last three joints of the tarsi ; hindlegs with crest 



of hair along outer ridge of tibiae. Forewing deep metallic glittering blue with 



black costa and washed with jmrjile towards the apex. Hindwing entirely 



metallic glittering bine. 



Length of forewing: 21 mm. 



Uab. Matang Road, Sarawak, January IS, 1910. 



