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0. Bunaea rendalli .-ji. uov. 



This new s]iecies, though somewhiit similar to the S of B. alinda Drii. in 

 colour, differs from other Jhtnoeas in the shape of the wings, which arc rounded as 

 in the genus Xudutirelia Rothsch., Nov. Zool. 1895. ji. 41. 



S. Ujtpersifle: forewing ochraceous rufous witii a purplish tinge, except 

 apical region, which is bnffy orange, and the costa and outer-marginal line, which 

 are clear orange, llindwing ocliraceous orange, with a broad purple ochraceous 

 ill-defined area down the abdominal margin consisting of thick woolly scales ; outer- 

 marginal Hue orange ; submarginal band pearl-grey, bordered inside with puri)lish 

 red ; 3 mm. inwards from the submarginal band there runs across the disc of the 

 wing a transverse convex narrow band of blackish grey. In the centre of hindwing 

 is an ocellus 5 mm. in diameter, which has an outer black ring, a pearl-grey centre 

 with a tiny yellow dot in the middle of the grey. 



Antennae brown ; head yellow ; thorax ochraceous rufous ; abdomen banded 

 buff and black. 



Underskli; : orange ochraceous, jiurjilish on body and basal half of wings. 

 Length of forewing 54 mm. 

 Breadth „ 29 „ 



Hdb. Znmba, Upper Shird River, liOOO feet, October to December 1895 (Dr. 

 Percy Kendall I,,/.). 



1". Asota kinabaluensis sp. nov. 

 (PI. XV. f. 42.) 



(? ?. Is closely allied to .1. contorta Anriv., Ent. Tuls/tr. Ls94. i>. IT'.i.l'. 4, from 

 Java, with which it agrees in the structure of the antennae and palpi (see p. 2U5 of 

 this volume). It differs from that sjiecies in the mucli more extended white 

 markings of the upperside of the forewing as shown in figure, the absence of a 

 yellow basal area, the much broader and above not interrujited black border to the 

 hindwing, the black costal border of the hindwing below ; further in the e.xterior 

 discal black spots of the hindwing being larger and standing closer to cell. 



llab. Kina Balu, N. Borneo ; J ? in coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Ilypsidia gen. nov. 



Belongs to the Pyralidae and is nearest to Vitessa Moore. 



Palpi with the second joint upturned and fringed with hair in front, the third 

 porrect, long and naked ; maxillary palpi minute and filiibrm ; frons rounded and 

 thickly scaled ; antennae laminate ; hind tibiae with the outer spurs two-thirds 

 length of inner. Forewing with the costa slightly arched ; the inner margin very 

 strongly lobed at middle and forming a continuous curve with outer margin ; 

 veins 1« and \/> forked ; :! from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 well separated at origin ; 

 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, or 7 arising free, then connected with 8, 9, 10. Hindwing with 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 separate at origin ; 6, 7 from up]ier angle ; 

 8 free. Forewing of male with a large fovea below base of cell; a fold above inner 

 margin containing a tuft of long hair on underside. 



Tj-pe : Ilijpddia eri/thropsalis sp. uov. 



