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NEW SPECIES OF DBEPANULIDAE, THYRIDIDAE, 

 UBANIIDAE, EPIPLEMIDAE, AND GEOMETRIDAE IN 

 THE TEING MUSEUM. 



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



Family DUEl'AXULIDAE. 



]. Albara humerata sp. nov. 



Fm'ewlngs: fawn-colour, the costal edge from base to middle yellowish; the 

 tines ferruginous, starting from dark brown costal spots ; first at one-fourth, oblique 

 outwards, angled on the subcostal, then straight and vertical or slightly oblique 

 to inner margin beyond one-third ; second line from costa at middle, runs outward 

 along the subcostal vein for two-thirds of the distance to the apex, is then sharply 

 aiigulated, incurved opposite the cell and outcurved below it, reaching the inner 

 margin straight at four-fifths; submarginal line strongly denticulate, blackish; 

 marginal area dark grey, witli some irregular black marks before the fringe, which 

 is chestnut with a pale basal line; a)iical one-third of costa with a chestnut 

 streak, the apex itself with one or two snow-white spots; cell-spot large, blackish, 

 followed obliquely below it by four small while spots edged with black, and 

 sometimes altogether black. 



Hindwinijs : fawn-colour, in the ? with the costal area ochreous ; in the d 

 with the ochreous tint suffusing the wing and leaving only the inner and anal 

 margins fawn-colour; a curved postmedian line, abbreviated in the S, reaching 

 to the ochreous costal part in the ?, which also has a short antemedian line on 

 inner margin which is wanting in the J. 



Underside glossy yellow, in the forewings more or less suffused with grev. 

 Face and palpi blackish ; fillet and antennae purple-black ; collar ferruginous ; 

 thorax and abdomen fawn-colour; legs and abdomen beneath yellow; the forelegs 

 fuscous-tinged. 



Expanse of wings : 22 — 24 mm. 



!\hu]y examples from llie Khasias, dated May, September, and December. 

 Distinguished by the strongly arched base of costa of the forewings. 



2. Cobanilla jaspidea sp. nov. 



Fot'eirings : red, the basal and outer areas tinged with paler and ochreous; 

 first line at one-third, dark red, curved below costa and oblique inwards ; lia.sal 

 area varied with ochreous and darker reticulations, the costal portion rosy ; second 

 line fi-om costa at three-fourths, sharply angled outwards towards apex, then 

 oblicpie to inner margin beyond middle, before which it is slightly bent, dark 

 ]iurple, edged with whitish scales ; cell-spot lunulate, red with paler centre and 

 surrounded by a bronzy orange patch ; marginal area beyond second line pinkish 

 ochreous with a few dark reticulations, becoming deep red again along hindmargin : 

 apex niaiked wilh lihu'k. 



