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NEW GENEKA AND SPECIES OF DEEPANULIDAE, 



THYBIDIDAE, EPIPLEMIDAE, URANIIDAE, AND 



GEOMETEIDAE IN THE TEING MUSEUM. 



(Plate V.) 



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



Family DREPAKUL TDAE. 



1. Ausaris splendens sp. nov. 



Foretoings : cream-colour, tinged with olive ; costa darker, studded througbont 

 with silvery scales ; cell-spot large, ear-shaped, dark chestnut, edged with silvery 

 scales ; a blotch of silver}' scales at base of cell, with a line of the same along 

 middle of cell, through the cell-spot, and broadening beyond it ; a silvery submar- 

 ginal line, incurved at middle, then parallel to hindmargin ; marginal line silvery ; 

 fringe and costal edge before apex fnlvous ; the submargiual line is edged internally 

 with olive fulvous. 



Hi ltd wings : with a short silvery Hue from inner margin at two-thirds: marginal 

 line silvery below middle ; fringe fulvous. 



Underside uniform pale cream-colour. Face and palpi dee]) brown : thorax and 

 abdomen cream-colour ; antennae ferruginous. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



One S fi'oiu Tawaya, north of Palos Bay, Celebes, August or September 1890 

 (Doherty). 



Closely allied to .1. a rgcnfili ni'n Wlk. 



Euphalacra gen. nov. 



Foreioinga : elongate ; costa strongly arched at base and convex before apex, 

 which is minutely falcate ; hindmargin bhmtly toothed below veins 7 and ."), excised 

 between the teeth and less strongly below apex; the lower half strongly oblique. 



Ilindwings : with hindmargin toothed as in forewings, tlie excision between the 

 teeth deeper ; costa strongly curved to the ui)iier tooth ; hindmargin straight from 

 lower tooth to anal angle. 



Palpi porrect or inclined ujiwards, stout, and longer than in Phdacra; tongue 

 present ; frenulum absent : antennae in both sexes flattened and serrate, the serra- 

 tions clavate. 



Neuration : forewings, cell half as long as wing; discocellular iuangulated; first 

 median beyond middle ; second at seven-eighths ; third from end of cell; lower 

 radial just above lower angle, ujiper from just below uj)per angle of cell ; 7, 8, 0, 

 stalked ; 10, 11, stalked ; 10 anastomosing witli 8, 1), and forming a very long areole, 

 11 being given off" near its apex, 7 from the middle. Ilindwings as in Phalacra. 



Type : Euphalacra nigridorsata sp. nov. 



Phalacra edentata Hmpsn., Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, Vol. I\'. p. 478. n. 747ff, 

 has similar neuration: but no mention is made of the serration of the j antennae. 



