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NEW GENEEA AND SPECIES OF MOTHS FEOM THE 

 OLD-WOELD EEGIONS IN THE TEING MUSEUM. 



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

 Family DREPANULIDAE. 



1. Albara gracillima sp. nov. 



Foreivings : pale silky straw-colour, tinged with pale brownish towards costa and 

 apex; the costa yellow; the two lines brown, situated exactly as in A. lilacina 

 Moore ; fringe brown, straw-colour towards anal angle ; no discocellular mark 

 visible. 



Hindiviiigs: still paler; a brownish postmedian line only visible on inner 

 margin. 



Underside like upjJer. Face, palpi, and vertex dark brown ; collar ferruginous ; 

 thorax and abdomen pale straw-colour. 



Expanse of wings : 27 mm. 



One S from the Khasias. 



2. Albara opalesceus sp. nov. 



c? . Foreivings : pale or dark mouse-colour ; the costa burnished brown towards apex ; 

 lines dark chocolate-brown; first line curved and wavy, verj' indistinct ; exterior line 

 from costa at two-thirds, outwardly oblique and indistinct to near hindmargin, then 

 acutely angled and running nearly straight and thickening to inner margin beyond 

 middle ; apex dark ; an oblique dark line from the apex all but touches the exterior 

 line at its angle, and is continued as a very faint dark line outside it to inner 

 margin and as a series of dark dots on the veins parallel to hindmargin ; fringe dark 

 brown, with the basal line burnished brown; cell-spot very indistinct ; at the lower 

 end of the discocellular is a pale yellow trifid spot. 



Hindioinga : with costal area pale, the dark oblique line median ; faint traces 

 of a denticulated submarginal line ; fringe as in forewings. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous ; face and antennae dark brown. 

 Underside opalescent grey, unmarked. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



Several <S <S from the Khasias. 



Nearest to A. reversaria Wlk., from Borneo, which has a burnished blotch in 

 the angulation of the outer line. 



3. Ausaris fulvilauta sp. nov. 



ForeiviTigs : yellow, washed with fulvou.s-orange, the whole surface sprinkled 

 with shining silvery scales, not massed, a? in argeMeola Moore and other species, 

 along the veins; a straight slightly fulvous line from near apex to inner margin 

 at three-fourths ; fringe fulvous, with a basal line of silvery scales. 



Hinchvinga : the same, the costal area paler. 



Underside wholly fulvous, without any markings. Head, thorax, and abdomen 

 all orange-fulvous. 



