NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE. 



Vol. VI. APRIL, 1899. No. 1. 



NEW SPECIES AND GENERA OF THE FAMILIES 



DBEPANULIDAE, THYBIDIDAE, UBANIIDAE, 



EPIPLEMWAE, AND GEOMETRIDAE 



FROM THE OLD-WORLD REGIONS. 

 By W. warren, M.A., F.B.S. 



Family DREPANULIDAE. 

 1. Cobanilla erminea sp. uov. 



Forew/'/iffs : brown-black, with darker trausver.se striae ; basal area pinkish 

 ochreous, varied with grey and silvery scales, bounded by a dark browu Hue or shade 

 from costa at one-third, sharply angled on the subcostal, and curved inward to near 

 base of inner margin ; from two-thirds of inner margin an obscure dark line runs 

 straight and oblique towards apex as far as vein 6, where it is most acutely angled, 

 and runs back to meet a browu costal streak at two-thirds : except for the two 

 browu streaks the custa is pale throughout ; marginal area less browu than central, 

 with transverse sooty specks ; discocellular dark, with slight silvery dots at 

 the angles. 



Ilindwings : uniform browu, with a curved deeper browu cloud beyond the 

 discocellular; faint traces of darker specks towards apex; inner margin and the 

 course of the lower veins studded with silvery scales ; fringe of both wings 

 concolorous with wing, and slightly glistening. 



Underside of forewiugs dull red, speckled and towards liindmargiu suffused 

 with blackish ; the outer oblique line distinct, lustrous-edged : of hiudwings bright 

 red, spotted with black along costa and hindmargin. Vertex, face, palpi, legs, and 

 abdomen beneath brilliant red ; shoulders nearly white ; thorax ochreous grey ; 

 abdomen like hiudwings. 



Ex2Jause of wings : :i4 mm. 



One 6 from St. Aignan, November 1«9T (A. S. Meek). 



A second example from Kei Island, much worn, evidcutly belongs to the same 

 species, the uudersurface beiug precisely the same ; but above the whole of the 

 wings is reddish fawu-colour, with a few brown striae, and the basal area but 

 slightly paler. It is apparently a local form. 



:i. Cobanilla fulgens sp. uov. 



Forewings : olive-brown; the costa paler, pinkish, with a few black scales; 

 the costal edge ochraceous ; discocellular marked with dots of white scales; the 

 costa and outer half of wing lustrous jaearly, leaving ouly a triangular space 



1 



