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ll;i. Mimomiza annulata sp. nov. 



Foi'ewings : yellow, snftnsed in places with Ijriglit fiilvons and speckled with 

 fuscons ; the lines lead-coloured ; first from one-fonrth of costa, oblique outwards 

 from costa, angled in cell, to one-third of inner margin : outer line with white outer 

 edge, oblique from three-fourths of inner margin towards apes close before which 

 it is acutely angulated and retracted to costa ; au oblique dark costal streak at 

 two-thirds ; cell-spot annular ; fringe apparently yellow. 



Ilimhcings : paler, not suffused with fulvous ; the outer line at three-fourths 

 curved parallel to hindmargin ; no first line ; cell-spot annular. 



Underside yellowish, with coarse fuscons speckles ; the cell-spots dark ; outer 

 line indicated on both wings, and beyond it a cnrved series of dark dots on veins, 

 which are faintly marked also on the njiperside. Head, thorax, and abdomen 

 yellow, suffused with fulvous. 



Expanse of wings : 3o mm. 



One ? from S. Flores, October 189(5, dry season (Everett). 



In forewings veins 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 are stalked, and 11 anastomoses with \'l, 

 their apex is produced, and the hindmargin bent at vein 4. 



Note. — Abraxas compositata Guen. : not an Indian insect. In the Brit. ^fn^. 

 Ca<. xxiv. p. ir~!i.i (I.^'l-j, Walker referred four specimens of au Indian insect to 

 Abr. compositata Guen., the types of which came from N. China and Japan. In the 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, Lone/, p. 6o3 (1807), Mr. Moore, accei)ting Walker's identification, 

 erected, not without reason, a new genus, Vindtisara, for the Indian species, which 

 he figured (PI. XXXII. fig. 0); and it is recorded as Guenee's species in Cotes & 

 Swinhoe's Catalogue of 1888, and subsequently by !Sir G. Hampson in the Fauna 

 of Brit. India, Moths, iii. p. 290 ; nor did it occur to me, when rearranging the 

 Geometridae in the British Museum Collection, to suspect the correctness of 

 "Walker's assumption, accepted, as it apparently had been, liy general consent. I 

 have lately had occasion to refer to Mr. Leech's paper on the " Lejjidoptera Heterocera 

 of China, Japan, and Corea," published in Ann. Mag. N. II. WJl, and was surprised 

 to find no record of the occurrence of a species which, in India, seems to be no 

 rarity. On referring to Guenee's origiuiil description, it was at once apparent that 

 this Indian sjiecies, for whose identification Walker was responsible, has nothing 

 whatever to do with Guent5e's so-called .[/jra.ias from China. The expanse of the 

 Indian insect, as given by Hampson, is 74 — 8ii mm. ; Guenee gives 40 mm. for his 

 Chinese species. Secondly, Gnenee makes no mention of any excision in the 

 hindmargin of the hindwings, a ]>ecnliarity not occurring in any Ahraxiis,!im\ which 

 could not have escaped his observation ; but, lastly and jiositively, he speaks of " a 

 bundle of yellow hairs at the base of the forewings in the i_ on the underside." 

 Thus the omission of the species A. ro/njjositata Guen., under that name, in Mr. 

 Leech's paper became intelligible. In fact, Abr. compositata (Juen. is nothing else 

 than Lijgris junciilineata Wlk., a species with whicli (Juenee's description agrees 

 entirely, but which does not occur in India, as neither does Walker's compositata in 

 China. The Indian insect must therefore be quoted for the future as compositata 

 Walker, non Gucncc. The snjierficial resemblance in colour and markings between 

 the two insects may possibly have misled Walker; though how he could have over- 

 looked the mention of the tuft of hairs below it is difficult to understand. To 

 modern devotees of neuration will be interesting to observe, as a result of the 



