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Subfamily BISTONINAE. 

 11''. Blepharoctenia perclara sp. uov. 



Forcwiuys : wholly pale straw-colour, without a trace ol' darker dustiug ; a 

 strong curved black line near base, thickened on costa and produced to base ; 

 a black spot ou costa at middle ; a strongly marked black outer line, also thickened 

 on costa, angled rectangularly on vein 5, and minutely on the submedian fold, 

 strongly concave lietwcen, followed between veins 3 and 4 by a black spot, and 

 from vein 4 to 5 by an irregular black streak, Ijarbed on vein 5, and again followed 

 by a black spot, beyond which the straw-coloured fringes are marked with black. 



Ilindwings : with the outer line only, this sharply angled on vein 5; some 

 black scales close to base, indicating first line. 



Underside exactly like upper. Head, thorax, and abdomen straw-colour ; face 

 with a broad black bar at top ; palpi dark above ; basal segment of abdomen with 

 an interrupted black ring ; antennae black ; legs spotted with black ; the forelegs 

 almost wholly black. 



Expanse of wings : 6U mm. 



One J from Keelung, Formosa, August 1896 (Jonas). 



120. Eubyja (?) expansa sp. nov. 



Forewings : whitish, densely speckled with olive-grey ; the lines all of the 

 same tint ; first curved, at one-fourth, preceded by an ill-defined shade ; median 

 outcurved beyond cell, to inner margin before middle, obscurely crenulate ; this 

 and the first line are thickened at costa ; outer line from three-fourths of costa to 

 middle of inner margin, finer and regularly dentate, approximated to median line 

 from vein 6, and followed by an indistinct shade ; submarginal wavy, white, preceded 

 by a somewhat interrupted lunulate shade, and followed by a less distinct one: 

 fringe whitish, with slight dark marginal sjiots between veins. 



Himlwings : similar, but less dusted with darker ; no first line ; outer line not 

 approximated to median ; a small olive-grey cell-spot. 



Underside white, not speckled ; forewing slightly snfi'used with grey ; ajncal 

 area dark grey, enclosing a square white apical spot ; outer line distinctly dentate ; 

 submarginal straight ; the angnlated discocellnlar marked in grey ; hindwing white, 

 with grey a2>ex and outej- line marked towards costa only. Head, thorax, and 

 abdomen concolorous. 



Expanse of wings : 68 mm. 



One ? from Hiver Niger, between Akassa and Onitsha (Dr. Cook). 



Ovipositor exscrted ; tongue present ; palpi very short ; costal area of forewings 

 beneath clothed with down. 



121. Eubyja turpis sp. uov. 



ForewiiHj.'i : dingy whitish. suU'used and speckled with smoky fuscous anil 

 ochreous scales ; the lines blackish ; first from one-fourth of costa to inner margin 

 close to base, angled on the median vein ; second from three-fourths of costa to 

 three-fifths of inner margin, angled outwards ou vein 5, and again below vein 3, 

 joined at inner margin by a smoky blackish obscure central shade, which passes 

 just outside the dark cell-spot ; submarginal line obscure, preceded and followed 

 by darker clouds ; a row of dark marginal spots. 



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