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NEW SPECIES OF THYBTIUBAE, VBANIIDAE, AND 

 GEOJIETEIDAE, FROM THE ORIENTAL REGION. 



By \V. warren, M.A., F.E.S. 

 Family TIIVnTDIDA?:. 



1. Canaea hyaena spec. nov. 



Foirwing : grey on an ochreons ground, covered with short striae of darker 

 grey between the veins and crossed by several obscnrely marked dark grey lines ; 

 the ochreons gronnd-colonr appears only along the costal edge, which is marked 

 with dark grey dots and beyond middle with three dark streaks, and along hind- 

 margiu at base of fringe, which is otherwise dark grey; a small ronnd hyaline spot 

 below the lower end of cell between veins 2 and 'i ; sometimes the central area is 

 clonded with grey ; traces of large pale spots between veins before the margin. 



Ilindwinii : similar, but paler ; the cross markings more distinct, and rufous- 

 tinged; a tine ferruginous line along hind margin; inner margin pale ochreons; 

 fringe of inner margin and a row of hairs along vein 1 pale ocbreous. 



Underside speckled with brown ; forewing with three brown jiatches, two 

 postmodian, below costa and above inner margin, the third below apex. 



Head, thorax, abdomen, and legs dark grey ; abdomen beneath ochreons. 



Expanse of wings : 28 — 30 mm. 



3 (?(?, 4 ? ¥ from Gnizo Island, Solomons, November 1D03 (Meek). 



2. Canaea venustnla spec. nov. 



Forciving : grey, covered with rough trans\-erse darker grey reticulations, and 

 crossed by five or six irregular darker bands, which on inner margin become 

 reddish ; the antemedian, median, and postmedian are vertical ; two towards apex 

 are less distinct, shorter, and more or less broken up : the base and costa are grev- 

 brown ; the costal edge white, with nnmerons dark dots ; from apex to middle a 

 ri>w of red nuirginiil sjiots between veins ; fringe dark grey, the tips below the 

 middle white. 



Uindwing : with tlie bands red, the marginal line continuous, red; fringe dark 

 grey, white-tipjied throughout, and varied in places with red scales. 



Underside paler, with all the markings much clearer ; apex of forewing tinged 

 with red. 



Head and thorax grey-brown like the wings ; abdomen red, with nnnl tuft 

 ochreons yellow; abdomen beneath and legs pale, tliickly sj)eckled with grey-brown. 



Expanse of wings : 22 mm. 



1 i from Ujiper Area River, British New Guinea, January 1903 (Meek). 



3. Hypolamprus subumbrata sjiec. nov. 



l-'orcwiiiij : j)ale flesh-coloured ochreons, crossed by jiale brown wavy lines, 

 with faint strigao between them ; the lines roughly in pairs and after the first pair 

 1 econiiiig obli(|ne inward parallel to hindmargin ; the third pair above the middle 



