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is the only one I have seen, m,ay be a form oi achroinnaY<Ad.,hi\t it seems doubtful. 

 It differs from all forms of that species that have come under m}' notice, by having a 

 broad central shade on both wings. As Meyrick makes all four species identical, it is 

 impossible to say to which his description of tlie larva of alectonirla in Transiictions 

 of t/ieXeui Zealand hiHtltute, 1889, p. 220, really refers. Meyrick formerly included 

 two other Walkerian species under alectoraria 'WW. — \iz. , Aspilnfes (?) primitia 

 Wlk., xxiv., p. 1070, and Emlropia mixtaria Wlk., .xxvi., p. 150(1; but these, 

 both S d , are given by Walker as having pectinated antennae, which at once 

 l)recludes their identity with any species of Lyrcea. 



Sarcinodes punctata sp. nov. 



Korewings pinkish grey; dusted towards the base and costa with dark scales; 

 costal region red brown, diffuse ; the lines thick, dark reddish brown, edged internallv 

 with [laler ; first line at one-third, angnlated below the costa ; second straight, oblique, 

 from beyond the middle of the costa to before the middle of the inner margin ; between 

 these lines a distinct black cell sf.ot ; third line from the apex to two-thirds of the 

 inner margin, with a paler internal edging than either of the other lines ; subtermiual 

 line represented by a series of white dashes on the veins, each with a black tip 

 externally. Hindwings with two straight oblique lines, one near the base before the 

 cell dot, the other alwut the middle; space beyond it more dusted with blackish 

 atoms, and with the suliterminal line more strongly depicted than in the forewings. 

 Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with ground colour. Underside pinkish ; the 

 first line not represented in either wing; the second a straight reddish line ; the third 

 a series of distinct black spots on the veins, on a paler-scaled line ; subterminal line 

 sinuous denticulate ; hindmargin beyond it reddish brown or fulvous. In the hind- 

 wings the basal half is more or less broken up with pale ochreous, and the outer half 

 deeply suffused with fulvous brown. 



One (1 from S.E. Horneo ; allied to S. aequiUneiila, but sufficiently distinct. 



Alex (Wlk., xxvi., p. 1754). 



Type : A. ni/jrozonnta Wlk. 



In Alex the neuration of the hindwings is different in the two sexes. In the j 

 the radial rises, as in both sexes of Gamoruna, from the middle of the discocellular. In 

 the t? it starts from near the base of the subcostal nervule, and out of it, instead of, 

 as is usually the case, out of the discocellular itself. The <S has the antennae shortlv 

 and regularly pectinated. 



Of the two species, that from the islands is a much brighter-looking insect 

 than the Indian. The types of both n/'grozonata Wlk. and eontinuaria Wlk., both 

 in the Saunders collection at Oxford, are from Sarawak. In Mr. Rothschild's collection 

 are seven SS and two j j from S. Celebes, a i from Baram, a j from Amboina 

 from the Felder collection, and another 5 , marked d , and recorded, undoubtedly by 

 mistake, as from Brazil, which is the type of Brepanodes alblco.vd rin Feld. These 

 all agree precisely, except that the Amboina specimen has a large dark, roundish 

 discal spot on the forewings, instead of the usual small linear one. 



The Indian species varies both in size and coloration, and still more in the dis- 

 tinctness of the markings. The smaller examples, all S S , are dark grey or whitish 

 grey, with a pink tint, but without any fulvous tint. The larger ones, both S S and 



