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ERYCINIDAE. 



3. Dicalleneura ekeikei spec. nov. 



c?. Head and thorax dark brown. Wings, upiifrsidf : Primary dark brown, 

 with a golden bronze suffnsioa over the basal third. Secondary orange-yellow, 

 with a broad dark brown costa, and a black spot between veins 2 and 3 at the 

 elongated jiart of the termen. Uiulerside of the primary deep crimson red with a 

 broad dark grey inner margin ; a small white patch at the base, a white <lash across 

 the cell followed by a broad white obli(jue band at the end of the cell, beyond this 

 a pair of white small spearhead spots by the costa, and two oblique dashes below 

 veins 4 and 3 ; a postmedial obliqne slightly curved row of white spots, with three 

 spots by the termen below the apex ; all the spots slightly silvery in their white- 

 ness. Secondary orange-yellow, with a very broad purplish brown costa and a 

 snffnsiou of purplish below the cell and above the tornus ; a longitudinal broad 

 white central stripe from the extreme base, forked along veins 2 and 3, a shorter 

 white dash beyond the centre of the costa, and a curved white dash on the inner 

 margin from the base, meeting the central stripe on vein 2 ; a fine whitish dash 

 closing the cell ; a row of four or five white spots from the apex to vein 2, followed 

 by a marginal row of black dashes edged with silvery white, with a black spot 

 as on the upperside, but edged on the outside with silvery white, the ground- 

 colour at the toruus above this row broadly lemon-yellow. 



?. Primary, aboce, blackish brown, with a very broad, transverse, white patch 

 curved on the outside, occupying nearly half of the wing ; fringe white for the 

 a])ical half. Secondary dark brown with a large white costnl patch near the apex, 

 a small white submarginal spot between veins 3 and 4 ; fringe white, interrupted 

 with brown. Underside : primary brownish red, with the large white patch as on 

 the ujiperside, a white basal dash in the cell, the other marks as in the male. 

 Secondary, brownish red with the white costal patch as on the upperside, and the 

 termen narrowly yellow ; all the other markings and spots as in the male. 



Exjjanse : 6 47 mm., ? 50 mm. 



Hab. Ekeikei, March and Api-il. 



In my collection. It is a beautiful species, the longitudinal stripes below 

 difl'ereutiating it from any other of the genus. 



BOMBYCIDAE. 

 4. Gunda kebeae spec. nov. (PI. IV. f. 32). 



tJ. Head and thorax yellow; abdomen brown, with a cream-coloured anal tuft ; 

 legs brown ; antennae blackish. 



Primary, aboce, yellow tinged with orange, with a trace of a short postmedial 

 brownish purple fascia, caused by an nndersurface stripe showing through, with a 

 large terminal patch of the same colour from below the apex to vein 2 ; fringe 

 same colour as the ground. Secondary yellow tinged with orange, with a trace of 

 a postmedial stripe, and a slight submarginal scaling of brownish purple, and 

 between them is a finer and more definite jiurplish line ; fringes purjilish. 

 Below the colours are just the same, with a more marked postmedial stripe, a 



