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NEW TSYBIDIDAE AND GE03IETBIDAE FROM THE 

 ORIENTAL REGIONS. 



By W. warren, M.A., F.E.S. 



Family TIIYIilDIDAE. 



1 . Banisia salmo spec. nov. 



Forewing : deep flesh-colonr with a brownish tinge, especially towards liase ; 

 marked by a nnmber of fine transverse striae between the veins, which are blacker 

 and more distinct along inner and outer margins ; fringe concolorous. 



[lindwing : similar, with a large brown discal spot ; inner margin whitish ; 

 fringe concolorous. 



Underside paler, especially in the hindwing ; the fine dark striae being inter- 

 mixed with diffuse thicker reddish markings. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; abdomen beneath like hindwing. 



Expanse of wings : 33 mm. 



] ? from Upper Baram district, Sarawak (C. Hose). 



From the description this mnst be like Hypolamprus rupina Swinh., which, 

 however, has the discal spot in the forewing. 



8. Morova? innotata spec. nov. 



Foreioing : deep flesh-colonr, with traces of dark spots between the veins ; 

 costal edge paler, with brown spots ; fringe in basal half brown-black, in apical 

 half pinky white, except at apex and from vein 3 to 5, where, like the base, it is 

 brown-black. 



Ilimlnniiq : similar, the fringe mottled with brown at apex and vein o ; fringe 

 of abdominal margin pinkish ochreous. 



Underside greyer ; costa of forewing pink ; along the cell and beyond it, below 

 the median vein and vein 2, and between the basal parts of veins 2, 3, 4, 5, is a 

 collection of deep and bright vinous scales, enclosing small round patches of the 

 grey ground-colour ; fringe as above ; hindwing with the vinous spots more 

 scattered, and limited to the basal area and the costa. 



Face, palpi, and vertex vinous red ; thorax and abdomen like wings ; fore- 

 tarsi blackish red, with pale rings at the joints. 



Expanse of wings : S 22 mm. ; ? 25—28 mm. 



1 c?, 2 ? ? , from Townsville, Queensland (Dodd). 



I cannot find any description of this insect, at all events among the Ihjrididce. 

 In the Trans. Ent. Soc. 1880, p. 216, Meyrick, referring to a c? of Morora subfaseiata 

 Wlk. from Fiji, as compared with ? ? from New Zealand, says that veins 8 and 9 

 of forewing are not stalked. 



Hampson in his diagnosis of Morova Pr. Z. S. 1897, p. 633, says, "8, 9 of fore- 

 wing stalked ; tibiae smoothly scaled." In the present species veins 8, 9, are 

 separate as in the Fiji insect, iu both sexes, and the tibiae are roughly scaled. 



In other points they agree well enough with typical Morova. 



