72 W. J. HOLLAND. 



A l)lack spot is situated at the base near the liind margin ; two brown curved 

 bauds run very obliquely from the costa before the middle toward the inner 

 margin at the base, which they do not quite reach; beyond the middle is a 

 broader and much darker band of the same color, which is parallel to the last 

 named and terminates about the middle of the inner margin; beyond this a 

 narrow sinuous line runs from the costa to the inner margin being shaded ex- 

 ternally with pinkish ochreous and osculating on vein 5 with a dark submar- 

 ginal line, which runs obliquely from the apex to vein 5 and then diverging at 

 an obtuse angle, terminates at the internal angle of the wing. The triangular 

 space enclosed l)etween these two lines at the ajiex is dark brown ; the triangular 

 space included between the submarginal line and the outer margin is lilac-gray. 

 Secondaries : base and discal area black, fading into gray on outer mariiin. 



Undekside. — Palpi whitish) thorax and abdomen pinkish fawn color. Prima- 

 ries and secondaries broadly pinkish fawn, the primaries shaded with black on 

 disc and with a wide marginal shade of dark gray acutely angled at vein 5; 

 secondaries crossed by ferruginous median and submarginal transverse lines, 

 which are in some specimens faintly continued upon the primaries also. A broad 

 marginal shade of the same color as on the primaries and also acutely angled on 

 vein 5 completes the ornamentation of the secondaries. Exp. of wings 8.5-90 mm. 



Type in coll. Holland. 



I have given to this species, the first specimen of which I found 

 sitting upon the side of the mortuary chapel of the Sixth Shogun 

 in the Shiba Park at Tokyo, the name of that illustrious prince of 

 the Tokugawa family. 



BOMBYCES. 



Family LIPARID.E Boisd. 



Genus EPICOPEI.4 Westw. 



2 E. Haiiiesii n. sp.— Allied to Mencin Moore (P. Z. S. Lond. 1874, p. 578, 

 plate Ixvii, tig. 8). 



Upperside. — Head, thorax, abdomen and antennse black, without any red 

 markings whatever. Primaries, with the outer margin not as convex as in Mencia. 

 gray, palest on the outer third, with the outer margin broadly black and the 

 veins black. Secondaries deeply excised or concave on the outer margin, the 

 line of curvature being continuous from just below the external angle to the 

 extremity of the broad, somewhat short and very spatulate tail. The basal and 

 dis'al areas are dark brownish gray, tiie outer third and the tail deep velvety 

 black, and the veins all black. A crimson lunule appears just below the outer 

 angle near the margin, and there are four crimson lunules extending from the 

 anal angle in a marginal row to the origin of the tail. 



Underside. — Palpi and thorax black. Legs black, except femora, which are 

 crimson. Abdomen black, with a crimson line running along the sides from the 

 first segment to the last on the line of the spiracles, and the margin of each seg- 

 ment fringed with crimson. Primaries throughout light yellowish gray shading 

 into blackish on the disc, the veins being pale brown gray. Secondaries exactly 

 as on upper surface, save that the crimson lunules are .somewhat larger and more 

 sharply defined. Expanse of wings 62 mm. 



