238 [Novemljer,. 



A NEW PEYLLODES FROM CEYLON. 

 BY ARTHUR G. BUTLER, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



In a collection of Lepiclopiern, from which a selection was recently 

 . purchased for the Museum, I found a single example of the inter- 

 esting genus Phyllodes, which, undoubtedly, is distinct from its 

 nearest congener P. consohrina, of Silhet ; the differences are as 

 follows : — 



Phyllodes maligera, sp. n. 



Primaries of a uniform pale olive-brown, the areas which arc shining slaty-grey 

 in P. consohrina being sub-opaline and sericeous, but not distinctly grey ; the sig- 

 moidal marking (on the discoccllulars of primaries) less angulated and broader at 

 its inferior extremity, so as more nearly to approach that of P. rosdyera ; second- 

 aries with the rose-red patch longer than broad, instead of broader than long, the 

 ■white spots slightly smaller than in P. consohrina. Expanse of wings, 132 mm. 



Ceylon (TJnvaites). 



The smallest examples of P. consohrina measure about 140 mm. 

 in expanse : this Ceylon species will stand between it and P. roscigcra. 



The pupa, also in the collection, is 44 mm. in length, cylindrical, 

 "with the head slightly prominent, and the caudal extremity longitu- 

 dinally corrugated ; the colouring is dull metallic-bronze, partly en- 

 circled behind the thorax and above the wing-coverings (on the dorsal 

 surface), and entirely encircled beyond the wing-coverings, by shining 

 metallic-bronze hoops ; in front of these shining zones the segments 

 are spotted with patches of impressed rounded black spots ; the head, 

 thorax, leg-, and wing-coverings are rugose, the last-mentioned being 

 most finely so, and the leg-coverings most coarsely ; the back of the 

 abdominal segments, when drawn out, is smooth and reddish imme- 

 diately behind the metallic zones ; the tail is hooked into a small web 

 of sandy-testaceous silk. 



The chrysalis of this species is one of the most singularly beauti- 

 ful, and almost artificial-looking, pupa) that I have seen. 



British Museum : Octoher, 1883. 



ON THREE NEW SPECIES OF JAPAN EROTYLIDJE, AND NOTES 



OF OTHERS. 



BY GEORGE LEWIS, F.L.S. 



Encaustes pr^nobtlis, n. sp. 

 Ni(/ra, nifida, thorace supra riifa, mnrgine viaculisqiie decern nigris. 

 ETytris subtiliter 2^'*^^(^i(^^o-sfriaiis, interstitiis tenuissime alutaceis, 



