DEUTEROCOPUS RITSEM^. 243 



NOTE XXXVI. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS 

 DEUTEROCOPUS (PTEROPHORIDJ]) FROM JAVA. 



Lord WALSINGHAM. 



Deuterocopus Ritsemce, n. sp. 



Head ferruginous , palpi ferruginous , annulated and tip- 

 ped with white. Antennae dull ferruginous , delicately 

 spotted along their upper side with white. Thorax ferru- 

 ginous with two ill defined yellowish white spots ante- 

 riorly. Fore- wings bright shining ferruginous , with two 

 white spots before the fissure , one on the dorsal margin 

 nearer to the base than to the fissure, another on the 

 middle of the wing nearer to the fissure than to the base, 

 a brownish spot at the base of the fissure preceded by a 

 few brownish scales : the costal lobe clouded about its 

 middle , but not at its base , with bronzy-brown and having 

 two blackish streaks on the costal margin and another at 

 the extreme apex. The central bronzy-brown shade is pre- 

 ceded and followed by a silvery-white spot. The divided 

 lobe is also somewhat clouded with bronzy-brown but not 

 at its base, a silvery-white spot precedes the dark colou- 

 ring and a second smaller one is about the middle of the 

 upper division, a dark streak in the fringes at the apex 

 of each division. In the pale yellowish fringes on the 



]N'otes from the Leyden JMuseum, "Vol. "VI. 



