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Vol. LI.] AUGUST, 1918. ^'''-^«' - [No. 663 



TWO NEW SPECIES OF SESIID^ FKOM FORMOSA 

 AND A NEW NOGTUID MOTH FEOM JAPAN. 



By a. E. Wileman and Richakd South. 



Canopia auritincta, sp. n. 



(^ . Head black, face lined with white ; thorax black, fringed 

 with yellow hairs at sides ; abdomen black, posterior edges of the 

 segments with yellow hairs, a broad yellow band on last segment, 

 some yellow hairs in the black anal tuft. Fore wings with costal 

 and outer margins, veins, and broad discoidal bar, black ; inner 

 margin yellowish from base to bar ; orange yellow scales between the 

 veins on outer fourth. Hind wings black on the veins and outer 

 margin, yellow on other margins, no discal bar ; some orange-yellow 

 scale dots before termen, placed between the veins. All fringes grey. 



Expanse, 18 millim. 



Collection number, 1702. 



A male specimen from Yakanron, Formosa, June 15th, 1908. 



Paraiithrene tricincta, sp. n. 



5 • Head black, face white, collar ochreous ; thorax and abdomen 

 black, the former with ochreous hairs, and the latter with three yellow 

 rings, of which the first is narrow, the second very broad, and the 

 third incomplete. Fore wings clouded with blackish-brown hairs, 

 especially on the outer half ; margins, veins, and discoidal bar black 

 on all the wings. 



Expanse, 20 millim. 



Collection number, 1273. 



One specimen from Kansbirei, Formosa, May 10th, 1908 

 (1000 feet). 



Procus alhilincola, sp. u 

 $ . Fore wings brown with a slight purplish tinge, darker clouds 

 on central area ; costa suffused with greyish marked with black, a 

 few white dots before apex ; venation pale, almost whitish ; reniform 

 and orbicular stigmata white ; antemedial and postmedial lines white, 

 the former outwardly oblique, the latter excurved round cell and 

 slightly incurved before reaching the inner margin ; submarginal line 

 whitish, wavy, indistinct ; terminal line black ; fringes concolorous 



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