NEW SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA FROM FORMOSA. 99 
chocolate brown, fringes brown and rather shining. Hind wings 
light brown with a slight rusty tinge on dorsal area. “Underside light 
brown, somewhat glossy, paler on dorsal area of the fore wings. 
Expanse, 22 millim. 
Collection number, 1412. 
A male specimen from Kanshirei (1000 feet), August 15th, 
1908. 
THYRIDIDE. 
Betousa reticulata, sp. 0. 
@. Fore wings slightly produced at apex, bluntly angled about the 
middle; pale cinnamon brown reticulated with darker, costa dull 
purplish brown expanding into a large irregular patch towards apex ; 
antemedial band dull purplish- browr n, broadest on costal area; post- 
medial band dull purplish-brown, broad on costal area where it 
unites with the apical blotch, twice contracted below middle; two 
spots in lower edge of the apical patch and three on its outer edge, 
pale marks on apical half of costa ; terminal line dull purplish- brown, 
iringes rather paler. Hind wings, termen slightly excised before 
tornus ; pale cinnamon brown, reticulated with darker; antemedial 
and postmedial bands dull purplish- brown, the postmedial broadest 
on dorsum and indistinct towards costa ; terminal line and fringes as 
on fore wings. Underside as above, but bands on hind wings less. 
clearly defined. 
Expanse, 28 millim. 
Collection number, 1872 
Two female specimens from Arizan, one taken in February 
and the other in April, 1909. 
Comes nearest to B. industalis, Walk. 
EPIPLEMIDE. 
Epiplema quadripunctata, n. sp. 
&. Head and thorax white marked with ochreous and brown ; 
abdomen white, hind segments ochreous tinged. Fore wings white, 
freckled and clouded with ochreous and darker brown except on the 
dorsal area; postmedial band ochreous with some blackish diffuse 
marks on it; four black dots on the terminal area below the apex; 
fringes ochreous, paler towards tornus. Hind wings white suffused 
ath ochreous except on the dorsal area; Ateeoial mark black, 
traces of a medial band and a cluster of black scales beyond; a black 
dot about the middle of termen; fringes ochreous. Underside white ; 
fore wings suffused with fuscous, except on the dorsal area. 
ae ‘Similar, but the blackish marks on postmedial band of the fore 
wing, and the black dots on the terminal area are rather larger. 
Expanse, 20 millim. g; 22 millim. 2. 
Collection number, 97a. 
One example of each sex from Kanshirei (1000 feet), the 
female taken June 18th, 1906, and the male April, 14th, 1908. 
Allied to E. instabilata, Walk. 
