﻿12 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



During June I was searching some aspen trees for other 

 larvae. I noticed some lumps, or knobs, near end of twigs 

 with suspicious holes and frass at exit. I opened two and 

 found undoubted Sesiid larvae between quarter and half an 

 inch long. They were not larvae of any Sesiid that I am 

 acquainted with. Could they have been S. tahaniformis ? They 

 both died. I left other swellings, and if I am able to do so 

 will again search next May or June. The twigs were not 

 thicker above and below the swellings than an ordinary lead 

 pencil ; it is therefore unlikely to have been young 2\ apiformis, 

 nor is T. ainformis, to my knowledge, found here. 



68, Dry Hill Park Road, Tonbridge, Kent. 



NEW SPECIES OF HETEROCERA FROM FORMOSA. 



By a. E. Wileman, F.E.S. 



noctuid-e. 

 Nyctipao albicincta obscura, ab. nov. 



(? . Differs from the typical form in having dark brown fringes 

 to all wings on both surfaces ; the transverse lines on upper side are 

 suffused with dark brown, especially those of fore wings. 



Expanse, 116 millim. 



Collection number, 1828. 



A male specimen from Horisha, May, 1908. 



Except in the characters referred to this specimen does not 

 differ from Nyctipao albicincta, Kollar (Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv., 

 p. 474, pi. 22). 



Bkptina bisectalis, sp. n. 



^ . Head brown; thorax blackish, mixed with grey, front brown ; 

 abdomen brownish grey, blackish tinged on posterior edge of each 

 segment. Fore wings blackish, streaked and powdered with brown 

 on costal area up to postmedial line ; median nervure, and branches 

 up to postmedial line, white ; antemedial and postmedial lines white, 

 inwardly oblique, the postmedial slightly indented before the dorsum ; 

 discoidal lunule white; subterminal line pale, wavy; fringes blackish, 

 marked with white, preceded by black triangular marks between the 

 veins. Hind wings dark grey, paler on costal area ; two pale slightly 

 curved lines beyond the middle, the outer one serrate ; black trian- 

 gular marks on termen ; fringes dark grey. Under side of fore wings 

 whitish strongly suffused with fuscous, costal area tinged with 

 ochreous brown ; discoidal mark and serrate postmedial line blackish, 

 subterminal line pale ochreous but only distinct towards costa : hind 

 wings whitish speckled and clouded with brown, discoidal lunule 

 black preceded by a black spot in the cell ; two blackish serrate lir " 

 beyond the middle, each line outwardly edged with whitish. d 



Expanse, 40 millim. ig 



Collection number, 1497. ^i^^ 



