A NEW LASIOCAMPID MOTH FROM TURKESTAN. 175 
Tiphia punctifrons, sp. nov. 
Black, the antenne, tegule, four anterior legs, except the cox 
and the mandibles, except at the base and apex, red; wings hyaline, 
the stigma large, black, the costa and nervures testaceous; metanotum 
with three keels, and one on the basal half between the outer and 
central. Front strongly punctured, the punctures clearly separated ; 
the face and clypeus opaque, more closely and finely punctured. Basal 
abscissa of radius roundly, broadly curved, longer than the second ; 
the second recurrent nervure interstitial, the first received distinctly 
beyond the middle of the cellule. g. Length, 4 mm. 
Kuching, Borneo (John Hewitt, B.A.). 
Sides of front punctured, but not so strongly as the apex; the 
centre above and the vertex smooth; the temples punctured. There 
is a crenulated border on the base of the mesonotum behind the keel ; 
the rest of it and the scutellum smooth, except for some scattered 
punctures. The upper part of the propleure at the base narrowly, 
the lower broadly longitudinally striated. Mesopleurz with scattered 
punctures. Metapleuree longitudinally distinctly aciculated, the apical 
half from shortly behind the middle longitudinally striated. Apical 
half of abdomen opaque, densely covered with fuscous pubescence. 
Apex of clypeus slightly incised. 
Allied to 7’. borneana, Cam., which may be known by the 
black four anterior femora, black alar nervures, longer first ab- 
scissa of radius, the second recurrent nervure not interstitial, 
&e. For a synopsis of the Bornean species of Tiphia, see my 
paper in the ‘ Entomologist,’ 1907, pp. 288-289. 
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW LASIOCAMPID MOTH 
FROM TURKESTAN. 
By Oscar Joun (St. Petersburg, Russia). 
(PuaTtE V.) 
Epicnaptera alice, nov. sp. 
. Male. Head, collar, patagia and thorax thickly and evenly 
covered with woolly, mouse-coloured hair. Palpi bushy, of a darker 
hue, forming together with the hair of the frons a muzzle-like pro- 
minence. Antennz- pectinate, yellowish brown. Abdomen dorsally 
in its proximal part haired as the thorax, distally, on the sides and 
on the under side covered with short ochreous hair. Legs mouse- 
grey, woolly-haired. Wings of the typical form, external margin 
even, hind wings undulated near apex only. General colour of 
fore wings same as of thorax, with a brownish tinge in the middle 
area. The pattern is much the same as in the other species of the 
genus, the inner and elbowed lines consisting of dark-brown dots. 
Stigma in cell distinct, dark brown. The pale subterminal line 
suffused, running straight from costal to inner margin and bordered 
outwardly with a dark shade. Hind wings of the same ground 
