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The collection contains two specimens: the tj'pe, taken at Medje, 

 April 6, 1910, which is in The American jMuseum of Natural History; 

 and the paiatype, a ragged specimen, taken at Avakubi, August 30, 

 1913, which is in the Holland Collection in the Carnegie Museum. 



The species is strictly congeneric with the insect to which T provi- 

 sionallj' gave the name Heterospila (?) calescens (see Psj^-he, 1894, YII, 

 p. 177, PI. Y, fig. 13). The generic reference is open to question, af- 

 I well know, and it is almost certain to my mind that a new genus will 

 ultimately have to be erected for the reception of the species, but as Sir 

 George F. Hampson is at present working up the insects of this group, 

 I do not now feel called upon to do more than I have here done. 



Hypeninae 

 SiMPLiciA Guenee 



(593) 1, Simplicia (?) species (?) 



A single specimen taken at Bolengi, August 20, 1909, which seems 

 to come into this genus but which I have been unable to determine 

 upon comparison with the literature and which I do not wish to venture 

 to describe as new, though it probably is nondescript. We have a number 

 of species which belong to this genus, but, until there is an opportunity 

 to study them more closely and compare with the material upon which 

 others are at present working, it would be unwise to attempt to describe 

 them. 



Elyra Walker 



(594) 1. Elyra (?) gabunalis Holland 



Ehjra (?) gabunalis Holland, 1894, Psyche, VII, p. 126, PI. iv, fig. 17. 



A rubbed and defective specimen of this insect was taken at Medje, 

 June 26, 1910. I referred the species to Walker's genus Elyra at the time 

 I described it, but this reference is merety provisional and based upon 

 the fact that the insect seems to be congeneric with the African species 

 to which Walker appHed the name Elyra (?) cachrusalis (cf . Walker, List 

 Lep.Het. B. M., XVI, p. 204). I think a new genus will have to be 

 erected for the reception of this insect, as to my mind it is not congeneric 

 with the Bornean insect Elyra phlegeusalis, which is the type of the 

 genus. There is a very marked difference in the structure of the palpi, 

 etc., between E. phlegeusalis, and the two African species. 



