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edges ; area beyond the medial band freckled with dark purplish- 

 brown and faintly powdered with ochreous ; sub-basal and antemedial 

 lines purplish-brown, serrate, very slender; subterminal line indicated 

 by purplish-brown dots placed between the veins and inwardly edged 

 with white. Hind wings with colour and markings as on fore wings. 

 Expanse, 20 mm. 



Type in the British Museum. 



Kanshirei (1000 ft.) (Wileman), August 19th, 1909. 



Hypena taiivana, sp. n. 



$ . Fore wings pale brown, suffused and dusted with darker on 

 the disc, the costal area paler inclining to whitish towards apex ; a 

 pale longitudinal line from base to just beyond middle of the wing, 

 whence it runs obliquely to and becomes whiter at the apex of the 

 wing ; subterminal line dark brown with black margined white dots 

 on it towards dorsum ; terminal line crenulate ; fringes white dotted 

 with whitish and traversed by a black line. Hind wings fuscous grey ; 

 fringes whitish except near costa and about middle. 



$ . . Similar to the male, but the costal area is whiter and the 

 dark clouding more intense. 



Collection numbers, 1454 and 1455. 



A male specimen from Tainan (sea level), March 3rd, 1907, 

 and a female from Kanshirei (1000 ft.), March 12th, 1907. 



There is a specimen, also from Tainan, in the British Museum. 

 Comes near H. lahatalis, Walker. 



LYMANTRIADiE. 



Psalis (?) kansliireiensis, sp. n. 



(J . Head brownish -buff, thorax brown ; abdomen buff shaded 

 with brownish on middle segments. Fore wings brownish-buff 

 powdered with brown except on costal area, finely irrorated with 

 black, shaded with dingy purplish-brown on terminal area except 

 near costa ; fringes appear to be dark in colour with some metallic 

 scales at their base. Hind wings buff, shaded with dusky towards 

 termen. Under side similar to the upper side. 



Expanse, 23 mm. 



Collection number, 737. 



A male specimen from Kanshirei (1000 ft.), September 27th, 

 1905. 



Euproctis postfusca, sp. n. 



$ . Head and thorax yellowish-buff ; antennte brownish-buff ; 

 abdomen pale butf inclining to yellow on anal tuft. Fore wings 

 yellowish- buff, immaculate. Hind wings purplish-brown, fringes 

 yellowish. Under side purplish-brown, fringes yellow ; costa of 

 fore wings yellow. 



Expanse, 18 mm. 



Collection number, 39. 



