182 Mr. E. Meyrick 07i 



30. /. cmlestis, n. sp. 



(^ ? . 36-38 mm. Head orange, crown mixed with blackish. Palpi 

 orange, second joint with a short black apical streak in front, terminal 

 joint very short, black. Antennae blackish. Thorax orange, with 

 three broad undefined stripes of purple-blackish suffusion. Abdomen 

 orange, with dorsal, lateral and sublateral series of purple-blackish 

 spots. Fore- wings elongate, hardly dilated, costa gently arched, apex 

 rounded, termen rounded, somewhat oblique ; 7 and 8 stalked, 8 to 

 costa ; purple-blackish ; costal edge ochreous-whitish except towards 

 extremities ; an irregular orange basal spot not reaching margins, 

 connected by an irregular mark with dorsum near base ; veins more 

 or less marked by whitish-yellowish lines edged with a pale bluish 

 tinge, not reaching margins, broadest on 16 and lower and posterior 

 margins of cell, partially or quite obsolete on veins 2, 5, 6, and 9 ; 

 a similar dorsal streak from I to beyond middle ; cilia white, basal 

 third blackish, apical third light grey. Hind-wings blackish-fuscous, 

 lighter towards base ; a pale orange median dash from base ; an 

 orange subdorsal streak, not quite reaching termen ; cilia white, 

 basal third dark fuscous. 



W. China (Kia-ting-fu) ; two specimens iu British 

 Museum, from Mr. Leech's collection. 



31. /. saturata, Walk. 



Hypsa saturata, Walk., pi. xxxi, 217. 



Java. Not known to me, but I am indebted to Sir 

 George Hampson for the following comparative notes, in 

 relation to the preceding species, to which it is closely 

 allied: "quite distinct from cmlcstis, larger, cilia of both 

 wings black ; hind-wings without the pale streaks, with a 

 bluish-white discoidal striga and tiiangular spots in inter- 

 spaces of terminal area." 



32. /. acTO'jjtila, n. sp. 



^ 9 • 16-17 mm. Head whitish-ochreous, in ^ on crown with 

 very long erect spreading ochreous-whitish hairs mixed with fuscous. 

 Palpi ochreous-yellowish, anteriorly fuscous, second joint in ^ 

 thickened, terminal joint in $ half second, in $ represented by a 

 long curved expansible pencil of grey and yellowish hairs, concealing 

 ftctual joint. Afttennse yellowish, basal joint elongate, in ^ above 



