Old World LymantriidiB in the National Collection. 421 



EUPROCTIS POSTNIGRA, llOV. 



5 . Antennae, palpi, head, and thorax brownisli-ochreons ; fore- 

 wings with the ground colour sordid ochreous, irrorated with minute, 

 deep black atoms ; a whitish space at the end of the cell, in which 

 there is a somewliat large black spot ; a discal, indistinct, transverse 

 whitish band, outwardly curved above its middle ; abdomen and 

 hind-wings black, anal tuft and cilia of both wings sordid ochreous ; 

 under-side of body and legs black ; wings blackish-brown, with the 

 margins narrowly sordid ochreous. 

 Expanse of wings ^xjj inches. 



1 $, Matang-, Borneo (type). 1 $, Pulo Laut {Doherty). 

 I have it in my own collection from Pulo Laut. 



EuPROCTIS INDECORA. 

 Teara indecora, Walker, xxxii, 35o (1865). 

 1 ?, Moreton Bay (type). 



EUPROCTIS DEFICITA. 

 Teara deficita, Walker, xxxii, 352 (1865). 

 3 (^ , 2 $, Australia, including the type. 



EuPROCTIS FUNERALIS, nov. 



(^ , 5 . Palpi, frons, and anal tuft of abdomen ochreous, paler in 

 some examples than in others ; antennte ochreous grey, shafts white ; 

 head, thorax, and fore- wings ochreous, the ground colour of the fore- 

 wings is oci^ireous grey, and the wings are covered with brown, 

 minute irrorations ; one Sarawak male example has the fore-wings 

 much darker than the others, and a Sarawak female is the palest and 

 yellowest of the lot ; the hind-wings of the ^ type are nearly white, 

 the abdominal margin broadly suffused with blackish ; in the female 

 they are entirely blackish-brown with pale yellowish outer margins ; 

 abdomen above and below black ; legs yellowish ; wings below 

 whitish in the male with blackish internal suffusions, entirely 

 suft'used in the female. The species varies much in size and in shade 

 of colour; in some of the females the veins of the fore-wings are 

 yellow and prominent. 



Expanse of wings rj lyV, ? 2i% inches. 



1 ^, 1 $, Singapore (types) {Ridley). 4 $, Singapore. 

 1 $ ,1 %, Sarawak. 1 $, Penang {Flower). 1 %, Java. 



Was many years ago wrongly identified in the B. M. as 

 conspcrsa, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep., pi. 98, f. 12, but has. 

 very little resemblance to it ; conspersa is not in the B. M. 



