NEW SPECIES OF HETEROCERA FROM FORMOSA. 319 
broad, the second and third narrow and near together, the fourth 
narrow and close to the fifth, which is broad and ‘completely girdles 
the abdomen. Fore wings black with bluish sheen ; hyaline spots 
nine in number, placed as follows: one subbasal, almost round; three 
median, the central one small; five postmedial, the central one 
minute. Hind wings black with bluish sheen; two hyaline spots 
each traversed by a black vein, that nearest base tinged with orange 
on the dorsal area. Under side agrees with the upper side, but the 
dorsum is more orange. 
Expanse, 48 millim. 
Collection number, 1867. 
One female specimen from Karapin (3000 ft.), June, 1908. 
Comes nearest to A. dichotoma, Leech. 
Noctvuip®. 
Metemene hampsoni, sp. n. 
3. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown. Fore wings pale 
brown; antemedial and postmedial lines indicated by series of black 
dots, the first inwardly oblique and the second strongly excurved ; 
discoidal dot black; costa beyond postmedial line whitish dotted with 
black ; fringes whitish dotted with black at apex, middle, and tornus, 
and preceded by a series of smaller black dots. Hind wings fuscous, 
dorsal area paler, a black dot at tornus; terminal dots black, fringes 
pale brown. Under side fuscous; fore wings without transverse 
series of black dots; hind wings with black discoidal dot and curved 
line beyond. 
Expanse, &, 20 millim.; 2, 28 millim. 
Collection number, 679. 
A male specimen from Kanshirei (1000 ft.), April 16th, 1906; 
and a female from Arizan (7300 ft.), August 18th, 1908. 
Parallelia takaoensis, sp. n. 
?. Head brownish, thorax brownish slightly mixed with grey, 
abdomen brownish grey. Fore wings pale grey, violet tinged, clouded 
with brownish grey; subbasal line blackish, outwardly pale edged, 
not extending below median nervule; antemedial line blackish, 
slightly oblique; postmedial line blackish, outwardly oblique from 
costa to vein 7 where it is sharply angled, thence slightly incurved 
to dorsum, broadly shaded on each side with brown; subterminal 
line pale, bluntly serrate, on apical area somewhat obscured by a 
short black indented line from apex. Hind wings fuscous grey, 
traces of pale medial and postmedial lines. Under side grey suffused 
with fuscous, except on termen of all the wings; a dusky, almost 
straight, medial line and a pale subterminal line on fore wings; a 
dusky discoidal dot and two curved and wavy lines beyond, also a 
pale wavy subterminal line on hind wings. 
Expanse, 42 millim, 
Collection number, 167 a. 
A female specimen from Takao, August 22nd, 1904. 
