XANTHORHOE. By L, B. Proit. 2ö7 



fication. Turner, inisled by Meyrick's iiiexact estiniato of the antemia oi' xewdes. wlüch lic (Turnkr) had 

 not seen, assumed that he had a separate specics; 1 can sce iio Jiiaterial distiaction hetween the tew specinicns 

 Avhich I have been able to coni])are. Black Rock, ncar ^lelbounie. 



X. anaspila Meyr. (25 i). Palpus and pectinations iiioderate. Hiiidwing with a rathcr ])i()nounced (/««spi/«. 

 eraargination between the radials. Variable in size and in the degree of .suftusion in the median band which 

 i.s slight in the (small) Originals and renders very clear the eharacteristic thirk spot outside the postmedian. 

 Meyrick says this "species has so mueh general resembhuue to sonie Boarmiadac [Geoinetrinae], that it is 

 tlifficult not to infer intentional mimicry"; to me it lo()l<s niiich niore like a iiectinate Horisfnr. New South 

 Wales (type o fii^d $), Victoria and Tasmania. 



X. brujata (?»en. (= repentinata Walk., breviaria Walk.) (^r) k). Variable, especially in size, but easily hrujaUt. 

 known by its shape (hindwing someAvhat crenulate, etc.), its glossy wings, the form of the markings and the 

 structure; face smoother than in true Xanthorhoe, palpus shortish. j pectinations ratlier long. Perhaps the genus 

 Visiana Swinh. (type sordidata) will have to be revived for this group. Superficially hrujata somewhat recalls 

 the nnich less glossy, non-pectinate stellata Guen. of the New World. Widely di.stributed in Australia and com- 

 mon, the type from Tasmania. The 5$, as also in the rest of the "Visiana". are less contrastingly colourcd 

 and marked tlian the oo- 



X. vinosa Warr. {2ö k). ^luch lilce sniallcr ■wnlidala or (in its less angled postmedian, at least on the riiwsci. 

 hindwing) heavily marked and more variegated brujata. Pectinations about as in bnijata. Underside on an 

 average more reddish. The type has the median band of the upperside rather redder and less dark than usual, 

 but most specimens are nearer brujata in this respect. Forewing with out er jjrong of the median band sharp, 

 generally looking single rather than bifid; iiostmedian of hindwing nsually more angled behind the 3rd radial, 

 but variable in both sjaecies. Mountains of British New Guinea, the type from Biagi. — ranensis tiubsp. nov. mnensis. 

 Rather larger, forewing Mith the outer prong of the median band scarcely ko acute, proximal line of hindwing 

 slightly les.s crenulate, its postmedian fairly well incurvetl in jjosterior part. Buru: Rana. type in the Tring 

 Museum. 



X. sordidata Moore (25 k). Except in its large (sometimes very large) size. very similar to the brownest sordidata. 

 and least strongly glossy brujata, but with much more irregulär postmedian line. Generally rather strongly 

 marked, both above and beneath. N. India (the typical form) and from Sumatra to Sambawa. — ab. fuscata juscata. 

 nov. is almost uniformly infuscated, the markings scarcely (on the hindwing not) discernible. with the exception 

 of the white vein-dots or dashes, the forewing slightly browner between the jjostmedian and the subterminal. 

 A o from the Khasis. in the Tring ]\Iuseuni. — robinsotli utibsp. nov.. from Sungei Kumbang. Korintji. W. Su- rohbisom. 

 matra (Robinson and Kloss) diffcrs chiefly in that the antemedian of the forewing is acutely angleil at both 

 folds; usually. moreover. the luiderside shows a rather strong vinaceous finge, especially outside the ijostmedian, 

 where that of s. sordidata is quite pale. The type series is in the Tring IMuseum. - inimica Prout. Smaller hiimica. 

 (36 — 37 mm), darker, much less brown. well marked above. rather weakly beneath. but witli large cell-dots; 

 antemedian line less acutely angled than in robinsoni. ^\'. Bali: Mondoktoempang, 2500 feet. the type o ; E. 

 Java: Nongkodjadjai'. 4000 feet, 2 JJ, somewliat less fresh; all in the Tring Museum, .sent by J. P. A. Kalis. 

 I have a o trom Tosari (E. A. Cockayne). — tamborica suthsp. nov. reverts to the coloration of 5. sordidata or, tamborica. 

 in its tendency to show some vinaceous finge, robinsoni. but is not. or scarcely, larger than inimica (cJ 36 to 

 38 mm. 5 40 mm) and has the cell-dot of the forewing large. broad; the wings, at least in the Q, are slightly 

 broader than in the other forms; antemedian line about as in s. .sordidata. Tambora, Sambawa, 2500—4000 feet 

 3 SS, 2 5$. in fbe Tring Museum. A worn S from Lombok secms to agree. 



X. hyperctenista sp. n. (25 k). Easily knowii from the rest ol' the grouj) b\ its exceptionally long pect- hyperdeni- 

 inations. As dark as inimica, tlie 5$ even approaching .sordidata ab. f/iscata but witli additional median white *"• 



vein-dots and more continuous subterminal line. Forewing with antemedian notably oblique outward from 

 Costa to near cell-dot and with an acute subcostal tooth, postei'iorly oblique inward and denticulate; post- 

 median with the double lobe weak. the white distal edging strengthened at the veins; subterminal, especially 

 in its posterior half, ratlier conspicuous. Hindwing with the jjostmedian as little beut as in brujata, or even 

 less. Both wings beneath with dark suffusion. particularly from the postmedian to near the median. Vulcan 

 Island (the typical series) and Dam])ier Island (a ])air). coilected on Meek's expedition of 1913 1914. 



X. gigantis .s-;;. n. (25 1). Similar to the l/rujata gionj) in the many-lined. JJori.stneAikc pattern of both yigantis. 

 wings, but very ditferent in the ])alpus. which is elongate and heavily clothed with long hair-like scales. and 

 in the less broad wings. the forewing with more oblique termen. the hindwing strongly crenulate: abdomen 

 less robust. Antennal pectinations long, about as in hypcrcti nistis. I'aler and more greyish than the brujata 

 group, the hindwing beneath notably whitened, not (as in them) concolorous with the forewing. Postmedian 



