044 Colonel C. Swinhoe on 



Cemis HoLOSTiXA, nov. 



Antennie simple, nearly as long as the costa of fore-wings, palpi 

 npturned reaching vertex of head, second joint hairy, third smooth, 

 nearly as long as second : abdomen slender as long as the hind-wings, 

 legs long, fore-tibioe coveied with double plumes of closely packed 

 hair, hind-tibite with very long liairs, fore-wings with the costa 

 nearly straight, outer margin in the male produced into an angle 

 at vein 5, then very oblique, making the hinder margin not more 

 than two-thirds the length of the costa : hind-wings with the costa 

 folded inwards and distorted a little beyond the middle, the fold con- 

 taining long cilia causing the apex to be very acute and pointed, 

 outer margin slightly rounded ; in the female the outer margin is 

 slightly rounded on both wings, the margin not being produced at 

 vein 5 and tlie costa of the hind-wings is not distorted : fore-wings 

 with vein 3 some distance before lower angle, 4 from the angle, 5 

 fnjm a little above centre, 7, 8 and 9 stalked from before upper 

 angle ; hind-wing with vein 3 from before upper angle, 5 from just 

 above nuddle, bent in tlie middle in the male, 6 and 7 I'rom before 

 upper angle, veins 7 and 8 terminating in the fold. 



HOLOSTIXA MANGA, nov. 



^ 5 • Milky white, fore-wings with the costa rather broadly 

 greyish ochreous, and with a greyish ochreous inner band curving 

 outwardly, from the hinder margin near the base, to the costa near 

 the middle, both wings with a black spot at the end of each cell, 

 a broad greyish ochreous nearly straight band from the abdominal 

 margin one-fourth from anal angle, to the costa of fore- wings one- 

 fifth from apex, a similar but thinner marginal band ; cilia wliite 

 and glazed ; the long hairs on the hind-tibia) of the male ochreous. 



Expanse of wings (^ li\, ? Ifu inches. 



JUab. Baram, Borneo; Matang, Borneo. 

 Genus Aspilonaxa, Warr., Nov. Zool., iv, p. 380 (1897). 



ASFILONAXA OKLIQUAUIA. 



Naxa oUiquaria, Leech, Ann. ]\[ag. N. II. (6), xix, 



p. 546 (1897). 

 Aspilonaxa lineata, Warr., 1. c, p. 387. 



Type, Omeisban in B. M. 



Type (lineata^), Omeishan in coll. Rothschild. 



