220 NOCTUID MOTHS 



Ophiderinae, but the position of the vein is more as in the 

 Erastrianac. T'erhaps most nearly allied to Toana Wlkr., 

 Spec. Ijep. Ins., xxxii, p. 500, 1865. 

 Type engenes sp. n. 



15. TOANOPSIS ENGENES Sp. H. 



cT 24 mm. 



Head and thorax dark brown shaded with dull red ; abdomen 

 jjreyish-fuscous. Win<?s dull brownish-ied irrorated with 

 fuscous. Fore wing with the costa broadly fuscous and with 

 antemedial, medial and postmedial diffused blackish lines, 

 the two former more or less straight, the postmedial broadly 

 excurved round the cell, strongly bent inward in fold and 

 bent outward to hind mar2|-in ; a slifrht pale terminal line, 

 broadening to spots at the veins and preceded by slight black 

 lunules between the veins ; orbicular represented by a black 

 dot, reniform by a black lunule; all markings very obscure. 

 Hind wing reproducing fore wing pattern, except for absence 

 of dark costal shade and antemedial line : the postmedial line 

 curved throughout. Fore wing beneath brown-fuscous, with 

 slight dark discal spot and medial shade, a rather stronger, 

 minutely waved postmedial line and four or five pale spots 

 beyoiid it on costa. Hind wing much paler, with dark 

 cell-spot and waved postmedial line. Termen of both wings 

 and fringes as above. 



Mt. Penrissen, 3500 feet— 1 cT- 



16. Caumara subcbrvtna Wlkr. 



Carmara subcervina Wlkr., Journ. Linn. Sor. Zool. . vii, p. 63, 1864, 

 Sarawak. 



Mt. Murud, without exact elevation, November — 2 9 ; Mt. 

 Dulit, 8000 feet— 2$ ; Mt. Poi. 5000 feet— 2 gT^ "L? ; 4500 

 feet— 1 cf ; 4350 feet— 1 9 ; 4300 f eet— 1 o" ; 2000 feet— 1 9 . 



A widely distributed species, though not abundant ; recorded 

 from Ceylon, Borneo, Mysol, New Guinea and Queensland; 

 represented in Coll. Joicey also from Rossel and Sudest Islands. 

 Does not seem to show any strong racial variation. 



17. Oruza dasycara sp. n. 



9 29 mm. 



Palpus with segment 2 somewhat thickly scaled, segment 

 3 long (not very much shorter than 2) and densely scaled, 

 somewhat dilated towards extremity ; frons with a long tuft 

 of hair above. 



