BY MISS A. E. PROUT. 491 



We are indebted to tlie kindness of Mr. Bethune Baker 

 for the loan of the types of purpurea and funerea, which 

 has made possible the above study in nomenclature and 

 synonomy. As I have not had access to any cT from Burn 

 or from any of the Moluccas, it is impossible to say whether 

 there is any racial difference between Moluccan and New 

 Guinea specimens, but. judging- from the usual variability of 

 the Hypeninae , such a difference is quite likely to exist, in 

 which case the New Guinea form would stand as albibasaUs 

 funerea Beth. Bak. 



112. ECHANELLA TEMPERATA Sp. n. 



(f , 9 . 33-36 mm. 



(f antenna and palpus much as in albihasalis Holl. ; vertex 

 of head whitish ; thorax and abdomen about as in albihasah's. 

 Fore wino^ without costal fold or hair tuft, cinnamon buff 

 more or less irrorated with warm sepia to just beyond 

 postmedial line ; distal third of winf^ warm sepia crossed by 

 the buff subterminal line and by a sHoht horizontal buff 

 streak about SC^ ; a subbasal dark mark at costa ; a waved 

 dark antemedial line bent outward to fold, strongly angled 

 inward on SM^ ; a broad oblique black discal lunule : post- 

 medial line waved, black, oblique to M^ but angled inward 

 at cell, inwardly oblique to hind margin and strongly angled 

 inward on fold ; subterminal line nearly as in nlbibasalis. 

 Hind icing slightlv paler than in albibasaUs towards apex 

 and at termen, but the rest of the win? more strongly 

 darkened, the posterior third clothed with short blackish 

 androconial hair. Underside of fore wing somewhat bleached- 

 lookino", with slight, oblinue. distal lunules and obliquely 

 curved postmedial line ; these lines are only very weakly 

 indicated above. 



9 • Nearly as in albibasaUs 9 • l^^if with the pale basal 

 patch and subterminal line deeper buff in tone and with 

 rather a stronger postmedial line. 



Sumatra : Barison Rancfe. Western slopes, 2500 feet. 

 October to November, 1921 (C, F. & J. Pratt)— 2 (f : 

 Medan, Februarv (Coll. Le Moult)— 1 9. Also 2 9 in the 

 Mjoberg collections from Mt. Dulit, 3000 feet. Coll. Brit. 

 Mus. has an unnamed 9 from Borneo which probably 

 belongs here. 



