144 Colunel C. Swinhoe on New species of 



Family LYMAN TRIID^. 

 Genus Stracena, Swinli., Trans. Ent. Soc, 1893, p. 388. 

 Stracena fuscivena. 



Stracena fuscivcna, Swinh., 1. c. 



1 $y Aslianti. 4 $, Sapele, River Niger, including the 

 type. 1 ?, Old Calabar. 



The male has the thorax and fore-wings darker than tlie female 

 and more purplish-grey, the hind-wings are white as in the female, 

 the veins in both wings prominent and better clothed than in the 

 female, the wings below are white, the fore-wings with grey apical 

 patch and some grey siiffusion, narrowly on the outer margin^ the 

 abdomen has three rings at the anal end above. 



Expanse of wings \{^ inches. 



EUPROCTIS LYCLENE, nOV. 



$ . Pure white, frons with some grey hairs, legs striped with 

 grey, fore-wings with a black spot at the end of the cell, followed 

 by a black line, elbowed outwardly in its middle, extending from 

 costa near apex to the hinder margin a little beyond the middle, 

 where it ends in a small black spot, and is followed by an outwardly 

 oblique, very short black line ; no other markings ; under-side pure 

 white without any markings. 



Expanse of wings ^"^ inch. 



Kuching, Borneo, May 1000 {R. S/wIford). 

 Dasychira hieroglyphica, nov. 



5 . Head ochreous-grey, body and wings dark brown, fore-wings 

 with a brown mark above the hinder margin near the base, a large 

 dull green space in the middle of the wing, marked with white and 

 limited by a black line with white edgings, running down in dentated 

 form from the costa one-fifth from apex to the hinder margin a little 

 beyond the middle, then curved and runs upwards, sinuous but 

 without teeth to near the costa, then bends inwards and on to the 

 costa a fifth from the base, there are some brown marks in this 

 patch, and a whitish space on the inner-side of it ; an indistinct, 

 submarginal sinuous line, black marginal lunules marked outwardly 

 with wliitish-ochreous, and a line of that colour at the base of the 

 blackish-brown cilia, also tlnce or four black streaks inwardly from 

 the margin ; hind-wings without marks, but with a whitish-ochreous 



