Species of Indo-Malarjan Lepidoptera, 341 



Bombay, Nilj2;iri Hills, and the Kliasia Hills — all apparently 

 ideTitical ; wlictlier the examination ol: the genitalia will bear 

 this out remains to be ])i'Ovecl. 



Osericana alhisfella. 



Osericana alhisfella, Walker, xxxiv. 1214 (1865). 



Pinncin pupi'Ualis, SaeWeu, Tijd. voor Eut. xxviii. p. 7, pi. i. %. 7 

 (1885). 



Jlah. Sumatra. 



Both types are from Sumatra, 1 have also a pair from 

 Nias. The fore wing of the male is much paler than that of 

 the female, the hind wing of both sexes very pale in colour. 



Osericana alhistella trypheropa, nov.i 



^ ? . Both wings of a uniform purplish grey, tlie hind 

 wing perhaps a shade lighter in colour than the fore wing, 

 the pectinations of the long anternise more robust than iu 

 alhistella, the markings similar. 



Expanse of wings, (^ ? , 1y*jj inch. 



Uab. Palawan, Piiilippines ; 1 (J , 3 ? . 



Osericana alhistella sijnti/pistls^ nov. 



J ? . Uniformly smaller than either of the foregoing 

 forms ; the colour of the hind wing about the same as in 

 trypheropa, the colour of the fore wing very much darlier; 

 the abdomen with more greyish suffusion, the yeilow anal 

 tuft entirely black on the n[)persi(le ; in the other two forma 

 there are only a few blackish liairs. 



Expanse of wings, ^ 1tV» ? iA-lyF i"ch. 



Hub. Lawang, E. Java; 1 c? , 4 $ . 



Simplicia schaldusalis. 



Bocana schaldusalis, Walker, xvi. 180 (1858). 



Culicula himarcjinaia, Walker, Joiun. Linn. Soc. vii. p. 178 (1865). 

 Simplicia infaiista, Felder, Reise Nov., Lep. pi. cxx. fi<,r. 45 (1873). 

 Nahartha marginata, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, iii. p. 234, pi. clxxvii. fig. 2 



(1885). 

 Simplicia griseolitnhalis, Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. xxix. p. 47, pi. ii. fig. 4 



(1886). 



Hah. Walker's and Fehler's types are from Sarawak, 

 Borneo, Moore's from Ceylon, and Snellen's from Sumatra. 

 It appeals to be a very widely spread form ; I have it also 

 from the Solomons and from Obi Island in the Moluccas, 

 and without examining the genitalia I can find no difference 

 between them. 



