80 Colonel C. Swinhoe on neio 



Chalciope saina, no v. 



<$ . Antennae and palpi grey-brown, the latter black at the 

 sides; face and pectus greyish ochreous, the latter with a 

 black stripe on each side ; legs ochreous grey marked with 

 black ; head, body, and wings ochreous brown : fore wing 

 with the inner portion filled in by a very large black elongated 

 triangular patch, edged with whitish, its upper and lower 

 sides almost straight, its outer edge slightly evenly inwardly 

 curved, leaving the margins narrow, its upper point very acute 

 and nearer the apex than it is even in C. cephise of Cramer ; 

 an oblique narrow white band through its middle, open at 

 both ends, the ends slightly irrorated with brown, some black 

 points on the outer white lining of the black patch, the outer 

 margin brown ; the cilia brown with a pale inner line; some 

 whitish suffusion on the hinder margin : hind wing dark 

 brown ; a faint, narrow, grey band not nearly reaching either 

 the costa or the hinder angle, where there is a little pale 

 suffusion; cilia grey. 



Expanse of wings, $ , 2^ inches. 



Hub. Nias. 



Allied to nothing I know of; the largest species of the 

 genus I have yet seen. 



Hypcetra minima, no v. 



? . Palpi dark brown at the sides, whitish beneath, the 

 tips of last joints white ; head, body, and fore wing uniform 

 chocolate-brown : fore wing with a deep black subbasal 

 quadrjiie patch with pale edgings close to the hinder margin, , 

 excavated on its upper and lower sides, a brownish patch 

 between it and the costa ; a curious hook-shaped deep black 

 mark at the end of the cell, its upper part thickened and 

 quadrate, a brownish patch between it and the costa, another 

 brownish patch on the costa before the apex, and a small one 

 at the apex ; a series of minute black dots on the outer 

 margin : hind wing chocolate-grey, a little paler basally, no 

 markings; cilia of fore wing pale chocolate-brown, of the 

 hind wing slightly paler than the wing-colour, two whitish 

 subapical spots on it and another at the hinder angle. Un- 

 derside : fore wing greyish brown, hinder margin white, 

 cilia grey : hind wing pale greyish brown, the outer margin 

 broadly darker, cilia white, greyish at the tips. 



Expanse of wings, ? , l^y inch. 



Hab. Luzon, Philippines. 



