Indo-Malayan Species of Lepidoptera. 165 



of spots at tlie base ; a patch on the costa before the middle, 

 an ang-iilated large costal patch beyond the middle, and two 

 towards the apex, the first two patches more or less connected 

 with macular bands running outwards, the subapical spot 

 connected with a macular band curving inwards ; many con- 

 nected spots and patches on the outer third of the vving, all 

 these marks very difficult to describe : hind wing with a discal 

 outwardly curved row of well-separated small spots, three 

 short bands of conjoined spots on the lower part of the abdo- 

 minal margin, and a series of marginal spots — all these 

 marks pale black ; the wings are very lightly clothed, and 

 consequently the markings of the underside are identical with 

 the markings on the upperside. 



Expanse of wings, ^ , 1| inch. 



Hah. Kiayih, Central Formosa. 



Family PyralidsB. 

 Subfamily PrsArsTiNja. 

 Trichoptychodes delicata. 



Trichoptychodes delicata, Swinhoe, Ann. & Mag. Xat. Hist. (6) xiv. 



p. 207 (1894). 

 Mucm-et(Bra hesperis, Hampson (nee Meyrick), Moths of India, iv. 



p. 296 (fig.) (1896). 



Hah. Assam. 



A common species in the Kiiasia Hills. I j)ave received 

 many examples from my native collector, all males. Sir 

 George Hampson has sunk my genus and species to Meyrick's 

 genus and species from Fiji, the unique type of which is a 

 female, but he has described and figured the Assam male. 

 It is impossible to believe that the two forms so many 

 tliousands of miles apart can have any connection with each 

 othei', and it is not scientifically justifiable to jump to sucii a 

 conclusion on account of a similarity of pattern. 



Heterocuejjhes cegialis, nov. 



(^ . Allied to H. scapulalis, Led., of which I have a long 

 series from New Guinea and from Goodenough Island, but is 

 much larger ; palpi and top of head pale ochreous ; head, 

 body, and wings ciiocolate-brown, much as in H. scapulalis 

 and H lymphatalis, Swinhoe, from Assam, of which I have 

 also a long series ; thorax with four longitudinal whitish 

 stripes ; abdomen with ill-defined whitish segmental bands, 

 anal tuft large, black : fore wing with a small, triangular, 

 pale ochreous costal patch before the middle and another 



