Muths in the Joicey Collection. ISO 



I/inil iritif/ :il)()ve witli tlie oraiio^e markiiifjs entirely brij^lit 

 red, at most with a lew orange scales in middle of anterior 

 niarj^in of central band ; beneath brij^iiter red than in the 

 otiier forms, scarcely irrorated and not clonded with pnrph*- 

 fuscons, not mixed with yellow between M- and abdominal 

 UKir'jin ; basiil area, on the other hand, j^old-yellow. 



Snva, \'iti Levu {If'uudjonl), type. New Hebrides. 



Family Geometridae. 

 Subfamily SrERnntN^. 



37. Scapula hesycha, sp. n. 

 (J . — 27 mm. 



Face black-brown. Vertex whitish, narrowly black-edged 

 behind. Antennal joints scarcely projecting, ciliation 

 scarcely longer than diameter of shaft. Collar ochreous. 

 Thorax and alxlomon concolorons with wings. Hind tarsus 

 well under one-half the length of tibia. Wings shaped 

 nearly as in delituta, Prout, the bend at R3 of hind wing 

 slightly more noticeable. 



Fore wing slightly more brownish than in delilaia, the 

 irroration being equally fine and close but slightly darker ; 

 markings as in delilaia, but slightly less weak, the Avliitish 

 subterminal line standing out rather more sharply, a little 

 recalling that of bifulsaria. Front ; terminal dots even more 

 minute than in delilaia, only discernible in anterior part or 

 •wholly wanting ; fringe not irrorated. 



Hind icinf/ with corresponding markings ; termiual dots 

 ■wanting. 



Fore wing beneath with rather strong reddish-smoky 

 sullusions in and beyond cell, leaving tlie posterior and 

 distal areas pale, the costal edge narrowly^ ochreous; cell-dot 

 present; median shade weak; postmedian line well deve- 

 loped; a fine termiual line. Hind wing beneath whiter; 

 cell-dot minute, scarcely noticeable; postmedian line faint; 

 terminal line obsolescent, except as interncural dots. 



Chang Vang, Central China, June 1888 {A. E. Pratt), 

 type in roll. Joicey ; paratypes, June and July, in coll. Brit. 

 iVlus. Moupin, W. China, June 18U0 {Kricheldurjf), a 

 rather larger, rather more brownish ? , in coll. Joicey. 



Nearest delilaia, but with shorter hind tarsus and antennal 

 ciliation. 



38. Scapula scialopfiia, sp. n. 

 S .—22 mm. 



Closely like the less variegated forms oi Jibulata, Gueu. 



