Species of Eastern Tleterocera. 151 



wings is very uniform dark oclireous, covered with very 

 minute iridescent white scales, and on the middle of the fore 

 wings a ^qw black atoms ; a strai^-Jit dark orange line runs 

 from below the middle of the abdominal margin of the hind 

 wings to near the falcated apex of the fore wings (obsolete 

 on the whitish portion of the hind wings) ; an indistinct 

 indication of a dentated orange submarginal line on both 

 wings and dark marginal line and cilia. Underside of a 

 uniform pale orange ochreous, without any markings. 



Expanse of wings 1^ inch. 



Matang, Borneo {She[ford). 



Antennse bipectinate, the branches short. 



Family Limacodidse. 

 Parasa insi'gm's, nov. 



c? ? . Of a uniform dark bright chocolate-colour ; a pale 

 spot on the palpi above near the tip ; a green spot behind 

 tlie base of each antenna ; a green antemedial transverse 

 band on the fore wings from before the middle of the hinder 

 margin to the middle of the costa, narrow and broken in the 

 male, broad and unbroken in the female, and somewhat ex- 

 panded on the costa. Underside of the same uniform dark 

 bright chocolate-colour ; a whitish space on the basal half of 

 the hinder margin of fore wings ; legs with pale spots. The 

 female is paler chocolate than the male, the hind wings and 

 the underside considerably paler. 



Expanse of wings, ^J 1 j-^, ? 2 inches. 



(^ ? , Borneo, 1904 {She/ford) (types). 



1 (?, Borneo, 1904 (She/ford). 



1 ? , Kuching, Borneo, 1902 {Shelford). 



Belongs to the lepida group. 



Family LymantriidEe. 

 Euproctis dirtea, nov. 



($ . Antennae, palpi, head, thorax^ and fore wings dark 

 dull greyish ochreous ; pali)i brown above ; shaft of antenuEe 

 brown, a white spot at the base on each side : fore wings 

 irrorated with black atoms ; a prominent black spot at the 

 end of the cell ; two dark grey, transverse, even bands, ante- 

 medial much outwardly curved, the other discal and very 

 slightly curved ; a concolorous cilia with grey patches : hind 

 wings dull yellow ; the abdominal area broadly brownish ; 

 abdomen brownish black ; anal tuft dull yellow. Underside 



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