of Heterocerous Lepidoptera. 89 



Exp. c?l|, ?1^ inch. 



Hah. Shanghai. In coll. "W. B. Piyer and F. Moore. 



Spilosoma eruhescens. 



Female. Upperside pale pinky bufF-colour ; fore wing with 

 two small black spots from hind margin near the angle j hind 

 wing buff-white, broadly suffused with pale crimson on ab- 

 dominal border. Abdomen above crimson, with dorsal and a 

 lateral row of black spots. Underside — fore wing whitish 

 on hind margin, base of costa and middle of wing suffused 

 with crimson ; an indistinct median discal oblique series of 

 dusky spots, and a small spot at end of cell: hind wing 

 broadly suffused with crimson on abdominal border and nar- 

 rowly along base of anterior margin ; a small indistinct dusky 

 spot at end of cell. Front of head, palpi at tip, and pectus 

 dark brown. Antennee, fore and mid legs above, and spots 

 on hind legs black ; fenjora of all the legs, and tuft at side of 

 thorax beneath, crimson. 



Exp. If inch. 



Hah. Shanghai. In coll. W. B. Pryer. 



Alpenus flammeohis. 



Female. Upperside pale purple-tinged ochreous red ; edge 

 of anterior margin and cilia of both wings yellow : fore wing 

 with two median transverse recurved series of brown spots with 

 pale borders, a single similar spot at upper end of cell, two 

 indistinct spots below the apex and one near posterior angle : 

 hind wing with a pale divided spot at end of cell. A dorsal 

 series of small black spots on abdomen. Underside paler ; fore 

 wing showing only the cell-spot, the two spots beloAv the apex, 

 and the hind wing a prominent cell-spot and an indistinct 

 spot near outer margin between the lower median and sub- 

 median veins. Front of head, palpi, legs, and body beneath 

 yellowish. Antennae, tip of palpi, and streaks on fore and 

 middle legs above brown. 



Exp. li inch. 



Hah. Snowy valley. Province Chekiang. In coll. W. B. 

 Pryer. 



Fam. NotodontidaB. 



Cerura menciana. 



U))pcrsidc — fore wing fuliginous grey, veins black ; two 

 small ])lack S])ots at the base, an angular transverse subbasal 

 scries of spots, followed by a contiguous transverse tortuous 



