Eastern ami Aiistruliiiu Ileterocera. 415 



brown on the outer sides ; froiis with a large pule brown spot 

 and sonic similar spots on tlie thorax; abdomen pale red- 

 grey, markings on the win<fs of the same colour: fore win^s 

 Avith a dark streak from the base, the basal two thirds mostly 

 red-grey; an outwardly oblique whitish band from the eosta 

 betbre the middle, narrowing downwards lor two thirds ; a 

 largo discal spot from the costa, angled on its outer side and 

 narrowing downwards to near the hinder margin, margined 

 with dark brown, the outer dark margin thickened at the 

 costa ; a nearly straight line running close alongside it, 

 followed by a similar line ; a rather thick, subtnarginal, 

 straight band : hind wings whitish, witii the marginal lines 

 as in the fore wino;,-:, forminu- a marii-inal band ; cilia of botli 

 vvuigs dark brown. 



Expanse of wings ly"o inch. 



Samoa Island ; one example. 



A Polynesian form of M. nuralis, Felder. 



Sub fa m i 1 y PiiXA ciixje . 



Eporidia phani iusalis. 



Iiof,/s ))Ju/-um''ul:'g, Walker, xviii. 684 (1859). 



C'/t'ireiih( s.abripeanis, WdiTeu, Au.i. & .Mag. Xat. Hist. ((5) .xvii. p. 131 



Phryyanodcs imbecilis, Hmpsu. (part.). Moths ladia, iv. p. 303 (1896). 



Khasia Hdls; many examples. 



Walker's type from vSarawak is in Mus. Oxon., Warren's 

 type horn the Khasia Hdls in Coll. Rothschild. I have 

 compared the Khasia-Hill examples with Walker's type, 

 ilampson sinks scahripennis to imbecilis^ Moore (8ikkim), 

 but I cannot agree with him : phceniasalis is a well-marked 

 dark brown insect, imbecilis is pale and has hardly any 

 markings visible; I have several from Sikkim in my own 

 colkction. 



Subfamily Pteaustinm. 

 Loxoneptera albicostalisj no v. 



(J . Fore wings shorter than iu L. carnealis *, Hmpsn., 

 from Sikkim and Assam ; coloration of the whole insect very 

 similar, but the fore wings have the costa white, only some 

 slio-ht suffusion towards the end of the cell instead of the two 

 black spots, and there are no blackish lines on the veins, and 

 the curved tuft of hairs on the hinder margin near the angle 



* Moths ludia, iv. p. -406 (tig.). 



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