Species of Iriflo' Malayan Lepidoptera. 



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Family CatocalidaB. 

 Attatha flavata, nov. 



$ . Head and body yellow ; collar black ; a bi-oad black 

 batid across tlie middle of tlie thorax ; a square black patch 

 at the base of the abdomen : fore wings bright yellow ; a short 

 black streak from tlie base ; a lung bhick streak on the 

 liinder margin, not reaching tlie base nor the hinder angle; a 

 black band from the middle of the costa, narrowins: hindwards 

 to near the hinder angle, and a triangular black patch from 

 the costa near tiie apex, much as in A. ref/alis, Moore, from 

 India ; four black sj)ots on the lower portion of the outer 

 margin : hind wing paler yellow, with a marginal series of 

 small black spots. Underside dull yellow, quite unitbrm in 

 colour ; a rather large, quadrate, blackish patch at the end of 

 the c>'dl ; small black marginal spots on the hind wniig. 



Expanse of wings, ? , Ij^^- inch. 



JJah. i\ranilla ; two examples received from Herr Semper 

 as A\JIavata, Semper ined., but has never been published. 



Altatlia coccinea, nov. 



? . A larger insect than _y7afa^a ; head and thorax yellow ; 

 frons black ; collar, middle band across thorax, and patch at 

 base of abdomen black as in flavata ; abdomen scarlet : fore 

 wing bright yellow, the bands and streaks as in flavata; the 

 apical patch not excavated on its outer side as in regnlis^ the 

 central band narrower : hind wing scarlet, marginal spots 

 small and black. Underside : both wings and body and 

 legs uniform scarlet ; fore wiiig with a dark black patch at 

 end of cell as \\\ flavata, but bhicker, no black patch in the 

 middle of the outer maigin as in regali-f, one black spot at 

 the end of vein 3, and a series of black spots on the outer 

 margin of the hind wing ; the subterminal large black spot 

 in ri-gulis near the anal angle on the uppeiside not present. 



Expanse of wings, $ , Ij-^^ inch. 



Ilab. Luzon {Semper). 



Family Stictopteridae. 

 Stidoptera poliafa, nov. 



? . Head, body, and fore wings dark grey, covered with 

 blackish irrorations,whichareuniformly distributed throughout 

 the fore wings except in the middle of the wing, through which 

 there is a prominent black thick line, uniform, and evenly 

 outwardly curved, marginal points black : hind wings with 



