62 Mr. A. G. Butler on new Species of 



lake-red with a vitreous central pupil and brownish margin ; 

 an undulated lake-red band bordered on each side by saffron- 

 yellow stripes immediately beyond the central band, and 

 followed by the external third, which is dull lake-red traversed 

 by an ill-defined and interrupted series of bright yellow and 

 grey spots ; an apical, costal, whitish cinereous nebula ; fringe 

 saffron-yellow towards the external angle : secondaries bright 

 gamboge-yellow, paler towards the costal margin ; a lake-red 

 patch at basal third of abdominal border, followed by an ab- 

 breviated purplish-red band from the same border to the 

 ocellus, which it encircles; the ocellus pale cinereous with 

 vitreous pupil ; an undulated arched purplish-brown line just 

 beyond the middle ; an abbreviated arched discal series of 

 lake-red spots, partly connected in the centre and not reaching 

 the costa ; an abbreviated submarginal series of blackish 

 dots : body laky reddish ; head yellow ; collar, centre of 

 thorax, and sides of abdomen pink. Wings below yellow, 

 clouded with gravel-yellow ; the ocelli lilacine, with reddish- 

 edged vitreous pupils ; a purplish-edged continuous undulated 

 discal line ; a submarginal series of slaty grey and purple 

 spots partly bordered with yellow ; apical areas sprinkled with 

 white scales ; a subbasal sinuated purplish and lake-red line : 

 pectus ochraceous, with bright ochreous legs ; abdomen pinky 

 greyish. Expanse of wings 3 inches 11 lines. 



Borneo. Type Brit. Mus. 



This pretty little species has unusually acuminated prima- 

 ries ; the coloration is much like that of the genus Loepa. 



Lasiocampidae. 



2. Brahmcea rufescens, sp. n. 



Nearest to B. Wallichii, but larger, rather paler in colour, 

 with all the wavy black lines on the primaries above more 

 slender and consequently wider apart, the central belt con- 

 siderably narrower, especially in the centre, with more slender 

 black border ; the black spots on the veins fewer in number ; 

 the circular nut-like patch which terminates the band on the 

 internal area broadly suffused with white, and with only two 

 or three black spots upon it ; the broad subapical area half as 

 wide again, more uniform in tint, the white crescents upon it 

 very indistinct ; subapical black patch trifid ; other submar- 

 ginal spots wider, more uniform in tint, united along their 

 external (i. e. their basal) margins ; external border greyer, 

 more like that of B. conchifera : secondaries with narrower 

 basal blackish area, the pale reddish streaks almost as nume- 

 rous as in B. Whifei, the pale central band widening towards 



