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Tiphia punctifrons, sp. nov. 

 Black, the antennae, tegulas, four anterior legs, except the coxae 

 and the mandihles, except at the base and apex, red ; wings hyahne, 

 the stigma large, black, the costa and nervures testaceous ; metanotum 

 with three keels, and one on the basal half between the outer and 

 central. Front strongly punctured, the punctures clearly separated ; 

 the face and clypeus opaque, more closely and finely punctured. Basal 

 abscissa of radius roundly, broadly curved, longer than the second ; 

 the second recurrent nervure interstitial, the first received distinctly 

 beyond the middle of the cellule. ^ . Length, 4 mm. 



Kuching, Borneo (John Hewitt, B.A.). 



Sides of front punctured, but not so strongly as the apex ; the 

 centre above and the vertex smooth ; the temples punctured. There 

 is a crenulated border on the base of the mesonotum behind the keel ; 

 the rest of it and the scutellum smooth, except for some scattered 

 punctures. The upper part of the propleurae at the base narrowly, 

 the lower broadly longitudinally striated. Mesopleurae with scattered 

 punctures. Metapleuroe longitudinally distinctly aciculated, the apical 

 half from shortly behind the middle longitudinally striated. Apical 

 half of abdomen opaque, densely covered with fuscous pubescence. 

 Apex of clypeus slightly incised. 



Allied to T. horneana, Cam., which may be known by the 

 black four anterior femora, black alar nervures, longer first ab- 

 scissa of radius, the second recurrent nervure not interstitial, 

 &c. For a synopsis of the Bornean species of Tiphia, see my 

 paper in the * Entomologist,' 1907, pp. 288-289. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEAV LASIOCAMPID MOTH ' 

 FROM TURKESTAN. 



By Oscar John (St. Petersburg, Russia). 



(Plate V.) 



Epicnaptera alice, nov. sp. 

 Male. Head, collar, patagia and thorax thickly and evenly 

 covered with woolly, mouse-coloured hair. Palpi bushy, of a darker 

 hue, forming together with the hair of the frons a muzzle-like pro- 

 minence. Antennae pectinate, yellowish brown. Abdomen dorsally 

 in its proximal part haired as the thorax, distally, on the sides and 

 on the under side covered with short ochreous hair. Legs mouse- 

 grey, woolly-haired. Wings of the typical form, external margin 

 even, hind wings undulated near apex only. General colour of 

 fore wings same as of thorax, with a brownish tinge in the middle 

 area. The pattern is much the same as in the other species of the 

 genus, the inner and elbowed lines consisting of dark-brown dots. 

 Stigma in cell distinct, dark brown. The pale subterminal fine 

 suffused, running straight from costal to inner margin and bordered 

 outwardly with a dark shade. Hind wings of the saine ground 



