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his experiments. Of M. Oberthiir's descriptions, with the 

 exquisite ilhistrations attached, we can only add that they bring 

 to bear upon the facts corroborative evidence of the highest im- 

 portance. Many of us during our wanderings abroad have col- 

 lected ample material to test for ourselves the accuracy, if not the 

 finality, of these respective conclusions. Our cabinets and store- 

 boxes teem with unnamed or wrongly- named Hesperiidae, whose 

 proper identification we have either shirked altogether, or given 

 up as a hopeless task with the text-books at our disposal. In 

 the long winter evenings, furnished with this new information, 

 we may hope to reduce chaos to order before once more betaking 

 ourselves to the mountains and flowery lowlands which are our 

 own particular happy hunting-grounds across the Channel. 



NEW LEPIDOPTERA-HETEROCERA FROM FORMOSA. 

 By a. E. Wileman, F.E.S. 



(Continued from p. 291.) 



Lymantria uinhrifera, sp. n. 



S^ . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey, the latter with reddish 

 lateral hairs. Fore wings grey, clouded with darker at base and on 

 median third ; transverse lines blackish — subbasal not reaching inner 

 margin ; antemedial undulated, rather broad, especially on the costa ; 

 postmedial slender, wavy, deeply indented opposite end of cell ; sub- 

 marginal wavy, strongly so towards costa ; a black lunule at end of 

 cell, and a black dot in cell near the antemedial line ; a series of black 

 dots on the outer margin, placed between the veins. Hind wings 

 fuscous, darker on the outer marginal area, black dot on the margin. 

 Under side fuscous with a pinkish tinge ; fore wings with blackish 

 discal suffusion ; the hind wings have a black lunule at end of the 

 cell, and traces of two dusky, curved, transverse lines beyond. 



Expanse, 44 millim. 



Collection number, 32 a. 



A male specimen from Rantaizan (7500 ft.), May 14th, 1909. 



Allied to L. serva, Fab. 



Lymantria nebulosa, sp. n. 



^ . Fore wings pale grey, suffused and clouded with darker on 

 outer two-thirds ; subbasal line black, not continued to the inner 

 margin, its upper end merged in a blackish dash on the costa ; ante- 

 medial line black, serrate, slightly oblique, followed by a blackish 

 shade, which reaches the blackish discoidal mark ; a short black bar 

 under the discoidal ; postmedial line sinuous, whitish partly edged 

 with black ; fringes dotted with black. Hind wings fuscous, darker 

 on outer margin ; fringes paler. 



$ . Fore wings whitish, slightly brownish tinged on the costal 

 and inner marginal areas ; subbasal line black, not extending to inner 



