202 On the ‘Challenger ’ Lepidoptera. 
Palyade. 
69. Humelea rosalia. 
Phalena Geometra rosalia, Cramer, Pap. Exot.iv. p. 152, pl. ceclxviii. 
F (1782). 
Ké Dulan, 25th September, 1874. 
70. Humelea ludovicata. 
Eumelea ludovicata, Guénée, Phal. i. p. 393. 
Amboina. 
Acontiide. 
71. Xanthodes transversa. 
Xanthodes transversa, Guénée, Noct. ii. p. 211 (1852). 
Xanthodes intercepta, Walker (nec Guénée), Cat. Lep. Het. xii. p. 778 
(1857). 
Ké Dulan, 25th September, 1874. 
Walker transposed X. transversa and intercepta in his 
‘ Catalogue.’ 
Hypopyride. 
72. Spiramia funestis, sp. n. 
¢. Nearest to 8S. spiralis; velvety fuliginous brown, 
paler beyond the middle and at the base of the primaries, the 
pale area being bounded by an elbowed black stripe; two 
ill-defined blackish diffused discal stripes, the inner one sepa- 
rating the dark and pale areas, sinuous on the primaries and 
regularly undulated but straight and central on the secon- 
daries, the outer one bounding the external area, terminating 
before the apex of the primaries in an oblique angle and 
barely visible upon the secondaries ; the usual spiral ocelloid 
marking with the spot unusually small and less black than 
usual; external area slightly greyish, fringe whitish: prima- 
ries with a submarginal series of black dots: thorax as usual, 
brown varied with black ; abdomen velvety black, with the 
two terminal segments vermilion. Wings below smoky brown 
with pale fringe; the primaries crossed beyond the middle 
and the secondaries in the middle by two parallel dusky stripes, 
slightly inangled towards the costal margin of primaries and 
arched on the secondaries: body below vermilion ; tibiz and 
tarsi brown; anus pale ochreous. Expanse of wings 71 
millim. 
3g. Amboina. 
