1880] lepidoptera from formosa. 687 



Palyadid*. 



134. eumelea aureltata. 



Eumelea aureliata, Guene'e, Phal. i. p. 394, pi. 22. fig. 6 (1857). 

 One example. 



AciDALUDiE. 



135. ACIDALIA NESCIARIA. 



' Acidalia nesciaria, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xxii. p. 750 (18G1). 

 One specimen. 



136. Acidalia PERLiNEATA. 



j^cifJalia perlineata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xxiii. p. 775(1861). 



Acidalia eulomatu, Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. 187ii, p. 42, pi. 3. 

 fig. 21. 



Five specimens. 



On the same plate as that on which "A. eulomata " is figured is 

 a representation of a splendid little member of the family Adelidse, 

 described by Herr Snellen as a Simaithis ! (and referred to the family 

 Tineidse ! !) under the name of " Siviathis promihana." Lord "Wal- 

 singham has called my attention to the fact that this supposed new 

 species is nothing more nor less than Badera prodigilla of Walker, 

 Lep. Het. Suppl. v. p. 1820 (1866), referred by the latter author 

 to its proper family and well described as follows : — " Cuprea, 

 micans ; caput viride, subtus pallide ochraceum ; alee anticce striyis 

 tribus basalibus viridibiis, secunda arcuata, dimidio exteriore 

 purpurea ,: poftticcB villa Uneaqve abbremala pallide ochraceis." 

 The locality of the type is in both cases Java. 



"Whether the description in the Tijdschrift is more complete 

 than Walker's I cannot say, since the figure is unmistakable, and 

 the description occupies two entire pages ; but it seems strange that 

 the long antennae of the species never suggested the family Ade- 

 lidee to Herr Snellen, and that in penning his minute description 

 no thought of Walker's concise diagnosis ever flashed across his 

 brain. 



137. Acidalia REPLETARiA ? 



Acidalia repletaria. Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xxiii. p. 778 (1861). 

 One specimen apparently referable to this Australian species. 



138. TiMANDRA AVENTIARIA. 



Timandra afentiaria,Gue:ttie, Phal. ii. p. 3 (1857). 

 A specimen of this Australian species. 



139. ZaNCLOPTERYX FRAGILIS, sp. n. 



Small for the genus. Snow-white : wings semitransparent, with 

 minute black marginal dots connected by a very slender crenulate 

 dusky marginal line ; a continuous irregularly sinuated discal 

 testaceous line : primaries with a second testaceous line across the 



