1888.] lepidoptera of christmas island. 545 



5. Terias patruelis. 



c? . Terias patruelis, Moore, Journ. Linn. See, Zool. vol. xxii. 

 p. 46, pi. iv. fig. 5. 



$ . Slightly paler above than the male ; the inner edges of the 

 black-brown border of primaries slightly diffused ; expanse of wings 

 38 millim. 



2. Christmas Island, October 1st. 



Dr. Anderson collected males on Elphinstone and Pataw Islands, 

 Mergui Archipelago ; the species, however, seems to be widely dis- 

 tributed, as we have received it (only differing in being a little smaller) 

 from Bombay and Mhow. 



HETEROCERA. 



LiPARIDiE. 



6. PORTHESIA IRRORATA? 



2. Euproctis irrorata, Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. Comp. ii. p. 347 

 (1858-9). 



c? . Christmas Island, 2nd October. 



Only one worn specimen was obtained ; it is probably the male 

 of Moore's species : the primaries are irrorated beyond the middle 

 with brown (not with black) scales. For a Porthesia it has unusually 

 large antennae and rather more prominent eyes. 



Herminiid^. 



7. Hydrillodes, sp. n. 



Probably a new species, with palpi as in H. gravatalis {Bocana 

 gravatalis. Walk.) of Borneo ; the example is very badly rubbed, but 

 enough colour remains to show that the basal half of the secondaries 

 below is ochreous, that these wings also have only one band across 

 the disk, and that all the wings have a blackish discccellular spot. 



No exact locality given. 



Eudragana, gen. nov. 



Nearer to Dragana than to anything known to me ; but differing 

 in its narrower smoother palpi, which are directed obliquely upward 

 and have a pointed terminal joint ; the thorax flatter ; the head not 

 crested in front, the antennae longer ; neuration similar. 



8. Eudragana limbata, sp. n. 



5 . General coloration of Dragana pansalis, rather less ocbraceous ; 

 primaries whity brown, slightly inclining to yellowish, with an in- 

 ternally irregularly trisinuated greyish external border edged with 

 black ; a marginal series of black dots ; orbicular spot punctiform, 

 black, interrupting a zigzag grey line which limits the basal area ; 

 reniform spot represented by a black annulus, interrupting a central 

 zigzag band formed by two approximated greyish stripes ; fringe 

 shining whity brown ; secondaries shining pale whity brown, with 

 a broad internally diffused grey outer border ; fringe yellowish as in 



