1892,] LEPIDOPTERA FROM SANDAKAN. 127 



white-edged ; mesothorax buff, speckled with black ; tegulse 

 and metathorax white, spotted and speckled with black ; abdomen 

 whitish with grey dorsal spots : primaries below smoky grey, with 

 dull white inner margin ; costa partly whitish ; an indistinct trans- 

 verse dark postmedian stripe and a subapical pure white spot: 

 secondaries whitish irrorated with grey scales ; a black crescent at 

 end of cell followed by an arched discal grey stripe and a diffused 

 grey external belt which tapers towards anal angle ; body below 

 whitish, palpi brownish, fore and middle tibiae white barred with 

 blackish. Expanse of wings 33 millim. 



A single male example, with slightly damaged abdomen, but 

 otherwise in good condition. 



HOMOPTERID^. 

 HOMOPTERA CRUEGERI. 



Homoptera cruegeri, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 188C,p. 411. n. 51. 

 Evidently a very wide-ranging species. 



Catephiid^. 

 Melipotis cyllaria. 



Phalcena (Nociua) cyllaria, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 251. 

 figs. C, D (1779). 



This species, which varies greatly in the coloration of the 

 primaries (like the other species of Melipotis), is identical with 

 M. cyllota and M. signivitta. AchcBa purpureilinea, Walk., is 

 probably the same species. 



Ophiderid.e. 

 Ophideres fullonica. 



Phalcena-Noctua fullonica, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 812. n. 16. 



Ophideres aurantia. 



Ophideres aurantia, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 607. 



Phyllodid^. 

 potamophora manlia. 



Phalcena-Noctuu manlia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. p. 144, pi. 92. 

 fig. A (1779). 



The variability of this species is well known ; one of Mr. Pryer's 

 specimens is very pretty, the reniform spot and a stripe connectino- 

 it with the inner margin being bright ochreous : we have one similar 

 example from Darjiling. 



Lygniodes maurus, Stand. 



An imperfect example of a fine species allied t) L. endoleuca, but 

 with the fringes and the abdominal area of the secondaries bri<'-ht 

 ochreous. Mr. Druce has received examfdes of this species from 

 Dr. Staudinger with a name above given, but I am not certain that 

 it has been published. 



