1892.] lepidoptera from sandakan. 129 



Herminiid^. 

 Amblygoes oileusalis. 



Herminia oileusalis, Walker, Lep. Het.. xvi. p. 116. n. 38. 

 Madopa 1 quadristrigata, Saellen, Tiid. voor Ent. 1877, p. 73, 

 pi. 5. fig. 7. 



Pyrales. 

 Stericta divitalis. 



Glossina divitalis, Guenee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 124. n. 20. 

 Arthroschista hilaralis. 



Margaronia hilaralis,'Walkev, Lep. Het. xviii. p. 532. n. 33 (1859). 

 Sylepta iopasalis. 

 Botys iopasalis, Walker, Lep. Het. xviii. p. 652. n. 182 (1859j. 



Mesanchyla illectalis. 



Desmia 1 illectalis, Walker, Lep. Het. xix. p. 931 (1859). 



Talanga sexpunctalis. 



Oligostigma sexpunctalis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 616, 

 pi. 60. fig. 12. 



DiCHOCROCIS PANDAMALIS. 



Botys pandamalis. Walker, Lep. Het. xix. p. 999(1859). 



SlCULODID^. 



DuRDARA ovifera, n. sp. (Plate VL fig. 7.) 



Nearest to B.fenestrina, but differing from all the named forms 

 of the genus in its grey coloration above and in having an oblique 

 oval hyaline spot near the base of the first median interspace of the 

 primaries ; the outer half of the fringe of the secondaries is white ; 

 the primaries below are almost wholly glaucous grey, with white 

 internal border, and in the secondaries the costa and veins are 

 greyish ; the palpi are even longer than in D. plagifera, and are 

 whitish internally and along their inferior margins. Expanse of 

 wings 28 millim. 



Mr. Meyricksays (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1887, p. 185) that " Microsca 

 plagifera is a v dixietj o( Striglina myrtcea, Drury {=fenestrina, Feld., 

 Siwdi fenestrata, Gn.), with the spot (which varies very much and is 

 sometimes absent) unusually large. With every wish not to admit 

 too many species, I cannot conceive that Mr. Meyrick is correct in 

 this assertion : for, however much a spot on the wing may vary in 

 size and shape, it appears highly improbable that the palpi would 

 follow suit, and assuredly there is Uttle resemblance between the 

 palpi of B.fenestrina and D. plagifera (which I described as a 

 Microsca). Our example oi B.fenestrina is a female, and so far as 

 can be judged from the type of B. plagifera, in which the frenulum 



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