LAMPROTHRIPA; BRYOPHILOPSIS: ELIGMA. By W. Warren. 291 



— ab. basibrunnea ab. nov. (= ab. 4 Hmps.) the basal area and the inner margin are suffused with brown. basibrunnea. 

 This is a widely distributed insect, found throughout North and Central America and the West Indies, N. 

 Africa, and India; the types both of nilotica and littora are from Egypt. The larva is said to feed onTamarix 

 articulata. 



3. Genus: Ijamprolliripa Hm-ps. 



Tongue present; irons smooth, with tuft of hair at top; palpi upcurved, the second segment thickly 

 scaled, the third short, blunt; antennae of <J nearly simple ; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled; foretibiae 

 fringed on both sides with hair; forewing with costa highly arched near base, the apex blunt, the termen curved 

 and even ; neuration normal. Type L. scotia Hmps. 



Sect. I. Forewing of $ with small hyaline fovea at upper angle of cell. 



L. lactaria Gnies. (= korbi Pilng.). Forewing silvery white at base, on costa to before middle, on inner lactaria. 

 margin to beyond it ; the costal edge fuscous ; the area beyond cell tinged with fuscous to outer line ; the terminal 

 area redbrown; a tuft of silvery scales in base of cell, followed by two oblique striae, the first inwardly, the 

 second outwardly oblique; tufts of black and silvery scales at upper and lower angles of cell; outer line fuscous, 

 with tufts of silvery scales on it, strongly bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 4, inwardly oblique to 

 vein 2, then outwardly to inner margin; subterminal line pale with some fuscous before it, terminal line rufous; 

 hindwing white, with faint diffused brown subterminal shade, the apical area suffused with brown. Ussuri, 

 East Siberia. 



Sect. II. Forewing of £ without fovea at upper angle of cell. 



L. hampsoni Wilem. (53 d). Forewing brown mixed with greyish white, suffused with gold and silver, hampsoni. 

 the terminal area cupreous red; mnermarginal area yellowish white to outer line, at base extending to cell, 

 on median area to vein 1 ; traces of an interrupted oblique inner line ; oblique black median striae of raised 

 scales in cell and submedian interspace ; orbicular stigma absent; the reniform round, yellowish white, slightly 

 black edged, with fuscous centre; before it in cell some yellow suffusion; above it some white extending on 

 costa to beyond outer line, which is minutely waved and bent at vein 4; subterminal line slight, pale, with grey 

 dusting beyond it at apex and tornus ; termen narrowly grey, with row of black striae on it ; hindwing uniform 

 greyish brown. Tsushima, Japan. 



4. Genus : 1Si\> oplii lopsis Hmps. 



Tongue present; frons smooth; palpi upcurved, short, closely scaled; antennae of $ with fascicles of 

 long cilia; the thorax and base of dorsum with slight crests; forewing with termen curved, even; the areole 

 present; hindwing with costal and subcostal anastomosing for half of cell. Type B. griseata Hmps. 



The only palaearctic species referred by Hampson to this genus has been already described on p. 21 

 and figured on Plate 4th as Metachrostis roederi Stndfs., originally described by Standfuss as a Bryophila. At 

 the close of the description I added the remark "Probably not a true Metachrostis". 



5. Genus : HI ignia Hbn. 



Tongue aborted, small; frons smooth, with a ridge of scales above; palpi long and slender, obliquely 

 upturned, closely scaled, the third segment as long as the second, both dilated at extremity ; antennae of $ typi- 

 cally lamellate, simple; the basal segment with a tuft of hair in front; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled, 

 without distinct crests; the tibiae and the fore femora fringed with hair; forewing elongate, narrow, the costa 

 arched at base ; apex blunt ; termen vertical to middle, then strongly oblique, not crenulate ; veins 7, 8, stalked ; 

 9, 10 stalked, 9 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; hindwing with costal and subcostal anastomosing 

 for more than half of cell. Larva yellow^and black; the tubercles with long hairs; pupating in a tough, downy 

 cocoon. Type E. narcissus Cram. 



A genus of large, highly coloured moths, occurring in the tropics, one species of which is found in China. 



Sect. II. Antennae of $ simple, lamellate. 



E. narcissus Gram. (Vol. 2, PI. 131). Forewing with costal area olive fuscous or olive black, its lower narcissus. 

 edge curved and irregular, narrowing to a point at base and apex ; edged below by a white fascia, notched above 

 at the discocellular, its lower edge diffuse and merging into the olive grey brown shade of the inner margin- 

 al area ; a small oblique black costal striga before middle, followed by a black spot on costal vein ; in the white 

 fascia are 3 black dots at base, followed by 3 more, and again by another group of 3, with one below them 

 above inner margin; a black sinuous line from below middle before end of cell, followed by a serpentine fus- 

 cous band narrowing off obliquely to apex ; two inwardly oblique white lines from apex, recurved below middle 

 to anal angle, the fuscous between them, and partially beyond, cut up into blotches by the pale veins; a series 



