NEW AND LITTUE-KNOWN LEPIDOPTEEA. 31 



Quingan, Nueva Vizeaya, P. I. 



Time of capture: April, 1905. (Warren Williamson, collector.) 



Type ?, No. 3986, in Entomological' Collection, Bureau of Science, 

 Manila, P. I. 



The male of this species is well laiown and Hampson * gives a good 

 description of it as does also Semper.^ Only the female is new. 



LiTHOSIINiE. 

 DEILEMERA, Hfibn. Verz. bek. Sehmetterl. (1818), 178. 



Deilemera browni sp. nov. (PL I, fig. 6.) 



?, palpi yellowish-white, third joint brown, second brown at the sides 

 only. Head, thorax and abdomen light yellowish, the latter slightly 

 darker. Head with black spots on front and vertex; 2 black spots on 

 the collar, 4 on the tegulse and 3 on the thorax. Abdomen above with 

 black segmental bands, laterally with 2 rows of black spots. Fore-wing 

 creamy white. A brown, elongated, triangular area extending from the 

 base along three-fifths of the costa. Another brown area from the base 

 along the inner margin to the lower angle then bending upward, not 

 quite reaching the lower angle of the cell, rimning along the same and 

 bending at vein II downward towards the base, but meeting vein I shortly 

 before the base. Outer area brown, with its inner edges dentate between 

 the veins. The white, inner area forms rougjily the letter T. Hind-wing 

 white, with a brown streak along the costa and a very irregular band 

 along the margins excejDt the base of the inner margin. Below, along 

 the inner margin from the base, a small, brownish streak. 



Length of wing, ? : 25.5 millimeters. 



Length of wing, c? : unknown. 



Manila, P. I. 



Time of capture: ? (Eev. Robert Brown, S. J., collector.) 



Type loaned, as No. 219 (Brown Collection), to the Entomological 

 Collection, Bureau of Science, Manila, P. I. 



I take pleasure in naming this species in honor of its collector, Rev. 

 Robert Brown, S. J. 



NOCTUID^. 



QUABKIFIN^. 



POLYDESMA, Boised Faun. Ent. Madag., Lep. (1833), 108. 



Polydesma opala Pagents. Die Lep. Fauna des Bism. Ai-ehipels, (1900), 99. 



9, palpi grayish-white with a dark brown streak at the sides and a spot 

 on the last joint. Head, thorax and abdomen grayish-white ; a few darker 

 scales in the middle of thorax ; anal tuft Teddish-bro\vn. Pore and mid- • 

 tarsi and hind tibis and tarsi with dark brown spots. Fore-wing; basal 



^iampson: Cat. of the Lept. Phal. (1901), 3, 359. 



"Semper, Reisen auf den Phil., Die Schni. d. Phil. Inseln (1892), 6, 48t!. 



