34 SOHULTZE. 



GEOMETEID^E. 



BOARMIN^. 

 Ml LION I A, Wlk., Cat. (1854), 2, 304. 



Milionia pretiosa sp. nov. (PI. I, fig. 10.) 



?, palpi and front, pale brown, shot with light blue, the sides of head 

 whitish. Collar, thorax, abdomen and legs pale bro^vn. A triangular, 

 ochraceous spot at base of thorax; collar, tegulae, and coxae being 

 especially shot with light blue. Fore-wing light ocherous, the apical half 

 to lower angle of the wing, dark brown. An interrupted medial band 

 from costa reaching the inner margin before the angle. At the l)ase of 

 wing an irregular spot, also dark brown. Hind-wing orange, a large, 

 pale brown spot between costa and vein, which is covered by fore-wing. 

 Another large dark brown spot between veins II and V; at the outer 

 margin beginning on the upper angle a large, irregular spot ; three roimd 

 spots also along the outer margin at veins III, IV and V; the last one 

 being the largest. There are some traces of pale, brownish spots along 

 the veins next to the inner margin. 



Length of wing, 5 : 25 millimeters. 



Length of wing, c?: unknown. 



Manila, P. I. 



Time of capture: July, 1905. (Alice and Fritz AVoreester, col- 

 lectors.) 



Type S, No. 3591, in Entomological ' Collection, Bureau of Science, 

 Manila, P. I. 



PYRALIDiE. 



SCHOBNOBIINJ*:. 

 SCIRPOPHAGA, Treitschke, Schmetterl. Eur. (1832), 9, 1. 55. 



Scirpophaga Virginia sp. nov. 



Head, thorax, rear edges of abdomen, anal tuft and wings snow-white. 

 The under side of the fore-wings, in the male sex, except the cilia, is 

 grayish, as are fore-legs, and in both sexes the mid tibia? with gray spots. 



Length of wing, c?: 7.5 millimeters. 



Length of wing, 2 ; 8.5 millimeters. 



Manila, P. I. 



Time of capture: September and October, 1905. (G. L. Araneta, col- 

 lector.) 



Type c?, No. 4466, and S, No. 4351, in Entomological Collection, 

 Bureau of Science, Manila, P; I. 



This species is closely related to Scirpophaga gilviberbis Zell. 



