new and little-knoavn lel'idol'teka. 35 



Pyealin^. 



VITESSA, Moore, Lep., E. I. C. (1858), 200. 



Vitessa splendida sp. nov. (PI. I, fig. 11.) 



?, head yellow, third joint of palpi gray; collar and tegulte dark, 

 nietallic-gra}^, bordered by yellow. Thorax yellow, growing lighter to- 

 wards nietathorax; at the middle of thorax two confluent spots of which 

 the posterior one is the smaller. Abdominal segments banded dark gray 

 and white; anal tuft orange-yellow. Legs gray, fore-coxfe yellowish, 

 middle coxte and middle and hind femora white below. Hind tibiaj 

 banded with white. Fore-wing dark, metallic-gray. A yellowish, basal, 

 subtriangular spot with the basal edge excised circularly. The spot 

 extending from costa nearly to posterior margin and having its outer side 

 parallel with the bases of 3 white, subtriangular, antemedial spots, the 

 lower of which is the larger. Two postmedial, white spots, one sub- 

 triangular and suljcostal, the other trifid ** and subtriangular. The outer 

 third of the wing longitudinally striated with a series of ten nearly 

 parallel, whitish lines. Hind-wing white ; outer half and a stripe along 

 the costa dark, violet-gray. Cilia white. 



Length of wing, 2: 21 millimeters. 



Length of wing, c?: unknown. 



Maao, Negros Occidental, P. I. 



Time of capture: ^N'ovember, 190"2. (Charles S. Banks, collector.) 



T_ype S; No. 4567, in Entomological Collection, Bureau of Science, 

 Manila, P. I. 



This species is nearly related to Vitessa swadeva, Moore, Lep., E. I. C. 

 P. 299, PI. VII, fig. 7. 



Pykaustin-^. 



PYRAUSTA, Schrank, Fauna Boica (1812), 2, 163. 



PYRAUSTA, Hampson; Fauna of Br. Ind., Moths, (1896), 4, 420. 



Pyrausta vastatrix sp. nov. (PI. I, fig. 12.) 



?, palpi dark ochraceous, white below. Thorax and abdomen ochra- 

 ceous, the last abdominal segments lighter. Fore-wing, ochraceous yellow 

 with a reddish-oehraceous, excurved, antemedial, and a prominent post- 

 medial zigzag line. A small speck in the cell and another at the discocel- 

 lular, extending towards the postmedial line. The marginal and costal 

 areas also reddish-oehraceous. Hind-wing pale, darker towards outer 

 margin. A fine, brownish line at the outer margin. The fore-wing of 

 the male somewhat darker, espcially the area between the ante- and post- 

 medial lines, suffused reddish ochraceous. 



" This is not well shown on the plate. The markings should be closer together. 



