58 A. WATSON 



Betalbara flavilinea shensiensis ssp. n. 



(Text-figs. 92-96) 



The male genitalia separate shensiensis from the nominate subspecies : nearly all the features 

 of the genitalia differ in their proportions from those of the latter. 

 Wing, o* i4-5-i7'5 mm. (20) ; ? 16-0-18-5 mm. (6). 



Holotype <$. Sued-Shensi, Tapaishan in Tsinling, c. 1700 m., 12.V.1936 (Hone) ; 

 Drepanidae genitalia slide No. 789. In the Museum Koenig, Bonn. 



Paratypes. Museum Koenig, Bonn. China : 19 $, 4 $, S. Shensi, Tapaishan 

 im Tsinling, c. 1700 m., 12.v-12.ix.1936 (Hone). BM(NH). China : 1 <$, 1 ?, 

 S. Shensi, Tapaishan im Tsinling, 31.viii.1935, 20.V.1936 (Hone). 



Betalbara cupreogrisea (Hampson) comb. n. 



(PI. 3, fig. 316 ; Text-figs. 97 ; and 98-100 of the possible £ of this species) 



Problepsidis cupreogrisea Hampson, 1895 : 287. 



Microblepsis cupreogrisea (Hampson) Warren, 1922 : 461. [Fig.] 



Microblepsis cupreogrisea (Hampson) ; Gaede, 1931 : 16. 



$. Head and palps dark brown. Antenna very weakly biserrate. 



Colour-pattern of wings as in PI. 3, fig. 316, dark areas brown ; pale areas yellowish brown 

 on fore wing, brownish white on hind wing ; subterminal fascia of fore wing white ; apex and 

 anterior half of outer margin of fore wing suffused with yellowish buff. Under surface of 

 both wings pale brown suffused with buff at apex of fore wing ; fore wing with weakly marked 

 buff subterminal fascia anteriorly, hind wing with broad diffusely marked antemedial fascia 

 and postmedial fascia. 



Fore wing strongly covex at M3, hind wing angled at M3. 



Legs nearly white, but with front surface of fore leg brown. 



? genitalia as in Text-fig. 97. Corpus bursae without signum. 



o* (tentative identification, see Distribution). As for 9 but with bipectinate antennae. 



o* genitalia as in Text-figs. 98-100. Medial diaphragmal sclerotization with dorsal diverti- 

 culum. 



Wing. $ 12-5 mm. (1). 



Possibly most closely allied to flavilinea Leech, but separated by a larger taxonomic 

 gap than that between flavilinea and prunicolor Moore. 



Distribution. This species is known with certainty only from the type-locality 

 in south Burma. Two males from the Khasis (N.E. India) in the BM(NH) do not 

 exactly match the lectotype in wing shape or colour-pattern and may represent a 

 new species or a different closely related species. Material of both sexes from both 

 India and Burma is needed before this problem can be solved. 



Material examined. Type. LECTOTYPE $, here selected, labelled : Tenas- 

 serim Valley, E. of Tavoy, Burmah, Doherty ; Problepsidis cupreogrisea $, Hmpsn. 

 M.S. type ; Joicey Coll. Brit. Mus. 1925-157 ; Drepanidae genitalia slide No. 72. 

 IntheBM(NH). 



Other material. (See Distribution.) 



