. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria. Natural history. 70 K. 11A KITSCH Epilampra commixnis Hanitscli. 1928. Bulletin, Raffles Museum, No. 1, p. 32. [Mentawi Is.]. 1 9. Kifa-juc. Engano. May 1891. E. Modigliani. It is surprising that the present collection contains only a single 9, whilst Messrs Kloss, Karny and Smedley brought more than three hundred specimens back Irom their expedition to the Men- tawi Islands in 1924, viz. loo from Siberut, 153 from Sipora, 32 from North Pagi, and 6 examples from Pulau Tello, Batu Islands. Epilampra mo<iig"liaiiii n. sp. 1 9. S
. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria. Natural history. 70 K. 11A KITSCH Epilampra commixnis Hanitscli. 1928. Bulletin, Raffles Museum, No. 1, p. 32. [Mentawi Is.]. 1 9. Kifa-juc. Engano. May 1891. E. Modigliani. It is surprising that the present collection contains only a single 9, whilst Messrs Kloss, Karny and Smedley brought more than three hundred specimens back Irom their expedition to the Men- tawi Islands in 1924, viz. loo from Siberut, 153 from Sipora, 32 from North Pagi, and 6 examples from Pulau Tello, Batu Islands. Epilampra mo<iig"liaiiii n. sp. 1 9. Si-Rambé, Sumatra. Dec. 1890 to March 1891. E. Mo- digliani. 9. Head exposed, pale orange, vertex closely punctured with black, face with a broad vertical black stripe; inter-ocular space ^/^ of that between antennal sockets; antennae dark fuscous. Pronotum sub-ellip- tical, posterior margin obtusely angled; smooth; fulvo-testaceous, closely marked with black spots of different sizes, viz. about 10 large irregular blotches in the middle and in the circumference of the disk; secondly, a large number of medium-sized round spots scattered over the whole of the pronotum; thirdly, minute dots, closely filling the interstices between the larger spots. Tegmina exceeding the abdomen by nearly ^/.^ their length, fulvo-testaceous to cream-yellow , closely impresso-punctate in their proximal half, especially in the anal area ; with dense masses of large and small irregular blotches, black in the proximal half, turning castaneous distally. Supra-anal lamina ample, rounded , apically emarginate. Cerci dull testaceous. Abdomen below testaceous, with large and small black blotches, except in the middle line; sub-genital lamina with a large black central blotch. Legs dull testaceous, upper margins of femora black ; posterior metatarsus. Fig. 12. Epilampt^a modiylianU n. sp. Q XI Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for
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