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cell hardly one-fifth of wing ; discocellular bent ; costal vein free, but approximated 

 shortly to subcostal near l»se ; second subcostal apparently rising from the 

 upper part of the discocellular; radial from the angulation; third median from 

 lower end of celt, straight ; first and second from shortly before tiie end, at even 

 distances, suddenly curved downwards after starting; all the nervures are thickened 

 beneath with scales, the snbmedian being especially noticeable; the costa of the 

 hindwings is bulged between the base and centre. In the ? the neuration and 

 clothing of the hindwings is simple, as in Achlor<c Guen. 



Type: Pycnoneura oxypte-rarin Guen. (Acklora). 



This new genus is necessary for Guenee's first section of Acklora. 



Racasta ^\ Ik. 



liacnsta VVlk., xxiii., p. 830. 



Syllexis Guen., I'luil., ii., \>. aO. 



Guenee's second species of Syllexis, spatiaria, of wliicli Walker's RacusUi 

 cnherarla is a synonym, is not congeneric with his first si)ecies, which is the 

 type of the genus, and Walker's name Racasta will supersede it. 



Abraxaphantes gen. nov. 



Forewings with costa gradunlly arched; apex rounded; hindnuirgin oblitjuely 

 curved ; hindwings with hindmargin curved, and interior angle somewhat produced ; 

 abdomen of i long and slender; palpi porrect, long, plumose; tongue present, 

 slender; antennae in both sexes unipectinate. Neuration: cell more than half the 

 length of wing, the margins approximating towards the end ; first median nervule 

 at two-thirds ; second at five-sixths ; third from lower angle of cell ; radials as usual ; 

 last four subcostals on common stem, which is approximated to the first. Hind- 

 wings with costal approximated to subcostal for half the length of cell ; first subcostal 

 from well before the upper angle of cell ; radial from centre of discocellular ; 

 medians as in forewings. 



Type : A. jperampla Swinhoe {Abraxas). 



Anisopteryx japonensis ^p. nov. 



The same size as A. aescularia of l-'urope. Both wings dull smoky grey, 

 without any admixture of ochreous or fuscous, which apj)ears in the forewiug of 

 aescnlaria ; central fascia scarcely darker than the rest of the wing ; its inner 

 edge more oblique, less angulated ; no dark discal spot, but the discocellular 

 indicated by a curved dark line ; hindwings with only a trace of a slightly 

 darker discal spot. 



Two S6 from Japan. 



Egea Dup. 

 Duponchel established the genus Egea for desertaria Frr. = crdminaria 

 Eversm., and also placed in it, wrongly, another species, pravata, which Guende 

 says he (Duponchel) had not seen. He must in that ca.se have characterised 

 the genus from culviinaria, for which H. S.'s later name Ereriiia is therefore 

 not required. Pravata is the type of Hiibner's genus Ithysia. 



