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Photoscotosia funebris -p. nov. 



Forewings: dull dark smoky brown; the basal line, slightly curved, the inner 

 edge of the central fascia, vertical and wavy, and the outer edge, irregularly jagged, 

 and with a projecting beak between the second and third median nervules, all black ; 

 cell-spot linear, black; many slender indistinct undulating dark lines can lie 

 discerned between the lines ; fi-inge concolorous. 



Hindivings : bright orange ; costa whitish ; inner margin broadly smoky brown ; 

 hindmargin from anal angle to radial blackish. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen smoky brown, the abdomen with paler t Lifts. Underside 

 of forewings dull blackish, with the disc only dirty white; hindwings orange, with 

 dull cinereous inner and blackish hindmargin. 



Expanse of wings : o2 mm. 



One (? from China. 



Photoscotosia velutina sp. nov. 



Forewings: shining pinkish grey, suffused with brownish, and with dark brown 

 and black-brown wavy lines ; basal patch small, edged by a nearly vertical line, dull 

 nrown; inner edge of central fascia thick, velvety black; exterior line edged with 

 velvety black near the costa only, then slender, forming a blunt beak between the 

 second and third median nervules, then running inwards to two-thirds of the inner 

 margin ; it is preceded by two brown lines, whose course is parallel to itself; central 

 space towards costa jiale ; marginal area irregularly suffused with smoky brown, and 

 traversed by a paler submarginal line, which is edged on either side with darker ; a 

 short oblique apical streak ; beyond the fascia in the paler space between it and the 

 submarginal region can sometimes be traced two or three fine wavy lines. 



Hindivings: silky white, with the inner margin smoky, and the hindmargin 

 blackish; a grey bluntly denticulated curved line at two-thirds, which in the j is 

 only distinct near the inner margin. Fringe of both wings dark grey, with a strong 

 black basal line ; fringe of hindwings at the apex only white. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous cinereous. Underside white, smeared with 

 grey ; a dark discal line on both wings, which becomes broad on costa of forewing ; 

 apical region of forewing smoky black, leaving the extreme apex white ; discal 

 marks blackish, linear, more di.stinct than on upperside, that of the forewing being 

 there lost in the inner edge of the central fascia. 



Expanse of wings : 54 mm. 



China. 



Plemyriopsis gen. nov. 



Foretvings: narrow; costa straight at first, strongly arched in the latter half; ajM'x 

 subfalcate ; hindmargin elbowed at end of second median nervule, above which it 

 is slightly, and below it extremely oblicine ; anal angle quite rounded off. 



Hindwings: broad: hindmargin with an elbow at the end of second median 

 nervule, on either side of which it is straight. 



Antennae of ? short, laminated ; palpi shortly porrect, triangular ; tongue 

 present ; hind tibiae with four spurs. 



Neuration: cell half as long as wing. Forewings, discocellular liiangulated ; 

 first median at four-fifths, second and third together from the lower end of cell ; 

 lower radial from the lower angle of discocellular. ujiper from the upper angle; fifth 



